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12 A WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25, 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MElvFORD. OREGON Your Money's Tfledford School Boys Physically Superior I o Normal Populations, Fitness Study Shows Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. Boys showing the highest social adjustment, scholastic weight) and measurements. I level of physical fitness also i achievements, interests,; agility, strength, reaction " iiiiiiiM'iiiiiiiiiiiiinmiimTiflipT'-t i mnH to make better grades ! aspirations, and other charac-, times, and spceo. of move- HIGH COST OF WRITING LETTERS and score higher on scholastic ' teristics. ment. In addition, they are The average cost of each business letter written by the achievement tests. j These traits will later be i given psychological tests, and average salesman in the United States today is up to a start-1 The level of maturity: traced through the adolescent I nc school system provides ling $1.97 an all-time high, 68 per cent above the $1.17 among boys of the same age years jor DOys who become cost of an identical business letter in 1953 and 14 per cent may vary by as much as five athletes, non-athletes, honor higher than the cost of the same letter as recently as 1960. years. roll students, and student What's more, this averagt to be disclosed, soon by Dart- Chronological age and; rl,tr, as wcm as for those nell Corp. in its privately circulated Office Administration grade in school are among the wnose achievement levels are cation program. Preliminary Findings 1 These are among the pre liminary findinKS of Dr. H. Service and Its revised Office Managers Handbook is based on what appear to be exceedingly modest estimates of sal aries. Dartnell, for instance, places the salary of a "good sales correspondent" at $125 a week and of a secretary able to take dictation as well as type at $76 a week. Judging by the salaries of "good" executives and "competent" secretaries ' ford, Oregon, appear to be I know, the estimated cost of a single business letter by a top ! physically superior to nor management man might be almost doubled and slill not be mal populations, a fact which an undue exaggeration. jinay be attributable to the Conservative as the $1.97 figure may be, it is shocking school system's physical edu- enough, and when you multiply it by the thousands or tens of thousands of letters sent out each year by the typical business concern, the total expense becomes far more enormous than most businessmen suspect. Thus, Dartncll s analysis of the cost and its advice on how j Harrison Clarke, rcsearcn big chunks can be cut from it should be of practical help to i professor of health and phy businessmen the nation over. Here's the breakdown: (sical education at the Univer- Diclator's time: average cost, 35 cents. This assumes the ! sily of Oregon, Eugene, in his person dictating gets $125 a week for 40 hours and spends j long-range boys' growth study seven minutes on each letter. A saving of 10 per cent could j now being conducted in the be made by a campaign to shorten letters, equipping execu- Medford public schools, tives with dictating machines and use of form paragraphs. Dr. Clarke reported on his Stenographer: average cost, 76 cents. This assumes she , findings at a meeting of the gets $76 a week for 40 hours and averages 20 letters a day. j research council of the Ameri Hcre, 33 per cent could be saved by centralizing stenographic can Association for Health, departments, use of transcribing and photocopying machines, physical Education, and Re- electric typewriters, efficiency desks and chairs, adoption ' creation in Cincinnati. of a bonus plan. Nonproductive labor: average cost, almost 17 cents. This covers time lost by executive and stenographer due to wait ing, illness, vacations, similar causes. Efficient equipment reducing number of employes needed could cut this by 13 per cent. Fixed charges: 44 cents. This covers overhead, and Dart : nell estimates 30 per cent could be saved by centralizing correspondence departments, thereby reducing floor space, and by labor-saving devices. Materials: 8'i cents. Included in this category are sta tionery, carbons, typewriter ribbons, the like. A saving of 15 per cent could be achieved by use of smaller size paper, gang printing of inter-office letterheads, office printing equipment. Mailing: 11 cents. Modern sealing and stamping ma . chines would cut this 20 per cent, for the machines not only would save labor but also would reduce losses due to pilfer ing of stamps. Filing: 5'4 cents. Centralization of files and moderniza tion of filing equipment and methods would save 15 per cent on this item. These savings could slash a hefty 49 cents from the $1.97 cost of each business letter, Dartnell declares. That's a reduction big enough to impress any businessman