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V : 1 ' WEDFOBD IBronx Ciigh School off k $fQ& VOLTAGE TEST Two students, Paul ' Wiener and Valerie Charlton, both 16, sen iors at the Bronx High School of Science, Good Will Trip Is Set Ashland-A delceation from - the Ashland Chamber of Com Amerce will make a "good , "wiH" trip to Mt. Shasta, Duns .hiuir -and Weed in Siskiyou : tounty May 23 to promote the ."Ashland area and Interstate S. "The Ashland group will have lunch with . the Mt. Shas Ja Chamber of Commerce and coffee hours with chambers at Dunsmuir and Weed. ,i. The trip is planned in an ef fort to acquaint businessmen ' In Siskiyou' county with the improvements that have been -Wade in travel through the Jlogue valley by the opening . of the Interstate 5 freeway. MOTHER'S DAY - BILLION-DOLLAR BONANZA " A week from this Sunday, May 12, we'll be celebrating a holiday which has become second only to Christmas as an economic bonanza - Mother's Day. For this one day's gifts, ' it's estimated we'll spend more than $1 billion. For May 12 offerings, the calculation is an average of $20 per family is being spent. For the stores, an indication of the economic contribution this holiday makes U the fact that sales in these pre-May 12 weeks are sharply higher than in the pre-Eas(er . weeks. .- . Of course, it's a sentimental event dating back to ancient times. Although it wasn't until 1914 that President Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, the ancient Greeks paid homage to Cybele, mother of the gods, and the Romans followed with their Hilaria during three days of the Ides of March. Centuries ago the English paved .the way ior our formal holiday by designating "Mothering ; Sunday" on the fourth Sunday in Le... and observing the .occasion with a gift of flowers and a simnel cake ior Mother. .' But the point of this column is not the sentiment of May 1 12. It's the impressive bread-and-butter side of the holiday. 'To be specific: - . Mother is no longer the only beneficiary of this noli- day's gift.glving. Gifts art now being tent to grand mother, mother-in-law, stepmother, is;:r mother, even ' r ..expectant mother- This adds substantially to iht 36 mil ! lion mothers who would be loaded down with gifts this '. month if the National Committee on the Observance of ' Mother's Day, affiliated with Parents Magasine, had its way. ; What does Mother get? ' She gets cards, naturally. Hallmark, biggest in the field, figures 300 million Mother's Day cards will be sold this year, bring in $30 million. This would suggest nearly 10 cards per .mother - but Mother, I repeat, is no longer the sole recipient. In addition to those named above, greeting cards also have been created for great-grandmother, godmother, wife, "Dear Aunt," "other mother," "the mother of soinone very dear," I'lsomeonc who's like a Mom to me." The gagslers have put 'but a card for Father- as well and husband is supposed to send his own card. Even Mother is not exempt. She is being brain-washed into sending cards to every relative who could possibly qualify. I She gets telegrams, naturally. You may compose your own, but in case you're tongue-tied, Western Union offers you a selection of 22 different Mother's Day messages, ex pects 200,000 to be sent this year. WU also has two singing Itelpgrams to the tune of "Home Sweet Home," "Candy grams" and flowergrams by which candy or flowers may be aent to mother by wire. Mothers will get around 125,000 'Candygrnms and about 100,000-plus bouquets of flowers by .wire in 1963. ' - - This is Just the beginning, "It's a bandwagon anyone i who has something to sell can jump on," urges the ' Mother's Day National Committee. Confirming the band-. wagon is this lament from a candy industry spokesman! " "Years ago, there were limits on what a consumer might v consider "suitable for a Mother's Day gift. Candy, flowers, jewelry, a few other Items. Today, anything goes," Candy sales have slumped In proportion to other fast-climbing Items, with one large company reporting the decline as '"high as 35 per cent in the past decade due to our aware- ness of diets and to the fact that other gifts have become so popular. "We've all been going crasy in the past few years," says a candy maker, "dreaming up something new for Mother's Day." Hosiery, lingerie, jewciry and flowers head Ihe gift list, according to the Mother's Day National Committee. Appli ances, larqe and small, are gaining an increasing share of tho market. Restaurants pound home taken out to dinner on her Certificates for Mother's Day permanent waves. So It goes. It's a billion dollar bonanza for business indeed and, ay the national committee with zero sentimentality: "This day is looked upon with eyes as big as dollar signs by sales planning experts. Each year, more and more effort is being made to stimulate iU observance via the pocketbook." by Chamber . A small group from the Ashland chamber which visit ed the Mt. Shasta and Weed areas last fall noted that many merchants and service station operators were advising mo torists to travel north on Highway 97 through Klamath' Falls instead of Highway 99 and Interstate 8.'