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T6 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, April 21, 195S Children at- Oregon State School Get Understanding, Professional By DICK HUMPHREY Uniled Press Correspondent Salem 0?i Oregon State School for the Deaf is a study In light and shade. Some of its students are housed in the brand new boys' dormitory, Lindstrom hall, while the older girls are housed in the old main build ing which has been here since the school moved to its pres ent location in 1910. But the 235 students rang ing in age from 4 or 5 to 18 or 20 are fortunate in one respect. They are getting un derstanding and .professional care and education unlike some of Oregon's estimated 4,500 children who have enough hearing loss to re quire medical attention. Their parents have recog nized a handicap and taken steps to deal realistically with it. The school, started in 1870, is open to any Oregon school child with a hearing problem. About 40 per cent of its stu dents are really deaf, that is they have no usable hearing, and the remaining 60 per cent are hard of hearing from a June Engineering Graduates Due Tougher Time Finding Jobs New York (IP) Engi neers in the Class of '58 can expect to be absorbed by in dustry, but it may take a little more time than in past years. A United Press spot check of some major engineering schools reveals that the June crop will not, for the most part, be able to walk off the campus and into a job. Pro duction cutbacks have tight ened up the job situation. One student who is com pleting college on a scholar ship provided by a large chemical company recently learned the bad news: sorry the company has no opening for him at present. He's still looking. Various authorities report the larger companies no long er are hiring "spare" engi neers as they did in recent years. Walter Kelly, director of placement for New York Uni versity's School of Engineer ing, said the number of firms interviewing June gradu ates is down from 200 to about 150. "Most of the cancellations came from the aircraft group, but there are a few suppliers involved, too," said Kelly. "Those that are interviewing appear to have cut their man power requirements consider ably," he added. "In general, graduate en gineers last year averaged J Its all Chrysler and New styling! New colors! The Windsor Darlline Is a brilliant new Chrysler series here just at the time of year you get the most enjoyment from driving a new car. New low price! You can actually own this mighty Chrysler for only a few dollars a month more than most small cars! More car for your money! Chrysler beauty, Chrysler comfort, Chrysler performance and preci sion engineering this car has all the solid advances that make Chrysler cars last longer, cost less on upkeep. And the new Windsor Dartline is priced so low it's easy to step up to Chrysler! SEE Walt's Lithia Motors 56-60 North Main Street-Ashland mild to severe extent. When a child comes to the school at age 4 or 5, unable to speak or understand speech there can be a real problem even with modern diagnostic equipment in determining ex actly how great his hearing loss is or, indeed, if he is not retarded rather than deaf. How can the clinicians be sure of a child's reaction when sound, amplified thousands of times, first reaches his ears? It takes time. Greek Ship Sinks After Collision Vera Cruz, Mexico (IP) The 2,800-ton "Greek ship Los Caribes exploded and sank here Sunday just four min utes after it collided with the German freighter Schauen burg. All 18 crewmen were rescued. The Los Caribes, carrying a cargo of 2,600 tons of sul phur, was rammed in the star board side by the 6,000-ton Schauenburg in the narrow channel at the entrance to this Gulf of Mexico port. three to five offers, some as many as 12. This year, the top graduates get three to five offers. The others start from scratch," said Kelly. There is no significant change in engineers' salary. Last year's starting average, S465 a month, is expected to hold up for this year. William Cavanaugh, execu tive secretary of the Engi neers Joint Council, said 34, 500 bachelor degrees will be awarded in engineering this June. This is 2,500 fewer than had been forecast. Herbert P. Catlin, director of placement at Rensselaer 37 Employees Back At Longview Fiber Longview, Wash. (IP) Longview F i b e r Company Saturday announced that it was recalling 37 employes to their jobs Monday after a pe riod of curtailed production that had lasted since Janu ary. ' R. P. Wollenberg, vice presi dent for operations, said the company would restore three of its five primary production machines to a seven-day week. Resumption of operations on the three