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8 A SUNDAY, APRIL 23. 19S1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON you are writing about," she warned the men, "it thins it out, diffuses it." Mrs. Fisher became serious as she looked around at her audience and heard the eager questions the domiciliary writ ers asked. She said, a story must have an architectural plan. And she told them to never make an outline for a short story except in their minds. With a book, write a brief synopsis;, she advised "And don't let any charac ter run away with the story," she admonished' the members of the Readers and Writers club. , , , The visiting novelist, who lives at the Rogue Valley Manor, was pleased with the seriousness of the men, nearly all of whom had won prizes in the Hospitalized Veterans Writing Project. County May Have More Than Share Of Bright Pupils Jackson county may have POISON OAK BOTHER YOU?. WORRY NO MORE U I I H Poiien Oak Lotion. Satisfaction Guar antied, at yout Favorito Drug Store. more than its normal share of bright students, Dr. Francis Kelly, of Southern Oregon college's testing department, told the Jackson county schools' able and gifted chil dren study committee recently. si-;1 i , 'f. EQUIPMENT DONATED Recent additions of -.equipment to the Medford. High school (automotive training shop were a Ford. V-8; engine, a power steering unit and an auto-, " matic transmission, all donated by , Ford motor company through Crater Lake roo i tors, Medford.-The units will be some of i those used by high school automotive classes as well as in adult education courses in auto mechanics that will start this fall. Above, Hugh Coleman, owner of Crater Lake mo tors, and Lindsay yinsel, director of adult educational - and vocational education for Medford public schools, look on while high school student Stan . Hobbs works on the engine. . . . i . .,. Medford Joasf masters John7 Harding will be toast master at the meeting of the Medford Toastmasters 67 Monday, April 24, " at fl:30 p.m; lh the Jackson hotel. - i Speaking will, be Edward Will Meet on Monday . McGinty, , James warnner, and Don Auxier. Table Topics will be assigned" by Wally Campbell and evaluated by Dr. Ralph Hibbs. General eval- uator. will be Douglas Roach. WTT1 ' " TI C0ME "-REGISTER . ..A J during Irha HARDWARE WEEK 1961 V I i, a Jttitt HUUT700 ; liJi, , I I 1- -- J- J -,, a 1 I LiLlSUll ',irt Hardware . &Vw&7- t'-i Week-April 20-3 ; -, t:::z:y;,zr.t intryIjform .with, youi .,, m -t that we artV running ut . A-yM tem I the Poll ! 'fWTM H0W . . i-ll-tS.VIIMpl f MKPOT . L w i . 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Other officers Installed were Everett Peyton, first vice president; Douglas V. Pe ters, ' second vice president; James Serres, treasurer; and William Tope, secretary. Del Landing was named state Jaycee director, and in stalled as local directors were James Butler, Glenn Lusk, Kenn Knackstedt, Ted Litch field, James Shoemaker, Hank Haydal, Richard Frey, and Michael Smith. Officers were elected April 18. Guest speaker at the Satur day installation was O. W. (Cork) Corbett, of Burns, vice president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. Green is married and has one son. He has served the Jrycees as director, commu nt ly development chairman, m tnbershlp chairman, radio- dl v chairman, has attended one winter board meeting, and haa been on several visita tions. . -.- The number of students running above the 120 score of IQ over the 95 percentile in the I TED test, and several classes above placement on the reading score might run as high as 10 per cent, or even higher, Dr. Kelly noted. Five to seven per cent is av erage. ' He indicated that possibly the economic level of the county population, and the type of industry here might have some bearing on this. . The Southern Oregon col lege professor stated he would like to see the testing pro gram carried to -the ninth grade level and possibly be low this at a later date. . High school students now achieving less than their po tential might be hard to re train from their present study patterns, he said. Students who have developed such a pattern, even : though they have a potential to do better work, would be difficult to retrain, he explained. Good teachers are not always able