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come increasingly popular
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tions and the like.
But regulations governing
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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.
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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. '
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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.
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