Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 13, 1955, Image 14

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Newspaper Page Texto O FOOT TEEN MZtrrOPD fOBEGOW) MAIL TRIBUNE Sundar. Kovember 13, 1955 7H 4 z A SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASS The stu dents shown above are members of a special education class for mentally retarded chil dren at. Phoenix. They are reading a story they composed for Hallowe'en. The story on school activities on the left will be attached to a reading chart. These experience stories deal with incidents in which the students, as a group, are thoroughly interested. The Spooky Party, mentioned in the reading . chart, gives student s experience in leader snip, planning, cooperation, ana counesy. Special classes for slow learning children at Phoenix and Talent make use of a functional approach to thinking and problem solving. Goals of the educational program are social adequacy and vocational ability. Nov. 13 through 23 is National Retarded Children's Week. Problems of Mentally iefarded Cfiiidren Noted: fVieeting Slated The problems of 32,000 men tally retarded children and adults in Oregon will receive special attention here during Na tional Retarded Children's Week, Nov. 13 through 23. In Medford, Dr. I. B. Hill, supervisor of the Fairview Home, Salem, and his assistant supervisor, Dr. D. L. Callicrate, will speak on problems of men tally retarded children at a meeting in the Marcade room at Sairvt Mark's Episcopal church, Nov. 16, at 6:30 p.m. Public Invited Parents, study groups, physi cians and all others interested in the mentally retarded child are" invited to attend. The pro gram is sponsored by the Jack son County Public Health asso ciation. A potluck dinner will be served. Education of slow learning children in Oregon is now in its third year. Jackson county is the only district in the state which has special classes for the education of retarded children A special class at Talent, con ducted by Kathenne Baalman, has 14 youngsters from 8 to 12 years of age enrolled. In Phoe jiix, a special class taught by Karl Hayes, supervisor of Jack son county special classes, has 17 students from 12 to 16 years of age. Tests Slated Dr. Mason D. McQuiston. Sa lem, consultant for the educa tion of the mentally retarded will test children in the special classes at Phoenix and Talent, Nov. 16 and 17. i Children are generally re ferred to the special classes by regular classroom teachers, who can recognize children display ing severe school achievement problems. These potential spec ial students are given individual tests to determine mental ability, social and personality traits, edu cational evaluation, and a physi cal examination. Definition Given A child is termed mentally re tarded when diagnosed as having low intelligence to such a degree that he is unable to profit under ordinary conditions in the reg ular public school classroom. They are slow learning but edu catable students capable of con tributing to society when prop erly trained to do so. The goal of the educational program is to make such slow learning children socially ade quate and competent to provide themselves with a livelihood. Achievement Pins For 4-H Services Presented Members Achievement pins and awards were presented to 48 members of the Antelope 4-H club at a program held recently at the Eagle Point Grange hall. Elwood Hedberg, manager of the Medford branch of the First National Bank of Portland, made the presentations. Those receiving pins desig nating . their number of years of 4-H club participation were: First year Pins Dottie Ann Arney, Steven Geren, Donald Clark, Bob Fisher, Fred Lucas, George Lucas, Mike Higday, and Roland Arney. Second year Pins Glenda Clifford, Karen Jossy, Lottie Mae Combs, Eleanor Bartting, Judy Bradshaw, Ronald Ander son, Robert Taylor, Charlotte Bush, Tommy Perdue, Mack Cochran, and Marlena Coffman. Third year Pins Tessie Rags dale Fisher and Alice Woolfolk. Fourth year Pins Jo Anna Mallory, Vernon Harper, Billy Hubbard, Donald Higday, and Larry Meyer. Fifth year Pins .Diana Gard ener, Donna Brock, Leolyn Brock, Jane Westover, Ruth Westover, Arthur Gardener, Freddy Jossy, David Woolfolk, Jamey Cochran, and Sharon Coffman. Sixth Year Nyla Murray, Betty Ann Higday, and Craig Cochran. Seventh year Lucy Gard ener Raymond Bitterling, and Kenneth Bitterling. Eighth year Catherine Car roll, Robert Hayes, and Martin Heitkarp. Ninth year Marjo Murray and Linda Malloroy. Linda Mdloroy Named as Top 4-H'er for November County Schools Use Two Plans To Teach Elementary Youngsters Art of Reading DOUBLE JEOPARDY Buffalo, Wyo. (U.R) Denis Harriet, 15, was wounded in the back by a bullet from the same .22 caliber rifle that had acci dentally discharged a slug into his leg while he was hunting with it three years ago. At that time he sold the rifle to a neigh bor. The latter's son was hunt ing with the gun recently when a bullet from it ricocheted and hit Denis. ft t ...tlV.; . lv a.pfjt tSli. , r ,llm Two approaches to teaching elementary school pupils, to read are utilized in Jackson county. They are context read ing, or sight recognition, and phonic or sound drill, both of which are included in teaching suggestions from county and state educational offices. The phonic approach is used not only in reading, but also in other subjects which require reading. The phonic approach is devised to build words from sounds or analyze words from sounds, and has been followed for several years in many local schools. Vowell sounds, diph thongs and consonant sounds are included in the phonic approach. Use Flash Cards Another combination to the approach in teaching reading is the use of flash cards, on which are printed words or short phrases, which the pupil reads when flashed momentarily. Textbooks used in primary grades, where the first and most important training in reading occurs, are attractive and inter esting to pupils whose main in terests are home life, home and school, and other boys and girls their own age. The books have been adopted for basic reading in most Oregon primary grades. The textbood reading program develops from use of a reading readiness text to primers and to more difficult basic readers. There are parallel or supple mentary readers to keep pupils interested. Work in Groups A program is arranged so pu pils work in different reading groups. Pupils who may not be ready for primer work do read ing readiness work, those who may be ready to read are in primer groups, and pupils ad vanced enough are in a basic reading group. .Groups progress and advance to other reading texts within the grade during the year. Included in the program are film strips which project an image on a large screen.- The film contains stories combining sight reading and phonic drill. The stories are on individual frames, and each frame is a complete different picture or group of words. Use of the film strip enhances the reading pro gram for the child and serves as a valuable teaching aid. Several elementary school teachers in Jackson county be lieve the program nieets reading needs of primary pupils, and keeps reading interesting. The phonic program alone, educators indicate, would be uninteresting for the pupil and would slow the reading program, while covering only 86 per cent of the English language. Griffin Creek School Vote Tuesday on New Classrooms - Voters . of the Griffin Creek school district will vote on au thorization of a bond issue to construct three new classrooms at an election Tuesday, Nov. 15, according to members of the school board. Poll hours will be 2 to 8 p.m. The proposed bond issue totals $45,000. The Griffin Creek district has expanded so rapidly, with many new homes and subdivisions, during the past few years that school housing facilities are now entirely inadequate, according to Mrs. Myrna Frink, principal. Present enrollment is 272, a gain of 50 students during the past year. Ten years ago it was a four-teacher school with about 80 students and it is now a 13-teacher school, she stated. More Expected The many new homes now under construction or planned for the area give evidence that the enrollment may be expected to increase even more during the next few years, she pointed out. The school board has been faced with two alternatives, James Walker, chairman, stated, either to build additional rooms, or send the seventh and eighth grade students to the Medford schools, provided they are able to accomodate them. At an un official vote held last spring, the latter proposal was rejected and the board is now asking 'per mission to provide the necessery facilities. Classes are now being held in the gymnasium and the cafeteria, he stated. Plans call for construction of three rooms just south of the rooms built two years ago, but running east and west. Members of the school board include Walker, Sam Harbison, Mrs. Roy Sanders, Chester Guches and Randolph Hugdahl. Fooilighlers Set Tryouts for Play Tryouts for the three-act mys tery drama "Nightmare", by Jean Lee Latham to be pre sented by the Medford Foot lighters in January, will be held at the Fairground Theater to morrow and Tuesday evenings beginning at 8 o'clock, accord ing to President Lavetus Wim mer. Conducting tryouts will be Kenneth W. Swartz, former pro fessional theater man, who will direct the play, Mrs. Wimmer said. "Nightmare" has a cast of only six charaters. It is therfore