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2 g SUNDAY. JULY 14. 1863 , MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Vastness of America Impresses English Students Working in Area : .-. -'-' ' . ' - WORK IN GRANTS PASS Ian Fawcctt and Paul O'Leary left to right, are working in Grants Pass at Spalding Lumber company and Rogue Dairy Products. Fawcett is studying medicine at Cambridge, and O'Lcary is in engineering. Faw cctt resides with the William Sloans, 1429 Cherry lane, and O'Lcary at the Gordon Burns home, 1S99 Willow lane, Grants Pass. mml'm n ii ii i - M.i By EVA HAMILTON Mail Tribune Staff Writer Cambridge University. Cambridge, England, is still approximately 6.00U air miles from southern Oregon, U.S.A. In thinking and under standing, however, Cam bridge students and southern Oregon residents will never again be that far apart, thanks to the Cornerstone of De mocracy program, members of the Oregon Junior Cham ber of Commerce are convinc ed. The Jaycecs are responsible for adding 18 Cambridge stu dents to Oregon's summer population, five of them in the Rogue valley. The five in southern Ore gon are Tony Payne, now of Central Point; Paul U Leary and Ian Fawcctt, Grants Pass; and Nick Halton and Terry Jenkins, Medford. Third Year of Program This is the third year that Cambridge students have been brought to Oregon by the Jay- cee program, in whicn trnest R. Kennedy, last year's state chairman of the program, started working as interna tional relations committee chairman in 1960. Under the program sum mer jobs and homes arc found for the youths. The students pay for tneir transportation across. AH flew from London to Montreal and then motored west in private cars or buses. Next year the Jaycecs hope to expand the program to in clude West Germany, Ken nedy said. Gordon Burns, Grants Pass, is now state in ternational relations director for the Jaycees. Robert Bur ton and Wayne Medford arc this year's co-chairman of the Cornerstone of Democracy program. Prepare for Professions At Cambridge, the five vis iting students have been pre paring for a variety of profes sions doctor, solicitor, en gineer, actuary and real estate manager. Here, four are working in sawmills and one in a dairy. Screening of students for the 1963 project in Oregon was done by Frank Brierley, who spent the summer of 1962 in the Rogue valley, return ing to Cambridge for his sen ior year. In spile of the variety of interests and ambitions rep resented in the Cambridge autnlet. there are - certain fields in which there seems HOWN AT JOB Tony Payne, who is qualifying for real state management at Cambridge. Is shown on his lob at Mt. mt company, where 15 tier cent ot the summer crew is made up ot college students. He Is llvlne, with Mr. and Mrs. to be strong agreement, inter Li , ' "B uestrlDeQ vlews W'h 'he students re nts trip across me states as jolly good. . vealed. Events From Newspapers of Early Days Being Catalogued When the alphabetical card Index filing system which is being prepared by Giles Green at the Jacksonville museum is completed, accessibility to local events chronicled in early Jackson county news papers will be quickly avail able. Microfilm copies of these county papers, which date back to 1850, are inserted in a "Recordak," a projector made specially for enlarging the mall print on the microfilm. Green, libarian at Ashland High School, reads and cata logues those articles of hislor- leal interest, and Miss C.aylc Offenbacher, a senior at Med ford High school, does Ihc typ ing and filing. Items or topics pertinent to Oregon and northern Califor nia history are listed on Individual cards using a cross filing system similar to that used by libraries. In four weeks at the mu seum, Green has compiled cards for the Table Rock Sen tinel (the first Jacksonville paper) from 1858 to 1867. Stories of stagecoach travel were common, and some of the listings in the card cata ' logue under stage coach truvel might be accidents, Indian assaults, and physical difficulties. During this period, articles In the papers were filled with excitement and agitation about the proposed telegraph line and the verbatim message is reproduced of the first tele grnph message from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Ore. The possibility of a railroad was hopefully discussed since tlic nearest shipping point was Roscbiirg and all valley trans portation had to be by oxen or norscs. Has Had Two Papers Jacksonville always had two, and sometimes more, pap era l the same time, and the museum files arc especially valuable since they contain copies of the two major pap ers. The division between pap ers was particularly acute about the time of the Civil War when one of the papers was pro-South and the other pro-Union. The language used in editorials In papers today might be designated as "sissy" In comparison with that used by editors In those days. Near ly any expression