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52nd Year Medford United Prns Full Leased Wir f TT Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1957 Pages 1-6 Oregon in Limelight at National Education Association's 100th Annual Convention 3y OLIVE STARCHER Mail Tribune Staff Writer Philadelphia, July 2 Oregon Is in the limelight for the cen tennial convention of Rational Education association which opened here yesterday with Miss Martha Shull, Portland teacher of English and national presi dent, presiding, the Oregon del egation is seated on the main floor of convention hall directly in front of the platform. This morning when Miss Shull open ed the first business session, her home state delegation was 106 strong, plus the press. Amendment Offered When business began, Oregon took the spotlight almost imme diately for the delegation had been instructed by the Oregon Education association to offer an amendment to the proposi tion which would raise NEA dues from $5 to $10 annually. Wilfred Burgess of Prineville, immediate past president of OEA and delegation head, of fered the amendment which would have increased the dues to only 58 and spoke for it. Aft er an hour's debate during which only two or three delega tion supported the Oregon amendment, the convention vot ed the raise of dues to $10. Just prior to the convention opening, the Oregonians met at the Benjamin Franklin hotel to organize the delegation. Mrs. Antonia Crater, Newberg, past president of OEA and NEA di rector from Oregon, presided,, and Mrs. Maxine Smith, Med ford, was named secretary. Other Delegates Included among the delegates was Mrs. Mabel .Winston, Ash land, dean of women and regis trar of Southern Oregon college, who had just come from the an nual convention of American Association of University Worn a held in Boston. Mrs. Win itrji, who for the past six years, him been Pacific Northwest re gional director for AAUW, was replaced during the convention by Dr. Marian Cox, Seattle. Mrs. Winston brought the news that Mrs. Robert Y. Thornton, Salem, past president of Oregon AAUW, was named to the arts commit tee of the national body and that two Pacific Northwest col leges, Marylhurst. Portland, and Whitworth, Spokane, had been accredited by AAUW. Dr. F. M. Hunter, Eugene, NEA president in 1921 and for mer chancellor of higher educa tion for Oregon, was introduced and honored. Dr. Hunter is at tending his SOth annual NEA convention. Gavel Presented At the convention's opening ceremonies Monday night, the Oregon delegation presented Miss Shull with a gavel, with Miss Mildred Wharton, Port land, OEA president, making the presentation. The entire del egation stood and was presented to the assemblage. Miss Shull was also given a portfolio of the anniversary postage stamp is sued in celebration of the NEA centennial, and for which "first day" envelopes were sold and postal cancellations arranged. Monday afternoon another Or- eonian. Ewald Turner of Pen dleton, was elected first vice president of the Department of Classroom Teachers of NEA. Miss Vivian Powell, librarian of Priest school, Detroit, Mich was elected president. This de partment, largest of the 30 NEA affiliated departments, has a membership of almost 600.000 members. This made two Ore gonians named to national of fice during the teacher sessions, since Jim McDonald of Medford was elected president of Student National Education association at the student's meetings in Washington, D.C. last week. Signs on the walls of conven tion hall state that NEA was founded in 1857 in Philadelphia with an enrollment of 43 mem bers, including two women Membership is now 703,829 with men outnumbered three or four to one. One of the organi zation's current projects is com pletion of a large headquarters in Washington for which teach ers raised the sum of $9,000,000 Talk Merit Rating Merit rating, adopted on a trial basis recently by the Med ford school system and opposed nationallv by many teachers, was discussed at a special press conference which Miss Shull " held Monday noon. She said she approved of "some types" of merit rating but believed that more study and investigation should be carried on before it is adooted by more systems. Teacher shortages, better sal aries, improvement of teacher education, curriculum changes to meet the demands of changed world conditions, and other phases of education were dis cussed at the conference. Miss shull said everyone should work to promote better under between the profession and the rest of the citizenry. Questioned about teacher shortages, she estimated the shortage figure would be at least 150.000 teachers by fall. Asked how this could be rem edied, she mentioned methods to interest more youth in teaching, cooperation of parent-teacher associations and other groups, better salaries and better work ing conditions and federal aid to education. She said the latter should be channeled to the areas in greatest distress. Curricula Needs Asked about curricula to keep pace with world techno logical needs. Miss Shull said there is need, to increase instruc tion in the field of science and technology, but that the proper balance must be maintained with the humanities. She men tioned that teachers must be adequately trained in world af fairs and conditions and said they should have a broad cul tural background. Speaking of teachers in gen eral, Miss Shull declared the most important thing is to have sufficient properly trained teachers and added "there is no substitute for the good relation ship between teacher and pu pil." She added that such meth ods as television can only sup plement and riot replace per sonal classroom instruction. Bock Stairs: Ike's a Bit off Golf Game Washington (IPi Backstairs at the White House: President Eisenhower seems to be a bit off his golf game lately, at least according to his own high stan dards. Last week end in Gettysburg, he belted a 250-yard drive down the fairway which golf pro Dick Sleichter said was one of the best he ever hit But the Presi dent, as golfers will do, still complained. "I hit that one off the heel again," he muttered. The previous week end, he crit icized his own swing by saying he seemed to be "pushing in stead of pulling." During an other recent game, he turned to his partner, George Allen, af ter a shot, and complained, "If I can't hit them any better thari that I might as well stay home." One of the