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Motorists Warned About Intersection Medford officials have again warned motorists ef a dangerous practice at the intersection of West Main st. and Oakdale ave. Public Works Director Ver non Thorpe and Capt. Clyde Fichtner of the police depart ment said that some motorists on Main approaching Oakdale in the right lane insist on driving straight ahead even though this is a required rigm-iurn lane, ana so mark ed. This practice, they point out, creates a dangerous con dition west of Oakdale where Main st. narrows. Capt. Ficht ne? said that anyone found disregarding the right-turn re quirement is to be cited. But both he and Thorpe urged hat irvnna rnmnk liritVl the law. FLORIDA IN CAROLINA Buxton-on-C ape Hatteras, N.C.-CPD-The year 'round cli mate on the North Carolina Outer Banks is so mild that citrus fruits are grown by the .villagers here. be sure fo ask for o CHEETOS o BAR-B-Q FRITOS Ideal for Watching TV or Snacks Family Cake & Cookie Co. L. S. (Stan) Tiegs, Distributor Talent Ph. KE 5-2775 SPECIALS foryour TMNMMG from eV 50 lbs. POTATOES LETTUCE 2 Heads 2 FREE TURKEYS 2 Baskets of Groceries Given Tuesday, Nor. 25 6 P.M. No purchase necessary just get your ticket from the cashier You may be lucky enough to win a Turkey AND a Basket of Groceries. Writers Compare Education System (Between United States and Russia Editor's note: Much has been said lately about the alleged superiority of Soviet education over American education in this nuclear age. especially at the elementary school level. Following are two dispatches taking a close and timely look at this vital question. One dispatch is the first of a three-part report on what a distinguished U.S. educator found during a recent tour of Russian schools and how he compares them with. our own. The second dispatch tells what the Russians themselves think of the newest wrinkle in the Soviet educational program. It was written by a correspondent especially qualified to discuss the subject, since she was a schoolteacher before joining UPI's Moscow bureau. . By WILLIAM R. TEAGUE UPI Correspondent Kent, O. -CPU- The present system o f Soviet education has much to commend it but it's not all perfect. It has its defects and serious prob lems, just as ours does. This generally sums up the views of Gerald , Howard Read, professor of education and comparative education at Kent State University, who has made a close personal study of schools in Moscow and Leningrad. Read found sweeping changes in the Russian school system notably a switch toward American policies but stressed that the U.S.S.R. is by no means a land of faultless, streamlined schools which are busily mass-producing scientific and technologi cal geniuses. "People point to Russia and say, 'Russia is doing this. We should do this.' The truth is," he said, "Russian schools are plagued with much the same problems we have in Ameri ca." Read, who has devoted much of his adult life to a comparative study of educa tion, admitted the Soviets have some good ideas and he praised Russian progress "to ward making literate a nation of 200 million." Practice Abandoned He reported that the Rus sians have abandoned the pre- Revolution practice of shunt ing out to a labor force one- third of the pupils after the fourth grade. But while Soviet city schools now have 10-year pro grams equivalent to our high school education, Read said, a third of the pupils flunk out after seven years and are forc ed to go to work. Moreover, under a new plan proposed by Premier Ni- kita Khrushchev, the basic schooling period would be cut down from 10 years to eight. At the age of 15 or 16, all pu pils would be sent to work. They would be encouraged to continue their general edu cation while working and those who proved to be col lege material would attend universities full-time after several years of experience in a factory, an office or on the farm. Only Seven Years Read noted that some re ports of "the cold war of the classroom" neglect to mention that many Russians have been getting only seven years of schooling. Read and some 600 col leagues in the Comparative Education Society which he helped found three years ago believe such reports mis lead the American newspaper reader. The facts, he said, are these: : There i s a classroom CK1UOTS MAEMET 838 W. McAndrews fjm I19 Youths Arrested For Area Thefts Three Medford youths, one 17 and two 16, were arrested by Medford police Tuesday in connection with a series of thefts from automobiles in this area. Two were placed in the Jackson Juvenile Detention home and the third was re leased to his parents, accord ing to police records. The youths were involved in thefts of gasoline, tires, wheels, spotlights and batter ies accruing since last July, police record shows. shortage in the U.S.S.R. City schools run in two shifts to accomodate the flood of stu dents. Teachers and students cannot freely seek their own facts. The