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District 6C Building Plan Told; Studied by Board for 60 Days Central Point-The nistrir 6C school board this week called an election Thursday, Feb. 4, on a $295,000 bond is sue to finance a building pro gram planned to meet rec ommendations and standards for elementary schools set up by the state department of education. The proposal follows a 60 day study of district building needs completed recently by the board. In its study, the board had the assistance of the archi tectual firm of James Payne of Salem, and his local rep resentative, Wayne Struble. Several building sketches and proposals of district needs were considered before the board decided to initiate a building program to ade quately meet the educational needs of the pupils in the district. The long-range plan for the H. P. J e w e 1 1 elementary school is for an eventual unit housing grades one through six. Present Proposal The present proposal, how ever, to immediately allevi ate over-crowded conditions at the Central Point Ele mentary and Junior High school site is to leave Jewett as a primary unit, that is to house grades one through three. Eight additional classrooms will be required at Jewett school. They will include six rooms to house approximate ly 180 third graders. A seventh room will enable the 525 to 550 youngsters, who will be attending next year, to have a full size cen tral library available for their use at all times. The present room, which is now shared as a library and an audo-visual unit, will be set up as a full time audio-visual room, school board members said. Establishment of the two units will meet recommenda tions of the state department of education. Special Education Another recommendation of the state department will have been met, board mem bers said, when the eighth room is organized as a spe cial education or remedial classroom. The special educa tion program will be avail able to pupils within the dis trict who require an individ ualized type of instruction. In conjunction with the eight classrooms, there will be two rest room areas, a storage room and 2,500 square feet of covered walkway. The latter will be used as a phy sical education area and play space for students when they need protection from inclem ent weather, board members noted. Board members pointed out that by teaching the third grade at Jewett school dur ing the 1960-61 year, it will alleviate extremely crowded conditions at the Central Point elementary and Junior High site, which is presently accomodating some 950 pu pils. School Population The school population at Central Point Junior High and Elementary school is again about equal to the pu pil population at the time Jewett school was construct ed. This, board members said, reflects a continuous rapid pupil population growth in the area. , . By moving the third grade to Jewett, the district will be able to improve the per pupil space allotment both in the classrooms and on the playground. Present state ed ucation standards for elemen tary school playgrounds are a five-acre site with an addi tional acre for each 100 pu pils. Building plans at the Cen tral Point Junior High and Elementary school site in clude the conversion of the present library room to a cafeteria. This, board mem bers noted, will correct the present lunchroom situation. 500 Pupils Daily At the present, about 500 pupils are daily rushed through a cafeteria built to accommodate 90 to 100 pupils. The main floor of the pres ent library building will be come a dining area to accom odate 200 students at one sit ting. The present stage area will be converted into a kitchen adequate to care for the large number of pupils participating in the school lunch program, members said. To continue an adequate library program, a new li brary 32 by 45 feet will be built adjacent to the present library room. The new build ing also will include , a work area, audio-visual room and have a covered walk way. The building will be so con structed and located that it will fit into any future plan ning the board may take into consideration for a new jun ior high school building. Plans for the Margaret E. Patrick school in Gold Hill includes four additional class rooms, three of which will house fourth and fifth grade pupils. The fourth room will be used as a central library. This will meet state depart ment recommendations, the board said. Additional Rest Rooms In conjunction with the classrooms are two additional rest rooms, a janitor's supply closet and a multi-purpose room, which will be complete A Famous Northwest Make Girls ... r o) It's the "great" once a sea son sale on this famous line of girls' sportswear . . . we cannot mention the name but you will know the mer chandise when you see it . . . hurry down for first and best suggestions ... Starts Tomorrow! J W TOO Coats Regular 25.95 Car Coats Regular 14.95 Sweaters Regular 6.98 Now Skirts Regular 8.98 Now Jamaicas Regular 5.98 Now Jamaicas Regular 3.98 Now Capri Pants Regular 7.98 Now Capri Pants Regular 4.98 . . . . Now Now 17.30 Now 9.97 4.66 5.98 3.98 2.66 5.32 3.32 with a stage and cafeteria kitchen. The multi-p u r p o s e room will eliminate the loss of time and expense that has occur red daily to transport Patrick children to Hanby school for a cafeteria lunch. It also will make unnecessary many ad ditional trips to Hanby school to participate in program practices, school assemblies and physical education classes requiring