benefits President Eisenhower gets from having his farm at Gettysburg, inci dentally, is an honorary mem bership in the Gettysburg Vol unteer Fire Company. This gives him the right to respond to fire alarms and even pitch in in helping put out the fire. But farmer Eisenhower would have to get to the scene in his own car and not the fire truck. The fire company's in surance doesn't cover honorary members. Overheard in front of the White House, one tourist to an other: "The flag, is flying, that means the president is in." It isn't so. The practice of flying the flag over the White House only when the chief ex ecutive is in residence was dis continued during World War II for security reasons. When the president was out of the coun try, or away from Washington, it wasn't deemed wise to adver tise his whereabouts. Now the flag flies every day, whether or not the president is in res idence. If the tourist had had a chance to read the papers that day, he would have noticed that Eisenhower, at the moment he spoke, was enjoying a respite in Gettysburg. White House Secretary Mary Mead was showing off a birth day gift of perfume in the White House the other day and inad vertently squeezed the atomizer. The slip promptly made her boss Jim Hagerty one of the sweet est smelling presidential press secretaries in history. SAWDUST Phone SP 3-6297 McGinty Fuel Co. Don't Say "Hello" Say "FILTER-FLO" Famed Casbah Not Safe Place For Tourist To Go Unescorted Br ARTHUR HIGBEE United Preu Correspondent Algiers ilfi Come wiz me to the Casbah and get a knife in your ribs. A guidebook says, "You can wander at will in all these al leyways, you cannot get lost." The guidebook was written be fore the Algerian rebellion came and made the Casbah the hottest half-kilometer in all this French eglony. The number of "attentats," the crisp French word for out law attacks by gun, knife or bomb, are so frequent that it is now forbidden for Europeans to go about the Casbah without a military escort According to one version, the outlaws have a chief execution er named AH Le Point, -Point of the Knife, who has his lair in the Casbah and uses methods that make Pepe Le Moko seem like Charley's Aunt. There really was a Pepe Le Moko i -around the turn of the century, but he is said to have been a comon fence, hashish peddler and assassin with no time for romance, whose pres ent reputation is the work of scriptwriters and the mellow ness of time. Casbah is the Arab word for fort, although it has come to mean the Moslem quarter of any city in Algiers. The Casbah here is still a walled city within a city. Its population is about 80,000 and it is almost exclu sively Moslem. The Casbah has dozens of en trances. Today, all but a couple have been barricaded with rolls of barbed wire by the French to discourage rebels from shoot ing people and then ducking in to the nearest entry to the Cas bah to disappear from sight. The barricade method, though effective, backfired last month when an outlaw lobbed a gren ade from behind one of the bar ricades into a passing streetcar, killing one man and wounding 20 other persons. The law here is represented by the judge or "cadi," Soleiman Tchandarli, whose family came driginally from Turkey. He wears the red rosette of an of ficer of the French Legion of Honor in his buttonhole. "You must not wander about the Casbah," he warns. "Not in Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Ottawa, 111. Louis Girard, brother of the soldier being held on charges of causing the death of a Japanese woman, in reply to Rep. Omar Burleson (D.-Tex.) who claimed a witness said the GI coaxed the woman nearer and then shot her in the back: "It looks to me as though a lot of people in the government are trying to get off the hook . . . whatever happened on that firing range should be brought out in a court of law." Memphis, Tenn. Singer Elvis Presley, on the auto death of Judy Tyler, co-star with him in his latest movie: "Nothing has hurt me as bad in my life. Houston, Tex. Bus driver Johnny L. Weidncr, -who was ar rested on bigamy charges for having three wives: "I'm in a mess." Detroit Walter Mutter, to his wife on waking up to find a swarm of bees on his fireplace mantle: "We've got bees, honey." London Hollywood producer Mike Todd, on his marriage to actress Liz Taylor: "I fight with Liz every hour. I've never been so happy in my life." Moscow Anastas Mikoyan, a top member of the new ruling group-of the Soviet Communist party, commenting on the dismis sal of MolotOT, Malenkov and Kaganovich: "Things are going to be the same as before, only better." the present situation." And your wanderings are shortly at an end for when you turn up the next street you are stopped by a patrol of four youthful draftees in American style helmets carrying Sten sub machineguns. "How did you get here with out an escort?" the corporal asks. "It is not permitted." But who wants to see the Cas bah with an escort? And so you leave, the four soldiers politely following you to. the exit. Char les Boyer and Hedy Lamar nev er had it so tough. Gail Russell Faces Drunk Driving Charge Hollywood IIP) Actress Gail Russell, 32, charged with drunk driving in 1953 and hit run in 1955, was arrested Thurs day after she ran her car into a restaurant, injuring one em ployee and herself. Police booked Miss Russell on suspician of drunk driving. She was 'unable to post $263 bond immediately and remained at city jail. Officers said Miss Russell was "very cooperative" and took several sobriety tests, all of which she failed. j The dark -haired actress, who last year starred in a picture as part of a comeback after a series of misfortunes and ill nesses, suffered minor injuries, police said. A busboy, Robert Reynolds, 21, was struck by Miss Russell's car as it crashed through a plate glass window. Examinations Announced For Civil Service Jobs The eleventi U.S. Civil Serv ice region, Seattle, Wash., has announced an examination for office machine operator and su pervisor for employment in vari ous federal agencies in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washing ton. Examination for realty officer and appraiser - in agencies in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington also have been an nounced The board of examin ers, headquarters 13th Naval district, Seattle, has announced examinations for entomologist. 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