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1- Americans Must Double School Spending, Committee Report Says Washington U.R) A presi dential committee said today that if Americans want decent schools for their children they must be prepared to double their present spending on education. The recommendation that to tal US. school spending be boosted to S20,000,000,000 a year "within the next decade" was the highlight of a 50,000 word report submitted to Presi dent Eisenhower at a White House ceremony. The report was prepared by a 34- member committee for the White House Conference on Education. Mr. Spring Conference Of Kiwanians Here Medford Xiwanis club will be host, to the spring conference of Division 15 of the Pacific Northwest district of Kiwanis International on Sunday. The meeting will open at 9 a.m. at the Jackson hotel. About 50 Kiwanians from out of town will attenc There are 17 clubs in the division and each is ex pected to have representatives here. E. Ronald Rice, Medford, divi sion lieutenant governor, will preside. A. Freeman Sersanous, Portland, district governor, will attend. A luncheon for Kiwanians and . their wives is scheduled for 12:30 p.m Sunday. At the Wednesday noon lunch eon session of the Medford club, Charles Seavey, Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company public relations representative, spoke on power from cosmic space and demonstrated the solar battery. Rice and Medford High Track Coach Bob Newland gave infor mation on the Rogue Valley re lays here Saturday. The Kiwanis club sponsors the meet and Ser sanous will present the Kiwanis donated trophy to the winning school. Eisenhower appointed the com mittee of prominent citizens last year to organize "the most thor ough study" ever made of the nation's school system. Other Recommendations The committee also recom mended: "Emergency" federal aid to states to build about 200,000 new classrooms as speedily as possible. "Substantial increases" in teachers' salaries, with a view toward eventually doubling present pay scales. Providing "basic health and safety services" to students in parochial and other private schools at "public expense." Calling a "White House Con ference on Higher Education" to study the problems of col leges and universities. Need for Spending The committee called for "a new look at the entire question of how much money this society should spend on education." "In the richest nation in all history, there is no valid reason for the grimy, dilapidated and overcrowded school buildings which too many children now occupy," it said. "Most Ameri cans would not permit their chil dren to live in a house which is as bad as the school buildings which many pupils are forced to attend." Declaring that "the dollars spent on education in this nation should be approximately dou bled" in the next decade, the committee said: "The schools have become the chief instrument for keep ing this nation the fabled land cf opportunity it started out to be. ... It is primarily schools Of 636,341 milking machines in the United States at the time of the last census. Wisconsin had 94,201, Minnesota had 65, 049 and New York had 50,831. The "song" of the tiny cricket can sometimes be heard as far as a mile. Only the male "sings." which allow no man's failure to prevent the success of his son." The committee estimates that S10,000,000,000 a year is now being spent on public and pri vate elementary and secondary schools. Dud Shell Explosion Kills Two Near Tokyo Tokyo (U.R) Two persons died instantly Thursday when a dud shell exploded on a U.S. security force maneuvering ground 50 miles southwest of Tokyo. , The shell went off as a scrap iron dealer picked it up. The blast killed him and a small boy who was watching nearby. Communities Should Determine Problems, Attempt Solutions Each community should de termine what its problems are and endeavor to solve them, first utilizing its own commun ity resources, Dr. Henry C. Schu macher. San Francisco, said at the third annual meeting of Southern Oregon Child Guidance Clinic association last night. The meeting followed a din ner served in the cafetorium of Hedrich Junior High school with J. D. McAulay, Ashland, pre siding. Considered Authority Dr. Schumacher, medical di rector of the mental health serv ice for the regional office of the United States Public Health service, formerly directed a child guidance clinic and is considered an authority on social problems, particularly regarding mental health. He based his talk partly on questions submitted in writ ten form from the audience which numbered about 200 per sons from all sections of south ern Oregon. He praised the Southern Ore gon Child Guidance Clinic and association, and said few com munities of comparable size in the nation could boast of such an organization and clinic. He reviewed the rise of social agencies and organizations, par ticularly in the western states, ond said these are the "con- Wash and dry o fabrics-fel or partial foods aetofnaffcsBy! y Automatic timing for both washing and drying! y Porcelain protection against rust ond corrosion! j y Both Washer ond Dryer are one-piece, wrap-arovnd constrvcfioa for long-life! . I $306 Other Combinations as Low as $2.12 a Week REMEMBER . . . "Every Day's A Holiday With HOTPOINT" CITY APPLIANCE, Bnc. "JACKSON COUNTY'S EXCLUSIVE HOTPOINT DEALERS" 127 No th Central Avenue Medford, Ore.