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BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO, OREQON THURSDAY. JUNE 27. 163 j Classroom, Teacher Shortages Remain As Numbers Soar Washington -CQ- Propos als tor federal aid to educa tion may be at a standstill.1 but the statistics on shortages of class rooms and teachers are not. The numbers of children in elementary and seco n d a r y schools and colleges have been steadily rising. Class rooms are being built, and the number of teachers is In creasing, but shortages re main. For example: A record 38.837.000 were enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in the fall of 1962 - a 3.7 per cent rise over the fall of 1961. The rate of growth varied widely among the four regions, with the West and Southwest re gions growing the most rap idly and the Southeast region the slowest. Figures for the most recent school year available show that there were 3.7 million pupils in private elementary and secondary schools in the 1959-60 school year. It is esti mated that there were S.S million children in Catholic schools during the 1962-63 school year. There were 15 million full- time and part-time teachers in the fall of 1962. a rise of 3.4 per cent over 1961. Of these, 82.000, or 5.5 per cent. were teaching with substand ard credentials. There was a national class room shortage of 121,235 classrooms in the fall of .1962 - about evently divided be tween the number needed to house pupils in excess of nor mal capacity and those need ed to replace unsatisfactory schoolrooms. Close to 59,000 classrooms were scheduled for completion .during the 1962-63 school year, but the U.S. Office of Education esti mates that most of these will be absorbed by the net annual enrollment increase of over 1 million pupils and by re placements of rooms abandon ed during the previous year for various reasons, such as fires. ' In 37 stales and the District of Columbia over 400.000 students were attending school for loss than a full school day in the last school year; almost two-thirds of these were in elementary schools. College enrollment jumped bv 8.1 per cent between the fall of. 1961 and 1962. More rises are expected as those born during the "baby boom" of the mid-1940s are now be coming of college age. How Stat Ranks In the last school year. Oregon had 292,705 enrolled in kindergarten through the eighth grade in the public schools and 119,950 in the 9th through 12th grades. Oregon ranked 26th in growth in the number of pub lic elementary and secondary school pupils between the fall of 1961 and fall of 1962, with a 3 5 per cent growth. In the 1959-60 school year, it had 28,159 pupils in the kindergarten through the eighth grade in private schools and 7,118 pupils in private schools in the 9th through 12th grades. In the fall of 1962, there were 51,948 students going to college in Oregon, a rise of 8.7 per cent front the fall of 1961. Ore ton had a class-' room shortage of 824 In the fall of 1962 and planned to build 824 classrooms during the school year. (Copyright 1983. Congrtuional Quarterly Inc.) SCHOOLING PAYS New York-ft'PD-The average income college graduates is ncarihg $10,000 a year, ac cording to the Census bureau. The figure crossed $9,500 a year in 1961. It has been go ing up steadily throughout the post-war period. Houston-JVPU-Standard Oi company reports it paid mora than $3 billion In taxes for 1962 to the United States an4 other governments. The tax figure - was four . times . the firm's earnings. COFFEE SHOP Starting Fri. OPEN . 61A MID. IZ NIGHT AT THE BIG Y BIG HEAVE NEEDED-John Nichols of the Fraser High landers Pipe Band sizes-up the. 18-foot, 120-pound Ballan tine's Caber from Scotland which he will attempt to throw at the 31st annual Highland Gathering and Games at Santa Monica, Calif. Caber tossing, a nationl sport of Scotland for centuries, requires the contestants to grasp the caber upright by the thinner end and balance it before hurling it upward and forward. Distance is not the primary purpose of the sport, the competitors rather try to throw it in as straight a line as possible, end over end. (UPI) Wilderville Woman Will Be Arraigned The arraignment of Anna Virginia Sage, 35, of 11901 Redwood highway, Wilder ville, was continued in dis trict court Wednesday for the Oceans' Floors Yield Many Rich Resources Washington - HJPU - Off the coast of South West Africa a company is taking diamonds from the oceans' floors. A pi lot plant operation is extract ing more than 30,000 tons of commercial grade iron ore a month from the sea depths around Japan. . Claims have been staked lor fiold mining rights in the seaward sands of Norton Sound, Alaska, where beaches were overrun in the gold rush of '98. The U.S. bureau of commercial fisheries is expert mentine with use of electrical fields for herding fish into commercial fishermen's nets. Aerospace, official publics 