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MCDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON SUNDAY. MARCH SI. 1103 merican Educators Help Bring Afghan s System Up to Standards f FREDERICK H. TREESH Unittd Press International New York - OiPD - Uncle Sam doles out foreign aid money for a multitude of j purpose!, but perhaps few , bold the promise of such , rich reward to their recipi ents as the funds underwrit , Ing the work of a group of .t 35 American educators In ' Afghanistan. J' In that backward, land t locked, mountainous land ; louth of Russia and bracket- o 1. . NOW TRUE TEMPER GUA.. 54.50 " TRUE TEMPER " PRUNfRS, O AC I Rtg. 4.95 WiOa ' TRUE TEMPER . GRASS SHEARS, O 7K ; Rtg. 3.60 I0 f TRUE TEMPER SPADING FORK 1 CA I Rtg. 4.35 OtOU 5; TRUE TEMPER ' SHOVELS, A At Rtg. 4.80 0i99 ' 10 OK On All Garden Tools GOLF BRAND LAWN FOOD Ea. Bag Covert 5,000 Sq. Ft. O $095 L BAGS O ed by Iran and Pakistan, a project group from Teach ers college at Columbia uni versity is undertaking a gi ant task: Helping to bring the Afghans' primitive edu cational system up to 20th century standards. Success or failure may well hold the key to the remote coun try's role in the future world. Afghanistan Is a place where roads and communi cation facilities are sparce. Communication, in fact, is largely word of mouth. The literacy rate in only 8 per cent and, in a country of 12 million, only something over 200,000 children are in school; only 20,000 above the sixth grade. The Teachers college group, headed by Dr. John W. Polley, is attacking the problem in two principal ways: Educating Afghan teachers and helping them prepare modern teaching materials.' A . number of Americans also are teach ing English, the official second language of Afghan istan despite its proximity to Russia. With financial backing of the U.S. Agency for In ternational D e velopment (AID) and working with the Afghanistan government, the eight-year-old Columbia project has trained direct ly 1,000 Afghan teachers. Another 7,000 have taken brief courses. The Americans worked, for the most part, in the main university in Kabal, the capital City of 300,000 persons, but recently aid ed in the establishment of three additional teacher training facilities. ' Great Deal of Progress Although even today there are less than 500 teachers with the education al equivalent of the average American classroom in structor. Dr. Polley is en couraged and hopeful for continued progress. "The Afghanistan project is at the point that in the next five years there will be a great deal of progress," the school administration specialist said on a visit here to report on the proj ect and recruit personnel. "There will be a core of teachers who' can carry on the work only we could do two years ago." - Each American in the project group works with two Afghan "counterparts," ' Dr. Policy said. They learn from the American teaching methods and how to write books and materials. . . Suoh collaboration has re sulted, among other things, in the preparation of a com plete secondary school sci ence series, additional texts in biology and physics and an English program for grades 7 through 12. Dr. Polley expects there . will be in' the years ahead a multiplying effect in the work his group is doing as American' -' trained teach ers train others and an in creasing number of Afghans go abroad for study. "I can see where we might be out of a job in about five years," he said. "If we could get a dozen or so (Afghan) persons in education with a year or so beyond the master's de gree, several with master's degrees in English and a couple with doctorates, then we could turn it over to them." . Dr. Polley will return next fall to the Teachers col lege faculty" here after a two-year tour as head of the Afghan project. His successor is as yet unnam ed. The professor, his wife and 17-year-old daughter have resided in Kabal, al though the daughter this year is attending school in Beruit, Lebanon. IK On the Air By ELEANOR WIESE DECORATIVE MAHOGANY SCREENS 16Wx64" 51.98 BRUCE BAUER LUMBER COMPANY 765 South RIVERSIDE Medford, Orejo" "British Socialized Medi cine," a study of Great Brit ain's approach to the contro versial problem of providing medical care for the people of a nation, will be presented today as an "NBC White Pa per" at 10 p.m. on KMED-TV. Chet Huntley, narrator of the film report, explains in the introduction: "The British National Health Service has become very much a part of the increasingly emotional dis cussions about medical care in the United States. Some times it has been defended; mAFA nftpn atfarkerl-vet few Americans really understand what it is or how It works. . . "Our purpose is not to de forming whether the British system is better than ours or worse, but to examine it on lis own terms-to see how another fount rv . . . has tried in its own way to meet the univer sal problem of satisfying tne health needs or. its people. Tha nrnaram-finows some ox the functions of the local health authority, which main tains ambulance service, oper nt clinim. nrovides home as- sistance and supervises pre ventive medicine ana neaun erliir.n1inn. Tha tolfrncf also examines Britain's hospital service, the services provided, oy general practitioners, the relationship of specialists to the Health Service, how the British peo ple feel about their meaicai care, and the attitudes of doc tnra touarri some nf the fun damental issues involved in the Health Service. CONCERT HALL, 2 p.m. Sunday K-SHA radio. Robert Owen performs on the caril lion of Westminster; Saint Saens' Symphony No. 3; Beet hoven's "Paisano" concerto; Shubert's 9th Symphony. SPORTS SPECTACULAR, 2:30 p.m. Sunday KBES-TV. Expert outdoor sportsman Lee Wulff takes viewers duck hunting in Canada, fresh-water shark fishing in Nicaragua, tarpon fishing off the Florida Keys and cod fishing in Norway. WILD KINGDOM, 3:30 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. This : episode explores undersea life i in the Bimini reefs. Dr. Perry Gilbert, chairman of the I American Shark Panel, Is ln tcrviewed. TWENTIETH CENTURY. 6 ! p.m. Sunday KBES-TV. "Eth 1 iopia: The Lion and the Cross," a special report on the i country and its 71-year-old 1 ruler, Emperor Haile Selas sie (first of two parts). Today's segment covers Ethiopia's i form of direct democracy, the educational system, the work by members of the 300-man U.S. Peace Corps in the 00 per cent illiterate country, and the deep contrasts between rich I and poor, old and new. 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