MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dford, Or.
Thursday, April 7, If 10
They'll Do It Every Time -By Jimmy Hatlo
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Foreign Language Department
At Medford High Is Reviewed
Polaris Missile Developed
After Many Fears Hurdled
Smith. Assistant School Su-
I perintcndent Elliott Becken,
and several high school girls
who demonstrated the use of
tape recorders in the laboratory.
Need for Languages
Instructors discussed rea
sons why foreign languages
are taken, the need for them
in today's world, and some of
the differences in teaching
today compared to some years
ago when conversational lan
guage was minimumized.
Becken said the laboratory
is a relatively simple type
lab designed for a minimum
of trouble. It was constructed
at a comparatively low Invest
ment, he noted, and material
used In the booths may be re
moved and reused if demand
for or use of the lab ever de
clines to a point where it is
considered not needed.
The laboratory is also de
signed to add a unit for the in
structor to monitor individu
al booths and to converse with
the student. Such a unit is
planned at Crater High
school's new foreign language
lab, Becken said, and Med-
ford school officials plan to
have 11 demonstrated to de-
Hi.dl.t and Pins Urmlne II it Is practical in
The Needles and Pins 4-H l"e 'ocaijao.
club met in the home of Mrs. "piainTaciinlcal Asp.cti
Victor Hay, Eagle Point, re-,J,fa l-nteiwen ' he Verl
cently. Mrs. Margaret Miller . er .cmP"y. Medrord,
attended the meeting and con- "I"?1 ,ea tecnnicai aspects of
The advent of jet aircraft
world diplomacy, and con
stantly diminishing travel re
strictions in "Iron Curtain"
countries have increased the
demand for foreign languages
in high schools in recent
years.
Recognizing this demand,
the Medford school system
has increased its foreign lan
guage selection to five and
has added facilities to assist
students in learning the con
versational aspect of the lan
guage more readily.
Medford High school's for
eign language laboratory was
explained, and the depart
ment was reviewed by mem
bers of the staff for school
board members and interest
ed lay citizens this week. The
meeting was one in series of
monthly sessions at which the
system's curriculum is re
viewed. ' Participating in the discus
sion were Miss Dorothy Wil
son, head of the high school's
loreign language department;
Mrs. Naomi Van Dyke, Mrs.
Edna Stewart, Mrs. Maxlne
4-H Club Hews'
sented to be co-leader.
Members worked on their
sewing for an hour following
the business session. Refresh
ments were served.
Carmen Farlow,
Reporter.
Needle Crafts Girls
Members worked on their
head scarves at a meeting of
Eagle Point Needle Crafts
Girls 4-H club Friday. Pin
cushion and needle case ma
terial was discussed.
The next meeting will be
Friday In the High school at
3:15 p.m.
Mary Kathryn Sinders,
. Reporter.
Desert Pegasus
Members of the Desert
Pegasus 4-H club will meet
on April IB at the Dun ranch
to practice for coming 4-H
events.
Dale West, a member, al
tended the horse show in
Grants Pass April 2. Phillip
McGuire became a member at
the last meeting.
Kathy McGuire,
' Acting Reporter.
Culinary Cutiei
Miss Norma Hague, counly
4-H club agent, indued food
projects made by members of
the Culinary Culles 4-11 club
at a meeting recently at the
Applcgale school. She also
gave pointers which will be
helpful at the coming fair.
Sandy Brewster and Mary
Herriott gave a demonstration
on making jelly.
Plans were made for the
second day of testing water of
wells In the community,
which is the club's community
service project.
Sandy Brewster,
Reporter.
Ret Creak Henegades
Members of the Keess
Creek Renegades 411 club
took a lest on the dairy cow
at ( recent meeting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Moore. They also finished a
judging program and dis
cussed planting plains In front
of the grade school gym in
Eagle Point.
Plans were marie for a field
trip to Snider'a Dairy, a visit
to John Amber's sheep ranch,
Ashland, and a club tnur.
, Dob Scoble was In charge of
the i:anie. "
Kay Stephenson,
Reporter.
me laooraiory, and the pos
sibilities for expanding it to
include a monitoring system
in the future. The Verl Walk-
school officials in designing
and installing the laboratory.
Becken noted that only a
few high schools in Oregon
offer five foreign languages.
A total of 571 students, or
17.5 per cent of the total en
rollment in the secondary
grades, are taking a foreign
language, he noted.
Of the total number, 273
are taking Spanish, 12 Rus
sian, 44 German, 137 Latin
and 105 French.
