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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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What docs it do?
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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.
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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
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