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i DChartering Planes Becoming iMore Popular Among Groups ( t t K New York-IUPD -Chartering planes for low-cost flights to m Europe and elsewhere has be- come increasingly popular t among unions, clubs, associa tions and the like. But regulations governing ? t.Vi- anil nrVin Mn't phaf- T11U bBU BI1U ,uu - I j forts are underway by the II airlines and commercial trav el groups to make charter rates more widely available to all. Now, you can fly to Eu rope and back for less than $250 if you are a member of an organization eligible to charter an airliner. Nearly 100,000 did last year-one in twelve who flew the Atlantic -and the airlines say the traffic has increased heavily this year. Charter Rate The charter rate is rough ly half of the lowest economy fare-S'' 62.60 round trip to London-and because of this, the Civil Aeronautics Board maintains a strict watch on all groups chartering aircraft for the Atlantic flight. Membership in just any group does not mean eligi bility for this bargain 'base ment air travel. Would-be travelers cannot simply band together for the purpose jf arranging a charter flight The group has to collect dues regularly, hold regular meet ings and function under by laws. Membersmust have be longed for six months to be eligible to join a charter. They car- ta-5 along only close relatives living in their household wives, children, parents. A town or ci'y organization is not eligible if it has more than 2,000 members. A sta.e organization is limited to 5,000, a national organization to 20.000. But even then, eligibility is not automatic. The CAB looks on some na tional groups s.- too general, but may allow a local chap ter to -harter an aircraft. t If the CAB suspects an or ganization was foimed merely to become eligible for charter flights, or that a majority of its membership joined to en gage in trans- ilantic money saving, it will order the char ter cancelled. Not in Tavor Airlines and travel agents any of whom an book a char ter flight, are not altogether in favor of present charter arrangements. They would rather see economy rates brought much closer .o char ter fares so that the entire traveling public could take advantage of cheaper trans portation. The American Society of Travel Agents has asked the CAB to consider this, and has also asked the International Air Transport association, to which most trans-Atlantic air lines belong, to introduce two other rate-lowering devices: excursion fares and tour-bas- Workshop Registration Scheduled Monday at SOC Ashland-Classroom registra tions for the post session workshops in elementary school music and audio-visual aids may be made Monday, Aug. 10, on the Southern Ore gon campus. x u Slated to meet in room 210, Churchill hall, the music workshop, directed by Miss Helene Robinson, will have special attention given to sev eral units of study, such as American Indian music, Latin American music, and Calypso music. Emphasis will be upon class participation in the musical activities appropriate for the elementary grades. Materials used in class will be selected not only because they are en joyable and can promote mu sical growth, but also because of their suitability to the school curriculum. Suited to Needs Each student will be per mitted to choose for special study a particular topic of value to his school situation or to his own growth, Miss CLUB -Ifli NEWS Tniii Paig The Teena Paige 4-H Sew ing club of Central Point, held its final meeting for the year at the home of Mrs. Chester Ashtons' on July 22. Seven members were present includ ing the club's two leaders, Mrs. Ashton and Mrs. Sidner. Girls displaying work m the Pre-Fair held in. Central Point told of comments they had received on their cloth ing, and the general opinion was that Pre-Fair was helpful to the girls, and the informa tion they had received would be beneficial toward the coun tv fair." The annual Jackson county fair was also under discussion and information concerning the fair was handed out, in cluding records to be filled out by each club memoer. Also a general discussion was held, and each member told of her 4-H project for the county fair, and how she was progressing on her year's proj ect. Some members gave in formation ' on the trials and tribulations of certain materi als they "had been working with. ' Each member is expected to participate in activities, and display her projects at the county fair. Meeting was ad journed and refreshments were served by Mrs. Ashton and her daughter Julia. Patricia Straus, Reporter. of Robinson said, adding that three hours of credit, either graduate or undergraduate, Ed 410 (g), methods and re search materials in music, or Mus 383, music education, in the grades, could be gained. Miss Robinson has been a city supervisor of music, and was on the music staff at Ari zona State college before com ing to Southern Oregon col lege. She has presented work shops and demonstrations for city, county, state and nation al conferences of music and education associations; has di rected children's music festi vals and radio programs; and has had articles published in a number of professional mag azines. Her master of music degree is from Northwestern university; and she has been wqjking towards the doctor's i i, t t - : a r aegree ai me university California. Audio-Visual Aids Registration for the audio visual aids workshop will take place in the college library, room 101, according to Ches ter C. Squire, who will in struct the class. Squire announced that the course presentation would call upon a number of re source persons in the field to demonstrate a wide variety of techniques and materials. Representatives from the state forestry, visual instruc tion, and fish and game de partments will be called upon, as well as personnel from publishing companies, and the head of the University of Ore gon AVA center, Don Hunter. Others will be announced at a later date. Formerly principal of the Briscoe Elementary school, Ashland, "quire has been serving as acting director of the college AVA center for the past year. He received his bachelor of science degree at SOC in 1942, prior to four years service in the Army Air Corps, and his master of edu cation degree from Colorado State College of Education in 1949.' Classes for the workshop will run Monday through Fri day, from 8 until noon in the morning, and from 1 until 3 p.m.,'according to Mrs. Mabel W. Winston, registrar. ing fares. The latter are air fares lowered to specified per centages of the total costs of tours. Their purpose is to low er in turn the tour costs themselves, ' "ASTA doesn't believe that it is in the public interest for a segment of the traveling public to receive such prefer ential treament as charter passengers