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14 t WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22. 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON School Enrollments Rising With Every Academic Year ; . Washington-Nearly 39 mil lion public school sluden U more than one in every ve persons living in the United States will be heading back to classes this fall after the annual summer vacat;ns.hpm Back to class with them will go 1.5 million teachers, principals, supervisors, librar ians, guidance and psycholog ical personnel, and other in structional and staff workers. . These figures are projec tions of the way things will go if they continue as they have been. And here's how they have ,been, according to figure from the U. S. office o edu cation and the National Edu cation association: Students-Last fall 37.5U4, 000 were enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, an increase of 3.4 percent over the Previous year. For the last 10 years, the average Increase in en rollment has never gone be low 3 per cent. Half-day Sessions ' Although most of these stu dents attended school full time, over a half-million did not primarily because of overcrowding and consequent half-day sessions. The prob lem was particularly acute In New York, with 104,000 pu pils on short sessions. Florida, with 41,000, and Illinois with 40,000 on abbreviated sched ules. In the nation as a whole, the schools had 4.5 per cent 1.7 million - more students than their rated capacity, al though the percentage is drop ping gradually. Teachers - Last fall there t Aal nnn frtarhpr in WCIC public - elementary and sec ondary sclioois, an ukik of 3.0 per cent over the pre vious year. For the last 10 years, the average increase in the number of teachers has never been less than 3 per cent. i The average public school teacher this year was paid $5,527, a pay hike of $252 over the previous year. The ratio of pupils td teach-ers-25.6 pupils for every teacher last tali-has also been dropping slowly but steadily. As far back as 1054 a public school teacher had an aver- tasocia.ion Wds Migrant Workers In Northern State Puyallup, Wash.- lUPD - The migratory farm worker stands at or near the bottom of the Bocial ladder In the United States, but the citizens of this agricultural community are trying to do something to im prove his lot. They have formed a non profit corporalion to extend a friendly hand to the thous and of migrants who annual ly follow the berry and hops harvest to the Puyallup val ley, near Tacoma. Through the corporation, migrants are provided with a medical clinic, visiting nurse service, nutritious supple ments to their diet, legal ad vice, recreational facilities, re ligious instruction, used cloth ing and classes In reading and writing English. The corporation, officially named the Puyallup Valley Migrant Ministries association Is financed through donations from residents of the area and from outsiders who like the program. Charles Bond, a valley farmer, Puyallup city council man and a member of the as sociation's board of trustees, explained the citizens of the community wanted to help make life more pleasant for the migrants. Stranger. Migratory farm laborers often are foreigners who are brought to (he U.S. for the harvest season and then are returned to their native coun tries. But even the American migrants are strangers wher ever they might be. Bond said his neighbor. de cided to make them feel at home. The association provides a free clinic one night each v,cek. Physicians, dentists, op tometrists, drug gists and nurses volunteer their serv Ices. Local attorneys give the migrants free legal advice. Other citizens have volun teered to supervise recrea tional activities, sewing class es and the like. The association provides special literacy classes design ed to teach English to foreign ers and reading and writing to Americans who missed out In school. IJond said the program pro vides religious activities but the association is not a mis sionary group. "A few ministers wanted to make it too churchy for a while," he said, "but they've come around to our way of thinking now," age of nearly 28 students in class. Classrooms-Last fall there were 1,385.000 classrooms in U. S. public schools, an in crease of over 53,000 from the previous fall's total. It Is the highest total number ol class rooms listed since the U. S. office of education started keeping figures in 1055. Data on the number ol new classrooms constructed and the number of classrooms abandoned