-Phone 3-5306 137 East Main Street Ashland, Ore. Phone 9-5831 OPEN WEDNESDAY EVENINGS 'TIL 9 P.M. VISIT OUR USED APPLIANCE DEPT. science of the community." Dr. Schumacher declared that the instability of family .-life js not necessarily a reflectionon parents, but a reflection on the whole pattern of life in this country. "The biggest mistake we make is to just blame the parents," he said, "but what we overlook is that the parents ere themselves the products of so ciety as a whole." Bring Pressure Dr. Schumacher continued by saying that in this country we try to make everyone measure up to a norm, and then bring pressure to bear on those who do not. He cited as examples the general deploring of all aggres siveness as "bad" and the follow ing of the "head of the class" pattern as far as education is concerned. "What constitutes normal be haviour," he asked. Youth, and parents, become confused, con cerned and resentful and youth "strikes back" at society by acts of violence, destruction and gen eral delinquency, the speaker said. Dr. Schumacher said he be lieved elementary schools serve the needs of all youth better than do junior and high schools, and declared there is too much emphasis on academic accom plishments and training for col lege entrance. Community Problem Speaking of the problem of the delinquent or mentally ill, Dr. Schumacher said he believed every effort should be made to care for them in the community instead of "putting them out of sight" in institutions far from home. "If they are kept in the community, the community doesn't lose sight of their prob lems.," he added. He discussed "problem" fam ilies which do not welcome help, corporal punishment, the ratio of delinquency between the sexes, accident proneness and its causes and other questions sub mitted. Dr. A. Erin Merkel, head of the Jackson County Public Health department and director of the clinic, introduced Dr. Schumacher. Directors Elected Seven new directors were elected for three-year terms. They are Dr. B. Brandt Bartels, William E. Duhaime and C. El wood Hedberg, all Medford; W. T. Dawkins and Mrs. Chester Fitch, Ashland; Mrs." Lewis Dusnberry, Trail, and Mrs. Melvin Hall, Jacksonville. The Rev. Richard Jones, Medford, was elected for a one-year term to replace the Rev. Ross Knotts, Ashland, who resigned. Mrs. Dunbar Carpenter, form er president, presented a pro gress report, saying she felt the organization was now perfected and that more use is being made each year of the services pro vided by the association and the guidance clinic. Among those attending were Miss Frances Williams, psychia trict nurse consultant, and Ray mond W. Craig, psychiatric social work consultant, who ac companied Dr. Schumacher from San Francisco; Miss Lucy Knox, mental health nurse consultant with the Oregon Board of Health; Dr. Seth Karren, Klam ath county health officer and Ben Kerns, president of' the Klamath County Child Guidance council who headed a large dele gation from Klamath. - Entertainment was provided by a chorus from Crater High school and tables wer decorated by Mrs. C. P. Smets and Mrs. M. H. Fields of the Medford Ex tension unit. The dinner was pre pared under the direction of Mrs. Virginia Wait, school dietitian, and served by members of the Girls' league. Mrs. A. N. Potter Jr., was chairman of dinner ar rangements. The Rev. Knotts opened and closed the meeting with prayer. Idaho Reactor Incident Disclosed Lemont, 111. CU.R) An exper imental atomic reactor at the National Testing station in Idaho got out of hand last November and released radio activity into the building, it was revealed to day. The Argonne National labora tory here, a branch of the Atomic Energy commission, said it was making the disclosure because of several "distorted stories" about the incident. There was no "significant ra diation exposure," but the re actor's core was damaged, the laboratory said. The laboratory said that dur ing a planned power surge in a Nov: 29 experiment a verbal in struction to shut the machine off "instantly" was misunder stood. "As a result, enough heat was produced to damage the core," the statement said. The testing station is located 70 miles north of Idaho Falls. Friday. April 6, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON! MAIL TRIBUNE FIVH The number of cows artificial ly bred increased from 7,539 in 1939 to 4,845,222 in 1953 in the United States. Klamath Basin Water Seen Ample Klamath Falls U.R) Abun dant water supplies for the Klamath lake basin irrigation season were forecast last night. Wet soils and heavy snow packs on watersheds promise to boost summer stream low from one-half to four-fifths above normal on major streams, W. T. Frost, Oregon snow survey su-: pervisor for the Soil Conserva tion service, said. Farm, forestry and irrigation ! representatives said soils are the j wettest they have been here at , this time of year. Main concern now is that heavy spring rains falling on already full soil will pose flood hazards. Moderate weather with orderly stream flow should assure better than usual late summer flow on the smaller streams, Frost said. 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