Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 28, 1960, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1960 Educational Experiment Using Television To Start Early in 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 1 R ' 7S. .US' ROCKET MOTOR TESTED propellant rocket motor lights Hill, Calif., during a successful test firing of the new motor. Unlike existing solid fuel motors, in which the propellant is one mass, the fuel in this motor consists of chunks of solid fuel piled together like building blocks. The motor, developed by United Technology Corp., opens the door for development of large-thrust solid fuel rockets. (UPI Telephoto) Bpmall tIWor,ds rTW3 .Around . By Lynn M. Walkins The Oyster Just Hasn't Got A Chance He's Too Goodl The home-loving oyster re mains fixed in one place for life, once it attaches itself to some solid support. If nothing disturbs it the oyster will grow, and along with its fel lows will estbalish a colony. They may grow on top of one another until the poor guy at the bottom, or in the middle, may starve to death or be smothered. Any vibration, or even a passing shadow, may cause all the oysters in a colony to close up tight and remain locked in until quiet is restored. Al though the oyster demands quiet while feeding, he evi dently does not object to the noise made by other oysters. A feeding colony of these bivalves makes considerable noise. The opening and clos ing of several hundred oys ters sounds like a bucket full of BB shot rolling down a set of bare stairs. Many other gourmets, aside from man, have found these succulent "shellfish" to their liking. The oyster has many natural enemies; enemies who never heard of the supersti tion that this bivalve shouldn't be eaten during any month that did not contain the let ter "R" in the name; they prey upon the oyster every day of the year. Differenct Attack Each of these natural en emies has a different method of attack, and each is effec tive. Man uses a knife to open the shell and sever the ab ductor muscle; of all the meth ods of opening this "treasure chest" of dcliciousness, this probably is the crudest. The star-fish gently wraps two or three of its many arms around the shell, and exerts a steady, relentless pull. When the two shells separate the rr ' ' WISHES FOR '61 LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME Highway 66 at Normal Ave. Ashland Dial MU 5-4541 Ashland's Leading Funeral ' ua,.!T - - A conical, segmented solid up the night sky at Morgan Klamath Forest Sells Timber Yreka-Pine Mountain Lum ber company, Yreka, was re cently awarded sale of 17 million board feet of timber in the Cecil Creek unit, Sal mon River' district, Klamath National forest. Since no bidder, was ap parent when the unit was first offered last summer, forest service regulations provide that the award may be made to any qualified bidder. ' The sale was the first large sale in the Cecilville area, and the first to utilize the full length of the recently-com pleted Callahan-Cecilville tim ber access road. Timber volumes included Ponderosa and Jeffrey pine. 3.6 million board feet; Sugar and Western white pine; 2.8 million board feet; White and Red fir, 3.6 million board feet; uougias iir, 7 million board feet; Incense cedar, nominal; and Knobcone pine, nominal. slightest crack, the star-fish projects its own stomach into the oyster body and sucks out the juice. The "oyster-drill" a small augur-shaped mollusk, drills a hole in the oyster shell. The file-fish and the sea-drum, both true fish, have a more refined way. They catch the oyster with its shells open. This procedure requires pa tience and reflexes of -a high order. The fish holds himself still with his mouth a quarter of an inch from the tigtly closed shell. The oyster is doomed, he may wait a min ute, or an hour, but of course he has no eye to blink; neith er can he change his position. Cautiously the oyster opens his two shells, everything seems quiet, the entering wa ter brings in food that tastes good and he is hungry. He opens wider and it happens. The fish exerts a suction like a vacuum cleaner and the soft body of the oyster flows out in response. Instinctively the oyster-muscle tries to snap shut, but it is too late for already much of the soft body is in the fish's mouth. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Director Since 1 935 H C. M. Litwiller Mrs. Litwiller Plane To Carry Video Tape Over Six-State Area By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent A far-reaching and imagi native experiment in the edu cational use of television will get under way in the midwest early in 1961. Lessons in science, history, math, French, art and music will be telecast from an air plane flying high over Indi ana to more than 500,000 stu dents in six states. The project is known as "the midwest program on air borne television instruction." It has three main purposes: 1. To broaden the range of educational offerings availa ble to students, particularly in smaller school systems. 