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'1' 1 Dip In Oregon's Farm Land Value Is Reversal Of Seven-Year Trend s5 ; JACKSON (lefr) and Gerzels: Separating intelligence and Creotivity in school children arcund the country. i - -'.--VA GIVING A HOOT FOR SAFETY Huge red, white and black owl is standard insignia on the fleet of a Hopkins, Minn., trucking firm. The bird advertises the firm while protect ing motorists. It can be seen in headlights for a half-mile. Farmland values in Oregon dipped the middle of I960, revers ing the steady upward trend of the last seven years, reports Mrs. Elvera llorrell, extension agricul tural economist at Oregon State College. .... At midyear, the USDA Agricul tural Research Service (ARS) plac ed the index on Oregon's farm lands, with improvements, at 154 per cent of the 1947-49 average, Mrs. llorrell said. While this was 3 per cent below the high reached last March, it is still a fraction of a percent above 'hat of a year ear lier. Minor Droo Over the nation, the average of I all farmland values also eagca downward, but the drop totaled less than one per cent. This aver age still stands a shade above that pf July 1959, Mrs. Horrell noted. Airlines Deny Jet Fuel Use LONDON (AP) Airlines denied that they are using a highly vola tile jet fuel rather than kerosene because it is cheaper. Sir William Mildred, director general of the International Air Transport Association, a trade group, issued a statement re sponding to a complaint by Lord Brabazon, chairman of the Brit ish Air Registration Board. Lord Brabazon charged that jet fuel known as JP4, a mixture of gasoline and kerosene, ignites in a flash, and despite its danger U.S. -owned airlines were using it to save money. A spokesman for American Air lines has said that neither his line nor any other U.S. line uses the mixture. Mildred said that JP4 "is nei ther new nor highly explosive." "It has been proved by years of use in civil and military aircraft," he asserted, "its use has been sanctioned after full consideration by the safety authorities of gov ernments, including the Air Reg istration Board of the United Kingdom, of which Lord Brabazon is chairman." Mildred added that JP4 is less volatile and explosive than the gasoline used in ordinary automo biles. He said the airlines have only one basic interest "the safe ty of passengers and aircraft. Nei ther is expendable." Labor Dispute Nil OSLO. Norway (API On!v manpower working days were lost in Norwegian industry because of labor disputes in 1960, the Em ployers' Federation reported to day. It said the labor force workca 67 million manpower days. 1 ' - - a H Vi4 . y - .. : ..' ' MODEL MISSILE TRAIN These models of a train designed to shuttle the Minuteman missile across the northern half of the United States were shown U. S. rail executives in Seattle Wednesday. When trains are moving, as at left, the huge missiles will lie horizon tally inside the cars. When the 6,000-mile-plus missiles ore to bs fired, the train will stop and missiles will rise to vertical firing position as at right. First two missiles ore shedding their protective covering. More than 100 such trains are planned. (AP Wirephoto) .1 1 3 L . v. J' --1 1 . rr-. . , , ' v ' A A .'( . Ifcv ; W II:: ::. W"- " " ,1, ..rT..n- L w -mma , n.,,.,,. 1 1 ,1 mmmwww 1 1 1 1 pii ir,g The ARS attributes the general leveling of farmland values to a readjustment in the unusual rela tionship between farmland market values and farm income, Mrs. llor rell said. Land values have zoomed up a third since 1954. she pointed out, while farm income has chang ed little. Hightst Sinct '30 As a result, price of farm real estate is now nearly 10 times the net income per acre from farm land the highest ratio since the eaviy thirties. The general easing in the nation al economy may have also had some effect on farmland values, Mrs. Horrell thinks. And. in Ore gon, cash receipts from farm sales arc down as reduced output from farms more than offset slightly higher farm prices. Levels on But nationally, there are no new developments in the agricultural situation to account for the slip page, Mrs. Horrell said. Farm in come was down in 1959, but leveled off this year and is expected to hold aoout tne same next year. Farmers made up more than three-fifths of the farm buyers in 1959-60, a slightly higher propor tion than a year earlier, she said. Nonfarmers bought nearly a third of the farms, slightly less than the previous year. Tenants continued to decline as farmland buyers, Mrs. Horrell found, but owner-operators bought a higher propor tion. Oregon was one of about a dozen states where farmland values de creased 2 per cent or more, Mrs. Horrell also noted. Values contin ued to rise in some states, but ex cept for California and Florida where nonfarm uses continued to bolster the market, these rises were held to 2 per cent or less. THE DUIVKING MACHINE D- II. Rotter is head of the Vienna bureau established to combat alcoholism in Austria. Dr. Hotter designed this machine to show how liquor affects the human brain. He pours liquor into the funnel. Bulbs in the figure's brain become brighter. (Indication: brain activity increases; tensions and fears disappear along with inhibitions.) More liquor and the lights go out. (Indication: dead drunk.) Thurs., Dee. 29, 1960 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. V W. W. Clu Sllia EM 4 Hi! 1. Moniiii mti wiiii PorlljHd Tim Dallas IE I Dill C 11194 1 p mmH:.. K .f f il -!r:r:.tP- p. Minim ,i ''t'Uj:" ' . 