machines, he said, re sulted from a seasonal upturn and would be for an indefinite period. ANNOUNCING THE NEW WINDSOR CHRYSLER'S But here the old canard of the deaf child being a "dum my" must be disposed of. Sup erintendent Marvin Clatter buck who has had 17 years experience at the school says deaf children's intelligence is just like that of the rest of the population. Of course, the key to a deaf child's progress is spec ial training in speech and language and lots of it. The youngest children spend several years in the pre-school building learning "tongue gymnastics," breath ing exercises, speech sounds and how they combine into words and sentences. Then in a "prep class" they start to read and write. Imi tating the teacher, they learn to read lips. Major Interest Sought By the time a child is 7 or 8, he is usually ready for reg ular first grade work. Cub Scouts, 4-H and other activi ties including special speech and language caurses. In the fourth grade when the child is about 12, voca tional training- is started in the old shop building and it Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., reporter, "There is a good deal of holding back as far as hiring goes. Employers as a whole are being more conservative and selective." Down 25 Per Cent Thomas W. Harrington Jr., placement officer at Massa chusetts Institute of Techno logy, said "Demand for grad uates is down about 25 per cent from last year. But there still are more jobs than there are engineering graduates. This year, though, they may have to take a job other than the one they'd hoped for." Dr. Donald Clark, place ment bureau head at Cal Tech reported: "Job prospects for 1958 graduates will be very tight." He noted there will be 25 fewer companies inter viewing graduates this year than last but a late fall pickup is expected, when new gov ernment missile contracts begin to be felt. A more optimistic note was sounded ,: by Florence Watt, director of the placement bureau at the University of Southern California. "They're still looking the same as ever," she said of company in terviews. At UCLA, Assistant Dean Warren A. Hall said, -"The job situation is considerably tighter. Companies are look ing for the cream of the crop." DARIMM you'll like the price ! EXTRA! AMAZING NEW auto A Chrysler engineering exclusive that patrols your. speed . . . conserves gas . . . lets you cruise accelerator-free. NEW WINDSOR DARTMME Hamlin Motor Co. 8th and Front Streets Medford for Deaf Teaching continues two years until an evaluation is. made to find a major interest the child can concentrate on. The girls usually take typ ing and homemaking. Not all the training is vo cational. The major aim, of the school is either to return the children to the public schools, prepare them for col lege, or give them a way of making a living. Some do return to public schools with hearing aids or improved ability to communi cate. Others stay to complete the 10 grades of academic instruction offered. Kids Are Still Kids Seven graduates are now studying at Gaullaudet col lege for the Deaf in Washing ton, D. C. When they reach their teens, the students enter into sports competition with high schools, learn to drive and acquire many of the skills that hearing youths do. With improved teachers, teaching aids and transistor ized hearing aids much is be ing done to aid Oregon's deaf children despite deficiencies in the physical plant which are being remedied as fast as possible. But lip reading is still no substitute for hearing and it is a tough battle to learn to speak normally. A few children never do learn and are forced back on antiquated sign language, the historical language of the deaf. Most of the children pick up signs anyway to use for their . private communication and amusement and even poke a little fun at the hear ing world. After all, they're children first and only sec ondly deaf. Ready Market Set For Calif. Fruit Sacramento (IP) Fred W. Read, general manager of the . State Fruit Exchange, predicts that California fruits and vegetables will, find a "ready market" this year. He made the prediction after a six-week, 8,000 mile tour of the southern and east ern market areas. The shortage of some vege tables has already resulted in fantastic prices in short sup ply, Read said. Competent observers in Florida told Read that the -cold weather hurt the citrus industry there so badly that it will take three years to get back to normal. ' Oslo, Norway (IP) Theo dore Bull, 87, who founded the Bull Iron and Steel Co of Norway in 1907, died here Friday. - pilot : AT Indefinite Delay Granted Beck On His Tax Trial Tacoma, Wash. (IPl U.S. District Court Judge George H. Boldt Friday grant ed former Teamster