SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1961
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' EAGLE SCOUT Bill Dames, son of Mr.
, and Mrs.' Robert Dames; 33 worm uarneourg
rd., was awarded his Eagle Scout badge at
Court of Honor Feb. , 4 at Roosevelt
.school. Bill, ' a junior at Medford High
' school, is a senior scout In Troop 3 sponsor
, cd by Medford Lions- club. He Is active in
; the Boy Scout Order of the Arrow, now
serving as vice chief of the order in Crater
Lake council. A member of the Tornado
swimming, wrestling and debate teams, Bill
is also sports reporter on the Medford Hi
Times newspaper. Jack Thompson and Larry
Schade are Scoutmaster and assistant scout
master for Troop 3. Shown with Bill are his
parents. (Brainerd photo)
SOC Staff Members
Attend Symposium
At Education Event
Ashland - Dr. Richard H,
Byrns, professor of English at
Southern Oregon- college, ana
Dr. Arthur Krelsman, director
of general studies, attended a
Symposium' on "Experiments
-In College Teaching" at the
State Conference oh College
Teaching, at Corvallls recent
ly. '. -
. Accompanying Dr. Byrns
and Dr. Kreisman were Fran
.cis J. Kelly, a member of the
psychology staff, and Dr. E.
C. McGill,' assistant' to 'the
president.
The keynote speaker-of-the
conference was Dr. Wllbert J.
McKeachie,' professor' of psy
chology, at the University of
Michigan. Dr. McKeachie has
been involved in experimenta
tion with and testing of new
educational tools and methods.
His address' dealt with "New
Teaching Methods: Panaceas
Toast masters Set
Speech Contest
' The annual area speech
contest sponsored . by toast-
masters clubs will be held .at
the Mark Antony, hotel,' Ash
land, starting at 7 p.m. Satur-
day, March 4. : :-i .-
Toastmasters from southern
Oregon and - northern. -Caii-
fornia are expected to partici
pate. The -contest-! is-the first
in a series to determine the
Six speakers- who will com
.pete at the International con
tention in Seattle.
Ronald E. Gordon, member
of the host club Medford
Toastmasters, will be toast
master for the event, assisted
by Bill Ross, president, of the
Ashland Toastmasters, Vince
Armstrong, Medford, is area
N governor. - .
The trophy for the best
speech will be presented by
Fred Decker, Corvallis, newly
appointed toastmastcr lieuten
ant governor. Decker Is chair
man of the atmospheric sci
ence branch of the science, re:
search institute at Oregon
State college, Corvallis.
3 Tickets for . the Ashland
event may be obtained from
any toastmaster.
or Placebos?" In general, he
contradicted the vast.optimism
with which such new tools as
television and automated
teaching devices are being
promoted, Dr. Byrns said
, Dr. McKeachie maintained
that these tools were being
falsely oversold to the public
as solutions to the problems
which beset education. He cit
ed experimental evidence
which would lead to the con
clusion that in the majority
of cases where reliable and
valid experimental designs
were Imposed, the facts seem
to lean consistently toward
support of the thesis that the
new tools and methods are not
as good as traditional class
room procedures.
He emphasized, however,
that the, data was far from
conclusive, and that much
more experimentation was
called for, both with old tech-
nlaues and new ideas, Dr.
Byrns said.
Clifford L. Corlcy, of Ore
gon College of Education, de
scribed block teaching experi
ment' being' carried out at
Monmouth which is patterned
after the work done at SOC
in humanities and ' social sci
ence but applied In this case
to education, specifically
teacher training.
Carl M. Stevens, Reed col
lege, described a scml-inde-
pendent study course in eco
nomics where the class peri
ods are divided into , two
blocks for In-class and out-of-clas?
work. The two are fluid
ly conceived so that the course
may begin with two weeks of
work in class, take a week
off while the students work
out-of-class, come back for a
week, dissolve for two weeks,
and reconvene for two weeks,
and so on.
There were also descriptions
of an undergraduate research
program used as a teaching
procedure in the school of
pharmacy at OSC, and a gen
eral examination device used
freshman : composition. A
demonstration was given by
members of the dental school
of a case study method of
teaching, Dr. Krelsman re
ported. .
Television Teaching Is
Reviewed at Conference
' Ashland - Among items of
Interest to. persons Interested
in improving teaching proc
esses in Oregon schools as dis
cussed in the annual confer
ence of College Audio-Visual
directors recently at Portland
University, were those dealing
with television teaching-and
the use of teaching machines,
according to Laurence E. But
ler, director of visual aides
center at Southern Oregon
college, who represented the
college.
Butler said some of the con
clusions reached about televi
sion teaching were: closed cir
cuit television teaching should
be used mostly for observation
and demonstration; pupils be
ing televised for observation,
are not disturbed by televi
sion operations; and that most
conferences on television
teaching significantly end up
In discussions of teaching
methods.
Important by-products , of
television ' teaching ' are: it
raises the question of how
good Is the' college teacher; it
shifts the emphasis from re
search arid' writing' to' teach
ing; it shows much waste of
teaching time; erases barriers
between administrators and
teachers at the college level;
people see what higher edu-
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people; it stimulates college
teachers to use audio-visual
materials; it makes better
teachers of those who have to
do it; it acts as a valid in
service device; and it up
grades teaching at the upper
division level.