2. To improve the quality of instruction in courses that require more highly trained teachers than the average school can obtain on an indi vidual basis. 3. To do these things at a far lower cost than would be involved in a ground-based closed circuit television sys tem. Based at Purdue university, the $7 million experiment is being financed by contribu tions from the Ford Founda tion and private industry. Recorded on Tap The instructional courses, recorded on video tape, will be telecast from a specially equipped DCS plane flying at 23,000 feet over the commu nity of Montpelier, Ind. Tests indicate that its signal can be received over a circular area 150 to 200 miles in radius. and encompassing parts of Il linois, I n d l ana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Wiscon sin. There are about 13,000 schools with 5 million stu dents in this area. At least a third of these schools are too small to provide a quality educational program under present conditions. From February through June, the televised lessons will be transmitted on two separate channels for three hours a day, four days a week, This initial period of telecast ing is for demonstration pur poses, to allow schools to test the signal and the educational content of the courses. Starting next September, a full academic year of instruc tion will be provided in each of eight elementary courses, four high school courses and two college courses. A preliminary survey shows that 526,518 students will pre view the courses during the demonstration period.' Nearly 17,000 classrooms in the area are being equipped with TV to receive the courses. The average cost of equip ping a school to participate in the program is about $500 per classroom. If bad weather should ground the plane which nor mally broadcasts the TV les sons, an identically equipped DC6 will be standing by at another location, ready to take over. Although funds are assured to carry the experiment through June, 1962, the states and school districts benefit- tine from the service will have to work out a system to assure continuing financial support after that date. This will require some departures from long accepted habits of school finance. But bureaucratic Inertia would be a poor excuse for passing up an opportunity, provided by modern technol ogy, to achieve a real break through toward quality edu cation at reasonable cost. Guilty Plea Brings Fine, Sentence Ashland - An Ashland man was fined $150 and sentenced to 30 days in jail Monday in Ashland municipal court for charges of indecent exposure. Earl Homer Cook, 23, of 162 Fifth St., Ashland, pleaded guilty to the charge. Ashland police arrested Cook Sunday at the request of the parents of a 16-year-old Ashland girl. Police said Cook exposed himself to the girl from his car Sunday afternoon. The girl reported the act to her parents who contacted police. She gave a description of the car and the license number to police, officers said. Cook admitted the offense to police and also admitted several other similar offenses which occurred during the summer, police said. ANNOUNCER DIES HonoIulu-tUPD-Funeral serv ice will be held Thursday for Harold J. Hal Moore, West Coast announced who called the races at Hollywood Park, Bay Meadows and Tanforan for the past 15 years. He died Monday of a heart attack. ,3 r 71-. J- is 3 ABANDONED BABY - Bathed, fed and sleeping peacefully in San Francisco General Hospital, this day-old boy was found abandoned beneath a pile of papers in a corner of a basement garage in San Francisco. Neighbors, hearing a child crying almost continually during the night, made a futile at tempt to find the source of the cries and called police who found the baby wrapped in an old drapery and a length of wire mesh window screen. Police located the mother and charged her with child abandonment. (UPI Telephoto) t'X V b I, Li L 4i Si X,- - .-f Wr4 CHRISTMAS PRESENT - Mamma llama, Mrs. Snuffles, poses with her son, Nicholas, a Christmas baby born to her at Fleishhakcr Zoo in San Francisco. The photo was made at a distance because, for the uninitiated, llamas like to spit at people. They can also kick. (UPI Tlphoto) Belgians Clash With Police in Support Of General Strike Brussels-UIPD-A crowd of anligovernment demonstrators clashed with police Tuesday and marched through the cen ter of Brussels in noisy sup port of a Socialist-led general strike that crippled Belgium for the seventh day in a row. Socialist party sources esti mated that 600,000 persons were on strike. In Seville, Spain, it was re ported that King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola may cut short their Spanish honey moon and fly back to Brus sels Wednesday in an attempt to deal with the worsening strike situation. Break Up Demonstration Heavy police forces moved in quickly to break up a dem onstration of Socialist strikers outside party headquarters. After the scuffle with po lice, several hundred demon strators marched