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n Instruction for Teacher, Pupil In 10-Year Plan By DOUGLAS GH1PP Salem - (uPD - Dr. Leon P. Minear, stale superintendent of public instruction. Thurs day announced a dynamic new program for improving educa tion m Oregon which he said is intended to make Oregon elementary and secondary scnoois the best in the nation Oregon is now rated third nationally in certain cate gories. Called the "Oregon Im provement Program for Edu cation," the eight to 10 year plan involves two phases -classroom instruction, and teacher education. , Gov. Mark Hatfield an nounced strong support and said he is "vitally interested in its success." Raise Our Sights The governor added: "Un less we raise our sights, plan for generations, reduce the trivia" and unimportant de tails, "We cannot realize the hopes and ambitions that have long characterized the people of Oregon." Minear unveiled the pro gram Thursday afternoon be fore the Senate education committee. He announced appointment of Allen Lee of Salem as ad ministrator of the program. Lee has been an official of agriculture and vocational re habilitation in the state edu cation department. Minear said the program will be a cooperative arrange ment between the state board of education, public and pri vate colleges in Oregon, and local school districts. Local districts need not participate if they don't want to, he said. Assert Direction i He emphasized that the state j department would assert "di rection" for the program -first of its kind in the nation. Lee said the program is not experimental. It takes "prom ising innovations" from throughout schools in the na tion. The innovations will be chosen jointly by the three levels of education cooperat ing. Francis I. Smith of Port land, member of the board, j said one national leader in education told him if Oregon follows through, in 15 years the state would be "at least 25 years" ahead of any other state in the nation in educa tion. Cover Slate's Share Minear said he would like to have S90.000 from the legis lature to cover the state's share, adding there is hope of matching money from a private foundation that would make it a SI million fund. Minear said the appropria; tion, however, is not neces sary for Oregon to proceed. This is because the program involves "new and better ways" of using the money edu cation already has. , S. E. Brogoitti of Helix, board chairman, said the board has been seriously studying the program since January, 1960. It has 10 main points. They are: 1. Swing the state depart ment "sharply toward new directions in leadership," de emphasizing inspection o f schools and compliance checks. 'Help Slay Giants' 2. Have the state depart ment "stick its neck out," moving to "help slay the giants of ignorance, tradition, folklore, prejudice, dogma, and vested interests that per sist in blocking educational progress." 3. Promote a massive effort with many local school sys tems and" colleges to study promising innovations in teacher training, methods, staff use and use of electronic machines for instruction. 4. Eventually secure several million dollars In out-of-state funds to supplement the pro gram, from funds and similar sources. 5. Prune the "deadwood thrnnehout Oregon education so far as standards, procedures and staff use are concerned. Realistic Salary Scale 8. Bring about a competitive and realistic salary scale tor iaohr and administrators 7. Strive for higher quality In education in general and more effective use of tax dot lor. 8. Stimulate recruitment of junerior people into leacning a novlnn a nlan of m- orviro training for adminis trator' school board members and architects to moderniie school buildings and equip ment, and bring about their best use n.l... Creative Energy 10. Use the state depart-tner-t la "trirraerine the re load ot tct'V tierv end vitil action promoting the improvement of education in Oregon." Lee said the fields of class room instruction and teacher training would have equal emphasis. On the latter, the idea is a shift from profes sional college training of teachers to more of an "on-the-job" philosophy, yet re taining the higher educational aspects of teacher education. Seven public colleges, three private, and 26 local school districts have agreed to pro ceed with the plan. The public colleges are: University of Oregon, Ore gon State college. Eastern Oregon college, Southern Ore gon, Oregon College of Edu cation, Portland State, and the general extension division of the state system. The private colleges are: Reed, Pacific and Linfield. The school districts include: Pendleton, La Grande, Med ford, Beaverton, Corvallis. Coos Bay, Oswego, Monmouth- Independence, Dallas, Salem, David Douglas, Portland, Bethel, Eugene, Springfield, Roseburg, Newberg, McMinn ville, Hilisboro 3J, Hillsboro No. 7, Gold Beach, Port Or-ford-Langlois, Brookings-Har- bor. Milwaukie Union Hieh. Forest Grove Union High, and Forest Grove Districts No. 1 and 15. Qualification Test Set For April 27 All college students eligible for selective service are being encouraged to take the selec tive service college qualifica tion test offered April 27, The tests will be given to students at approximately 500 colleg es throughout the nation and scores will help local draft boards in considering defer ments for study as students. Sprague H. Carter, Oregon state selective service direc tor, said the purpose of stu dent deferments is to give promising students an oppor tunity to continue to prepare themselves for careers in sup port of the national Interest. Application materials for the test are available at the nearest selective service local board office and applications must be postmarked not lat er than midnight, April 6. The Medford office is in the Feder al