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o O O TWELV& MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE New School IHlead Mo a Sircoiniger in Medffoird Medford's city school super intendent of six days, Leonard B. Mayf ield, has a sign on the wall behind his desk. It reads. "It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." After watching him in action the past year as assistant super intendent, teachers and fellow workers are well aware that he follows his own signs. No Stranger Mayfield is no stranger to Medford schools. He came here in 1939 and for five years served as principal of the high school. LEONARD ''s 1 SMi dfnr-i 3 O o QNew Medford District The last half of the 1944 season, he even coached the football 0 team. He remembers having un der him, those few games, star fullback Bob Watson, recently appointed assistant backf ield coach at Oregon State college. Mayfield was born in the lum ber producing town of Estacada, about 20 miles southeast of Port land. His father was a sawmill foreman. Young "Len" went to grade school there, and later in Gladstone. He graduated from Oregon City High school in 1923. In the fall of 1924, he entered the University of Oregon, and came out five years later with a bachelor's degree in physical ed ucation . . . and a fiancee. The last three years of his college days he taught part time in Springfield High and grade schools. Married in 1930 While at the university. May field, like any other campus man, was not so involved with studies that he didn'Phave time to take note of his classmates. One day his junior year he met Alice Mil- dred Miller, a sophomore in art and interior decorating. In 1930 they were married. They now have a girl, Karen, 11, and an 8-year-old boy, Mike. After graduation, Mayfield came south and took a coaching job at Grants Pass. He stayed for three years, then went to Oregon City High as coach of football, wrestling, and track. Looking back, he recounts with satisfaction that at all of his w I I 1 I t 111 II I . 1 1 I i w .fit 1 1 -1 i -1 i ariA4ailurlrui. LUNCHEONS CafcferiiTraiiScrvice 11:30 AJU.wiUL 5:00 P.M. , DINNERS Table Boo&Serviee, 5:00 p.m. wtil ir .-oo Ait "Tuesday tkru Friday 5:00 P.M. until 7:001 UL .Vrttinfau WE DO first three schools, his teams won championships. At Spring field he took the district title in football. At Grants Pass one year, and Oregon City two years, his teams claimed the mythical state championship. In those days there were no state play offs and state titles were claimed on the basis of win-loss records. His Oregon City elevens went both years undefeated, and one year unscored-against. Back To Grants Past In 1937, Mayfield returned to Grants Pass High, this time as MAYFIELD School Superintendent principal. After two years, he left to join its strongest rival in the pear and football town of Medford. He held the principal's post here until 1944, then jour neyed north again to assume su perintendent's duties for Coos Bay schools. He decided to enter the com mercial world in 1951, and estab lished a successful hardware bus iness. But when he got a call from the Medford school board, he went back with education. In August of 1954 he moved his family here and became as sistant superintendent of School District 49. During the past year he has reacquainted himself with the educational set-up and helped with the tremendous construc tion program still in progress. Six days ago he was sworn in as superintendent, replacing the man he readily acknowledges to be the dean of Oregon educators, E. H. Hedrick. Fourth Generation The new superintendent notes, with understandable pride, that he is the fourth generation of Mayfields to have lived in Ore gon. Several of his relatives, past and present, have been engaged in fields of teaching. Included in his background is graduate work at the University of Oregon, University of Wash ington, Stanford University, and University of California. He earned a master's degree in ed ucational administration from 1 the University of Oregon in 1938, BROILER pNNG AREA children's service w$ JJOJ SERVE ALCOHOLIC Sunday, August 7, 1955 and is currently working on his doctorate from Oregon. In his one year re-orientation, Mayfield has become as well ac quainted as possible with . the District 49 team. Although a con stant stream of duties and prob lems prevented attainment of his original aim to visit every class room, he still intends to do so. Policies Similar As for future policies of Med ford schools, they will be almost identical with those developed by Hedrick. Mayfield believes in "bascially the same program." He intends to "keep the best of the old and add the best of the new." He emphasizes that Medford will not