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Tuesday, November 29, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIJUJfB $INE Senera 6uat6 at 4 45 45 r onfernc6 , (DMM -LJL VJl K-i A 'etoe akmi yCh . Washington -CU.R) Chair mart Neil McElroy today formal ly rejected a proposal to throw the White House Conference on Education open to general floor debate and voting on the con troversial issue of federal aid to schools. McElroy told the 1800 dele gates at a morning session that it would be "impractical" to change the ground rules of the conference, which now ban floor debate and formal action on res olutions. Instead the conferees will engage in a series of round table discussions which are sup posed to produce "consensus" reports on various issues. Ruled Out of Order McElroy ruled, out of order a yiotion made last night by Mrs. Edmund Campbell, a delegate from Arlington, Va., which would have made it possible to put specific resolutions before the entn-e conference for a re corded vote. The proposal was supported by labor groups in the hopes of putting the conference on record in support of large scale federal aid to schools. "Vice-President Richard M. Nixon added that some addition al federal assistance is "inevita ble and necessary." But he swarned that any government aid program which would reduce lo cal and state contributions "would be a tragic mistake." Any federal aid should encour age more, not less, state and lo cal responsibility, he said. Salaries 'National Disgrace' Nixon declared that, with few exceptions, teachers' salaries are a national disgrace" and could "lead to a national disaster" un less raises are provided. The President's filmed mes sage and Nixon's speeches were presented at the opening session of the four-day meeting on ur gent problems facing the na tion's schools. Delegates, serving as "advis ers to the President," divide into 180 round tables today to tackle three of the six topics on their agenda. Officials from Mr. Eisenhow er down have defended the round table method of record ing the delegates' views. The President expressed con dence that the conference will come up with specific solutions "good for the nation as a whole ' and will reject "crackpot ideas." Today's agenda deals with what schools should accomplish, how to organize school systems more efficiently, and school building needs. The crucial questions of how to get enough teachers and how to pay for schools come up on Wednesday. Wall Decorating Swings Back To Do-It-Yourself e Washington A star-spangled . wall recently uncovered in an "old house in Otisco, N. Y., brings to light a do-it-yourself type of decoration popular 150 years ago. Stenciled from floor to ceil ing with a shower of eight pointed red, green and orange stars made from earth colors mixed with skimmed milk, the wall probably was executed by - an itinerant artist. But less am bitious designs, including frie tes, dados, and borders around windows and doors, were often one by families themselves. Wall, stenciling flourished in the United States from 1800 to 1S50. Then, as now, wallpaper was also popular. Its use, in ftict, dates from years before 139 when the first colonial wall j.aper factory was started in Philadelphia. The earliest papers to cross the Atlantic came from France and England. Although China is sometimes credited with the ! Make If ft Mice CHRISTMAS for DAG! ScotrAmSter 83 ilfv. i 9 BOAT KITS BOATS Easy Terms Lay-Away TOPS IN TILLING 4he Mignfy Mut9n$ BOLENS M-E Rotary Tiller Ynt "round Attachment Wo' CASCADE LY 1228 North Riverside OPEN WEDNESDAY NIGHTS IfOlOiOl&IOlfliOfOIOlOIOi 4$ 4 4$ ... 45 45 45 ... origin of wallpaper, European countries contributed greatly to the art of making it. In the 16th and 17th centuries, paper was sought as a substitute for the costlier tapestries, vel vets, damasks, leathers, and woods that covered palace walls. When Madame de Pompadour got wind of a famous "English blue paper," she ordered it for one of her dressing rooms. It was a brocaded flock paper made by blowing finely chop ped colored wool onto partially dried varnished paper. By 1790 large paper panels for pasting or nailing to wood- paneled walls were the rage. Among The most beautiful wall papers ever made, they were ceated by leading artists of the day or reproduced from works of old masters. Next in vogue were the French scenic papers, some of which still are published from the old blocks. People landscaped their walls with the "Bay of Naples", "The Monuments of Paris," as well as scenes from Captain Cook's voyages and Scott's "Lady of the Lake." Shipped to America, the scenics were ac companied by a numbered chart to ensure correct assemblage. War News on Wallpaper Hand-painted and block-printing, requiring sometimes 1,000 blocks for one design, finally gave way, in 1850, to machine- printing. Henceforth wallpaper, like newspapers, rolled off ro tary presses. In fact, when news print grew scarce during the Civil War, 13 Mississippi and Louisiana newspapers were pub lished on wallpaper. Centuries before, the paper on the beams in the diniqg room of Christ's College, Cambridge, had been printed on the back of Henry VIII's proclamation of accession. Today's wallpaper factory, with a block-long assembly line, prints, dries, and cuts 10,000 rolls in one day colored in any of 1,500 shades. Manufactur ers, up against a host of improv ed paints as well as the trend in building "You can't bang wallpaper over a picture win dow" have added interest and utility to their product. Modern wallpapers resist sun, water, flame, children. They absorb sound and repel insects: They mimic bricks, bamboo, cedar paneling, whitewashed walls and hammered metal. Some textured types are actually made from hemp, woven grasses, wood chips and bark. They come 250,000,000 rolls in a year, in 3,000 designs, many of them pre-cut, pre-trimmed and pre-pasted more than half to be hung by do-it-yourself hang ers. - 45 45 4 45 0 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 .. 45 Murder Charge Due In Death of Matron Akron, Ohio (U.PJ Author ities said they would file first degree murder charges today against five remorseful teen-age girls accused of killing a deten tion home matron during an escape. The last of the girls, Mrs. Zel da Decost, 16, Tunnelton, W. Va., was recaptured last night. The girls were accused of ov erpowering Mrs. Eula Bonham, 59, when she entered their dor mitory for a routine inspection. 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