In addition to secondary
grade offerings, an elective
activity in grades five and six
is elementary conversational
Spanish, in which 214 stu
dents are participating. Ele
mentary Spanish is conducted
on an elective basis such as
band, and oilier extra cur
ricular activities.
Two Languages Added
Two languages were added
to the high school curriculum
this year. They are Russian
and German. Mrs. Stewart
said there appears to be no
question as to the importance
of Russian today.
Mrs. Van Dyke, Spanish in
structor, and Mrs. Smith,
rench and German instruc
tor, as well as Mrs. Stewart,
indicated that until recently
Ihere was public apathy re
garding foreign language.
Americans, they said, consid
ered English the language to
be used in world diplomacy
and travel.
In more recent years, how
ever, the picture has changed,
and prospective diDlomats
Washington, (Science Ser
vice) - Polaris, America's
trump in the deadly missile
game, is no mere missile. It
is an enormously complex
missile system.
The instrument itself is a
30-foot, solid-fueled, submarine-launched
rocket that 'can
leap out of water and streak
1,500 miles to its target carry
ing an atomic warhead.
The Polaris system repre
sents the work of many prom:
Inent men.
Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rick
over, father of the world's
first atomic submarine Naut
ilus, saw the atomic submar
ine's potential as a missile
base capable of remaining sub'
merged and hidden for long
periods of time in enemy wa
ters. Proposal Shelved
In 1954, Adm. Hickover for
mally proposed a Polaris-like
system. But the Nautilus had
just been launched and was
not yet proved and missiles
were unreliable. The Rick
over proposal was shelved.
Later, the reduction of the
size of the megaton bombs
and Improvements in missile
thrusV and guidance reduced I
I objections to the concept of I
submarine-launched missiles.
In 1955 at Dr. Wernher von
B r a u n ' s headquarters in
Huntsville, Ala., the Army
and Navy joined in work on a
1,500-mile missile. The Navy,
however, began to fear liquid
fuel missiles were too dan
gerous for submarine use.
Potentially simpler and
safer than liquid-fuel rocket
engines, solid-fuel rockets
were far from perfected. The
solid-fuel rocket was in some
ways as fool-proof as a Fourth
of July rocket which it resem
bles. But thrust per pound of
fuel was low. A missile with
enough fuel to go 1.500 miles
was much too big for sub
marine to carry.
A chemist whisked out of
Optical Device
Probes Motors
Azusa, Calif., (Science Ser
vice) An optical inspection
device designed to give a de
tailed interior view of the
grain bore for solid rocket mo
tors has been developed here.
It may also be used, in a
portable version, to probe
pipes, tanks, airplane wings,
boilers, or any type of irreg
ular enclosure presenting
hard-to-gcl-at interiors.
Developed by Aerojet-Gen
eral corporation here, the op
tical grain checker can in-
spect an opening down to two
inches In diameter. It features
a safe external light source,
a mirror that is driven along
a slotted optical tube, and a
specially designed telescope
that magnifies the Image of
tne grain reflected by the mir
ror. The checker can be fitted
with a camera for detailed
photographs of possible
cracks.
er company cooperated with and travelers are becomine
aware that they will be bet
ter received in a foreign coun
try if they at least show they
tried to learn the language
previously.
The instructors also point
ed out thai foreign languages
are important because of
their contribution to the Eng
lish language. Mrs. Stewart
noted that more than 50 per
cent of the English words are
derived from Latin, and Ger
man, French and Spanish
have contributed numerous
words. The Russian language
is contributing more regular
ly, they noted.
The importance of foreign
languages in relation to art,
music, literature and travel
was noted.
Navy Seeks Men
For Nuclear Program
High school graduates
should consider the opportun
ities offered by enlistment In
Navy's high school nuclear
field program, Chief Murray
J. Emmerich, local recruting
officer, said today.
The nuclear field program
Is available to qualified young
men and comprises approxim
ately three years of formal
schooling.
Young men Inlercsled in
the (icld of the future"
should consult Chief Emmer
ich for delails, he said.
,""! Pclni Ranchers
e Eagle Point Handlers
', Livestock club met al the
;c Point vocational egri
cv oral building recently.
The meeting wa called to
order by Mike Higday. The
4-11 club pledge was led by
Brian Dowell. The roll call
was taken and there were 15
members present and 4 vis
itors present.
There was no old -or new
business so Mike Higday
showed the club "Modern
Swine Worm Control."
Mrs. Burrill served refresh
ments after the meeting. The
next meeting will be April 11
In the Eagle Point vocational
agricultural building. Anyone
interested In joining the club
is invited.
Frances Huffman,
Reporter.