jump at every proposed change in school methods. He prefers to wait, perhaps testing out the innovation in his own school system, but never discard ing the old until the new is proved effective. Mayfield is convinced of the soundness of Medford's strong academic platform. He reasons that If local students can do well in measurable, competitive ac tivities (sports, music, speech) then by the same token they can excel in the non-measurable sol id courses. Aim Is Responsibility Finally, the aim of the school, according to Mayfield, is to give the student as much responsibil ity as he proves he can carry well. Mayfield himself is a dark complexioncd man, his black hair set off by tufts of white. He stands about 5 feet 7 inches tall, is stockily built, and could out walk most bigger men. He has a brisk though genial air about him, whether puzzling out a con struction snare with a foreman or striding across the hall to con sult with his assistant, Elliott Becken. Perhaps his predecessor, E. H. Hedrick, best answered the ques tion "how will Mayfield do?" "Why," declared Hedrick con fidently, "I think Len's going to do ALL right." . New Owners Arrive To Start Operation Of The Dardenelle Mr. and Mrs. James Bucklin arrived last week in the valley from Merced, Calif., to operate The Dardenelle dinner house and lounge near Gold Hill. The Bucklins now are remod eling the kitchen and installing new equipment in the establish ment. They also are adding an outdoor patio for dancing and a barbecue pit which may be used for private parties. In the near future they plan also to build 10 motel units. The Bucklins have had 30 years experience in catering to the public in resort areas. Buck lin said that they plan to make this their permanent home. Frank Holman Hess is their chef. He has worked in the mid east and south, including the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis, Ind., Sherman house, Chicago, 111., and in Shreveport, La., and Washington, D. C. Jim Pierce and his Night Hawks are furnishing dance music and the business is in op eration nightly. A grand open ing is planned soon. Drainage area of New Orleans lies below sea level and also be low the level of the Mississippi river. Opmi SUNDAY- Table i BodkService, II--30 AJi.vxtiL Midbdgktr DRIVE-IN SERVICE Dsrwq allopcratutg Kours BEVERAGES Tape Recordings Used as Correspondence By Local Man With Friends Around World A Manchester, England, news paper recently reported that one of the residents of that city was puzzled to hear Chinese come from an electronic record ing tape she received from Med ford, Oregon, U.S.A. The "why" of the story goes a bit further back, to the day when Sam Taylor, who lives off Beall lane near Central- Point, got interested in the idea of sending tape recordings, instead of letters, to friends and acquaintances. One thing led to another, and Taylor one day shipped off a tape to Miss Marjorie Elliott, in the English city. Machines Different Because of a difference in ma chines, she first played the tape too fast, and in her reply told her new acquaintance that it sounded like a woman talk ing Chinese. This gave Taylor an idea. He went to Mrs. D. Kirkland West, wife of the Presbyterian minister here, who learned to speak Chinese fluently during her years of missionary work, and asked her to record a brief message for the English girl in Chinese. This Mrs. West did. Miss Elliott's next tape started off with what sounded like a woman talking Chinese. And. as Sam triumphantly told her as the unfamiliar language ceased, "that WAS a woman talking Chinese." This is only one incident in many friendly contacts Taylor has had with new friends around the world since he became in terested in tape conversations. His most recent project is a sort of "mutual assistance" ex periment in education, with the Shady Cove school and some of its students at one end, and the Taupaki school (in a village near Aukland) in New Zealand, on the other end. Taylor has set up an exchange of voices singing, and asking and answering questions using his recording equipment and that of the headmaster of the school, John E. MacDonald. Taylor and MacDonald feel that the youngsters, by actually hear ing each others voices, can gain a clearer picture of what life is like across the waters. Taylor has supplemented this with colored slides, letters and other material, which MacDon ald uses in talks before groups of parents and -patrons of his Street Oiling Set In Central Point Central Point A second ap plication of oil on seven Cen tral Point streets is slated to start tomorrow or Tuesday, City Recorder Arden Pinkham has reported. The application will be made by Hughes and Dodd company of Medford. The first coat of oil was