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Iditdo cu Joyirmi TDtnme e7 U .Cnovra To 6ra si Craft Smashes Into Mountain During Snowstorm Helicopter Takes Doctor To Scene - Williamsburg, PaCPD - A Phildelphia to Cleveland Al leghney Airlines plane carry ing 25 persons crashed into a mountain today while pre paring to land in a driving snowstorm. Airline officials said in Washington at least three per sons, two in critial condition, survived the crash. An official of Williamsport hospital said he understood there were four survivors. T A helicopter, first to reach the crash scene in a densely wooded area halfway up the 2,500-foot mountain, brought out one survivor and returned to the scene with a physician. The twin-engine Martin 202 had made an initial approach to the Williainsport-Montours-ville airport in the storm but was waved off and told to circle the field for another landing attmept. The control tower reported the plane should have circled to the north but the craft was not visible in the snow. The crash occurred on the mountain south of the airport. The helicopter pilot report ed the survivor he picked up hand been thrown- clear of the wreckage and into a tree, Doctors Taken lo Seen The helicopter,' from the Olmstead Air Force Base at Middletown, Pa., was the only vehicle to reach the spot. It took doctors from Williams- port to the scene. An emerg ency call for -all available doctors and nurses was broad cast. The only road near the spot where the plane went down was blocked by the snow. David L. Miller, vice presi dent pi Allegheny, said m Washington that a weather observer at the airport saw the plane pull up as it approached the runway. "That's all we know," he said. Allegheny had not had a fatal crash in the 22 years it has been operating. It serves more than 25 cities between New York and Detroit, main ly in Pennsylvania. Patrolman Almost Becomes Referee A city police officer almost became a referee recently when he was called to a home on report of a disturbance. On arriving at the home the offi cer was informed by the hus band and wife they had . been painting the house and drink ing all day, and were starting to argue. The wife told the officer she was afraid she would start . throwing things at her hus band so she called the police to keep her in check. The hus band told the officer he want ed him to stand by so that the dispute didn't get out of hand. He added he was afraid he might hit his wife. The officer informed the couple, that if they cared for each other so. much that they had to call in an officer to keep the peace, they ought to be able to settle their disputes peacefully. The" couple sat down to watch television and the offi cer left to resume his duties. The FOOD and the FORR MUMMiiiinr i iiintMiirv '-umiii i Ml' rf tnmomir -rr-1 The mystery of the "TODD" apparently has been solved. The FODD. it will be re called from the Mail Trib une's Polluck column, was a piokup truck in the used - car lot across the street from the Mail Tribune which bore those four let ters across the front. After some weeks, an "R" was substituted for the first "D." But in Benton, Arkansas, W.P. McGuiie recently pur of Differences Are Reviewed In Schools Editor's note: This is another in a series of ar ticles prepared by Med ford's school superinten dent following his recent Ihrea-week trip io Russia. The series deals with Rus sia's "Seven Year Plan." and is based on Soviet books, magazine articles, and personal interviews with the ministers of edu cation of Jhe Russian and Ukranian republics, the deputy mayor of Moscow and the major of Tbilisi.) By DR. LEONARD MAYFIELD Medford School Superintendent Written and oral examina tions are given to all students completing the fifth, seventh and tenth grades to determine their achievement and decide on their promotion. These exams are prepared by the Ministry of Education and ad ministered by a committee of teachers. The written tests are given only in Russian literature and language and in the language of the Republic where the exam is given. The oral tests are in general nature. Ques tions are written on tickets for oral reporting and each child selects at random the questions he must answer. Due to adding one year to the school program after 1963 these tests will be given in the 8th and 11th grades. Each teacher gives tests as she sees fit to determine the quality of work of her pupils. Daily and weekly grades are given by the teacher on the basis of a child's recitation. These grades are recorded in the child's diary. ; All students are given regu lar physical examinations and special physical checks are made if the teacher or director requests it. When a child has a physical ailment affecting his class work the teacner, Drincipal and doctor work out a program for the child wnicn is Presented to tne pareni The parent is held responsible for carrying it out. Guidance, Counseling There is no evidence of a guidance and counseling pro gram in the Soviet schools as we think of such a program No doubt some