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u O n O u c Or 300 O o Defense Education Program Funds Help To Strenghen School System Br LOUIS CASSELS VPl Correspendeut During the past 18 months, the federal government has pent about $250 million un dpr the national defense edu cation act. By federal spending stand ards, ont quarter of a billion dollars it not a lot of money. It is only one-fortieth as much as Uncle Sam ladles out each year on farm programs and veterans benefits. But a dollar properly aim ed can sometimes do more good than 50 dollars scatter ed broadcast. The relatively modest sums expended under the mis-named defense educa tion program have been used to strengthen A m e r lc a's school system at certain stra tegic points where it has been notoriously weak. Here are some of the things that have been accomplished under the act, which still has 2V2 years to run: Student Loans Nearly 90,000 able but needy college students have received long-term, low inter est loans to enable them to continue their education. More than a third of them have indicated they intend to go into the teaching profes sion. If they do become public school teachers, and remain at the job for at least five years, half of their loans will be marked paid. So far $62 million in feder- WE FILL ALL PRESCRIPTIONS with ifailing I t accuracy from Wjr fresh stocks of JLjL. pure, ,jotent drugs. Leave your Prescription here while you PARK & SHOP Open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily Closed Sundays mjV't Green Stamps CENTRAL. DRUG Main end Central FREE JELIVERY al funds has been madt avail able tor itudent loans. Partic ipating colleges have contrib uted $7 million in matching funds. The demand for loans substantially exceeds avail able funds, and pending fur ther congressional appropria tions it has been necessary to hold the average loan to $500 a year and to turn down some eligible applicants. Laboratory Equipment Most public school! were woefully deficient in labor atories required for effective teaching of science,' mathe matics and foreign language courses. More than $90 mil lion in federal grants has been made available for acquisition of equipment, minor remodel ling of facilities, and the pro vision of expert state super visors to show the smaller school systems how to set up good teaching programs in these areas. Non-profit pri vate schools also can obtain federal loans for these pur poses. Graduate Fellowships Some 2,500 government-financed fellowships have been awarded to graduate students who are working toward ad vanced degrees in prepara tion for college teaching jobs. This program is designed to relieve the acute shortage of FTC Warns Against 'Fabulous1 Plants Offered in Ads Washington - OJPD - Garden ers and flower lovers have been warned by the Federal Trade Commission to keep a sharp look out for "rackets that bloom in the spring." The FTC said it has receiv ed many complaints recently about advertisements offer ing "fabulous" plants and gardening materials which turn out to be bogus. For example, the commis sion said it has recently re ceived letters from several 1 persons who followed up an I ad from a southern nursery ! for "beautiful, vigorous, su per camellia plants." What they actually received was a shipment of "small, unrooted dried cutting which would not grow when planted." Many Cases Developed The commission made its warning in an announcement entitled "beware of too flow ery claims." Daniel J. Murphy, a top of ficial in the commission's bu reau of litigation, said many FTC cases involving decep tive practices in nursery prod ucts have developed from just such complaints by disillu sioned customers. He said "the same kind of exaggeration is often found in claims for the productivity of fruits and berries." The commission recently ordered a Mississippi mail order house to stop claiming that its blue berry plants could each pro duce up to six gallons of ber ries "when the fact was that most would be doing well to produce a gallon." Another commission action involved a New Jersey nur sery which was ordered not to use the term "chrysanthe mum maximum'" without dis closing the fact that the flow ers it was offering are most commonly known as "dais ies." Includes Fruit Trees The FTC also issued a com plaint against a firm which used illustrations of roses in ads, along with information that its products belong to the Roseaceae family. Investi gators turned up fact that the Rosaceae includes fruit trees such as peaches, apples, cherries, and strawberry and raspberry plants. The govern ment claimed that most of the customers who ordered the plants from the ads had ex pected roses. Murphy said such examples "indicate that those who shop by mail should keep the ad vertisements from which they selected their merchandise in order to have some basis for complaint should their order differ from the offer." A letter to the FTC giving full detail of fraudulent ad vertising, including a copy of the ad, "could prompt correct ive action," he added. The official suggested pur chasers read the fine print in ads. qualified faculty members In higher dtPMUan. Counseling More than 2.500 experienc ed teachers have received spe cial training, at government expense, to serve as guidance officers or counselors in high schools. About 4.000 more counselors will be trained during the next 12 months. Language Training Nineteen "language cen ters" have been established al leading colleges and uni versities to teach foreign languages such as Arabic, Chi nearly half the world's popu Portuguese and Russian. These languages, spoken by naerly half the world's popu lation have rarely been taught in America before. Graduates of the new centers will be come teachers, hence multi plying the effect of their training. Others will enter government service where linguists are das perately needed. New Teaching Methods About $4,600,000 has been allocated to finance 150 re search studies in new educa tional methods-classroom use of television, so-called "teach ing machines," and develop ment of new materials in var ious courses. Vocational Training More than 150,000 students have received specialized training in such fields as elec tronics, electrical technology, mechanical drafting, chemis try, instrumentation and elec tronic data processing under a new vocational training program. TheyTI Do It Every Time By jimmy Hatlo Section B MEDF0RD. Pages T-6 RIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1960 TH4NXANDAT1POF P