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V New, Unique Educational Tool Added to School Curriculum A new and unique educa tional tool for the blind has been added to the American school curriculum. , Now, current affairs in the world of politics, science, lit erature, the arts, etc., can be enjoyed by the blind student, thanks to Newsweek's "Tal king Magazine." This is the first all-news publication to be "printed" regularly on phonograph records for the benefit of the sightless. The recorded copies con sisting of four, long-playing 12-inch records and containing the entire contents of each weekly issue are being used regularly by public and pri vate schools for the blind. Subscribe lov Medium In addition, Braille Insti tute branches, libraries and other establishments for the sightless from coast to coast, are subscribing to this new medium. The project - a joint, non profit undertaking by News week and the American Print ing House for the Blind, is re garded by leaders in educa tional work for the blind - as one of the greatest contribu tions in years! They feel it fills a long-standing gap that blind junior high and high school students have encount ered in their search for news. News content as in the printed magazine is depart mentalized, a table of contents ' is both printed in type and in Braille on each record. First Issue The first issue was produced January 1st, 1959. So far the flL ro" M'' ' for Girls . ... Beautiful Dresses . . Smart Coats ... Skirts and Sweaters Striking Ensembles . White Stag Glen of Michigan Pam Foster Jody Dresses Pandora Sweaters Curtsy Coats Tiny Town Dresses Semi-teen Dresses Car Coats project has cost over $50,000. The present cost of the re corded issue - S3.50 - can be reduced appreciably as circu lation increases, according to officials. College Students Return to Pipes College students with books and pipes, are as established an institution as pipe smoking itself. A Pipe and Tobacco Council survey showed that collegians were buying smok ing tobacco at better than a 15 per cent increase over previous years. One of the prime reasons is, that pipe smoking, which traditionally had been a youth ful smoke, was lost in the shuffle of World War II. When the war ended, and with the return of the GI to the cam pus, pipe smoking lost ground. However, the scales have -been balanced, and now college men are smoking pipes in even greater numbers than be fore the war. Moreover, most smoking to bacco now is featured in wrap around pouches, of brightly colored miracle papers that guarantee tobacco freshness. Another great factor in the tremendous increase has been the new pipe styles. The use of aluminum shanks, in addi tion to modern new shapes, have all added to the popular ity of pipe smoking. Leons TOTS-TO-TEENS 105 Educators feel that News week's "talking magazine" will help give greater stimu lus to student discussion groups and provoke a greater interest among the sightless students in many other facets of current political, scientific and cultural life. Institutions or individuals interested in subscribing for the Newsweek "Talking Mag azine" - or making contribu tions thereto should contact the American Printing House for the Blind - Louisville 6, Kentucky. Sir Isaac Newton Wins Fame Election Bridgeport, Conn. (UPD - A world-wide election has been won by Sir Isaac Newton. The balloting was conduct ed by the University of Bridgeport among 1,116 per sons in 50 countries to choose 25 "immortals of science" whose names will be inscribed on the university's new HaJJ of Science. ' Newton polled the most votes, followed closely by Pasteur, Galileo, Darwin, M. Curie, Archimedes, Coperni cus, Faraday, Mendel and Aristotle. One name will be added an nually for the next 25. years. Scientists qualify 10 years after their deaths so the late Albert Einstein soon will be a candidate. )e ready ( This Is What You Will Soon Be Hearing So Come In And "he Read' With The Smartest New School "Duds" You Have Ever Seen! (All Nationally Adv. Brands) E. Main Keeping Bicycle Safe Important According to safety experts, parents have the responsibil ity of keeping a bicycle safe for their child to ride. They should check the fol lowing parts to see that they are m good working order: Warning device: It is im portant that it works properly. Handle bars: This should be adjusted to body, tightened stem kept well down. Reflect or: This must be visible 300 feet. Coaster brake: This must work evenly, if not it should be adjusted. Light must be visible 500 feet. Chain: Should be checked for dam aged