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PROTESTING AGAINST oil-drilling permits under lands
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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.
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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.. Central
j Point, is now in operation Cen
tral Point police officials report.
The light controls traffic at the
school crossing.
Salem (IP John J. Tyner,
Portland, has been appointed as
sistant attorney general for the
state Bureau of Labor, it was
announced Wednesday.
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