SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
-.Thursday, March 17, I95S
Soft Jobs, Good Pay Said Wooing Students
From Engineering Field When Badly Needed
Editor'! Note: According to reliable
figures Soviet Russia is turning out
54,000 new engineers a year while col
leges and universities In the United
States are graduating 24.600. Lt. Gen.
Leslie Groves, retired former bead
of the Army's World War II atomic
weapons project, recently charged the
U.S. educational system with failing to
meet the challenge of our technical
era. The United Press asked the head
of one of America's best-known en-
Lineering schools to explain the lag
i training of engineers.
Br DONALD F. MARTIN
United Press Correspondent
Atlanta, Ga. OJ.R) Soft jobs
that pay well and require little
or no technical knowledge are
wooing American students away
from the engineering profession
at a time when America sorely
needs well-trained engineers.
This explanation of the serious
shortage of engineers in the
United States has been offered
by Blake R. Van Leer, president
of Georgia Tech, one of the
Council Turns Down
D'Anjou Street
Vacation Proposal
The Medford city council
Tuesday accepted a city plan
ning commission recommenda
tion to deny vacation of D'Anjou
st., between Spruce and Cherry
tts.
Reasons given for denial of the
vacation, or abandonment for
any further use as a street, were
that a storm sewer runs through
the property, it is a good site
for a railroad team track, and
opposition to the vacation was
expressed by property owners in
the area.
The property is not used for
treet purposes at the present
time.
A California Pacific Utilities
company 10-year franchise was
approved by the council. The
new franchise, which includes
only minor changes from that
now in effect, calls for 2 per
cent of the gross, payable an
nually during the term of the
franchise.
Two airport leases received
the approval of the council. A
renewal of a lease to Water Re
sources Development corpora
tion was approved, and a lease
was granted to Rogue Flying
service, George Brothers, which
purchased the Paul R. Smith
fixed base operation.
An offer to the city for pur
chase of two east side lots by
Thomas Whittle was referred to
the city council fire committee
and the city manager. Whittle
offered $4,010 for the two lots,
which cost the city $4,000. The
lots in question are located on
Ruhl Way. They were purchased
by the city as a possible site for
an east side fire station.
country's best-known engineer
ing schools.
In an interview, he also
blamed penny pinching and lack
of imagination on the part of
state boards of regents for hold
ing the quality of education at a
"level of mediocrity in state
supported schools.
Van Leer said he would have
to agree with a recent statement
by Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Grooves,
retired former head of the
Army's atomic weapons project,
that Russia appears to be out
distancing the United States in
the training of new engineers.
The U.S. shortage of engineers
Van Leer believes, is due to
three main factors:
1. People of superior intelli
gence did not produce enough
children during the 1930s.
2. Technical advancement in
the last 10 years has created an
unprecedented demand for engi
neers. 3. The "modern idea of taking
things easy" has led students to
avoid taking courses that re
quire hard work. Salaries in
non-technical professions are so
attractive many students feel
there is no point in pursuing
technical studies.
The third point, Van Leer said,
is most important. "Nowadays
a student won't buckle down to
the task of mastering math and
the sciences in high school when
he knows he can get a good job
without them," he said.
The Georgia Tech administra
tor believes the engineer short
age could be overcome by 1960
or 1962 if the present demand
for engineers remains un
changed and more students are
encouraged to study engineering.
He suggested the federal gov-
Jacksonville OKs
Extension Survey
Jacksonville The Jackson
ville city council has authorized
a survey for an extension of
Fifth st., according to B. J.
Christianson, city recorder.
The street extension would
serve several new homes, all
of which are now without ade
quate fire protection because of
the lack of street facilities,
Christianson said.
. The survey was authorized at
a continued meeting of the coun
cil held this week.
In other action, the council
heard a request from . Art
Hinkle that the council sell a
section of the cemetery prop
erty to be added to the IOOF
section of the cemetery. The re
quested proposal was referred
to committee.
Councilman E. O. Graham has
been appointed by Mayor John
Keaveny to serve as council rep
resentative to the city library.
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Private institutions up to now
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der at any innovation "es
pecially one that costs money
As for the fact that Russia
produces 54.000 engineers a year
while the United States turns
out 24,000, Van Leer asked:
"But how well are the Russian
engineers trained? They do a
good job of teaching the basic
fundamentals, but you cannot
train professional engineers to
competency in a dictatorship.
There is need for freedom.
"The Russians train men with
out ingenuity. If you put a boy
in a straitjacket, no creative
mind will develop."
Neuberger Accuses
Hoover. Commission
Washington U.R) Sen. Rich
ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) has
accused the Hoover Commission
of following a "meat ax ap
proach" in its report this week
recommending curtailment of
federal lending activities.
In a speech prepared for the
Senate, he was particularly
critical of the recommendation
to have the Rural Electrification
Administration depend on pri
vate financing.
"It would put our farmers
again at the mercy of the banks
and utilities which left them
Roosevelt administration," Neu
without lights prior to the
berger said.
Martin Clogston Leads
Field at Gun Club Shoot
Martin Clogston led the field
in shooting at the Medford Gun
club Sunday, according to re
ports received yesterday.
In the skeet shoot his score
was 24 with Ray Coleman sec
ond with 21. Jim Horn came
in third with 20.
In the 16-yard shoot Clogston
ws first with 50x50, Horn sec
ond with 48x50, Coleman third
with 46x50 and Bernard Henry
fourth with 45x50.
Clogston was tied by Harry
Elden in the Journal telegraph
ic shoot with a score of 25.
Coleman was close behind with
24.
Clogston shot 48 in the Ed
Pease handicap with Paul Cul
bertson next with 46.
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Central Point Club
Central Point Button and
Bows 4-H Clothing club met
March 11 in the Homemaking
room of Central Point junior
high school with Margaret
DeHass and Linda Lou Graber
as hostesses.
Next meeting will be on
March 25 in the junior high
school. Each girl is to bring a
sample invitation to the moth
ers' tea.
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