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r.tfZr fefis&H r-4rK v4Wl S Jz&P7i -frfr & CHEQUES AWARDED Nine United Fund (ward plaques were given recently to Med ford schools for their participation in the UMC drive. Receiving the plaques from Bob Johnson, general chairman, right, were, from left to right, Glenn Linn, McLaughlin junior high school; Gene Beaver, president of the Medford Teachers' association; and Mrs. Myrna Frink, Griffin Creek school. Others re ceiving plaques were Roosevelt, West Side, Oak Grove, Hedrick junior high school, Wash ington school, Medford high school and the city school administration staff. (Photo by Kenneth D. Knackstedt, Medford) American Colleges Often Have to Hire Teachers Without Masters' By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington American colleges and universities can't hire enough Ph.D.'s to staff their faculties. In many cases they are having to settle for teachers who don't have masters degrees. 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Maul, assistant NEA research director who con ducted the survey, said many col leges already are being forced to "take second-best when they re cruit new teachers." The report said the "steady deterioration in the qiiality" of college faculties is vividly dem onstrated by the proportion of newly hired teachers who are at the "highest level of prepara tion" that is, armed with a Ph. D or some other doctor's degree.. In the 1953-54 school year, 31.4 per cent of the new full-time teachers added to college facul ties had a doctor's degree. By 1956-57, the figure had dropped to 23.5 per cent. Teachers at the lowest level of preparation holding less than a master's degree constituted only 18.2 per cent of the new staff members hired in 1953-54, but 23.1 per cent of the total in 1956-57. Not Enough Teachers Slightly more than half of the schools polled reported that they had one or more teaching posi tions which they were unable to fill. Of the 1,196 unfilled positions reported by these institutions, 226 were in engineering, 225 in the physical sciences, and 148 in mathematics. The shortage of qualified teachers in these three fields was also evident in the figures on preparation. More than half 54.7 per cent of the new engi neering teachers started their careers in 1956-57 with less than a master's degree. In the physi cal sciences, 18 per cent of the new teachers had less than a master's degree (compared to 14 per cent two years ago.) President Eisenhower's Com mittee on Higher Education re ported last Aug. 11 that the shortage of qualified college teachers is rapidly becoming this nation's "most crucial education al problem." Portland Labor Told Knowland Will Lose Portland HP) Sen. William Knowland (R-Calif.) will be de feated when he runs for gover nor next year, the Portland Cen tral Labor Council was told Monday night. Al Green, regional representa tive on Labor's Committee on Political Education from Calif ornia, told the Council that Knowland was running on a "right to work" ticket. He pre dicted that Knowland would lose along with efforts to pass "right to work" laws. Green had praise for Gov. Goodwin Knight, whom he said actually cried when he called and said he was forced to pull out of the governor's race in fa for of Knowland. "They had to crush his soul ... he was too liberal," Green said of' Knight. TO BUILD BRIDGE New York (IP) Dr. David B. Steinman, designer of the re cently opened 7,400-foot, 100 million dollar Mackinac suspen sion bridge in Michigan, said Monday he has been awarded a 50 million dollar contract to de sign a bridge across the Bospo rus at Istanbul, Turkey. Plan Now Approved For Timber Sale The district advisory board of the Bureau of Land Manage ment has approved a plan to offer 160 million board feet of timber for sale during 1958, ac cording to BLM officials. Ten million of this total is timber advertised during 1957 but for which no bids were re ceived, officials said. The figure for 1958, counting the unsold from 1957, is 10 million over that offered this year. Officials said about 140 mil lion board feet has been sold so far this year, 101 million board feet was sold in 1955 and 91 million board feet were sold by the BLM in 1956. About 75 million board feet of the 1958 total will be sold in 19 tracts in the Jackson man agement unit, 71 million board feet in 20 tracts in the Josephine management unit and 14 million board feet in six tracts in the Klamath unit, officials