guidance is done incidentally by teachers and parents. The teachers in the schools and the instructors in the Pioneer Palaces work tntrether in developing fur ther interests in specific areas; thereby guiding and di recting the interest of stu dents to further opportunities in each field. Every child has a diary where teachers put marks and comments regarding the child's progress. Homework assignments also are written in the diary. Parents look through the diary each week and sign it. Grades are re corded at 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 with 2 being very poor and a 1 a failure. Each teacher marks the individual child's diary immediately following the child's recitation and usually tells the class what grade the child made. Once a month there is an opportunity for chased a pickup of the same make. It was labeled "FORR." The Benton Courier print ed a picture of the FORR. as the Mail Tribune printed a picture of the FODD. Mc Guire said his auto dealer offered io change the letter ing on his truck, but he's, driven it some 2,000 miles and he's not about to change. Speculation has it that the FODD and the FORR were side by side on the as sembly line. Survive parents to meet with teachers and discuss their child's prog ress. Promotion, Retention There seems to be a very small percentage of failures among students: One school reported about 4 per cent re tention; other teachers and directors said there was prac tically no one retained. The opinion of teachers and the grades in the diary are used to determine promotions ex cept in the seventh and tenth grades where a written and oral examination is prepared by the Ministry of Education. Pupils who fail these exams are given a chance to go on with their class by studying through the summer and pass ing the exam when they take it again in the fall. The extent that grades count depends up on the subjective judgment of teachers. Teachers graded the pupils recitation and homework in front of the class and made either . favorable or unfavor able comments to the class and to the visitors about the individual pupil's work. In this way group pressure was brought upon the child to do : good work. Except in the case of two or three children there was no apparent evidence that this disturbed any child. Size of Classes It is the aim of the Soviet schools to have 30 to 35 pupils in each of the primary and elementary classes and 25 to 30 in each class in the secon dary schools. Several classes were visited in the secondary schools that had less Jiian the suggested number above al though a few classes had 35 to 40 students. One school located on a collective farm had classes of 10 to 15 stu dents. - There is no attempt to iden tify slow-learning children be fore they enter the public school. Identification is then done by the teachers and the pupils. Pupils who are identi fied are referred to a medical commission in the pedagogical institute. If this commission decides a child is defective he is sent to a special school. Most schools for special chil dren are boarding schools, When the child enters the special school he is classified as being a light or deep re tarded case. Children are then treated according to their needs. In general, all cases are classified, diagnosed and treated according to need. One director of a college indicated there was much to be learned about the cause and treatment of slow learners. Other Handicaps Other handicapping condi tions of children wnicn are recognized and treated in the Soviet schools includes blind ness, deafness, cerebral palsy and crippling diseases. Each case is diagnosed and treated according to need, usually at a special school. Home work is considered one of the difficult problems in the Soviet schools. Doctors are urging that the amount of home work be reduced De cause of the emotional strain on the children'. At present home work assignments are given every day of the week except week ends and holi days. The length of the as signments range from 1 to IV2 hours per night in the ele mentary schools, IV2 to 2 hours for the junior high age group, and 2 to 4 hours per night in the high schools. Ail assignments must be done out of school since no study time is provided in school.. In every school system that we visited, tne cureciui re ported that they did not use ability grouping of children. However, it was observed that certain children have been grouped for foreign language, music, art and polytechnical classes due to their demon strated ability and interest. One college director statea While, present evidence was against grouping, more study is needed. We may change our minds later." , SECREATRY QUITS - Neil H. McElroy, above, today sub mitted his resignation as De fense Secretary to President. The resignation was to take effect today. "Personal rea sons of an urgent nature" ne cessitated the move, McElroy said in a tetter to the Presi dent. McElroy was presented the Medal of Freedom in rec ognition of his outstanding service to his country" at a meeting of