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.
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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.
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strokes in a mile ride.
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