with sense enough to understand that, in this era of fierce competition, control of all costs will literally mean the difference between life and death for hundreds of thou sands of firms and this type of cost can be restrained. In addition, there is simply no doubt that the average cost of business letters is heading higher in the near future. The coming increase in postal rates alone guarantees this. At any rate, if this report about today's cost and warning about tomorrow's cost of a business letter does nothing else, it should inspire every executive reading it to ask himself just one question before he swivels his chair, clears his throat and calls out "Miss , take a letter." The question obivously is: "Is this letter really necessary?" worst criteria to use when de- low or who become dclin ciding which boys should par-1 quent llcipaie in comwciuivu stiiuui athletics. The boys, within two months of their birthdays, are series of tests' and examinations to de termine their skeletal ages, degree of adolescent develop ment, basic body types, Dr. Taylor Honored By Scholastic Group Ashland - Dr. Arthur S. I the presentation Taylor, chairman of the praised Dr. Taylor's long serv- ' Southern Oregon college so- "j8 to t,le h's Pcrson cial science division, was i - honored recently at a cerc- mony when the members of - Thcta Delta Phi, men's scho lastic fraternity, presented a bench to the student body with his name engraved on it. Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, SOC president, in delivering I character and his ability a historian. Dr. Taylor, a member of the SOC teaching staff since its establishment in 1!)26, is a charter member of TDP and has served as one of its ad visers since its founding in 1827. Ted Pauck, Lakoview, is president of the organiza tion. The nrieinal group of 560 boys between the ages of 7 and 15 were first tested in 1956. About 300 boys are now being tested yearly, and the program will continue until the original 7-ycar-olds have completed high school. Medford Selected Medford was chosen as the site for the study for several reasons, Dr. Clarke said. In the first place, Leonard A. Mayficld, Medford school su nnrintendent. and Lee V. Ragsdalc, director of physi cal education, were interest ed in the study and pledged cooperation and partial finan cial support. Medford also offered a unique opportunity to study the problems of early sports narticination. because the school system has long had the policy of starting inter- school athletics at the 'fifth- grade level. In addition to the Mcatora school system, those who have helped support the study include Southern Oregon col lege and its director of ath letics, Dr. Theodore Schopf; the Athletic Institute, Chica go; the Oregon State depart ment of education; and the Ofticc of Scientific and Schol arly research of the Univer sity's Graduate school. Testing Program I in the past, lb graduate address, students have assisted in the study and based their master s or doctor' theses on some as pect of the testing program. At present eight graduate stu dents, six of them foreign stu dents, are engaged in the project. Purpose of the study is to chart new growth curves for boys from 7 to 17 years and compare these witn assess ments of the boys' maturity levels, motor ability, strength, 1 lU fc"53 La Tool Production Nov Affected By Foreign Imports New York - lUfti - Foreign competition has killed off 41 per cent of the jobs in the American hand tool industry since 1947, according to Steel ways, official publication of the American Iron and Steel institute. About 100 American hand tool producers have been af fected by the "hardware di sease" - imported hand tool price competition due large ly to the lower comparative wage rates which favor for eign producers of hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, wrench es and other hand tools, the publication said. Among competitive market ing examples it cited were su permarkets offering needle nosed pliers made in Japan at 59 cents a pair, while the I town hardware dealer retails for $3.08 a well - known qual-; ity brand made domestically. I A major mail order compa-i ny catalogs automatic screw-; drivers from abroad at $1.98 while the American - made or iginal sells for $4.28 at local hardware stores, Stcclways said. With his average total hourly remuneration now hit ting about S2.90 an hour, the American hand tool worker may be the envy ot nis zo cent an hour Japanese com petitor or even his SI. 18 an hour Swedish competitor -but the competitors have the jobs and the American worker has paid for his enviable stat us cither with the very job that created it. or with a re duction in his working hours," the publication said. Steclways said, however, that labor cost discrepancies are not the whole story. It cited two other factors con tributing notably to the com petitive handicap facing do