wai permissible. Mail was a problem In those days. Delivery northward seemed to stop at Yrcka, and southbound mail came to a dead end at Canyonville. Local residents were left in a vacuum. Troubles with the Indians were detailed in the papers, but readers had to remember that only one side of the dis pute was prcscntcu. Interesting Problem An Interesting problem ex ists which some future histor ian might solve, "Is there a re. lallnnship between Sachs, an early Jacksonville mercantile establishment, and Saks of Fifth avenue. New York?" Some people think there is. An impediment to the com. plctcd index arc the occasion. al blackcd-out spaces found In the papers. Since the pap. ers In the museum came from many sources, censorship was apparently exercised by van. ous individuals for assorted reasons. Among the more than 20 papers at the museum are the Central Point Herald, the Gold Hill News, the South Oregon Eye, the South Oregon Moniler, the Medford lnquir er, and the Medford Mail - " - rn'iliiirtiiin ,if it,,,, I, if. RECORDING EVENTS Giles Green Is ataewo at the "Recordak." examining an early Rogue valley newspaper. Miss Gayle Offenbacher, typist. Is shown at the left. They are recording events from valley news paper dating bark to 1856. The vastness of America is the thing with which they have been most impressed, if, as Terry Jenkins, 22, put it, they may be forgiven for rather trite remark." "America seems to contain in one country everything I've seen in all the other coun. tics I've visited," O'Leary declared with enthusiasm, ad ding that he has traveled 18 or 19. "The change of scenery in this country really fantastic," he added Halton said he knew hi: geography well, but is still a "bit overwhelmed by the enormity of the country." He expected it, he made it clear, but is "impressed with the sheer space of the country. side in this valley. It's beau tiful," he exclaimed. Mines Hedge Fences Tony Payne misses the hedge fences and the sheep, and he hasn't seen a garden "that compares favorably with the worst English gar den." v All these students obvious ly approve of the National Health and Insurance pro gram in England, the Royal family, and the manner in which students are accepted at Cambridge. Several of them took a hefty jab at Eng lish politics but not one word was spoken in criticism of the Queen or members of her family. Fawcett, who is in his third year at Cambridge and study ing medicine, said he is free to choose any branch of medi cine he wants. He may also engage in private practice al though everyone is under the national health program. Pay Private Rate "Many older people," he explained, "often pay the private rate imagining that they are getting better care. So you see we do have private practicing physicians. AH hos pitals are completely state The only general complaint with the system is connected with foreigners," Fawcett, wno now plans to enter sur gery, continued. Both ior- cign doctors and foreign pa tients." To elucidate, he said the only doctors with whom the people express dissatisfaction are doctors from other coun tries who enter the hospitals. The people also resent the fact that citizens of other countries, who become ill in England or develop a need for glasses or dentistry, while there, receive these services for the same price that Is paid by the English, who sup port the program. This situation has been Im proved, O'Leary volunteered, by the fact that five European countries have developed re ciprocal programs. If English residents need medical care while in one of these coun tries, they received it for the same price they would pay in their homeland. Enthusiastic About Program Fawcett seemed enthusias tic about the program and in sisted that doctors do well in England ("Not so well fi nancially as they do in the United States, but no one else does.") The two students, who were accompanied to Medford from Grants Pass by Del Renfro, Grants Pass chairman of the Cornerstone of Democracy program, agreed that some "newly qualified doctors" are leaving for Australia and Can ada. Everyone In England is cov ered by the program, Faw cett and O'Lcary emphasized. When a person reaches 18 he is given a card. If he is em ployed, the employer puts stamp on the card each week These stamps are obtained at the post office. England, also, has private insurance plans, the students reported. Under these an in dividual pays 1 per cent tor every $3 earned and can choose his own physician and a private room at the hos pital. Into English Poliiici Guided into an assessment of English politics, several of the youths sounded like their counterparts in the United States, finding fault with both parties. One insisted that the political situation "is so bad he Just isn't interested O'Leary and Fawcett Insisted they weren't referring to the Profumo scandal, cither. "Your system Is much bet ter," they added, tossing bouquet to the United