a gymnasium floor, the board noted. The multi-purpose room al so will be available to the community to support activ ities in that area, the board added. Transferring the fourth and fifth grades to Patrick school will give Hanby school a room to hold the extra eighth grade which will be neces sary in the 1960-61 school year, the board said. It also will enable Hanby to have a central library unit as recommended by the state department of education. The home making classes, except the cooking classes, will be able to use a . better lighted and larger classroom. Home making classes are now held in a small, inadequate base ment room, board members said. The proposed building pro gram is planned to meet rec ommendations and standards of the state department of education. Wilderness Bill Tops Agenda for Senate Committee Washington-(Science Serv- ice)-A revised and re-worked wilderness bill is at the top of the Senate Interior Com mittee's agenda this year. If the bill - S-1123 is its Congressional number suc cessfully passes the commit tee room hurdle as expected, it will be acted upon by the whole Senate, then by the House of Representatives. Early favorable consideration by the House Interior commit tee is also essential if the wilderness bill is to be enact ed at the 1960 session of Con gress. The bill, which has been opposed largely by lumber, mining, livestock and oil in dustries, and road and dam builders, has been worked on for more than two years now as supporters of the legisla tion have sought to answer all possible objections. Effec tively the wilderness bill is designed to give "legal" Con gressional recognition to the nation's irreplaceable wilder ness resources - land and wa terways now free of commer cial exploitation and in an "untouched" condition. Gives Public Voice It will thus give the public who owns these lands a voice in determining what happens to wilderness. It would be im possible, if the bill is passed, for a bureau chief or a cabi net officer to abolish or re duce a wilderness area by ex ecutive order. No new agency or council would be created. The bill would affect fed eral areas already in parks, forests or refuges valued as wilderness but lacking Con gressional sanction as wilder ness. Before the end of February is the expected date for Sen ate committee action. With a favorable report likely, pro ponents of the wilderness bill are optimistic about its be coming law this year. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. O Thursday, Jan. 14, 1960 v' Statewide Series Of Seminars on Pharmacy Slated Cprvallis-Plans for a state wide series of pharmacy sem inars designed to give Ore gon's 1,300 practicing phar macists current " information on new products and prac tices, have been announced by the Oregon State college school of pharmacy. Seminars will be held in 12 areas of the state, accord ing to Dr. Charles O. Wilson, new pharmacy school dean. Information meetings will be held at six of the locations each year, in addition to an annual seminar which will be rotated between Portland and Corvallis. The first seminar will be before the Marion-Polk Phar maceutical association in Sa lem next month. A second meeting has been planned for the Lane County Pharmaceuti cal association in Eugene and three additional seminars will be held in other areas before June, Dean Wilson said. To Direct Program Herman C. " Forslund, pro fessor of pharmacy, will di rect the program. All phar macy staff members will par ticipate in presenting the spe cial reports. "The need for a program of continued education in pharmacy is great," Dean Wil son noted. "Advancements in medicine have been tremen dous during the past decade and even greater progress is seen during the next few years. New products currently are being introduced at the rate of one a day." "The pharmacist must be an expert on these new and complex agents antibiotics, steriods, geriatric prepara tions, vaccines, anti-cancer drugs, etc. and serve as a cons ultant to physicians," Dean Wilson added. The seminars will serve to keep pharmacists abreast of new products and also pre sent new trends in business aspects of drug store manage m e n t, including new tech niques in inventory control and marketing, he explained. S" OPEtl MONDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINGS 'TIL 9 JAriUARY nrMJ jra JAMBOREE ttm -m -m i it e m. - -- . v i mm IS .Lwiuiwvi"1 rb-. 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The firm returned the $3 to Frantz and sent him a new pen to replace the one repair ed more than 37 years ago. Einstein Theory Confirmed by Year-Long Tests New York - (Science Serv ice) Year-long tests, believed the most precise yet made, have confirmed preliminary results by the same method that Einstein's special theory of relativity, is correct. The experiments showed no measurable variation in ' fre quency of radio waves radi ated by ammonia molecules as the earth moved around the sun during a year. Ein stein's special theory postu lated that the velocity of light, 186,000 miles a second, is independent of its frame of reference or of the motion of the light source itself. It also applies to radio waves, which travel at the speed of light. Experiment's Results Results of the experiments, conducted at , Columbia uni versity at the suggestion of Nobel Prize winner Dr. Charles H. Townes, ' are re ported in Nature, a British scientific publication. 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