building, 33 North River side ave, Biff Boosting Federal Minimum Wage OK'd Washington-IUPD-The House Education and Labor commit tee Thursday approved a bill to boost the federal minimum wage from SI to SI. 25 an hour in two steps over 28 months. rfie Medical Fluoridation of City Water It distresses me to see the people of a city voting on the question of adding a trace of fluorine to their city water. If they all had the needed facts at their dis posal, it would not be so bad, but thousands of the people nave Deen Aiviter mien up wun misinformation. Many of the men who supply this mis information so violently hate most health measures that they cannot think dispassion ately about any one of them As a result, many people have written me angrily to say, "Don't you know fluorides are rat poison? Don't you know that rat poison will kill you?" Obviously, the people who wrote that were not thinking One part of any drug even rat poison put into one mil lion parts of water cannot possibly do any harm to any one. Imagine trying to get re lief from a headache with one millionth part of a tablet of aspirin! Anyone should be able to see that it could not possibly have the slightest effect. Some readers may now ask, "But how then can one part in a million do any good?" It does good because for some strange reason, it becomes concentrated in the enamel of children's teeth. It hardens this enamel, and thereby cuts the number of the child's cavi ties by 60 per cent. This is a fact which no one seems to question. Would Eventually Poison But I hear someone saying that If you took the micro scopic dose of fluoride every day it would add up in your body until it eventually would poison you. No; tests have shown thai most of the fluorine' taken by mouth promptly leaves by the kid neys. It does not accumulate except in the enamel of the teeth. People write me that they have been told by violent zealots that the inhabitants of the cities that have a tiny trace of fluorine in their wat er are poisoned and die. This is not true. The government authorities have compared the "vital statistics" of cities with and without fluorine in their water and have found no sign of any increased mor bidity (tendency to illness) or mortality in the cities which have the greater amounts of the chemical. Incidentally, I wish all those persons who don't want to have fluorine in their water knew that some FTTH " I The character of a Cadillac reveals the character of its owner. It is visual evidence of his good taste , . . his recognition of correct, enduring styling. It speaks well of its owner's sense of quality quality evidenced in Cadillac's quietness of operation ... its case of VISIT YOUR LOCAL Roundup CetisuiUnt to Mdlels Mayo Cliaic SmerHiH Prolcwor of Mtilcie Myo Clinic (Register and Trlbun Syn4iet IS61 1,200 of our cities in Ameri ca have always had a natural supply of fluorine in their water. No one can vote it out. What to me is very curious is that I cannot remember ever having heard people raising a storm of protest about the addition of chlorine to their city water; and yet in some places, so much chlorine has to be added every day to protect us from serious diseases t hat the taste of the water is unpleas ant. But the last thing I would ever expect of my fellow human beings much as I like them would be con stant behavior. The last time I said in this column that I had read the official reports on fluorida tion by several top -health committees of the U.S. Gov ernment, the American Medi cal Association, the American Dental Association, The Unit ed Nations, and some foreign governments, and had found the experts all saying that they could not see any reason to fear the practice, a lot of people wrote to say that they, too, had looked into the offi cial reports and had accepted them. But still they intended to fight to the death to avoid fluoridation of their city wat er. Why? Because they felt it was an invasion of their per sonal rights. Must Accept Regulations I wrote back saying, "Why then aren't you demanding that chlorine be left out of your water, and iron and vita mins and other chemicals be left out of your bread? Why do you permit the health authorities to vaccinate you against several diseases when you want to travel to Central Africa or to Central Brazil?" No; I am as fond of my rights as anyone, but I know that if I am to live in a large city without dying off with smallpox, diphtheria, dysen tery, typhoid fever or dozens of other deadly diseases, I must gladly accept the. regula tions made by a highly effi cient health department a department that will watch over my health and your health every day. To show how necessary this daily watchfulness is: One day in a small city in my na tive California the engineer the plant which regularly pumped water out of the local river and into the city mains, didn't bother to add the usual amount of chlorine. In a mat ter of days nearly everyone in that city was in bed with dysentery; and, as I remem ber, over 150 people were down with the often deadly typhoid fever. Literature Searched For nine years now I have been searching the enormous literature of several science', AUTHORIZED SKINNER-BUICK-CADILLAC 143 SOUTH RIVIRS1DI MIDFORD, OREGON Planners Set March 23 Meeting A special meeting has been called by Medford's city plan ning commission for March 23 to consider two requests which are said to require ur gent action. One of the requests is from the owners of the Alpme Vil lage development who are re questing a change of zone and alley vacation. The other re quest is from backers of a private tennis club who are seeking a zoning use variance. The commission at last night's regular meeting called for public hearings for March 23 on both requests. Developers Inc., a Eugene firm, is seeking