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Maid of Cotton Beauty Dazzles Big City With Abilities By 'DOC QUIGG New York -UPD- Something different in beauty queens has invaded our town. This is a girl who has all the standard qualifications, plus a talent that some women might re gard as having perished with the damsels of the middle ages. She sews. Not only does she sew beau- Parents Get Low Report Cards From Teachers Washington The nation's teachers gave the nation's parents a report card on schools this week and some of the scores were low indeed. The message to parents is in the form of a 16 - page pamphlet called "Will Your Child Get a Quality Educa tion?", and is published by the National Education associ ation, representing some 700, 000 teachers. Among the find ings: Of every 10 pupils in the fifth grade, only 6 will finish high school; of every three who enter high school, one will leave without a diploma. Among the top quarter of the ablest high school grad uates, 3 boys in 10 and 4 girls in 10 do not enter college. The chances are 1 to 14 that this year the child's elemen tary school teacher will not be a college graduate; 9 in 10 that at some time during a child's years in elaMRtsry chool one of his teachers will not be a college graduate. Library Shortage Only one elementary school in five now has a library. Nearly a fifth of the high schools offer neither physics nor chemistry; nearly a fifth do not offer plane geometry; only half the urban school systems offered either enrich ment or remedial programs last summer. Many schools pose definite safety hazards. (In 1957 there were 4,300 school and college fires). Teachers Needed Teacher salaries, averaging $5025 this year, are fixed as though teachers were in over supply; actually there is a current shortage of at least 133,000 qualified teachers. The booklet is being sent to every member of the National Education association with the January issue of the NEA Journal.. Man Being Held for Walla Walla Police Frank D. Clinton was order ed held in district court on a fugitive complaint from Wal la Walla, Wash. Clinton was also sentenced to one year in the county jail on charges of issuing a bad check in a Medf ord store. He had pleaded guilty to the charges previously. LEGAL NOTICES No. 1037T NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK SON COUNTY In the Matter of the Estate of. PORTER J. NEFF. Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned. Lawrence L. Clark, Trust Officer for The First National Bank of Oregon, Port land, Executor of the estate of Por ter J. Neff, deceased, will sell at rrivate sale on or after January 4, 1960, at the Medford Branch of The First National Bank of Ore gon, 1 East Main Street, Medford, Oregon, for cash or upon such terms as may be agreed upon, the following described real property situated in Medford, Jackson Coun ty. Oregon, to-wit: Commencing at a point from which the Northwest corner of Donation Land Claim No. 52, Township 37 South, Range 1 West. Willamette Meridian. Jack son County, Oregon, bears South 89' 50' West, 1089 feet and South. 416.8 feet: thence South, 210 feet; thence West 208.4 feet; " thence North. 210 feet; thence East. 208.4 feet to the point of beginning, together with all of the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining. . Said sale will be for cash or upon such terms as may be approved, subject to the confirmation of this Court. DATED this 16th day of Decem ber. 1959. LAWRENCE L. CLARK. Trust Officer for the First National Bank of Oregon, Executor of the above state. Harbison and Piazza U. S. National Bank Bldg. Medford, Oregon NO. 10685 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF JACKSON Probate Department In the Matter of the Estate of LILY EDWARDS, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned, by an order of the above Court duly made and entered on December 23. 1959, was appoint ed Executrix of the above-named estate, and that I have duly quali fied as such Executrix. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the ' same, with the proper vouchers, to me at the office of my attorneys. Van Dyke. Dellenback & McGood win, 110 East Sixth Street, Medford, Oregon, within six months from the date of first publication of this notice. Dated and first published De cember 30. 