Presi dent Dave Back an indefinite delay in his income tax eva sion trial, scheduled to begin May 5. Boldt said determination of a new trial date would de pend upon the progress of pre-trial activities by the gov ernment and Beck's attorneys. Both defense and government attorneys requested the post ponement. Beck's attorneys cited con tinuing publicity about the ex-labor boss and the Team sters' union as the reason for their request for a delay. Such publicity made it impossible to obtain an impartial jury. The government's postpone ment request stated that jus tice . department attorneys needed more time for re search. Because of Beck's compli cated business deals, the case is expected to involve hun dreds of witnesses and at least 1,000 government ex hibits. Beck is accused of evading $240,000 in income taxes from 1950 through 1953. . The postponement was the third granted by Judge Boldt to give the attorneys more" time to prepare their cases. Volcanic Valer Likely Power Aid Calipatria, Calif. (IP) Test ing continued Saturday at a possible huge underground basin of volcanically heated water which could provide enough steam power to sup ply all of southern California with electricity. Discovery of the basin was announced Friday by geolog ist Robert Cypher and drill ing expert R. B. Mitchell, both of Long Beach, Calif. The men said the basin was tapped at a depth of 4,700 feet during oil exploration drilling by the Kent-Imperial company of Grand Rapids, Mich., in the northern Im perial valley near the Salton Sea, about seven miles north of here. The basin promises to offer a "limitless and powerful sup ply of steam energy" once it is harnessed, they said. They be lieved the basin water was heated by a volcanic pool of molten rock located about 10, 000 feet below the surface. Molten rock usually is riot found above 50,000 feet, they said. Company officials said they plan to drill 50 wells in the near future at a cost of $100, 000 each. Each well was ex pected to produce 25,000 horsepower an hour. Father Ships Body Of Girl To Mother Buenos Aires OP) Police today feared for the life of a six-vear-old eirl whose fatn- er killed her sister and ship ped her body to their mother, his estranged wife. Mrs. Ernesto Raul Rodri guez received a suitcase by express on Saturday. In it she discovered the body of her eight-year-old daughter Marta Dora and a note from her hus band. "I'll make you happy by getting rid of Mart Dora," it said. "I'm leaving this world in order that you may go on living with the man that has replaced me. I forgive you all the suffering you have brought upon me." Police said the couple naa another daughter, aged six, who remained with the father when the motner leu me iam ily a few months ago. Operations Slowed At Pulp Company Salem P Operations at Oregon Pulp and Paper company here will be cut back from six to five days a week starting Monday. Mill Superintendent G. R. Cranor said the cutback was the result of "prevailing economic conditions." The plant will remain on its 24-hour a day basis and lay offs will be held to a mini mum, Cranor said. No Concern Held for Winston Churchill London (W Sources close to Sir Winston Church ill said today he may have a bad cold but it is nothing to worry about. They said the British weather could give anyone the sniffles. Reports that Churchill's doctor, Lord Moran, visited him several times last week had raised fears the 83-year-old statesman had been strick en by new illness. Newspaper To Put Out By JEROME F. BRAZDA United Press Correspondent New York OPi An esti mated 1,500 top American and Canadian newspaper exe cutives gathered in New York today for four days of speeches and discussions about how to put out a bet ter daily newspaper. The 72nd annual conven tion of the American News paper Publishers Association opened today at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria with execu tive sessions on labor prob lems in the publishing indus try. Highlights of the conven tion will include: Speeches by representa tives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. An address by ANPA President William Dwight. A report from the ANPA legal staff on Canon 35, the ban on news photography in the courtroom. Discuss Rising Costs All-day discussion session Tueday will include topic re lated to editorial, mechanical and advertising problems. The ANPA said suggested topics indicated intense in terest in "the major problems of rising costs of operation and reduced revenue." Donald O'Connor One Big Pius in Saturday Night 'Red Mill' Video Show By WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York I suppose the easiest way to sum up the Saturday night CBS-TV spec, "The