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o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. JANUARY 16. 1961 . A 3 $5 Billion Needed Annually to Educate 3.6 Million Students Higher Education To Cost Estimated $10 Billion in 70 By LOUIS CASSELS United Presi International U. S. colleges have raised their tuition charges sharply in recent years. But they still get only one-fifth of their op erating income from this source. It costs nearly $5 billion a year to operate the nation's 2,000 Institutions of higher education, with the present enrollment of 3,610,000 stu dents. A nationwide survey by the U.S. office of education dis closes that approximately $1 billion of this bill is paid by the students themselves - or their families - in the form of tuition and fees. The 20 per cent figure is an average for all types of colleges. Public institutions get only 10 per cent of their income from tuition, while private institutions get about 33 per cent. Income from auxiliary en terprises, such as dormitories, dining halls, book stores and student hospitals, accounts for 19 per cent of the current funds of private institutions, and 17 per cent of the ex penses of public institutions. Appropriations by state leg islatures are by far the larg est source of funds for public colleges and universities, amounting to 43 per cent of the total. Private schools, of course, receive little from this source. To make ends meet, they must depend on gifts from alumni, corporations and philanthropists, and grants from foundations. Together these sources provide 7 per cent of their total current in come. Contrary to popular be lief, endowment earnings are not an important source of income for colleges. Less than 4 per cent of all private school income comes from endow ment earnings, and this is heavily concentrated in about SO favored institutions. One rather surprising dis closure of the survey was the important role already being played by the federal govern ment in financing higher edu cation. Both public and pri vate institutions receive about 15 per cent of their income from federal funds, predom inantly in the form of research contracts and grants. If college enrollments climb throughout the 1960's as popu lation projections clearly in dicate they will, the annual operating cost of the nation's system of higher education will reach at least $10 billion by 1970. Gross National Product That sounds like a lot of money, but it actually repre sents only 1.7 per cent of the estimated gross national pro duct in 1970. Russia is already spending at least 3 per cent of its gross national product on higher education. There's no question that the United States, as a nation, can easily afford $10 billion a year for higher education. The real question is: Exactly where is the money coming from? Colleges are encountering resistance to further substan tial increases in tuition. But even if their fees are stabil ized at roughly the present level, increased enrollment will bring income from this source up to about $2 billion a year by 1970. Income from dormitories, dining halls and other auxiliary enterprises can also be expected to dou ble. Raised From Other Sources But that still leaves up wards of $6 billion a year to be raised from other quarters. Public institutions will look to state legislatures for larger annual appropriations. Private institutions will re quire much more generous lupport from their alumni, GET A CASH LOAN TO CLEAN UP HOLIDAY BILLS -from the friendliest people in town Start the year right. Clean up I7 A- I BU.ll Jf -A CITY FINANCE COMPANY 185 E. 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Recent Trip The speaker told about a re cent trip he took to Russia with 11 other editors and stressed that the time has come when it should be an nounced that the United States has the finest educa tional system in the world. He criticized the United States for its sense of values public service by the COLLEGE of LAW tfVILlAMETTE UNIVERSITY Murton, a bookseller, was convicted of violating a Los Angeles City ordinance which made it a crime "for any per son to have in his possession any pbscene or indecent writ ing, or book ... in any place where . , . books . . . are sold or kept for sale." The prose cution did not prove that Mur ton knew that any of his books were obscene, thereupon, Mur ton appealed to the U. S. Su preme Court. THE COURT HELD: Con viction reversed. Since under the ordinance a bookseller may be convicted even though he did not know that one of thousands of books on his shelves contained obscene material, the ordinance is an unconstitutional violation of freedom of the press, guaran teed by the 1st Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. If such an ordinance were held valid, the bookseller would be forced to restrict his sales to those books that he had personally inspected, and this would vio late freedom of the press since it would restrict the sale of decent as well as obscene lit erature. (361 U.S. 147, 1959). This Willamette Law School column presents general legal j principles. Slight changes of; facts may change the outcome of similar cases. from corporations and other private sources. There is plenty of room for growth in this area. Only one college alumnus in five is now contributing to his alma ma ter's need for funds, accord ing to the American alumni council, and the average con tribution to alumni annual funds is only $32.86 per don or. . , Corporate giving to colleges has increased greatly in re cent years, from an annual rate of $40 million in 1953 to about $150 million in 1958 59. But the council for fin ancial aid to education says that only 25,000 corporations are now contributing to the institutions on which they re ly for trained manpower. Council officials believe that at least 100,000 corporations can and should be induced j to contribute to higher education. E COURT HELD old bills. Just pick up your, phone, then pick up your loan. $25 to $1500 and standards when "the dis coverer of the Salk vaccine earns less than the teen-age recording stars." "Russian kids want to go to the moon," the speaker con tinued, "American kids want to go steady." "There is only one formula for a country to stay first. 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John Stennis was named Saturday to succeed Vice-President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson as chair man of the Senate Prepared ness subcommittee. some of the Russian dominat ed countries." The speaker was introduced by John Pletsch, club presi dent. Others at the speaker's table were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brophy, and Mrs. Pletsch. VV Plus THRIFTY GREEN STAMPS V'iT' A W D.L.. Os. With Every Purchase yf Frozen Vi!r D3Dy Grange News Shady Cove The regular meeting of the Shady Cove Grange was held Saturday, Jan. 7, ill the Shady Cove school with Mas ter Cecil Kee presiding. George Wilson was given the obligation of the first and second degrees. Master Kee gave a detailed report of the year's activities and home economics club chairman Mrs. A. B. Clark gave a full report of what the club had done during the year. The Jan. 10 meeting was held at the Frank Linden home on Kee lane. The Grange serving com mittee for Jan. 21 will be Mr. and Mrs. Neil Dusenberry and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Du senberry. Mrs. Clark was presented a gavel for the club from the Grange. Members of the Grange Queen VVMCSH. 7" voted to hire a baby sitter for Grange members' children. Edgar Vanderlip read sev eral readings followed by a candle lighting ceremony of obligation. Refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Dave Ber-gren. Khrushchev Plans Visit to Africa Moscow IUPU Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev will visit Africa, the official Soviet Tass news agency said today Tass said Khrushchev has accepted an invitation from Sylvanus Olympio, prime min ister of the new African state of Togo, to visit his country. No date for the visit was an nounced. But Tass said it would "be agreed through dip loinatic channels." Dr. Fleming To Talk At Eugene Meeting Eugene - Dr. Robert Flem ing, assistant commissioner of education for New Jersev. will be featured speaker at the an- nual winter conference of the Oregon Association for Super- vision and Curriculum De - velopment in Eugene Jan 27 and 28. Dr. Fleming, former high school teacher, college pvofes- tor, will talk on "Human Var iability and Learning." Conference registration will open at 2:30 p.m. followed by a hospitality hour at 4::30 p.m. First general session is a dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. General discussion will be held Saturday morning. The concluding luncheon meeting will be held at 12:15 p.m. Miss Gladys Durrand, Med ford school district elemen tary supervisor, is a member of the conference planning committee, as is Gilbert Mack. at ANDERS PHOTO SHOP 232 EaST MAIN STREET YOU CAN RENT TAPE RECORDERS o POLAROID CAMERAS SLIDE PROJECTORS o SOUND PROJECTORS One Day Color Service 6 Hour Black and White j k Efl j ' lfr j f- Ifc; j Fl fcAiWwii.i--i- - in m ii mil 1 1'1'iTlT' fB Gold Hill principal. elementary school 2?