to change the zone in an area bounded by Jackson st., Bartlett St., and Central ave., from limited commercial to commercial. They are also seeking to have the city vacate Mitchell Way, an alley that runs through the property. The Alpine vil lage will be erected on the site. Don K. Auxier, in a letter to the commission, said back ers of the proposed tennis club desire a use variance for ap proximately 9' i acres of prop erty at 217 South Modoc ave. Auxier said six tennis courts and a swimming pool will be erected on the site, in addi tion to several existing struc tures. Both Auxier and Wayne Johnson, president of Devel opers Inc., said they need speedy action on their re quests. and medicine to find Hems which I think will be inter esting to you, my readers, End helpful to you. All I can do now Is to say that I have fully investigated this matter of fluoridation and I have found nothing to alarm me. I have even looked through the liter ature put out by the violent antis. In their pamphlets I found many mistakes that showed me that these people have been badly misinformed by someone. Many women worry about the so-called "change of life' period. However, most of their fears are groundless, For reassurance about meno pause and information about the hysterectomy operation read the booklet, "Meno pause and Hysterectomy" by Dr. Alvarez. It may be ob tained by sending 25 cents and a large, stamped, envel ope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Trib une Syndicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. HATCHES PLOT . Cincinnati, Ohio -WIS- The usually energetic four -year-old sat quietly in a corner, so the baby silter who prefers to remain anonymous decided not to press her luck and left him alone. When the boy's mother returned she became suspicious, lifted him up and found two eggs. "Not time, not time," yell- led he rson. control , , . and its meticulous Fleetwood coachwork. Finally, a Cadillac endorses its owner's ability to judge sound value in purchase price, in economy of oper ation and as a wise investment. Your dealer invites you to discover all the rewards of Cadillac ownership. (Z(y DEALER Part of Program To Be Instituted in Medford Next Year Portions of the "Oregon tmprovement Program for Education" will be instituted in the Medford school district Commission Approves Request Of Austin King Austin King will have his "truckport." This was the decision of the Medford city planning com mission last night, despite the objections of a number of resi dents who consider King's trucking business at 1200 Cra ter Lake ave., to be a nui sance. King, whose trucking busi ness is a non-conforming use in a residential zone, had re quested a zoning variance to erect a covered area behind his main building in order to provide a place for his trucks to be worked on. A number of residents in the area of King's business had protested that the truck ing outfit was a neighborhood nuisance. They expressed fears that the addition of a truck port might mean he would be j increasing his operations. King denied this, however, ! and pointed out that in the last few years he has actually j been cutting down on his operations. He said the truck-! port would not only provide a ; place for his trucks to be worked on, but would alsi take several of the unsightly vehicles away from the front of his property. Help Clsan Up Property Not ail of the persons who spoke on the request at last night s meeting were opposed to the truckport. John Mans field. 1615 Crater Lake ave , while noting that tne wucks are a nuisance, agreed that the new building will help clean up the property, The Austin King Trucking company, primarily a logging operation, was in Its present I location prior to the area's an- nexalion to the city. When the area was zoned residential, fie was allowed to remain as a non-conforming use. Commission Chairman Jack Edson pointed out to the resi dents of the area that the com mission has no control over King's operations as such; it can merely restrict structural additions on the property. King explained that the truckport will be part ot a general clean-up program on his property. He said it is pos sible that he might even move his business entirely within a few years. The commission approved the request by voice vote. There was some objection. in the 1981-62 school year, ac- cording to Board Chairman Edward Branchfield. Branchfield, speaking for the board, expressed enthusi asm "over the opportunity to be a part of the program to improve the quality of educa tion. "Although students have rated near the top in achieve ment tests, we feel this is an opportunity to further im prove our program through better selection and balancing; of academic and non-academic I subject offerings. One phase of the program j will involve prospective teach-; ers from Southern Oregon col- j lege, Ashland, Two Years in Practice Prospective teachers would spend two years in practice. or cadet teaching. The first' year would be similar to the? present practice teaching pro-J gram. During the second year, ; the prospective teacher would j be paid about half salary and : would be supervised by a regular teacher in the district J and the college. i Another phase would be substituting means of measur ing school work other than the "Carnegie Unit" system. The Carnegie unit means at tending eiass for 52 to 80 minutes a day, five days a week for the minimum num ber of days required by law for one una of work, School officials here havej felt that two or three periods i a week in typing or art and j similar subjects might be suf-i '(' tv t X v ,;it V.A'iV fJ f I iMf w...-T -M A O A K ti&X , t I.V-vW . ' carpet your whole home Willi Flourish for so few dollars a month! 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