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o o o FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGOUT) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. December 2, 1955 lust Money Schools, Conference Advises Ike Nation Spend iore To Pro-Aid Stand Told in Report To President "Washington UR) The White House conference on education advised President- Eisenhower to day that the nation must "spend more of our wealth" on schools. The advice was contained in a formal report telling the Presi dent that the 1,800 delegates favored more federal money for public schools by a better than two-to-one margin. The pro-aid stand, indicated by the delegates earlier, was confirmed Thursday night at the . final session of the historic four day conference. Marion B. Folsom, secretary of health, education, and wel fare responded to the confer ence's migre-aid plea with a "con Sdent" prediction that the ad ministration will submit to Con gress next year a "broadened and improved" program of fed eral help for building schools. Aid Most Controversial Federal aid was the most con troversial issue before the con ference in its discussion of how to meet a current shortage of 203,450 classrooms and 141,000 qualified teachers and other school problems. The delegates' answer made it clear that the states and local communities, too, must do more for the schools. 0 The nation has enough money to provide good schools, their report declared, but the problem is whether it will spend enough. Specifically the conference recommended: Federal aid for building public schools. It opposed aid for pri vate or parochial schools. Dele gates split about evenly on whether federal aid should be provided for school operating expenses. More state aid, especially, for poorer school districts. Fund Raising Difficult Easing of legal tax and bond ing restrictions which prevent gtates and local" communities from raising enough money for good schools. More pay for school teachers and better fringe benefits for them. Consolidation of poor and in efficient school districts. The conference recommended and Folsom agreed that fed eral aid should bring no federal control over the schools, should be "based (On need, and should not , decrease state and local funds for schools. Accurate View of Major sty Said N . t , ot Given in Schoo i Report Washington (U.R) The White House Conference on Education closed on one discordant note. Some delegates complained that the educators took over and mis represented the majority view on federal aid to education. This complaint was expressed privately by many opponents and lukewarm advocates of fed eral aid. It was expressed open ly by the delegations from Texas, Utah and Nevada. Khrushchev Lists French, Americans As Stupid People Rangoon, Burma (U.R) So viet'Communist party boss Niki ta S. Khrushchev said today some Americans and Frenchmen are stupid right along with as sorted newspapermen, British colonizers and Russian architects who waste public money. The pudgy Communist chief was in top critical form today as he toured Burmese shrines, carried on a running verbal bat tle with newsmen and overshad owed Premier Nikolai Bulganin who was more silent than usual. Approres Burmese Temple About the only thing the visit ing Red chief approved of was a Burmese temple, the gold plated She Dagon Pagoda, the greatest Buddhist shrine in the world. He admired its architec ture and then turned to his Bur mese hosts and said: "In our country we criticize architects when they waste pub lic money." He referred specifically to Alexander Vlasov, former chief architect in Moscow, vho was criticized last month for "waste fulness" by Khrushchev and Bul ganin. Vlasov was touring Amer ica at the time. Khrushchev Irritated The subject of Vlasov appar ently irritated Khrushchev the most, especially because the architect was mobbed in Paris by anti-Communist Frenchmen who tried to get him to seek asy lum in the West. Looking around him at the Western correspondents, the Communist boss growled: "There lire some very stupid people in America." "After we criticized Comrade Vlasov," he said, "They tried to persuade him to stay in Ameri ca. Then French repeated this stupid mistake of the Americans." Their complaints were direct ed at a final report of the con ference which found that the delegates by more than a two to one margin favored increased federal aid to schools. Wildlife Service Rapped at Hearing On Water Compact Salem, Ore. (U.R) Sharp criticism was directed at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday at a hearing on a ten ative Klamath River Basin com pact between Oregon and Cali fornia. James G. Stearns, Tulelake, vice chairman of the California Compact Commission, said com missioners of both states get along fine with the federal agency "if everything is going its way." "But when things are net going its way," he said, "the Fish and Wildlife Service, back ed by some sportsmen's organi zations, give us violent opposi tion." 