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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1. 1961 New University of Oregon President Advocates Developing Creative Power Smfth mcate ideas. Although By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, the new ly designated president of the University of Oregon, is a strong a d v o cate of educa 1 1 o n a 1 pro grams which will develop the c r e a tive power of stu dents and give them the abil ity to commu ne was once a political science professor and expects to teach that subject at the university from time to time, Dr. Flemming is thor oughly convinced that the arts have a strong role to perform in developing the creative po tential of students. "One of the things we most lack is creative power in all walks of life," he said in an interview. Many people are inclined to favor the arts so that a per son may find better use of his leisure, he observed, a con sideration of some value. But he is convinced that the arts play a more important role than this in developing crea tive power which carries over into all areas of life. Creative Solution What does he mean by cre ative power? "It is the ability to look at a tough problem and to de velop an imaginative and cre ative solution," said the for mer cabinet officer with vis ible feeling. "The creative so lution may be unorthodox, but the important thing is that it make it possible to move forward." The failure to communicate ideas properly is one that Dr. Flemming became especially sensitive to during his ex perience in government serv ice. Many problems in admin istration are simply problems of communication, he said. "I think this inability to communicate is caused by our failure to demand excellence in English," Dr. Flemming said. When he was president of Ohio Wesleyan, a new plan was instituted to raise the level of English usage by stu dents. In each subject, the student received two grades one for his competence in that subject material, the oth er in his use of the English language in the course! When the student failed in his Eng lish language grade more than once, he automatically was required to enter remedial English classes and was not permitted to graduate until he had met the English re quirements. To Check on Program Before he takes over at the Eugene campus July 1, Dr. Flemming plans to check on the success of the Ohio Wesleyan program during the past several years since he left that campus. "I liked that plan because the faculty was serving notice that it was not going to settle for mediocrity," he explained. This is the key to Dr. Flem ming's attitude toward higiier education - that it must chal lenge the student and make demands upon him that will further what he likes to call "the pursuit of excellence." "Our institutions of higher education have too often set tled for mediocrity instead of demanding excellence," de clared Dr Flemming. He said he was especially delighted to learn of the hon ors college at the university for students of exceptional ability. Excellence in All Areas The broad responsibility, he feels, of the university is to emphasize the pursuit of ex cellence in all areas, the nat ural as well as the social sci ences, the humanities as well as the arts. "If there is any limiting factor in the ability of our country to adjust to the world Trimester Plan Revolutionary System Speeds Process of Higher Education Editor's note: In the fol lowing dispatch, the first of three, a distinguished educa tor tells about ways of solv ing some of the problems facing higher education. By PATRICIA McCORMACK New York-IUPII-The newest revolution's academic. It's the "trimester plan" pioneered at the University of Pittsburgh and under study at nearly 100 institutions of higher education nationwide. If the plan catches on, it means that a child of yours will be able to earn a bache lor's degree in two and two thirds years-compared to the usual four academic years now required. But that's not all. If a child Senate Will Get Measure To Add 69 More Judges Washington - (UPD - Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said Tuesday he hoped to bring legislation to provide 69 additional judges to the Senate floor Thursday. Mansfield said he antici pated little difficulty in get ting Senate approval of the measure, a priority item on President Kennedy's legisla tive program. The Senate Judiciary com mittee cleared the bill after voting to authorize 10 more judges than President Ken nedy asked. As originally introduced by Son. James O. Eastland (D Miss.), the bill called for 59 more judges, the number sought by the Kennedy ad ministration and by the Uni ted States Judicial conference, on which the nation's top jurists sit. Roving Judge Added Subsequently, Eastland add ed a roving district court judge for Arkansas, and Mon day the committee added nine others - three more for Cali fornia and one each for Mis souri, North Carolina, Okla homa. Rhode Island, Texas and