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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1960)
I MAIL TRIBUNE, MadforJ, Or. C Thursday, April 7, 1960 at. TEACHER CHANGES JOBS Edward Hough, former Trenton, N.J. school teacher quit his job six years ago, is now a sales representative for a firm making sanitation. . a chemicals. Hough, shown outside his home by his company-paid station wagon, expects to earn $11,000 this year, twice as much as he could in teaching. (UPI Telephoto) Former Teacher Points to Need For Higher Pay in Profession Trenton, N.J.-flJPD - School teachers Walter Almond and Edward Hough quit their jobs six years ago and started run ning a gas station. They said they couldn't support their families on teachers' pay. Today, both men are out of the gasoline business. Almond Is teaching again, at Steinert High School in nearby Hamilton Township. He says he went back to edu cation because Steinert gave him a chance to teach subjects he was interested In auto mechanics and electric shop. Also. Almond said in an in- terview, teachers' salaries rose slightly in the five years he was pumping gas and greasing cars. "Salaries are still low, but they're on the right road," Almond said. Sales Representative Hough, on the other hand, Is a sales representative for a firm making sanitation chem icals. He expects to earn more than $11,000 this year twice the salary he could expect in teaching. Next year. Hough said, he may earn three times what he could make in school. I would never consider going back to teaching," Hough said. Almond was 29 years old and Hough was 28 when they broke with teaching in 1954. Each held a master's degree. Each was earning $3,700 per W LADDER S SEARS "EARLY BIRD" ALE STARTS TOMORROW, Friday, 9:30 a.m. LADDERS FOR EVERY PURPOSE AT SEARS LOW PRICES, REDUCED! An All Purpose 5 ft. Strong WOOD STEPLADDER To Make Household Chores Easier REDUCED TO CHARGE IT Steps are flush with the side rails for improved standing comfort. Easy to store, easy to handle. 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Each was mar ried and the father of three children. By 1955, each was makinh $6,000 a year from the gas station. Both were working five to 14 hours a day. Liked Worked with Boys Hough quit the station the next year, when he was oiler- ed his present job. Almond stayed another two. years: then decided to go back to teaching. "I always liked working with boys," Almond said. Almond said his experience at the gas station has proved Invaiubale In his new teach ing post. "When the boys start ask ing questions on a particular car-what kind of brakes does it have, can you put multiple carbs on lt-I've got the an swer right In my head, and don't have to consult a book," Almond said. Almond conceded that his salary of about $5,500 a year was not as high as he could wish. "But I have a livable wage," he said. Hough took a different view. He said teachers pay still was "entirely inadequ ate." "In our field, men are De ing hired without any ex perience in selling starting at $6,000 per year, plus ex penses, plus a new car," Hough said. Also, Hough in dicated, there was no reason to suppose a salesman in his field was not contributing as much to society as a teacher. Hough added: "Forty - five hundred to $5,000 might be an adequate starting salary lor a teacner, but its takes a teacher 10 years to get up to the max imum earning level of the profession. In Industry, aKmit five vears." Hough and Aimona un live In the Levittown. fa., area. Hough said he was "really hurt" recently to see a teacher working part time at the checkout counter of a local supermarket, stowing food in grocery bags. um u- cVinnlH not be ICdliiiria J" ' subject to that sort of thing, Hougn saia. - iuu tci .... don't see a dentist, or a doc tor or a lawyer doing it. Their professions pay adequate salaries." "We've got to pun up our it's i boots and get after the teach. 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