'Excellent' Cooperation Stearns pointed out, however, that the commissioners have had "excellent" cooperation with state game commissions. The proposed compact, drawn up recently in Sacramento, Calif., was designed to promote the development, use, conserva tion and control of land and water resources of the Klamath Basin. The two-day hearing, which closed today, was for the pur pose of airing objections or sug gestions on the tentative com pact before the final draft is made. Bert A. Phillips, chairman of the California commission, told the hearing yesterday that the three Pacific Coast states can expect a population of 40,000, 000 by 1875, which means ways must be provided to furnish am ple water for that number. Asks Clarification Oregon State Game Cimmis- sion Director P. W. Schneider asked for . clarification , of sev eral points of the proposed draft. He said later he was satisfied with explanation of the "think ing in back of the draft." California representatives at tending, in addition to Phillips and Stearns, were acting state engineer Harvey Banks of Sac ramento and attorneys Adolph Moskovitz, Porter Townsend and Allen Bird. Now you can eiijoy BRAND Straight or Blend-as you prefer! SAME PRICE FOR EACH! KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY $030 fc PT. $!3 T 45 QT. KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY fXS enfoy the whiskey thafj THE OLD SUNNY BROOK COMPANY, DIVISION OF NATIONAL DISTILLERS "RODUCTS CORPORATION. LOUISVILLE, KY. BOTH 86 PROOF. KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY CONTAINS 65S GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS The report does not accurace- lv reflect the view of the major ity, the dissenters said, but is a misrepresentation drafted by professional educators who fa vor federal aid. The claim of the dissenters 'was that many of the delegates hedged their support of federal aid with several con ditions which were glossed over in the final report. No Vole Taken The debate over exactly how the conference lined up on fed eral aid to education is certain to be resumed when Congress starts considering school legisla tion next year. But there never will be a conclusive answer since the delegates did not take a vote on the question. The report ran into objections immediately when it was pre sented to the conference last night. The Nevada delegation pro tested and called for a "reevalu- ation" of the report. The Texas delegation entered a dissent saying it was "unalter ably opposed to federal aid to public schools." Murder and Suicide Seen in Three Deaths North Hollywood, Calif. (U.R) Conditions under which noted magazine illustrator Pruett Car ter, 64, and his wife and son were found shot to death in their luxurious home led police today to list the triple deaths as an apparent double-murder suicide Police said Carter apparently killed his wife, Teresa, 54, and their son. Deal, 35, some time yesterday and then shot himself to death. Officers found no notes to give a motive to the shootings. The bodies were discovered when a close friend of the fam ily, Mrs. Grave Kennedy of near by Sherman Oaks, called at their home. The victims all were clad in their night clothes. Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson,, pres ident of Brigham Young univer sity in Utah, objected that the conference's procedures were "unfair" and resulted in "mis representations." Says Results Stacked Adam S. Bennion of Utah, an outspoken opponent of federal aid, complained that the "educa tors took over the position of re sponsibility" as the discussion proceeded up through the series of round-tables. "The result was as if the con ference had been stacked" Ben nion said. "There is no question but that the professional champions of federal aid took over," Wilkin son said. The two educators who draft ed the final report defended their conclusions on the major ity will. Dr. Edgar Fuller, executive secretary of the Council of Chief State School Officers, said the educators "took over" in the roundtable discussions "only when the delegates wanted us to." Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruc tion in Washington state, assur ed the delegates that the report was not something she and Full er "made up but is a compilation of your very best thinking." General Motors President Denies Unfair Busines Practice Charge Washington (U.P.) Harlow H. Curtice denied today that the General Motors Corp. has re sorted to unfair or questionable business practices to become the world's largest industrial con cern. . The president of General Mo tors told Senate investigators that the giant auto firm's suc cess is due largely to superior management making the most of the nation's tremendous eco nomic growth in the past 35 years. "I know of no management or ganization that has a higher standard of business: ethics, a greater sense of public responsi bility or a more genuine regard for the equities of the various groups with which we have contact-customers, employees, sup pliers,, dealers and sharehold ers," Curtice said in a 97-page statement prepared for presenta tion to the Senate Monopoly Sub committee. Unfavorable Testimony For the past four weeks, the subcommittee has been making a "case study" of General Motors to determine its effect on the nation's economy. Most of the previous testimony has been unfavorable to General Motors. Numerous witnesses have charged the giant concern used unfair or questionable prac tices to dominate allied fields, as well as the auto industry. A parade of disfranchised deal ers 'Wednesday and yesterday charged that General Motors had tossed them aside because they didn't sell enough cars to satisfy Curtice and other top GM of ficials. Some testified that Curtice personally turned them down when they appealed to him in Detroit. Lost Franchises One such dealer, Lee C. An derson of Lake Orion, Mich., testified that Curtice called him "a Red" because of his vigorous opposition to a GM policy of selling autos at cost price to foremen and tome other factorv employees. Others said they. lost their franchises after refusing factory demands that they make large expenditures on dealer plant ex pansion, advertising and other programs designed to increase sales. Some testified that they were pressured into registering Chev- frolets as having been sold even before they reached the dealer, to make the MG car look better in its sales race with Ford. 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