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.
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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
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usually under fire, from some
powerful quarter. While doing
his lessons, even under pro
test. Henry may
he s acquiring time - tested
tools. Through her PTA and
other groups, however, his
mother can campaign for
.lore, or different, ones. After
nil, we've come a long way
from the early British classes
which offered boys only Latin,
Greek and football.
7963 State Fair Plans
Slated for Discussion
Salem - ITU - Plans for the
1H63 Slate Fair will occupy
the Oregon Fair Commission
at a meeting in Portland next
W'ednesday.
One of the items is selec
tion of a publicity firm to
promote the fair. There are a
dozen applicants.
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