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o PROTESTING AGAINST oil-drilling permits under lands of two Los Angeles country clubs, Attorney Hal Hughes tright) notifies City Council president J. S. Gibson he filed suits to halt action. (International Soundphoto) Chances Said Small For Another Large Auto Firm to Start By ELMER C. WALZER Unittd Press Financial Editor Detroit (in From the looks of things in this automobile city, the chances are small for another big automobile company get ting started in the near future. It just costs too much to do the trick. The exp erts e s t i mate it could well cost a bil lion dollars or Elmer toaizer more to get into action, and there just isn't that kind of money venturing into a field already well filled, it is held. The situation is illustrated by the introduction of the Ford Motor Company's new Edsel, a car of 18 models designed to cap ture a place in the medium priced field. It is estimated the cost of this venture will run around a quar ter of a billion dollars. The job of producing the series started nearly 10 years ago and has gone through a series of gruelling tests long before it made an ap pearance on the drawing board. And this job was done with a giant organization with assets of more than two billion dollars, plant and equipment of the lat est type, and men trained in all forms of the automobile Wsiness Ten-Ton Buoy Replacing Tillamook Lighthouse Tillamook lift - The Coast Guard buoy tender Mallow Tues day installed a ten-ton buoy off the Oregon coast to take over the ship protection duties of the 76-year-old Tillamook rock light house. The historic lighthouse is being abandoned Sunday by the government as too costly. In stead, a flashing 80,000-candle-power light in the buoy will warn shipping away from the rugged coastline. A crew of four has maintained the lighthouse on 90-foot Tillamook rock. It can be reached only by breeches buoy. from the ground up to the top echelons. Cosily New Plants To duplicate this vast mechan ism of productive genius would require entirely new plants that run into huge sums at present day costs. Getting the men and keeping them until the car was launched also would be a costly operation. Ford is producing its new Ed- sels in already existing plants. Its expert management has built up an entirely new dealer organ ization to handle the distribution of the new cars. It would be dif ficult to get dealers to take on an entirely unknown car, it is held. All this organization styling; modeling, testing, designing, measurement of the market, set ting up assembly lines, tooling up for production, and actual production and distribution is an expensiye layout. Some think a billion dollars would be but a part of the cost of setting it up. This is a marked contrast with the early days of Henry Ford's company. Henry Had $28,000 Henry got together a sum of $28,000 for his original com pany some 54 years ago. He made it do, the job. He soon was selling cars in sufficient quantity . to warrant expansion after ' pay ment of generous dividends. Ford said some time later that the mere fact he had only that $28,000 to start his plant made for success. If he had had $100, 000, he would have failed, the wizard of the assembly line for automobiles said. That little sum has been built up into the present day giant of the automotive industry, the sec ond largest automobile producer in the world. Of course, a dollar went a lot further in the early 1900s than it does today. Eggs -then were less than a penny apiece, and there were no income taxes to worry about. Also labor was cheap, and working hours long. Even so the $28,000 of 1903 does not equal one billion dol lars of 1957. Today's billion is nearly 36,000 times that $28,000. And that isn't all inflation. Medford Tribune Third Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1957 Six Pages America's Schools Expected to Be About the Same This Year As Last By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington OP) When Johnny trudges home from his first day at school next month, his mother will ask, "How were things at school today?" and Johnny will reply, as he heads for the icebox, "oh, about the same as last year." However frustrating Johnny's answer may be to a mother's curiosity. It will be a fairly ac curate summary of the situa tion in America's public and parochial schools as they begin the new fall term. The shortages of qualified teacherrs and classroom space which hampered the schools last year will be "just as bad and probably worse'" this year, ac cording to Dr. William G. Carr, executive secretary of. the Na tional Education association. Dr. Lawrence G. Derthick commissioner of education, said elementary school enrollment is expected to reach an all-time Ipeak of 30,670,000 children, an j increase of 959,000 over last year. High school enrollment will be 8,424,000, up 604,000 from last year. The increased enrollment will more than offset the progress achieved during the past year in building new classrooms and