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Ml Gill ill Votes mm Cm ma nifties IMIot Overlooked in iflssian1 Schools (Editor's not: Thii ii nomtr m a series ot ar ticle prepared by Med- ford superinlen d a 1 of schools following his recent three-week tour of Russia. This is ena of th articles dealing with Russia's "St- n Year Plan." The articles are based on Soviet books. magaiine articles, and per sonal interviews with the ministers of education of the Russian and Ukranian republics, the deputy mayor of Moscow, and the mayor ef Tbilisi.) By have a single institution of higher learning, but today they have 115 higher schools with a total of 300,000 stu dents. In the coming seven years special attention will be given to the industrial and cultural development of Siberia and the Far East. That mvOI, of course, bring about changes in the geography of higher and, secondary special schools. In stitutes will "move to new industrial areas, to the places where the future young spec ialists will work. What new fields will be de- DR. LEONARD MAYFIELD w " " "- Medford School ... Superintendent . We sna11 tram considerably Hare there been any new greater numDers oi engineers developments in the study of m the peaceful uses of atomic the humanities and in uni- energy, autumouuu, lexeme- versitT education? cnamcs, eiecuuuivs, eietLiiLji Since this subject has been muuirUuuu.u6, brought up, we would like to maiung ana raaao engineer mention in passing that there ing- The universities w 1 1 1 is a widespread belief by the train more specialists in com- western democracies that in 6""&. y the USSR the humanities are and biology. Only recently we subordinate field of study. a IMV..U B. That is, of course, the result of tZ!?rill'Z unwitting or deliberate mis- representation. As a matter we already have our first cos- of fact we are attaching great . - r " importance to the training of oo nave specialists in co r. and other roecial- mic medicine. ' I ists for the national economy, The Soviet Union has ad but we hold the humanities vanced the slogan: "Overtake i .. rrit esteem. nd ouiiirip me um We shall continue promot- me inorwu po"" i Hi4tf in the humanities 1 woes ii aiso appiy x xus J I . . , . I -.J,-,. lnn two roerams: one ior rem oi mgner u wh have- chosen to special education? h. humanities as a We have no such aim for the profession and the second for simple reason that we have i- - .h.r nmfAssions overtaken the United States hroaden their oi America in uie uera o cuu- - .. I rro. A thorn. ...,i,-l The latter may canon, me miiu.u.. .ton their studies at any time selves' are compelled to admit thev feel they have acquirea mau nu - . - . j I x. ...,,.- onH fie will havp i Week End Traffic Accidents Claim Nine in Oregon Three Perish in Crash Near Albany By United Press International At least nine' persons" met death in Oregon week end highway accidents, three in one crash near Albany. A car driven by Larry Clayton McDow, 18, skidded on rain-slickened pavement into a diesel truck and trail er Saturday night on High way 99 near Albany. McDow and Billie Jean Callison, 16, and Theodore Volz, 18, all of Albany, died as a result of the accident. The truck driv er was not hurt. , Rancher Killed , uffirifnf knowledge. What are the new principles i enroll mint in anvw.vw. - Matter schools? Preference will be. given to young people with a record of practical itfe - w o r .eix- ience. The responsibility for replenishing the student body now rests not only on insti tutes and universities but also on factories, collective farms and eehools. and other public bodies. No enrollment appli eation will be considered with out their recommendation. Changes are also being in troduced into the system of entrance examinations. Exam ination papers are to be iden tified by symbols and exam ining commissions are to De mnnuH of at least tWO teachers so as tor guarantee a more objective evaluation of the knowledge w young people desiring to enter a higher or a secondary special school. One year win oe aaa d to the secondary program. The elementary program will consist of grades one through ix- the secondary, grades pvpn throueh eleven. - What was the reason for the reorganisation of your Minis try, which is now tne union- few years and we will have overtaken America in most if not all other lines of endeavor Did we not in the science of lunar objects? How is the new program being received by parents and others? , . We are pleased to answer that it has the unanimous and enthusiastic support of par ents, students and educators. (Note. One university staff member when interviewed stated that many instructors in the higher institutions ot jected to the two year fun time required labor exper ience. They believed it detri mental to the academic stu dent who was interested in research.) Chains Advised in Baker, Austin Areas Salem -flJPD- Chains were advised to cope with icy roads at Baker and Austin, the State Highway department said to day. ' Otherwise, " Oregon roads were clear with rain the only hazard to highway travel. Portland -flJPD- The State Board of Health says Oregon had 27.190 births in the first Republican Ministry of High- nme months of 1959. During ar and Secondary special the same period in so mere to cation? We found it necessary