Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, May 13, 1957, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextV Pagg 2, See. I, Capital Journal, Moii., May 13, 1957 Serving The Public: ii nr v-c 'T : RHYTHM CLASS FOR YOUNGEST STUDENTS The first primary class at the Oregon School for the Blind plays Itl rhythm instruments while Mrs. Howard Miller (at right rear) plays piano accompaniment, i Youths 'See' With Hands, Leam Slowly -;By FRED ZIMMERMAN ;! Capital Journal Writer A great transformation is taking place on the 8-acre campus of the Oregon State School for the Blind. And when it is completed late this year, all ot the. old frame struc tures will have disappeared, be ing replaced by modern structure of concrete and brick. In spite of the necessity of mov ing some departments into tern porary location, resulting in some congestion, . school activities are continuing on an efficient basis under the direction of Everett K. Wilcox, superintendent. TERM SAID MISNOMER ' Incidentally, Supt. Wilcox says the -terminology "blind school" Is a misnomer, since many of the 80 pupils enrolled have a fair degree of sight. They move from build ing to building and from one class to another without too much diffi culty. Removal of the large two and a half story frame building, con spicuous on the tree-studded cam pus by virtue of its white paint, was the first task in the current - reconstruction program. If had long been a fire hazard. Us de struction meant a shift of admin istrative offices to the music wing of the principle school building. On the site of the old building Is being erected a one-story fire proof structure that will house I lie Kitchen and the dining rooms. This structure 'will form the southern , aide of what will ultimately de velop Into a small quadrangle. NEW BUILDINGS Facing Church slrcet' will be a new administration building, while on the north will be constructed an 'infirmary, currently housed in the boys' dormitory. Construction of the Infirmary will follow the razing of the last frame building of the plant. It is currently hous ing the kitchen, dining rooms and a small gymnasium on Ihe top floor. The building plans calls for the construction of a gymnasium on the lower part of the campus ad jacent to an alhlelic field. Provi sion Is being mnde for the building of a pool at the north end of the gym. Enlargement of Ihe girls' dormi tory Is next on the school's build ing program. However, no money has been approprintcd ns'yct. Enrollment at the school Is 80, with boys outnumbering Ihe girls M to 26. With the exception of two iludonts from Alaska, the State of Oregon shoulders Ihe cost of schooling, board and room. All- children return lo their homes at the close of the school year. However, a number return early in the fall for a week's out ing. This group, including fourth graders and older, went lo the coast last year where they were cared for by regular school atten dants, OUTINGS RECOMMENDED Charles Woodcock, school princi pal, says these outings tend to re duce the tensions ot tne cnuarcn and make it easier for Ihcm lo associate wilh others. Souvenirs of these camping trips. Including heaver cuttings from the Silver Creek area and shells from the coast, arc Included in the exhibits on display in the arhonl's museum, located on the lop floor of the class room build ing. "You notice, there arc no hands off signs in the museum remarked Trincipal Woodcock. Blind chil dren absorb much knowledge hy feeling objects with their hands. One thing that strikes the visi tor forcefully is the size of the lextbonks prepared for those pu pils who arc completely sightless or nearly so. Written in Braille these texts take up much shelf space in the library. An excellent illustration of the space taken hy Braille over ordinary print was given by Woodcock who picked up a ', pocket dictionary and then pointed -to several volumes which carried the some words and defin itions. ' ftae vmA4 nwd a lftrff hwket to wty tte tettur afm4, wise f.tmimr . o:afe a ma too o c&cct m m i m&a 11 k is 'a. I I fc. w k iMk. Ban -aaaaj ' m m in the usual public school. Tn fact, one of the aims of the School for the Blind, said Supt. Wilcox, is to prcparo the pupils for public school education as rapidly as pos sible. Some of the children with Im paired vision make the transition faster than others, but on an aver age about. 25 boys and girls are able to return lo their home schools each year. Others remain on the campus from the first through 'the ninth grades. The school docs not conduct graduation : ceremonies. However, it is apparent that this has not always been the case since a num ber of "diplomas" came to light during an Investigation or a num ber of accumulated records. There is no provision for the teaching of vocational subjects ot the Salem school, since it is de voted entirely to academic classes. It has a small science department while a music division is main tained. During a recent tour of the plant, a group of some 12 or 15 bovs and girls were found rehears ing choral numbers wnicn iney wore to present during a meeting of the West Salem Lions Club. The croiiD Included a number of excel lent voices and showed evidences of sound training, PUPILS ENCOURAGED The administration encourages tho pupils to mix with the general public and several of