Washington. If the Senate and .the House sustain the committee's action, the roster of federal judges would be raised to 368. The committee bill calls for nine more judges for the cir cuit court of appeal, 54 dis trict court judges and six "temporary" district judges. New York, with eight more judges, would be the chief gainer. Pennsylvania would follow with six and California would receive four. of yours spends four years in a trimeslerized school, he can slick to the books for just 15 more weeks and have a Ph.D. Tinkers with Calendar The trimester plan, brain child of Pitt s chancellor, Dr. Edward H. Litchfield, tinkers with the old academic calen dar, telescopes time and puts in the place of two semesters a year three 15-week learning sessions-trimesters. Litchfield said in an inter view that the trimester sys tem also means higher income for faculty members who want to teach around the calendar-plus more efficient use of classrooms, laborator ies and other costly academic facilities short in supply Tinkering with the old aca demic calendar was begun at Pitt in 1957. The blueprint that emerged after much study was put to the test on a lim ited scale last year. It was expected that 3,000 students would take advant age of the third term. But 5.000 signed up. Help to Attain Goals All who signed up fell the trimester system would help them attain their professional Timber Tax Plan Offered in House Salem - lUPli - Rep. Richard Eymann (D-Mohawk) tossed still another timber lax plan into the legislature mill Tues day. His bill is similar to one which nearly passed the House in 1959 but it differs from another one before this session in two respects. Purpose of the earlier bill is to encourage timber oper ators to keep trees until ma turity. Higher taxes would penalize those who cut faster. Eymann's plan provides a tax adjustment at the time of cutting if that cutting was carried out on a different basis than first intended. As for assessing, the bile on growing timber would be figured in the timber's income potential instead of the mar ket value at the time of assess ing. Eymann said his new bill is an alternate if the legislature gets snarled over two earlier bills. REPORTS DENOUNCED Washington - lOTH - Secre tary of State Dean Rusk Tues day denounced as "irrespon sible and reckless" some pub lished reports that he has sub mitted a memo proposing less reliance on nuclear weapons in plans for defending Europe. Hemorrhoids Cured Painlessly By Non-Surgical Method The non-surgical, electronic method for the treatment of Hemorrhoids (Piles) derel optd by doctors at the Dean Clinic has been so successful and permanent in nature that the following policy is offered their patients: "After all symp toms of Hemorrhoids . . . hve subsided and the patient has been discharged, if he should ever have a recurrence, all further treatments will be giv. en absolutely free." The Dean Clinic has been serving the Northwest for fifty years. Their treatment requires no hospitalization and does not employ drugs or injections. Write today for a descrip tive booklet, yours without obligation: The Dean Clinic, Chiropractic Physicians, 2026 N. E. Sandy Blvd., Portland 12, Oregon. -k goals earlier and more efficiently. Said another way: new doc tors, sociologists, teachers and other professional persons now short in supply will come off the trimeslerized acade mic assembly line faster. Certain characteristics were found among students following the trimester sys- tern at Pitt. Litchfield said more stu dents in the lower income groups were interested than in the higher income groups Men were more interested than women; older students, more than younger. Students who volunteered to pioneer the trimester sys tem also had in common "average ability" plus a wil lingness to work harder. Played Leading Role Litchfield played a leading role in the political reorgani zation of western Germany. He is chairman of the board of the Governmenlal Affairs Institute and was the first executive director of the American Political Science Association. In the business world, he is chairman of the board of di rectors of the Smith-Corona Marchant Inc. and a member of the executive committee of Studebaker-Packard. He also is on the boards of other corporations. (Next: How the trimester system can save $4 billion in the next decade.) situation, it is in the man power area," he contended. There is a crying need for highly competent, trained pro fessional personnel. Our in stitutions of higher education are our only answer in this field." Dr. Flemming said he was particularly impressed with the structure of higher educa tion in Oregon under the state board and a chancellor. As president of the University of Oregon, he conceives of his role as follows: "To do everything I can to enable the members of the faculty to carry forward their programs under the most fa vorable conditions. In a uni versity community, the heart of the community is the fac ulty. It will