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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Friday, March 20. 1959 it f - 9t v Tiwiw fs-X- 'M v.- VoT" 7 izV vA- :riTv witness registration-two children, who in a few years will be eligible for en rollment in one of the state's universities or colleges, watch registration procedure at Oregon State college, where in 10 years the Oregon State College Expected To Double Students in 10 Years (Editor's note: This is an other in a series of articles in which problems facing the state's universities and colleges are discussed. They describe the problem con fronting higher educa tion in the next 10 years. Today's article deals with Oregon Stale college.) Double the present enroll ment of 8,000 students; double he number of teachers need d; double the existing campus building and facilities and you'll have a fairly accurate picture of what Oregon State college will be like 10 years from now. This is the situation pre dicted for 1969 by Oregon State officials as the full force of the coming student tide hits the Corvallis campus, and as public demand for scien tific and technical research continues. Enrollment trends based on past experience and students already in the classrooms of Oregon's public schools, indi cate that there will be from 15,000 to 16,000 students on hand when Oregon State ob serves its 100th birthday in 1968. This will require in creasing the present resident faculty to nearly 1,100 if an adequate student-teacher ratio is to be maintained. Quality of Teachers More important than the number of teachers is the quality of the teachers which will be needed. Oregon State president, A. L. Strand, has declared repeatedly that the college's chief need will be, not only to expand the teach ing force, but to preserve its present quality, and if possi ble, improve it. "If we fail in that respect during the next few years, the damage to the institution and its work will not be re paired for a generation or longer," Dr. Strand explains. "The make or break period is on us right now." Another factor at stake in the next decade is Oregon State's position as a great West Coast research center. Grants for research have been increasing both in size and frequency. Special gifts from the federal government and private sources totaled more than S2.000.000 last year, twice that of the previous year. These grants will cer tainly be increased as staff and facilities become avail able. National Leader As one of the pioneers and key national leaders in train ing science and mathematics teachers, OSC has been award ed $1,018,600 in National Sci ence Foundation grants in the past three years for this ex press purpose. State agencies are calling on Oregon State research fa cilities instead of setting up complete and costly research laboratories of their own. These state departments rely on college specialists for much of their scientific and techni cal assistance: The game com mission, fish commission, for estry, agriculture, natural re sources committee, water re sources board, state highway department, sanitary engineer, state board of health, state Garden. Sawdust McGinly Fuel Go. Ph. SP 3-6297 'liquor commission, board of control, geology and mineral industries, state penitentiary, soil conservation, tax com mission, state fair, and various agricultural commodity com missions. Teachers Needed But teachers need class rooms and researchers need facilities. A building program in the next 10 years, surpass ing in cost, the accumulated value of the campus built up over the entire 90-year history of Oregon State college, is esserrtial according to OSC officials. Present value of the OSC campus is estimated at $42, 000,000. The proposed 10-year program for classroom and laboratory buildings calls for about $32,000,000 in state funds. Another $18,000,000 in nonstate, self - liquidating funds will be needed to pro vide adequate dormitory housing. So far as building needs are concerned, the Oregon State library is an illustration of one of the desperate situations. Because of encroachments of necessary book stacks and storage space, student seating Ancient Manuscript Said To Contain Sayings of New York-(UPD-A noted bib lical authority said Wednes day night that an ancient Coptic manuscript found in Egypt in 1946 contained 114 sayings of Jesus which may be as authentic as those found in the New Testament gos pels. Dr. Oscar Cullman called the discovery of "The Gospel of Thomas" of greater signifi cance to scholars than the finding of the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. No Parallel Culman, professor of early Christianity at the Sorbonne in Paris, is a visiting profes sor at the Union Theological Seminary. He said, he had been in possession of the text of "The Gospel of Thomas" since 1956 and had found many sayings and parables attributed to Jesus that have no parallel in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. r The biblical expert said the Thomas Gospel appeared to be an apocryphal work compiled by a gnostic and dating in part from the second century after Christ. He said the quo tations attributed to Jesus were possibly derived from the same collection of Jesus' sayings that