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Next Autumn's College Freshmen
Highest Price in History for Education
Washington
U.R)
For
about 700,000 high school
seniors and their families, the
next three weeks will be a pe
riod of fingernailbiting and
floor-pacing.
The seniors are waiting for
word on whether they've been
accepted for admission to col-
lege. Most schools mail out
notices during late April and j This year's high school graduat
early May. ing class consists mainly of
The U.S. Office of Education youths born in 1939. a year in
estimates that slightly more than which total U.S. births were
half of this year's 1,353,000 high 2,466,000.
school graduates have aDDlied Starting about 1960, fresh-
for enrollment in college. The
vast majority will get in some
where, eventually. But many
will have to settle for their sec
ond, third or even fourth choice
of institutions.
To Pay Highest Prices
Whenever they enroll, next
fall's freshment will pay the
highest price in history for their
crack at higher education. A
government survey recently
showed that the cost of attend
ing college has approximatly
doubled since 1940.
Undergraduates at state uni
versities and other public in
stitutions will pay an average
of about $1,500 each next year
for tuition, books, room, board,
clothes, travel, recreation and
incidental expenses- In private
colleges, the average outlay
will run close to $2,000 a year.
Future Dim
The one confident prediction
that can be made about this
situation is that it will get worse
before it gets better,
College enrollment, already at
an all-time high of three million,
is expected to climb from five to
ten per cent ' a year until it
reaches about six million by
1970.
The current pressure on facili
ties for higher education is
larger percentage of American
youths are "seeking -college de
grees than in th past. The pro-
Ex-Medford Man Author of
Mexican Government Book
A copy of the recent publica
tion, "The Mexican Government
Today," by William P. Tucker
Jr., a former Medford resident,
has been presented to the Med
ford Public Library by the au
thor's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam P. Tucker.
In. his book Dr. Tucker de
scribes important aspects of the
Carpenters Confab
Ends in Ontario
Ontario (U.R) The annual
convention of the Oregon State
Council of Carpenters was con
cluded here Saturday after dele
gates accepted an affiliation with
the entire Rocky Mountain dis
trict of Idaho. Previously, the
only local of the Rocky Moun
tain district affiliated with the
Oregon council was the Payette
local.
Delegates reelected Ivor T.
Jones as executive secretary of
the council. He has just com
pleted his ninth year in that ca
pacity. Leo M. Neal of Portland was
elevated from second to first
vice president and Robert J. Ca
ley of Roseburg was elected sec
ond vice president.
President is E. B. Weber of
Portland. The presidency will be
up for election at next year's
convention scheduled to be held
in Astoria.
Lack of Low Cost
Power Takes Blame
Portland (U.R) The lack of
low cost power is to be blamed
for the scarcity of new industries
in Oregon and not the state's
tax structure. Sen. Richard L.
Neuberger said Friday in a
speech before the City club.
The senator outlined what he
terms as an economic crisis for
Oregon and accused misguided
leaders and politicians from
keeping Oregon from 3.- mill
power.
He also attacked the newspa
pers in Oregon for failure to
take note of the state's sliding
per capita income in relation to
the national average.
The high personal income tax
rate of New York and its low
power cost was used by the sen
ator as an example of the possi
bility of attracting industries in
spite of unattractive tax struc
ture. CAUSE AND EFFECT
San Antonio, Tex. CU.PJ A
mass meeting of citizens called
to protest poor drainage that
last week caused flash floods
had to be postponed Sunday. The
reason: More flash floods.
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, portion of youths in the 18 to 21
age group who enroll in college
has increased from 1.7 per cent
in 1370 to about 33 per cent this
year.
The sharp rise in the U.S.
birth rate after World War II,
which has swamped public
schools with students, has not
i yet affected college enrollments.
freshman classes will come from
the substantially larger baby
crops of World War II. And by
1966. the 3.637,000 babies born
in 1948 will be of college age
Thereafter the trend is steadily
up.
Costs To Rise
Barring a reversal of long
term economic trends, the cost
of going to college is likely' to
keep on rising, along with en
rollments. Even the higher tui
tion rates recently put into ef
fect by many institutions do not
begin to cover the actual cost of
educating a student.
In many cases, the tuition
represents less than half of the
actual cost, with the rest com
ing from endowments, alumni
contributions, or in the case of
public institutions, tax funds,
The Education Policies Com
mission, after a four-year study
of American colleges, reported
recently that faculty salaries
! will have to be increased to ap-
proximately double the present
level over the next decade if
higher education hopes to hold
onto its most vital resource
good teachers. With the average
college teaching salary now
slightly more than S5.000 a
year, professors are deserting
the campuses in droves for
better-paying jobs in business
and industry.
Faculty pay raises, even on a
Mexican national government's
structure and functions and
shows how it differs from, those
of our own government. He also
discusses' the government of the
Mexican states and the federal
district.
There are sections on public
utilities and public works, agri
culture,, and social services, as
well as a section outlining the
background of the land and its
people. According to the pub
lishers there has been until now
no general treatise available on
the government and politics of
our nearest Latin American
neighbor.
Graduate of MHS
Dr. Tucker is a graduate of
Medford High school and of
Southern Oregon college. He re
ceived his master's degree at the
University of Washington and
his doctorate at the University
of Minnesota. Now a professor of
political science at Macalester
college, St. Paul, Minn., Dr.
Tucker is on leave for the cur
rent year, serving as visiting pro
fessor of political science at the
University of Puerto Rico. He
has traveled and studied in
I Mexico over a period of many
years.
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Families who hope to solve
the financial problem by having
their children live at home
while attending a local college
may be in for an ugly shock, ac
cording to Dr. Ernest V. Hollis
of the U.S. Office of Education.
Hollis said a survey showed
that it often costs more to feed
and house a student at home
than to send him away to live ;
ln a dormitory and dine in a I
student union.
The same survey by the Of
fice of Education showed where
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the money is coming from. Fam
ilies supply about 41 per cent
of it from, their current income;
another 29 per cent comes from
savings which the family and
the student accumulated before
enrollment; Students earn about
17 per cent of it after entering
college. Scholarships, loans and
veterans benefit programs ac
count for the rest.
In an effort to stimulate
long-term savings for the costs
of college education, some banks
are now starting "college cluh
accounts. These are periodic-de-
posit savin e accounts similar to
the familiar Christmas club
plan, but extended over several
years.
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Mental Institutions
Free of Politics
Salem (U.R) Oregon Men
tal institutions have been "re
markably free of political in
fluence and their progress in a
17-year period shows great
strides in public education,"
Secretary of State Mark Hatfield
said Saturday.
"Mental health ha? no place
for partisan politics," Hatfield
said in a statement concerning
Mental' Health week, "and it is
to Oregon's credit that a change
in two of the three members of
the Board of Control has not
resulted in undesirable uproot
ing of programs of progress."
Oregon's state institutions now
are under the direction of the
Board of Control, made up of
the governor, secretary of state
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