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- O- o o -o r4 if a an. OO o i e 0 O O ,1 .-I 3 ' 1 .? Amateurs Asked To. Record Signal Of Vanguard llf Washington, (Science Serv- lce)-An appeal to the nation's thousands of radio "hams" to record broadcasts from Van guard III, which was placed in orbit Sept. 18, has been made by the National Acad emy of Sciences here. Dr. Richard W. Porter of the space science board asked the American Radio Relay League to request members to record, where convenient and possible, radio signals transmitted from Vanguard III on a frequency of 108 megacycles. These tape re cordings should be retained at least 48 hours. In the event a solar flare occurs, the Academy will not ify ARRL again, requesting that members send in their tapes made during that per iod. Notification should come within 48 hours. To Catch Solar Flare At a press conference held by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shortly after Vanguard III was put in orbit, Dr. Porter explained that help from ra dio "hams" was to be re quested "in order to broaden the possibility of catching a solar flare at the right time, or catching certain parts of it that might not be caught by our Vanguard ground sta tions." Dr. Porter is chairman of the Earth Satellite Technical Panel of the U.S. -Internation-al Geophysical Year program, under which the Vanguard III experiments were develop ed. He indicated scientists are particularly anxious to obtain tape recordings of transmis sions that show effects of any solar flare that might occur when the satellite is below the Van Allen radiation belts. 54th Year Medford Price 10 Cent?; Tribune 4th Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1959 Pages 1 to 12 Phony Diploma MMs CDaSmed nOkang Sever aD Thousand Persons Each Year interstate and international aspects of the bogus degree traffic. 2. They would "place on the record, with full congression al immunity, a large body of factual information about these 'colleges,' their names and locations, their proprie tors and activities, and ex- amples of the serious iir national implications of thsr operations." 0 - Through ths combination of public exposure andolegtl gctt$, tfcoeoundl beliefs, "ther eal chance that American degree fijgs canM eliminated front, ie educa- Army Helping Ex-Sergeant To Find Gold Cache Fort Huachuca, Ariz. -DPD-The Army is helping an illit erate, disabled ex -sergeant look for what he said was a cache of Spanish gold worth between $2 -and $3 million. Robert Jones, 55, a Dallas, Tex. Negro, said he found 100 bars of gold "stacked like cordwood" and weighing 50 pounds each when he fell into a hole next to a cavern in 1941 while a recruit at "ort Huachuca. In addition, a few boxes as big as. wash .tubs were filled with gold bullion, Jones claimed. . Might Be Right The Army believed its former soldier might be right, and so did friends in Dallas who raised $500 to finance his trip. For two weeks, Col. El dridge Bacon, inspector gen eral of the post, has directed the search vs,th a five -man crew, a power shovel, ca well drilling rig and pumps. The pumps have not been able to get. water out of the diggings faster than it seeps in. Bed rock was hit at 23VS feet. B$ Eldridge was figuring out what kind of scientific equipment eould be used to tell searchers if a cavern was under the bedrock, as Jones said it snouy be. . Jones said the cavern was covered by debris from a road building project. The site is three miles from fort head quarters. Jones said the room ws 32 feet below grouid and had adobe ? life uraJlsa The gold must hae been an old Span ish horde and thy government has promised him 60 p8r cent before taxes, Jones said. He and a friend, killed in World War II, marked the location. But Army authori ties did not believe their story. Before Jones had an other chance to prove it, he was sent cyerseas. War wounds suffered in the SSuth Pacific kept Jones hos pitalized much of the time for several years. And he did not have money to go to the fort until Dallas friends rallied. By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent It takes from three to five years of hard work to earn a Ph.D. degree at a reputable American university. But if you aren't too choosy about your alma mater, you cana c q u i r e a "doctorate" with far less trouble. All you have to do is mail a check to one of the numerous phony "colleges" and "institutes" that specialize in exchanging spurious academic prest i g e for real cash. There are at least 200 of these diploma rHills now func tioning in the United States. They take in the expression is used avisedly - about 750, 000 "students" a year. Their gross income is estimated at $75,000,000 annually, and it's nearly all clear profit since they aren't burdened with the expense of maintaining a fac ulty or a campus. Racket Shrugged Off This racket has been flour- ishirig for many years, and only a few sporadic efforts have been made to stamp it out. Many educators who were aware of its existence have tended to shrug it off on the grounds that anyone polish eaough to buy a worthless de gree should be allowed to go ahead and waste his money. An abrupt change in this laissez-faire attitude is now brewing. The highly respected American Council on Educa tion, an organization that is fairly awash with legitimate Ph.DjS, is girding to do battle against the purveyors of bo gus degrees. The reason for the council's concern is made clear in a special report which it will make public in Washington soon. Thousands Misled The report discloses that Ameriaa's. mail-order degree factories are now . going in big for international trade. Through .glittering advertise ments in foreign newspapers and magazines, they are mis leading thousands of students in other, countries into be lieving that they can get a bona- fide correspondence course education by scraping up enough dollars to "enroll" in the phony American sdhools. Students i n undevel o p e d countries, who attach high value to an American degree, are easy targets for this kind of fraud. So many of them have been bilked, the council says, that foreigners are be ginning to "question the in tegrity and quality of all American education." Many U.S. officials abroad have reported the racket to the state department, warning that it is heavily damaging American prestige in coun tries where the United States Worms Hunted From Airplanes . Washington (Science Serv ice) - Worms that damage soy bean crops are bein hunted from airplanes, the U.S. De partment of Agriculture re ports here. Spotters in air planes look for yellowish areas and sparse growth in soybean fields. These are the signs of the cyst nematode, a minute worm that feeds on soybean roots. Ground crews then examine soil samples from the suspected areas, look at th roots of stunted plants for signs of the worms and find the outer limits of infes tations. All 26 -. major soy bean-producing states are be ing surveyed from-the air, the Department of Agriculture says. "'. " - ' 'Black Bass Act To Curb Illegal Practice Washington (Science Serv ice) - The growing practice by some groups of fishermen to net game fish unlawfully in one state and sell them to fee pond operators in another has now been halted. The U.S. Department of the Interior re ports here that, the recent amendment to the "Blac Bass Act" will reinforge con servation officials' efforts to combat this illegal trafffc. The new law covers also the buying, selling ahd possegs iri, as well as the transport ing of the fish, and wilP thus greatly aid the states in pro tecting theSr fisheries resources. Lads & Lassies Days TO EARN MORE Deposits Made by the 10th... From the EARN 1st.. Jackson County Federal Savings. & Loan Ass'n 126 East Main . Medford, Oregon is eager to win friends. - The report points out that it is difficult for the state department, or any other fed eral agency, to take effective action against the racket. Un der the American system, con trol over educational institu tions - real and phony - is a state and local responsibility. Tough Licensing Laws A few states, like New York, California, Arkansas and Virginia, have tough licensing laws which can be used to crack down on di ploma mills. But a large ma jority of states have no effec tive legislation on the subject, according to the report, and "twenty - six states have no legal control whatever over educational institutions grant ing degrees." 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