during the year will not be available until after the 1962 fall survey. But over the last six years both new construction and aban donment of obsolete class rooms have been rising. If the pattern of past years is repealed, the survey will find well over 60,000 class rooms were constructed dur ing the year , . . and that the nation's public schools, de spite this, still need 127,000 more classrooms. For while the building process con tinues, so docs overcrowding and obsolescence, and so new classrooms are absorbed with out doing much to reduce the continuing need for more classrooms. in operation again took a drop, as the move continued to strong, consolidated school districts. The estimate of school systems in operation when school opened las! fall was 35,000-a drop of 2,000 or 5.7 per cent from the previous year. Back in the 1931-32 school year, there were 127, 422 separate school systems in operation. Since then, the number has gone down 72 per cent. Finances-This year public school costs were estimated to hit over $18 billion for all School districts-This year I purposes-operating expenses, the number of school systems I construction and interest on school debts. This would be i money needed for school oper- an increase of 7.7 per cent ation - 58.1 per cent. The over tne previous year s est imate. For the last 10 years, the percentage of increase has never dropped below seven per cent. The average annual hike has been 9.5 per cent. It jumped up to 13 per cent in the 1957-58 school year, the year after the Russians sent up Sputnik I, with the con sequent increased interest in schools and increased expend itures to make the schools better. This year, as in the past, local sources of revenue pre- enjoy nectar in vided well over half of the morning and late states provided 40.2 per cent of the money needed and the federal government gave 3.7 per cent. HUMMINGBIRD LURE New York-iUPli- A triply intriguing bonus can be gain ed by planting clay-poited lantanas in sunny locations of a garden. These lovely mem bers of the vcrbana family supply multi-colored blos soms and can be wintered in doors. In addition, lantanas attract hummingbirds, which the early afternoon. 'Stage' Bands New Additions To High Schools The most "swingin' " addi tion to school music programs is the high school "stage" (or jazz) band. Similar in style to the Dor sey and Miller congregations of 20 or more years ago, the stage band is the musical out let that now enables teen-agers to play the good popular music of the current and past several decades. Rock 'n roll, not considered a part of the .American jazz scene by most school musicians, is seldom played. Stage bands have from 14 to 25 musicians and feature standard "big band" instru mentation: trumpets, saxo phones, clarinets, bass, guitar. drums, accordion and piano. These supervised music groups are usually after school activities and are in ad dition to established school band and orchestra programs. According to the American Music conference stage bands number 6,000 (one in every five high schools) and will in crease to 7,200 by next June. Ten years ago few high school music programs included this type of music group. Texas, Missouri and Okla homa high schools are most active, with 90 per cent hav ing stage bands. Approximate ly 60 per cent of West Coast high schools have them, while every high school in the Den ver, Col. school system has a stage band. One major reason for the growth of stage bands, accord ing to AMC, has ben the four fold increase in the number of school-age musicians since 1947. In a North Texas State uni versity poll of school band di rectors, 62 of 65 replied that stage band experience helped members of school symphony orchestras; more than half in dicated that stage bands stim ulated interest in over - all school music programs. Almost all of 100 non-music school officials queried were in favor of stage band activity. Nl n Ml VERSA I Join in this big Money-Saving event with the Medford Safeway Stores in celebrating the Medford Shopping Center, 3rd Anniversary! Check these prices know why we say you save more on Your TOTAL food bill at Safeway. We Give Valuable Gold Bond Stamps You get a bonus value at Safeway . . . Food Savings Plus Valuable Stamps Prices effective InrTU3, 26 at Safeway in Medford. W reterva the right to limit. West Main at Oakdale Medford Shopping Center BACK-TO-SCHOOL BUYS sheets Narrow or Wide Rule. 200 sheets aint, economical Pencil Tablet X."; Filler Paper Lindy Pens Ban P, QrayOla Wax crayons Package of 8 Crayons i - pge 0f BinderS Three Ring Canvas. Vinyl Binders Each .. .. I) 1 1 1 Holtemp. Just vauuum duuiu Three ring, sturdy quality right for soup. Pint 29c 49c 39c 15c 25c 49c 79c 1.29 YO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22. 