Red Mill," is to write it off as a mi nus show with one big plus Donald O' Connor. t It w as a pretty curious a n i m al a mixture of 1905 Broad way type of William Ewald schmaltz and 1958 television type schmaltz. Strangely enough, it was the 1906 schmaltz that held up best, particularly tunes like "In Old New York" and 'Every Day is Ladies with Me." The plot was reworked to include such bricabrac as a couple of pampered movie stars (played by Elaine May and Mike Nichols), a pair of narrators (played by Harpo Marx and Evelyn Rudie) and new songs like "We're On Our Way.jto Brussels," (play able, presumably, at 78, 45 and 33 Va). Twice as Creaky What resulted was" a vehi cle almost as foolish as Jack Benny's Maxwell, and I might add, twice as creaky. Elaine May and Mike Nich ols, two clever comedians, were simply miscast. Their very hip deadpan humor was nut of nlace in the very square surroundings. Some of their lines were pretty tun nv Miss Mav. for example, complaining that the air con ditioning in her car was off and observing, "I have to be kept at a constant 70 de grees." But still, it was a lit tle like watching two dizzy Russ Said Ready To Match U.S. Capital Jerusalem. Israel W The newspaper Yedoit Ahron ot quoted Soviet Embassy Commercial Attache viaamir Balchenko Sunday as saying Russia was willing .to match American capital investment in Israel. The newspaper said Bal- chenko told a group of in dustrialists in Tel Aviv on Thursday that Russia "is giv ing favorable consideration to the broadening of her com mercial and industrial ties with Israel. "It is untrue that only Am erican capital is able to de vplnn Israel Russian capi tal is just as able and willing" the newspaper quoted the at tache as saying. NYLON BLOOD VESSELS London (IP) Chinese sur geons have used nylon blood vessels in successful attempt to treat high blood pressure. Radio Peiping said Sunday. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Executives Discuss Ways Better Daily luesdays sessions are divided, into three groups for newspapers under 10,000 circulation, those between 10,000 and 50,000 and those with circulations of over 50, 000. Executive sessions for mem bers with circulations under 10,000 will be presided over by Robert M. Speidel of the Visalia, Calif., Times-Delta and Clyde E. Moffitt of the Fort Collins, Colo., Colo radoan. Byron C. Vedder of the Champaign-Urbana (111.) Cour ier and Edwin F. Hearne of the Salisbury (Md:) Times will chair the sessions for papers between 10,000 and 50,000 circulation. . Topics Are Varied Chairman of the commit tees in charge of the Tuesday sessions for the two groups under 50,000 circulation is Edward J. Hughes of the Port Chester, N.Y., Item. Sessions of the over-50,000 group will be headed by Joyce A. Swan of the Minnea polis, Minn., Star and Trib une. Discussions will include such diverse topics as the use of vending machines to sell papers, the fight for freedom of information, use of tele- gillespies sitting in with Law rence Welk. What saved "The Red Mill from going completely under was the talent of Donald O'Connor. He is, to put it plainly, a pro. Even in the sappy soup of TV's "The Red Mill," O'Connor bufked large as solid meat. His dancing has a sense of style, and his sing ing has charm, although his voice is merely adequate. Extra Something But beyond that, O'Connor has that extra, something more which I guess can only be described as "presence." He shoots spark into a stage when he bounces on. "The Red Mill," incidental ly, was etched on video tape last week because of the strike of CBS technicians. The texture of most of the scenes was good, but there were jerky transitions be tween some scenes. And just to sum up, what went on dur ing some scenes was pretty jerky, too. Newspapers photos by small papers, re cruitment of personnel, use of foreign news and color ad vertising. , Wednesday's session will include the address by ANPA President Dwight, of the Holyoke, Mass., Transscript Telegram, and the report on Canon 35. To Elect President ' The military experts speak ing to the Thursday meeting will-be Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army chief of staff; Gen. Curtis E. Lamay, Air Force vice chief of staff, and Adm. Harry D. Felt, vice chief ' of Naval operations. They will be introduced by James S. Copley, of the San Diego (Calif.) Union and Trib une. D. Tennant Bryan, of the Richmond, Va., Times - Dis patch and News Leader, now vice-president of the ANPA, will be elected president at the closing business session Thursday. Dwight is com pleting the v traditional ' two years as president. UP IN THE AIR ABOUT MOVING? 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