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y MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. rDFOBD. OREGON THURSDAY. MAY 31. 19S2 A J t " J FARM BUILDINGS WRECKED - The Wilbcr Crandon farm buildings looked like this after a tornado cut a one mile swath west of Gilman, Iowa. These two barns, a gar age, the family car and their home were destroyed by the twister. Five members of the Crandon family were treated for cuts and bruises at a hospital. (UPI) Engineering Graduates Find Good Opportunities Corvallis - Engi n e e r i n g graduates from Oregon State university this June will find job opportunities the best in years and starting salaries up considerably, according to a report compiled by the school of engineering. Average starting salary for graduates in all departments general, chemical, agricultur al, civil, electrical, mechani cal and industrial - will be $576 a month this year com pared to $531 a year ago, Mar vin R. Haith, engineering placement officer reported. Electrical engineers, how ever, will start at $602 a month on the average this June. They top the "wanted" list this year by industry, re search agencies and govern ment. One electrical engineer will start at $780 a month, high for the 250 engineering graduates surveyed. Four Still Looking Only 4 of the 250 are still looking for jobs, Haith said. The others are already signed for work, are headed for mili tary service, 44, or plan to go on for advanced degrees, 32. Engineers with master's and doctor's degrees are in big de mand and the added training means larger salaries, Haith ates will start about $1,000 a month. The average June bache lor's degree graduate in engi neering has taken 6'n job in terviews this school year, Haith said. A total of 167 companies visited the campus to interview students this year. This is the largest total since 1957 with many com panies represented again this year after an absence of a year or two. The interview schedule for next winter is already more than half filled, indicating that the demand for engineer ing graduates is gains are seen by Haith lor out of every 6 students at this fall on the basis of new : OSU is enrolled in engineer student applications. About 1 1 ing. Reluctant Authority Considers Making Left-Handed Pan University Selected For Hay Institute Eugene Sixty-two high school teachers and adminis trators from throughout the United States have been se lected to participate in the John Hay summer institute at the University of Oregon, the first state university chosen to participate in the John Hay program. Sponsored by the John Hay Fellows Program, the univer sity institute will be one of four in the U.S. this summer. It will begin June 30 and con tinue for four weeks. The John Hay Fellows Pro gram stresses humanities study for public high school teachers and administrators. It was established in 1951 by he John Hay Whitney Foun dation. The program has ex panded through grants from the Ford Foundalion of SI. 400. 000 in 1958 and $4-, 815.000 in I960. Charles R. Keller, director of the program, will direct the institute at the University of Oregon. Each year he di rects one of the summer institutes. Washington -IVPP- President Roberto F. Chiari of Panama, who has accepted President Kennedy's invitation to visit the United States, will arrive in Miami June 11 and come to Washington June 12 for two days. ill l i0m 4 1 National Debate Office To Open at University Eugene The National Of- ed the office's budget to more fice of Discussion and Debate, 'than $0,000. a center for high school speech j The committee is body of leagues throughout the coun-jthe National University Ex try, will be established at the tension association. It pro University of Oregon. Dr. I vides annual publications on Bower Aly, professor of a current topic for use by speech at the university, has high school speech leagues, . sponsors the national demon- announced. Istration debate signalling the Dr. Aly has been executive ! opcning of the forensic season secretary of the committee on in the schools, conducts an an discussion and debate for 28 ' nual conference which selects .. : rinhntinc innies and nmviripc years, and will Be tne airec-; ----- - r , " LEAVING RED CHINA - Mrs. Mar.v Downey of New Brit ain, Conn., and her son, William, cross back into Hong Kong at Lowu border station after visiting her son, John 32, one of four Americans held prisoner in Communist China. Her son. a civilian employee of the U. S. Army, was captured in 1952 and imprisoned on an espionage charge. (UPI) tor of the new national office, j The new office will establish a central control for workj which has previously been done by volunteer workers at nine different institutions. Dr. Aly said Dr. C. A. Leistner of Oberlin college will be associate director of the national office, which will be located in the Erb Memo rial Student Union. Dr. Leist ner also will be an associate professor of speech at the Uni versity of Oregon. His ap pointment is subject to the approval of the Oregon state board of higher education. The national office was formed, by means of a grant of $17,663 from a private foun dation and matching funds from the members and affili ates of the committee on dis cussion and debate materials. Additional contributions from the University of Oregon rais- debate materials under free and cooperative purchase plans. PEOPLE FROM ALL MS OF LIFE... walk into Local for one-visit loans . . . butcher, baker, rocketship maker . . . and -' they get up to $1500 on their signature only, car or other security. IOCAL IOAN 53S t. JACKSON IIVO. Mtdfora' Skopgiitt Cinl.r Nidi: 773-7456 Dick Webb. Mgr. Opi Friday Evialaga 'TU 7 even greater in the future, ! Haith stated. j Go Into Industry I About three-fourths of this' year's OSU engineering grads will go into industry and about half of them will be taking jobs in California, Haith indicated. Engineering enroll m e n t s have dropped off across the country in recent years but started to make a comeback this year as the public became aware again of the tremen dous need for trained engi neers. OSU's engineering enroll ment was up 2 per cent this By ROBERT MUSEL United Press International London - IUPII - Thomas Wood, a reluctant authority, was wondering todav wheth- going to be j er to proceed with an idea noted. Doctor's degree gradu-1 year over . 