THE HATLO HAT TO M MADIaON 5,Wla. ef j New Attractions for Tourists In Quake-Rocked Yellowstone Senate Approves Boardman Transfer Washington - WW - The Sen ale has passed the annual mili tary authorization construc tion hill which contains an amendment authorizing the Navy to transfer the 96,000 acre Boardman bombing range to the state of Oregon. The amendment was co sponsored by Oregnn Sens. Wayne Morse and Hall S. Lusk. The Boardman range would be exchanged for equal acre age of state-owned land to he used as a bombing range in Lake county's Wagontire area. Lusk said there was no k n o w n opposition to the Boardman amendment. How ever, because of other differ ences in the legislation the construction bill has been re ferred to a conference committee. New Catalogue Is Being Distributed What is considered the larg est single edition in business history, the latest S and H green stamp catalogue is now being distributed locall, ac cording to Gerald Clark, Med ford branch manager for the Sperry and Hutchinson com pany. The catalogues are to be dis tributed in this area to cus tomers of the S and H com pany, and copies will also be available at the stamp re demption cenlcr, 221 South Central ave., Medford. The initial printing order was for ;io million copies. Noted Designer Dorothy Draper comments on room settings from five American homes which are featured in the new catalogue. She also indicates her selection of home furnishings. Milton-Freewater Frog Leaps 13 Feet Pendleton - OJPD - The frogs had a busy day Saturday as the second annual Oregon Frog Jumping Olympics got underway on the main street here. Friday's contest, the May or's handicap and the Cham ber of Commerce handicaps, brought out one powerful con tender for the world's record championship Olympics to be held in Angels Camp, Calif., next week end. The frog of the Milton-Freewater Chamber of Commerce leaped a distance of 13 feet. The world's record stands at 16 feet, 10 inches. It was won by a frog owned by Ralph Weimer of Angels Camp in 1954. West Yellowstone. Mont., - ttiPH- Shortly before mid night about nine months ago, the third strongest temblor ever recorded in the United Slates rocked scenic Madison valley along the western edge of Yellowstone National park. The earthquake cut scars across mountains, roads campgrounds, streams and farms. At least 29 person were buried beneath slides or kill ed by falling rocks as the earth heaved, tossed and split. Many of the victims were cov erde by so many tons of rock and dirt that their bodies can never be recovered. 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Eardley of the University of Utah, are convinced that Mad ison valley is now one of the "safest places in the Rockies" because the disastrous quake released internal strains that, geologically, "had been build ing up for some time." Forest and park service of ficials have been working ov ertime these days so this sum mer's visitors will be able to see for themselvse what hap pened the night Quake lake was born. The development program centers in Bozeman, Mont., of fice of George Duvendack, su pervisor of the Gallatin Na tional forest. He and his hard working staff have prepared a three-year plan that they hope will "show this unique phenomena off" to best ad vantage. A flight over the area by United Press International, in a light plane expertly piloted through buffeting winds by Al Newby of Gallatin Air port's Flight Line, Inc., dem onstrated that progress is be ing made - and there's plenty to see. i Access Biggest Problem The biggest initial problem is that of access. The quake 1 raised havoc with highways and roads-particularly U. S. Highway 287 that normally left U.S. 181 lust north of West Yellowstone and carried traffic past Heligen lake, down Madison valley, to his toric Virginia City, Mont., and on to Glacier park in northwestern Montana. BiR chunks were torn out of U.S. 287 beside Hebgen. The 50 million ton slide that made the dam now forming Quake lake covered the road. Pavement was twisted. This summer, northwest bound tourists will leave U.S. 191-20 on the south side of the Continental Divide near Targhee pass, cross the di vide at ttaynolds pass, and rejoin 287 just below the Madison slide. Hard surface is being applied to this re route. Duvendack said an access road into the slide area from the west should be completed by June 11 so tourists can drive onto the nature-built dam and get a good look at Quake lake. Sometime late this summer, a plaque will be fastened to a large boulder atop the slide a memorial to the victims of the quake. Displays are also being constructed to tell the geological story of the big shake. Army engineers have cut a 50-foot deep notch in the slide to lessen the danger to down stream residents. The seven- I mile-long lake once was 200 feet deep. When its surface was deliberately dropped, line of water-killed trees was left along the rim. No boating will be permit ted on Quake lake this sum mer, and probably for several years, because its surface is covered with snags and pre vailing winds are hazardous. Facilities Being Built Displys and parking facil ities are also being built on the eastern segment of U.S. 287, along Hebgen lake and at the head of Quake lake so tourists can understand what they see. In this area, there are long escarpments notched into the mountainside showing how the valley floor tilted, drop ping some 18 feet in places on the north side. Cracks, like those in an auto windshield hit by a baseball, slice through the earth in many directions. At one farm, part of the barn was atop the "scarp," while the rest dropped. Cabin creek, flowing out of the mountains near Hebgen dam, runs now in a waterfall as it crosses the fault line. A scenic parking area is being developed here. The over-all development program calls for bids to be let as soon as possible for a new version pf U.S. 287 through the valley, but con struction cannot be completed for at least two, probably three, years. In Yellowstone park itself, Assistant Superintendent Lou is Gaslellum said the earth quake caused no permanent damage. Old Faithful geyser is still spou;:ng away - as faithful as ever. Mt. Angel Phone Rates Approved Salem - WH) - Public Utility Commissioner Joncl C. Hill ! has approved new telephone ; rates for Mt. Angel Telephone j company which will result in , an annual gross revenue in- ! crease of $2,479. The higher rates were ef fective Saturday. 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