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Medford Pupils Score
Above Average on
National Iowa Tests
StuAtnt In Medford school
system' upper grades generally
scoreA tbove average in a re
cent rit ef tests prepared by
speculum it the University of
Iowa.
The nation-wide survey, the
Iowa Tests of Educational De
veloprnent, was conducted by
Science Research associates, and
tests were prepared under the
direction of Dr. E. F. Lindquist,
professor and statistician at the
University of Iowa.
The object of the survey,
which incluofed nine tests, was
to establish national norms for
1957. Students were tested on
Miss Hanley Named
To State Committee
Miss Mary Hanley, curator of
the Jacksonville museum, has
been named to a 17-member
statewide historical research
committee, said Thomas Vaughn.
director of the Oregon Historical
society and member of the Ore
gon Centennial commission.
The committee was organized
to work with the staff of the
Oregon Centennial exposition
and international trade fair of
1959. The volunteer group will
seek items of historical signific
ance for use during the centen
nial and later, Vaughn said. Sup
plying accurate historical infor
mation to other committees and
to the centennial staff will also
be don by the volunteer com
mittees.
Vaughn will serve as a liaison
commissioner coordinating work
of the committee, according to
Anthony Brandenthaler, chair
man of the Oregon Centennial
commission.
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For Civil Service Job
Civil service examinations are
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fireman at the VA Domiciliary,
Ctmp White, Enid L. Brown, ex
ecutive' secretary for the Camp
"hit board of civil service ex
aminers, hg announced.
Pull information concerning
ejxpfritnee requirements are
contfinefl in the examination an
nouncement and may be obtain
ed at the local post office or
board of civil service examiners,
VA. Domicilary, Camp White.
Regional security exchanges
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according to the recently pub
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basic social concepts, backgorund
of natural sciences, English ex
pression, ability to do quantita
tive thinking, ability to inter
pret reading in social sciences,
ability to interpret reading in
natural science, ability to inter
pret literary materials, general
vocabulary and use of sources
of information.
Returned for Scoring
The tests were returned to
the University of Iowa for scor
ing by Univac, figuring class
averages, and for computation
of national norms from those
sent in by all 254 school systems
participating. Raw scores of
each student were translated in
to standard scores, and national
norms in the form of student per
centile scores and averages were
obtained.
Based on a 50 percentile for
the national norm, Medford High
school seniors scored averages
ranging between the 68 percent
ile m quantitative thinking to
the 97 percentile in natural sci
ence. In only two other tests,
English expression and reading
in social sciences, were Medford
seniors below the 90 percentile.
Juniors also had scores above
average on all but one test. In
reading social sciences, juniors
ranked in the 50 percentile, but
other percentiles ranged from
63 to 94. Sophomores in the
quantitative thinking, social con
cepts and reading social sciences
went below the national norms
slightly, but other percentiles
ranged between 65 and 86 per
centiles. Ninth Grade Scores
Ninth grade scores of Medford
students ranged from the 63rd
percentile in English expression
to the 93rd percentile in vocab
ulary.
Medford's senior composite
score for all subject areas is
equal to the 93rd percentile for
systems throughout the nation,
Medford school officials noted.
The junior composite score is
equal to the 85 percentile for the
254 systems, the sophomores
score is equal to the 70th per-a
centile, and the freshman score'
is equal to the 87th percentile.
School officials noted that
such tests are of benefit in sev
eral ways, which include coun
seling individual students, plan
ning college and vocational pro
grams, identifying weak stu-
weakdents, identifying outstand
ing students, indicating relative
position of subject areas in com
paring with national norms,
and. planning remedial proced
ures both from standpoints of
student and curricular strengthening.
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Crater High School
The winning smile of Miss
Martha Boshears. shorthand and
office practice teacher, has not
been seen around Crater this
week. Miss Boshears is in Sac
red Heart hospital in Medford.
All of the students wish her a
speedy recovery.
Basketball practice officially
started last Wednesday. Two
practices have been scheduled
in an evening, one for the var
sity, one for the JVs. Don Ani-
elak, varsity coach, has had his
boys doing a series of drills and
wind sprints. Ron Van Dolah,
JV coach, has had his boys do
ing practically the same as the
varsity. Basketball season opens
on Dec. 6 with Eureka, Calif.,
playing here.
Kay Askwith, a senior, was
chosen Girl of the Month for
September by the Girls League.
