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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Most of the goats, according
to the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture's Statisti
cal Reporting service, were in
Texas.
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