them atlend concerts and other public, func tions. While the total of 47 1 regular emnloves and nine part tlmo work ers might seem out of line consid ering the number of pupils, ll should be pointed out that the very nature of Ihe enterprise means much personal supervision and at tention Is nccossnry. As to the history of the school, It was first opened in February, 1873 with an enrollment of seven and a dally per enpita cost of 11.194. Wilh tho exception of the period from Jan. 1, 187!) lo Dec. 31, 1882, when operations were suspended, tho Institution hns oper ated continuously. The penk enrollment came dur ing the lmn-linn biennium when an average of 00 pupils were in school during the year. The per capita dally cost at that time was $1.31. Since then, the cost has ndvanoed at a rale comparable to virtually all other enterprises. II was $8,218 during the 11154-Sli bi ennium. The Legislature appropriated $418,518 for operation ot the school during the l!)."i5-57 liienninm. Of this amount $31)1,818 was car marked as salaries; $22,530, other personal services; $H!i,2W for ma terials and services, and $4.88(1 capital outlavs. -VeTSt." ! pp f if , ftp , ft) Sit' a L tWUV nVno N- Mc of th Ur liudtnt fensosrvt, etff00y w fneoiioe in n eVii t4umn 0.00 at tlO' 8"06 SttWJ A K 0a is 6i(SS OWMtUt and classes nowc hc!0 on the sta( of l- aCtJjCflJittfffii . m m n u n NEW EXHIBIT Miss Iva May Speed (left), teacher, brings her class Into the Blind School museum to inspect a new display about Africa, A student by her TYPING SKILL PRACTICED Miss Hffle Westensec (slimdlng In background) Is Instructor In typing class for older stu- sra am i i' ; mm vi.i s- v i Day A t dents at the it Is another to adjust to PL ADMINISTRATORS Principal Charles Woodi'oi-k (left) and Supt. Even-It Wilcox study an architect's sketcn f lite administration building as It will look at the State .Vbol f.r llto Blind. Japan tievd A-t'owiT I TOKYO u - .linan will need : ,iin kit..!. fr,v,, .i-liv.riXll received President Rene Coty wt Kiircn wumn ip jrars. ft tnfr.tt?f M JBn'i A t o m i cj0f 'f'ftfrgy 'mmiMw &iA WwUy.Un Catholic Church sifc Pope1 Mt Ilka ovnnssM Mijt atf tvwi- tt (bj rVrt r.m-1 The Blind School Pictured BRAILLE PROVIDES "READING EYES" FOR JIMMY read a dictionary printed in Braille. The seven volumes in Braille all the words in the small pocket dictionary on mm checks i native spear and two boys at right feel the mounted head of an antelope. The museum, with its stuffed animals, is a popular place for the boys and girls. Stale Blind School In Salem, way that blind students learn their handicap. 4,- Tope Roeeivrs Colv VATICAN CITY LP Pope Pius !niPPtinB between a French nic j stale ancj the head of the Itonv ay-awywt'r t.' f". W.r-x-M " I'M MOTHER'S DAY CARDS PREPARED A second primary class taught by Miss Genevieve Poole uses lettering machines to make Mother's Day cards it the school Cole Advocates Giving A-Arms To Neutralists TOKYO (UP)-Rep. Sterling Cole said today the United States should offer guided missiles equipped with atomic warheads to neutralist countries such as India, Burma and Indonesia. The New York Republican, a member of the Joint Congression al Committee on Atomic Energy, is in Japan attending a Far East ern atomic conference. Cole said during an interview that the United States is already pledged to defend the free world from acts of aggression, and that pledge includes the use of nuclear weapons. "If any allied country, or neu tralist country such as India, Burma, or Indonesia should ask for guided missiles with atomic warheads for defense purposes, we should give such defense weap ons to them," he said. He added that many countries do not now have the trained per sonnel to operate such highly technical weapons, but he said the United States should make it clear that it is committed to the defense of the free world . . . and that in cludes use of "all weapons." Cole said the two countries in the Far Kast who have the tech nical skill to operate such weap ons at the moment would be In dia and Japan. Fresh Water From Ocean Not Imminent WASHINGTON MP - A House committee reported Monday that despite some "optimistic" state ments, large scale conversion of ocean water into fresh water isn't just around the corner. It said it doesn't wish to paint a "dark picture" of the prospects but on the other hand doesn't want the American people misled. The committee criticized the In terior Department's handling of research into ways of turning salt water into fresh water and for misrepresentations to the peo ple" regarding progress made to date. Headed by Rep. Kngle fD-CaliO the House Interior Committee, in a review of hearings into opera tion and progress of the research nrniTJim n.iid (hp dpnartment hasn't attached a sufficient "de gree of urgency" to the program. "Siirrrss rmilH hp acromnlished. howevfr, if the department would put this research program in high gear," th report said. Iciuni exports Wo-thirds S its A student identified as Jimmy on the library table at the Blind the front edge of the table. (All Former Mrs. Carradine and Artist, 19, Wed SAN MATEO, Calif, (fl Sonia' Henius Carradine Bowen, 35, back in San Mateo Monday with her new 19-yeor-old husband, says from now on her acting career would come second to "being a woman." "I'm much more interested