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rRed Educator Says American
: Math, Science Teaching Short
WASHINGTON tUPI) Visiting
Russian educators were expected
to tell U.S. Education Commis
sioner Lawrence G. Derick that
American mathematics and science
teaching is "inadequate."
The Russians reached that con
elusion during a one-month tour
of U.S. schools and universities.
Inadequate was the description
applied by Dr. Aleksei Ivanovich
Markushevieh, head of the nine-
man delegation, during a news
conference Friday. -
He said that by Russian stand
ards U.S. students would get fail
ing marks in math and science
Diplomats Doubt
Mao To Be Ousted
HONG KONG (UPI) Diplo
mats here doughted that Map
Tse-tung would be ousted as presi
dent of Red China, but they
conceded he may relinquish the
government job to devote full
time to running the all-powerful
Communist Party.
The diplomats said there was
no evidence to support reports
from high Chinese Nationalist In
-telligence sources in Taipei that
"" Red Chinese leaders had rebuffed
Mao and named Marshal Chu Teh
to replace him as government
head.
Any move by Mao would be
voluntary, the sources believed.
The Taipei reports said the Chi
nese Communist Party Central
Committee had rejected Mao as
a candidate for re-election be
cause of popular discontent over
the new system of communes and
the failure to capture the Nationalist-held
offshore Qucmoy islands.
- Elgin Briefs
' Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grigham
" and daughter left over the week
n end for Williemina, where he has
employment.
Mrs. Jack Eckstein returned
w home from the St. Joseph hospi
n tal on Saturday.
K- Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Williams
are parents of a daughter born
in La Grande, Dec. 8. Maternal
5. gandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Era
v mctt Thompson, of Elgin. Pater
' nal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
" Charles Williams, of Imbler.
" Mr. and Mrs. Rcid Hibbcrd is
t, ependln the week in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Snyder
. returned Tuesday from Portland
where their son Bobby had sur-
gery in the Shrine hospital, Mon
day.
o
7u Donald Anson and Louie Hale
v rttended the Masonic installation
ceremonies in Hermiston Tues
day evening. Anson's uncle, Law-
" renco Gray, was installed as mas-
ler of the lodge mere.
" Several members of the Knights
i of Phythias lodge, put the big
Z Christmas tree in the usual place
c. near the Citv hull, Sunday and
? decorated it with hundreds of
V. liehts. Mr. and Mrs. Howard
c. Goyen donated the tree which the
men cut from its location near
the Goyen home In Elgin.
But the Russians praised the
general interest shown by Amer
icans in the school system as well
as their desire to "provide a bet
ter education for a larger num
ber of children."
Markushevich said U.S. high
school students apparently were
given "easier" problems and ex
ercises than those on the same
level in the Soviet Union.
He said Russian high school
students take four years of math.
four years of chemistry and five!
years of physics. American stu-'
dents, he said, generally have one ,
or two years of math, one year of j
chemistry and one year of phy-.
sics. ,
The Soviet educator also said
the pace of instruction is "rather
slow. American classrooms
sometimes reminded him of "a
slow motion film," he said.
The Russian said American
high school libraries are lacking
in great works of literature, par
ticularly the French classics. On
another subject, he said I.Q. and
psychological tests are not a
'fair measure of achievement.
Speaking through an interpreter
Markushcvich said the Soviet ed
ucators had picked up "much val
uable information" about the
American system. But he added
in reply to a question that he
saw no need to "effect , basic
changes" in education in Russia
as a result.
He said Russia was planning to
reform its educational system to
bring school instruction more in
line with practical work.
."We consider , the school of
work contributes as much to edu
cation," he ' said, "as theory
learned In a classroom."
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&HMLK4 TRO011T HAPPY FOR I
Stock Market Forecast For 1959 Revealed
Inquiry Into Commuter Rail
Service Cuts Backed By Union
WASHINGTON (UPI) A pro
posed congressional inquiry into
railroad moves to abandon com
muter service received backing
Friday from rail union leaders.
The leaders, members ' of the
Railway Labor Executives' Asso
ciation, also accused the railroads
of endangering the traveling pub
lic by neglecting safety regulations.
The association passed a resolu
tion commending Sen. Clifford P.
Case (R-N.J.) for suggesting the
Senate investigation into rail
abandonment requests made since
the passage of a new transporta
tion act last year. The law made
it easier for railroads to discon
tinue service on interstate passen-
' Mrs. Jack Eckstein re-entered
the St. Joseph hospital Wednes
day morning.
o
Recent guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Louie Hale, was
her sister, Mrs. Ethel Cummins
of Portland, and Mr. and Mrs
August Cummins, of Senacca.
o
Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Bailey ar
rived Wednesday for a few days
visit at the home, of their daugh
tcr and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs
Jack Parsons. They are from Hep
ner.
Mr. and Mrs. Verle Sagers and
sons returned home Wednesday
from Delaware where they spenl
a month's vacation visiting rel
et Ives.