Kay is the energetic president
of Comettes, treasurer of Girls
League, Senior Princess of Job's
Daughters, and holds other of
fices at school. Kay is 5 foot, 2
inches tall, has short brown hair,
and brown eyes.
Carol von der Hellen, presi
dent of Girls League, was the
choice for Girl of the Month
for October. Besides being the
League president, Carol is ac
tive on the paper staff and an
nual and belongs to many clubs.
Carol is 5 foot 8 inches tall, has
wavy brown hair and hazel col
ored eyes.
Other succeeding Girl of the
Months will be chosen by secret
committee in the following
months.
Winners of the cover design
contest for the Constellation
were Ed Logan, last year's win
ner, and Betty Baker. The staff
considered them equally good,
and decided to combine the
covers and give them both first
prize. They were both awarded
a free annual. .
Club Royal, biggest semi-formal
event of the year put on by
the Speech club, was a sucess
Friday night.
Amidst the "royal" setting of
crowns, castles, and lances, the
couples danced to the music of
Caesar Muzzioli and his band.
In traditional night club style,
torch singer Sylvia Yell, pro
vided entertainment with her
torrid arrangement of "Kiss of
Fire." Kerman (Satchmo) Ben
nett beat out some cool notes
on his trumpet accompanied by
Richard (Harry James) Ham
mersley. The other entertain
ment was provided by the Rogue
Valley Sweethearts, "Honest
Abe" Warners delivery of the
Gettysburg- Address, Nancie
Hopper and her typical night
club styling of tap dancing, and
"Madam Duvoir's" sophisticated
approach to milking a eow.
The entertainment turned out
to be the highlight of the evening.
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Edited by Karen Sloniger;
Staff: Allen Cone, Joan Lau
rila. Roxie Sisemore, Inger
Palmquist, and Judy Way
land. Polio shots will be given to
all students in the Medford
school system next week, vacci
nations being given at Medford
high Nov. 19. All those students
wishing a shot must have a per
mission form signed by their
parents.
Pictures for the school annual,
the Crater, were taken Nov. 13
The pictures were continued
from earlier this fall when bad
weather cut them short. Group
pictures, taken by Landis-
Shangle, were finished indoors
in the trampoline room.
The winners of last week's
noise parade, announced recent
ly are, in the noise division,
first, Goofers; second, Band; and
third, Order of "M". The origi
nality division was won by Pep
club, with choir coming in sec
ond, and FHA taking third.
Do you need to know the tele
phone number of any Medford
High school student or teacher?
All those who purchased a
telephone directory from the
Future Business Leaders of
America would be able to help
you. After selling all the copies
in the "first batch" more are be
ing made since so many students
want them.
At last Thursday's student
council meeting, an unusual
thing happened. After hearing a
short talk by Paul Evenson,
MHS wrestling coach, the coun
cil members voted by a major
ity to make wrestling a major
sport. Medford has previously
been one of the only schools in
the state where wrestling was a
minor sport.
A pep assembly was present
ed to the student body Nov. 15.
The pep band played a few
marches and the rally squad led
the students in yells. The as
sembly was closed with the tra
ditional senior yell and the
Alma Mater followed by the
fight song.
The movie "Aeronautical En
gineering" was shown to all al
gebra classes and interested stu
dents Nov. 13. The movie told
what high school courses should
be taken in preparation for this
field, as well as the college
training necessary to becoming
an aeronautical engineer. The
film was one of a series present
ed by Weyerhauser corporation.
The annual Spanish club din
ner was held Nov. 15 in the
school cafeteria. The dinner was
potluck and was given by the
old members to welcome the
new members into the club
Chairmen who planned for the
event were Linda Hall, in
charge of the program; Sylvia
Morris, planning decorations,
and Clark Barker, planning the
food. The decorations followed
a Spanish theme.
Plans have been drawn to
stage the semifinal, final, and
consolation rounds of the Boys'
League table tennis tournament
before an audience at the early
date. The games will be played
at a special Boys' League
assembly.
McLoughlin Junior High
By JOEL GREGORY
1 The annual Back to School
night was held at McLoughlin
Nov. 12. The evening started
with an assembly furnished by
the band majorettes, and the vo
cal music groups. Parents were
given the daily schedule for the
son or daughter student, and
then followed the order of
classes. Refreshments were
served by the PTA at the close
of the class schedule, and a bake
sale was held to raise money for
the PTA projects.
