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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1962)
MEDFORD MAIL TH1BUHK. MLDKORD, OREGON Diploma Required For Modern Jobs WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2J, 1962 The high school diDloma has become a minimum re quirement in the hiring pol icies of many industries in the Companies Liberalize Insurance Standards New York - IUPD - About 5 million persons who would have been uninsurable a gen eration ago because of health impairment or highly danger ous jobs now have life insur ance, the Institute of Life In surance reports. The institute said this has been made possible by the continuous liberalization of acceptance limitations by life insurance companies in re cent years. FIRST HIGH SCHOOOL The first public high school established in the U. S. was founded in 1821 in Boston, Mass. It was called the English Classical school, later changed to English High school. By 1860, 300 high schools were already established in this country as part of the public school system. The public nursery school for children from two to four years of age and the public kindergarten school for chil dren, 4 to 6, are virtually new comers to the U. S. Public school system. They evolved in 1900, but have grown large ly within the last 20 years. U.S., Business Week magazine reported recently. . According to a survey of major industrial rente rs there's a shift in hiring to this policy: only high school grads need apply. The survey re veals that the trend toward higher educational require ments for factory jobs is the strongest in the West Coast aerospace industry; weakest in the Southeast's textile and woodworking industries. Over all. the trend is ud- and rising fast. Although some aircraft companies re quired the high school di ploma 20 years ago, most for mal requirements went into effect durinc the past five ycars-as did many of the high- school level aptitude tests often substituted for a di ploma requirement. And many companies that inform ally favor the graduate expect to formalize the requirement soon. Considered simply as a fact of economic life, remarks the magazine, the trend toward ! higher educational require ments has the inevitably of I Tuesday following Monday, I First of all, galloping tech nology has changed the char acter of many jobs, and made them more difficult. Rosie the Riveter has been replaced by Andrew the Assembler, who must know riveting, drilling, countersinking, and a mixed batch of other techniques. In industry after industry. .jobs requiring some degree of judgment and flexibility have j replaced the old one-operation tasks and continuous runs. Materials are costlier, tolcr- Busses to Operate On Same Schedule In Phoenix C 9 'Twist' Watch Shown At Watchmaker Fair Basel, Switzerland-tUPIi-The "twist" watch was unveiled when 160 Swiss watchmakers recently displayed 10,000 new watches at a fair here. The watch featured a brace let and case of twisted gold strands. It had a flip-up cover 6 Just Good Wholesome Food! Open 6 A.M. to 7 P.M. Monday Thru Saturday (CLOSED SUNDAYS) BranEBBBE Electronics Aid Music Education Imagine a classroom full of piano students pumping piano keys yet not a sound can be heard! Now thanks to electronics - although each student may hear his own playing through a headset, the piano being played emits no sound to others in the class room. In this new electronic, mul tipiano teaching system, the instructor sits at a central control panel. With a touch of fingertips on a dial, the work of each student can be monitored individually. The instructor can also play a phrase on her own electronic piano or give instructions through a microphone so that only one student can hear. Ensemble Work For ensemble work, the headsets are unplugged, and an amplifier magnifies the vi brations of the small metallic reeds into room-filling vol ume. According to Mrs. Fay Tern pleton Frisch, music educa tion consultant for The Wur litzer Company, the new sys tem is helping to accelerate learning among the nation's 5,000,000 school - age young sters who study piano. In just 30 classroom hours, says Mrs. Frisch, the average third-or fourth-grade student can learn to transpose songs from one key to another and learn enough about the basic relationship of rhythm, melo dy and harmony to compose simple songs. The use of the new system goes far beyond leaching the piano. Schools are using the instruments to teach music theory to children who later will enter choral, band or or chestral work, as well as ad vanced keyboard instruction. ances closer, product lines more varied. Technician-level jobs multiply like fruit flies as production line jobs de crease. This is especially true in research and development industries, the ones that do the most hiring. Moreover, even when fill ing simple jobs, most com panies consciously look ahead five, 10, or 15 years. The in jdustrial concerns that specify a high school diploma for a I sweeper don't have delusions jof grandeur about what's re j quired of a sweepcr-they just I don't expect the man they hire to be a sweeper forever. Two things give them this long-range view, according to I the survey. One is the sweeper's union contract, which guarantees him a crack at a better job if it opens up; the second is the firm expec tation that job requirements will