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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Wt.ljHt.SDA. SLKlt.MBt.fi 18, 1862 5 Per Cent Increase Noted in Four Aspects of Vandalism by c.k. j rNMiiiimAN Juveniles Discussed at Event mcuiuiu ouiiuui tin uiiiiiciilo An increase of 411 students In the Medford school district was noted in the permanent enrollment taken yesterday, Assistant Superintendent Elli ott Becken reported to the school board last night. The increase amounts to 5 per cent more than the 8,325 students in the permanent en rollment in the 1961-62 school year. A total of 8,736 students were enrolled in the district's 17 schools yesterday. The largest increase, Beck en noted, was at Medford High school, where 110 students en rolled during the past week bringing the permanent en rollment to 1,860 students, a 17 per cent increase over last year's 1,585 students. First day enrollments last week showed 8,547 students in the district, of which 1,750 were enrolled in the high Echool. Soma Still Working Becken said some high school students still are work ing, and when they return the number will be somewhat larger, but not appreciably so. Junior high school enroll ment decreased by 12 students. A total of 2,177 are now en rolled in the two schools, compared to 2,189 on the per manent enrollment last year. Elementary school enroll ment increased from 4,551 last year to 4,699 this year, a gain of 3.3 per cent. Becken reviewed changes made in teacher assignments because of shifts in pupil at tendance in some of the ele mentary schools. One teacher was moved from Lincoln to Lone Pine to handle a larger fourth grade class than ex pected, and a third first grade teacher was added at Howard school. Seeking Teacher School administrators still are seeking a teacher for a third first grade class at Hoov er school, where 66 first grad ers enrolled. Some adjust ments will be made at Jeffer son school, Becken said, where 68 pupils enrolled in two first grade classes. The desired size of ele mentary school classes is be tween 25 and 30 pupils, he noted. Decreases in some elemen tary schools were noted, but most of them were expected Becken said. The third first grade teach er at Howard school is Mrs. Joanne Wickman, whose elec tion as a teacher was approved last night. Mrs. Nancy D. Alt enhofen was elected as a Jun ior high school teacher. The high school enrollment will create somewhat crowded conditions, Becken noted. At least one of them is being partially solved by the cafeteria remodeling to pro vide snack bar service in ad dition to hot plate lunches. Creates Some Confusion Russ Acheson, assistant sup erintendent, said the snack bar service created some con fusion the first few days, but it has now been straightened out and appears to be work ing smoothly. He said he believes students are not as rushed now during lunch period. The snack bar service was started this year on an ex perimental basis to help re lieve crowded conditions dur ing the lunch periods and to Campus Offerings Reviewed by Two Stanford Students A Jefferson - Stanford pow wow last week at the home of M. O. Grove on Fern Valley rd. was attended by a large number of high school seniors from southern Oregon and northern California. Miss Carol Mencke and James Smith, students at Stan ford university, presented the program. Miss Mencke related aspects of her stay in Tours, France, on the Stanford - in - France campus, where there are 80 students attending classes in a large hotel converted to ac comodate classes. Field trips are conducted by a professor from the area, she noted. One which Miss Mencke made was a week's tour of Italy. Included were Rome, the Vatican, and a Papal audience. Miss Mencke noted that Stanford university campuses are located in five overseas points to allow most of the undergraduate students at tending Stanford the oppor tunity of attending one of the schools. Students Introduced Stanford students from this area were introduced. A mo tion picture of Stanford uni versity and the University of California football games was shown and narrated by Smith. Miss Mencke and Smith de scribed the Stanford campus located 30 miles south of San Francisco. They brought out that the university campus has 9,000 acres of land from Palo Alto to the Pacific ocean, much of the land being under lease to various firms, a residential development and shopping centers. The new Stanford Lane hospital is lo cated on campus, which al lows the medical students campus life. Thirty-four high s e h o o 1 s were represented in last spring's graduating class, they said. It was pointed out that stu dents interested may contact the Stanford Registrar, Stan ford, Calif., for the school's catalog. provide a selection of foods were discussed by members of a panel discussion at the Tuesday noon meeting of the Jackson county Inter-Community council. Medford Police Chief Charles F. Champlin present ed factual data on vandalism; District Court Judge Loren L. 1 fiawvpr Hirncri HicnnGitinn Classes at Medford High jof vandalism cases in nis this year will be crowded he court H DeVoss, special noted. Ten "floating teachers urt,i rtar,m, , ,,, will be used this year, along ,ford pubUc scnoo,s discussed Four aspects of the problem The Oregon statutes give a youngster who maliciously of vandalism by juveniles uaBm. rfisrreiirm in .m-h rases ' destroys the property of for students instead of only a hot plate lunch. The cafeteria is not the only crowded area, however. Beck en reported students have been encouraged to take the seventh period class, and next year the eight-period day will be instituted. with most all available class room space in each class peri od. "Floating" teachers are those with no home room as signments, but who are need ed to help handle the number of classes and students. The district's in - service training program for teachers also was reviewed. The in service training program is a week-long series of meeting at which teachers are familiar ized with the district's educa tional policies, needs and facilities. Medco Purchases National Forest Timber at Sale was for na-the AIRLINES CUT LOSS Washington -0JP1I- Domestic scheduled airlines lost $1.36 million during the first seven months of the year, the Air Transport Association report ed Tuesday. It said this com pared with an $11.5 million loss in the same period last year. Medford Corporation high bidder this week 4,320,000 board feet of tional forest timber in Green Creek