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Onassis, who is married, said that press reports about them, published in Italy, were extremely "childish." Government Investigating Funds Paid for Flood Relief The federal government is taking "immediate action" to investigate the payment of disaster relief funds to the Eagle Point irrigation district, according to word received by Mrs. Ann Todd. Mrs. Todd, district water user who instigated the probe, has received notification of the ' government's response from both. Oregon's Demo crat . senators, Richard Neu berger and Wayne Morse. Meanwhile, she has an swered a complaint filed by the district's directors last week seeking to enjoin her and her husband from creat ing "disturbances" at month ly board meetings. The complaint,- filed in Jackson county circuit court last Monday, alleged that Mrs. Todd "has so completely dis turbed, hindered and hamp ered, interrupted and med djed, caused confusion and disrupted order, .that said board is unable to proceed with the orderly disposition of the irrigation district's bus iness.", . Quotes From the News .! " ' , By United Press International Champaign, 111. - A spokesman for a University of Illinois traffic court conference, on a demonstration of intoxication tests: ' "It was no problem getting . TTnitoH Nation; N.Y. - The General Assembly to take up of Tibet: "Thm iifferina which mv beyond description and it is wanton and ruthless muraer oi my people snouia o im mediately brought to an end." . i - Washington - President Eisenhower, on the need for adult education: . "The man thai plows a furrow in Dickerson county, or works on a .Brooklyn dock, or drives a iaxicab - when you begin to talk to him about the need for helping the people of China, or of French Africa - well, he wonders what in the world you are talking about." New York - Warden William Doherty of the New .York City house of detention, on the wholesale arrests of New York juvenile delinquents: , , - "Right now we are bulging at the seams with 859 (boys). Forty more and we will be practically out of business." Teacher Justified In Striking Pupil In Several States (Editor's note: This is the last in a series, of articles about schools and problems of the schools and students. They are furnished by the National Education assocU ation. Today's' article - dis cusses punishment in the schools.) Washington, D. C .- What about corporal punishment in the schools? Is a teacher ever justified in striking a pupil- except in self defense? - Generally speaking the an swer is '"yes." Again gener ally, speaking, the common law regards the teacher as standing in the shoes of the narent. having not only tne right but the responsibility to administer such punishment as may be reasonably requir ed to maintain discipline. There are exceptions, and sometimes a . fine . line is drawn. ' But the research division of the National Education asso ciation has prepared a mem orandum pointing out that only one state, . New Jersey, prohibits the administration of corporal punishment. Four states. Florida, Mon tana, Vermont, and Virginia, by specific- statutes authorize corporal punishment. Three states have given statutory expression to the common law principle which places teach ers in. the role of parents, and many states, by statute, impose a specific responsibil ity on teachers to maintain discipline.- Make Regulations , Local school boards, of course, in the absence of spe cific statutes authorizing or on published reports about her In her motion to dismiss or strike the complaint, filed last Friday, Mrs. Todd alleged that the director s' ' suit "brought in the name of the Eagle Point irrigation district is clearly designed to intimi date, embarrass, harrass and damage the character and rep utation of the defendants, as has been done for many months past." . The federal . investigation involves the payment of re lief funds to the district fol lowing the winter floods of 1955-56. Mrs. Todd has asked whether the funds did not ac tually benefit the California Oregon Power company rath er than- the district itself. - She points to a written agreement . between Copco and the district whereby Cop co assumed responsibility for maintaining the district's main ditch, damaged in the floods, - at its own expense. This agreement has been ex tended until Sept. 1, 1960. Funds Earmarked ; The relief funds appear ear marked by law, to benefit volunteers. Dalai Lama, asking the U.N. the Chinese Communist seizure seoele are undergoing are imperatively necessary that this prohibiting corporal punish ment, have the right to; make their own regulations on the subject. Some delegate the re sponsibility to the school prin cipal. . The general rule is that punishment, when adminis tered, must be reasonable and without malice. ..' The issue is one that rarely reaches the courts. The Na tional Reporter System notes only 60 reported cases of as sault and battery against teachers in the past 125 years. Since 1940 there have been only 10 -such '' cases, plus three others in whic'i the is sue before the courts was school board actions - taken against teachers against whom there were complaints based on corporal punish ment. Uphold Dismissal In a 1953 Louisiana case the courts upheld, the dismis sal of a principal who had whipped a child with a win dow sash cord for' being ab sent. Marks of the whipping persisted for three weeks and the punishment was held to be excessive. ' But in another Louisiana case arising in the same year a teacher used a paddle on the buttocks of an 8-year-old boy who was the son of a school bo aid member. When the first paddle broke she got another 