through the downtown area, snarling traf fic and tossing firecrackers under police horses. Police made no move to break up the parade, but shopkeepers quickly clanged down their steel shutters to guard against any outburst of violence. Elsewhere in Belgium, strik ers clashed with police today at Dalzinne, near Namur, and one policeman was reported injured. The walkout was called by Socialist unions to protest the austerity program put forth by the government of Catholic PAINT WITH I x - f - 1 Social Christian Premier Gas ton Eyskcns to offset losses suffered by Belgium as a re sult of the Congo crisis. Public Services Crippled It has crippled transport, utility, postal and other key public services throughout the nation. About 400 Socialist mayors in the French-speaking Wal loon region of the country were reported to have reject ed instructions by the Interior Ministry to report all munici pal employees who have join ed the strike. Gressetts Purchase Campus Cleaners Ashland - Mr and Mrs. Dalton Gressett of Mcdford have purchased the Campus Cleaners at the Gateway Shop ping Center, Ashland, from Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Leigh, who have owned and operated it since March, 1958. The Gressetts own the A-l Cleaners of Medford and the Martinizing Cleaners in Klamath Falls. EXPLOSION KILLS TWO Bowers Hill, Va. Two men were killed and one injured near here Tuesday in an ex plosion set off by the col lision of a fuel oil truck and a telephone company truck. A witness said the fuel truck exploded and "burned every thing within 100 yards." MEDFORD PAINT and Wallpaper Store 4th & Holly Diagonally Across from Post Offieo PHONE SP 2-9321 We Give SfiH GREEN STAMPS Report Forms for Bald Eagle Survey Being Distributed Tavcrnier, Fla. - lliPl) - Field report forms to be used in the continent-wide bald eagle sur vey of the National Audubon Society are now being dis tributed to cooperators throughout the United States and Canada. Biologist Alexan der Sprunt IV, the society's research director, will direct the study from headquarters here. In a letter mailed this week to the directors of the con servation departments of the fifty states, Sprunt has solicit ed the cooperation of the of ficial state wildlife agencies. "The most pressing need at present is information on the location of active nests, he wrote the state officials. "We are also interested in locating wintering concentrations o f bald eagles. We earnestly so licit your cooperation and, upon hearing from you, we shall send enough copies of a questionnaire for distribution to your men in the field." To Take Five Years The bald eagle project plan ned to. take five years, was announced by Carl W. Buch- heister, society president, Oct. 31 at the organizations na tional convention in New York City.. -The study is prompted, he said, by con tinuing reports of a serious and widespread decline in the bald eagle numbers. Inventory' is the essential first step in keeping this great bird that serves as our nation al emblem from becoming an endangered species," Buch- heister said. "Once its num bers have been closely esti mated, its reproductive suc cess measured, and its nesting and wintering concentrations and migration patterns map ped, future checks will then disclose population trends In his letter to cooperators, Biologist Sprunt said a second phase of the project would in volve detailed investigations of eagle biology, including re search into productivity, -lon gevity, movements, and other aspects. "jr '. -MB VALUE-PACKED COMET 1961 J nJSiffM I -THE BETTER COMPACT CAR ijjjj Ojj' 31 HnUVm W FINE-CAR STYLING . M i wmi 111 i SJir Ft I Xfe I WITH OR BELOW J f W& MEtM I lW fW t THE COMPACTS OF 1 $ ttlXMM j l u Iji OTHER MAKERS lg The first family-size compact Comet's 114 wheclbase (longer than any other compact's) provides spacious comfort other compacts sacrifice. There is room for six grownups and t family size load of luggage besides. Big-car ride small-car handling The refined suspension (plus the 114' wheel base) makes Comet's ride steadier and smoother than many standard cars. And you'll 6nd that Comet turns, parks and handles almost aa easily as a baby carriage. Priced with or below compacts of other makers For all its fine-car flair, family size, big-car ride and value features, Comet's priced with or below compacts of other makers. New Thrift Power 170 engine for '61 Comet now otTers two economy engines the standard Thrift Power Six plus the new optional Thrift Power 170, for 11 faster highway passing, 22 better acceleration on hills. SEE Mrs. Neuberger Resumes Publishing Monthly Newsletter By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington (Special) - Sen. Maurine Neuberger has re sumed publication of "Wash ington Can ine," the Neu- berger news- i e i ler which her late hus b a n d began sending out A pnph month to Pc o n stituents after his ar rival in the Senate six smith ag0 . The new edition looks and eads very much like the original