I.Q. tests were given on Nov.
13 to all students in the seventh
and ninth grades.
The intramural basketball
tourney is in full swing. Games
are played on a one loss elimin
ation basis, and teams are or
ganized in each homeroom. The
boy's teams are receiving the
full support of the girls in the
home rooms, as the girls have
organized into yell squads and
rooting groups. The first day
of games resulted in wins for
seventh grade room 33, eight
grade room 41, and ninth grade
Annex 2. Second day winners
were room 20 in the seventh
grade, room 22 in the eight
grade, and room 9 in the ninth
grade. Thursdays winners were
the seventh grade room 6, eighth
grade room 36 and ninth grade
room 3.
Report cards were given to
the pupils on Thursday.
' . The annual Father-Son Foot
ball Banquet will be held Nov.
19, in the school cafeteria. This
is for all eighth and ninth grade
players and their fathers.
TRANSPLANT TREE
Mt. Clemens, Mich. HP) Em
barrassed city commissioners
voted to transplant the recently
installed "permanent" munici
pal Christmas tree after the
Lions club pointed out it ob
scured the World War H heroes
monument.
Mews
Phoenix High School
Edited by Jean Floud and
Mary Ellen Mitchell
Students at PHS are catching
that Sadie Hawkins' fever. Fri
day, Nov. 22, has been set for
the date of the annual Sadie
Hawkins' day dance. Prizes will
be given to students having the
most outstanding and interest
ing costumes. There will be
games, refreshments, and a good
time for all.
Preliminary to the Sadie Haw
kins' day dance will be the
"Senior Auction" which will be
held Thursday, Nov. 21. Seniors
will be auctioned off to the high
est bidder, by Auctioneers Su
san Walker and Jack Rinn. Bids
will start at a minimum of 25
cents and may go as high as stu
dents want to bid. Seniors will
be owned by their buyer all of
the school day Friday and at the
dance Friday night. Both the
dance and the auction are being
sponsored by the junior class in
order to raise money for the
Junior-Senior prom.
Voting for the Pirate log
cover took place Wednesday.
Eligible voters were those stu
dents attending last week's
meeting held after school.
Alice Hendrickson and Char
lette Unruh took a room to room
survey to determine how many
PHS students are ordering the
57-58 edition of the Pirate Log
this year. Approximately 200
copies have been ordered, stated
Mrs. Donna James, adviser.
Flag twirling is being organ
ized in Pep club. All girls that
are interested will be trying
out, but only eight girls will be
selected. Those girls that are se
lected will be performing for
half-time activities in basketball
The Phoenix chapter of FFA
went to Wagner creek to chop
wood Saturday, Nov. 9. They
plan to sell the wood as fire
wood to increase the funds of
their treasury. Any FFA mem
ber will take orders for the
wood.
Members of the journalism
class are assisting in the Phoe
nix High school follow-up sur
vey of its 1954 graduating class.
This project is a part of a state
wide survey being conducted by
the Oregon Secondary School
administration with the assist
ance of the division of vocation
al education of the state depart
ment of education. The project
concerns important implications
for. curriculum improvement
and guidance programs.
- Each student was given a
name of a 1954 graduate to con
tact for the desired information
required by the. questionnaire
These questionnaires are to be
completed and returned to the
Phoenix High school by Nov. 20
All. completed forms will then
be sent to the state department
where the data will be com
piled,
The list of 1954 Phoenix High
school graduates numbered 25
The seniors had their first
taste of Shakesoeare Wednesday
morning, when the film 'fMac-
beth" was shown. The movie,
consisting of three 45-minute
films, ws shown during the first
three periods. The showing of
this film was preliminary to the
reading of Macbeth as a regular
unit of senior English. Mr. My
rick, teacher, viewed the story
before showing the film.
Debating on nation-wide prob
lems is being featured in the
American Problems class this
six weeks.
Mr. Myrick has assigned top
ics to every four persons. These
four are divided into couples,
one couple being the affirmative
the other the negative. Some of
the subjects to be debated are
uniform marriage and divorce
laws, stricter requirements for
high school graduation, capital
nnnishment. conmetitive athle
tics, small colleges vs. large col
leges and eighteen-year-oia vot
ing privileges.