Other agenda items, Butler
said, included statistics on the
number of Oregon's higher
ability secondary graduates
who are college bound. Of this
group, 30 per cent were In
tending to go to college, and
30 per cent were not planning
to attend college. (
Sixty-four per cent of the
non-college bound are girls
and 10 per cent of the state's
lower ability high school stu
dents are college bound.
Dr. Trost To Read
Paper at Meeting
Ashland-National recogni
tion for his outstanding work
in the field of combating and
controlling juvenile d e 1 1 n-
quency has been extended to
Dr. Frederick J. Trost of the
Southern Oregon college so
cial science division.
Dr. Trost has been invited
to read a paper, "A Social
Group Worker and Delin
quent High School Students;
a Study of Relationships," at
the National Conference on
Social Welfare May 19 in
Chicago.
Co-author of the paper is
Francis J.' Kelly' of the SOC
psychology staff, who has
been working, with Dr. Trost
since 1957. ,
Dr. Trost has also been in
vited to appear as a member
of a special panel on juvenile
delinquency which will fea
ture four outstanding national
authorities in the field: Dr.
Martha Lewis, Dr. Guido
Tardi, Dr. Russell Hogrefe,
and Dr. Trost.
Last year,- Dr. Trost was
invited to read papers before
the National Conference of
the American Sociological as
sociation in New York, and
for the Northwest .Council on
Family Relations in Portland.
Seman To Review
Reader Aid Plan
At OEA Meeting
Portland - Robert Seman
head of the English depart
ment at Medford High school.
will review the use of reader
aids in the school's English
composition program at the
annual Oregon Education as
sociation research conference
Friday, March 3, at Portland
State college.
In the reader aid program
qualified laymen, most of
tliem housewives, are retain
ed to read composition papers
and grade them. They work
closely with the instructor
during the school year.
With the use of reader aids
more attention is given to
actual composition work in
English classes.
Theme of Conference
Theme for the conference,
which is being coordinated by
Henry Osibov, OEA research
director, is "Developments on
the Frontier of Education in
Oregon Today." Several ex
perimental programs and re
search under way in Oregon
education will be reviewed.
Dr. Roy Lieuallen, presi
dent of Oregon College of Ed
ucation, will present a moti
vation project being conduct
ed at OCE; Dr. Richard Boyd.
research director, Portland
public schools, will outline a
proposed Oregon Education
Research council; and new ed
ucational media for home
teaching will be presented by
Dr. Lester Beck and Dr. Alam
Bingham, Portland State col
lege.
Osibov will present a sum
mary of experimental proj
ects under way in Oregon
schools today, and two stud
ies of the University of Ore
gon, Oregon school study
council, will be presented. .
If a person would go back
31 generations, he would dis
cover that he had 4,294,967
ancestors.
White House Conference Is
Discussed at Local Meeting
Julia Johnson, executive sec-
retary of the Oregon State
Council on Aging, Salem,
spoke Thursday afternoon in
the Red Cross building before
an overflow audience,
Her unscheduled appear
ance at the annual meeting
of the Jackson county group
came because of an accident
Tuesday in Salem when Mrs
Marshall Cornett, the announ
ced speaker suffered a brok
en hip.
' A comprehensive report of
the White . House Conference
on Aging was the basis for
Miss Johnson's talk, and for
the discussion period that fol
lowed. Denying many of the
charges that the national con
ference had been "rigged or
stacked," she traced its back
ground and plans, telling of
the state preparations, partic
ularly in Oregon. . :
According to the speaker,
this state has one of- the out-
Couple Hurt When
Car Strikes Tree
A Medford couple sustained
minor injuries Thursday when
a car in which they were
riding went out of control
and hit a tree at the Rogue
vaney country club.
Sustaining minor injuries
in the crash were John Wil
liam Crawford, 70, of 317 Ef-
fie St., and Edna Crawford,
67, of the same address. Po
lice said the couple refused
medical aid at the scene of
the . accident, but their in-
juries were not believed to
be 'serious.
Police said the accident oc
curred about 8:35 a.m. when
a car operated by Crawford
went out of control while
going west on Hillcrest rd.,
and hit a tree on country club
property. Crawford was cited
for operating a vehicle on an
instruction permit without be
ing accompanied by a licensed
driver. - The " car sustained
front end damage. .
standing councils, and was
recognized lor its efficient pro
gramming and general organi
zation. Preliminary work be
gan last April, Miss Johnson
said, when the Oregon confer
ence brought together some
700 representatives,
Prior to that time four dis
trict meetings had been held
to work on recommendations
for state council approval
From these grass-roots ideas
came the proposals that were
carried to the Washington con
ference in January.
Oregon's 17 delegates, who
were appointed by Gov. Mark
Hatfield, represented a cross
section of interests and had no
political bias. The delegation
went uninstructed and each
representative was given am
ple opportunity for participa
tion in the workshop sessions
and discussion groups from
which conference r e p o r ts
were made at the plenary
meeting.