4nd carried on with it. Marks of the whipping re mained afterward. The school board transferred her to another-school and placed her on probationary status. She took the case to the courts, which overruled the school board and found in her favor. - ' V - m " I ; It jL A alleged romance with Aris- units of government, .not pri vate corporations. Attorn. - s for the district and Cvco have declined comment on the issue so far. "I have received word," Sen. Neuberger wrjote Mrs. Todd in a letter dated Aug. 31, "from the director, of the office of civil and defense mo bilization that an investiga tion has been started on the payment of federal disaster assistance funds for repair of facilities at Eagle Point irri gation district. Please be as sured that I will keep you ad vised of further develop ments." Neuberger enclosed the no tification from Leo A. Hoegh, the OCDM director, which read in part: "Immediate ac tion is being taken, to obtain the records pertinent to this project. Upon completion of our study, of these records and other available- information, the requested report will be submitted to you." Statement of Policy Following the complaint filed last Monday against the Todds' "disturbances" at meetings, a statement of pol icy concerning conduct was issued at the regular monthly meeting the next day. The statement, signed by C. J. Greb, president of the three-man board of directors, announced that the former policy of informality at meet ings was no longer beneficial From now on, the statement read, "all meetings will be conducted under the strictest formality and a strict adher ence to rules of -order.". Greb stated he did not in tend "to in any way hinder anyone who has legitimate business to discuss." He ex plained that time would be allowed for public petitions, requests and inquiries but that "no one will be heard out of order except by invita tion of the board. No inter ruptions will be permitted. : Required By Law "We are required by law to hold public meetings," Greb continued. "This is entirely proper. I wish 'to point out, however, that a public meet ing is not an open meeting. The board of directors is solely responsible for the bus iness, and we are glad to hold our meetings in public, but we cannot properly conduct a meeting and ' properly handle the business of the irrigation district if we are subjected to constant interruptions." In her motion filed in court later last week, Mrs. Todd re plied: "Meetings of the plain tiff Eagle Point irrigation dis trict board . of directors, de spite statutory provision re quiring such meetings to be public are not in fact public." She alleged that the board refused to read bills aloud be fore passing upon them, re fused to read aloud at last week's meeting the extension of the agreement with Copco, tentatively adopted a budget for 1960 "without having ad vertised it, posted it, or read it in public; as well as other actions taken at the meeting of Sept. 1, 1959, (despite ef forts to be heard and protests made by defendants herein (herself and her husband)." Mrs. Todd added that her various efforts during the past year to battle the district's management in court have re sulted "in pointed and defin ite discrimination and arbi trary abuse- of discretionary powers enjoyed by the board of directors and officers of the EPID, wherein and where by defendants' rights have ben and are continuing to be jeopardized." PATENT SQUABBLES. UP ' , Washington -UPD- Squabbles over alleged patent infringe ments are on the increase. There are more than 350,000 trademarks registered with the U. S. Paten". Office and n;v applications are running at an annual rate of 20,000 a year. The Admiral Corp.- re cently filed an official protest when it learned that a Russian TV set is named Admiral. Earth man's Ability To Work in Space Raises Questions London (Science ServiceV- Earthmen may be able to live in space but until some way is devised to measure their ability to work in space, sci entists will not know exactly how to fit man into the space picture. Ground and balloon-borne space - flight simulators can yield useful information, but both have drawbacks and nei ther can produce the weight less situation a spaceman would encounter. Drug Use Not Promising The (. proposal for use of drugs to produce an artificial sensation of zero gravity does not appear promising, J. Gor don Vaeth, technical staff member of the Advanced Re search Projects Agency in Washington, D.C., told the 10th Annual Congress of the International Aslronaut i c a 1 Federation meeting here. "The realism of all , space flights simulated on the ground is' handicapped by the fact that the subjects know they are on the ground and can usually be released almost at once from the circum stances of the flight. Thus the key factors of stress, tension, and psychological and psysi ological hazards are to a large degree lacking. Crew reaction to the ' 'break-away phenome-non'-the feeling of complete detachment .from the earth- Suspended Pills Coated by Machine Madison, Wis. -.(Science Service) -A pill coating ma chine that may replace the present pan coating method has. been ipvented by Prof. Dale E. Wu ,4er, of the Uni versity of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. ' ' The machine suspends pills in the air forced into it by a blower, while atomizers inject a carefully controlled stream of coating material. The blast of air causes the coatings to dry immediately. Better vitamins may also result from the new inven tion, because the machine can coat small vitamin granules with a protective film that prevents destruction of the chemical by air. Prof. Wurster s work was supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which holds patents -on the machine. The foundation plans to make the coating process available to industry at a low royalty. Present pill coating meth ods involve pouring coating material on pills revolving in a turning drum and a separate drying process is required. 