the National Se curity Council this morning. Varsity Theater In Ashland Under New Management Ashland - Two brothers, both veterans in the theater management field, will con trol Ashland's Varsity thea ter 'under a lease from the Oregon California Theater chain. The lease, effective today, turns the theater over to Rus sell Osborn and Roy Carier. Length of the lease, Osborn said Monday, is still "unde termined." Projection and sound equipment will be improved soon, Asborn continued, and a general cleanup and paint ing program will be conduct ed "as we go along." Immediate Changes . The immediate changes planned by Osburn and Car ier are in the scheduling de partment. The schedule has fluctuate d greatly in the past, Osborn said, but ' now the theater will have definite box office and curtain times. The theater will be open seven days a week, with the box office opening at 6:45 and the movie starting at 7 p.m. each day but Wednesday. Curtain time Wednesday will be 8:30. On Sunday, tickets will be sold beginning at 1:15 and shows will run continuously from 1:30. There also will be a child ren's matinee at 10:30 a.m. as well as a regular matinee at 2 p.m. each Saturday. The two brothers managed theaters in Los Angeles dur ing the past year. Previously, .Osborn managed the Varsity and Carier managed the Val ley drive-in on North Pacific highway. Eugene Water Board Approves Project Eugene (UPD The Eugene Water and Electric Board gave the green light Monday to uts proposed $26 million Carman-Smith power project on the Upper McKenzie river. Astoria-(UPD-Astoria Trans it company has announced plans to go out of business because of lack of patronage. 'Now Don't Regiona 16 Pages Russia Gives Full Backing To Hungary Regime Protests Against -West Allies Renewed , Vienna, Austria -UPD- Sov iet Premier Nikita Khrush chev gave Russia's full moral backing today to the puppet Communist regime in Hun gary and renewed his protests against continued Allied occu pation of West Germany. Khrushchev, addressing a wlidly cheering Communist Party congress in Budapest, alternated between assuranc es that Russia wanted an early summit conference "at any time and place" and new ac cusations of West German in terference in Berlin. Though calling for peace he said "the Soviet Union has stockpiled such a quantity of rockets and atomic and hydro gen warheads that if attacked we shall be able to raze to the ground all our potential en emies." Hard Bargaining Ahead Khrushchev also showed that hard bargaining lay ahead at any summit confer ence when he emphasized "we shall never forego our ideolog ical principles. We are waging and shall wage an implacable struggle for the Marxist-Leninist ideology, for the triumph of the ideals of Communism." He blamed the 1956 Hun garian anit-Communist revolt on mistakes in the Commun ist party leadership brought on by his own denouncement of the Stalinist "cult of per sonality" but said "it had to be done it was necessary to get cleansed and to throw off all the accumulated extraneous matter." The throwing out of Stalin ism led to a stronger party even though it brought diffi culties to Hungary where the "class struggle" took the form of an armed clash. But the party won, he said, and imper ialist hopes for the collapse of Communism in Hungary have failed. Ashland Company Explained at Luncheon Ashland - The Ashland Chamber of Commerce today awarded a six-month compli mentary membership to Cas cade Medical and Dental Products, AshJand. John von Kuhlmann and George Ward,' representatives of the firm, outlined the or ganization's operations and plans at the chamber's noon luncheon meeting. - HELP FIGHT TB CHRISTMAS SEALS Gulp It" CfliW mi. rut Pomwr hMMi Ca Mi I I Edition . -K f ATT MEDFORD, OREGON, ARMY RECRUITS Lt. Col. Robert Thom as reads the oath to four new army recruits as Los Angeles. The unusual thing about this is that Nancy, 18, and Robert Hazard, 19, both left, are brother and sister. The Assessors Start Two-Day Meeting In City Today The annual meeting of Western Oregon Assessors' as sociation got under way here this morning with a welcom ing address by Earl Miller, Jackson county judge. Few citizens of any county are aware of the problems and complications faced by the county assessor, Judge Miller told the 17 representa tive of various assessors' of fices and " members of the state tax commission present. In Jackson county the county judge and assessor are not too popular right now when the tax statements have gone out," Miller noted. "We have something to do with the taxes and that they are too high they think." The inflated dollar, chang ing valuations of property, and school district, consolida tions are fa few of the many factors faced by the assessor's office, the county judge point ed out. Public Relations "It . is important that the assessor adopt a public rela tions program and a know ledge of the general tax pic ture be conveyed to the vot ers," Miller urged. "It is im portant, also, that they be re minded they are being asses sed for taxes