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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.
Science, engineering and math
ematics departments are espe-
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cially hard hit.
These facts were brought out
today in a survey released by the
National Education association.
It covered 829 public and private
institutions in all parts of the
country.
Dr. William G. Carr, NEA ex
ecutive secretary, said the results
show that colleges, with their
low faculty pay scales, are un
able to compete with business,
industry and government in the
scramble for highly -educated
i manpower.
I "If they continue to be priced
. out of the market," he said, "the
I quality of the educational service
they render will deteriorate at
the very moment it should be fur
ther strengthened."
Second Best
Dr. Ray C. 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.
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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.
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molecular motion supposedly
ceases, exists at 459.9 degrees
below Fahrenheit zero.
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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.
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