1959. Doris Elizabeth Crofoot Van Dyke. Dellenback & McGoodwin Attorneys for Executrix tifully she has designed her own clothes since she was 13. She is Sandra Lee Jennings, 19, a California lass who was a Miss America finalist in 1958. She has just been named the 1960 "Maid of Cot ton." Daughter of Major In case you're in doubt, California, in addition to be ing the home of glamour, sun light, grapes, beat poetry, and other wonders, is also a big cotton producer. Miss Jen nings, a native of St. Charles, Mo., is the daughter of an Air Force major. She now lives in Riverside, Calif., and attends the Uni versity of California branch there, but as she says: "I've lived in 14 states, six of them cotton-producing." Her job for the next four months will be traveling around internation ally promoting the cause of 10,000,000 persons who toil in the cotton industry. The idea is to sell cotton. She won her title last week over 20 other finalists in the 22nd annual Maid of Cotton contest and came to New York over the week end for three weeks of seeing the sights and snuggling into a 44-piece cotr ton wardrobe which she will display in 40 cities. Green-eyed, golden-haired, five-feet-six, 121 pounds, a swimming champion with 75 awards in competition, she glows good health. As a seam stress she is self-taught and has twice won the Singer sew ing contest. Experts who have seen her gowns say they're stunning. Started With Doll "When I was 13," she said in an interview, " my mother said to me, 'Sandy, if you want pretty clothes I'll give you all the material, provided you make them.' I started by making clothes for a little doll I had, then progressed to my self. "I began on an old treadle sewing machine that had be longed to my grandmother. At first I got patterns, but I didn't know how to use them. After about five years, I was making so many clothes that my mother had to give up on supplying the material." Didn't her mother give her a few pointers when she start ed? "Mother can't sew a" stitch," she said. A QUEEN AND BLOSSOMS-This year's Maid of Cotton, Sandra Lee Jennings, of Riverside, Calif., caresses her cheek with cotton blossoms during a press conference in New York. -(UPI Telephoto) Head-Shaving Incident Expected To Trouble Army Seoul, Korea - (UPD - South , shaved the heads of unfaith- Korea said this week the ac tion of two American soldiers in shaving the heads of two Korean women was a "disas trous incident" but the U.S. Army replied the victims were licensed prostitutes who en tered an Army camp illegally. The incident was expected to bring repercussions ap proaching that of the 1958 case of the crated boy when two American officers and an enlisted man shaved and tar red an 18-year-old boy thief, nailed him into a box and transported him 25 miles away by helicopter. Degrading Act South Koreans were par ticularly incensed because shaving a woman's head is re garded as most degrading, in a land where long hair is treas ured, an act almost as serious as rape. Ancient Koreans ful wives but even that prac tice has almost died out. An Army statement issued at U.S. 7th Division headquar ters said the two women vic tims entered a 7th Division tank unit Saturday afternoon, awakened two sleeping sol diers of Company C and so licited their patronage. Ordered by Commander Two days before the inci dent the company command er, where the incident took place, had ordered that any prostitute caught in the area should have her hair cut off, the Army said. Frontline units in Korea for years have been troubled by prostitutes infil trating the area. The company commander who learned of the shaving later was Capt. John W. Mc Henry, 34, of Cheyenne, Wyo. The men who did the shaving Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1960 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. 3 Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Mr. McDougal Doesn't Know He's a Duck; Thinks He's a Person Mr. McDougal, Gayle Barne's pet muscovy duck, discovered and applies the fundamental law of the im movable force and the irresis tible object, for always he comes out of his pen half fly ing and half running, and smacks head on into the near est wall. The wall never moves but Mr. McDougal crashes to a feather - jarring stop. Gayle has owned Mr. Mc Dougal since last Easter, when he tipped the scales at nine ounces, and was about the size and shape of an orange that had been stepped on and squeezed out of round. Mc Dougal doesn't know what another duck looks like. As far as he knows, there's not another duck in the entire world. He doesn't even think or act like a duck. His only association has been with peo ple. Now he thinks he is a person. Just Wades The nearest he has ever come to swimming is wading in a puddle after a rain. The only use he has ever found for his webbed feet is to track mud into the house after a rain. He has acquired some peculiar habits. He hates peo ple who are wearing shoes. The scuffing sound seems to set his nerves on edge. A bare footed person, especially Gayle, is greeted with a hiss ing acclaim. He also can pro ject his imagination to un believable lengths. For one thing he likes cooked spa ghetti. He kids himself into thinking he is eating yards and yards of worms, worms with a delicious tomato fla vor. . And just to be different in all ways, he is left-footed. He insists on shaking "feet" with his left foot. When he offers his flat, webbed foot to be were 1st Sgt. Ora Curnutte, 30, Chillicothe, Ohio, and