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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. 11 Wednesday, Nov. II. 1959 11 CLUB I1EVS M.Y.H- Club ; The second meeting of the M.Y.H. 4-H club was held at the home of their leader, Phyl lis Mitchel, on Oct. 23. The program for the coming year was planned. The leader showed some pattern books and members chose the patr terns they would like to make the next project from. Games wqre played, songs were sung, and refreshments were served. After the meet in a tViA iViomhers went to the football game. Georgia Mitchel, Reporter Desert Pegasus - The regular meeting of the Eagle Point Desert Pe gasus Horse club was held Saturday, Nov. 7, at the James Dunn ranch on the Crater Lake highway. The following were elected a officers for the coming year: Harlin Stinson, presi dent; Roxie Windscheffel, vice president; Barbara Kerrs, sec retary; Dale Vaughan, report er; Ron Anderson, song lead er;, Lucile Burk, game leader. As spokesman for the club, Harlin Stinson presented a trophy to Mr. Dunn in recog nition of his leadership and guidance of the club during the past year. Trophies were also presented Mrs. Dunn and Keith Krambeal for their as sistance to Mr. Dunn. A skating party date was set for Saturday, Nov. 28, to ed. Plans for a Christmas par ty were discussed and a com mittee appointed by the presi dent to make suggestions and i J A. At- plans to be presenxea i u Tmn .1 meeting. Dale Vaughan, , Reporter , -n v;iud -r A group met recently with Sarah Robinson, acting chair- ... . AiJ. An a nam fnr mail, iv v - a 4-H club. No name could be decided upon, . so" it will be taken, up at the next meeting. Officers were elected. They are Sarah Robinson, presi dent; Vanza Jairchild, vice president; Mary Carol Leav ens, secretary; Mary na wnr negie, news reporter; and Mary Kay Hochstatter, song and game leader. ' ' Mary Kay Hochstatter gave a demonstration on parliamen tary , procedure. The leaders passed cut enrollment . cards and books to the girls. Re freshments were served by Michelle Ely and Eileen Pull man. Mary Kay Hochstatter led a song and. the meeting was dismissed. ' The next meeting will be in a -month at Carnegie's. Sarah gtatter will bring refresh ments, s . Mary Ann uarnegic, iiuiiniu JUIUVI Plans Open House A "hello" Parent Teacher meeting will be held at How ard school Thursday, Nov. 12, in observance ' of National Education Week. , . Teachers will be in their rooms from 7:30 until 8 pjn. and parents are invited to visit during that time.-A regu lar meeting of the Howard Parent - Teachers association will be held at 8 p.m. in the multi-purpose room. , , Elliott Becken, assistant superintendent . of Medford schools, will speak. A group from Hedrick Junior High school will sing. Refreshments will be served and child care will be pro vided in the school gym nasium. CHINESE TAXED . In 1857 a tax of $2 per month was levied on Chinese for the privilege of mining in Oregon Territory. The fol lowing year the tax was ex tended so as to require a li cense from every Chinese, not only for mining but for trad ing, buying and selling goods, chattels or any property whatever, for the purpose of maintaining a livelihood. The license fee was raised to $4 per month. , . - FOR SALE OR LEASE in Grants Pass Gh3ic3 DOWNTOWN Corner Business Locstion , 10CX75' Lot; Concret Block Building; Laminated Arch Structurw-38Jx70' with 12 Wad Will Consider Reasonable) Offer. - GReenwood 9-2116 Many Reputable (Correspondence Schools Attract Scores to Education By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent You don't have to go to school to get an education. Abraham Lincoln proved that! his education stemmed largely from books which he read by the fireside of a log cabin. Today about 1,500,000 Americans are taking Lin coln's do-it-yourself route to an education. They are en rolled in home study courses offered by correspondence schools. " Some outfits which pose as correspondence schools are fraudulent. They take your money and send you, not a real home study course, but a worthless mail order "diplo ma" or "degree." But there also are many Census Data To Flash Rapidly Through Gadget Called Fosdic Editor's note: This is the second of two dispatches on the 1960 census tellinr what you'll be asKea ana how the answers will be eannted. By LOUIS CASSELS Washington - (DPD - Some time next year, your name, age and address will flash with almost the speed of light through a monstrous electron ic gadget known as the Fosdic. At that instant, you will be come a statistic in the 1960 U.S. Census the most mass ive fact-finding operation ever undertaken by man. Counting people, which is the basic purpose of every census, is