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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, McdforJ, Or. The Inquiring Mind This series of articles, on many different subjects, zesults from work by senior students at the school of journalism at the University of Oregon. Each is a con densed version of a full-length thesis written as partial requirement for graduation at the school. . EDUCATIONAL . TELEVISION-II By Judith Anderson A feasible solution to the financial problem of educa tional television, as well as to many other administrative and technical difficulties, has been ; television experiment in Ore- gon. Under the direction of Dr, - Glenn Starlin, coordinator of " the Oreeon Inter-institutional Television Experiment, Ore gon's experimental project has tied three state colleges and one private institution togeth er by a non-commercial tele vision network. The Univer sity of Oregon, Oregon State college, the Oregon College of Education and Willamette uni- versity participate in the pro- oucuon oi televised courses which are shown simultane ously on the four campuses, Oregon s network system, the first of it's kind in the couri- ical to the State System of Higher Education than any other experimental systems to date. The initial costs of con struction and production have been borne by Fund for the Advancement of Education al locations. Costs have been cut considerably by combining production facilities and by the inter-campus sharing of televised instruction. Support Withdrawn ' Since the announcement of the Fund of its withdrawal of financial support, the State System of Higher Education has had to reconsider its plans for financing the Oregon proj ect. The only solution seems to be the allocation of state funds, collected from state taxes, for the support of ed ucational television. A de cision concerning the financial problem has not yet been made by the State System. The network television sys tem is still being tested in Oregon for problems other than the financial aspect. Dr. Starlin has voiced his desire to continue to develop a "team" approach to teaching through the inter-institutional system. Students participating in the experiment have ex pressed the feeling that ed ucation by a team of staff members at various institu tions stimulates their desire for learning by presenting a diversity of ideas, viewpoints and opinions that they would not receive with individual in struction. Speculate on Future With Oregon's entrance into the virgin field of network television for education, much speculation has begun among educators over the future pos sibilities of such a setup on a national basis. The directors of 29 educational television stations have predicted a total of 100 stations linked together in a national live network by 1968. They also predict that national educational television programs will reach 80 per cent of the country's popula tion by that time. A national network could relieve the financial headache oi educational television as 11U U Ll ITT 1 Uldll I 1 41 111 II III IUI Local stations could draw from a strong, well-financed national cooperative network agency a significant part of their program material, thus cutting down on their indi vidual production require ments. Probably the most import ant feature of the proposed network system it its partial solution to the ever-present fi nanical problems. Community and university stations have found it practically impossible to run first-rate stations with out some help from national programming services such as the National Educational Tele vision network connected with the National Educational Tele vision and Radio Center, and without almost complete fi nancial support from private foundations. Since the Fund has announced its withdrawal of funds, the states will have to find some other permanent source of finances. Public Funds Needed The federal and state gov ernments seem to hold the only answer to the problem. Since these governments al ready support public educa tion, why shouldn't they aid in the support of this facet of education? These governing bodies might be more apt to' give THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW Morrison St. PORTLAND, OREGON All transient guests. All these who com, return. Rates net high, net lew. Free oarage, TV's and radios. Reputation for cleanliness. Rescrvctiens by leng distance phone refunded en request upon arrival Thursday, July 2, 1959 unconditional support to a state educational television system if it received a con stant flow of top-notch net work programs. A single ed ucational television station used in several colleges would require less money than if each college had its own op eration. The major difficulty with the national network is the problem of having credit courses aimed at schools throughout the country with completely different course re quirements, grading systems and bases for giving credit. It would be virtually impossible for a central network to grade hundreds of thousands of pa pers and tests. It would also be a tremoundous task to fit the contents of a. course in -with the needs of hundreds of colleges and universities. Educators have suggested that the national network take care of general educational programs without any class credit. This would leave each state free to develop and plan credit courses according to their individual needs. The ad ministrative problems involv ed with credit courses would be handled more adequately by each state rather than on a nationwide basis. Most critics seem in full agreement that a national net work would solve most of the problems of educational tele vision so far insoluble. With Oregon's experiment the net work has been initially tested. The final results of this ex periment will be indicative of the future success or failure of the network for educa tional television. With the article above, the Mail Tribune concludes publication of this series, all prepared by senior stu dents in journalism