Sgt. Harry K. Sanders, 37, Kan sas City, Mo. The women were Ae Soon Kim, 30, and Jong Jon Kim, 22, who were turned over to Korean police. shook, he folds up the webs like a fan. Best Watch-Duck He sleeps in a small pen in the yard of the Barnes home. And he is the best watch-dog, or watch-duck that can be im agined. Being an exceedingly light sleeper, he hears every noise, and responds violently. Like all the muscovy ducks he is short of "quacks" but he can hiss, a sound so loud and shrill that he sounds like .a whistling tea-kettle under a full head of steam. When Gayle returns from school Mr. McDougal becomes so excited he pants like a laboring locomotive going up a steep grade and wags his tail so forcefully that he shakes himself right off his feet. Actually, he's had it pretty good. Just what the final pages of Mr. McDougal's life history will read, is anybody's guess. "What will be, will be," but Gayle refuses to part with her feathered pet. Her par ents, however, are beginning to think the duck has just about waddled himself past the time when he was an in teresting pet, into the area of being totally dispensable. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1959) State Offers Individual desk telephones in the offices of three large companies can now be reached from the outside by direct dialing. . By DOUGLAS GRIPP Salem (LTD One of Ore gon's most unusual schools is in operation here. The top half of the classrooms walls are windowed. English and mathematics are the stu dents' favorite subjects. And chemistry will never be taught. This is the Oregon state penitentiary school on the third floor of the interme diate prison building here. Except for the "open" ef fect which the windows pro vide, the prison school looks like any other. The 18 class rooms have standard equip ment and are a pale green. "The windows are a simple precautionary measure," says W. F. Kennedy, "principal," whose official title is prison director of education. Knowing that the principal can look into the room at any time without opening the door impresses the fact on the student that he is there Penitentiary School Variety of Subjects Sister's 'Help' Cost Brother Fine Elizabethtown, Pa.-A sister speaking out of turn got her brother a $1,000 fine besides an 8-month sentence on the state penal farm. The brother was charged with driving a car after his license had been revoked. The offense carries a jail sen tence, a fine, or both. After the judge imposed the jail sentence, the sister spoke up from the rear of the court room with "go ahead and give him the $1,000 fine." The judge obliged. A new textile loom has no shuttle. FOR SALE OR LEASE in Grants Pass Choice DOWNTOWN Corner Business Location 100'x75' Lot; Concrete Block Building; Laminated Arch Structure-38'x70' with 12' Wall Will Consider Reasonable Offer. GReenwood 9-2116 to study - and just that. "We can teach almost any thing here, except chemis try," Kennedy said. "The rea son is obvious. You can't teach chemistry without use of acids. Acids are out here." For the most part, the pro gram is voluntary and the students go at it with zeal. The majority of the 211 in mates enrolled crack the books of their own accord. The compulsory part comes in when a prisoner can't pass a fifth-grade level general test. This test is given upon entry to the institution and if you flunk, then schooling begins on that basis. "From then on, it's up to the inmate," according to Kennedy. In addition to the 211 prisoners enrolled in the classes, 379 are taking corre spondence courses and work them in their cells. Of these, 146 are college-level. Classes first started in the prison in 1951, in cellblocks. The present school was built and the expanded program launched in 1953. Since then, 204 high school and 162 grade school diplomas have been awarded. One inmate earned up by 64 college credits. Kennedy, wno came here in 1956 after teaching in high schools in Gold Hill and Cen tral Point, offers 30 prep sub jects including Spanish and French and excluding physics and the aforementioned chemistry. Good I.Q. Ratings Along with math and eng lish, mechanical drawing also is very popular. Kennedy estimates that 44.1 per cent of the prison population of 1,325 was en gaged as of the start of De cember in some form of edu cational program. This in cludes the big vocational program. At the last count there were 109 illiterate prisoners. Tests show that currently about 43 per cent of total inmates, in and out of school, have aver age I.Q.'s, 45 per cent are be low average and 12 per cent above average, ranging as high as 137. Ninety to 109 is considered average. Grades at National Norm The average grade level of the inmates is 7.5, the nation al norm for both adults and children. Education is a vital part of prison life and the program has strong backing from War den Clarence T. 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