1962 Style, Roominess Wanted inHandbags High scores in the fashion class this fall are large, spa cious bags of smooth, grained and suedt '. leather thai com bine the roominess which a busy co-ed needs with the style and color sparkle she prizes. Her favorite handbag shape this semester is a long, lean leather envelope with an easily-grasped short handle -Ideal for r.n armful of books. Simple, almost severe in line, envelopes depend on the lus trous beauty and rich supple ness of the leather to high light matched separates, clean-cut fall suits or fluid coats. Other silhouettes popular with teenage girls are the huge leather totes or "feed bags" that hold "everything" includii j her lunch. Pouches, satchels, clutches and a va riety of boxes are favored, too. A smart girl frequently car ries a daytime clutch which doubles in leather as a dressy date bag. Leather colors this fall include gold, which com plements all the fall apparel colors, sparkling greens, deep plums and earth browns. For longer wear, good looks anc' economy, the smart co-ed looks for the black-and-gold "genuine leather" tag when she shops for her school bag. New Foodstuffs Made From Wheat Surplus Menlo Park, Calif. OTP Wheat chips, wheat candies and a quick-cooking wheat for main dishes are some of the more promising candi dates among new foodstuffs made of .vheat. Food scientists at Sanlord Research institute here have been investigating such new uses for the nation's mount ing wheat surplus. The wheat chips are similar to potato chips. The candy, a toffee, was well reccvide by institute tasters. They were less favor ably impressed by wheat brit tle candy and wheat caramel balls. Global Television Seen As Coming Thing In Education C 15 Washington-"The classroom will be the universe; the teachers, all of mankind." This is not a prescription for the school of the future, but a hope-a hope that could well be fulfilled when com munications satellites span the globe to relay voice and pic ture from one pole to the other. Newton N. Minow. for one, believes the satellites can "blow down the walls of ig norance and prejudice'' throughout the world. Minow, chairman of the Federal Com munications commission, ' be lieves that will happen when television systems through out the world are connected via space satellites and ground relay units And TV authorities at the National Education associa tion believe the communica tions satellite "would seem to offer countless educational possibilities; for example, it could make possible a full scale attack on illiteracy (720 million people, or 45 per cent of the world's population, are estimated to be illiterate) on a global basis; it could tele cast sessions of the United Nations; it could serve as a means for the exchange of re search information, as well as the sharing of world-wide scientitic and cultural ex periences; it could serve to transmit data between educa tion institutions." Educational Global TV NEA leaders say educators should be consulted on up coming global TV plans to ensure a part in future de velopments. Global TV should be more than mass entertain ment. There should be time reserved for programs of en lightenment, too, says the pro fessional group for educat ors. James E. Webb, admin istrator of the National Aero nautics and Space administra tion, reports that he's heard speculation that the space sal. ellite system "may have pro gressed far enough by 1964 that we shall be able lo watch the Tokyo Olympic games on television at home." While agreeing that global TV is on the way, Vernon Bronson of the National As sociation of Educational Broadcasters feels that 1964 is too soon to expect it, for several technical reasons. Back on earth, the expan sion of educational TV seems assured. There are now 62 educational TV stations in op eration in the United States. And hopeful advocates of educational TV expect this number lo double - perhaps triple - in the next five years. In 10 years, these people say, there will be 1,000 ETV sta tions, and an ETV network. These predictions are based on a federal bill, signed into law last May, that authorized $32 million to aid educational television. And efforts to force manufacturers to in clude ultra high frequency re ception in every set is also bound to