Tuesday, Nov. 12, during the
senior class meeting, E. R.
James, superintendent, talked
to the seniors about attending
-oIWp Up wanted to know how
many were going on so he could
order books for mem. Mr. amp
wnrtfr. vice nrinciDal. distribut
ed a booklet called "Your Edu
cation " Thpso books furnish a
guide -to several of the state col
leges. Mr. Skipworth pointed
out that all seniors with a B
average or better might apply
for a scholarship to tne college
of their choice.
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Hedrick Junior High
By JIM FRAKE
Since the first few weeks of
school many new students have
entered Hedrick Junior High
school. Those students are Ger
ald Chapel, Fred McMasters,
Wayne Singley, Connie Singley,
Larry Brown, Nancy Huckaba,
Richard Huckaba, Patricia Mon
roe, Susan Flett, Clarence Uh
rich, Angela Garcia and Joe
Parton. Hedrick would like to
welcome these students to our
student body.
Girls badminton intra-murals
were organized last week. The
tournaments are open to the
ninth grade home rooms. The
first games were played Nov.
14.
A debate team is planning to
visit Hedrick in the near future.
The team, from Medford High
school, is going to conduct a de
bate on the high school debate
topic used throughout the state
for competitive speaking and de
bating. The purpose of the de
bate is to show the Hedrick de
bate teams how a debate is con
structed and presented. The
teams are practicing for the an
nual Linfield speech contest held
each . year during February.
Students from all over the state
compete for honor awards.
The Hedrick Ban and Stingers
represented Hedrick in two local
events held this week. First
being the annual Veterans Day
parade held Nov. 11. The second
performance was held Nov. 16.
Of course this was the annual
Christmas parade. The parade
started at the Hawthorne park
at 1 p.m.
Observing National Education
Week upon house at Hedrick
was held Nov. 12. The parents
of the students attending Hed-
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CP Elementary Schools
By JODY VAN HORN
Thursday, Nov. 14, was pro
claimed as the day to show spec
ial kindness and consideration
to the teachers of Central Point,
by the mayor, Donald E. Faber.
A "Get Acquainted" party
was held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Petrehn on Upton
rd. for the parents of Mr. Mc
Larrin's sixth grade students.
Mr. and Mrs. McLarrin and 11
parents enjoyed games and re
freshments during the evening.
Fifth and sixth grade boys
are eligible for ".Brick Building
Basketball." Each room is to or
ganize teams. Five boys are
on a team and as many teams
as possible are to organize.
Grade 5 will play a game every
other Tuesday. Grade 6 will
play a game every other Thurs
day. Days of practice will be
Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30
to 4 p.m. Boys must furnish
their own trasportation. Mr.
McLarrin will be in charge.
Playoffs will be between the
top 5th and 6th grade teams.
Mrs. Shore's 5th grade stu
dents made the posters for the
cafeteria for the month of No
vember. Each student made a
poster of a book they had read.
Book Week is in November.
rick talked to the individual
teachers between 7:30 and 9
p.m. Refreshments were served
later in the cafetorium.
The opening of boys basket
ball season has been set for
Nov. 25. The first game has
tentatively been scheduled for
Dec. 6.
Report cards were issued
Wednesday, Nov. 13.
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Jackson School
By HELEN GLOGOWSKI and
KATHLEEN DAY
Last Tuesday, Nov. 12, for
American Education Week, the
chorus sang several songs on
KBES-TV in connection with
that date.
We had a nice crowd of people
at Jackson school open house
last Thursday night. About 500
people came and the children
in the fifth and sixth grade
chorus sang some of the songs
that they sang for the TV per
formance. Otto Ewaldsen gave
a talk about the duties of a
school board member that was
interesting. John Mason was
master of ceremonies. Refresh
ments were served in the cafe
teria after the parents had a
chance to look at their children's
work in the various rooms.
Pictures of all the students
were taken in October and were
received this week. Everyone
was eager to see how they
looked.
Bill Wright Opens New
Office in Medford
The Bill Wright Real Estate
office recently moved to 246
South Central ave., Medford,
from 1060 Crater Lake ave.
Wright has announced.
Wright has been in the teal
estate business in the Rogue val
ley about 10 years, with his
main office in Ashland. He has
moved the main office to Med
ford, but will maintain the Ash
land office, he said.
Assisting Wright in the local
office will be Ray Dallaire.
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