area, Butte Falls ranger district, Rogue River National forest. Forest Supervisor C. E. Brown reported the high bid totaled $43,364.50, compared to the forest service appraised price for the timber of $29, 064.50, an increase of 49 per cent. Next high bidder in the oral auction for the timber was Cliff Green of Central Point. Other bidders were Kogap Manufacturers company and Steve O. Wilson. Timber in the unit consist ed of 1,050,000 board feet of Douglas-fir bid at $9.20 per thousand, 1,430,000 board feet of pines bid at $16.75 per thousand, and 1,840,000 board feet of white fir and other species bid at $5.30 per thou sand board feet. Second Sale In a second sale, C. M. and D. Logging of Trail was high bidder for 1,450,000 board feet in the Svinth Creek area, Prospect ranger district. The high bid totaled $49, 100, comapred with the forest service appraised price of $34,675.50, an increase of 42 per cent. Next high bidder was Lane Plywood, Inc. of Eugene. Oth er bidders were J. L. Spencer, Fir-Ply, Inc., Kogap Manu facturing company. Cliff Green, and Trail Creek Lum ber company. Timber in the unit consisted of 950,000 board feet of Douglas-fir bid at $40 per thousand, 180,000 of pines bid at $35 per thousand, and 320,000 board feet of white fir and other species bid at $15 per thousand board feet. psychological factors involved in the problem; and Dr. Fred erick J. Trost, associate pro fessor of sociology at Southern Oregon college, reviewed so ciological aspects of juvenile vandalism. Chief Champlin emphasized that vandalism was an ex pensive burden on the com munity, that acts of wanton destruction cost the taxpayers money. 80 Reported Cases During the summer of 1961 (from June 1 to Aug. 31) in Medford, he said, there were 80 reported cases of vandal ism. A total of 36 of those cases were closed, he pointed out, with the contact and in terrogation of juveniles. This year during the same months, the number rose to 89, and 35 of the eases were attribu table to juveniles. Prime targets for the van dal include such public prop erty as trees in the downtown area, traffic signs, street lights, parking meters, schools, and the swimming pools and equipment in city parks. In the private property category, Champlin said, auto mobiles seem to receive the most abuse from vandals. Judge Sawyer said his court "has no set method for han dling juvenile vandalism cases. within certain boundaries, he said, but he has authority to place a youth on probation for a period up to five years. Judge Sawyer said he does not like to impose fines on youngsters, since it has been his observation that all too often the parents end up pay ing the fine. Rather, he pre fers to impose such penalties as essay writing, curfew, work assignments in the court house and extended period.! of probation, with or without supervision. DeVoss said flatly that if literature in the field is ex amined, one quickly comes to one conclusion: "We don t know why vandalism occurs." Unable to Establish He said he was unable to establish or discover any posi tive correlation between van dalism and a youngster's socio-economic group or intel. ligence quotient. DeVoss did say, however, that vandalism is, by and large, caused by boys, and that in the case of vandalism to schools, boys account for about 99 per cent of the cases. The only conclusion about the problem that he was pre pared to offer was that the others somehow has develop ed different values from the rest of society. Dr. Trost concurred with DeVoss that literature on the subject is almost non-existent. 1 He did, however, review brief ly some half dozen current articles on vandalism which 1 he had been able to discover in his research. Only He Understands All delinquency and van dalism is purposeful," Dr. Trost said, "but the young sters who commit acts of destruction is striking out against something that only he understands." Youths learn such responses from adults, the sociologist maintained. "Children look at newspaper headlines and dis cover that adults attempt to resolve their conflicts in van dalistic ways, and so they fol low suit." Dr. Trost ended with a plea for a program of research to study the problem. He ad mitted that such programs are expensive, but he said he felt that Jackson county was per haps "lax'1 in its attempts to deal with juvenile vandalism. Moderator for the panel was Dr. Al Fellers, director of student affairs at Southern Oregon college. 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Merlin, Ore., was sentenced to two years, nine months in the Oregon Correctional Institu tion following probation revo cation in Jackson county cir cuit court yesterday. Schall was charged with violating his probation by leaving the state without per mission from his probation officer, not giving a truthful probation report in June, 1962, buying and driving a car without permission of his pro bation officer and marrying without the permission of his probation officer. He was originally charged with the theft of a car from Courtesy Chevrolet company in Medford June 23, 1960. Imposition of sentence was suspended for five years on Richard Edward Wallace, 21, of Napa, Calif., who was charged with uttering and publishing a false check. He had pleaded guilty to the charge. James O. Robinson Jr., 28, Brookings, was sentenced to one year in the Jackson coun ty jail and execution of the sentence suspended for three years on a charge of obtain ing property by false pre tenses. He pleaded guilty to the charge, which involved a check. Robinson also will be re turned to the Josephine coun ty jail as a probation violator, the court directed. He is to be continued under probation su pervision after completion of the probation violation action in Josephine county. Kenneth Wayne Shockley, 23, of 3653 South Pacific high way, was arraigned in Jack son county circuit court yes terday, and pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining property i by false pretenses. His case was continued for an FBI re port. B. Kent Blackhurst, Med ford lawyer, was appointed to represent Lee Roy Wallace, 328 Haven St., Medford, who is charged with uttering and publishing a forged check. Malcolm Robert Dunphy, 44, of 5010 Crater Lake high way, was arraigned in circuit court and pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining property by false pretenses. His case was continued for a pre-sentence report. Hallct Howard Anderson, 18. 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