mestic hand tool producers as: - Trade mark "and other design and sales deception practiced by foreign produc ers - such as pirating a cost ly product design and sales packaging. - Impulse "price, buying" by consumers which tends to obscure such quality advant ages as American tools have over imports. the results of IQ and achieve- ment tests and the children's grade point averages. Physical Fitness Cited "We have too long been treating the body as if it were merely a vehicle for getting the mind to school and back," Dr. Clarke observed, "and yet there are strong indica tions that a person's learning potential for a given level of intelligence is increased or de creased in accordance with his level of physical fitness." In the Medford tests, for instance, it has been found that the boys who score high est in the physical fitness tests also consistently rank higher Iff achievement tests and earn better grades than boys with low physical fitness scores. The original idea for the study grew out of interest on Phoenix Student To Attend Conference Phoenix - Rickey Richey. tec of Student councils from junior and vice president of i among several applicants in Phoenix High school student I the region. There are thre body, has been selected as a other representatives from representative to the 26th An- the state, nual Natoinal Conference of j The delegates will be hou- the part of Oregon school su-! were an exceptional group I the National Association of ed in the homes of student! perintendents in the physical from the standpoint of mus- j student councils. The confer-'in the Alhambra school dis- and emotional effects of early cular strength and muscular participation in school sports, endurance," and "were physi The differences in degree cally superior to normal of development and maturity populations, as reflected from among boys of the same age j above average scores on the has great significance for physical education," Dr. Clarke pointed out, and it makes impossible generaliza tions about the age at which boys should begin taking part in school athletics. Further Study Further study will be ne cessary before criteria for such oarticiDation can be established, Dr. Clarke said, but such criteria "will not de pend on one single trait, but on a pattern of interdepend ent traits." Nevertheless, Dr. Clarke has concluded that "the strong physical education and athletic program extending throughout elementary school and high school in Medford is a significant factor" in the test results which showed that "the Medford subjects I FILM SHOWING Presented by American Cancer Society for Men & Women at CRATERS Ml THEATRE Medford Friday April 27 10.00 A.M. Learn How To Safeguard Your Life! See . . . "THE OTHER CITY" & "MAN ALIVE" Question and Answer Period: Jackson County Medical Society No Ticket or Charge for Admission - No Solicitation BRING YOUR FRIENDS! MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE University's Tours List Rogue Valley EuRcne -Two trips to the Seattle World's Fair, plus tours throughout Orcjion, arc planned for students who at tend the University of Ore gon's .summer session. Students may spend one and a half days at the fair on a tour laslinR from Friday afternoon through Sunday. A week end tour to the Orrgun eonst will include trip up the Rorup river on the mail boat. On another trip up the oKist, a university geologist will explain the sig nificance ot various rock and land formations. Two trips are planned tn I Ashland for the Oregon! Shnkesepearean festival. Cra ter lake 1. another scenic spot students will visit. A tour is Also plnnnrd a Inn the Mc i Kenip rlvpr to the hih pla teau, where students will see many of Oregon's maior ex tinct oU-auiMS The four me contingent nn a reflistr.tlion of at 1r.t 32 people In additon :-i these larg planned tours, several small group charter trips will he scheduled for deep sea fishing 1 off the Oregon coat Other small groups will take week end hikinn trips with experi enced guides M ASSIGNED Capt. Peter D. Stearns, son nf Mr. and Mrs Ronald D. Stearns. -01 NV Eelyn avr , Grams Fa-vs, recently was as signed to the Army Garrison at Ft. I.e.u i nworth, Kan. Captain S'.ejrn.. was grad uated from Grants Fas High school and Ore ton State urn- On behalf of ill Crater Lioni members and Sports fair exhibitors it is mv pleasure to extend to you out sincere apprecation for making this year's show another outstanding success. Through this effort, we can further our service work (sight and blind work, scholarships, medical and surgical aid, Bear Creek development and other local projects). Again our thanks for makinq this year's Sportsfair a success and in looking forward to next years show, I remain, Very cordially youri, Dick Hawkins. Crater Lions President physical fitness index test." ence will be held in the San trict. 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