links, snug fit secured. Tires: Air pressure should be checked. Wheels: Wobble should be eliminated, wheel nuts and oil bearings tight ened. One-fifth of bicycle injuries involve vehicles with some mechanical defect, and two out of three riders injured usually violate traffic rules. Parents, and children, too, should concentrate on keeping bikes in good repair, and to learn and obey traffic rules and regulations. ESTABLISH RELATIONS Lisbon, Portugal- (DPD -Portugal and The Philippines Tuesday announced the estab lishment of diplomatic rela tions. EX-SALES HEAD DIES Chicago- JPI) -Paul R. Turn er, 65, former director of sales of the electromotive division of General Motors Corp., died Monday. Turner retired earlier this year. schools open w for Boys . . . 1 iS. - Sculptured Cer mic Cutting Use of Foreign Marble By ELMER WALZER UPI Correspondent New York (UPD Here's a little item that's cutting into imports of Italian and Belgian t marble and other exotic building decorations -sculptured ce ramic wall facing. This is the product of Design - Tech nics, Strouds- Ktaer Walter bure. Pa. The company is able to volume produce traditionally hand crafted items without sacri fice of quality or artistic in tegrity, the experts assert. Founded in Greenwich Vil lageNew York City-in 1950 by the husband and wife team of Sam and Lee Rosen-the firm has expanded and devel oped to the point where its 30-man staff of artisans turns out thousands of pieces of ceramics each month. In addition to the wall fac ings, the company produces lamps, dinnerware and acces sories. The product for wall fac ings has been described as museum quality pieces at prices far below the museum price tag. The company does its own designing and works closely with architects to create par ticular effects. Several Major Clients Companies using the Rosen items for decorative effects in Tom Sawyer Pants Tom Sawyer Shirts Billy-The-Kid Jeans Pacific Trail Jacket ri Latest. Styling . Best Materials Budget Prices for Quality Clothes their offices include Union Carbide, Corning Glass, Mon santo Chemical, and Chem strand. Wall facings are made in individual tiles running from 4Vfc by 6Y2 inches square. They are weather resistant and can be used either in doors or outdoors, placed on wood, stone,, metal or ma sonry. No maintenance is re quired and colors are per manent, according to Rosen This smal business family team is doing right well with its current projects. The Rosens started as own ers of a craft and design cen ter in Greenwich Village in 1940. There they conducted clases in handicrafts and de sign research in several media -metals, weaving, enamelling, and ceramics When World War II claimed the services of most of the student body, the Rosens de cided to make a straight pro duction venture out of their largest section-ceramics. During the first two years, Design-Technics specialized in lamp bases and accessories. In 1954, after years of ex r perimentation with three- dimensional tiles, Rosen was satisfied he could produce a sculptured wall surface that was flexible and adaptable enough to give any architect a chance to obtain creative work at a commercially feas ible price. Part of Rebellion Architects about that time were beginning to rebel against the starkhess of many of the nation's postwar sky scrapers. They saw in the Design-Technics tiles an oppor tunity to provide decorative warmth and visual interest in their buildings without sacri fices to or clash with the ar chitectural character of their structures.' Current Design - Technics projects include the Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in She boygan, Wis.; the lobby of the Increased Life In Sub-Arctic Said Possible Montreal - (Science Service) -If you do not like crowds or hot weather, pastoral life in the sub-Arctic may be just the thing for you. There is no reason why the Canadian sub-Artie - a land of caribou moss and scrubby trees roughly extending from the 50th to the 55th parallel - could not support a popula tion of some 100,000 persons, Prof. Jacques Rousseau told Science Service. Today, he estimates, there are about 15, 000 persons, including the na tive Indians and Eskimos. "We can grow plants in the sub-Arctic, although we have done little research on the problem as yet," the Canadian botanist said. The soil is gen erally good, with permafrost appearing only in scattered spots. On the average during the growing season, there is a maximum of 18 hours of sunlight. This can mean three months growth in one month, Prof. Rousseau explained. No Important Plants No plants of economic im portance are found now in the sub-Arctic, he explained. A possible exception is the cranberry-like lingonberry which could be exported. Man would have to create the desired plants through breeding and selection from plants now be ing cultivated. Crops probably never would be exported from the sub-Arctic. However, by ' growing their own food plants,- the inhabitants would save the cost of bringing in their fruits and vegetables - often done by plane now. j Prof. 