1. LT. Midio.ii Kv-y" ! " J-' 1 ) 5T'" v - I J! '" Irt 'j8 A i ae"" t C Rrrnolats - BolM y 1-. Clip This New Map for Use in Case of Public Disaster The Consulting Engineers Association of Oregon has issued this new version of a state-wide puhlic disaster map, showing new telephone numbers of disaster contact nftineers in Oregon's seven districts. These engineers are members of CEAO's Public Disaster Committee, which was formed more than a year ago, following the explosion in downtown Roseburg. In event of disaster, such as fire, 800 d, earth quake, explosion or enemy attack, a call to the disaster contact engineer will bring immediate help to determine what buildings and utilities are safe, md for how long. This map should be saved for emergency use. Engineer's Emergency i! Continues As Blast Result Plywood Fastener Study Is Launched Buildine contractors using auto matic devices to apply fasteners to plywood might be able to build some parts of homes in one-third of the time required now. How sat isfactory these fasteners would be is being studied at the Oregon For est Research Center, Corvallis. Research Assistant Tom Albert is testing fity types and sizes of staples. "T-shaped" nail, and "L shaped" nails applied with pneu matic machines. Some building con tractors have applied these fasten ers to plywood decking, sheeting, and flooring at the rate of 120 a minute. Basic properties of strength of staples and other fasteners applied automatically are being studied by Albert. Loss of strength of fasten ers as wood changes mositure con tent following construction of a building also is being determined. Samples of stapled plywoods of common thicknesses are studied after being subjected to changes of moisture contents in kilns. Resistance of fasteners to cor rosion will be investigated by placing samples of plywood stapled and nailed with automatic devices in rooms with controlled humidit ies. Results of tests will be com pared with properties of common nails now used in construction, slat ed Albert. Equipment and fasteners for the project were supplied by coopcra tors in private industry. Research in forest products at the Research Center is supported by a tax on timber harvested in Oregon. Orient Airlines Set Limited Jet Service ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) North west Orient Airlines 'announced Wednesday it would resume lim ited jet service Saturday. The line has provided no such service since Oct. 11 when flight engineers went on strike. The dispute, over makeup of crews on jet planes, has not been settled. In a statement, the airline said it was resuming jet service "in order to continue to be able to meet its obligations to employes and the public." "Since the DC6's were ground ed Oct. 11 by a strike of flight engineers," said the statement, "the company has lost substantial revenue, more than 1.100 of its employes have been laid off, and it has been prevented from pro viding adequate service for the traveling public." , The company said it had made "every effort" to reach a settle ment with the flight enginctrs and would continue those efforts. Jet service will be resumed with one round trip a day from Seattle to Miami by way of Chi cago. Each crew will include a pilot, a copilot and a supervisory pilot who has been trained and is qu alified hnact motf gtlin cigh qualified to man the flight engi neer's position. With the advent of a new year, the Consulting Engineers Associ ation of Oregon has issued a new map with revised telephone num bers for use in case of a local pub lic emergency. The Consulting En gineers created a Public Disaster Committee as a public service proj ect nearly one and a half years' ago. The committee's purpose is to cope with any type of public dis aster. Consulting engineers were among volunteers at Roseburg, fol lowing the downtown explosion in 1959. They helped decide what buildings, utilities, etc. could be safely used. Gas Chamber Takes Wife Slayer's Life SAM QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) Raymond L. Cartier went quietly to his death in the prison gas chamber today for butchering and burning his wife three years ago at San Diego. Cartier. 32 and husky, did not ask for his final breakfast. Gov. Edmund CI. Brown, an op ponent of capital punishment, granted two reprivrs for psychi atric examination, but declined a third stay. Cartier, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Cartier of St. Paul. Minn., was convicted of butchering and burning his wife, Geneva Ellen, 32. on Nov. 11. 