indeed change. Not all companies, how ever, go along with the policy of higher educational require ments. A vocal minority feels that hiring over-qualified workers for low level jobs en sures nothing but a high turn over rate; that attitude and ability are still the most im portant qualifications for most factory jobs, and that formal education is no guide to cither. In practice, how ever, this same group is like ly to favor the high school graduate over the dropout, be cause "the dropout is a quit ter." So far, comments Business Week, the job-hunter without a diploma has been handi capped more than JJie job holder with a diploma. A company that upgrades a job rarely expects the incumbent to fulfill the new require-ments-in most cases, he is re trained. But most companies do demand that newly hired employees be qualified from the start. If the Incumbent can't benefit from retraining, and the company cannot ab sorb any more displaced employees-he's out of luck. Some companies deal with the problem by offering the worker financial inducements to retire early. This is cer tainly kinder than flinging him out the door, but it cre ates problems of its own. These prematurely retired workers swell the ranks of the hard-core uncmployed-a group with heavy representa- j tion among the "uneducated" at both ends of the age scale. 1 A University of Michigan economist told Business Week reporters that this group -rather than any racial or re ligious category-is the "real minority group of tomorrow." Phoenix-School busses for Phoenix-Talent schools. Dist rict 4, will pick up students the first day of school, Sept. 10, on the same schedule as last year. E. R. James, superintend ent of schools, said that sev enth and eighth grade stu dents will be transported to the junior high school at Talent, and senior high stu dents wil be taken to the high school at Phoenix. Other grades will be transported di rectly to the Phoenix and Talent grade schools. First grade pupils have been asked to report to Phoenix and Talent schools with a parent or elder mem ber of the family Friday, Sept. 7. for registration. Par ents have been reminded to take evidence of their child's birth date and a health cer tificate. First graders will re turn home following registra tion, parents are asked to pro vide transportation. Second and third graders report Sept. 10, fourth, fifth and sixth graders report to the elementary school build ings the same day. These stu dents will be dismissed at noon. Busses will make their regular take home runs at this time the first day, accord ing to James. Cafeterias at both schools will start serving meals T ues day, Sept. 11. Meals will be 25 cents for grades one through six, and 30 cents for grades seven through 12, in cluding milk. Additional milk may be purchased for 3 cents. Motorists Reminded Of School Openings This year, as in previous , The two principal years, the American Auto mobile association's annual "School's Open - Drive Care fully" campaign (to alert mo torists that they must once again be on the lookout for children crossing streets on the way to school) has begun. The campaign gets in full swing just before schools open in local communities so that motorists will have a short "conditioning period" to read just their driving habits. James said junior high j periods. Regular classes will school students have been reg-1 start the next day. istercri and will receive sched-1 Fees payable at registration ules of classes beginning atlW111 De S15.o0. This includes 8:50 a m. Sept. 10. Students new to Phoenix High school must register at the high school office between Aug. 27 and Sept. 1. Former high school students and in coming ninth graders from the Phoenix and Talent grade book fee, towel rental and student body card. Students wishing to purchase a school yearbook may reserve a copy at that time by paying an ad ditional $4. Shoe-Shine Business I tilings . scnoois ancaay rcgisicrca ias. , r c 7 y ' '" w ,,. , , - , . . , . ItlJi MIK IU'LO Mill rtUWtril Ulllll that motorists are being asked , ,. ,,: f i Tk. may, however, come in dur- to do in connection with the campaign are to "scrupulous ly obey special speed limits around schools" and to be es pecially alert for the younger children who are not yet safely-wise. Remember, it's Ihe motor ist's responsibility to watch out for children - even if the I youngsters are at fault. ing the first week in Sep tember if thev have any ques tions about their program of j studies. James added. j High school students are to : report to the high school gym j lor me opening assemoiy ai R:45 a.m. Sept. 10. Following the assembly, they will obtain their daily schedule and books, miv their fees and at- ' lend classes during shortened New York UP1 Youngsters looking for a business which isn't overcrowded might con sider opening a shoe-shine par lor, according to Irving J. Bottner. president of a shoa polish firm. Bottner said a survey show-' ed there are less bootblacks in the United States than at any time in the last 30 years. "The old bootblacks are dying off and aren't being replaced," he said. we believe in: A BOOT IN ANY LENGTH Boots are in . . . autumn '62 demands a boot for every occasion whether high heels for afternoon or low-low for sports. Here are just three from our Boot-y. 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