'Rousseau sees little hope of domesticating wild animals found in the region. The yak, and animals of that type, might adapt to the sub Arctic, however. He foresaw a kind of yak-cow as con tributing to the sub-Arctic farmer's food needs. Could Grow Cabbage Most of the temperate zone plants could be adapted to the farmer's garden, Prof. Rous seau said. Cabbages could be grown in 50 to 60 days, corn in 55 days. He sees no hope for growing wheat, however. Greenhouses would have an important place in the gar den. A community of lava rock houses clustered around the general store,1 church and school with greenhouses, small gardens and a yak in every yard-this is the sub-Arctic of 1980. Prof. Rousseau described the Canadian Arctic and sub Arctic plant life to scientists attending the 9th Internation al Botanical Congress here. He has made some nine ex ploratory surveys of the re gion, several of them a "first look" at the land. Prof. Rousseau pointed out that it is impossible to con sider any plant association without referring to man. Facing new dold skyscraper at 575 Madison ave. in New York; an outdoor space divider at Tamiment, Pa.; the lobby of the Coliseum Park apartments in New York, and a mural in the Sheepshead Bay High school in Brooklyn. In their newly designed showroom in New York City the Rosens are ' displaying more than 2,000 individual lamp bases, 5,000 separate pieces of decorative accesso ries and hundreds of tile samples. Chief Designer Mrs. Rosen is the chief de signer of all the items manu factured. Her husband is the expert on the specially formu lated clay bodies and glazes he discovered after years of research and experimenta tion. Mrs. Rosen conceives each of her lamps and accessories as an original-not a model for reproduction. Each mold is different and every impres sion on the blank shape is made by hand. In designing the tiles which are in effect mural surfaces-Mrs. Rosen reflects the special requirements of the architect-client and works closely with him in creating a particular, effect. SAVINGS PENCILS 3 for 5 Dozen 19 ERASERS 4 .BALLPOINT PENS 5l-9 to 1. 95 29 SGRIPTO PENCIL 23 CRAYOLAS 8's 10 16 s 19 24's 29 48's 59 85 SCISSORS 23 RULER a Plastic AMFILE FOLDER 9 -- 3 for 25 WATER COLORS 8 Colors 39 PRANG 58 SPIRAL COMPOSITION BOOKS Wide or Narrow Line 25 49 69 19 39 49 Size Size Size 39 STENO NOTEBOOK 33 Add Federal Excise Tax on 3 sm 64 . Jp mm 'RESORPTION V SPECIALISTS A WANTED: WYATT EARP Knoxville, Tenn. (UPD - No one in the U. S. marshal's office here would volunteer to go to Grand Rapids, Mich., to bring back a man charged with car theft. Michigan of ficers will have to do the job. The suspect, Robert Otis Ste wart, is a 360-pound wrestler billed as "The Hooded Terror." r SHIRTS ON SALE AT Y it BARKER'S EV I ARE $2.99 UP FyS I BUT ..GOSH! MWwl I THEY'RE NICE! mftffl I I VMain- CENTRAL Mfttff t&l J PLUS LO D U O UJ tt ( 'a a a a V SILVER DOUAIt . STAMPS ZIPPER BINDER LEATHER . . . '3.39 BIG PRACTICAL with 2 Inch Rings Double Gussett Inside Pockets . Reinforced over Back and heavy armor guard edge Given Some Care $l 95 Get Years of Wear $2.75 WATERMAN FOUNTAIN PEN '1.89 '2.95 WATERMAN FOUNTAIN PEN & PENCIL SET '1.98 3 RING NOTE BOOKS CANVAS BACK 69 With Oversize Rings 89 VINYL PLASTIC BACKS - In Colors Reg. Size Rings ..79c Oversize Rings ..97c Taxable Merchandise MEDFORDS ORtGTNAL PRICE MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dforJ, Or. Q Wednesday, Aug. 26, 1959 A ' PROF. EMERITUS DIES West ' Newton, Mass.- (UPD -Arthur O. Norton, 50, profes- sor emeritus of education aU Wellesley college, died Tues-1 day. Norton had taught at Harvard before joining the Wellesley faculty in 1912. He f was retired in 1938. SAVINGS NOTEBOOK PAPER 25 Pack HEAVY 20 POUND STOCK White or Green 49 Packs 50' p. 39( lighter 16-lb Stock 3 110 Sheet Packs 85 (330 Sheets) REAM (500 Sheets) '1.35 PENCIL TABLETS 25 19? 29: 39- Size ... 39 50 Size Size TYPING PAPER 50 Pack 39 REAM (500 Sheets) .. '1.35 SCHOOL LUNCH PAILS THERMOS or UNIVERSAL With 10-oz Bottle P . i '2.2a : Free Delivery in Medford CUTTERS CENTRAL DIAL. v A 30