19.17. . Cartier and his wife had visited I neighborhood taverns in San Hi iego, and a man had held Mrs. iCartier's hand at one tavern. Cartier's attorney argued the former Navy commissary man was intoxicated and in a rage iwhen he and his wife reached i home. Consulting engineers are regis tered engineers in private practice, offering their services to the pub lic. They include specialists on such engineerings works as water and sewer systems, roads and high ways, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems of buildings, electrical power distributing sys tems, structural designs for dams, buildings and bridges and indus trial processes and equipment. So that a district disaster contact engineer is always available in some part of the state, the Con-i suiting Engineers Association of! Oregon - has divided Oregon into1 seven districts. Each district has the name of a consulting engineer to call and his telephone number. In case of a public disaster here, this is the general procedure to fol low: A local representative of a public agency should call the dis trict disaster contact engineer. He in turn, will notify Harry Czyzow ski, president of the Consulting Engineers Association of Oregon, in Portland, or some other officer in line of authority. The disaster contact engineer will then rush to scene of disaster. The state associ ation, meanwhile, will assign help from the membership to the strick en area, James C. Howland, manager partner of Cornell, Howland, Hay es & Merryfield, Corvallis consult ing engineering firm, is chairman of the committee. "The services of our committee," he explains, "will be voluntary and last only through the immediate period of extreme emergency action. In most situ ations, quick action on our part will be invaluable to help an area re cover, or at least let it know how quickly it can get back on its feet." Safety Is Becoming A Part Of Schooling Newspaper Enterprise Hisn. WASHINGTON - (NEAI - If you want expert advice on how to avoid the hazards of life, ask a school kid. Chances are ke can give you tips on how to sirvive every thing from expressvni traf fic to the hydrogen bomb. His knowledge stems from new emphasis on safety cducmon in public schools. Officials of He Na tional Education Associate ex plain that recent tcchnologkil and social changes are response. The Interest in science comes is exposing more youngsters Ih a n ever before to dangerous chemi cals, junior rocket clubs, h all their potential hazards, arc becom ing popular among a growinnum bcr of youngsters. Also more high school stfents are driving automobiles and tiding bicycles to school. The growing popularity of water sports pte the use of new, more powerful ihop machinery create a safety mpon sibility including almost thestire faculty. Stanley A. Abercrombic, assist ant executive secretary of th as sociation's safety commissi ex plains: "Teachers have to realize that young people are forward kuing and adventurous, and that wi tan not succeed in teaching by tin ning potentially dangerous utool activities from which student! tana gam valuable knowledge." Teachers have found that i 'v 1 ? 'A. .'' ' --"s "Z'jr i?i Science teacher gives laboratory safety instruction good can be achieved from trying to scare a youngster into being safe or forcing h(m to memorize safety rules. Abercrombia ex plains: "A young person must fully un derstand why something is danger ous in order to appreciate the im portance of handling it safely. He should also be shown that the safe way is also the most efficient and the most fun." One of the most effective meth ods used to make students enjoy being safety conscious is encourag ing them to run their own safety programs. An example is the National Stu dent Traffic Safety Program which is operated by the safety commis sion and financed by the Firestone Rubber Co. Students in about 80O schools select traffic projects and work on them throughout the school year. Projects range from conduct ing safe driving publicity cam paigns to locating community traffic hazards. Each summer representatives of participating schools hold a nation al safely conference. Plaques and certificates of merit are awarded to schools with the most success ful campaigns. In such academic courses as chemistry and physics, teachers ex plain hazards of natural elements such as fire and electricity. The study of accident causes and pre vention hai become part of social science courses. Some schools teach students what to do in case of a nuclear attack. In most cases such in struction has been given by local Civil Defense officials. Next year, however, the subject may he taught by faculty mem bers. The U.S. Office of Education is preparing a special course on nuclear survival for high schools. Eugene Landmark Razed By Fire EUGENE (AP)-A large Idl ing housing the Jasper I,u;ter Co. store, a landmark in rivcrbank community of Wr since 1912, and the post office Ml door were destroyed by fire I.iHIn Was aatrorl frnm tl,n fint- ware-lumber sales firm. Pose- Schools Overemphasize I. Q.s, Conformity Creative Children Overlooked By JERRY BENNETT Newspaper Enterprise Ann. WASHINGTON (NEA) The warciiimner sales firm. Pos&i-I "rt.-iinmnun trr.i me tress Mrs. Fred Bauer rarll"ndd ball" in the classroom may the mail and records front be really be "on the ball" only too email nnt nfrinH 1 ffUV ln!Whnrs haun fftnnrt fhia mil .i..i 131 uiiivc UUIKIIIIK. i , ....... , "It was all afire and wcl'li In here just in time to save lheii- The U. S. Office of Education jacent buildings," said Ji intends to tell them all about it. Smith, warden for the EasWiiThc office has studied non con Lane Fire Protective Assn. i formist behavior and found it often The store owner, Clarence K-. is related to creativity. fwnlitt.7nUnl,'1 prjbj,.1LC0'!,S:i Toa oflcn creativity has been LTJl .1 '? i nn(1 J'00? 