important, Mrs. Wimmer ex plained, to select the best poss ible talent' in casting. She urged all interested in the trjouts to be on hand both nights. Those who turn out for the tryouts, whether they are cast in "Nightmare" or not t will make themselves available for a group of one-act plays to go ASSIGNMENT, RUSSIA! J"he Reverend Louis E. Dion (above), 41. registrar of As sumption College at Wor cester, Mass., will leave for Moscow early in December to bacome chaplain to American Catholics there. Father Dion will r e p 1 a c e the Reverend Gorges Bissonette, 33, of Central Falls. R. I., who was ordered out of the USSR last r.l2jch 5. WHO CAN HEL YOUR HEARING? ft :m j, -S mniTiif i -tiririfffcfianif- r" C. R. ADAMS ON Cm Soootone Hearing Aid Consultant i J SONOTONE C. R. Adamson, Dist. Mgr. 839 East Jackson Blvd. By training and experience with many different kinds el hearing loss, I have been obto to bring better hearing to hun dreds. Now I hove another wonderful new hearing aid to help break through that iron curtain of deafness. This is the micro-midget Sonofeme "100." It os smaN as a mutch book and weighs about one ounce. If s not a gadget designed to attract by just being small. This is a real aid to HEARING, with traditional built-in Sonoone quality. When do business with Sonotone, you invest in a com plete hearing service and join thousands of happy users in a proven better hearing program. Linda Malloroy. 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Malloroy, Eagle Point, has been named the outstanding 4-H club member for November. A ten-year club mem ber, she has completed projects in beef (7 years), clothing (7 years), cooking (8 years), can ning (1 year) and Junior Leader ship (2 years). She has taken part in many of the extra activities which in clude counseling at 4-H summer camp for two years, attendance at 4-H summer school, where she was president of her house this year, exhibits at State Fair for seven years, Pacific . Interna tional, five years and the Grand National Junior show at the Cow Palace in San Francisco for two years. She has devoted consider able time to work with younger club members and has assisted or led a club for the past four years. She has been treasurer of the Jackson County 4-H council the last two years and served as sec retary of the general club at Antelope. Holds Offices In addition she has held the office of president, vice-president, secretary and reporter of various project clubs within the Antelope general club. Her outstanding work has brought her championships in three different divisions of cook ing, the dollar dinner competi tion; two divisions of clothing and two county style review championships. In her livestock program she has exhibited the livestock champion steer in '52 and '55. and shown champion breeding stock in '48, '54 and '55. These recognitions in county competition have won her coun ty medals in the National Awards program in food prepara tion, dairy foods demonstration, girls record and achievement The past County Fair saw her take home the Larry Schade out standing cooking club member trophy, the high individual home economics judge trophy and the champion beef show- First Meeting of t Horsemen in Salem Salem U.P.) First annual meeting of the 2,000-member Oregon" Horsemen's association will be held in Salem armory Dec. 3-4. . The association was organized about a year ago to promote good horses, horse shows and all phases of the horse business. One of the goals of the associa tion is a return of the horse show and rodeo to the Oregon State Fair here, and the State Fair Cmmission has promised this for next year. LINDA MALLOROY 4 H'er of November manship trophy. At State Fair she was awarded the Pacific coast Aberdeen Angus auxiliary award in showmanship. At the Grand National Junior show at San Francisco she was the top livestock judge in 1954 and was listed as one of the qualified showman in the 4-H division. The Malloroy farm is a 100 acre diversified larm on tne Crater Lake highway just east of Camp White. Linda has one sister, Jo Anna, 13, who is also very active in 4-H club work. Besides her many 4-H activi ties, she is active in the Berean Baptist Youth club and takes part in many high school activi ties. She was treasurer of the high school student body in 1954, secretary of the Pep club this year, has worked on the paper staff as assistant editor and edi tor in the last two years, and is this year the president of the Eagle Point chapter of the Na tional Honor society. These activities have made her one of the outstanding club mem bers in Jackson county. Fasel President Of Realty Board W. T. Fasel was elected presi dent of the Medford Realty board at a meeting