in what Michael does," she said, referring to Michael Francis Bowen, the new husband. Bowen, a San Francisco artist, added that "we love each other very much." They were married Saturday at Keno by Justice of the Peace William Benner after Bowen got a license by producing an affi davit of consent signed by his father. He denied a report that early this week he was refused a license because he didn't have the written permission. The new Mrs. Bowen was di vorced in Heno last week from Hollywood actor John Carradine, 50. The divorce ended a turbulent marriage marked by divorce suits and counter-suits and custody battles over three sons, ages 3, 7 and 10. She and Bowen said they met at Hollywood last October. Push P. I. Drive MANILA Supporters ot the late President Ramon Magsaysay who broke last week with his suc cessor. President Carlos P. Garcia .Monday launched a nationwide campaign to win the Philippine presidential election next Novem ber. BOX OFFICE X MtH.tlS NOW ON SALE WILLAMETTE CONCERT SERIES 1954!; SEASON SALEM SENATOR BASEBALL SEASON TICKETS PORTLANO SYMPHONY 1957.51 SERIES SHRINC COLP TOURNAMENT JUNiJML J ROTARY MINSTREL SHOW MAY il-TUES.-BilS P.M. YWCA STREET DANCE MAY IB SATURDAY 8-11 pm JlWlUIS-SRVmSMITHS !tBj haun t JO to 3 30 demonstrates how he can School are required to print Capital Journal Photos) - for the Blind. At right, a boy helps an other student who is having trouble with her machine. 7 Pounds of Heroin Found On Ship Deck SAN PEDRO, Calif. HI Cus toms agents on a routine search said they found nearly seven pounds of raw heroin in a deck load of timber on the Norwegian freighter Anna Bakke. Inspector L. E. Brown said the heroin, wrapped in 15 water-proof packets, was found within a pile of 20-by-10 inch timbers Saturday. Brown said the heroin, when cut several times, might be worth as ! much as $500,000 in the illicit retail trade. The 10,500-ton ship, skippered by Capt. Severin Simonsen, has been in the West Coast-Hong Kong iraoe lor some time. It arrived from Hong Kong Friday via Van-! couvcr, B.C., Seattle and Port-: land. Brown said the, lumber wasj juaui-u at Vancouver ana was destined .for Australia on the re turn voyage to the Orient. There were no arrests here. HtlJIMU PLAYING TONITE 2nd JOHN WAYNE HIT FIGHTING SEABEES vivffs iJ "A AAA A H;l:liHj TONITE-50c ANYTIME ALSO FOK ACTION Vjxjf VICTOR "jANET ialXAjTO M ATTJRE LEIGH Chessman Puts Final Appeal Before Court WASHINGTON tfl Caryl Chess man's nine-year fight to escape the San Quentin gas chamber goes before the Supreme Court for probably its last time today. Chessman, whose books on life in a prison death cell helped to finance his many appeals, has said he will give up the battle if he loses this time. The Supreme Court agreed to hear two hours of argument on whether there was fraud in the preparation of the official record of Chessman's 1948 trial. He was convicted and sentenced then on charges of kidnaping and attempted rape in a lovers" lane Los Angeles. George T. Davis, San Francisco attorney for Chessman, contends the transcript is "prejudicially in complete and inadequate." The trial court reporter died be fore he had transcribed all his notes. The job was finished by Stanley Frasier, a relative by marriage of the deputy district attorney who prosecuted Chess man. "Missing from the record, or garbled in the transcript of it," says Davis, "were sections in which it should have affirmative ly appeared that Chessman was convicted in violation of funda mental constitutional rights." William M. Bennett, deputy at torney general of California, said in a reply brief that Chessman was entitled to no assistance from the Supreme Court. "This litigant has been fur nished hearings and reviews thus far without end," Bennett's brief said. "The hand of justice has been stayed time and again, if only to review questions already adjudicated or theories newly contrived." Girl at End of 21-Day Fast FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. W- Evelyn Jenkins, a pretty 16-year-old, ended 21 days of fasting "for the glory of God" Sunday night. The girl said she has taken only occasional drinks of fruit juices and water since April 22. She said she will drink fruit juice every four hours at first. She dropped out of the 10th Grade at Kirkman i-Vocational High School in Chattanooga when she started the fast. Since then she has spent most of her time between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. in the woods near her home reading the Bible and praying. She laid ihe believes her weight hai not dropped much below 120. She weighed 130 when ihe began her fast. Woodburn Drive-In Open 6:45 Starti At Dusk Sun. Mon. Tues. "BUI STOP" Marilyn Monro PLUS "THE IT. WORE SKIRTS" Tom Ewell Sheree North "Tuesday Is Buck a-car Night" MOTOR-VU DALLAS Gates Open 7 Show At Dusk Deborah Kerr, John Kerr in "TEA AND SYMPATHY" Cinemascope SECOND FEATURE Ginger Rogers, Michael Rennie "TEENAGE REBEL" Cinemascope ' ENDS TOMORROW Eleanor Parker as Lizzie - Richard Egan Dorothy Malone TENSION AT TABLE ROCK SHOWING TONITE the Vintage THF.ODORE BIX EL OncmScop LFIF BMCKSON I fto otwairti XtMt 2nd HIT FREEMAN KENT-REED. ituinfwf inauww OF FEAR' ousts mi mm TONITE AT DUSK INQRID BERGMAN YUL BRYNNER HELEN HAYES AN ASTASIA OnbmaScopG Mm m 2nd TOP HIT 'mm. x i steels aid textiles.