The OES will hold their Christ
mas party Friday night followinf
their regular meeting, as announc
ed by Worthy Matron, Game'
Ituckman.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Nedrov
recently entertained with a birth
day dinner in honor of theii
daughter, Mrs. Peggy Rysdam.
o
Mr. and Mrs. Nels Rasmttsscn
plan to leave Monday, Dec.. 15
for Arizona, where they will
spend the remainder of the win
tcr months with their son ant
c'aughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs
Rasmussen.
Tuesday, St. Pats played the
HiSfces on the local floor. The
Pep club worked Up a special
number for half time.
The Elgin Home Extension Unit
will hold their Christmas party
and - gift exchange at its next
meeting which will be held in the
home of Mrs. J. E. Witherspoon.
Mrs. Jack Eckstein underwent
major surgery in the St. Joseph
hospital in ta Grande, Friday
morning.
ger runs which arc operating at
a loss.
Daniel P. Loomis, president of
the Association of American Rail
roads, promptly declared the un
ions were trying to hold .on to
jobs for "uneconomic and unneed
ed services." '
He said the new law nvst be
preserved because it provides
realistic means of removing the
undue burden on interstate com
merce resulting from re:.
ments to maintain uneconomic
services
Loomis did not comment direct
ly on the union safety charges,
but he declared that "name, call
ing and finger-pointing by rail la
bor officials do nothing to contrib
ute to solution of grave problems
confronting the railroad indus
try." A. E. Lyon, secretary treasurer
of the 22-union group which con
cluded a five-day meeting here,
said no federal agency now has
power to require a railroad to re
pair faulty tracks or bridges.
Jesse Clark, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Signal
men, said railroads are endanger
ing the lives of their passengers
by "gross neglect" of their sig
naling .systems.
By ELMER C. WALZER
UPI Financial Editor
NEW YORK I UPI) The stock
market faces a boom-brake or a
boom-break in the next 12 months
according to the 1959 forecast of
the Fitch Survey.
The survey notes that much
depends on the rate of expected
resurgence in 1959. and whether
the stock market in its present
advancing phase may not have
discounted already much of the
business improvement next year.
Fitch lists several favorable
items for the new year a gross
national product expected about
$475 billion, against $441 billion
in 1958; a rise of $lff billion to
$307 in consumer spending; a pos
sible rise of government spending
at all levels of $7.o billion to $100
billion: a rise to $50 to $52 billion
from $49.5 billion in construction
and a possibe jump of 25 per
cent in corporate profits.
On. the adverse side or critical
area the survey lists the prob
lem of unemployment o v e r-
capacity. in many lines; reduction
of corporate spending for new
plants down 15 per cent from
1957; uncertainty of the new car
market; and prospect of a steel
strike.
Should corporation earnings,
unhampered by strikes, manage
to push up 25 per c?nt. Fitch
holds, the stock market could
leap ahead with corporate earn
ings catching up with stock prices
and reducing price - earnings
ratios.
"The positive forces currently
exerting a strong influence on
security prices far outweigh the
probabilities exerted by negative
factors in the year ahead," says
Fitch.
The market's advance will be
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AF.Mcn Arrested
For Kicking Son
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI)
Authorities arrested Air Force
Staff Sgt. Neal Whorf, 40, Sunday
on charges he kicked and beat his
son, Neal Jr., 14, to harden the
boy into Air Force officer mater
ial. ' - '
Whorf was picked up at General
Mitchell Field where he had gone
to turn himself in for being absent
without leave for 11 days.
The sergeant was named Dec.
3 in two battery warrants with
beating and kicking young Neal.
Mrs. Whorf filed the complaints
and the boy exhibited bruises and
a cut toe where a ricocheting but
cher knife struck him. -
Whorf came to police attention
in August when his wife com
plained he made the boy eat ham
burger off a floor as punishment
for lagging in his school work. At
the time,, Whorf told authorities:
"I want to make sure he is to
be an officer in the Air Force."
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more restrained next year, how
ever, with increasing emphasis
reflected in higher levels for long
depressed cyclical stocks.
"Setbacks in the market which
will take place from time to time
in 1939 should be employed in bul
warking portfolios, with good qual
ity equities, as we have not yet
seen the top of the bull market."
Fitch notes that it will be a
iough job to find good values in
the coming year. Market experts
generally are in agreement with
this statement and most of them
suggest extra care in selecting
purchases.
They are not entirely in agree
ment on some other statements
by this highly respected market
firm.
For example, Wall Street holds
that strikes are of little conse
quence marketwise. There is an
old Wall Street adage that says.
Never sell on strike news.
Traders recall the market in
the previous steel strike. Prices
moved ahead under the leader
ship of the steel shares while the
steel workers were out on strike.
The idea is as Wall Street sees
it, strikes are a sign of prosperity
and not of depression. Labor or
dinarily doesn't strike when times
are bad. ,
Also the problems of unemploy
ment and of overcapacity are
seen as transitory. A business re
covery of broad scope could elim
inate "both, it is held.
