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10 A MONDAY. JANUARY 21, 1113 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON They'll Do It Every Time . By Jimmy Hatlo Sin THE SANDPAPED SALESMAN, HffAklw PLANT AND FIBRED HE HAD REALLV STRUCK PAV DIRT Them we gets the order HE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE STOOD IN BED- Tl t& if Your Honey's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Cepyiiaht, Hill Syndicate, Inc. PILOT PROGRAM TO SPUR SCIENCE EDUCATION There are approximately 1.1 million scientists and engi neers in the U. S. today. By 1970, the nation will need a minimum of 2,032,000, meaning we must find at least 106,000 additional scientists and engineers each year. But the present rate of graduation is only 80,000 a year, and moreover we are falling behind the Soviet Union by a yearly deficiency of 41,000 scientific and engineering graduates. The impli; cations are serious, the problem not easily solved. Yet, in New York, the Board of Education and the Radio Corp. of America have undertaken a pilot program which could set a pattern by which the rich scientific resources of industry will be made available to school systems to stimulate student Interest in scientific careers. The program is the brainchild of RCA's board chairman, David Sarnoff, and here he explains how this cooperative industry-science teaching program may reverse the trend of our scientific manpower shortages, i Portari How can you as a private company develop more scientific personnel throughout the country? Sarnoff! We can't do it ourselves, nor can any one com pany, nor can the entire educational system alone, for that matter. 1 But it Is my hope that this program in New York will point the way to similar cooperative projects in thousands of communities. Local industries and local school boards working together can vastly strengthen science education and, by exposing students to the excitement of science, can lead more of them to select careers in this field. Porter: Where is the money coming from to support your program? Samofft The plan, as we have developed it, requires no extra anDropriation of public funds at either the local, state or national levels. The RCA scientists are volunteering their time and preparing their own demonstration equipment with funds provided by the company, rne enure program is Deing carried out at minimal expense. This is important, for it means that hundreds of companies can develop similar pro grams In their plant communities at little financial sacrifice. Porteri Industry participation In public school science teaching has been tested frequently In recent years. What acts your program apart? Sarnoffi First, the high degree of Integration of our class room presentations with the curriculum. Our scientists lec ture on the subjects of their specialties when these subjects are being studied by the students. The appearance in the clnss of a real working scientist and the opportunity to talk with him imparts a special kind of excitement. Second, this program is being evaluated carefully by the school board and the results will be available to any company or community interested. Third, and most Important, there Is the conception of the program as a pattern which can be extc'ndcd from its test In the nation's largest school system to a national scale. Porteri How extensive is the program? Sarnoffi By the time the pilot program is completed next June, our scientists will have delivered more than 80 lec tures on subjects primarily related to the space age in four Junior and senior high schools. We have obviously just scratched the surface, but, as in everything else, you must make a start. New York's Board of Education Is giving the program strong support and we hope that other school boards will investigate and Work with local industries to start sim ilar programs of their own. Portari How did you work out your industry-science teaching program? Sarnoili The school board assigned several of Its people to work with some of our engineering personnel and jointly they developed the curriculum. In cooperation with the board we have prepared a booklet which gives the details and which I'll send to anyone Interested, for if we can get other programs going across the country we may well re verse the downward trend in college enrollments in physical adence programs. Porteri You arc convinced that development of scientific personnel Is a responsibility lor industry as well as for our educators? Sarnoffi I certainly am, and I also am convinced that student contact with scientists stimulates Intellectual curi osity and encourages the pursuit of further scientific knowl edge. That is all we are trying to do here. We have started and we earnestly hope others will want to go along. Record Wages Barely Keep Up With Living Cost Washington 01PD The av erage American factory work er earned record high hourly and weekly wages last year but the increase barley kept pace with rising prices, ac cording to the Labor Depart ment. Harold Goldstein, chief of the department's division of manpower and employment statistics, said factory em ployees received an average wage of $2.42 an hour in De cember. This was a penny higher than In November and a rise of four cents for the year. ' This brought average fac tory production wages to $98.01 a week up 65 cents from November and 33 cents above the previous record of $97.68. This was $1.38 higher than the average for 1961.' ' Price Index Up But Goldstein said the con sumer price index rose an es timated 1.3 per cent. Thus, he said, the 1.4 per cent