state has ready- made interpretations of all subjects. Guides issued by the Ministry of Education com mand that by a certain date teachers must have explained such and such a point to young Ivan. Most teachers do not be long to the Communist party, yet all answers must be con sistent with Lenin and Marx. All school supervisors are Communists. , There is discrimination Catholics and Jews cannot teach social science because it is felt they have a loyalty greater than that which they feel toward the state, And the most common complaint of all: They are not getting the best people to go into education. "It sounded like home,; Read said. "And when they complained that Sputnik pri orities kept them from getting enough money in the schools, I could just visualize our state legislatures, with groups jock eying to get more funds." (Next: Rigid School Disci pline.) QUIET, PLEASE Paris-0!PD-A leading French physician maintains that man- made noise have replaced germs as the main threat to human health. "Noise has be come a real social danger" to the present and future genera tions, said Prof. Fernand Tre mollieres, a member of the French Academy of Medicine, He said that noise cannot only cause psychic troubles but also inflict organic damage leading to such chronic ail ments as hardening of the ar teries, ulcers and even goiter. Complete success in the de velopment of producing coke from Ditch is rerjorted bv Au stria's United Iron and Steel Works in Vienna. Ph. SP 3-1666 T-Bone STEAK Fresh GROUND BEEF 3 ,b, .39 Round STEAK Serving Folger's Coffee All Day Friday and Saturday I ib. 83c 2 Lbs. 5 1 .65 Libby's No. 2 Can PUMPKIN 2 Dole No. 2 Can Sliced PINEAPPLE By COLETTE BLACKMORE UPI Correspondent Moscow -UPD- Nikita Khru shchev's plan to take the So viet school system out of its ivory tower and bring it down to earth has touched off a na tionwide discussion in which the voices of approval seem loudest and most numerous. The overwhelming majori ty of this country's citizens apparently agree, with their Premier that fundamental ed ucational reforms are neces sary if Russia is to adapt to the needs of the future. How to remodel a school system is not usually the kind of subject which needles peo ple into arguing heatedly with each other. But it can and has provoked a great deal of thought here, particularly among teachers, educational administrators, the parents of school age children, and the children themselves. Proposal Publicized The Soviet press, as invari ably happens after a major policy statement by the Party leadership, is widley publiciz ing the Khrushchev proposal. Likewise on the domestic radio, one hears a lot of what peasants and workers, engin eers and academicians think of the new project. Through out the country meetings have been held to debate the com ing reorganization. All of this pubilc talk is extremely interesting to an outsider. But most interest ing is how the Russians are reacting in their family cir cles and among their friends. What they have been asked to approve' is a plan which would give every Soviet child eight instead of 10 years of basic schooling, and, at the age of 15 or 16, send him to work in a factory, and office or on farm. There he williav the op portunity and be encouraged to continue his general edu cation on a part-time basis and to concentrate on learn ing a trade or profession. Working Experience Those children who really are college material will be admitted to full-time studies in a university only after two to three years of working ex perience. Meanwhile, the secondary school curriculum which now gives youngsters a classical education in the European style is to be revised. Practi cal subjects like home econ omics, wood work, the funda mentals of mechanics and of agriculture will take up much more of the children's time than they do at present. The Soviet school's motto is to become "preparation for useful work" rather than just "preparation for college." As many Russians realize, there are compelling reasons for such a reform. - Sirloin STEAK 79 , STEAK lb. 23c 35c One is to overcome the dis taste f,or physical labor which some members of the younger generation h a V e cultivated during their high school train ing and in which their par ents often support them. An other is to provide Soviet in dustry and agriculture with the highly skilled, flexible la bor which the nuclear tech nological age will require. The first reason is of obvi ous importance to a Commu nist regime where physical work is publicly exalted and often hignly rewarded in mon etary and other ways. The Party has not concealed its deep concern over city bred teenagers who think it beneath their dignity to op erate a factory machine or a tractor and prefer to live idly until they can get themselves installed in a university or a comfortable 9 to 5 desk job. Plan Not Welcomed Those mothers and fathers who foster this 'attitude . i n their children and there are quite a few of them