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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
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Ml THEATRE
Medford
Friday April 27
10.00 A.M.
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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
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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
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Gabriel, Calif., High school, included four general ses
June 24 to 28. 1 sions, 70 to 80 discussion
Rickey was selected by the ! groups, a banquet and dance,
Region V Advisory Commit-1 and a visit to Disneyland.
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