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
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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.
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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
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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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Seven Appear in
Circuit Court in
Jackson County
Lester Delbert Schall. 23.
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. Medford, was arraigned
and pleaded Ruilty to charges
of contributing to the delin
quency of a minor. His case
was continued for a pre-sentence
report.
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with $392 in 1961, according
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more marketing services such
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and slightly higher prices paid
to farmers.
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