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MEDKORtl MAIL TRIBUNE. MKDKOUO. OliKGON FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1962 FAMILY COUNCIL Editor t note: The family Coun cil cun&lU of a judge, a psychia trist, three clergymen, three editor and a Hontrn'i editor. Each article li a lummiry of a family dUajree menl presented to the Council. The Council dealt with problems, major and minor, encountered by cutd ance counselor and social workers Kdited hy Sirs. Alma Denny. (Copy right bv General Features Corp.) Henry M. - I hate school. It's so boring Mrs, reason for every subject. Record Number of New Areas Added to National Park System By Congressional Quarterly Washington--(CQ)-The larg est number of new areas ever authorized within me Nation al Park System in a two-year period were added during 1961-62 by the 87th Congress and the Administration. In that time, 13 new na tional parks. Historic sites, memorials and monuments were authorized by the 87th J.M. - There's a good I Congress or created by frcsi- , dent Kennedy by executive Ions, tort SI. Marks in r lor-invert at Sagamore Hil! from hid., which was Abraham Lin-1 tourist inaKnt-t wilhin the Na ida. Fort Davis in Texas and I 1887 to 1919. The home and j rain's boyhood home; Cedar ; tional Park Sysirm as soon as Fort Smith in Arkansas. I its 85 surrounding acres over-1 Hill in Washington, D C, home 1 Ihe Hamilton home is moved Sagamore Hill is expected look Oyster Bay and Long Is-1 of Frederick Douglass, alto a new site in New York to become one of the most ! land Sound. ! famed anti-slavery leader and City on the cammis of the National Memorials one of the nations early Ne- The national memorials I gro leaders; and Buck Island visited areas wilhin the na tional park system. It is a natural tourist attraction, as it is rich in Theodore Roose velt mementos and is readily accessible by auto and rail road, only 29 miles from New York City. "Teddy" Roosevelt added to the National Park System in I961-6J were Ihe Grange, Alexander Hamil ton's home in New York City; Ihe 80-acre farm on Pigeon Creek in Spencer County, Reef, an 850-acre island and reef near St. Croix. Virgin Is lands, famed for its coral bar rier reef. The Grange likewise is ex pected to become a major i oiiege oi tne cny oi ew York overlooking St. Nicholas Park. Congress also established the White House as a national monument in 1961 lo assure that the furnishings which be long to the public rooms of the White House henceforth wilt receive more protection. Mrs. John F. Kennedy spear headed action on this measure after she found Lincoln china stored in cracker barrels in the While House basement and a Monroe table being used as a saw horse in a j White House carpenter shop. (Copyright 1962 i Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Pendleton School Superintendent Quits Pendleton - Wli - Wallace M c C r a e, superintendent of Pendleton city schools for 14 years, hps submitted his resig nation to the school board. PAINTER GIVES UP Loudon ilTIi Sign outside a newly painted simp in Con vent Garden: "Wet lacier -lacker - laquar - paint:" For tm. Efficient Serviet te v or Irom J ship LAS..' It LASME Oakland, San Francisco. Los Angelas end Other California Points Call Jack Fitiqerald 773-7761 Henry M. - I'm 11 and in the fifth grade. Why must school be so terribly boring? 1 met a boy at camp last sum mer who loves school, because he goes to a farm school where they don't bother with books. They learn swell things like fixing wagons, and taking care of animals, and garden ing and things like that. Instead of studying things I want lo know, I must mem orize the latitude and longi tude of Newfoundland and practice penmanship. I wish my mother would talk to the principal, so school wouldn't be such a waste of time. Mrs. J.M. - That's what I hear at 8 a.m. every morning and at homework time in the evening. I'm not going to school to insist that they teach what Henry wants, or what 1 want. I have enough confi dence in the Board of Educa tion to feci that they know, from long experience, what subjects will help a boy most. School was boring for me, too. I tell Henry that many a boy who knows fanning well wishes he had more "book- learning." Now's the time for the three R's and books, and if he's bored, well too bad. He should be patient. In junior high school he'll get new sub jects. I'd like him to study French, cliquette, religion -many things. But it's not up lo me or to him. The Council: If everything which people think should be taught in school were added to the curriculum, there'd be no lime for the 3 R's - which is the primary reason for school. But if anything is added, we wish to put in a bid for the "survival subjects," that is. skills to produce an adult who is "safe." Recently a director of traf fic safety proposed that driv er education begin in kinder garten, so that the child can become a safe driver, and also be safer from other drivers. This raises a similar argument for I lie teaching of psychology