- . The Oregon Shakespearean festival and the Mt. Ashland ski development project also will be promoted on the trip.. MARY, MARY : St. Louis (UPD Mary Justa Friend lives in suburban Florissant. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. . the theme that Mother must be day. Beauty parlors offer gift j run a voltage test in the school's physics laboratory. The institution is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. (UPD Foreign Language Day Scheduled at Campus Eugene - High school for eign language students of the state will meet on the Uni versity of Oregon campus Sat urday, May 4, for the annual Foreign Language Field Day. Competitive oral and writ ten examinations ' will be taken by students of French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Latin. About 520 students and 127 teachers from 56 high schools of the state will be on the campus for the Field Day. Court Records MEDFORD MUNICIPAL COURT James Sidney Winslow, violation of basic rule. $3. Virginia Maxlne ' Russell, viola uon of basic rule. S10. Wllburn Orvel Seasuma Jr.. ex pired vehicle license. SS. suspend ed; no vehicle registration, S3, suspended. Henry Gordon Lenz. wrong way on a one way street. $10. Albert LeRoy Cox, vlolaUon of basic rule. $23. Roy Donald Hons. ' excessive noise, $10. suspended,1 8 hours wui n in lparK. John William Axtcll, traffic signal. S10. disobeyed Constance Paulette Jenefsky, disobeyed traffic signal. $10. Jack Dltaon, disobeyed traffic .signal, $10. Joseph Ross Ryland, operating on suspended license, one year probation. Nancy Ann Materia, violation of basic rule. $10. Gerald George Mattey. violation of basic rule. $50. suspended. Driver Improvement school. Be By GERALD S. SNYDER Untied Press International New York-dlPMn the mi crobiology laboratory, 30 white coated experimenters bent over their microscopes. An electronic computer chatted away. Test tubes clinked. Guinea pigs shuffled about their cages. These are the sights and sounds at the Bronx High School of Sci ence, a nationally famed "brain trainery" where the median I. Q. is 140 and a stu dent with an average of 91 ranks 202nd in the senior class. This year, Science High (the only public high school iu the United States so ori ented to the pure sciences), is 25 years old. Selected Students The 2,700 specially-selected students at Science High - the youngest 13, the oldest 17 -attend a modern, three-story school housing six basic and Unusual Findings During New York City - A wide spread tlight of hawk owls from the subarctic across southern Canada, the first record of cattle egrets in Cali fornia, and evidence of a con tinuing movement of fulvous tree ducks up the Atlantic coast were among the remark able findings in the 1962 Christmas Bird Count spon sored by the National Audu bon Society. Ornithologist Allan D. Cruickshank of Rockledge, Fla., who edits the Christmas Count reports for "Audubon Field Notes," estimated that more than 13,000 persons took part. They spent one 8-hour day between last Dec. 19 and Jan. 1 in local teams scanning 672 census areas, each laid out ahead of time within a circle Brigham Young Home Now Being Restored St. George, Utah -mi- Vis itors to this small farming community in . southwestern Utah will soon have the op portunity to visit the restored winter home of . Brigham Young. The landmark, built' in 1870, is being restored by the state parks commission to re vive a choice era in Utah's history. Young, famed Utah colonizer and second presi dent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spent his winters In the home until his death in 1877. INSURANCE New York (UPD Life insur ance holders ' received a rec ord $1.98 billion in policy div idends in 1962, an increase of $161 million or 9 per cent ahead of the 1961 payments, according to the Life Insur ance institute. Careful! MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY, MAY 1. UIJ ' D '5 Science a Heal Brain (Factory six