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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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Salem (IP) Dr. W. R.
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Dr. Todd, who has served
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