WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1960
Educational Experiment Using Television To Start Early in 1961
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
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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)
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. 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
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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.
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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)
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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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contribute to alleviating hu
man misery which is the root
of so much unrest in tha
world.
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