advanced science labora-ifor tories, . four special project labs, a photographic lab, two greenhouses, a planetarium, an animal room, ceramics lab, general classrooms and a well thumbed 16,000-volume li brary, with some 140 differ ent magazines - ranging from the American Journal of physiology to the annals of the American Academy of po litical and social science. To be accepted into the school, the school, the stu dents are given exams similar to those given Dy the College Entrance Examination board. Once admitted (only one in four applicants makes it), they study a full range of sci entific subjects In amazing depth. Students move ahead as fast as their comprehension allows and some, caught up in the excitement of learn ing, devote much free time to visiting working scientists 15 miles in diameter. This was a new record: 11 more such areas checked than in 1961. It was the 63rd such inventory of bird life since the Christmas Count tech nique was started in 1900 by Dr. Frank M. Chapman, dean of American ornithologists. From SO Slates . Reports were received from all 50 states, eight provinces of Canada, and the District of Columbia. New York led number of census areas with 44. Although reports of hawk owls came from as far west as Alberta and as far east as New Brunswick, the main in vasion appeared to be in On tario, Cruickshank said in his summary. At least 10 of these rare northern birds were ,ieen in Toronto. It was,- however, a poor year for snowy owls, gos hawks, Bohemian waxwings, northern shrikes and the northern finches all across southern Canada and in the northern United States. Seen in California A cattle egret spotted by Irving Meyer in Orange coun ty, California, is believed to be the first record of this Old World species in that state. A member of the heron family, the cattle egret is a native of Africa. It was report ed to have been seen in Flor ida in 1942 but its permanent residence in North America was not established until 1952 when Audubon observers defi nitely identified the species in Massachusetts. Some other unusual sight ings noted by Cruickshank: An Oregon junco at the Bom bay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware; evening grosbeaks at three Georgia points, Atlanta, Millcdgcville, and Rome; a new, more south Publithed In Ceoper.itlen With Crater Lake Pelt 1833, Vtterani ef foreign Wart to Advance the Fine Work ef Thii Organisation In the ltM ef (icycle Sal.ry MEDFORDiTRIBUNE ".hop ts!k" In their field of interest, Many Talents At Scienca High, the em phasis is on creative experi mentation. A girl, 15, is ex ploring the effects of ultra violet radiation on bacteria. A boy, 17, devisod an automatic computer language translatcr. Another is delving into "mag nctohydrodyntmlcs." But despite the school's ac complishments - indeed they are great - it remains virtual ly unique in American educa tion after a quarter-century. Few cities have followed the pattern. "There is a reluctance in the United States to commit students to a career at too early an age," said Dr. Alex ander Taffel, the Ph.D. prin cipal of Science High. Many educators and boards of edu cation throughout the coun try, he said, regard special high schools as not in the Bird Count Arc Reported ern concentration of Brewer's blackbirds, a prairic-staie spe cies, in the Southeast, with, an estimated 3,390,000 In one big roost near Rome, Ga.: a rare trumpeter swan at To males Bay, Calif.; 48 lesser prairie chickens seen at Fort Supply, Okla.; five clay-col-orcd robins, a rare visitor from Mexico, at Bcntscn State Park in Texas; a northern walerthrush at Espanola, N.M.; an unusual flight of American goldfinches in the Florida Keys; green - tailed Village Variety And Next OVER r f jt 0a W 1 democratic concept of equal education. Dr. Taffel believes, how ever, that brilliant science minded students should be ex posed to priority doses of sci ence and math at an early age. What ought to be noted, he believes is that "the great things in science are done by young people. He cited Nobel Prize winners, many of them in their 30's and Dr. Jonas Salk, Enrico Fermi and the late Dr. Albert Einstein, all amazingly productive in their early years. "It is on people who have the capability of reaching the frontiers of knowledge at an early age that we must ulti mately depend for leader ship," Dr. Taffel said. Science High boasts among its graduates such producers as Dr. Harold Brown, Presi dent Kennedy's Director of Development Research of the towliecs far outside their nor mal range