help tremendously, predictions made say. A study by the Institute for Communications Research of Stanford university produced these predictions for 1971: Every major school, college ET3 DM UR MONEY'S WORTH MORE AT SAFEWAY! FREE BALLOONS and SUCKERS for the Kiddies! The "King of Roasts" Family Favorite U.S.D.A. CHOICE AGED BEEF 0) 1 Safeway Rib Roast. A Better Buy for you. It's U S D A CHOICE BEEF, the grade that means top flavor, ten derness, juiciness. It's prop erly aged in our own modern meat plant to bring it to eat ing perfection. It's trimmed before weighing. A Safeway Rib Roast is just the meaty center portion. Safeway Close Trim SLAB lb. lI fvc BACON ii: 49' Shady Oak MUSHROOMS Pieces and Storm 2-oi. can 29 Rib Steaks Dubuque brand. 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Large TV-taught classes will be balanced by small dis cussion groups, where ques tions can be answered, argu ments put forth, and know ledge sharpened. With the advent of wide- spread educational TV In the classroom-and tpachinu ma. chines and other new instruc tional aids-will rnma mnrm at tention to the individual stu- oent, more reliance on inde pendent Studv. new AmnVta- sis on team teaching, and uicoicr recognition 01 super ior teachers. And the studv maH. (hi. point: edurAtors A agree that "the rhn. . going to come much more rapmiy in tne future. The traditional 5fl-vr lsn that presumably occurs before the introduction of a new idea in education and its actual adop tion by a majority of schools will be much reduced. The temper of the time Is favor able: the need is o-raat. tu tools seem promising. Tele- vKMun coma improve our chance to reaii,. th. l held dream of good, univerwl eaucauon. Jesuits Provide International School in India By PATRICK J. KILLEN Un't.d Press International Darjeeling, West Bengal, India -IUPH- Students at St. Joseph's college can jump out of bed in the morning and stare at the world's third highest mountain. Mt. Kanchenjunga. or the Throne of the Gods, lies 45 mnes to the north in Sikkim and Nepal and reaches 28,168 feet in altitude. Eight miles away at Tiger hill, a student can peer up at Mt. Everest. , Only trouble is moat stu dents at St. Joseph', college haven't much time tor staring. This Jesuit school founded In 1887 Is dedicated to providing an English language liberal education to princes and paupers right smack in the middle of the Himalayas. A boys' school run by Cana dian Jesuits, St. Joseph's has an International student body. Besides its Indian pupils, the school has Burmese, Sikkim ese, Bhutanese, N e p a 1 e s e, Malayans, Africans, Euro peans and usually some Americans. The only American at pres ent is Kim Nolan. 14, of Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii, Kim's father, Lt. Col, J. C. Nolan, is the U. S. Air Force attache in the American embassy at Rangoon, Burma. Among its current atudenta are the son of the -King of Nepal and the son of the Prime Minister of Bhutan. They are treated like all th . rest here and are allowed only the traditional pocket money of between five and 15 rupees (SI to $3) monthly. The school la divided Into three divisions: the primary department for boys from seven to 10 years, the lower division for boys from 11 to 13 years and the upper di vision for boys of 14 and over. Enrollment numbers about 800. St. Joseph's is located at Darjeeling, a Himalayan re sort 350 miles north of Cal cutta. The former summer seat of the west Bengal gov ernment, the city is situated at about 8,500 feet. At one corner of the semi-Gothic stone buildings of St. Joseph's students can look out on Tibet, Bhutan and Sikkim. Tuition, Including room and board, runs 2,500 ruptei ($525) per year. Although It is a Jesuit school, only about 20 per cent of the student body Is Chris tian. Among St. Joseph's fea tures is that most students sleep in enormous rectangular shaped dormitories of 100 beds each. Their clothes are in lockers a floor below, near where wash basins line long corridors. Instruction is in English but students are required to study two other languages. Students get a chance at lighter activity, including sports. Musical comedies are put on each year, ' It's interesting to see the Tibetans and Nepalese doing Gilbert and Sullivan in Eng lish and doing it well," the Rector, Father Maurice Stan ford told UPI. Father Stanford, who has been at St. Joseph's since 1947 when Belgian Jesuits turned it over to the Canadians, ia (rom Montreal. His mother lives at 42Cn Sherbrook at. West, Montreal. : i i V