be a great com munity only as it has an out standing faculty. The presi dent must create the condi tions that will attract out standing faculty members and hold them. I am a great be liever in the ability of the faculty to provide educational leadership." Concerned About Expansion Dr. Flemming is concerned about the need for expansion of higher educational facilities. both through increasing the number of junior colleges and new four-year colleges and in creasing the enrollment and facilities of existing institu tions. He is "definitely" in favor of federal aid to cope with the problems of expansion to ac commodate the one million additional college students ex pected to descend on college campuses by 1965. We are going to have to build awfully fast to take care of them," he observed. His only criticism of the aid to education program of President L that "it doesn't go far enough." He strongly favors more federal scholar ships and student loans to permit more bright students who lack funds to gain a good education. He favors granting income tax deductions for par ents who are financing their children's college education. He also favors federal grants as matching funds for con struction of new college class rooms, libraries, laboratories to meet the needs of the fu ture. B 7 m wm ct t.rs ft ii NOMINATED FOR AWARDS-Shown above are eight mo tion picture stars who have been nominated for Academy Awards. Top row, from left, are Deborah Kerr, Shirley IEGAL NOTICES Measure Favors Research Center Salem - (DPI) - A bill has been offered in the Oregon House which would take $60, 000 of the $900,000 Gov. Mark Hatfield recommends for the Boardman project and use it to assist in "the expansion of existing Oregon industry and agriculture as well as to at tract other science based industry." Sponsors are Reps. Ed Whe lan, Carl Fisher, Richard Ey mann, and F. F. Montgomery, The sponsors said a re search coordination center could be established with the $60,000 to replace the Oregon Associates Corp., a non-profit group, earlier formed at the request of the state planning and development agency. The bill would not earmark the funds but would use money left over after pur poses of the original Board man bill, HR1601, are mei. The new legislation has to be approved by the House rules committee. Bishops' Relief Fund To Start on Sunday The Catholic Bishops' Re lief fund, which helped feed, clothe and give medical care to more than 40 million peo ple overseas last year, will launch its annual fund-raising drive Sunday. Goal of the nation wide campaign, according to the Rev. Morton E. Park. Arch diocesan BRF campaign di rector is $5 million. Collec tions will be taken in all Catholic churches March 12. The 1961 quota for the Port land Archdiocese, Mr. Park said, is $35,000. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE STATE OF OREGON, FOR tittvaun UUUNTY IN PRO BATE No. 9778 NOTICR OF HEARING ON FINAL ACCOUNT In 1he Mnlfpr nf iho Tr.iai. jism ie. wuLr , ueceasea. NOTICE IS HERKRV ftTVTPM inai me unaerBignea, Charles H. Dclsman. Executor nf the oitnta of Mamie Wolf, deceased, has filed his Final Report and Account in and with the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Jack-son Coun ty, and that Monday, the 3rd dav of April, 1961, at tho hour of 10:00 A.M. of said day. in the Court room of Department One of this Court at the Jackson County Courthouse in Medford, Oregon, has been appointed and set as the time and olacc of hearins of re jections to said Final Report and Account and the settlement there of and of said estate. dated and first nuhlishfH thin 1st day of March. 1961. UHAKL.ES H. DELSMAN Executor KELLY & GRANT Attorneys for Eslnt The Mall Building (una l, main aireei Medford. Oregon NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER FOR SALE Whlskrv Crrrk Oral auction bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, or his authorized representative at the office of the Forest Supervisor, Post Off ce Buildintf. Merifnrri. Oregon, beginning at 2:00 p.m., April 3, lflfll, for all merchantable timber marked or designated for cutting on an area embracing 302 acres, more or less, within Sec lions 15, 22. 23, 25. and 26, T. 48 N.. R. 12 W.. M.D.M.. surveyed. in the Rogue River National For est. Siskiyou County, California. 1 he estimated volumes are: 6.360 M board feet of Douglas-fir, 520 M board feet of sugar pine and ponderosa pine. 3.000 M board fect of white fir and other species. The minimum acceptable bid per M board feel is as follows: Douglas- nr 14.40, sugar pine and ponder osa pine $14.40. white fir and other species $5 20. This Includes i lie following rates, per M board feet for stumpage (including de posit for sale area betterment! Douglas-fir $12.20. sugar pine and ponderosa pine $12.20. white fir and other species $3.00 and $2.20 for slash disposal for all species. Scaled bids will be publicly opened and posted at the office of the forest supervisor, at 2;00 p.m. April 3. 