in grade one. Henry would ex plore what makes Sammy cry so fast? Why does Daddy wor ry? And how about a neat syllabus in sex education, say from the third grade on? This would be real safety educa tion, in the widest meaning of the term. Not merely the physical and chemical aspects of this force would be exam ined, but also the social, legal and economic ramifications. Then, there's the example of France where they teach boys of Henry's age how to help with household tasks. Come to think of it, the new "teaching machines" being in troduced via automation ad vances may enable children to teach themselves most of the old three R's. leaving time and the live, human teacher, for exploration, enrichment and experimentation. British educator A. S. Neill Headmaster of Summerhill, a progressive school in Suffolk, England - feels that tradition al schools stuff the kids with useless knowledge, such as quotations from the classics, while neglecting vital fields, such as their outlooks on life. "They have been taught to know." he accuses, "but have nol been allowed to feel." It should console Henrv and his mother lo know that cur-! Spanish Padre for whom the riculiims and syllabuses are ! island was named, who ac- constantly under scrutiny and : quired it about 1800. Padre Island has the longest shore line of any of the four nation al seashore parks. rest assured ; wi.mrir Sites Five new historic siles ! were authorized by the 87lh Congress They were the Theodore Roosevelt birth place in New York City. Saaa more Hill, the Theodore Roosevelt home on Long Is land, and three key frontier order. In all, there are about 200 areas in the National Park System. The Administration is al-I ready in the running fori making a record number of j additions to the National Park System, with 13 new areas I authorized totalling 232.544 acres. The Theodore Roosevelt Administration (1901-09) add- ; ed 19 new areas totalling 1,152,645 acres, including such famous national parks as Grand Canyon in Arizona. Crater Lake in Oregon. Olyni pia in Washington and Mesa ; Verde in Colorado. ' The Coolidge Administra- j tion (1923-29) added 26 areas totalling 3.616.513 acres, in cluding the nation's most popularly attended national park. Great Smoky Moun- tains, in Tennessee and Worth Carolina. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration (1933-45) add ed 37 areas totalling 3.562,227 acres, including the first na tional seashore park. Cape Hatteras, N.C., and the two i national parkways, the Blue I Ridge in Virginia and North j Carolina, and the Natchez Trace following the old In-! dian trail between Nashville, ' Tenn., and Natchez, Miss. j Change In Emphasis A new trend is developing in additions to the National j Park System. More emphasis is being put on adding small areas of great historic inter est, adding areas closer to ma jor population centers, and reserving seashore areas as well as majestic mountains within the protective custody of the National Park System. Thus it is unlikely that the Kennedy Administration will match the acreage included within the park system of that added by the Coolidge and Franklin D. Roosevelt Admin istrations. But the areas add ed during the Kennedy Adm ministration will be located in all parts of the country, not mainly in the West and South, as in the past. Of the areas added to the system in 1961-62, six were located in the South or bor der areas, four in the East, and one each in the Midwest, the West and in the territorial Virgin Islands. New Park Additions Three new seashore parks were added to the National Park System, which previous ly had only one Cape Hat teras. They are Cape Cod, Mass.. with 67 miles of public shoreline; Point Reyes. Calif., with 84 miles cf public shore line, and Padre Island. Tex as, with 162 miles of public shoreline. Both Cape Cod and Point Reyes are near major population centers Boston and the San Francisco Bay area. These new seashore parks are rich in history as well as sandy beaches. Vikings and Pilgrims were the first white men to set foot on Cape Cod. Point Reyes figured in the early Spanish explorations of the Pacific Coast and may have been used hy Sir r'ran cis Drake in 1579 as a stop ping place on his trip around the world. Padre Island was first dis covered by the Spanish in 1519. Since then its princi pal inhabitants have been longhorns and mustangs, once owned bv Nicolas Ba Hi. the IAsao .62 iOBtLS r-? tonight 7T v 11 IJil PF Wl W 0R -' li TILL 9 m 1 Ill xNJ v-i rJ V'U A A feX' tii i i ft-fM jl Nothing else that you could IV t V f I ' ., J ' lJitfpJ rJ ' Possibly Ihink of will mean ,o '( ' 1 WX l USlV 4 I much to her in so many ways 1 - . , A 1 , f T '; II V V!e sr' V 1 for so long as an appliance gift. r . . ' , , R ryf H IffZsS I .pph-nces. Brand new drastically 1 M ' V S V - . M ITiUUCL I NvvxJ!Zrr ' ... usually under fire, from some powerful quarter. While doing his lessons, even under pro test. Henry may he s acquiring time - tested tools. 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