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
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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.
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For nine years now I have
been searching the enormous
literature of several
science',
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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.
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Moines 4, Iowa.
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sat quietly in a corner,
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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-
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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
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Team Teaching
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clude phases of team teaching
whereby a master teacher
would lecture to three or four I
classes in the same subject. :
Students would then meet in
small discussion classes the
other two or three days a
week,
Another phase of the local!
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piciely revised program for
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abilities are not in the aca
demic subject fields, but who
are interested in area voca
tional opportunities.
Because class schedules
have already been set up tor
next school year, only a por
tion of the program will be
instituted here next year,
Branchfield said. However.
the program should be In full
swing during the 1883-83
year.
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