training new teachers, according to Dr. Ray Maul, assistant re search director of the NEA. "There is every indication that we will have more overcrowd ing this, year, and a much larger number of children attending half-day sessions, said Maul. About 245,000 children were on half-day sessions in the 1956-57 school year. Maul thinks the figure will be close to 400,- uuu this tall. Other thousands of children will get a full day's schooling but in classes that are swollen far beyond the limit of 35 stu dents which educators consider a maximum, for effective teach ing. Derthick said preliminary fig ures indicate that public and private schools have signed up 1,262,1000 fully qualified teach ers for the coming year. He said schools estimated their actual need for teachers at 1,397,100, 10-YeardDId Boy . Killed Near Salem Salem HP) A 10-year-old boy was killed and three per sons were injured, one critically, at . Aurora Tuesday night when the boy s bicycle veered into the path of an automobile, state po lice reported. Killed was Tommy E. Wieder hold, Aurora. Injured when the car over turned after the collision were Raymond S. Wilson, 53, Port land; his wife, Elsie, 38, and a girl,- Jackie Mullinj. Wilson was taken to Good Samaritan hosptial in Portland and was in critical condition. His wife and the girl were hos pitalized at Oregon City. Their condition was reported "good" today. Only the prtmi portions of ulecttd tuna are used hi Brtast-O'-Ckicken brand. -tf' V3 ONLY THE FINEST OF THE TUNA ASTOtBfCI Breast-O'-Chicken Tuna is always firm, tender and wonderfully delicate in flavor for only the finest one third of the tuna is packed under this famous brand. It is rated excellent, also, in both quantity and quality of body-building protein. In fancy solid pack or popular chunk style, Breast- ' O'-Chicken means best-o'-tuna! BREAST-O -CHICKEN Ht-PKOTEIN TUNA leaving a deficit of 135,000. Last year's shortage was about 120, 000. Maul said the key word in all discussions of the teacher short age is "qualified." "There will be somebody standing up in front of every classroom when the opening bell rings," he said. "The ques tion is whether that somebody is a properly trained teacher." In the elementary grades of public schools, there are now more than 26,000 teachers who have had less than two years of college preparation. Another 132,000 have had two or more years of college, but don't have a degree. Future a Little Brighter The long-range outlook is more hopeful. U. S. colleges graduated 107,000 qualified tea chers last June, an increase of 10 per cent over the class of 1956. This reversed a five-year downtrend in the supply of new teachers. If public concern about the educational crisis con tinues to be reflected in higher salaries and greater prestige for the teaching profession, NEA of ficials are hopeful that the sup ply of fully-trained teachers eventually will catch up with the demand. Carr saw no similar ground for optimism about the class room shortage. The defeat of the federal aid to education bill in the current session of Congress, he said, snuffed out the only hope of building enough schools within a "reasonable period of time." Without federal aid, he said, it will take "generations" for state and local school construction programs to catch up with the ever-growing need for classroom space. Carr said the school bill was defeated because of the "intel ligent and aggressive campaign waged by the Chamber of Com merce against it." , "They beat us in a hard fight," he said, "and I want to be sure they get full credit for the kind of schools our children will be attending this year and for many years to come." The Dalles Youth Confesses Slaying The Dalles W Larry Zink, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Zink, The Dalles, con fessed Tuesday night that he struck the blow which resulted in the death of 9-year-old Mary Matthew here early Friday morning, Aug. 16. The youth was arrested on a charge of first degree murder, District Attorney Harry Hogan said. Jack Bearss, a polygraph ex pert, said that the Zinlt boy had agreed to a lie detector test after signing the confession, and that the test bore out his statements. Police indicated the clue that broke the case involved a note that was found in a pickup truck several days after the girl's death. Authorities sent several hun dred copies of handwriting sam ples from The Dalles high school to the Oregon state crime labora tory in Portland and compari sons connected young Zink with the note. Mary had been spending the night with a girl .friend, Barbara Heldt, 10, in the yard of the Heldt horn. Both girls were in sleeping bags. The Zink boy en tered the fenced-in yard and struck both girls on the head, and fled when Barbara's screams brought her father to the yard. Mary died in a Portland hospital several days later. Central Point Light Reactivated For Fall Central Point The ' traffic light at the intersection of East Pine and Ninth sts.. 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