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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER S. 1362 KEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Social Events Women's News Welcome Wagon Plans Election Election of officers will be held Thursday, September 6, by the Welcome Wagrn club, The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. in the Girls Community club. Originally the program scheduled had been a talk by Pino Duyo, Alba, Italy, at torney. This program has been cancelled. Tickets for "dinner for two" will be awarded during the evening. Women of Unity To Plan Event Women of Unity will meet Friday, September 7 at 11 a.m. at the Unity church. A business meeting will be conducted by Mrs Wilbur Howell, president, and Mrs. Ira Jones will give the devo tlonals. This is a special meeting for plans to be made for the Northwest Unity conference to be held September 18 through 20. Mrs. Earl Moore, Mrs. Clay M. Lee, and Mrs. Howell will speak on the World's Fair. There will also be special music. Coffee will be furnish ed by the Women of Unity, and those attending are asked to bring their own lunches. Joseph Eller Granted Awards Joseph Eller, a 19S2 gradu ate of the College of the San Francisco Art Institute, Jias been granted two awards by the 88-year-old college, for merly the California School of Fine Arts, a release from the school states. Mr. Eller, who received a BFA degree in advertising de sign, is the recipient of an Art Institute award for ex ceptional work in photogra phy. One of his illustrations was awarded the College's Gold Seal and will be exhib ited during the next year with the Institute's collection of outstanding student paintings, sculptures, drawings and de signs. A former resident of Jack sonville, Mr. Eller entered the college to train for a pro fessional art career after re tiring from the United States Navy. He is residing at 800 South Oakdale avenue, Med ford. On Vacation Ashland Mr. and Mrs. L. L. McCoy, 258 High street, ac companied by Mrs. McCoy's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. McClure, Re public, Kans., are vacationing in Portland and Seattle. They expect to go on into British Columbia after attending the World's Fair. inding Sizes A Chore? TRY US FIRST! Marc Bohan of Christian Dior plunges his suit jackets to the end of the hip the lowest in Paris this season - but holds hemlines high at the knee. The trend is evi dent in the pale blue and navy suit topping a tunic pull ed down like a sweater. The boxy jacket lops a skirt that is widened at the hem for the triangle-shape of Bohan's "Ar row" line. (UPI) Winner-Loser Party Is Given The first fall meeting of Alpha Beta chapter, Beta Sig ma Phi sorority, was held August 28, following the an nual "winners-loserb" party, given by the losers for the winners of an attendance con test. A buffet dinner was served on the decorated patio at the home of Mrs. Harris Ross, 2432 Edgemont drive. Several guests enjoyed a swim in the Harris' pool before dinner. Mrs. Fred Stock, a former member of the local chapter visiting in Medford, also attended. Relatives Visit At Matthiesens Central Point Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Matthiesen, 705 South Fourth street, are an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Buck, Martinez, Calif. Mr. Buck is a retired Carpen ter's union official. Educators Can't Agree About 'Intelligence7 Tests Calendar Calendar notices and news for the society section of The Mail Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition Is 1 p.m. Friday. Dead line for the weekly calendar la 9 a.m of the day of publication and for week day news ii S p.m. the day before publication. Wednesday: 7:15 p.m - Coffee hour pre ceding speaker, Dr. Mary Al ice Jones, First Methodist church. Thursday: 10 a.m. - Providence guild of Sacred Heart hospital, at the hospital. 10:30 a.m. - Butte Falls Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. Keith Scott, 310 Fir street. 11 a.m. - Wenonah club, Weatonka council, Degree of Pocahontas, home of Mrs. James Wicker, 809 Adams lane. 8 p.m. - Welcome Wagon club, Girls Community club. Oil Regular NOW lydia Gray Facial Tissue 4.9S Lydia Gray Bathroom Tissue .. 10.98 Nyfon Brushes 1.59 .69 Streamline Playing Cards .59 .39 Streamline Pinochle Cards 59 .39 Dr. West Tooth Brush .69 .39 McKesson Aspirin 2.59 Regular NOW McKesson Rubbing Alcohol 59 .29 Crest Toothpaste .83 .69 St. Regis Hair Dryer 5.98 3.98 Vitamin C-250 Mgm 22.79 21.98 Vitamin C-100 Mgm . 21.98 21.19 Peanuts Vacuum Can -.98 .59 OPENING JOIN THE WS? FUN! ijffi Prices slashed for our opening. Join us and save. 3 big days. Thurs. Fri. Sat. 