get," says ASTA executive vice president Ray mond H. Hering. In chartering an aircraft, an airlines does not receive payment of individual air fares. It hires out the entire aircraft at. the designated price, perhaps $20,000, and then it is up to the chartering group to fill the plane. Domestic air charters are comparatively unfettered, but not widespread. Any airline can book a "spontaneous" charter for a group which has organized itself for nothing more than flying from one point to another. , Increasing Charters v Other transportation serv ices railroads, buses and steamship lines-are engaging in charters to an increasing extent. There are literally no re strictions on chartering a steamship. If you have the money, the ship is yours, and you may sell the space to any one you please. There are Interstate Com merce commission regulations governing bus charters. With in state boundaries, a bus, charter is a simple transac tion; but if the chartering party wants . to cross state lines, it has to arrange the charter through a broker-usually a travel, agent or your, operator-who holds an ICC license and with a bus com pany which also holds an ICC license. The railroad charter busi ness which .was a lucrative one before the air age is grad ually fading. "Special trains." as they are called, are still used occasionally by such group as Rotary; by chil dren going to and from sum mer camps, and by the armed services. Rail charters are ar ranged, much as air charters,, according to the costs in volved, and there is no re striction on what kinds of groups can charter. Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medferd, Or. 3 Turkish Army Getting Education from U.S. Foreign Aid Program Ankara (UPD American foreign aid money is being spent on wiping out illiteracy in the Turkish army. A vast program begun in April of this year will teach 120,000 recruits annually half of all those taken into the 500,000-man army every 12 months the rudiments of reading, writing and ; arith metic. The young soldiers are to study for eight weeks at the start of their two years of military service. Illiteracy in Turkey is still put at about 65 per cent of the total population. For an army trying to modernize itself quickly, this is a grave handicap. Half of all those entering the army are unable to spell their own names. In the past, this hardly mattered since one could handle a bayonet ef fectively without knowing the alphabet. Things Change Today things are changed. Sweeping advances in mechan ized and nuclear warfare make literacy imperative. The more modern the equipment, the greater the need for skilled hands, to work it. The recruits will soon be studying at 17 centers being set up in different parts of Baseball Banquet Scheduled Tonight American Legion Post of Medford will hold ,-ts annual Legion junior baseball ban quet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Medford Hotel Rogue room, it was announced to day by the team manager, Keegan Townscid. The affair will climax the year's activi ties which saw the team in a divisional playoff with Roseburg. The guest speaker will be Chief of Police Charles Champlin, a member of the local legion post. The boys have invited their individual sponsors to accom pany them o the banquet. Legionnaires and the presi dent of the legion auxiliary Mrs. Betty Fichtner, will attend. Turkey as a result of lengthy and detailed experiments by experts to determine the best way to teach an adult recruit. Classes of 25 are considered the most effective. The stu dents will spend six hours in the classroom each day, plus two hours of physical training. Textbooks have been devised containing pictures of objects familiar to the recruits, most of whom are peasants from Turkey's 40,000 villages.. To See Drawings ' When he. opens his book the soldier-student will see drawings of the mosque, the village school, the coffee house, the donkey, the ox-cart, the . village pump, and now adays, the motor-bus. This program was formally inaugurated recently by Turk ish President Celal Bayar at a ceremony in a training camp not far from Ankara. ' When Bayar walked into the first class, the teacher, a university professor on mili tary duty, called the class to attention.- ' - ; "What will you all become if you don't learn to read and write?" he shouted. Twenty five voices roared back: "Pri vate soldiers!" "And what will you be when you've learned to read and write?" "Cor porals and sergeants," was the chorused reply. The United States has con tributed three million dollars to set up the 17 training cen ters, plus another three and a half million for teachers' sal aries and textbooks, while the Turkish government allocated nearly one' million dollars in Turkish currency in 1959 as its share in the vital enter prise. ' ft jf r 4 Have a happy vacation! "MONEY LAND" Pacific Q Industrial prompt, cofiao persona loans and mew or used ear financing 16 S. Central SP 3-5308 Bob Griffith, Managtr Beef Club Central Point - Members of the Central Point Beef club judged steers and heifers at their regular meeting in July at Table Top ranch. Patsy Charley won a rope halter in a contest to guess weights of the steers. Pre-fair was discussed and members had their steers shaved and the animals' feet clipped. , The next meeting will be at the home of Niki Ham mond. She will give a demon stration on how to make a roDe halter. . lpfrashments were served by the Peeks. , Carolyn Sidener, Repoiter. About six million new mo tor vehicles are sold in a year todav. compared with only Rotary President To Be Honored Aug. 7 Eugene-A highlight in the history of the local district of Rotary International will be the visit to Oregon of Harold T. Thomas, International Ro tary president, to Eugene on Aug. 7. Rotarians from throughout District 511, which includes Jackson county, are planning to be present at the dinner to be held at 6:45 p.m. at the Eu-gen- hotel. The Rotary clubs of Springfield and Eugene are co-hosts and delegations are expected from all the clubs in the district. Thomas is from Auckland, New Zealand, where in pri vate life he is leading figure in commerce. Thomas' official visit will be the first such for the Rotary district. He plans to visit other clubs in the northwest during his trip. We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central , 17 inch' jZtfVI&M- Brand New for 1960 Automatic channel equalizer. Tuba guord. fimjhed bock. Telescop ing antenna. Tronsforaer-powered chessa. Seceriry Seated OcviH. 3 toshes. 170-P-M. Mt th nw shop of TV deek, sfim, beau tiful to behold! Veri-thin styling the most attractive portable you've ever seen. Loaded with extra-performance RCA Victor features, yet so lightweight you'll want to take it everywhere! 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