"The Oregon delegates were
satisfied' "that" reebmmenda
tions of the White House Con
ference will provide basis for
constructive w o r k," Miss
Johnson said.
Commenting on her impres-
Dr. Cameron Talks
On Plant Anatomy
. ADDroximatelv 4n nprsnns
heard Dr. H... R. Cameron,
Corvallis. talk on nlant in.
atomy and its relation to wa
ter intake, at the second ses
sion of the plant growth short
course being1 held bv ennntv
extension service at the coun
ty courthouse.
The courses. nfferpH raph
Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m.
M. N.. Westwodd will speak
on photosynthesis and meta
bolism at the March 7. kps-
sion.: This class will be held
at the exhibit building at the
fairgrounds. . .
The fourth class will ho nn
mineral nutrition and will be
conducted by O. C. Compton.
sions, the speaker declared
that "a certain philosophy per
meated the entire conference:
the philosophy that first re
sponsibility lies with the indi
vidual, then his family and
community, and after that the
state, and finally. .the federal
government.
Miss Johnson outlined some
of the problems which were
studied by the 3,000 represen
tatives. Need for changing
attitudes toward age; the in
creasing life span; retirement
plans; housing for the elderly,
and most controversial of all
medical care, were covered in
the national sessions.
- "Youth is glorified today,
the speaker commented. "Age
is slurred. Advertising is slant
ed toward the aging skin, the
tired blood, old cars. We need
a change of attitude. Do not
segregate age groups. Plan for
a total community," she said
Specifically mentioned dur
ing the discussion period were
housing, leisure time activi
ties, community organizations,
and civic group participation,
as well as needed legislation
for health insurance.
Frank Glonning, chairman
of the Rogue Valley Council
on Aging, conducted the meet
ing at which annual reports
were given by committee
heads. William Hoxie. chair
man of the housing commit
tee, told in some detail of the
surveys made and conferenc
es held in Jackson county aim
ed at developing low cost
housing through use of Public
Housing Administration funds
which could be made avail
able if the county housing au
thority were re-activated.
Preceding the meeting an
hour of orchestral music and
singing was directed by Ed
ward Root. It was announced
that a benefit tea to raise mon
ey for a Senior Center will be
held between 1 and 5bclock
this afternoon at'601 East
Jackson st. Members . of the
Center's advanced art class
and their teacher, Mrs. Vic-i
toria Staley, will host the
event. ..-.s i
Charge Dismissed
Against Local Man
Alan J). Gill, Talent, was
arrested by sheriff's deputies
last week on a nine-year old
warrant charging grand lar
ceny. However, - the man who
signed the complaint against
him was killed in an auto
accident shortly after the al
leged crime was committed.
Charges against Gill were dis
missed in district court since
the complaining witness . is
dead. ,
Gill said he worked in some
riding stables at Lake of the
Woods in 1951. However, on
September, 1951, the proprie
tor owed him $82 in wages
which he was unable to pay.
Gill said he took a saddle and
a rifle from the stables op
erator in his presence.
He agreed to hold both
items for 30 days, then if not
paid would, sell them. Gill
said he sold the rifle in Cali
fornia at the end of that pe
riod, and the saddle was held
in Talent.
Committee Expresses I
Concern Over Pollution
Salem-The fruit and vege
table committee of the Ore
gon Farm Bureau meeting
here last week, expressed con
cern over the possibility of
contamination of agricultural
crops from industrial poisons.
The committee, headed by
Gordon Walker, Independ
ence, voted to support Senate
Bill 40 which is aimed at
giving the state sanitary au
thority in , controlling pollu
tion which may effect grow
ing crops.
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Suits Are Filed
Two condemnation suits
have been filed in circuit
court by the state highway
department seeking property
for the Seven Oaks-Neil creek
section of Highway 99 freeway.
One complaint, against Mr. i
and Mrs. . Scott B. . Zachary,
Suncrcst rd., and the U.S. Na
tional Bank of Portland as the
mortgagor, seeks three parcels
of land total 5.51 acres. 1
According to the. complaint,
53 acre of the land will be
used for the relocation of Sun-
crest county road. An addi
tional .3 acre will be needed
for temporary easement for a
public use for 'construction of
a private access road to Sun-
crest rd
The true value of the prop
erty is listed as $17,250.
A parcel of land; totaling
10.5 acres, owned by Mr. and
Mrs. David. H. . Holmes, 180
White Oak dr., and Jackson
county, is sought by the high
way department the reloca
tion, construction, improve
ment and maintenance of
Highway 99 freeway.
The land s true value is list
ed as $15,000
Guard Army Advisor
Gets Reassignment
Ashland - National Guard
Army Advisor Capt. Woodie
B. Martin has received re
assignment orders to Hahau,
Germany. He had served as
advisor to the Second Gun
Battalion, 249th Artillery,
here for the past 2i years.
Captain Martin has spent
26 years In the service and
plans to retire and return to
Ashland in four years. He and
his wife have made their
home at ' 130 Hargadine st.
He is scheduled to leave on
March 6.
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