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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. .
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I Mirths Washington
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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.
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