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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sunday, June i, 1963
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Committee Calls County
One Unit Plan Unlikely
((Editor'! Note: Following
publication of an editorial In the
Herald and News endorsing the
proposed one school district
plan lor Klamath County, op
ponents of the proposal were In
vited to rebut the editorial. The
following material was submit
ted too late to be Included in
today's editorial page. However,
in fairness, It has been decided
to depart from usual practice of
restricting such material to the
editorial page and publish It
! here.)
First, Mr. Sweetland, let us ex
press our appreciation to you for
Three Killed
In Weekend
Traffic Toll
Ry United Press International
Three persons were killed ini
Oregon traffic Friday and Satur
day, and a Portland man was
killed In a California traffic ac
cident In which five persons lost.
their lives Saturday.
Patrick James Young, 20, Bend
was fatally injured early today in
Upper Shevlin Pork near Bendi
when a car he was in struck
group of trees. Three others werel
hurt.
Six-Year-old Edgar F. LaFay-
cite. Brownsville, was killed and
his father seriously injured In a
two-car crash near Woodburn Fri
day afternoon.
Dee Anderson Shankles, 69,
Portland, was dead on arrival at
a hosptal early Saturday after his
car was Involved in a tnree-ve-hide
rear-end collision.
And David Lee Danner, 31,
Portland, was killed in a four.
vehicle crash near Miltipas, Calif.
Another victim in the multiple fa.
tal crash, Helen Barnett Greene
was believed to be Danncr's
mother-in-law and a passenger In
his car.
School Denied
State License
SALEM (UPIl-Simmons Insti
tute of Portland has been denied
a license to operate as a private
vocational school, State School
Supt. Leon P. Minear said Friday.
Mi near said the denial was
based upon the findings of a pub
lic show-cause hearing held in
Portland on May 27.
According to J. M. Adams, con
sultant, private vocational school
licensing, State Department of
Education :
-'That the Institute had failed
to submit Instructor qualifications
requested by the department.
That Simmons Institute has
been conducting classes and re
ceiving tuition with out having a
license. j
That evidence has been re
ceived that students have been
influenced to invest in other busi
ness ventures of the Simmons In- i
siitute, or Its owners, faculty
members, or salesmen.
Minear pointed out that his find
ingl show that the school had
operated without being licensed
even while' the application for li
cense w as pending and that opera
tion without a license is contrary
tu state law.
giving us an opportunity for a re
buttal to your editorial.
' You have outlined many hoped
for objectives of the single d i s
trict plan, but we feel that you
have condoned letting "the end
justifies the means." We seek
prompt relief for KUIIS and a
sound long range education plan.
It Is our conviction that this can
be done more effectively, fairly,
and economically through reor
ganization into two districts, not
one.
On taxes, how can you so bland
ly term as insignificant a tax
increase of some 26 per cent on
our rural friends? And then at
tempt to moralize such a "tax
shift" by hiding it under the thin
veneer of respectability by calling
it "equalization?" This tax shift
is now, immediate, and benefits,
if any, to our rural areas are
in the vague, very, very distant
future.
How can anyone suggest that
one assume the role of a dream
in this present day and age.
and blissfully hope that our rural
peoples will accept, without rancor
and hard feelings, the burdens im
posed upon them by this "one
district" plan; the burdens of in
creased taxation, the loss of rep
resentation with the resultant loss
of control of education In their
schools, the feeling of being lit
erally "dragged" into a situation
in which they have Indicated a
willingness to help, but in which
they want no full time partner
ship.
Nowhere in any of the discus
sions have die proponents of dis
trict consolidation given any in
dication of how to solve the crowd
ed conditions at Klamath Union.
All we hear are vague terms such
s "flexibility," equalization,"
this could happen," etc.. with
nothing said as to "how soon,"
now much, "what," or
'where." It seems that on such
an important issue as this, we
should know exactly where we
are going with all contingencies
speiiea out
As an example, let' look at the
representation which will make
the policy and decide upon the
pnnosopny of education for all of
Klamath County. It would he three
years before final representation
based upon population and area
comes into being. With a countv
as large as Klamath, with many
divergent views and needs, it
would require extremely wlae
and able persons to administer!
the new district Justly and fairly
to all, and people of such wisdom
would certainly shy away from
becoming embroiled In such a dif
ficult situation. In addition, the
lime Involved In getting to know
the Individual school needs, both
as to buildings and educational
ly, would be a full time job, there
hy excluding many competent
prospective board members, and
limiting the job of a "school di
rector" to persons with unlimited
time and means at their disposal.
lou mention that there arc built
in "safeguards" in the selection
of school board members to as
sure orderly, broad based repre
sentation on the consolidated
boards. The entire effort of the
proponents of this "one-district
plan" has been made in the
"over-lap" area of our suburbs,
with their philosophy appearing
to be that there are more voles
here than in the rural area of the
system, and hence their expres
sion of We've got the votes, we ,
ride right over them." At no time
did they ever go into the rural
areas and attempt to sell this
proposition, and this a proposi
tion dealing so directly with all
our peoples. If they can use tin:
tactic of "divide and conquer'
so effectively now, what can hap
pen when you put the city and sub
urbs together under a single dis
trict wherein the selection of
board members is based on pop
ulation as the first criterion
When, if ever, would our rural
peoples be able effectively to ex
press their desires?
The single district plan Is
extremely questionable gamble on
our present admitted good school
systems and their future growth,
with tiie only apparent certainty
being an increased tax burden on
our good rural neighbors and the
loss of local control of their
schools, by both metropolitan and
rural areas.