among the white collar workers do not welcome the Khrush chev plan. And indeed, if the new sys tem is respected in practice, bribing, "pull," influential ref erences and all the other tricks which parents resort to in order to push their children up the social ladder will be come less effective. Young Ivan and Nina will simply have to make their own way in the competitive Soviet world as best they can, As Khrushchev himself in dicated, there has been con siderable criticism of the pro posed reform on another much more valid basis. Many teachers, educational administrators and intellectu als think that the eight-year school system will- force youngsters to choose their trades and professions prema turely. Shortening the basic school program from 10 to 8 years, they say, will interrupt the adolescent's intellectual - ma turing process and channel many children into work which does not suit them. Would Retain Schools These critics would like to see at least a small number of 10-year schools retained so that the more talented teenagers can continue tp re ceive a thorough classical ed ucation. In addition some parents complain that combined work and study is too heavy a load for 16-year-olds and may harm their children's health. These are all important points which the Party has admitted must be taken into consideration before the new school system is finally adop ted and put into effect. For the most part, however, it looks to an outside observer as if Khrushchev's plan has struck a responsive chord unong the Soviet people. Most of them feel that the best way to teach children to stand on their own feet is to enroll them early in the vast and practical "school of life." There, it is said here, they will not only become well balanced adults but also serve the needs' of the Soviet state. ADDING to numerous hon ors he has already received, Poet Robert Frost will re ceive $5,000 Huntington Hartford Foundation Award which was given this year. District Court Case Continued for Decision The case of Emmitt Gerald Revis, box 346, Eagle Point, on charges of assault and bat tery Tuesday in district court, was continued until Dec. 22 for a decision. . -Revis is charged with kick ing a 2Vfc-year-old boy about the head and body on Nov. 13 according t o court records He had previously pleaded in nocent to the charges. Puritans from New- Eng j land were the first settlers in HILTS Girl Scouts Have Party By MRS. M. F. CAVIN Hilts-Girl Scout Troop 224 and Leaders Mrs. A. Gerds and Miss Margl Mendes held their Halloween party at the ,Scout hall recently. Games and stunts were played and dancing was en joyed by Scouts Marcia Cavin, Marsha Simmen, Pat Fox, Pamela Mendez, Gayle Ward, Janet Benson, Lee Roy Green and Barbara Rainwater and their guests, Robert Laustalot, David .Whittaker, Larry Black, Gary Tallis, David Powers, David Sage; Tom Laustalot and Bobby Sage. Cider and cupcakes were served. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bern- heisel of Happy Camp visited last week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ozzie Bern heisel. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoyt Lakeview Uranium Plant Set To Open Lakeview-(UPD-Processing of uranium ore at the new urani um reduction plant of Lake- view Mining company here is expected to begin Nov. 29. Dr. Garth Thornburg, presi dent of the firm, said Tuesday that when completed the steel and concrete plant about one mile north of here will repre sent about a three million dol lar investment. of Medford visited Sunday at the home of . Mrs. Hoyt's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Thompson, and daughter, Marilyn. . . Al Perry made a business trip to Fort Bragg last week. Plans are being made for the Country Fair to be given on Friday, Nov. 21, at the club house. Tickets are being sold by the school children. The tickets can be used . at various booths and conces sions. 4-H Club News 4-H Busy Bakers 1 'The fourth grade girls of St. Mary's school had their first 4-H meeting of the Busy Bakers recently. They have met every other Monday at the home of Mrs. Jaok Rentz, the leader. Louanna Loffer was elected president, Ramona R o u c h, vice president, and Kathy Rentz, secretray-treasurer. Other members are Mary Ann Snider, Caroline Zarosin ski, Lynn Rickman and Molly Ely. - Our first meeting began with learning how to meas ure foods for cooking. At each meeting one of the members brings a treat which she makes at home. Lynda Farfan, . Reporter Use Tribune Want Ads 4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfwd, Ore., Two-thirds of the pepper mint and spearmint oil pro duced in the United States comes from Indiana. WV$etrie enjoy. qooo raie or COK SIGH OF GOOD ftoMM mdm owfcorfty of The Coce-Coto Co-par fay COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. of Medford ' off dog ffoodl S New! 6 flavors! 6 colors! New shape! Crunchy texture! 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