increase in hourly wages and the 1.7 per cent hike in weekly earn ings resulted in little real in come gain. The factory work week stood at 40.5 hours in Decem ber. This was about the same as the 40.4 hours In the prev ious month It also roughly equalled the comparatively high levels of the entire year. Transporation equip ment workers had the longest aver age work week at 43.4 hours. They also received the highest hourly wages of $3.01. This largely was accounted for by an everagc of 5.1 hours over time per wecl. This was the highest for the Industry since 1956 when expanded automo bile production also was responsible. Poll Shows Opera Not Italian Love Rome - IUHI - A poll of pub lic opinion has proved some thing you did not need a poll for Itnlians love music. But it also has shown a few unexpected facets of this country's musical tastes. Op era, for Instance, ranks third rather than first In the pref erence of Italians, trailing far behind pop songs and sym phonic music. The poll was held by the "Giovcntu" Muslcalc d'ltalia" (musical youth of Italy) asso ciation, which distributed 100,000 questlonaircs to Ital ians tinder 30 years of age. In line with this country's Ufual skepticism about polls, only 5.017 answered. The first question, "do you like music?," was answered af firmatively by 4.770. Only 247, or fewer than 5 per cent, said "no." , But when they were asked their preferences, the answer did not fit In with the tradl- Section of Freeway To Be Constructed Sacramento, Calif. - Bids will be received by the Cali fornia division of highways until Feb. 27 for the initial work on approximately five miles of four-lane freeway on the Kenwood highway, High way 101, from Just south of the Del Norte-Humboldt coun ty line and the Klamath river near Klamath. The project, expected to cost $4,100,000, will be the first unit of an overall proj ect to construct six miles of freeway between Klamath and Just south of the county line. Construction of a new bridge across the Klamath river and paving of the sec tion will be completed in la- FORMER ATTORNEY DIES Bend - IIIPD - Arthur J. Moore of Bend, a former Des chutes county district attor ney, died here. He was 78. lional picture of the opera-1 singing Italian. A total o( 2, 560 preferred light music, 1, 917 symphonic music and only 540 opera. On singing, 3,284 said they like it and 744 said they did not. "OIL TO BURN" Mebilheat S H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. 772-2111 PRE-INVENTORY STOCK REDUCTION & SALE NEW AND USED TYPEWRITERS Undtrwood Oli.tlll Roval Smith-CoraiM Htminjlan NEW ADDING MACHINES HAND 79.50 pu, tax ELECTRIC 83.73 to 159,50 Manufactund In USA SEE THEM I TRY THEM AT VOIGHT'S Kt0t.p. Air Conditioning In Autos Claimed Big Industry New York - WPD - Persons who own and drive automo biles include an increasing group who like to ride in air conditioning, a Midwestern manufacturer says. Automobile sales have been one of the sturdiest pillars of the economy. Optional equipment sales have climbed, too. Steven P. J. Wood, president of a com pany which provides air con ditioning components to two major automobile makers and to most of the makers of "hang on" units those which can be added away from the original plant said he believes that during the current year, air conditioning for autos may reach $500 mil lion. Bound To Grow Wood has for some time been forecasting that air con ditioning units in automobiles were bound to grow in num bers. He is president of War ner Electric Brake & Clutch Co. of Beloit, Wis., and among the varied products of his company is one for auto air conditioning units. It is a compressor clutch which auto matically disengages the com pressor when the cooling sys tem is turned off. The sales of this Item have put Wood into a good position to watch the growth of the auto unit. First Units Bulky Although refrigerant air conditioning for automobiles was available as early at 1937, it didn't have too much suc cess until late in (he 1940s. At first the units were custom made and cost from $900 to $1,400. They were bulky. Now they have shrunk in size, and add from about $300 to $500 to the cost of a car. Wood believes about 4 per cent of the compacts on the road in 1963 will be air con ditioned and perhaps as high as 70 per cent of the high priced cars. EX-CONVICT CAPTURED Blowing Rock, N.C. - ttlrt -A tough ex-convict wanted for the slaying of Blowing Rock'i police chief was captured Saturday in corn field on a fog-shrouded moun tainside 40 miles north of this resort town. POET FROST IMPROVES Boston-dlPD Poet Robert Frost, 88, took his first two steps Sunday since undergo ing abdominal surgery and suffering a heart attack. The four-time Pulitzer Prize win ner underwent surgery in Pe ter. Bent Brigham Hospital for a urinary obstruction Dec. 10 and later suffered a heart attack and two pulmonary cmbolisims. United Mine Workers President Succumbs Hazelton, Pa. fUPD Thom as Kennedy, 75, president of the United Mine Workers died Saturday. Kennedy, who was only 12 when he started work in the anthracite mines here, was elected lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania in 1934. He was a delegate to the 1936 and 1940 Democratic national con ventions. During World War II he served on the National Defense Mediation Board and the National War Labor Board. The king of Sweden is re quired to be a member of the Lutheran church. Advertisement AMAZING PSORIASIS STORY Jan. 10. I960 Pittsburgh. Pa. "Doctored for psoriasis 30 years. Spent much, money f to no avail. 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