Mark-and per haps Matthew and Luke drew on when they wrote their testaments. Cullman described some of the new sayings as "pearls" and said their interpretation CLOGSTON'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimates Gladly Phone SP 3-1014 Evenings 9 I enrollment and facilities are expected to double. Preparations are being made now to have sufficient facilities to handle the expected enrollment when Oregon State ob serves its 100th year in 1968. capacity in the library has actually decreased while en rollment has shot upward. Seating Capacity The seating capacity today is 575 - for 8,000 students -when it should be the stand ard one seat for every four students, or about 2,000 seats. It will get a lot worse before it gets better! Other buildings in the pro posed building program, though not a complete list, include the second unit of the physics-chemistry build ing, mechanical engineering, two more units to complete the biological science build ing, agricultural engineering, and extension of heating plant and utilities. Commenting on the increas ing demands for Oregon State college services and the pronv ise of vastly increased enroll ments, Dr. Strand said, "We can't wait until 1968 to pre pare. Postponing construc tion of the buildings needed on the Oregon State campus will pile up building demands that could not possibly be met by future legislatures, Dr. Strand emphasized. Jesus would occupy scholars for decades to come. Some of the "pearls" he quoted were: "Jesus said: He who is near Me is near the fire, and he who is far from Me is far from the kingdom." "Split a piece of wood-I am there; lift the stone and you will find me there." Hidden in Jar The Thomas gospel was one of 44 treatises written on papyrus and bound in 13 leather-covered volumes. The book had been hidden in a jar in a tomb in a limestone cliff near Khenoboskion, 60 miles from Luxor, Egypt. Peasants f o u n d them and burned at least one of them to heat a pot of tea before scholars in Cairo got wind of the discovery. Iowa has a larger propor tion of area in farm land than any other state. REAL BUYS in quality AZALEAS $1.00 and up BOXWOODS I5l and up CAMELLIA 1.00 and up RHODOS 1.00 and up SHADE TREES 75i and up (Don't Delay) GARDEN CENTER NURSERY On Hway 99 Between Phoenix and Talent Questions, Answers on Project Argus Washington -(UPD- Here are some questions and answers on Project Argus: Q. What happened in Proj ect Argus? A. Three low -yield atomic bombs were exploded more than 300 miles above the South Atlantic. Each was equal to about 1,000 tons of TNT. The bombs, provided by the Atomic Energy Commis sion, were fired Aug. 27, Aug. 30, and Sept. 6. Q. Where was the project carried out and how? A. The bombs were launch ed aloft by three-stage re search rocket from the decks of the Navy missile ship, the Norton Sound. It was about 2,000 miles east and a little south of Bahia Blanca, Argen tina. Q. What was the purpose of the experiments? A. To observe the effects of nuclear explosions above the atmosphere. Q. What were some of these effects? A. Electrons ejected in enor mous surges into the earth's magnetic field quickly formed a thin shield of radiation around the planet, open only at the polar regions where the magnetic lines of force dip toward the earth. Q. What did this indicate? A. That man can create arti ficial radiation zones com parable to the natural belts discovered by satellite and moon probe experiments. Q. What visible manifesta tions were there of the Argus shots? A. Artificial auroral dis plays appeared over the ships of the task force and at the "conjugate point" of the mag netic field pattern in the Northern Hemisphere. This point was over the Azores. It was not officially disclosed whether there was a brilliant flash light in the sky when the bombs exploded, but pre sumably there was.- Q. Would injection of elec trons from the explosions into the earth's curving magnetic field have any effect on radio communications? A. Yes. The electrons which entered the ionosphere elec trified layers of the atmos phere would greatly increase its electrical condu c t i v i t y. This in turn would, affect the ionosphere's ability to reflect radio waves without distor tion. Q Is this something like the magnetic storms created in the ionosphere by charged particles from solar flares? A. Yes. .Scientists say big nuclear explosions would dis rupt high frequency radio communications in a way sim ilar to the effects caused by giant solar flares. Q. Would high atomic ex plosions mess up electronic guidance of the still-to-be-per-fcted Nike-Zeus anti-missile. A. Military authorities say the answer is no. But if man made ionospheric storms im paired radar early warning systems, Nike-Zeus would be grounded. Q. Would high altitude nu clear explosions create a snare for incoming hydrogen mis siles? A. This is highly problema tical. It used to be thought neutrons from such explosions might prematurely trigger the fission charge of enemy mis siles. Scientists now believe this would take un unachiev able density of neutrons. Elec Lininger's EQUSBSP For Your Construction Needs! Backhoes Shovels Draglines Motor Cranes D4, D6, 07, D8 Cat. Dozers Air Compressors o.Turnapulls Water