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4 C MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. I960 15 PLAN DINNER Henry Fong of Kim's and Murray Gardiner, UMC arrangements chairman, are shown as they plan tonight's dinner for UMC volunteers. Fong is giving the dinner in recognition of the UMC work ers and the. important part they play in -raising funds for the 28 agencies in the United Medford Crusade. The dinner will start at 8 o'clock tonight. This year's UMC campaign is still approximately $28,000 away from its goal, but almost all contacts have been made and necessary follow-up work is now in progress. . (Simonson-Walker photo) Many Students Lack Ability To Put Ideas Down on Paper New York-IUPD -The head of the . nation's top testing service charged today that America is losing the serv ices of many talented young sters because they can't say what they mean. ' Specifically, they have trou ble with English, the lan guage they are jupposed to use in communicating their ideas. To put it another way Johnny can't read, write or talk properly. Edward S. Noyes, acting president of the nation-wide College Entrance' txamina- tion Board, said that his group is taking steps to correct the 'Average' Driver Said to Cause Most Accidents in U.S. (Editor's noiei This Is an other in a series of articles written by Jim Fxake, Med ford High school senior who represented the Oregon Newspaper Publisher's as-, oclatlon si recent Ford Maiional Teen -Age Press conference in Detroit and Dearborn, Mich. The arti cles were submitted in contest with other teen-age news stories about the con ference. Winners of the contest will receive college scholarships.) By JIM FRAKE ' Dearborn - America's 68 to 70 million ''average" drivers have been predestined to cause some 85 per cent of all traffic accidents in the U.S. during 1981. 'H. L. Smith; safety consul tant for Ford Motor company, told newsmen Thursday that of the 27,045 auto mishaps averaged daily last year, only 15 per cent were accounted for by "accident prone", drlv-ers-1 per cent of the U.S. driving population. Speaking before a noon session of the Ford National Teen-Age Press conference, Smith further declared that "errant motorists need .train lng, not punishment," Age-Old Excuse It is the "perceptional un awareness" of today's drivers that causes accidents, he con turned. The speaker referred to the age-old excuse, "I didn't see him," as told to law en. forccmcnt officers following accidents. To remedy the "non-seeing" motorist, the safety consul. tant reviewed a five-point "seeing program" designed and sponsored by Ford. Phases of the plan suggest ed the driver, should (1) aim high in his steering to insure adequate time for emergency measures; (2) get the "big pic ture;" that . is, stay at least one car length behind a ve hicle for each' 10 miles of speed; (3) keep eyes moving to avoid a trance on. a sub ject; (4) leave himself an opening so he Is always aware of how to avoid other cars on the road; and (5) make sure he is seen to alert other drivers of his intentions,.' No -Glancing Away Basically, it was stressed that drivers could not afford to glance away from the road or up-coming situation even for an Instant. Speed, a controversial sub ject in traffic safety circles was also discussed by the Ford representative. Smith claimed that nine out of ten accidents in 1959 occurred at speeds below 40 miles per hour. The average accident occurring speed was set at 35 mph. Thus, the speaker conclud ed, . , , wholesale crack downs on speed and enforce- ment campaigns . . . are not the only answer to accident prevention."' - He affirmed, however, that he was not in any way discrediting the work done in these programs. Favorable Conditions Brought to the attention of the teen-age press was the fact that four out of five ac cidents happen under favor able driving conditions-clear, dry weather, light traffic, and straight roads, Smith, who has been tour ing the nation during the past 3V4 years helping to train over 600 fleet safety personnel representing some 300,000 vehicles, was assist ed by special audio-visual ma terials in presenting his pro gram. Ford spokesmen say Smith's safe-driving system gained immediate nation-wide sup port upon Introduction, and has been named the most 1m portant "break-through-in the war'. on traffic accidents" in some 26 years. I i VJv , lH f J VETERAN CAMPAIONERS-Even thrcc-ycar-old veteran campaigners like Willie Borst, left, and Reed Wells have to take" time out; for some horseplay in the midst of such a close election contest. The staunch Nixon supporters and their parent! toured Manhattan for their candidate. . (UPI Telephoto) glaring inadequacies in Eng lish instruction. "Many bright students either fall to get into col lege or fail to stay the course" because they cannot write English, Noyes said. taucauon nas become a weapon of the cold war and this has been recognized by the National Defense Educa tion Act, which gives finan cial aid to further the study of sciences and mathematics. But the study of English has not received aid under the act as yet. Helps Transmit Theories "The act is intended to help more able students get into college," Noyes said. "Since they can't get in un less they do well in English, mey snouia get this aid." And more broadly, national defense won't be served if a student is another Albert Einstein but is incapable of transmitting his new theories into language others aan un derstand. Noyes blamed the inadeaua- cies in English instruction on the shortage of teachers, the teaching of this subject by people not specifically train ed in it, and the tendency to make the English teacher a maid-of-all-work. The College Entrance Ex- amination Board program will bring 80 teachers together next summer to prepare train ing courses in English teaching. This task force will pass the word to 90 more high school teachers across the country. The board will also make available free films that show good English teachers in ac tion and suggest sample cur riculi. Work for Everybody The new program is direct ed specifically at college-preparatory" schools, but the board hopes its program will be infectious and spread to other Institutions. While: teachers are the pri mary target, the ultimate pur pose is to