to Krinff hieher and secondary rwuiai education closer- the vital economic and cul- interest of the Soviet .Republics. The republics will , . m colves administer the educational establishments of thr territory. Under the So viet government the republics have built up a ramified net work of institutes and uni versities and their own nation al intelligentsia. The higher institutions in the USSR now number 441 . universities jmd college with a student body of 1,300,000. Prior to the revolution, A z e r baijan Ar menia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Moldavia, Uzbekistan Tajik istan and Turkmenia did not were 26,997 births. William Penn Allen Jr. 38, a Juntura area rancher, was killed Sunday afternoon when the truck in which he was riding left Highway 20 east of Juntura. Horace Lee Whaley, 38, Dexter, was killed Saturday night in a two-car accident near Dexter. He was a pass enger in a car driven by Wal lace Knox, 22. Knox and Whaley's wife were injured along with two persons in the second car, Raymond Wilson, 42. and his son Gary. 16. Daniel Phaup, 22, Portland, was killed near Clatskanie on Highway 30 Saturday when his car failed to make a. curve and overturned. . Elmer Lee Pankey, 59, Waldport. was killed Satur day morning when his ; car and a train locomotive collid ed at Derry station, a mile east of Rickreall. Portland Youth Killed Ira Earl Barnes, 16, Port land, was killed Saturday night on the Banfield express way in Portland when a car failed to make a curve. Three other persons were injured, WillianS Hendrickson, 67, Portland, was killed Sunday night when struck by a car on Highway 99 in Milwaukie south of Portland. Police de scribed it as a hit-run acci dent, and -were investigating. $3 JW STiLECvl MM CMffiET Cash Taken From Safe in Easfside Big Y Sunday Safe Moved to Room In Rear of Building Hatfield Proclaims Thanksgiving Day Salem - (IPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield issued his Thanks giving proclamation today declaring Thursday. Nov. 26 as time for Thanksgiving in Oregon. . The governor noted that the nation was approaching another year's end "in an atmosphere of peace." 1 "I urge all Qregonians to pause amid their occupa tions' and their pleasures and give prayful thanks to Almighty God for his bene factions of the year," the governor said. Steel Plants Near Capacity Production Pittsburgh - (UPD - The na tion's steel furnaces, roaring back after a record-smashing 116-day strike shutdown, ap proached 90 per cent of ca pacity production today - the 16th day of a Taft-Hartley 80-day cooling off period. ' ... WEATHER forecast: VUey for latt : to Jm aid Tuesday with partial Sarins Tuesday afternoon tow tonifht 3S. Hish .Tuesday 52. Highest yesterday - J Lowest this morning Oor Skies Tonight 4:44 p.m. 7:12 ajn. Sunset today - - . nrrnltf sunrise 12:2 .m Aioonnse iUUww . Nov J9 e7cy?nte" ly cne-third larger Moon, is now passint the Earth and the Sun Its dis tance from the Earth today i about 63 million miles. . LIBRARIANS Mrs. Jane Baker, acting librarian of the Jackson County Library, chats with Omar' A. Bacon, new librarian, during the open house and reception held "at. the library Sunday afternoon More than 350 persons attended the two hour event which honored Mr. and Mrs.. Bacon, given by the board of trustees and staff of the library. Bacon'j assumed duties as librarian JNov. 16... Mrs. Baker will con tinue in an advisory capacity until Dec. 1, it was reported. A safe at the Eastside Big Y Market, 608 East Main st., was broken open early Sun day morning ,and approxi mately $3,500 in cash was stolen. The safe had been moved from the front window of the store,, where it usually sits, into a produce room at the back, where- the dial and handle were knocked off with heavy object, city police said. Police said it is not yet known how many burglars there were. The crime was not done by an amateur, they said, but they called it a "sloppy job." John Gowan Miller, Central Point, a janitor at the store, told police he came to work at 2:30 a.m. Sunday and the safe was undisturbed then. He said he heard some noises from the rear of the store about 3:15, but didn't pay much attention as he thought it came from outside traffic. He left at 3:30 and locked all the doors behind him. Police estimate the job was done about 3:30 a.m. The exact amount .taken will not be known until the auditors have made a check, according, to the general man ager, William - Arthur Gif ford Jr. ' City police said that en trance to the store was made by breaking open a vent on the roof to the attic, and then proceeding down the stairs to the main floor and the safe. The burglar or burglars ap parently left by the same route, as an empty money bag was found near the vent. ' Perry Whitlock and Carl Leroy Sieg, employees at the store - discovered , the ..crime and reported it to the police when they came to work Sun day morning. " Men Plead Innocent To Assault Charges John Joseph Detto, 29, and L. M. Pate, both Klamath Falls, entered pleas of inno cent to charges of assault and battery in Klamath county district court this morning The two men were arrested last week on eharges arising out of an incident involving two Medford men on the Green Springs highway near the Penney Springs Guard