Wagons Rollers Motor Graders LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF RENTAL CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT IN SOUTHERN OREGON READY MIX CONCRETE... GRAVEL CRUSHED ROCK... SAND Phones SP 2-5336, SP 2-5897, MU 5-8121 trical impulses from nuclear explosions might fire high ex plosive components of a war head's triggering system. But blocks against such impulses could easily be installed. Q. Are high altitude atomic explosions detectable? A. Yes-if you're looking for them. The Russians apparent ly did not detect the Argus shots. Satellite detective pa ounces Erosfoones tCfion on or Zone The Medford city council last night postponed its deci sion on a zone change re quest in the Grandview area after a public hearing in which attorneys presented ex tensive arguments for and against the change. The request, from Gottlieb J. Wolff who owns the Grand view market at Crater Lake ave. and Roberts rd., is for a change from residential to limited commercial for prop erty at the southeast corner of that intersection. Approval was recommended last month by the city plan ning commission, but petitions and counter - petitions from residents in the area and other interested parties have given the council cause i to reflect. Notes Restrictions Ervin Hogan, Medford at torney representing Wolff, stated that deed restrictions permitting commercial devel opment on the lot m question but prohibiting it elsewhere in the area provide "absolute protection to other property owners against creeping com mercial zoning." Hogan asserted that plan ning from the original sub divider's conception to a re cent land . use study of that part of town to the planners' recommendation has indicated "this particular corner is best suited for limited commercial development." Seven property owners rose in turn, as Hogan called on them to support Wolff's re quest. Oppose Change Manville Heisel, Medford attorney representing prop erty owners opposed to the change, stated that the inter section is a pickup point for five school buses so that com mercial development would increase the traffic hazard to the children. He next asserted that since certain lots a few blocks away are under no deed restrictions commercial development fol lowing a zone change for Wolff's lot could lead to other developments elsewhere. With respect to the restric tions established by the orig inal subdividers, Heisel said this amounted to "private zon ing" by individuals who were not elected representatives of the people. He said he did not believe there is a need in the area for any of the 31 businesses permitted in limited commer cial zones. He added that if a need for a particular busi ness arose in the future, the city might permit commercial development for that particu- 1 TAL trols are feasible against high' altitude tests. ' Q. Do high altitude tests pose a fallout threat? A. No. Any particles big enough to escape entrapment in the magnetic field would remain aloft indefinitely, cir cling the earth as tiny satel lites. Q. How long did the radia tion zone created by Project Request Change lar use. He said he believed Wolffs present request is "if any thing, too early." At Heisel's bidding an esti mated 35 people rose to their feet to signify their opposition to the change. City Councilman Don Han sen, Ward II, stated that while I he favored this particular zone change request he wished as surance that the lot would be developed as a neighbor hood shopping center and not result in further expansion of commercial zoning in that area. The council voted 5-2 to postpone action "until June, with Councilmen Robert L. Van Sickle, Ward III, and Ed Hall, Ward I, opposed. Van Sickle stated he thought those interested were entitled to an answer by the next council meeting. Hall said afterward he disapproved of putting the matter off. Mayor John W. Snider said the council would study the various petitions submitted and might be ready with an answer by the next meeting. Following this hearing Roy P. Wilkes, property owner in the Grandview district, stated that the city planning com mission and council should "make a little haste" in setting aside a business tract in that area to serve the rapidly grow ing population. He said such a provision would eliminate "90 per cent" of the public hearings on zone changes and would "serve the area a very big favor." Wilkes suggested a "mini mum of 30 acres" for the busi ness center, which he said could include a clinic, fire station, post office branch and business facilities. His state ment was applauded by sev eral persons in the audience. Guaranteed Finest MAJOR GASOLINE On the i i Drive in for Free Tickets No need to buy SAVE up to 50 on GARDEN SUPPLIES Reg. Retail Price At Fortune $12.95 Garden Cart, 4 eu. ft $7.45 50 Stamps 3.98 Garden Hose, 50 ft 1.89 20 Stampi 4.98 Garden Hose Sprinkler, 50 ft 2.98 30 Stamps 1.00 Garden Sprinkler, 2 arm 69 with purchase 1.95 Garden Sprinkler, 3 arm 1.29 20 Stamps 2.75 Grass Shears, 12" 1.49 20 Stamps 3.75 Hedge Shears, 10" 2.49 30 Stampi 3.40 Pruning Shears, 9" 1.98 20 Stamps 4.98 Lawn Edger 2.98 30 Stamps 2.79 Hoe, U. S. Steel 1.59 20 Stamps 4.25 Shovel, U. S. 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