'Singing' Snake Really Subdued1 - Rome, Vt. -UPD- Mrs. Myra Treglown Stansell was walk ing in her backyard on her way to feed the chickens when she heard : a pleasant sound just in time to see a rattlesnake. She leaped back before the reptile could strike. The five-foot snake, who ap parently was "singing" for his supper, just didn't have a chance. Mrs. Stansell sum moned a neighbor and they shot the snake with a shot gun. . Just to make sure it was dead, they fired several rifle bullets into the snake's body and beat it with a large stick for good measure. Man Beats Odds on Vital Statistics ' Springfield, Mass. - (DID -Dr. William N. Pannebsfcer, 96, of Baltimore, Md., has won a 20,000-to-l bet with vital statistics. ' The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., said that Pannebaker has received the proceeds from a $2,000 life insurance policy he purchased in 1920. Company officials said the doctor, who was 57 when he bought the policy, had less than one chance in 20,000 of reaching the age 95. . Average Lifespan Decline Reported New York (Science Service) The average American life span took a down-turn , in 1957, Metropolitan Life Insur ance Company statistics show it dipped 0.3 years below the all-time high of 69.6 years reg istered in 1954 and 1956. The drop is attributed to the preva lence of Asian influenza and other respiratory, ailments during the last months of 1957. Nevertheless, the 1957 lifespan is 2'i years greater than in 1947 and 20 years greater than that in 1900. cannot, for example, be deter mined," Vaeth reported. Balloon Use Suggested He suggested use of high altitude balloons for making simulated flights for several days at a height of 80,000 feet. During such a flfght, a three man crew would work at tasks they might beaexpected to perform in orbit At 80,000 feet, the men would experi ence the break-away phenom enon and would be "in a hos tile environment which is bio logically equivalent to space," Although this still would not solve the problem of sim ulating a weightless state, sta tistics gathered from such an experiemnt would help scien tists determine where man himself fits into the conquest of space. -. Space Engineers Receive Training ' Norman, Okla. -(UPD- A new breed of men-space engineers - will be trained at the Uni versity of Oklahoma. TheOU School of Aeronau tical Engineering is setting up its space engineering program in the belief that' imagination must be backed up by practi-. cal know-how if man is ever to blaze the trail to othor planets. . Bruce V. Ketcham, chair man of the school, said the de mand for space engineers is increasing as most aircraft companies convert to missile work. ' "In another two years more than half of the aeronautical engineering students may be in space work," Ketcham . said. "We must start a formal program now to supply the in dustry's future demands." 1 Ketcham said his school has facilities to test liquid nd solid propellent rockets in its jet propulsion laboratory. It also has a supersonic wind tunnel capable of developing velocities two and a half times the speed of sound. OU has offered a course in rocket propulsion for the past seven years. This fall a course in space propulsion is being given for the first time. Mason Contractor To Attend Session Phillip Slump, president of the Medford Mason Contrac tors association, will head a delegation of masonry men who will attend the one-day convention of the northwest conference of the Mason Con tractors association of Amer ica at Portland Sept 12. Election of officers, busi ness sessions, a banquet and dance and a visit to the Ore gon , Centennial Exposition will be features of the day's activities. Special events are also being planned for the vis itors by .the Unit Masonry association of Oregon. L. C. Pardue, Portland, is conference president. . Lyle Parsley, Portland, is chair man of the entertainment committee. Wives of the contractors will participate in a program planned by Mrs. Howard Ja cobs, Portland, president of the conference auxiliary. New. Drug Combats Infecting Fungi Washington (Science Serv ice) A new British antibiotic. developed specifically to fight athlete's foot, barber's itch and ringworm of the scalp, body and nails, has been ap proved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration here. The antibiotic is known as Fulvicir It is fungistatic rath er than fungicidal, preventing the growth of the infecting funi but not" directly killing them. The fungi live on kera tin, a substance found in the outer layer of human skin' cells which aw constantly being shed and replaced. The antibiotic, taken orally. works its way through to this G outer skin layer and renders keratin unusable as fungi food. Diseased Plants Breathe Heavier University Park, Pa. (Sci ence Service) Sick plants breathe harder than healthy ones, the American Institute of Biological Sciences meeting was told here. Tobacco plants infected with bacterial wilt . disease have an increased respiration rate, a team of North Caro lina State College scientists said. Respiration increased sharply by tffe end of four days after infection. This time coincides with the plants' de velopment of wilt disease symptoms, the scientists re ported. The discovery, they point out, will aid breeders in i developing disease - resistant varieties of plants. o o