spread on streets last week. Streets receiving oil are Sec ond st. from Hazel to Bush sts.; Bush st. from Front to Fourth sts.; Eighth st. from Pine to Hazel sts.; Maple st. from Front to Tenth sts.; Ash st. from Front to Freeman rd.; Ninth st. from Pine to Manzanita sts.; and Third st. from Oak to Ash sts. Thinner . Application . Pinkham said a thinner appli cation will be made on remain ing streets where traffic is not heavy, and that oil may be spread around corners or turn ing radius at intersections if enough oil in the second carload is available. City officials urged residents to refrain from walking or driv ing through fresh oil for at least a day. CAP Squadron Here Plans Swim Party The Medford squadron of the Civil Air patrol will hold a swimming party at Twin Plunges in Ashland Monday, Aug. 8, in stead of the regular meeting. All members and friends plan ning to attend should meet at the Medford airport at the CAP building between 6 and 6:30 p.m. if they need transportation. If refreshments are desired after swimming members are remind ed to bring enough money to purchase their food at the pool concession. Sheriff's Officers Probe Hobby Thefts Sheriff's officers were investi gating Friday thefts of hobby equipment from the garage of George J. Smith, route 1, box 334, Gold Hill. Smith reported that a skill- USE REAEDY-S13DX . CONCRETE--. Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 M. C. LININGER & SONS two-room school. A clipping from an Aukland newspaper has this to say about it: "For information about cur rent prices of used cars in the United States, just ask the child ren of the school at Taupaki, a village between Swanson and VOICES TO NEW ZEALAND Mrs. Norean Conway, teacher in the seventh grade at the Shady Cove school, and a group of youngsters from the school are shown above during a recent meeting when they recorded questions and answers to be sent to a school in New Zealand. The Antipodean youngsters will, in return, answer the questions and ask some of their own. The plans is the idea of Sam Taylor, in who home the meet ing was held, who now "corresponds" via voice message with new friends all over the world. He is a member of an organ ization called World Tape Pals. The map shown above the group has pins stuck in the 16 spots in the world where Taylor has tape pals, and pictures of some of them are pasted around the rim of the map. Taking part in the recording session are Mrs. Conway, left; Benny Nork, 14, and Susan Knotts, 10, standing; and Sharon Bowdoin, 12, and Carl Rone, 13, seated facing microphone. Susan is reading from a list of questions which may by now have arrived, via tape, in New Zealand. (Brainerd photo) Kemeu. They have it all taped on their headmaster's recorder." The article goes on to tell how MacDonald has corresponded with people in the United States, and commenting on the ex change with Taylor, adds: "With Medford speaking di rectly to Taupaki school, Mr. MacDonald says, 'The children now have an indelible picture of the people there and how they live. They will probably learn more from the Taylors than from anyone and vice versa.' Studies Corns Alive "With coloured slides Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have sent, the social studies really come alive. At the other end, the Taupaki tapes have been a source of constant interest in at least one house hold and later are expected to be heard in a local school. "Mr. MacDonald's efforts may also be pioneering a new proce dure in New Zealand schools. Approval Predicted For Payment Plans The next session of Congress is expected to approve a plan under which federal government will make payments to local gov ernments in lieu of property taxes for federal holdings, ac cording to Clark Walker, presi dent of the Medford Realty board. The. Commission on Intergov ernmental Operations, recently recommended that the national government "inaugurate a broad system of payments in lieu of property taxes to state and local governments," adding that such payments "are necessary to help j preserve financially healthy ' local governments.!' "Realtors have long advocated ; such an arrangement by, which the federal government pays for 1 the services it receives from the local government," Walker said. He said the problem of fed-! eral tax immunity has become ; more pronounced in recent ; years, with the situation being j particularly severe in areas where the value of federal hold ings is a large part of total prop erty values. ' saw, portable electric handsaw. ! an electric hobby . engraving ! tool, and . a three-quarter inch die and ratchet handle were j stolen some time between June ! 