1961. All those who suh mitted a satisfactory sealed bid will be permitted Immediately in continue auction bidd ne. A money oraer, mrfik aran. casnier or cer tified check in the sum of $5,500 00 must accompany each hid. to be applied to the purchase price, re funded, or retained for application io any claim tor namaecs. accord ine to the conn t ons of sale, if requested hy the purchaser, con tract terms win permit felling of timber in advance of payment up to the value of the performance bond. If an oral hid is declared to be hieh at the closing of the auc tion, the bidder must liTiroedlntely conitrm nie orai ma d.v sunmit ting it In writing on a Forest Service bid form. The right tn reject any and all bids n reserved Forest Service hid forms for use in Mihmitling sealed bids and full information concerning the tli her. the conditions nf ale and the submission of bids should be obtained from the District Ranger. Star Ranger station. Jacksonville, Oregon, or the Forest Supervisor, Medford. Oregon, before bids are submitted. BANS STRIKEBREAKING Olympia, Wash.-ujPH - The Washington Senate Tuesday passed 44-?, and sent to the House a bill banning profes sional strikebreaking. Advertisement ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATISM, NEURITIS SUFFERERS Can Ease Minor Paint Day ofltr Day SclrntiBcally tormulilfd ind rifw A R-PAN-EX worki diredly throush blood itrram to bring fast tempo rary relief of minor pains of arthri tis and rheumatUm. See us today bout A R-PAN-EX tablets. Money back guarantee. WAINSCOTT'S PHARMACY ill I. Main Madfartl MacLanc, Milinn Mcrcouri and Grccr Gnrson. Bottom row, from left, are Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Jack Lem nion and Burt Lancaster. (UPI Teleplioto) Bills Approved By Legislature Salem - IUPD - Measures ap proved Tuesday: By th Senate SB76 - Oregon Stale Bar membership fees. SB356 - Funds for Colum bia River Gorge commission. SB390 - Transferring Hy droelectric commission func tions to state engineer. HCR5 -Con dolences on death of Douglas McKay. I1B2012 - State Marin board budget. By the House IIB2010, 2018, 2019, 2024 -Budgets for board of engi neers, state engineer, Hydro electric commission, S t a t e n Banking department. HB1066 - Relating to bat lots. HB1179 - Bringing boating regulations more into con formity with Coast Guard rules. HB1190 - Relating to prop erty tax. HB1215 - Commercial ani mal feeds. HB1288 - Transferring ma chine accounting to secretary of state. HB1291 - Publication of re ports. HB1293 - Relating to regu latory fees collected from rail roads. SB189 - Relating to bondf and indebtedness. "Your grandchildren wilt grow up under Communism!" lays NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV 1 - A Will the Soviet threat come true? Will your grandchildren live under Communism? Forget God? Salute the Soviet flag? "Never!" you say. But arc you sure? How can you oppose Communism? One sure way is to help Radio Free Europe. The voice is that of Nikita Khrushchev. The audience is American. " Your grandchildren will grow up under Communism !" he shouts. Do you believe that? Will your grandchildren live in barracks with their hair shacd? I-orgct God? Salute the Soviet flag? "Never!" you say. Dut arc you sure? What can you do to oppose Communism? Help Radio l-'rcc Europe. What docs it do? Every day, to 79 million captive people behind the Iron Curtain, it broadcasts the plain truth , . . religious services . . . folk songs I hey love . . . the real news of the outside world. It helps keep these 79 million people from turning to Communism. The Poles, Czcchoslovakians, Bulgarians, Rumanians and Hungarians. It keeps alive their friendship for America. Broadcasting from 28 transmitters . . . manned by escapees from Communism ... it reaches over 90 of these people, despite Communist jamming. Thousands of smuggled letters echo the same plea: "God flr. You I Please keep Radio I'ree Europe on the airl" These 79 million people are vital to the cause of freedom. They are the buffers between Russia and the Tree World. They help tic up 30 Russian divisions, stationed to prevent uprisings. They pose a major obstacle to the Russians starting any war. And they depend on Radio Fret Europe. It It their .strongest link with the Free World. But Radio Krce Europe needs money to continue this important job ... to grow ... to become ever more effective. It depends on individual American support for its very existence. How about it? Will you help fight Communism? Secure the future of your children? ...Give a dollar?,, .Give five dollars?. ..or more? Surely, your heart tells you to give something so that our children and all children ehall In in freedom throughout tho world. GIVE NOW TO RADIO FREE EUROPE The Amerlcen People's Counter-Voice to Communism Mall your ceiDributlwil to: lodlo Frt (uropt Fund, P.O. Boa 1961, Ml.VamoalO, Ntw V thlldUT OF RADIO MU tUflOPt UHO Of , MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
