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.
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OR LEASE
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Will Consider Reasonable Offer.
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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. Gladden. "I
think our program here is on
a par with some of the better
educational programs in
other institutions," Gladden
said. "Ours is a realistic pro
gram. No one remains ia
school unless he puts forth
an honest effort. No one with
an appetite to learn goes
hungry."
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