said. Details on the sales will be announced by the BLM in mid December. BLM officials said they expected- a fairly good demand for the timber which will be offered by the bureau during 1958. The first tracts for the 1958 timber will be offered for sale in January. Use M-T Classified Ads 1FT" SPEAKER Elbert R. Slaughter, a member of the Christian Sci ence board of lectureship of the Mother church in Boston, will speak Thursday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. at the First' Church of Christ, Scientist, 100 Windsor ave. His topic will be "Christian Science: Its Message of Liberation." WILLING TO TRAVEL Quitman, Ga. (IP) A thief who stole a new car apparently was planning on traveling. He also took 300 gallons of gasoline from a storage tank and parked trucks. The oldest town hall in the United States is still standing at Pelham, Mass. Tuesday, November 19, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN 26 Flu Deaths Are Noted in Louisiana By UNITED PRESS Twenty-six? new flu deaths re ported in Louisiana sent the na tion's fatality count from influ enza io its complications to near the 850 mark. The latest Louisiana deaths brought that state's toll from a flu epidemic to 47. The United Press counted at least 842 deaths blamed on flu or its complications since mid summer when the first case of Asian flu in the nation was reported. New York had the highest fatality toll with 134 deaths, followed by Georgia with 124 and Pennsylvania with 109. Elsewhere, Ohio reported 49 deaths, California 48, Louisiana 47, Michigan 46, Minnesota 40, Tennessee 35, Iowa 33, Illinois 23, Wisconsin 18, Nebraska and Washington 16, Connecticut 15, Indiana 12, Utah 11, Colorado 10, Kentucky and Hawaii 9, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma 5, New Jersey and Wyoming 4, Maryland and Oregon 3, Arkansas and North Carolina 2, and 1 each in Arizona, Maine, Virginia, South Dakota and the District of Columbia. Dr. Ben Freedman, head of the Louisiana Health Depart ment's Preventive Medicine Di vision, estimated about 500,000 persons have been stricken with flu in the state since July. Absolute zero, at which all molecular motion supposedly ceases, exists at 459.9 degrees below Fahrenheit zero. 'WITH SMIRNOFF , Specify Smirnoff when ordering vodka drinks. It's the Vodka of Vodkas mirnaff THE GREATEST NAME IN VODKA 80 PROOF. DISTILLED FROM GRAIN. STE. PIERRE SMIRNOFF FLS. (DIVISION OF HEUBLEIN), HARTFORD, CONN.. U.S.A. 1 Ws " What's happened to gasoline prices? If you've wondered... here are some things you should know ASOllNI COST Of UV1NO Gasoline prices have not risen as much as other products. The only fair way to compare is with other things you buy. The TJ. S. Cost of Living Index shows the over-all cost of living is up 102.3 since 1939. During that time the price of gasoline rose only 62.8 not including taxes. Taxes add about 9 to the cost of every gallon. Thus, nearly 30 of your gasoline dollar does not buy gasoline . . . it's for state and federal tax. These taxes go to help build and improve the roads we all enjoy. How ever, we must include them as part of the price you pay for a gallon of gasoline. Beseareh also helps keep gasoline prices) down. Standard and the oil industry employ mors than 15,000 hill-time researchers . . . invest more than $160 million each year to develop ways to find and pro duce oil more efficiently, and to make more and better products at a lower cost. Gasoline quality is much better. There's a perform ance bonus for motorists in the big improvements that have been made in gasoline over the years. Quality has risen so fast that the regular gasoline you buy today is comparable to the premium gasoline of just ten years ago. Oil is getting harder to find and more expen sive to develop. In 1956 our average cost for a weB was $149,000 . . . p 40 over the past fire yean. In 1956 we completed 101 wells in the Gtilf of Mexico where drilling costs can be six times as much as on land. Competition helps keep gasoline prices low; There are 800 oil refining companies in the TJ. S. Each tries to make better products and give better serrics than the others. At the same time the refiner must keep his prices competitive or face the loss of customers. Here's why gasoline is stiU one of your biggest bargains: Today the average worker can buy 85 more gasoline with an hour's pay than he could in 1939. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA plans ahead to serve you better
