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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1963 B 3 New Pupil Spanking Controversy Swirling Around Georgian By AL KUETTNER United Press International Atlanta - IIIPD - There's a verse in the book of Prov erbs that reaos "Foolish ness is bound up in the heart of a child but the rod of correction shall drive it from him." Another writer translat- the magnificent factory authorized ANNUAL SALE ... on this magnificent ASTRO-SONIC Stereo High Fidelity radio-phonograph with FMAM and Stereo FM This astounding development exceeds all previous acxomplishments in the perfect ie-creation of music! Vacuum tubes and component-damaging heat are eliminated. So reliable that the Solid-Stale components are guaranteed for five years ! YOU MUST HEAR IT TO BELIEVE IT! NOW ONLY $495 Such great tonal dimension, it can fill a concert hail like a full symphony orchestra. 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With FMAM radio, now only $198.50. Complete with Stereo FM, now only $229.50. PURUCKER MUSIC HOUSE Direct Factory Dealer 111 North Central Phone 773-7538 cd it this way: "Spare the rod and spoil the child. In this modern age, how ever, teachers who translate this admonition to the pos teriors of unruly school children often find them selves in a hornet's nest of public reaction - and sometimes in a law suit. A new pupil spanking controversy is swirling around Leroy H. Fargason, 53, the principal of the pub lic school at Taylorsville, Ga. (Enrollment 500.) Spanked Several Pupils Since coming to the school in September, Far gason has spanked several pupils, including the son of Mayor M. J. Holslein. The mayor says the county school board will be asked to fire the principal. Far gason also has been charged with assault and battery for reddening the backside of a third grade pupil. The case is set for an April hearing. "With me, spanking is a last resort," Fargason told a reporter. "Sometimes I go a year without any of it." Fargason once used a hickory switch but gave that up for a broad flat paddle which, he says, "doesn't humiliate the child like a switch and doesn't hurt him much either." Receives Strong Support He said he has received strong support locally for his disciplinary action and the pupils involved "are be having fine now." He said his mail also has backed his stand. A stock broker wrote he had three sons and had "rather see them spanked when they get out of line than become juve nile delinquents later." "My problem here is that you just don't spank a Holstein and get away with it," Fargason said. Like most other states, Georgia leaves the disci plining of school children up to local school boards. Only New Jersey has a state law banning corporal pun ishment. Still Permit Spanking Dr. Allen Smith, associ ate state school superin tendent in Georgia, said most boards in his state still permit spanking. He viewed the main problem of school discipline this way: "Many boards don't set clear regulations and teach ers don't know where they stand. Teachers need to know that the rug is not going to be pulled from under them." The Atlanta school sys tem has a strict rule against corporal punishment, a rule not entirely acceptable to some school authorities. Businessman Harold F. Jackson, a member of the school board, argues that "more children need disci pline than are getting it. "When I went to school in Atlanta, the language I understood best from my teacher was a peach tree switch. We need to get back to it." Mounting Problem The spotlight has been thrown recently on mount ing school discipline prob lems in Washington, D.C., where the school board has refused to budge from its policy of no corporal pun ishment. Dr. Carl Hansen, super intendent o fschools in the nation's capital, has advo cated lifting the ban and also wants an easier way to expel students. Hansen said a written survey among 1,308 teach ers showed that most have no desire to spank pupils Skeleton Found in Park Along River Jackson county Sheriff's Deputy Lee Rice turned archaeologist Thursday when he investigated what appear ed to be an Indian skeleton at the new Rogue river state park between Rogue River and Grants Pass. The skeleton was found five feet under the soil. It was on its back with what appeared to be the remains of a shell necklace on its chest. The -skeleton was reported to the sheriffs office by Charles Richard Pierce, route 1, box 64 A, Rogue River, one of the workmen doing some excavation at the park. "Workmen at the park have been finding a lot of arrow. heads in that area and we be lieve this is an Indian skele ton," Rice said. "The bones are under my desk if anyone wants to look at them," he added. "I will send them to Washington along with a skull found earlier. ' PLACEMENT INCREASE Salem -IB- The Oregon State Employment Service reported a 10 per cent in crease in job placements In February, compared lo the .same period a year ago. but want to be relieved of the rule against it. "It is high time to release public education from the pillory to which it has long been fastened and to define the purpose of education and the pupils' responsibil ity to make use of it," Han sen said. Somt Uncontrollable. "It is inevitable that some children will be so uncon trollable as to receive no benefit from school attend ance." Nine states- Virginia, Florida, Iowa, Massachu setts, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Vermont have state laws or school codes specifically allowing teachers to spank pupils. North Carolina and Nevada have laws per mitting but discouraging practice. Most states, how ever, simply rely on laws protecting children from mistreatment. Massachusetts prov ides for "reasonable and moder ate punishment, never to be excessive." Recently a teacher was accused of grabbing a pupil and throw ing him to the floor. A lower court found this lo be excessive but a higher state court upheld the teacher. Hawaii is one of several states requiring the pres ence of "another responsi ble adult" when a whipping is administered. William Coulter, assist ant superintendent of pub lic education in Hawaii, said the "flat of the hand" or any other suitable in strument could be used but that an even more effec tive weapon of discipline had been found - withdraw al of student privileges. While Iowa has no slate low on the subject, the state supreme court has upheld reasonable corporal punish ment necessary to maintain order in the classroom. Judge Williard Dullard, a municipal court jurist who dismissed an assault case against a superintend ent accused of slapping a 14-year-old boy, said that many parents allow their children to "go loose" and if teachers cannot use prop er discipline, "we might as well close up the schools." In a number of states the courts have been inclined to rule in favor of the teachers rather than the pu pils and their parents. They base their thinking on an old-established prin c i p I e known in the law as "In Loco Parentis" - the teach er standing in the place of the parents. Courts in Alabama have ruled many times that teachers may punish chil dren so long as there is no criminal intent, malice or excessive beating. Texas courts, which permit spank ings that are not assaults, accept the fact that blood was drawn as evidence of assault. New York state has an exception to its penal law against assault and battery to cover discipline. Teach ers are allowed to "restrain or correct" pupils provided that the force used is "rea sonable in manner and mod ate in degree." Most states acknowledge that the pupils who need extreme measures of disci pline make up a small per centage of the student body but often disrupt the entire class if not dealt with. In Washington, Hansen refers to the group as the "uncon trollable 1 per cent." Teachers sometimes find themselves on the firing line, particularly when they try to enforce discipline in the upper grades. A New York official re called a case of some years ago when four 16-year-old pupils ganged up on a teach er who was not a big man and appeared to the youths to be no match for them. To their surprise the teach er, a former Golden Gloves champion, beat them all up. The boys' parents appeal ed to the state education commissioner who dismiss ed the case on grounds the teacher had been under at tack and simply defended himself. ! tepinffie Wart of St us right away if you need money to help pay your Income taxes. "Money from Crater Fi nance is like Money From Home." I CRATER FINANCE g $ 135 PINE CfcTL 664-1273 jg NO QNEY DOWN ON CREDIT AT WARDS-JUST SAY "CHARGE IT !"j - -n-r-iin-inll-ll-w-r-'iiU'T r'T"lrr,""w"'w''"1"WM rr TlTOvJI just say "CHARGE IT!" 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