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Is it right to place so much stock in the results? These questions, among others were considered ear lier this year by a joint com mittee of the American Asso ciation of School Administra tors, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Association of Sec ondary School Principals. The joint committee con demned some aspects of the standardized tests. Here's the picture the re port gives of present exter nal testing: Function limited. The tests measure the quantity of knowledge, not the quality. They measure only the stu dent's knowledge in a narrow area. mm At least one day at the state fair every fall is a must with The Tribune's FB (Frances Bulkin) and so she asked for vacation time this September and left early Sunday morning for Salem. A note from her written Sunday night said she had had a "Big Day" because she not only had toured the fair, but had gone to Bush House, Salem Art museum, as well. "The exhibit (by Evelyn Lais Benner, Salem artist) was worth while," the note read, "and perhaps even more than that was seeing the Bush House and grounds itself. It is the former estate of Asahel Bush, who founded the Oregon Statesman and Ladd and Bush bank. The exhibit rooms are in the upstairs, also the 'Collector's Corner.' Downstairs, all is kept as it was furniture, etc., when the Bush family lived there. I don't know now how many Italian marble fire places there are two large gold leaf framed mirrors, kitchen utensils, stove, bathroom with huge tub, central heating system, gas lights which were supplied with gas manufac tured on the grounds at the time all this built in, I think, 1878. "The yard has a rose garden and there are fuchsias which compare with any I saw at the fair tonight. "Enough of that the fair was simply a madhouse as far as attendance goes. The flower exhibits were, needless to say, beautiful. The begonias and fuchsias in baskets you would have enjoyed and for once I became intrigued with dahlias. I simply did not know there were so many different types. There were many, many entries in the dahlia show; all sizes, kind and colors. "I went to the Gordon MacRae (of "Oklahoma") revue which I enjoyed, but am sorry that it conflicted with the rodeo and horse show as later I saw the show horses hackneys and all. I also saw AI White (Applegate) who had a hackney horse which he got out of the stall to show me. "Then I buzzed around to the livestock barns to breathe all the good animal smells, mixed with cud chewing and the odor of hay. Of course, I petted a favorite goat, cow or horse and struck up quite a conversation with some saucy Poland China hogs. "I also took in the art show, saw the sewing exhibits and glory knows what else; ate on the Midway, etc., and hopped a half-filled taxi to the hotel." FB, like Potpourri, forgot a couple of chores in the rush and excitement of getting away and sent along remind ers. She planned to spend the remainder of the week in Port land with friends and relatives. Since Frances and her husband, Paul, lived in Portland for many years and at one time operated a restaurant, "The Samovar," she has friends by the score in that city. According to Betty Beale, who writes a Washington let ter for West coast papers, Santa Fe, N.M., is the fourth city and the only small town on the list of preferred places to see requested by foreign visitors here under state depart ment sponsorship. The writer doesn't think this is strange, and points out that in "New York, Chicago or San Francisco, Europeans run into the same clothes, same customs, same jazz and even the same language that are engulfing their own countries. When they go to New Mexico, they see the stolid Indians bending over their silver work; a man may be dressed like Wyatt Earp or in a Navajo velvet blouse with a silver belt around his hips worth $160. She says that if Mrs. Kennedy and Caroline had gone to New Mexico instead of Italy, they would scarcely have caused a stir. Some of the New Mexico population doesn't even speak English. Betty Beale also thinks that Mrs. Kennedy would enjoy the way the Indians handle camera fiends. She wrote this story: "At the Corn Dance put on by the Santo Domingo Indians near here (Santa Fe) a couple of weeks ago, a woman tourist from a midwestern state plainly ignored the signs warning visitors not to photograph the dance, which is a religious one. She went ahead and took pictures anyhow and was suddenly flanked by two braves who informed her they would have to confiscate her film "She piotested, saying she also had pictures of Aunt Minnie on the same roll. Unimpressed, they took the camera and exposed the film, with the woman crying out all the while, in indignation, 'You can't do that. I'm an American!' " The Medford anti-billboard faction will be interested in another Daraarnuh of this column. Miss Beale wrote "And the local socialites grin to themselves while professing com plete Ignorance as to who saws down the billboard signs as fast as they are put up on all the roads leading out of this fascinating town except the one to Albucuerque. The state can't seem to get an anti-billboard law through, so Santa