to identify gifted students, he added. Chairman Elliott Beckeh, assistant superintendent of Medford schools, suggested that Medford, Ashland, Eagle Point and Phoenix schools provide the information Kelly needs to identify gifted stu dents in Jackson county from Grades 9 through 11. Dealous Cox, administrative assistant in the Jackson county school superintendent's office,, will contact other schools. Cox was asked to have Rogue River and Prospect dis trict officials report on the type of test they are using for IQ. When Dr. Kelly re ceives such information he would be better able to recom mend which students should be tested further, it was ex plained. ' A visitation program cover ing Jackson county schools' advanced programs or special work for gifted students is being- planned. Phoenix, Rogue River and Prospect dis tricts reported they do not have such programs. Butte Falls offers individual help to students. . r'tiTK J P J TICKET SALE STARTS Boy Scouts from May 20, to Medford Police Chief Charles Pi Troop 105, Medford, offer tickets for the Champlin. The Scouts, from left, are Larry annual Scout Circus, which will be held Copeland and Steven McAllister. . '..';.:;.:.. ... (Landis Studio) Pickin' Pears Nw and Note From Camp White By WALTER TOWNSEND Last Tuesday,- Mrs. Anna Fisher, novelist, short story writer and author of best-sellers and' 14 published books, appeared at the Readers and Writers club at a reception given in her honor on the li brary-porch. ,, . Miss Winnifred McNt y, from the Rogue Valley Manor, distinguished in her field; and chairman of the judging com mittees for the writing entries of the hobby fair, accompan ied Mrs. Fisher. She explained that Arnold Eugene Jenny, who judged the poetry, was unable to attend. - Other guests Included Mrs. Rita Holmes and Mr. Frank Glonning, administrative as sistant at the Domiciliary. Autographs Book ' After 'introduction' to the readers and writers group by Chief Librarian Enid Holmes, Mrs. Fisher presented awards to the members, and congratu lated them on the quality of their work. ) ' '.. At the request of the librar ian, the visiting writer auto graphed 'It's a Wisp Child," one of her best-sellers. In her informal talk to the members, Mrs. Fisher became animated and inspiring, and said, be fore she moved once she burned up a clothes basket full of rejected manuscripts. And labored at writing 4 hours a day for 12 years be fore she broke into the book field. ' In her Rivers of America Series, she wrote one chapter 25 times before she was satis fied. And she drew a laugh when she dwelt on the diffi culties of being a success. Apply the seat of your pants to a chair," Wallace Irwin told her once. "Wide Road Ahead" and 'Live With a Man and Love It," are, the titles of two of her published novels. One of her best-sellers, published by Dodd-Mead, "Brides Are Like New Shoes, You Have To Break Them In," was men tioned in her talk. .'--. "Your - title and the first paragraph is your show case of your book," , Mrs. Fisher said. . - ' -. ... - : "Tragedy, pathos, humor, all have to balance," she told the men of the Readers and jWrlters club. And mentioned the cost of printing a book. When she was a beginning writer, it was $1,200 for a first edition. Now the cost is $6,000. Briefly she spoke of "Glit tering Promise," a novel she wrote about the - gold rush, since so many of the members had read the book. . "As writers you cannot be verbose,'.' she told the men. ''Linotype operators cost too much. Robinson Crusoe would not sell today - neither would parts of Robert Louis Steven son." .' ; . , ' Discipline is important she said. "Make your subconscious mind say 'John Henry,' when you want it to. Inspiration is hooey." Speaking of work, she said it took seven years to get the material alone for "Cathedral In The Sun," and took two more years to write it. It be came a best-seller at once. She feels it to be her best work.- Once she wrote a book in two weeks. But it is. "Cathed ral In The Sun," she really liked best, i It is about real people. So real, she had to carefully change all the names.: -r ; . Her novel she considers sec ond best, "No More a Strang er," about Robert Louis Stev enson iin .California; in. 1879, was also a best-seller. 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