they voted on." The county judge compli ment Ray Schumacher, Jack son county assessor, and presi dent of the Western Oregon Assessors' association, on the small explanatory tax booklet mailed out each year with tax statements. Clarence Barton, state rep resentative and chairman of the leigslative interim tax committee was scheduled to speak at a luncheon at the Medford hotel today. A hearing on livestock val ues was scheduled this after noon in the court house audi torium and Charles Mack, state tax commissioner was to report on log values. At a dinner tonight in the Medford hotel, Mack will speak on the Oregon tax pic ture. ' Salem Youth Given Prison Sentence Salem (UPD A 22-year-old youth Monday was given a two-year sentence in the state prison after pleading guilty to a negligent homicide charge, Sentenced was Ronald How ard Moen. He was charged in connection with the July, 1958 traffic death of Doris Fenton, Silverton. WEATHER FORECAST: Thickening high clouds tonight and Wednesday. Valley fog Wednesday morn ing. Low tonight 32. High Wednesday SO. Temp. Highest Yesterday 55 Lowest this Morning 29 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:40 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:21 a.m. The Moon sets S:3S p.m. tonight and rides low. First Quarter Dec. 6 Saturn, seen to the left of the Moon toninght, sets earlier each evening and will soon disap pear. It will be seen again in January, rising just before the Sun. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1959 Extra Sales Clerks Hired for Season Several hundred extra sales clerks and other store workers have been hired by Medford merchants, in prep aration for the Christmas sea son. According to a Mail Trib une poll this week, a larger seasonal staff has joined the retail working force this year than in previous years. Many stores report the same num- Park Operators To Get Hearing The operators of Siskiyou Memorial park will be grant ed a public hearing on their request for a zoning variance, to permit them to operate a mortuary at the cemetery on Siskiyou blvd. The hearing was granted by me ivieaiora planning com mission at a special meeting last night. Hearings on the will begin at the commission's next variance planning meeting business Dec. 10. No other was conducted at last night's meeting. At its last regular meeting XT -a rt j 1 .. ix ov. iz, me commission re jected the park's contention that a mortuary was incident al and necessary to the con duct of a cemetery business. Siskiyou Memorial park has had a long-standing zoning variance to operate the ceme tery, but the ordinance creat ing the original variance said all future construction must be "necessary and incidental" to the operation of a ceme tery. When the commission re jected the mortuary two weeks ago, it also rejected the contention of the park that a building permit issued to them by the city building department for a chapel was supposed to cover the mor tuary . Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hosick and Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Miles, operators of the park, had said that a chapel was a mor tuary in that instance, and therefore the permit of the city for a chapel was valid for their mortuary. Travel Trailer Production Starts Here; First Models Off Line Soon The firm of Harry and David Holmes announced to day that it has begun produc ing travel trailers, the first models of which are schedul ed to roll off assembly lines in Medford shortly after the first of the year. i President David H. Holmes described the venture as the firm's "most marked depar ture" from its general busi ness. "We feel there is an excel lent opportunity," Holmes said, "to provide ourselves and ' the Rogue river valley with further diversification by the local manufacturing and sale of travel trailers over the 11 western states." Production Starts Production of p r o t o types started this week in the firm's 10th and First sU plant in Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 212 other couple, Barry Kribs, 17, of Van Nuys, Calif., and Jackie Allbrook, 18, are engaged, having met at a hamburger stand where Jackie was a car hop. (UPI Telephoto) ber, but stress that other per sonnel may be hired the week or two bfore Christmas, as need arises. Although the stores report ed that the majority of their current hiring is from a group of former holiday season em ployees, they do hire new per sons each year. Personnel managers re ported no problem in locating parttime and fulltime season al workers, and many said they have a waiting list. Several stores mentioned that the seasonal staff was equal to previous years, but that they had added several permanent employees in re recent months. A trend noticed in previous years seems to have been re versed this year, with the ma jority of the merchants re porting they hire seasonal workers in the over-50-years age group. One store stressed that they prefer older work ers to high school girls, as more dependable. Others said they trai nseasonal