Nov. 10. G. Ivan Peoples is the new vice president, and C. C. Vandergrift, secretary-treasurer. Directors elected are Victor C. Sether, Mrs. Mary Maass. Clark J. Walker and D. L. Pickell. A committee was appointed by Walker to investigate tax in equalities. This committee is made up of Charles Ray. chair man, Sether and Robert Dames. The officers will be installed after Jan. 1 and will serve through 1956. into production soon through the Theater Workshop now be ing established by Footlighters and under the direction of Mrs. Stan Zapell, Mrs. Wimmer said, son hotel. Zoning Problems Roundiahle Topic The weekly Roundtable lunch eon of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce tomor row noon will be devoted to- a discussion of the need for coun ty zoning in this area. Paul Hornbeck, chairman of the Roundtable committee, said that city and county officials, in cluding those involved in plan ning matters, would be on hand to give various phases of county planning, as would business in terests which would be affected. Objective of the Roundtable is to provide a public forum for discussion of matters of public interest. Hornbeck emphasized that attendance is not limited to chamber members, but that anyone interested is welcome to attend. The sessions are held each Monday noon at the Jack- Gold Hill Residents Will Get X-Rays On Monday Evening Monday evening has been designated Gold Hill time at the chest x-ray clinic at Sacred Heart hospital, according to the x-ray committee. Gold Hill is the first of the outlying communities to make arrangements for a special time in which residents of the area may come in a body for x-rays to check on possible unknown cases of tuberculosis, lung can cer and other chest conditions. The Gold Hill Health unit is sponsoring the project and Mrs. Paul Molloy is in charge. Transportation Furnished Residents of the area are asked to gather at the post office in Gold Hill at 7 p.m. to arrange for transportation. X-raying is scheduled to begin at the hos pital at 7:30 p.m. A nominal charge will be made to cover costs. The films are read by Dr. Earl Lawson, radiologist, and the subject is notified of results within a week or ten days. Any pathology found is reported to the private physician as well as the patient. "I wish to commend the peo ple of Gold Hill for their in itiative in arranging this pro ject to protect the health of their community," Dr. A. E. Merkel. county health officer, stated. "It is hoped other districts will make similar arrangement by leaving their names at the county health office." Christmas seal funds are being used to purchase x-ray machines for both the Sacred Heart and Community hospitals for use by patients and the general public. It is a program of the Jackson County Public Health association. Defection of Many Unknown Diabetics Goal of Campaign Detection of the million un known diabetics in the United States is the goal of the Ameri can Diabetes association during National Diabetes Week, Nov. 13 through 19. Best estimates show that at least 1,000,000 Americans have diabetes an don't know it, ac cording to the Oregon State Medical society. Early discovery and medical treatment can re sult in years of healthful living for these people. - - Tests Inexpensive Simple, inexpensive tests for the detection of diabetes have been devised. People are ei? couraged to visit their personal physician or a testing center jo that any undiagnosed cases may oe Drougnt to light before they have a chance to become serious. Symptoms of a diabetic con dition are excessive thirst, loss of weight, intense itching. changes in vision, excessive hun ger, easy tiring, pain in the ex- tremeties, and slow healing of cuts and bruises. All symptoms may not be present in a mild ' case. Anyone may become a diabetic but the disease is found more often in people in whose family mere are already known dia betics; those over forty; the overweight; and in women more often than men. Oregonian Missing in Fishing Boa) Mishap Tokyo (U.R) U.S. authori ties Saturday disclod the iden tity of two American Marines missing and presumed drowned following the sinking of a fish ing boat in Tokyo. A Marine spokesman listed the men as Sgt. William S. Smith. -28, North Matewan, W. Va., and Cpl. Donald D. McGlasson, 27, Malalla, Ore. Both marines were members - of the 3rd Marine Division. The spokesman said Smith and McGlasson were "missing, and presumed to be dead." Three other marines managed to swim ashore Sunday after the boat was overturned by a sud den squall. Three Japanese, in cluding a woman, also were miss ing following the capsizing of the craft. J & N CAFE 229 SOUTH FRONT ST. 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