edition. It is chatty n style, containing a hodge podge of commentary on mat ters which range from per sonal and local affairs to those of international scope. The only noticeable difference is that where there used to be two portraits of the Neuberg- crs at the top along side one of the Capitol buildings there is now only one, and the ad dition of the state seal im printed on an outline of the state of Oregon, "In this first newsletter. which I must write alone, I want to express my appreci ation to all of you who have requested that 'Washington Calling' be continued," it be gan. "You have paid a great tribute to the memory of my husband and to the talent he had in presenting the work of Congress in this monthly report. Staff Functioning Mrs. Neuberger noted that she has a staff already func tioning in the Senate office building "to give you the kind of service that you have had in the past." In the way of news, Mrs Neuberger told of a visit to Paris and to Tillamook, plus her hopes for early Senate action on a treaty with Canada for joint development of the upper Columbia river. Sen. Neuberger w e n t to Paris shortly after the election as a delegate - to the NATO THE VALUE-PACKEO COMET MEDFORD MOTORS, Inc. 22S South Conference of Parliamentar ians, along with Vice Presi dent-elect Lyndon B. Johnson and Sen. Estes Kcfauvcr. "The name 'Paris' evokes a myriad of images in the minds of Americans, even to those who, like myself, had never before visited the legendary city. The pencil-thin spire of the Eiffel Tower, the massive rose window of Notre Dame, the pink-bow bedecked win dows of the House of Dior all conspire to make the visit or's heart flutter," she wrote. Unfortunately, I had little opportunity, during my week in Paris, to tasto the tra ditionat tourist delights for which the French capital is renowned. Reporting that Soviet Pre mier Khrushchev "is doing his best to weaken and split the NATO alliance," the Sen ator said a thorny problem is whether NATO itself should become equipped with nuclear-weapon power. She ob served that Gen. Lauris Nor stad, head of NATO, "does not minimize the threat of war which might erupt over West Berlin or some other sensitive issue. He was insistent, how ever, that NATO atomic weapons should be introduced into battle only in 'self-defense' and then, only after a high level decision to do so." Intrigued With Discussions Mrs. Neuberger said she was especially intrigued with trade discussions which "made abundantly clear to me the importance of freer interna tional trade and the need to abandon doctrinaire isolation ist economic policies." She allowed that "liberalizing trade is a policy which many American politicians dread facing their home constitu encies" because it is hard to explain to local economic in terests who fear foreign com petition. She reported that she sug gested that NATO plans to pool scientific and cultural information among member nations be expanded to in clude sharing medical . re- One-year or 12,000-mlle warranty Every 1961 Comet part (except tires, for which appropriate adjustments are made by their makers) is now warranted by dealers against defects in material and workmanship for one year or 12,000 miles, which ever comes first. Normal maintenance services and routine replacement of parts such as filters, spark plugs, and ignitioe points are excepted. (pomet the better compact car AT YOUR MERCURY-COMET DEALER - iiNcoLN.MCicutr division 5Sr4JSomliaiif Rivtrtido Crosby Paternity Trial Nears Jury Los Angeles - (DPI) - Th paternity suit accusing croon er Bing Crosby's son, Dennis, of fathering Mrs. Marilyn Scott's daughter was expected to go to the jury today. Only final arguments re mained in the superior court trial which began a week ago Monday. A jury of nine wom en and three men have heard Mrs. Scott, 28, a divorcee, tell of two nights of love making with Dennis, 26, nearly four years ago. Dennis, who married Las Vegas showgirl Pat Sheehan six months before Mrs. Scott's child was born in November, 1957, admitted being intimate with Mrs. Scott but said ha did not believe Denise Mi chele Scott was his daughter. Dennis' attorney concluded the defense's case Tuesday aft er having witnesses testify that Mrs. Scott had been inti mate with at least two men during the same time sha made love with Crosby. . Mrs. Scott denied knowing cither man when she was call ed back on the witness stand as a rebuttal witness. PARTY FOR NIXON Washington-IUPD-Republican admirers are planning a 48th birthday party here for Vice President Richard M. Nixon on Jan. 9. The reception and dinner at the Mayflower hotel will be sopnsored by the Cap itol Hill Club, a Republican social group. Tickets will cost $15 a person or $25 a couple. search information in order to contribute to alleviating hu man misery which is the root of so much unrest in tha world. PRE-INVENTORY SALE UPHOLSTERY FABRICS SAVINGS P- afO up to 3U70 DALE'S UPHOLSTERY 1920 Table Rock Road Acron From Big Y SP 3-6461 .