an ancient concern of governments. China was doing it more than 5,000 years ago. The Bible records a very careful census undertaken by Moses after he had led the Children of Israel out of cap tivity. In 1400 B.C. Pharaoh Rameses II divided Egypt into districts and sent enumerators into each district to conduct a house-to-house canvass. The head of each family was en rolled, along with all mem bers of his household. To Use Automation That is substantially the technique that the Census Bu reau will use, beginning next April 1, to count the approxi mately 180,000,000 people liv ing in the United States at that time. But once the raw data is gathered by 160,000 doorbell ringers, the 1960 census will cease to bear any resemblance to Rameses' laborious n?se work. Automation will take over. Individual census takers will forward their work sheets to the Census Oper ations Office at Jefferson ville, Ind.,where they will be pho tographed on microfilm. It will take nearly 1,000 . miles of microfilm to record the mountain of data. To 'Read' Microfilm The microfilm will be ship ped to the Census Bureau's main office at Suitland, Md. There it will be run through a new, Rube Goldbergish ma chine, developed by the U.S. Bureau of Standards. .-It is called the Fosdic (Film Op tical Sensing Device for In put to Computer.) f The Fosdic will "read" each little square of microfilm, and almost instantaneously trans late it into a coded tape to be fed into an electronic digital computer. The bureau have five Fos dics ready to go to work. To gether fhey will perform a job that in previous censuses required the services of 2,000 human card-punch operators. ' Tape prepared by the Fos dics will be fed into giant Uni vac 1105 computers, which No Whistle To Blow So Men Blow Stacks Rockport, Maine .- (DPD -Officials of the Home Port Fish company here were reported blowing their stacks because they couldn't blow their whis tle. Seems the old locomotive whistle atop the boiler house, which had been used for years to call employees to work, was stolen by an irritated listener. The ' four-horned antelope of India and Burma is the only wild animal in the world with four horns. reputable correspondence schools which are making an outstanding contribution to adult education in America. Each year they enroll about 750,000 new students ap proximately the same number who enter college. The correspondence school is a German invention, dating back to 1856. The first U.S. correspondence schools were established- in 1891. Russia has recently taken up the idea with enthusiasm. About one third of Russia's college stu dents are now pursuing their studies by mail. There has been a notable increase in public acceptance of correspondence education in this country, as well, dur ing the last few years. Since 1955, enrollment in home will proceed to perform at incredible speed the massive mathematical job of counting, collating and cross-referencing that turns raw census data into usable statistics about the U.S. population. Final Totals By November Preliminary population to tals for counties and cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants will be ready for announce ment by late April or May. Final official state totals will be supplied to the President by November. These totals determine the apportionment of seats in the House of Rep resentatives. The U.S. Con stitution requires that they be computed once every 10 years. The first U.S. Census, in 1790, counted 3,929,214 people Students Rebel Over Discipline At University Northfield, Vt. - (DPD - Up per classmen rebelled Tues day against ' "Communistic" discipline at Norwich Uni versity, the nation's oldest private military college. An unsigned statement post ed on a bulletin board in Harmon Hall said: "Men of Norwich, Make Up." It urged them to "stand fast" against "Communistic" rules imposed on students. It said Norwich was being run "as Russia runs" her schools-. Brig. Gen. Ernest N. Har mon, Norwich president for whom the hall was named, said the cadets were "all wet" and dismissed it as "just a little fracas." . Marched To Lunch About 500 upper classmen refused to attend reveille or breakfast. However, they marched in customary fashion to lunch in the dining hall. There appeared to be 'no leadership among the cadets, protesting a ban on fraterni ties, reduction in class cuts allowed upper classmen, and general "militarism." Stu dents also protested censor ship of the student newspaper and alleged gagging of faculty members. Harmon said the protest arose from the fraternity ban and from general stiffening of discipline. No Muscular Dystrophy Campaign Scheduled .No local march for muscu lar dystrophy will be made this