We feel that there is enough
centralization and consolidation on
the state and federal levels, and
that the first step toward cen
tralization and future government
control of our "grass roots heri
tage" on local education and
school programs is presented and
proposed by the single county dis
trict plan, and further endorsed
by Mr. Sweetland's favorable
opinions! We oppose the plan, and
ask voters to X no on Monday.
Committee opposing one district
plan.-
Jim Noel,
Don Noel,
Elton Smith. Chairman,
Ben Adair,
Ted Hyde,
Jim Crismon,
Buzz Wagner.
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Testimony By Biologist
Nullifies Earlier Remark
PORTLAND (UPli An Idaho I
Power Co. fish biologist told a
Federal Power Commission hear
ing here Friday that salmon and
stcelhead fingerlings recovered!
from above Brownlee Dam and
released below Oxbow Dam ac
climated well.
But small fish released from in
cubation channels below the dams
did not fare so well, according to
Wendell E. Smith.
The FPC was hearing testi
mony on Snake River Dam fish
passage problems. Smith's com
ments came on cross-examination.
His statements appeared to nul
lify assertions made in direct tes
timony Tuesday. At that time he
told FPC Examiner Allen C.i
Lande he favored artificial spawn
ing of salmon in incubation chan
nels and hatcheries below t h e
dams because the Middle Snake
runs were dying out.
Cross examination was by Dean
F. Ratzman. assistant regional so
licitor for the Department of the
Interior who questioned both lings until Monday and indicated
Smith and Idaho Power's otherjit would take three more days to
expert witness, Donald Barclay, cross-examine witnesses. He said
engineer in charge of designinglthat a hearing in Boise proposed
sizes than the Incubation chan
nels proposed by the power com
pany, but the success of such
ponds would depend upon the sup
ply of cold fresh water available.
the Snake River dams.
At the close of Friday's testi
mony, Lande recessed the hear-
by IPC had not been set
Smith told Ratzman that rear
ing ponds can raise fish to larger
SHRINE HOSPITAL GRADUATE Diane Heitsmith,
now 8 years old, tolls Al Nybaclc, president of the
Klamath Falls Shrine Club, about her experiences at the
Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital in Portland while
recovering from a congenital dislocated hip which
crippled, her from birth. Diane started her series of
treatments at the hospital when sha was I -year-old and
returned from her last operation just two months ago.
She faces another checkup trip in October, but is now
almost completely recovered and can run and play like
the other children. The Klamath Falls Shrine Club
supports the hospital through funds raised by the annual
Shrlners Crippled Children s dance which will be held
this year at the Klamath Auditorium Saturday, June 15.
Ernest Pitts Dies Wednesday
A former resident of Klamath
Falls, Ernest Pitts, died Wednes
day, June 5, in the Sacred Heart
Hospital in Medford.
Mr, Pitta was a resident here
from 1942 until he moved to Med
ford in 1953. At the time of his
death, Mr. Pitts was foreman
of the Medford Concrete Compa
ny.
He is survived by his wife,
Thelma. 3479 Table Rock Road,
Medford; two sons. Kenneth of
Hayfork, Calif., and Orville of
Dorris, Calif.; a daughter, Dar
lene Moon of Burns, Ore., and
six grandchildren.
Final rites will he held at the
Conger-Morris Chapel at 1 p.m.
Monday, with graveside services
and interment scheduled at the
Klamath Falls Memorial Cemete
ry at 4 p.m.
Obituaries
SCHMIDT
Harold Marlon Schmidt. died Juno
7. Survlvtd by widow, Helen, chlldrtn,
Barbara. Fred. Donald, all of Klamath
Fallal brothar, Ray Schmidt; sistar, Cath
erine Barnes. Maryvllle. Mo. I half broth
er. Leo Collier. Dei Moines. Iowa. Fu
neral services will be held Monday. June
10. at 11 a.m. In O'Hair's Memorial
Chapel. Klamath Lodge No. 77 AP I, AM
officiating. Interment Eternal Hills Me
morial Gardens.
Fremont Pupils
Join Society
Nine members of the Fremont
School National Junior Honor So
ciety were announced at the re
cent school award assembly. Honor
Society Dins were awarded to Mar
tin Alter. Forest Costanzo. Jack
Crabtree, Vicki Lake, Judy Nich
olson, Nola Ostrom, Marguerite
Pavne. Sandra Ruconich and
Bruce Winterhalder. To earn
pin, a student must nave neen on
the honor roll for at least three
of. the four nine-week report pe
riods.
Other students who have been
on the school honor roil ouring
the past school year included:
Barbara Adams, Penny Anderson,
Linda Britt, Neal Buchanan, Bev
erly Ford, James Green, Carole
Horn, Bruce Johnson, Nancy
Leonard, Jim Mathews, Sharon
Taylor and Steve Wilson.
Your uaabla diicardf will help
ut to hflp ethtn. Don't throw
'dm away.
CALL:
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GOOD PEOPLE
of
The Suburban Area
VOTE FAIR!!
VOTE WITH
THE COUNTY
JUNE 10th
Paid Pol. Adv.. Billy Golden, 3507 Unity
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I'm JIM
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Strike Affects
Canada Output
VANCOUVER, B C. (UPII - A
ft like against major wood prod
tu Is firms In the Northwest I'mted
Nnles today was expected to have
an adverse effect on British Co
lumbia lumber producers.
Inn Mahood, vice president of
the B.C. council of forest indus
Hies, said there was no reserve
rapacity in live province to meet
any eniercjeni y In the I'n 1 1 e d
5Jcs. He added that he feared
h ivei s would be diverted to both
I S. and Canadian producers,
y.ihnod said it also was pns-
fililc that many consumers will
' stl back and wait for the strike
to end" am) that this could result
in a drop in prices.
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