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Classroom Testing Set in 7 Schools By SOC Students Ashland Seven Jackson coun ty elementary schools will be vis ited this week by teams ol outn ern Oregon college students who ' will conduct special educational tests, according to Dr. John D. E. McAulay, associate professor of education. The examinations will be the initial step towards revision of the Stanford Achievement tests which are used widely by county schools, Dr. McAulay explained. Twenty members of the college educational tests and measure ments class will carry out the project. Purpose of the Stanford tests is to measure classroom accom plishment in grades 1 through 9, Dr. McAulay said. The written examinations include questions about the language arts, social studies, arithmetic and science. - The two-week testing program here is the first step in a coast wide move to make the first ma jor change in their content since 1936. Oak Grove school will be the first school visited by the trained student teams, with test sched uled there on Tuesday. Griffin Creek will be visited April 16, Howard school April 17, Jack k sonville April 21, Evans Valley April 22, Shady Cove April 23 and Ruch April 24. These schools were selected because of the different social and economic backgrounds which their stu dents represent, Dr. McAulay (aid. Student members of the test ing teams will include Helen Ford, Gage Sanden and Suzanne Schulz, Medford, and Joy Big ham, Central Point. Air Force Engineer Killed in Accident Spokane U.R Air Force In vestigators sought Saturday to discover how a flight engineer's parachute opened and snatched him to his death Friday from a landing B-36 bomber. First Lt. Edward Kozel, 29 Detroit, apparently struck the plane when the chute acciden tally opened as he was checking the nose wheel before a landing Brig. Gen. Charles Bondley, commanding the 57th Air Divis ion at nearby Falrchild, said thl airman was dead when found beneath his collapsed chute in a south Spokane grain field. Witnesses told the officers the flyer was "hanging limp" in the parachute harness as he floated to the ground, indicating the blow against the plane was fatal VThe bomber was flying at about 2000 feet preparing to land at Fairchild when Kozel was lost ' Vaw 1 ' ' ' ' ; . : i&JLi4-.-v , YabstoA'A VfclTl rh4brin i K - BTtffWfr tmiin- " - mmi 'in f t Sunday, April 13. 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE INSPECTING LOCAL UNITS MaJ. Louis F. deLesder nier, 6th Army assistant inspector general, San Francisco; Lt. Col. Robert C. Harris, senior Army instructor, Portland, and Capt. George Bennett, commanding officer of Headquarters Company, 1st battalion, 186th infantry, Oregon National Guard, are pictured above, center, watching as members of Headquarters company go through a tactical problem set up in miniature. Major deLesdcrnier and Colonel Harris were here last week for the annual federal inspection of Headquar ters Company and Company A, local guard units. (Brainerd photo) Enemy's MIG Pilots 'Pretty Much Scared' Employment Shows Increase of 17,000 On Pacific Coast San Francisco (U.R) Employ ment In industry, commerce and government on the Pacific Coast rose 17,000 from the previous month to 4,562,000, the regional Bureau of Labor statistics has reported. Total employment, the bureau said, is running ahead of 1951, by 145,000 this .month, with only contract construction and inter state railroads showing levels lower than February, 1951. Manufacturing, now employ ing 1,197,000, added 18,000 dur ing the month, 16.000 in the dur able goods segment. In Wash ington and Oregon, logging and lumbering operations increased employment by 4,000 in each state. However, the level in this industry is about 7 per cent low er than last year. Contract construction, with 267,000 in February, gained 8,- 000 workers during February; 5,000 in California, 2,000 in Washington, and about 1,000 in Oregon. $77.86 Average Earnings Changes in government em ployment, confined to Washing. ton, lowered the total about 1,- 000 to 814,000. Oregon reported average week ly earnings of $77.86, Washing ton $76.23, and California $74.06 all well above the U.S. aver age of $66.83. In addition, Oregon reported advances in papers and printing average hourly earnings, while creases In hourly earnings in Washington showed small in-1 most manufacturing Industries. Tokyo (U.R) American Sabre pilots have "perfect control" of the Korean skies from the Yalu river south and are only afraid the Communist MIG-15's will quit fighting, the world's newest jet ace said Saturday. Capt. Robert H. Moore, 27, Houston, Tex., who knocked down his fifth MIG on April 3 and is on the way home after 100 combat missions, said he and his fellow F-86 Sabre jet pilots had no high regard for the fly ing talents of the enemy. Training Doubted "Some of them act like they're forced to come over the river and fight," he said. "I don't think they get much training. All they learn from fighting us is what it's like to get bounced." The F-86 have downed MIGs at a ratio of 8 to 1 of their own losses. Last week they hit 40 in cluding 15 destroyed while los ing two Sabres. Moore said the Sabre pilots don't know the nationality of the pilots they're fighting, although a few fly the MIGs with a con siderable skill. "The Chinese haven't much of a flight training program," he said "and we're pretty sure there aren't many North Koreans up there." He said there was "only one place" from which the Reds could draw experienced pilots. Russia Not Mentioned Moore did not mention Russia but high Air Force officers in Korea have said Soviet pilots may fly some of the MIGs. He said the new F-86 was the best fighter over Korea but ad mitted that performance of the Reds' new "type 15" startled Americans the first time they saw it put on speed. So far few of the new type planes have been sighted. One was damaged. Moore said he believes the Reds made a "couple" of tries to drive the Sabres out of North Korea. Accused OSS Sergeant To Receive More Aid Buffalo, N. Y. (U.R) Counsel for Carl G. Lodolce, former OSS sergeant accused of a wartime murder, said that two OSS of ficers who parachuted behind enemy lines with the 30-year-old Rochester, N. Y., resident, may be called to testify in his behalf in extradition proceedings. Thomas G. Presutti, attorney for Lodolce, said that former Capt. Victor Gianino, Elkhart, Ind., and former Lt. Aldo Icardi, Pittsburgh, Pa., may be sum moned as defense witnesses. Gianino posted half of the $5, 000 bail in which Lodolce was released April 3. The Italian government ac cuses Lodolce of conspiring with Icardi to murder and rob their former commanding officer, MaJ William Holohan, behind Ger man lines in Italy eight years ago "But that was when we had our good days," he said. "After that, they usually don't fly much for a while. One time we were even afraid they weren't going to come up any more. "Lots of times we chase them to the Yalu river and they're really driving to get across where we can't hit them. If the Yalu wasn't there there wouldn't be any more MIGs at all." The Sabre pilots, he said, can see the MIGs sitting safely on airfields just across the river and often watch them training with aerobatics over Manchuria. "But we really have trouble getting them to come up. We've got them pretty well scared now." You'll Always F Uniformity Full Strength Reliability IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY Tru-Mix Concrete Co. 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