14 and July 27. He estimated j their value at about $115. The education department is in terested, for the tape recorder has value in speech training. Mr. MacDonald says: 'If, when he hears it played back, a pupil doesn't like the way he has said something, he asks for it to be erased and done again'." Taylor has had his tape re cording machine for some time, and when he first acquired it, did "the usual things," such as recording the. voices of members of his family, favorite radio pro grams, and so on. But "after the novelty wore off," he said, it just sat in the closet. Sent Tap to Mother One day, however, he got to thinking about his mother, who was ill, and wondered why he NEXT SATURDAY - TOU UELLE STATE PARK Old Fashioned Family Size PICNIC And REPUBLICAN RALLY Top Speakers Games FREE GIFTS 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13 Pack a Picnic and Bring the Family! Coffee and Soft Drinks Available! Fun for All . . Bring the Kiddies . . . Safety Patrols Wlil Be in Attendance! TOU VELLE STATE PARK, NORTH OF WHITE CITY NEAR BYBEE BRIDGE Sponsored by Jackson County Republican Women's Club EVERYBOBY WELCOME! NEXT SATURDAY TOU VELLE couldn't send her recordings from the whole family. This he did, the tape was played on his brother's recorder, his mother hugely enjoyed it, and the whole thing was a success. At about this time he heard about an, organization called World Tape Pals, which is set up to exchange information and addresses about recorder fans around the world. Operated from a Dallas, Tex., headquar ters, it has the slogan, "World Peace Is Simply a Matter of Understanding," and publishes a periodical with information about recorders, about projects undertaken by members, and with address lists and occasional supplementary lists. Language, of course, is a bar rier in the international ex change of tapes, just as it is in letters, and the membership roster of the organization re flects this in the longer lists under the English-speaking coun tries. But there are many in non-English-speaking countries too. In Many Countriei Taylor, in fact, corresponds with tape-friends in Denmark, The Netherlands and Sweden, as well as seven persons in the United States, four in England, and individuals in Alaska and New Zealand. When students at the Shady Cove school gathered with a teacher, Mrs. Norean Conway, at Taylor's home recently to re cord for their New Zealand friends, Taylor was ready with a collection of pictures of the other youngsters to show them, and a description of how their acquaintanceship could grow. And, in encouraging this ex change between youngsters, Sam can point to the motto of the "Pals" organization: World peace is simply a matter of understanding. Dr. Laurel G. Case To Open Practice Dr. Laurel G. Case arrived in Medford recently accompan ied by his wife and their child ren, John and Robert, from Wichita, Kan. A physician and surgeon, Dr. Case soon will open a general practice at 1000 West Main st. The family has purchased the former E. P. Merrick residence at 1432 East Main st. - Dr. Case has been studying surgery for two years at Wichita and he is a graduate of the Uni versity of Kansas school of medi cine. Before going to Wichita he was in general practice at Enterprise, Kan. Music Entertainment FOR KIDDIES 360 Attend Annual Antelope 4-H Fair As Awards Given About 360 people attended the Antelope community 4-H fair Wednesday. Judges for showmanship and judging eon tests were Warren Bayliss of Yankee Creek ranch, and Nat Etzel, instructor of agriculture at Eagle Point High school. Linda Malloroy of Antelope was the championship for beef fitting ,and David Woolfolk of Antelope won the advanced champion for beef showmanship. Annette Drager of Bellview won the intermediate showmanship and Noel Dunlap of Applegata won the beginner's class. Dairy Showmanship q Ken Bitterling of Antelope won advanced class in dairy showmanship, with Karen Jossy of Antelope first in intermedi ate and Art Gardner of Ante lope first in beginner's class. In sheep showmanship, Donna Q Mays of Bellview won advanced competition, and Annette Dra ger of Bellview won interme diate. Advanced champion in swine showmanship went to Ann Hig day of Antelope while Bill Hub bard and Art Gardner, both of Antelope, won intermediate and beginner divisions, respectively. INSTALL SIGNALS Jackson county shop employ ees are installing directional sig nal lights on county equipment. Lights are required on both the front and rear of each vehicle under a law which went into ef fect Aug. 3, Paul Rynning, county engineer, said. OPEN : 5 a. m. to 12 Midnight Featuring Complete Dinners Short Orders Fountain Service Sandwiches and the Friendly Atmosphere that makes dining here a real pleasure. THE Top Notch Craterian Theater Bldg. I G STATE PARK o