'lion of the Aerospace Indus- .tries association, said these are some of the ventures un dertaken by govern m e n t, aero space and commercial enterprises in exploration and exDloitation of the world ocean. The magazine said the aero space industry will play a leading role on the watery new frontier. The environ ments of space and the ocean both require pressurized ve hicles, are highly destructive of materials and pose unique navigation and com munica- tions difficulties, the maga zine said, adding that there is hardly an aerospace com oanv that does not have its anti-submarine warfare, hy drospace, or ocean opera tions division or department. The magazine said the-seas not only offer a solution to the world's mounting food problem and provide re sources of raw materials but also have military potential The United States appro priated $2 billion for anti submarine purposes for the current fiscal year to be spent for ships, planes, submarines, ocean-floor .listening stations, sonar, magnetic detcc 1 1 o n gear, rocket-boosted torpedoes . .and nuclear depth bombs. appointment of sin attorney. She is charged with receiving and concealing stolen property. Mrs. Sage and four juve niles, ranging in ages from 14 to 16 from Wonder, Sav age Creek, and Evans Creek, were arrested this week by state police. Tie charges involve prop- rty taken from a cabin on Evans creek over a period of about three weeks, police said. The property, valued at more than $1,000, included guns, chain saws, and house- o 1 d items, including anti- tiqucs. Police said the major ity of the property was re covered. The people were arrested in Wonder, and Mrs. Sage and one of the boys were lodged the Jackson county jail. The other three juveniles were released to the custody of their parents, police said. Tektronix To Offer Stock To Public -Portland -0IP1I- Tektronix, the state's .largest space-age industry, plans to offer five per cent of its stock to the public this fall, it was re ported today. The Beaverton firm is one of the world's leading manu facturers of oscilliscopes and other electrical equipment. It employs about 5,000 persons in Oregon and several hun dred in foreign plants. The Orcgonian said about 1 five per cent of the firm's four I million shares of stock would be sold to a New York securi ties syndicate headed by Leh man Brothers and then resold i to the public through invest ment bankers and brokerage firms. Tektronix was formed 16, years ago by Jack Murdock and Howard Vollum and sev eral other ex-servicemen. Murdock and Vollum now are the principal owners. There has been no delerml-1 nation of the value of the I stock, but there were predic tions the offering would amount to several million dollars. Tourists Invited To Attend Spanish. Museum Inauguration ' Madrid - (UPU - Visitors to Spain this summer will be in for an out -of -the -ordinary treat. From July through Scptcm ber, a display of historic treas ures will be open for visitors to the famous monastery and palace of El Escorial, 30 miles north of Madrid. The occasion is the fourth centenary of the founding of the oddly-shaped monastery Special events in connection with the celebration include inauguration cf a new mu seum comprising 40 rooms in the summer palace of King Philip II, the monarch who built the monastery to r"Ti memorate the victory of the Spanish army over the French under King Henry II at St. Quentin. France, in 1557. "San Lorenzo del Escorial," as the monastery Is officially known, was built in the shape of a grill as a memorial to St. Lorenzo. He was burned alive on a grill by the Romans in the third century. The 90-day urnrs of events planned for El Escorial in clude concerts, lectures, tours, festivals of the arts, popular fiestas, bullfights and fairs. Thefts in Area Being Investigated The Jackson county sher iff s office is Investigating a series of thefts reported this week. Patricia L. Aldrich, 4425 Jacksonville highway, report-1 cd the theft of a dozen elec trical connections Monday. Oil was taken from behind Stan's Market, Crater Lake highway. Tuesday. William Trow. Gold Hill. reported the burglary of his residence Monday. Lester Ncal Bradshaw, Lit tle Butte Star Route, box 250, Eagle Point, reported Tues day the theft of lights, belt, from his tractor and bailer, deputies said. The latest Veterans Ad ministration figures show 22, 220.000 veterans in the Unit ed States. A bike rider pedals strokes in a mile ride. 400 THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 $W Monitor, St. PORTLAND. OREGON All transient e ucsft. All tftot whe urn, return. Ratci net high, i tow. Free garage, new location '-t block from hotel. Oven until 10 p.m. TV's and radios. Reputation for cleanliness. CHILDREN UNDER SEVEN NO CHARGE 5rsxD (cgdQxdgdg ex Qjs (gSDSflacj? Sm CE fiftUR? t2G Cmuots 3 Days Only at this AMKn. 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