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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.
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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
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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:
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and university will have at
least one closed-circuit TV
system, primarily for demon
stration, laboratory, and ob
servation uses.
In the elementary and sec
ondary schools, about i third
of the students' class time will
b spent in front of TV sets.
At the college level, the per
centage will rise to 50 per
cent.
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. :
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