Station. , According to reports R. W. Miles, 2651 Table Rock rd., and C. M. Lemacks, 2717 Howard ave., employees of Crater Lake Machinery com pany here, were returning to Medford after working two days at the Klamath Falls plant. En route home they were stopped and Lemacks was beaten. Members of the Hoisting and Portable Engineers at both the Medford and Klam ath Falls company offices have been out on strike since Oct. 27. Pate and Detto, both mechanics, were employed by the company prior to the strike, according to company records. The two Klamath Falls men have been released on $200 each. Their trial has been scheduled for Dec. 15 at 10 a.m. in Klamath county district court. They are rep resented by a Portland attorney. Regional Edition Medford RIBUNE 28 Pages MEDFORD, pREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1959 No. 205 WET MILK "RUN The milk run is made by motor boat at Snohomish., as the rain-choked Snohomish, river breaks its banks, isolationgdow farm lands. No deaths have been blamed directly on the flood. Civil defense and police emerg ency groups are standing by to aid threatened areas. V UPI Telephoto) Bids To Be Opened Dec. 8 on Freeway Rogue River Span ; Construction of the Rogue river bridge at Homestead on the Rogue, for the new align ment of Pacific highway free way and the freeway's over crossing of Beacon dr., near the Beacon dr. and Tenth st. junction in Grants Pass, may bet under way in early 1960 as the state highway commis sion has invited bids on the two projects to be opened Dec. 8 in Salem. 1 The bridge over the Rogue river will consist of two sepa rate structures, 766 and 809 feet in length, each 30 feet wyde; The overcrossing calls for a 168-foot reinforced concrete deck girder structure with 70- foot roadway. . The bridge, expected to cost nearly one million dollars, will take more than a year to construct. If the contract is awarded early next year, the dual bridges could be com pleted in 1961. ; It was reported that work is nearly completed on xne North Grants Pass Inter change in the vicinity of Sco- ville . rd. and . Seventh st, while bids are yet to be let on the East Grants Pass Inter change. From Grants Pass east to Evans creek, near Rogue River, all of the grad ing on the freeway is nearing completion. Two sections of the proposed freeway have not been contracted for grad ing. They are from Evans creek to the Rogue river bridge at Homestead, and south of the river at the bridge to Rock Point. Rising divers Cause Slides, Washouts an Washington Seattle (UPD - Earth slides and bridge washouts today stopped east - west traffic across Washington, and, rag ing, rising rivers spilled flood w a t e r s f over, thousands, of acres in western Washington. . Coast Guard, Army and Air Force rescue teams moved in to flooded areas north and south of here to" evacuate families whose homes have been flooded. .' A helicopter from McChord Air Force Base was dispatch ed to pick up several persons reported stranded at Flaming Geyser, tiny community about 20 miles southeast of here, where the Green river was flooding its valley. Three Army ducks, an am phibious vehicle, rushed from Fort Lewis to the Kent-Au burn area near here, also in the Green River Valley. The Green river was expected to crest at 67.5 feet, 2.5 feet over flood stage, today. The busi- j east of here: inl. Snohomish ness district of Kent was ex pected to be under at least a foot of water by mid-morning, ! The Coast Guard had a crew with boats and a Duck at Sno homish, about 25 miles north- Ashland Firm Files Corporation Articles Salem -UPD- Articles, of in corporation were filed today for the Cascade M-D Products company of Ashland. They were signed by George F. Ward, John H. Von Kuhlmann and Richard C. Cottle. CAR STOLEN Ashland - A car owned by Clifford Maddox of Ashland was reported stolen- Monday morning, city police said. The auto, taken from in front of 63Vt Pine st. between mid night Sunday and 6 a.m. Mon day, was described as a brown 1952 Ford tudor, Ore gon license 3B-9244. Sweet Home Minister, Family Missing in Cascade Foothills Sweet Home (UPD - Search parties were formed today to hunt in nearby Cascade moun tain foothills for a young min ister and his wife and son, missing since last Friday. They were believed to have gone for a ride in their small foreign car. ? Found Church Not Healed Missing were the Rev. Lau rence A. Loftus, 28; his wife, Ituth, 27, - and their son, James,. 2. - The disappearance was not reported until Sunday morn ing when Ivan Hoy, a mem ber of the congregation of the Community Church, Metho dist, arrived and found the small church had not been heated. Police said Loftus was last reported seen -by a neighbor, Mrs. Faye McElhinny, on Fri day morning. She said he did not say where he was going. He also vas reported to have purchased 11 gallons of gaso line from a service station in this area sometime Friday. Martin Case Recalled . The minister's mother, Mrs. Lulu Loftus, said her son liked the mountains and often hiked or . drove through the bills around Sweet Home. The com munity is located near the foothills of the Cascades. The disappearance was re mindful of that of the Ken Martin family of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Martin and their three daughters