at the University of Oregon, and based on senior theses. If a similar series is available next year, consideration will be given lo its use in the Mail Tribune. Oregon Cities Try To Improve Records Oregon cities will strive this week end to improve their holiday safety record, Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin said. He said three of the five Oregon fatalities over the re cent Memorial Day week end occurred in cities. Despite the fact that numerous city cele brations are planned through out the state Champlin said, he hopes to see the cities go death-free over the Fourth of July. "The key to a safe week end, especially for those who may be going to large com munity celebrations, is pa tience," he said. "If you encounter long lines of traffic or have trouble trying to get into the stream of traffic from a park ing area, just remember that it's better to be a little late getting home than not to get home at all." He also pointed out that drivers who insist on cele brating the holiday with "liquid spirits" could be head ed for more than one kind of trouble-either an accident or an arrest for driving while intoxicated. "Neither is a fitting climax to a holiday week end," he concluded. Enrollment Figures Announced for 50C Ashland - Enrollment at Southern Oregon college for summer session has reached 650, according to Mrs. Mabel W. Winston, registrar. Enrollment for the preced ing summer on a comparable date was 539 with the peak figure at 704. There are 401 women and 249 men students so far of which 391 are in elementary and 182 in secondary education. Only Trailways Offers EXCLUSIVE SHORT ROUTE EAST VIA Crater Lake National Park Cool Canadian Air Triggers Thunderstorms By United Press International Cool Canadian air brought relief to millions of heat weary easterners today and triggered - violent thunder storms as it fought to replace a hot, muggy blanket that covered Dixie. The Weather Bureau said the cool air mass, stil moving slowly, would shove south ward through Virginia. Ken tucky and Tennessee today. It also was expected to develop in New England. To Warm Up Again But weathermen warned that the weather would warm up again from the Rockies and Central Plains to the western Great Lakes. The clash between the cool and hot air Wednesday spawn ed, turbulent weather from Iowa and Texas to the Atlan tic Coast. A tornado demolished a house and a trailer camp of fice and ripped the roofs from two homes at Selma, Ala. Two persons were injured, one critically, and damage was estimated at $25,000 or more. Lightning Fatal A North Carolina farmer was killed by lightning as he stood beside his tobacco barn. At least nine deaths were blamed on the weather since last week end. Gail, a town in west Texas, got a seven-inch drenching and Lamesa, Tex., reported four inches in one part of town and a mere inch a few miles away., Heavy rains touched off flooding in Iowa lowlands, but no serious damage was antici pated. Errol Flynn To Answer Wife's Suit Hollywood (UPD Actor Er rol Flynn, who last year esti mated his wealth at about four million dollars, has 20 more days to answer a sep arate maintenance suit filed by his wife. "Errol forced me to take this action because he did not live up to his agreement to support our daughter, Ar- nella, 6, and myself," said Pa trice Wymore, 29. She said Flynn was served with a summons in New York Wednesday ordering him to agree to a date for a court ap pearance within 21 days of the day of the serving. The suit was filed in New York but revealed here by Miss Wymore. George Liberace Sued for Divorce Riverside, Calif .-(DPD-George Liberace, brother of the smil ing pianist, was charged with extreme mental cruelty in a divorce action filed Wednes day by his wife of seven years. Mrs. Jayne Liberace sought $1,135 monthly temporary al imony in her superior court suit as well as an equitable distribution of community property. She also asked for an injunction against sale of any of her husband's holdings George performed with his famous pianist brother for several years before they had a fallout. The wife of the vio linist-conductor estimated he now earns about $1,000 week from musical engage ments and returns from busi ness holdings. Search Continues For Florence Man Florence (UPD The official search for Elbert Straight, 76, reported missing by his fam ily Monday afternoon, was called off Wednesday but state police said a private search by relatives and friends continued. Straight vanished when he set out for a walk from his son's home in the rugged Ca nary road area south of here. Up to 100 searchers with bloodhounds looked in dense underbrush and woods for Straight and several planes scanned the area with no suc cess. DAYS A WEEK Families save as much as Vz and more. Wife with husband travels one way free. Trailways offers the lowest cost vacation travel in America. railways Depot: 182 No. Front Ph. SP 3-1853 iWt iff M JL P& i HONORING DISCOVER! of oral polio vaccine, Dr. Albert B. Sabin (right), Cincinnati, is awarded 1959 How ard Taylor Ricketts memorial award of University of Chicago by Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, dean of Biological Sciences Division. New vaccine uses live polio viruses. Khrushchev Talked Tough To Harriman -Washington (UPD - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev talked rough and tough to former Gov. Averill Harri man of New York in their re cent discussion of the Berlin situation. Harriman reported Khrush chev's remarks to the State Department which, in turn, gave President Eisenhower a fill-in. Harriman's report empha sized the stern language which the Soviet chief used in laying down the Soviet position on Berlin and other ix; , lj 2 cnucai cuia war issues. A high official said today, however, that the actual sub stance of Khrushchev's re marks disclosed nothing that he or Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had not said earlier at one time or another since Russia whipped up the Berlin crisis