help and encourage them to return year after year. Many part time workers, it was ex plained, are high school stu dents who work . during the evenings. Many of the stores who re ported that all of their extra employees had been hired, added that one or two more may be needed for gift wrap ping "at the last minute." Some Medford stare man agers commented on the in crease in b u y i ng since Thanksgiving, saying that Christmas shopping was not started as early this year as last, while others mentioned that sales had been up for the late several months. Mdford merchant needs for additional Christmas person nel range from a high of more than 50 at one store to one at a smaller shop. youth Arrested for Bomb Threat by Phone Milton-Freewater-flJPD-A 17- year-old Milton- Freewater youth was arrested early to day after a telephoned bomb threat was made to School Superintendent Ward Ham mersley here. Medford, he said. Prototypes will include models of three different lengths - 17, 19 and 24 feet. Two different floor plans, he added, will be available for each model. The trailers, which will carry the brand name of "Hol iday House," will make their formal debut at the Trailer Coach association's annual show in Los Angeles late in January. Named general manager of the organization's new trailer division, Holmes continued, is Herman Kambeitz, former general manager of the Ar rowhead Trailer company. Kambeitz has been in the trailer manufacturing field for nearly 20 years. Holmes listed several rea sons for his firm's entry into Rugged Schedule Faces President In Each Country Cables Received From Foreign Lands Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower's forthcoming 11 nation good-will tour shaped up today as the most ambi tious and arduous undertaking since recovering from his 1956 heart attack. With the receipt of last minute cables from foreign governments, the White House was making public one at a time, the retailed country-by-country schedule of his 22,-370-mile trip which beeins Thursday night. Expenditure of Energy And with each schedule, the three-continent journev un folded as a story of almost unbelievable expenditure of energy on the President's part; unbelievable in the sense that most men 69 years old and with a background of three major illnesses in the last four years would not dream of racing across the world in the Eisenhower manner. Not only will Eisenhower follow a rugged schedule in each country on his itinerary. He will start his trip with a major speech to the Ameri can people Thursday night just before takeoff, and speak to them again shortly after his return Dec. 22. On Basic Message Why this back-breaking ac ticity? Associates of the Presi dent said he's tired of hearing that the . Communists are ahead not only in the race into space, but in the battle for men's minds. He thinks the time is overdue for visiting a number of countries where no American president has ever ventured. He will speed by jet half way around the world with one basic message: If the free nations want to stay free, they'd better stick together. While he's away, he wants the American people to under stand that they have a stake in world peace, too. Hence his pre-departure press confer ence Wednesday and the speech Thursday .' night just before takeoff when he will discuss not only his journey but the steel dispuate at home. Violence Not Answer, DA Says District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said today he warned a woman whom Mrs. Ann Todd, Eagle Point, accused of slapping her that "violence is not the answer." "I told the woman and her husband that this office would not tolerate another such inci dent as occurred in the Eagle Point Irrigation district office two weeks ago," Reeder said. Reeder said Mrs. Todd would not sign a complaint against the woman since she said she "didn't want to cause trouble." Mrs. Todd said yesterday that she and her husband had been friendly with the wom an's family before the inci dent. She said also that the slap was hard enough to make her dizzy. Mrs. Todd said that she picked up a chair to de fend herself, then was firmly ushered out of the irrigation district office by the woman. Earlier reports from Eagle Point stated that Mrs. Todd had been slapped lightly on the cheek by the woman as Mrs. Todd stood in the dis trict's office and demanded service and made other re marks. the new field. "The industry is a young, dynamic one," he said, "with a great potential for high quality trailers of advanced design." He added that "many of the materials going into their con struction are produced in the Medford area, while other ma terials c-an be made available here competitively with other areas." "Another and very impor tant factor," Holmes said, "is that the peak of production of travel trailers takes place during the first half of the year, which comple m e n t s (our) primary business. "This will permit the trans ier of personnel from one operation to another to main tain a high level of employ ment and efficiency."
