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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON; AUGUST, 16, 1929 . . COOPERATIVES OF ii Profit to Farmers Seen By State College Extension Service. Oregon State College. Profit to the farmers of Oregon from the pass i age of the agricultural marketing act and the creation of the Federal Farm board will come chiefly through the strengthening of the cooperative marketing associations in the state, believes Paul V. Maris, director of the college extension service, recent ly returned from the conference of the American Institute of Coopera tion at Baton Rouge, La. "Four per cent money for acquir ing necessary plants and operating equipment for more liberal advances to members and for other similar pur poses is the aim and object of most cooperative marketing associations new appearing before the board," says Mr. Maris. Evidently Congress wanted the farmers to have this cheap money and made haste in order that it might be used in handling the present crop. Evidently the Farm board also intends that the farmers shall have the money, but the board has declared in favor of large scale, farmer-owned, farmer-controlled com modity associations, and applicants for loans must stand test on the basis of this considerable list of modifying adjectives.". The National Cooperative council, created at the conference,. will be the organization through which all co operatives will deal with Congress and other federal bodies. This body had its inception at last year's insti tute, when a committee including R. A. Ward of Portland, manager of the Pacific Cooperative Wool Growers as sociation, was appointed to make plans for the new body. Because the large number of co operatives in the United States makes individual representation on the di recting board an Impossibility, repre sentatives will- be selected for each commodity cooperative group, such as fruit, wheat, cotton and wool growers. State cooperatives will also be represented on the board, as a re sult of the efforts of George 0. Gat lin, extension marketing specialist of the college, who was also present at the institute. Forest Fires Have Rav aged 100,000 Acres Spokane. Forest fires that had ravaged 40,000 acres were beyond control on a dozen fronts in the north west tonight, piling the total of acres burned to upward of 100,000 acres. The greatest blaze was in the Col ville district, near the headwaters of Baraaby creek on Dollar mountain. It was still eating through a vast yellow pine area after having burned over 10,000 acres, 6,000 of which were consumed in two hours. Several hundred men including a contingent of 300 Doukhobors from Grand Forks, B. C, made little progress in stem ming the blaze. In addition to the thousands of acres of standing timber destroyed, 10,000 cedar poles were devoured. The yellow pine timber in that region is dense and the fire is of the crown variety. Several ranch homes have been threatened and the occupants have moved their belongings into fields ready to flee if the wind whips the flames in their direction. The main fire was burning over an area of 24 square miles. Fighters on the Montana and Idaho fronts today were attempting to off set the damage of yesterday, which was characterized as "the worst day of the season" by forestry officials. Wind was high and humidity was low which made ideal fire, conditions. Among the larger fires burning in this area were the Salmon river fire in the Kaniksu forest, 3,000 acres. 6,000,000 Bushel Crop As harvesting the Walla Walla county crop nears completion, the yield is placed at 6,000,000 bushels. The only wheat now uncut in the county, is in the foothill section, where the grain was slow to ripen. Some spring grain will not be ripe enough to cut before the end of the month. 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Recogniz ing as a serious problem the sur plus of teachers in Oregon and throughout the country, the Oregon Schoolmasters' club of which E. E. Coad of Athena is a member, has just passed four resolutions which they believe Bhould be put into effect, at least in this state. Serving an ap prenticeship at a low salary, hiring only teachers who have the right personality for . their, work, permit ting teachers to offer only subjects in which they have specialized pre paration, and complete elimination of irregular entry into the profes sion by examination and special per mits are moves which they strongly recommend. The Schoolmasters' club is formed of leading educators of the state, and several meetings are held during the session of summer school at the Uni versity of Oregon here. The organiza tion is headed by W. L. Van Loan of Medford, who has made an intensive study of teacher conditions, and serv ing with him on the committee which prepared the resolutions were R. E. McCormach, principal of Bend High school, who was chairman; Guy Lee, principal of the McMinnville Junior high school; and L. W. Turnbull, su perintendent of North Bend schools. More than 40 school administrators are members of the club. The state board of education is designated as the body to prescribe the academic and professional pre paration required for each kind of certificate under proposed plans. Elimination of those unfit for teach ing would result from the apprentice ship system, it is declared. The schoolmen propose a two year term of service, during which the ability and the personality of the prospec tive teacher would be under close scrutiny. The fact that pay for be ginners is now practically as high as that of experienced educators is held responsible for many entering the work who are unfit it is pointed out. The low salary for the apprentices would exclude many of these. Apprenticeship certificates would be granted at the beginning of the first and second years of service, and if after this the candidate could pass the examinations he would be granted a five-year certificate and be eligible to the regular salary. Abolition of "general" certificates and adoption of specific certificates would accompany this system. . Certificates to be granted in edu cation would be as follows: Special elementary certificate for music, art, agriculture, home economics, manual training, physicial education and other special subjects to be taught in grades; special high school cer tificates for those ubove and in ad dition for commerce, industrial arts or other ' specialties; kindergarten certificates to entitle teachers to teach in kindergarten and first grade; primary certificates good in first, second, third and fourth' grades; in termediate good in fourth, fifth and sixth; advanced good in sixth, sev enth and eighth, junior high school good for subjects taught in these schools, high school good for high school subjects; elementary school principal 0 certificate; high school principal good for administrative work in high schools; and supervis or's certificates. , The club is also working on a plan for certification of teachers based on actual training, experience and abil ity. This plan, as yet tentatively drawn, would classify teachers ac cording to rank with salary scales accordingly. The organization is regarded as a leader in education in the west and most of its members are also carry ing on independent research projects in the field of education. Walla Walla County Fair To Be Bigger Than Ever Walla Walla. Walla Walla mer chants derby will be the big race of the County fair held at the Walla Walla fair .grounds September 5, 6 and 7, according to Charles Baker, secretary of the fair board. This will be a one-helf mile race and will carry a $200 purse Harry Paxton and John G. Soper are the commit tee appointed to secure the necessary donations from local merchants to fi nance this race which will be the big gest and best of all. The 4-H boys and girls are going to put on a very fine display of live stock. About forty pens of sheep and pigs will be displayed by the young farmers of the future. Much interest is being displayed by the big stock breeders of the Pa cific coast, in the Walla Walla fair. Many of the breeders who have shown stock, here in the past have signified their intention of coming back this fall. Eugene Harms of Ore gon, prominent sheep and hog breed er, Jesse Brown of Woodenville, Washington, Jersey breeder , and H. H. Foster of Ellensburg are some of the men who have already signified their intentions of entering exhibits in the fair. The fair board is preparing the largest display of fireworks that has ever been shown in any county fair in Walla Walla's history. The cost 1 1 i. -s - -v " I 3 riT- Jl Walla Walla General Hospital A modern non sectarian fifty bed hospital, with all up to date modern hospital facilities for the care of patients. X-Rav and bacteriological labortories, washed air ventilation. Only graduate nurses are employed an$ their, ser vices are included at the regular rates which are $330 to $6.00 Special nurses extra. 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