MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
TUESDAY. APRIL t, IMS
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Area's Economic Benefits From Outdoor Recreation Reviewed
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The business and profes
sional leaders of the area
should spearhead efforts to
develop recreational facilities
in Jackson county, according
nance Oregon's recreation po
tential, and was ' optimistic"
in particular about the future
of recreation in Medford and
Jackson county.
The speaker displayed a
to Laurancc Espey, chairman number of pamphlets and bro-
of the countv parks and rec-'chures dealing with the state,
.. and local recreation pro- i
reation commission. . . . .
i nrams manv nf which WAN
Addressing the Chamber of , designed to "attract tourists to
this region.
Commerce Roundtable at its
Monday noon luncheon at
North's Chuck Wagon. Espey
outlined the economic bene
fits that can accrue to an area
if its outdoor recreation fa
cilities are developed.
He lauded a number of pri-
vatc firms in the state, nota- i
bly Pacific Power and Light !
' company. Pacific Northwest !
1 Bell Telephone company, U.S.
National bank and the First
i National bank, for their cf
MOEy WAS 100KIH' AT THE TOP OF THE 6RAFFE
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Neil Ledward. county parks forts in publicizing and fos
tering the state's recreational
potential.
Commission Formed
Espey recalled that when
the parks and recreation com
mission was first appointed by
the county court nearly four
years ago, the group "had
difficulty justifying expendi
tures." "But one season after the
and recreation director, and
George Brenner, bureau of
municipal research planning
consultant assigned to Jack
son county, discussed work
that is currently under way
in county facilities in prepa
ration for the coming sum
mer, as well as plans for fu
ture development of certain
recreation sites.
Espey said he was pleased recreation facilities at How-
with the work that has been
accomplished so far to
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By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndic ate. Inc.
ard Prairie and Emigrant
lakes were opened for use,"
Espey said, "it was easy to
be seen that those persons
interested in outdoor recrea
tion in this area were not just
a minority group."
He said that 213,000 vis
itor days were recorded at
Howard Prairie alone last
year. Of that figure, some 40
OUR OBSOLETE VOCATIONAL-EDUCATION SYSTEM
With a few notable exceptions, the vocational-education
schools of our country are appallingly obsolete, dreadfully
equipped, staffed by overworked, undertrained instructors.
geared to teaching the archaic skills of the 1930s rather than detention home.
the realistic skills of the 1960s.
Vet, these are the schools on which we are relying to
train hundreds of thousands of jobless men and women j
under the 1962 Manpower Development and Training Act
SO they can get off the unemployment rolls and become
capable of filling the jobs which will be available.
There are exceptions to this indictment of a key part of
our educational system: among the most publicized are the
systems of Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Denver. But by any yard
stick in this area, most vocational-education schools are just
not adequate to perform the essential job of training for
today's jobs both the young and old unskilled worker.
"The vocational schools and administrators were a major
stumbling block from the very start of our work under the
training program
Two Girls Lodged
For Shoplifting
Two 15-year-old girls, one
from Talent and one from
Medford, were arrested by
Medford city police Saturday
afternoon whpn thnv u'orp Tn.
prehended attempting to shop-1 Per ccnl Mme from nearby
lift some clothing from a counties and 22 per cent of
downtown department store, j ,he visitors came from Call
Under questioning, the girls ; frnia.
admitted to officers they had j All of this goes to "raise
been taking items from var- j the total area income," he
ious stores in the area for j said, since those same people
about the last six months. who visited Howard Prairie
Police recovered most of j also spent money elsewhere
the items. The girls were lodg- i in the area for such things as
ed in Jackson county juvenile I gasoline, groceries and lodg-
1 mg.
remarked Max M. Horton, director of
the Michigan Employment Security Commission, during my
recent visit to his office in Detroit.
"Under the 1962 law no funds were specifically earmark
ed to develop any appropriate curriculum for training, and
remembering the mess they had with veterans' training
after World War II, many of the administrators were re
luctant to cooperate. But surely, of all 'first things first' in
a training program, the selection of appropriate courses
should be first! We had to rely on the help of instructors
already overworked and in an overloaded field. We found
many of the teachers themselves had to be retrained to teach
the courses needed, and how were we to go about that? The
facilities were so inferior or useless it was heartbreaking.
We have had to abandon training programs for jobs that
exist in Detroit right now because we cannot get the needed
facilities and teachers." ... u
Every word Horton laid it boing echoed by other
dedicated official! in the manpower field the nation over
and in the April iwue of "Harper'i Magazine." Edward
T. Chaie writM one of the moat scathing indictment! of
our vo-ed system ever. ,
The vo-ed schools, says Chase, arc "a national scandal.
They are training youths in moribund skills, in effect turn
ing "millions of young people into unemployables."
As Horton pointed out to me, so Chase emphasizes that
a third of all vocational-education funds (federal, state and
local combined) are still spent on training farmers at a time
when only one applicant out of 10 can ever hope to find a
job on a farm when he leaves school
The system is "fantastically biased" in favor of farming
and home economics. "So archaic is most of the training
given in vocational schools," Chase declares, "that unions
In the printing, plumbing, food and other trades refuse to
give credit for it."
What can be done? Plenty and you can do plenty on
your own. , t
A simple but potentially immensely effective move, which
Horton urges, would be a regional survey of our vocational
schools to find out just how adequate the equipment, courses,
instructors may be. Any local group can initiate this. Leaders
of industry -nd of unions throughout the country should
be eager to help, for surely they want schools to turn out
employable men ana women, noi iuuraiuv.''
Another limple but potentially immensely effective
move, which Chaie urges, would be a major Inventory of
job! and skills in demand in every lection of the nation
by the U.S. Employment Service 10 we can launch a truly
practical training program. Whatever this inventory would
coit would be repaid many time! over in new paychecks
and extra tax collection!.
There are weaknesses in the Manpower Training Act,
and in this first year we have discovered that among the
greatest are its failure to touch the fundamental problem
of literacy among the unemployed and its reliance on an
antiquated vocational education system to do a moden job.
Now we must work at eliminating these weaknesses -for
let us not ever shrug off the central fact that in this
age of skills, not even a business boom will offer jobs to
that "hard core" who are neither literate nor skilled.
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"Some people would have
this area remain as it is now."
Espey said, "but in a sense
we are all newcomers. We
can't build a wall around
Jackson county; we must
share it with others."
Business people, the speak
er pointed out. "are in the
best position to increase tour
ism in this area with friendly
hospitable manner." but he
said that "too many show an
indifferent attitude."
He cited outdoor recreation
as being beneficial to youth
in developing healthy atti
tudes. "This is one good way
to combat juvenile delinquen
cy." he said.
Espey urged an overall, de
tailed recreation development
plan for Jackson county, one
which would apply the "multi-purpose
principle."
Opening Date
Ledward announced that
facilities at Howard Prairie
will open this year on the
week end before the opening
of fishing season on April 20
to enable fishermen to get
their camps established welt
in advance of the expected
rush on opening day.
The director also outlined
the development of certain
facilities at Howard Prairie,
such as riding and hiking
trails, parking spaces, picnic
areas and bo&t launch ramps,
which are either being built
now or are projected for the
future.
Brenner said that his of
fice is currently working on
an economic base study for
the county, and that he hopes
soon to be able to prepare
a plan for the possible devel
opment of Bear creek from tic in with the work tiiat the i creek within Medford. have tome ipeclfic proposal
Emigrant lake to Rogue river, city park and recreation dc- "By this time next year," and suggestions to make to
Such a plan, he said, would partment is planning for Bear Brenner said, "we expect to you."
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