But it is a fact that electronic
brains haven't yet been invented
that will take the place of good
common sense in picking the
right stocks to buy, to hold, and
to sell.
Neuberger Says
Plans Undecided
PORTLAND (UPI) Sen. Rich
ard Neuberger (D-Ore.) told the
Multnomah Democratic Central
Committee Saturday night that he
was undecided on his plans for
1960 and did not know if he would
run for a second term.
"If I do run again, it will be on
my record as a responsible legis
lator . . . and not through personal
bitterness or partisan hysteria,"
the senator said.
He said that bickering and
back-biting in politics are "de
grading to the government."
I have no quarrel or vendetta
with anybody in Oregon politics,"
he asserted.
Sen. Neuberger commended
Gov-elect Mark Hatfield for run
ning a smart campaign and warn
ed Democrats "not to snipe at
Mark Hatfield when hi is gover
nor over purely personal matters,
nor should we criticize him just
to be criticizing."
The senator said Oregon has
"two strong political parties and
this is to the benefit of the people
because they can shop around for
choices of candidates."
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School Drops Ban
On Married Students
GOLD BEACH (UPI) A con
troversial ruling banning married
students from attending Gold
Beach Union high school after
this semester has been dropped,
according to the local school
board.
The school board said it thought
its original stand was correct but
it didn't want to spend the money
of taxpayers to obtain a court de
cision in the case.
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WASHINGTON (UPII The
Small Business Administration an
nounced Sunday night it has set
up a new ofice to boost small
business activity in government
research and development.
Christmas Brings Snow Jobs' By Clerks
By DOC QUIGG
United Press International
NEW YORK (UPI) Christ
mas is coming and we shall have
snow-jobs from all the sales de
partments from hero on out.
Some of the gadgets that sprout
from fertile sales minds at this
season arc as the Broadway
set would say real gassers.
Take, for instance, the Incite
cocktail stirrer with an electric
bulb on the stirring end for
stirring cocktails in bluckouts.
Despite the fact that practically
nobody ever has occasion to stir
ocktails in the dark, this thing
sold right out shortly after it
vent on sale in a New York
store.
The real stroke of genius in the
liquor line, however, is not on the
narkut yet because of tax and li
censing difficulties. This is the
wtable martini, in the handy
vest-pocket or handbag size.
clothed in a transparent, sealed
plastic envelope.
The brainwave for thus pack
aging cocktails for portage lie
'.ween oases came from the Min-
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LONDON ( UPI ) Moscow Radio
has said that about 5.000 Amer
ican tourists have visited the So
viet Union so far this year dou
ble the 1957 number.
nesota Mining and Manufacturing
Co., which makes the polyester
film that encloses the drink with
out imparting any flavor to it.
Liquor companies are said to
Man's Laughter
Provokes Shooting
LOS ANGELES (UPI I Susie
Finnegan, 33, told police she
shot her boy friend three times
because he laughed in her face
when she proposed marriage to
him.
The boy friend, Mads Anderson,
a civil engineer, was still laugh
ing although hospitalized with
two bullet wounds in the left arm
and one in the chest.
"I love the gal," he said.
"We were having a wonderful
conversation. She's a great talker
and I was listening when she
broke off our little tete-c-tete on
what you'd call a pleasant note."
Anderson, in fair condition, said
Ihey were at his apartment Satur
day night when Miss Finnegan
stormed out of the living room
after her marriage proposal and
returned a couple of minutes later
blazing away with a .25-calibi'r
automatic.
She was booked on suspicion of
assault with a deadly weapon.
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be investigating the possibility of
marketing the pocket cocktails
(they're only being distributed to
friends as gifts by the Minnesota
company now). One difficulty in
marketing is law requirement
that a tax stamp must be de
stroyed on opennig. At present,
Ihe bag can be scissored or bitten
open anywhere on its surface.
A holiday pitch thought up by
one purveyor, of spirits, Schenley
by name, is a fancy Christmas
time vodka decanter aimed di
rectly at dcadbcats who stop by
!o cadge drinks. The base of the
bottle is a metal bank wi.h slots
labeled "coins," "tips," and
"I.O.U.'s." Attached is an auto
matic pencil and a pad of I.O.I',
blanks.
Vicuna, a soft touch fabric of
growing reputation, apparently
has Zoomed to record popularity
in Christmas buying. One store
reports vicuna sales to be three
times as high as they were in i
the 1937 Christmas season. Vicuna
smoking jackets run as high as
$500; lounging robes, $750.
One attractive item that has
just been announced, though not
necessarily as a Christmas gift
idea, is a telephone with a built
in sanitizing system. According to
the Danco Telephone Co., of New
York, which developed the phone,
an automatic radiation unit emits
ultra-violet rays that kill bacteria
and viruses within second after
the mouthpiece is returned to its
rest. It keeps the conversation
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