vanished last Dec. 7 while on a drive to gather Christmas greens. Two Bodies Found Months' later bodies of two of the girls were found in the Columbia river but the Mar tins' station wagon and the other three family members have not been located. Friday Picked For Class A-l Playoff Medford High school and Jefferson of Portland will con tend at 8 p.m. Friday night at Multnomah stadium in Port land for the Oregon Class A-l football championship, Ore gon School Activities associ ation announced. St Mary's of Medford will be host to Yoncalla at 8 p.m. Saturday night in the Medford high stadium in the Class B title game. Scheduling of the two con tests is just in reverse of ar rangements which it was felt would best serve the interests of Medford area football fans Medford school administra tion had appealed to the OS AA board of control for. Sat urday night play of the game with Jefferson. The board this morning re jected the request because "so many commitments had been made for Friday night. Saturday night play was sought because job commit ments make it impossible for many fans and highly incon venient for others to make the long trip to Portland for- a Friday game. Seaside will play at vaie at 2 pjn. Saturday for the Class A-2 mantle. About 1,000 adult reserved seat tickets for the Medford Jefferson game are being sent here and may be available on a first-come, first-served basis at the senior high school Tues day morning. ' -; . ' Burglars Take $20 From Phoenix Store Approximately $20 was taken from the cash register of the Farmers Fruit and Vegetable center at 118 South Main ' st., Phoenix, Sunday, the sheriffs off ice reported today. ' " Richard Victor Mealey, the owner, who, lives at 914 Mur ray st., ' Medford, said he didn't know what else might have been taken. Thieves broke in through the back door, deputies said. &un7'ana 10"-f amilies total ing 22 persons were evacuated from homes near Snohomish this' morning: Snohomish Sheriff Bob Twitchell said 500 to 600 cat tle were stranded "up to their bellies in, water" near the town. . ; '. The floods and slides were brought on by heavy rains of the past few days followed by a, warm spell which caused snows to melt. , During the night about 90 persons were stranded for six hours in the Milwaukee Road's east bound Olympia Hiawatha passenger train, stopped by a rock slide east of Snoqualmie Pass summit. The passengers were taken by bus to Ellensburg. The surg ing Snoqualmie river flooded an 18-mile stretch of the four lane U.S. Highway -10 on the western, side of the pass, bringing a complete halt to motor traffic. .- ,-, A huge earth and rock slide west of Stevens Pass summit covered a 100-foot stretch of U.S. 2. , Recommendation To Assembly Gets 15 to 3 Approval Soviet Troops Said Still in Hungary United Nations, N.Y.-OJPD-The United Nations Steering Committee voted 15-3' todav to recommend a new airine in the General Assembly of the 1956 Hungarian ftwHnm revolt and its brutal suppres sion Dy the soviet Union. The Soviet Union, Czech slovakia and Romania vntori against including the item on tne agenda. Morocco and In donesia abstained Ppm whose representative is As sembly President Victor An dres Belaundel did not vnto End Not in Sight The U.S. told the 21-hation Committee that "annarpntlv the end of the reicn of trrnr is not in sight" in Hungary. The Steering Committee, with the Soviet Union and its satellites refusing to partici pate, voted 15-0 with two ab sentions to send the Hungar ian Question to the assemhlv for debate. The assembly lat er must approve its Steering Committee's r e c o m menria. tions; Troops Said in Hungary ' ' U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge cited statements by Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, the assembly's spe cial - representative on the Hungarian issue, that foreign armed forces-Soviet troops remained in Hunearv and that trials and executions of Hungarian freedom fighters had taken 'olace since last year's general assemblv. At that time, the Communist au thorities gave assurances that these things had been ended. Janos Peter, deputy foreign minister of the Communist Hungarian regime, said it was his duty to reject any attempt "of using the Hungarian peo ple for cold war purposes" or allowing the U.N. "to be used as an instrument of re actionary forces." ' No Action Taken in ftrilre hv f niinril The Jackson County Labor Council has taken no action so far in the strike against the Portland Oregonian and Jour nal, union officials here re ported today. . 1 They said the council has received a letter from the Ore gon council listing the two newspapers on their "do not patronize" list. It was explain ed that the local labor council i has not met since the letter was received. The next meet ing is scheduled Dec. 2. Action by' county labor councils against the two news papers has been reported in other parts of the state. The action means that most union members will stop subscrip tions to the newspapers and place no advertising in them. Portland (UPD Herbert M. Schwab, former school board member here, will take office as a Circuit Court judge dur ing special ceremonies Wednesday. "Well, That's A Switch!" iw, rtM Mm Pub him Ce . Laolt Pmt-DisMMi tores Willi lie peini lUM 9 'Cbdk Toinioglhift