in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey; two mockingbirds and a brown thrasher at Denver; a Bullock's oriole and a phaino pcpla at Glacier National Park, the latter probably a "first" for Montana. i More than a million Euro pean starlings recorded at Portland, Ore., confirms that the population explosion of this generally unwelcome im migrant now extends to the West Coast. to Piggly Wiggly 150 FLATS of Bedding Plants on Display Vegetable & Flowers Perennials Carnations Candy Tuft Basket of Cold Acbrelia Dusty Miller Sweet William Painted Daisies Fox Glova ' ' Primroses And Others U.S. Defense department, and scores of other scientists and mathematicians. (Some have done well in other fields. Among them. Waldcn Robert Cassotto, class of January "53, better known as Bobby Darin). The boys and girls (ratio 3 to 1) in the high school today are much like teen agers everywhere. In addition to training in physical chem istry, math indices and sym bolic logic, they get well rounded programs in the so cial sciences and liberal arts. They put on school plays, go to school dances and boast one of the best tennis teams in the city. It is in the classroom, how ever, where they excel. "We are interested in scientific creativity and the clement of intellectual independ e n c e," Dr. Taffel said. Not enough people take the shortage of trained scientists and engineers seriously. Dr. Appling Hits Stands Against Prison Labor Salem - OJPII - Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. as sailed unions as "hypocri tical" and the governor as "timid" Wednesday for their stand against use of prison labor to build state buildings. . He testifitcd before the Sen ate Public Buildings and In stitutions committee on a bill that would prohibit construc tion of state buildings by con victs. The current dispute centers on uso of inmates to build women's prison. . ... 771 STEWART AVENUE J , ' DOZEN Geraniums I Regular I Mirths Washington Ivy Leaf Unuial Leaf I Scented Leaf MAY IS AMERICAN BIKE MONTH Quickie Quiz For Safe Safety it lately dual, and before reaching the doing itsge, KNOWING HOW la molt Important. At today's SS million cycllirt gear up for Spring and Summer bike fun, a quick quit to tit their safety precedurea knowledge might pay handsome dlvldondi. Here than are 10 (rue or false question! de signed to teit your bike IQ. i 1. A bike ihould be ridden en the left tide of the read, facing traffic. J. "Jumping" s curb will not damage s property Inflated tire. 3. The hand signals for stopping or turning t bike are the lame as for cars. 4. Riding two on a bike la all right for an eaperienccd rider. J. When pelting a ilow-movlng car, pan en the right. t. The cyclist has the right of way ever pedeitrlam. , . 7. Riding "no hands" la safe on a imooth, straight road. t. Stop iljni, traffic llghti, and ether signaling devlcei designed for She autolit do not apply to the cyclist. . , , . . A level, straight highway It a good place for e kike race. 10. A cyclist ihould Hop, look and listen at ALL Intersections. Amwerii l-P, 2-f, J-T, 4-P, S t. t-t. 7-t. I-F, , 10-T, The cyclist who tniwere three er mora ef Ihe above qutitlent Incorrectly had better stay heme vntil he learni the rules ef the road. Taffel said. He believes It would be in the national in terest to establish more spe cial science schools, such as his, around the country. It can't be done In small commu nities, he said, but it can in large ones. i Another School He noted that in Pitts burgh a school patterned after Bronx High School of Science is now being propos ed. Members of the Pittsburgh section of the American Nu clear society are strenuously promoting the project. "These talented young people are an Important national resource and the nation, especially western Pennsylvania, cannot afford not to develop the full potentiality of these young leaders," the society said. The committee has propos ed the initiation of a pilot program for 500 students In the Pittsburgh area. The emphasis, members as sert, will be on breadth of experience, analysis, criticism, evaluation, and interpretation - rather than upon the mere acquisition nf inform a t i o n. This is the concept at Bronx Science. The atmosphere of "intel lectual stimulation" is what's important. Dr. Taffel said. It is in this milieu that real po tential is nurtured," he said. LOG ENDS Quick Dtlivtry MEDFORD FUEL CO. S & H Gretn Stamps PHONE 772-2111 . ft 1ft NT Shop &VPANSIES Fuchsias Trailing and Upright Mere Than 40 :.. Name Varieties 3$J.0O '- 69c $1.98 Cycling v ir (r-v-rr."' r .-?. r- rt-.:v