reach the student. The hoard recommends that all high-school students be required to write a 350-500 word composition each week. It condemns the use of re hashes and extracts from lit- terature and suggests that stu dents use complete, original texts. Noyes also said many col lege boards are not satisfied with the present objective test examination in English and he recommends written work should be included in entrance exams, ; So It looks like more work in the end for students, their teachers and the examiners Perhaps parents had better brush-up on their grammar too-if only to keep up conver sationally with their children. High School Graduates May Enter Program High school graduates of previous years have been re minded that they are eligible to apply for college training offered In the NROTC pro gram, Chief Murray H. Em merich, Medford recruiter, said today. Many graduates in not aware of this opportunity, he said. Emmerich said any high school graduate who will not have reached his 21st birth day July 1, 1961, may apply for Uie training. Applications are available at the Navy re cruiting office, and must be filed prior to Nov. 18. CEDED BY SPAIN Manila The Philippines were ceded to the United States by Spain in 1899. I 1 5,000 New Positions Open For Agribusiness Students Corvallis-Some 15,000 new positions open in agribusiness for college graduates eaph year, but, a qualified college graduate can't be found for about two-thirds of the new jobs. Sagging agricultural col lege enrollments on a nation wide basis the past 10 years have been blamed for not sup plying the manpower for the new positions. What seems to hurt tne most is that many prospective students don't realize that agricultural training does not mean farming alone as a ca reer. It can also mean a va riety of opportunities in the agribusiness field. Producing' . Commodity Agribusiness refers to all the operations involved in producing a farm commodity and getting it to the ultimate consumer in its final form. The term agribusiness is di vided into three groups-farm supplies, farming and processing-distribution. Wilbur Cooney, assistant dean of agriculture at Ore gon State . college, said farm organizations and agricultural colleges are uniting in an ef fort to tell the young people of the gainful and rewarding employment opportunities in agriculture. The number of agricultural students as a proportion to the total land-grant college enrollment also has decreased consistently for the last 20 years. At OSC this fall, the school of agriculture enrollment has dropped 9 per cent, from 766 to 695," over last year. Ten years ago, in 1950, the school of agriculture had 942 stu dents enrolled. Student Body Increase Cooney said although' the student body has increased from 4,759 in 1940 to 7,896 in 1960, - the number of stu dents enrolled in agriculture was 46 higher in. 1940. Per centage-wise, the school of agriculture claimed 15 per cent of the total enrollment in. 1940 and only 9 per cent in I960. - The national report. "Col lege-Trained Manpower for Agribusiness," also states the number of agricultural., stu dents is decreasing in spite of the increase in number of employees in the farm supply and the crop processing-dis tribution industries which of fer pay competitive to other fields. Starting pay in the new positions varies from $4,800 to $6,000. . The study reported that the quality of the graduate students in agriculture was third from the top in 15 classifications of professions and employment areas on the basis of-a test scale. Opportunities for goo d, h'i g h 1 y-motivated graduate students are excellent. And as with the undergraduate, pay is competitive with practic ally all fields of endeavor, Cooney said. Agribusiness positions have 4-H Club News Jacksonville Goody Cookers The Jacksonville 4-H Goody Cookers, held a meeting Oct. 24 at the'Tiome of the Glatlv ers. . ',: .. President Marcia Dunlap called the .meeting to order. Mrs.. Warren Dunlap, leader, gave a report on the achieve ment dinner recently. New officers were elected. They are president, P a m 1 a Dunlap; vice president, Mar- more than offset the decrease that has occurred the oast 30 years In the labor force in volved in crop and livestock production. It is estimated that 37 per cent of the total labor force of the United States is en gaged in agribusiness-a huge industry marketing approxi mately $100 billion in prod ucts annually. If the present trends con tinue, only one-fifth of the new 15,000 agribusiness posi tions opening each year will be filled by agricultural col lege graduates by 1970, Coo ney said. cia Dunlap; secretary, Patty Glather; news reporter, Leslie Johnson; song leader, Marty Hefner, and recreation leader, Kathy Neal. The ' next meeting will be Nov. 12. The meeting was adjourned and refreshments were served. ..- Leslie Johnson, Reporter Merry Makers . , The Merry Makers 4-H club met at the home of Helen Al bright, 1678 Orchard Home dr., recently. Marilyn Peyton demonstrat ed how to make jello. We took pictures to decorate to send to children in the hospital. Jane Hendrickson was a guest. Stitch in Time - The Stitch in Time 4-H Sew ing club met recently at the home of Marlene Nouquier. Visitors were Theresa Wilkins, Marcy Miller, Beth Kundsen and Terry Newcomb. We elected officers for the year. They are Betsy Dunlevy, president; Susan Whlnlhan, vice president; Marlene Nou- quier, secretary; Margaret Carnegie , reporter; Molly Ely and Shawn Caperna, song leaders. We talked about our plans for the coming year. Our No vember meeting will be held at the home of Betsy Dunlevy, Birthday refreshments were served, honoring Marlene Nouquier. , - Margaret Carnegie, : Reporter TO PLUG FOR NIXON - Washington - IUPD - Presfc dent Eisenhower, just back from a cross-country speaking tour,' prepared today to launch an oratorical campaign in be half of GOP presidential nom inee Richard M. Nixon. '. HELP US! We nted clothing, ihoei, dlihei, furnlhirs, snd bedding. We Pick Up. ' HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 N. Holly SPring 3-7335 T tfmt y"f end of the month ? . y . I M O. N T G O WARDSM MONTGOMERY WARD TT, Everywhere you look , . you'll see fabulous : savings In Wards big store-wide clearance! 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