last Nov. 22. " The official said there was absolutely no feeling on the part of Secretary of State Christian A. Herter or his top aides that Krushchev's Armstrong Visits Rome Nightspot Rome - (UPD - "Ambassador Satch" had cocktails with the ambassador Wednesday night and. then went out on the town, growling his way through a Roman nightspot until almost three this morn ing. For a man who wag strick en just 10 days ago with what doctors described as virus pneumonia, jazz -king Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong showed a constitution as solid as any high note on his golden trum pet. It was after midnight when he arrived at Bricktop's, a nightspot on Rome's glittering Via Veneto, from a cocktail party at the villa of U. S. Am bassador James D. Zellerbach. It was just 10 minutes be fore three in the morning when he climbed out of the basement club, after having run through two vocals and kept up a gravel-voiced ex change with his wife, his doc tor, nurse and valet and a handful of local belles. It was less than a week ago that Armstrong suffered what doctors called the second "crisis" of an attack of virus pneumonia in a hospital in the hilltown of Spoleto about two hours drive from Rome. He was first reported stricken June 23. In ancient times Palestine formed the main communica tion between Egypt and the great empires of Babylonia and Assyria to the northeast. 7 MORE At Jackson County Federal, Savings deposted by July 10 Earn from July 1 OUR CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE IS Annum SAVE . . . where you are Paid More to Save! SAVINS p LOAN 126 East Main talk to Harriman represented any stiffening of Soviet pol icy. They acknowledged that Harriman apparently was tak en somewhat aback by the blunt and course language used by Khrushchev, but they said this did not alter the fact that the Soviet Premier simp ly restated old positions. Officials here said they did not think the Harriman inter view with Khrushchev, held June 23, altered Russian American relations to any extent. It merely confirmed the opinion of Herter and his aides that the Soviet position is very rigid and not likely to produce any agreement on Berlin. Canada Selects American Plane For NATO Defense Ottawa-(UPD-Canada will re place its eight NATO Sabrejet squadrons with an American supersonic aircraft, the Lock heed F104G; Defense Minister George Pearkes announced to day. Pearkes told the Commons that negotiations were under way with the Lockheed Corp., Burbank, Calif., to have the airframe and powerful J79 engine of the replacement plane, built in Canada. , Pearkes said it would be "some two years" before the new plane was in operational service. The minister indicated the F104G would replace only the eight 'Sabre squadrons. There was no mention of replacing the four CF100 squadrons which make up the remainder of the country's NATO air force. The minister said the Lock heed plane was selected from more than 20 British, Ameri can and European aircraft which had been considered. Consideration had also been given to modifying existing Canadian aircraft, but this was impractical, he said. The replacement plane is an advanced version of the F104 now used by the U. S. Air Force. The plane also has been selected by West Ger many for its air force. Officials said the plane had a top speed of about 1,400 miles per hour. TURNS SELF IN Nashville, Tenn.-(UPD-James Corley, 54, broke out of state prison, stole a car and turned on the radio. He heard a re port of his escape, stopped the car and telephone deputy warden W. S. Neil to come get him. Neil did. DAYS! A ASSOC ATION Medford Grazing Act Claimed Outdated; Revision Of Laws Suggested Portland -(UPD-The Western Association of Game and Fish Commissioners charged Wed nesday that the Taylor graz ing act and other laws under which the Bureau of Land Management operates are out dated. The charge was made at the closing session of the association's three-day annual conference at the Multnomah hotel in Portland. Revision of the act and oth er laws relating to the con servation and multiple - use Bakersfield Feels Rolling Earthquake Bakersfield, Calif. (UPD A rolling earthquake rumbled through this inland farming area Wednesday rattling win dows and dishes without ap parently causing any damage. Police said many residents telephoned, reporting the four successive temblors as a roll ing motion. One police officer said he failed to feel the quake but heard it. He said it sound ed like a sonic boom. Dr. C. F. Richter of the Caltech Seismological Labora tory in Pasadena, Calif., said the strongest shock was re corded at 4:48 p.m., with an intensity of 4.7, strong enough to cause minor damage. The quake was centered about 100 miles north of Pasa dena in the Bakersfield area, he said. BAN PINBALL MACHINES Rome (UPD - The govern ment clamped a nationwide ban on pinball machines Wednesday. The action was unpopular in many areas but no incidents were reported. 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Leffler, assistant secretary of the interior, call ed for establishment of a fish sanctuary and anadromous fish-such as salmon and steel- iiau Ail. lii LiuauC iivi uaoiii. Leffler said in a letter pre sented to the association the sanctuary is critically needed to save the runs of salmon and steelhead in the Columbia river. Leffler, who was unable to attend the meeting, said in his letter that the marked im provement of fish passage fa cilities at dams on the Colum bia and Snake rivers will be of little, avail if the fish are not assured of continued good spawning and rearing condi tions in the Snake river basin. Road Improvement Urged In an additional resolution passed by the association, the commissioners asked highway departments and the U. S. Bu reau of Public Roads to make every effort to improve ac cess to recreational areas in the western states under the federal limited access high way system program. 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