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Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1957 Pages 1 to 10 Many Schools in America Still Run To Tune of Hickory Stick1 Br LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R, The 3 R's can still be taught to the tune of a hickory stick in three-fourths of the nation's schools. That is the surprise finding of a nationwide survey of school discipline just completed by the National Education Association. The survey also showed teach er! generally are far less dis turbed about the behavior of to day's school children than some outsiders who think juvenile de linquency runs rampant in- the classroom. More than 90 per cent of the teachers covered rated their students ''well-behaved." Questionnaires Sent The NEA's research division sent questionnaires to 10,000 teachers. They were selected by Frm or garden. Merry Tiller really digs in takes the ton out of tilting produces more garden for less work and money! 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But it learned through a roundabout question that most teachers con sider "spanking rights" a neces sary feature of running an or derly classroom. . Punishment Needed To the question, "Do you think classroom teachers should be al lowed to administer corporal punishment to pupils in elementary-school grades," 77 per cent of the teachers replied yes. Two thirds also held out for spanking rights to junior high school while 37 per cent said whipping should be permitted even in high school. Taking these replies as a gauge of teacher sentiment toward ac tual use of corporal punishment, Lambert said: "It is evident that boys and girls are still getting lickings in a great many schools in the United States. Seeking to find out whether "blackboard jungle" conditions prevail in many schools, the questionnaire asked whether teachers had been subjected dur ing thepast year to any "act of physical violence" by a student. Sixteen teachers out of every 1,000 said they personally had ex perienced such an attack. An other 1 1 per cent said they knew of a violent attack on another teacher in their school. Another question was whether juvenile delinquency in the neighborhood served by the school was "as bad as has been portrayed throughout the coun try by press, movies and radio?" Seventy per cent replied it was "not nearly so bad" and another 23 per cent said "not quite so bad." The rest said it waa as bad or worse. Teachers were given four choices of rating the "overall behavior" of their students. "Exceptionally well behaved," said 34 per cent; "reasonably well behaved but difficult to handle on occasions," said 61 per cent; "misbehave frequent ly," reported four per cent; and "almost always difficult to han dle," said one per cent. Congested Areas Cited Analysis of replies by type of school district showed the high est incidence of serious misbe havior, including attacks on teachers, in congested city slums, teachers listed as main causes of. pupil misbehavior "irresponsible parents," "broken homes" .and "inadequate parental supervi sion" due to mothers with jobs keeping them away from home. Carpenters Union Meets at Ontario Ontario U.R) About 300 carpenters from Idaho and Ore gon have opened a three-day meeting of the Oregon State Carpenters Union and the Rocky Mountain District Council Car penters Union of Idaho. The convention agenda in cluded a discussion of an effort to bring Idaho carpenter wages up to the level prevailing in Oregon. A union official main tained that Idaho wages for car penters were about 30 cents an hour below those of Oregon and the Idaho carpenters had no health or welfare fund. SELECTING SIX-FOOT show girl, Pat Gaston, 27, from San Antonio, Tex., Tommy Manville, 63, asbestos heir, announces she will become bride within week at his New Rochelle, N. Y., home. ( International Soundphoto) Hal Gardner Named Jaycee President Hal Gardner, 28, 145 North Ivl st., was elected president of the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. Silverton Man Hurt In Helicopter Crash Tokyo ii.P.) S. Sgt. Dennis Fountain of Silverton, Ore., has a "good chance" to recover from major burns received in the crash of a rescue helicopter, a doctor at Tachikawa Air Base hospital said today. Fountain was aboard an H-19 helicopter sent from Ashiya air base to the wreckage of a downed C-119 flying boxcar in southern Japan. It crashed in bad weather. All four men aboard the C 119 and one helicopter crewman were killed in the two accidents. A spokesman for the U.S. Far East Air Forces said Fountain suffered burns over 50 per cent of his body and was in critical condition. His wife, who has been living with him in Japan, has remained at his bedside al most constantly, the spokesman said. Gardner is employed by the California Oregon Power com pany in the auditing department and has been active in the Med ford Jaycees for the past three years. Elected to other offices were Alan . Holmes, first vice pres ident; Garry Shuler, second vice president; Gerry Pullen, secre tary; and Gregg Orr, treasurer. The annual installation ban quet will be held Tuesday, April 30, at R o g u e Valley Country club. The installation banquet will be open to anyone interested in the Jaycee organization. Guest speaker for the evening will be the Rev. Haddon Rob inson, assistant pastor and youth educational director of the First Baptist church. Fifth st. and Central ave., Medford. Charles Jones, past president, will be master of ceremonies and Mark McKenzie- will conduct the in stallation program. 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