States on Its regular elections. "The conservatives have just been in too long, 13 years. Eut what will we get if we put them out? Jenkins seemed to feci bit differently about it. He voiced the opinion that "the conservative party will pull through." And the opinion had the sound of an expressed hope. Halton said the British were not truly concerned about the social scandal involved In the Profumo case, but the fact dial perjury was Involved That, he made it clear, Is the sin. The Magic Age Turning the conxersation to cars, speed limits and enter tainment, Halton said "Twen- NOW IN ASHLAND Terry Jenkins, who is currently at home with the Edward H. Barrys, 1916 Military rd., is work ing for McGrew Brothers, Ashland, now engaged in disman tling the sawmill at Bellvicw. When he returns to tngland he will enter the offices of Mercantile and General Reinsur ance comDany in London as an actuary in insurance and investment. While other members of the English quintet play rugby, tennis and squash, Jenkins prefers chess and bridge. the dances where- ty-lwo is the magic age at Cambridge. Students at Cam bridge cannot have cars until they are 22. (Halton is 22.) Few American cars are bought in England because of the petrol they eat. And mo tor boats, they are a sign of great wealth in England. Here I see them everywhere." Halton and Jenkins have already enjoyed water skiing at Emigrant lake. Halton thinks Cliff Rich ard, singer, is the idol of the English students. Payne, who lso likes classical music, finds Elvis Presley "is the greatest." Fabian is popular ison are ever young people gather, the boys from Cambridge be lieve. They prefer television and radio the way they are handled in England, without the commercials. Motorcycles and scooters are popular and crash helmets are a must under the English law. Notice Difference Several of the students have noticed a distinct dif ference in eating habits in this country. Others find them quite the same. Each, how ever, menlionea tnat mere seems to be an excess of ham- too. The twist and the Mad-1 burgers. O'Leary. Fawcett and Jenk ins said they didn t eat pan cakes for breakfast in Eng land. In. fact. O'Leary said, they are rearely eaten by the English except on Shrove Tuesday. The students, who tried them dry upon first ar rival in the United States, were glad to learn of the but ter and syrup treatment. The abundance of motels (there is only one on the drive from Liverpool to Lon don); the presence of speed limits (there is none on the dual carriage way in Eng land), the driveins, the super markets and the sophistica tion of young girls are all dif ferences that the students no tice in America, they agreed. They haven't noticed exces sive drinking by young peo ple in either country. They are allowed alcoholic drinks at age 18 in England. Offer Criticism They offered criticims of the educational system in England under which ll-year-olds are required to prove themselves. If a student is weeded out of academic edu cation at Wh years, they maintained, it is difficult fcr him to get back in. It does happen, but rarely in England. The five students, voicing their appreciation of the Jay cce program, said their long desire to visit the United States could not have been satisfied otherwise. "This way we really see the American way of life. We get to know people in their homes and believe me there is a lot that the English and Americans need to know about each other," they agreed. "For instance, "O'Leary pinpointed the contention, "These are two of the ques tions I have been asked re peatedly, 'What language do you speak in England, and do you celebrate the Fourth of July?' Imagine that." Druids Celebrate Asked if the English don't celebrate mid-summer in July, O'Leary said, "Only the few '.. r J o , AT f Fff. m l tkf tJJ c -Asti8''1 ' - ! b c' WORKS ON GREEN CHAIN Nick Halton, who is working on the green chain at Delah Timber Products, White City, is also living with the Barrys on Military road. He is going to be a solicitor, a lawyer, who does not appear before the bar. He has traveled extensively and climbed many moun tains. Last year in Austria he built houses for refugees, a job he obtained by applying through the United Nations. Druids, who remain. They do have a celebration at the old est monument in the world Stone Henge, the primitive temple constructed by the Druids in the south of Eng land." The five are looking for ward to the Shakespearean festival. Payne said he had lived in Straford, but has met a fel low here, who works in the woods, but knows more about Shakespeare's works than he does. All will be assisting on op ening night at Ashland when the Jaycees sponsor the "Feast of Will." From the COLONIAL HOUSE COLLECTION II -r Jyj handsome! a floor lamp of solid, hand finished and antiqued H 1 I 11 brass ... for the more formal colonial setting. U ffi , . 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