Weathermen Want
Storms for Tiros
Washington (Science Ser
vice) - Meteorologists hope
for bad weather for Tiros 1.
the weather satellite launched
recently. They hope the sat
ellite will provide photo
graphs of cloud patterns In
volved In the birth or growth
of storm fronts or hurricanes.
PhotoRraphs might provide
clues that would enable me
teorologists t o understand
weather disturbances better
and eventually to Diediot
them belter. Meteorologists in
Ihe meteorological satellite
section of the weather bureau
will be responsible for the an
alysis and interpretation of
the cloud data. They have
worked closely Willi the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space
administration in the Tiros
development.
POISON SOURCE
St. Louis - About one-third
of the world annual supply of
commercial arsenic is pro
duced in the United Stales.
Solar Cells Get
Better; Cost Drops
Chicago, (Science Services-
Silicon solar cells for conver- j
ting light directly into elec
tricity now have a conversion
efficiency of 14 per cent.
When announced in 1954 by
their inventors at the Bell
Telephone laboratories, the
cells' efficiency was only six
per cent.
The American Power con
ference here was told that
1 with 100 per cent efficiency,
cells covering an area 300
miles long and 20 miles wide
could produce enough elec
tricity for the whole world.
Dr. C. A. Escoffery of Interna
tional Rectifier corporation,
El Segundo, Calif., said that
solar cells already cost less
per kilowatt hour .than flash
light batteries, and costs will
continue to fall.
"The main economic prob
lem Is now one of reducing
the cost of storage-battery sys
tems," Dr. Escoffery said. The
battery systems are needed to
store the electricity for use
when needed.
Grange Notes
Upper AppUgat Grange
A short business meeting
was held by the Upper Apple
Kale Grange recently. A pot
luck dinner preceeded the
meeting. Many families of the
community attended.
Mason Anderson was ap
pointed Grange insurance ag
ent taking Edward Finley's
place. Finley recently resign
ed. The Grange voted to again
sponsor a 4-H scholarship for
summer school in Corvallis.
The Red Cross was granted
permission for the use of the
hall on Saturday for their tal
ent show.
After the meeting the even
ing was spent in visiting and
dancing. The music was fur
nished by Mr. and Mrs. John
Betlencourt and George Fra
go. The next meeting will be
held April 8.
Lake Creek
C. C. Haggard, director of
safety for the California Ore
gon Power company, will be
a guest speaker of Lake Creek
Grange Friday, April R, at 8
p.m. All persons in the com
munity are invited.
Haggard will present a
film on rescue breathing.
Los Angcles-dlPD-Comrdlan
Bob Hope received the Free
doms foundation at Valley
Forge Award Tuesday.
f& 1 CftXKtGt 1 ' til
Germany after World War II,
Dr. Karl Klager, attacked the
problem for Aerojet-General
Corporation of Azusa, Calif.,
a subcontractor of the Lock
heed Missiles and Space Divi
sion, which then . had . the
Navy's prime contract for Po
laris development.
Dr. Klager's team not only
Increased thrust per pound, it
also hit on a crucial (and top
secret) system of cutting off
tne thrust at just the right
time. This cut-off must be
exactly timed if the missile
is to be at proper altitude and
on proper course to begin the
long, unguided glide to its
target.
Polaris was taking shape as
a compact missile about 30
feet long. Through its solid
fuel, a star-shaped hole was
cast to afford a longer burn
ing surface and improve the
missile's performance. A syn
thetic material from which
foam
found
rubber la made waa.fire might destroy a whole
to bind the fuel to- tub and its crew
gether. i
Meanwhile, the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology
and General Electric Com
pany worked on the guidance
system. A missile computer
was developed into which tar
get and navigational data are
fed just befort the missile is
lanuched.
To supply the missile's
"brain" with precise informa
tion on the submarine's pos
ition, a new navigational sys
tem had to be devised.
Underwater launching also
posed problems. The Navy did
not want the missile to ignite
until the missile was away
from the submarine. A mis-
A compressed air system
waa devised. It can shoot the
missile 50 to 100 feet into the
air from a submarine far be
low the surface of the ocean.
Then the missile engine ig
nites. - Today, the system seems
ready. Beginning next fall a
U.S. Polaris submarine with
16 Polaris missiles should be
sailing at all times.
One Polaris missile could
destroy a city the size of
Washington, D.C.
The Navy expects to in
crease the Polaris range to 3,
000 miles. And it plans a fleet
of 45 Polaris submarines cost
ing $100,000,000 each. Ap
propriated for the develop
ment of the Polaris system
through June of this year: $2,
742.648,000, or about $15 for
every man, woman and child
in the United States.
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