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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1957
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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.
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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.
Additional information may
be obtained at the Medford post
office building.
Look behind the smoke-screen of recently announced
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they can afford to give you a bigger trade-in deal!
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