10 : mistaken for troubled behavior. 5,, i . ",', ",?' Jnc !r!vcf Teachers looking for the "gifted ?,b0'h f13'000' hc """'' K2 chlld" -nl ' overlook the crialiv i l ? . so?,c lnsu"nre, W jtv factor which thev cannot mea inJi8h u. '.y C0Vcr ,h.kS- "urc wnile emphasizing I.Q. (Intel ih f ,u "'..fmmuintj ligence Quotient) tests which try 5 mu 0f ,,he Willamette Rt t0 assay "intelligence." 12 miles southeast of Eugene. Lawrence Derthirk. U. S. Com- mlssioner of Education, says: "Generally, we think that if a person has n high I.Q., hc also is rrcative. But our research shows that these qualities of creativity ...-, ,., .. . .iiiu iniciiigence can oc (iisiinguisn- t I vv.,, CITY f AP - d from one another and that each John AXIII expressed the W may exist without the other." today that 1961 will be a year Jacob W. Getzels and Philip W. spiritual renewment and of h' mony between heaven and carti' , m. . ..... n JK "ffilSff M Red China Asks Halt H'genU0. "aud'iU0:000 p-pe ' To U. S. 'Aggression' Pope John said that desnilo & "little black spots disturbing T0KY0 fAP - foreign Min horizon," he expected the nati t-n('n Yl "c1 China today of the world to follow a way l'1"'1"', l'le eochairmen of the Gen peace during the new year ,v Conference on Indochina to lane energetic action and effec live measures" to stop what he tailed U.S. aggression In Laos. a leuer was amlrcssed to rnr- Gromyko uird Pontiff Expresses Hoye! For '61 Spiritual Uplift! Jackson of (lie University of Chi cago spent more than four years studying the separation of intelli gence and creativity for the U. S. Office. From some 500 sixth to twelfth grade students, the two professors selected "highly intelligent" stu dents in the lop 20 per cent on con ventional I.Q. tests and another group NOT in the top 20 per cent. The "highly intelligent" iiroup was not considered "creative" by standards of tests given them while the other group did well in such tests. Getzels and Jackson found that: Despite a difference of 23 points between mean I.Q.s of the two groups, the "creative" students were equally superior in scholastic achievement. Teachers exhibited a clear-cut prefcrenco for the high I.Q. chil dren. So the talents of many gifted youngsters go unnoticed by teach ers who regard as nuisances the off beat question or disagreement with accented answers. These children then either con form completely, losing their cre ativity, or become troublesome and sometimes delinquent. To correct the situation. Office of Education officials are design ing special tests and stydying ways - iuimw a wa peace during the new year. Turkey Growers Meet lUKVALMS (AP) The Ore'"'!n Minister Andrei A. ; lurkey Improvement A., ,iis '' Soviet Union and ;sain lonay it will s,.nd a ,,.ffi 4mc, liritish foreign secretary, Jtion of 50 Oregon growers to radio Peipihg. They were de-i National Turkey Federation C9 'v,'r''' through embassies of the vention in Chicago Jan 4 6 countries in Peiping, Queen Draws Apology LONDON (AP)-Red faccd offi cials of the liritish Broadcasting Corp. have apologized to Queen Elizabeth for blanking out the opening words of her address to the nation on Christmas Day. Millions of televiewers and ra dio listeners missed the first eight or nine words of the monarch's annual message when the sound reproducing machine broke down at the start of the recorded talk. lo discover and stimulate creative minds. Dcrthick says: "Our research on creativity shows that education has empha sized 'convergent' thinking. This type channels toward a single an swer that is assumed to be the right one. "There Is a different kind of thought called 'divergent,' " says Dcrthick. "The divergent thinker may reject the single answer and seek others that may be superior." The divergent thinker is more likely to be creative. Getzels and Jackson note: "It is as if the high-LQ. chil dren seek out the safety and se curity of the known while the high creative children seek to enjoy the risk and uncertainty of the un known." Dcrthick believes that unless di vergent thinking is encouraged, "We may unintentionally force schools In produce the 'organiza tion man." Dr. Roy M. Hall, assistant com missioner for research for the Of fice of Education, sugests the fol lowing ways to identify and en courage creativity in your child: Creative children are more witty than other youngsters. Their ideas and language are not stereotyped. They are less willing to accept your reasons for doing things. They generally are harder to handle. They do not accommodate to the old idago that "children should be seen and not heard." To stimulate your child's cre ativity, don't try to imposo your own ideas on his choice of a life time occupation. Encourage him to be different from others wh: surround him daily. This Includes both family and friends. Don't give him pat answers. En courage him to find the answers for himself. ,