Fe's most distinguished citizens have taken the law into their own hands. Thev take turns meeting at each other's houses equipped with saws and hatchets, have party, then, unHer cover of darkness, sally forth and topple over the latest offending advertisement. Nobody dares call it vandalism since only by this way can the unmarred beauty of the countryside be preserved. Of course, the golf tournament at Rogue Valley Country club last week end produced a few good stories. One going 1 the rounds is how a well-known Medford man came upon a woman in a group and gave her an affectionate greeting beforo he discovered that the femme was another woman looking very much like his spouse and wearing an almost identical frock. Another storv says that Mary Rementeria, warn.'.ng up her swing for an early-morning match, accidentally struck her husband, Richard, a resounding whack on the head with her golf club. When the staggered Mr. R. cried out, Mrs. Rementeria, utterly engrossed in the business of tournament golf, is reported to have said absent-mindedly, "Take an aspirin, dear." O. S. lests can t measure in nate intelligence. That's why 'only recently educators stopped referring to certain widely-used tests as 'intelli gence' tests and began calling them, properly, 'scholastic ap titude tests'." To narrow. Tests leave out a range of students who do not fit the test pattern, such as the culturally de prived children whose "dif ferent" background isn't pro vided for in the tests. Anoth er group the tests can't reach is made up of creative stu dents whose talent goes be yond giving just the one, cor rect answer demanded by the test. Not Infallible Too little understood. The tests are not infallible. No standardized instrument can measure traits not susceptible to quantification; yet, scores made on these tests are criti cal for many pupils and their families. They often deter mine what the future holds. Too influential. For schol arships and college entrance, what is tested becomes of overwhelming Importance, and what is not tested be comes unimportant. Some teachers, therefore, base their teaching on the tests. It is a serious mistake to think of the secondary school as noth ing more than a training ground for college and uni versity students. The committee noted that such emphasis fails to take into account the fact that graduation from high school is the end of formal educa tion for many students. The tendency of the tests. then, is to downgrade the non-academic part of the cur riculum and this can easily lead to imbalance in schools. Evaluation Needed The committee recommend ed that school administratrs evaluate each test before re commending its adoption; that using scores on a single test as a measure of the edu cational quality be stopped; that scholarship tests be ad ministered without charge; that students be given the op tion to refuse to take exter nal scholarship tests; that scores not be used to compare students, schools or states; and that tax-supported schol arships be provided in non academic fields, too. Tests Defended New York-(lIPD-"No major college or university seeking e x c e p tionally talented stu dents could possibly do its job so effectively without . . . nationally administered tests," Lee A. DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology says. DuBridge isn't alone in op posing a report condemning Wenonah Club To Meet Thursday Mrs. James Wicker, 809 Adams lane, will be hostess for the Wenonah club, Wea tonka council of Degree of Pocahontas, on Thursday, Sep tember 6. The picnic meeting will be gin at 11 a.m., and will be followed by a business meet ing at 1 p.m. A social hour will be held during the afternoon. some aspects of multiple test ing in the schools. Henry Chauncey, president of Educational Testing Serv ice, said tests are valuable to identify the able student, and the student whose ability is hidden. "The standardized test has made a significant contribu tion to the fuller and more rapid understanding of the) individual," he said. Glenn R. Snider, education professor at the University of Oklahoma, said the main trouble with standardized tests may be that educators "are not literate concerning the language, purposes, limi tations and possible uses of tests." Convenient Credit We give JWf Green Stamps 91 57 ifKt .COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER 772-9990 casual shopping with convenient parking Dri. Omar J. Noles and William Hodsoa Bennetts Return After Vacation Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Bennett. 718 West Fourth street, have returned after va cationing for two weeks at Lake Tahoe at their summer home there. For the Labor Day week end they were Joined by a group of Medford friends. Mr. and Mrs. RoDeri i Burmrsler, R. H. Jones and i John Banford. I f I ' ' m rr"'' ' 5 I f Phone 772-4S34 m MONTGOMERY WARD 117 S. 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