1961 and bigger 2030 Phone ; W.MAIN f 772-6828 for a left-handed saucepan for busy housewives. Wood, a Birmingham man ufacturer of machine tools, in nocently ' named one of his companies "Left Handed Lim ited," because in some engi neering processes tool must have a left-handed rotation. Ever since, he said, he has been fighting off efforts to get him to produce such items as fountain pens with left handed nibs, left - handed check books, left-handed cash registers (with the ruled col umns on the opposite side) and left-handed potato peel ers, t Unofficial Census Wood was puzzled by the deluge until he discovered that the Swiss, who are meth odical about such matters, had taken an unbfficial census which revealed that 22 per cent of the world's people are southpaws - 750 million po tential customers. The Swiss have even pro duced a left - handed watch -it is designed for the right wrist and has the winding stem on the reverse side. "We finally made a few SERVICE MEATS Round Steak 79 Fresh-Ground BEEF 3 -117 Pure Pork SAUSAGE Country Style 3 k 89 Pork Shoulder STEAK 45 t ib. Lean Center Cuts Lean Ground CHUCK Delicious Bar-B-Qucd 59c Ib. Locker Specials 25-lb. BEEF ORDER SI 2.95 20-lb. PORK ORDER $8.95 MIXED ORDER 30-lbs. $14.95 PRICES INCLUDE CUTTING AND WRAPPING K Open 6 Days 9 a.m. 7 p.m. Closed Sundays Tourists Pass Through 'Torii' Tokyo -OIPli- The thousands of tourists coming to Japan each year don't know it, but they've been passing through a "bewitched" Shinto gateway whose "evil spell" has cowed construction workers, Japa nese bureaucrats and the U. S. Air Force. So say officials at Tokyo International airport. The officials want to re move the gateway. Its ob structing the construction of a new, badly needed, parking lot. But they re having a tough j lime finding someone who will defy the evil powers of , the Shinto gateway ("Torii"). Workers constructing the; new parking lot refused lo have anything to do with tear- j ing down the Torii. The officials said they did not want to do it. recalling an attempt years ago by Amer ican air men to remove the Torii. "We are nol superstitious." one official said. "But it's a question of who is going to place a bell on a cat's throat." ! The way the officials tell the story, some American air men tried to take away the . Torii when the airport was used as an American air base in occupation days. The U. S. Air Force author ities, airport officials said, thought the gateway was "ugly" and that it was ridic ulous to keep it. But they reckoned without the "fox's divine power," the Japanese officials said. When an airman climbed on it to begin the job of tearing it down, he slipped and fell to the ground. He was injured The Japanese officials said other accidents happened. They said Air Force officers decided to let the Torii stand. The Torii was said In be about too years old. Accord ing, to legend, it was able In P sliT;oll"d waters I'om Tokyo tools for left-handed people," I according to Wood, who be- lieves his company is the only one in the world which does so. "And that brought up the question of the left-handed saucepan. 1 "Now, suppose a right handed housewife wants to make a custard or a blanc i mange, she stirs it with her ! right hand and at the same time she wants to pour in more fluid while she is doing so. But most saucepans have a liD which is designed for pouring with the right hand. "Obviously what she needs is a left-handed saucepan." Has Monkey Wrench Wood can actually supply a left-handed monkey wrench, joking aside. In sawing in the steel industry the wrench must have a thumb position, hence it loses its ambidex trousness. There also is a right-handed trowel for southpaw brick layers. It has the right-handed edge hardened for chip ping bricks or levelling off mortar instead of the other side used by right-handed bricklayers. . "Once you give in to this sort of thing there is no end of ideas - left-handed cricket bats and left-handed golf clubs," Wood sighed. "Prac tically everything used by a right-hander can be reversed." But Wood has no intention of moving any further lo the left hand. "I'm thinking of changing the name of the company," he said. ' Burglar-Arsonist Blamed for Fire Portland-WPn-Firemon said today a burglar-arsonist was believed responsible for a S30.000 blaze early Wednes day at the Hillsdale Medical Dental Clinic in the southwest Portland area. At the same time firemen sought cause of a blaze which caused $44,000 damage to the Hawthorne Bowl and adjoin ing offices in southeast Port land, also early Wednesday. Firemen said three ear firms in Washington county, where the medical clinic fire occurred, had been similarly burglarized and burned in re cent weeks. In each case the incidents occurred Tuesday nights and early Wednesdays. Mohair Is Produced By 4 Million Goats Washington - WPli - More than four million goats were given haircuts last year- lo produce something over 20 million pounds of mohair for clothing, upholstering and rues. 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