year, according to Mrs. Albert C. Gould, vice presi dent of the association here. She said that a limited num ber of volunteers had mailed a few contribution envelopes but not everyone was reached. Those wishing to contribute may mail their contribution to Muscular Dystrophy, in care of the local postmaster, Medford, or to John Duffy, treasurer, 1104 East Ninth St., Medford. IMMEDIATE POSSESSION Completely cleaned interior. The carpet looks like new. 3 spacious bedrooms, large tiled bath and. handy Yi bath. Convenient kitchen with breakfast nook. Setting en a generous East Side comer lot. If you are considering a change, let us show this to you. $16,000 -$1600 Down. study courses has increased about 50 per cent. About 20 per cent of the students are enrolled in cours es offered by such public in stitutions as state universities and thVarmed forces. The rest patronize some 500 private correspondence schools. Accredited List Available How can a potential student tell which schools are relia ble? One simple way is to ob tain a list of accredited schools from the National Home Study Council, 1420 New York ave. Northwest, Washington, D.C. The council was formed in 1926 to enforce high ethical and educational standards in correspondence schools. Its ac crediting commission, which includes such notable Ameri- in the new republic - and that was about all the information it gathered. It was not until 1850 that census-takers began to list every inhabitant by name and to gather data about age, sex, color, place of birth, marital status and so forth. That 1850 census, by the way, included some pretty forthright questions, such as: "Are you a pauper?" and "Are there any idiots in this household?" Next year's census taker will be just as nosy, but in a nicer way. He'll seek, from every fourth household, de tailed information cn earn ings, employment, education al status and such matters as how people get to and from work. When all of this data has been chewed by Fosdic and digested by Univac, it will comprise the largest compila tion of social and economic data in the nation's history a real gold mine of facts for business firms, government agencies, social scientists and feature writers to explore for the next 10 years. , Kjg3 vT" "j f PEARSrV If PEARS! II PEARS! Wonderful eating 1 I ' I i but do not qualify I f f for our Gift boxes (I BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS J J 1 I Week Days And Sundays - II 1 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. J I 2 Miles South on y Highway 99 S 1 ng Lings DOUGLAS FIR Prompt Pay 17. II. Daugherty Co. WHITE CITY Phone TAIbot 6-2711 ROGUE VALLEY cans as Dr. John W. Stude baker, former U.S. Commis sioner of Education, and Dr Herold C. Hunt, professor of education at Harvard, is offi cially recognized by the U.S. Office of Education. The 58 schools which are members of the council enroll about 60 per cent of all correspondence students. xniormation about corre spondence courses offered by universities can be obtained from the National Security Extension Association, Bloom ington, Ind. Most Are Men About three-fourths of the students who sign up for cor respondence courses are men. The majority are high school graduates who want to de velop vocational skills that will help them get better jobs or earn bigger incomes. Although young men pre dominate, there has been a steady growth in correspon dence study by men who are nearing retirement age, and who want to learn either a hobby or a part-time job to supplement their pension. You can study almost any conceivable subject, from art to zoology, by correspon dence. Courses in radio and television repair are current ly the most popular. Account ing is another perennial fa vorite'; One fourth of the na tion's certified public account ants are graduates of corres pondence schools. Religious Courses Attract Next to vocational courses, religious courses attract the largest number of students. This has been true, according to school officials, for many years. - The cost of a home study course varies with the com; plexity of the subject. A one or two year course in TV re pair may cost from $200 to $300. A four to eight year course leading toward a pro fessional engineer's license may tost up to $1,000. Many educators used to turn up their noses at correspon dence schools. But this pos ture is rapidly going out of fashion. The best U.S. col leges and universities are cur- See This! -Here's LAND CO. rently putting great stress on I dent study." They are sayingtheir own initiative, instead I spoon-feed them with knowl the importance of "indepen-1 that students should learn on of relying on teachers to edge. 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