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THURSDAY- AUGUST 22. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON r i 5 if A .u 4S I'.. 4 ft ; ' t t f a,1 1 sk 7& i. J DROPS BORATE-An old D-17 Flying Fortress now used as a borate bomber drops borate on a grass, briisn and timber fire near Redding, Calif., early Tuesday. The fire St, i 4 'lit that was Hampered by rising north winds covered over 81)1) acres before being brought under control. (UPI) Quotes From the Nevss Belgrade, Yugoslavia-Russian Premier Nikila Khrush chev, outlining the Communist stand on world peace: "We are struggling for peace, but we shall not tremble if the most agaressive forces of imperialism those we call the wild ones unleash war." Mobile, Ala. - A 10-ycar-old boy, who admitted setting dozens of fires, as quoted by Sheriff Ray Bridges: "Something inside of me talks to me and tells me to do it, and I do it." Washington - Rep. John W. Byrnes (R-Wis.), top GOP member of the House Ways & Means committee, on promises President Kennedy to hold down federal spending: We heard those platitudes and fine intentions from the While House before we got a budget with an $11.9 billion deficit." Washington - Dr. N. E. Bradbury, director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, recommending ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty: "I myself, with considerable knowledge of nuclear things, with some knowledge of their military use, but with only a plain citizen's feolings about people and na tions and fears, would prefer to try to follow the path of hope." SHARE TOAST Playing a role in a different kind of per formance, television comedian Johnny Carson, 37, and his bride, the former Joanne. Copcland, of Palo Alto, Calif., beam as tliey share toast following their marriage in New York Saturday. It is the second marriage for both. (UPI) We've got too many new mobile homes on our lot so we're doing something about it. Prices on the existing units have been slashed to help them move. Drop by today and take a look at Southern Oregon and Northern California's largest selec tion of mobile homes and travel trailers. All priced to Sell NOW! KIT STATELINER 2 DAYS ONLY 55x10 2-bedroom, front kitchen, completely furnished, carpeted liv ing room, Alaskan insulated. $1200 DOWN $64.15 PER MO, $4895 A" Bank . Financing f Low Down Payments 55-Foot, 2 bedroom, center kitchen, Alaskan in- tH I I sulated. Completely furnished. Ka'l PI FULL PRICE 3975 oown 995 PER MONTH 53'5 TFnniir i (JSiy-iW-f IMPERIAL Built in Oregon, insulated for cold northwest. 55 foot 2 bedroom. Front kitchen. $452700 $1t30 Down, $58.95 per Month WALKER the WEEPER TRAILER HDQTRS. 1243 South Riverside Phone 773-4553 Parochial Schools Face Major Educational Problems (Editor's note: What are the hard facts behind the much discussed "crisis in Catholic education?" In the following d i s patch, UPI correspondent Louis Cas sels examines in depth the problerri of too few teach ers, too many students in the Catholic educational system.) By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Washington -lUPIi- St. Leo's Catholic school in suburban Fairfax, Va., is typical of the thousands of parochial schools in the United States. It has a shortage of teach ers and a surplus of students. In the past, St. Leo's has of fered a complete elementary school program, from kinder garten through the eighth grade. This fall, however, it is dropping its kindergarten and first grade. "Wc feel it is more neces sary to have the upper grades than the lower grades if we can't have them all," explain ed Father Walter F. Malloy. More Difficult Throughout the nation, pa rochial schools are finding it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to expand their teaching staffs and classroom space to accommodate an ever-growing body of appli cants. More and more of them are solving the problem, or at least easing it somewhat, by dropping their lower grades. Some parochial schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, have al ready curtailed their lower grades, and Bishop Paul F. Lcibold announced recently that it may be necessary to drop the first four grades of all church-operated schools in the archdiocese. According to the National Catholic Welfare conference, curtailment of lower grades has also begun in Kansas City; St. Louis; Cleveland; Columbus, Ohio; Green Bay, Wis.; Spokane, Wash.; Fargo, N.D.; Clinton, Iowa; St. Paul, Minn., and Richmond, Va. It is under consideration in many other dioceses. Whenever a parochial school drops one or more grades, the public schools serving the same community experience a sudden spurt in enrollment. Proposed Closing Some Catholic educators have seriously proposed clos ing down all the elementary grades in parochial schools, in order to concentrate the church's educational effort on the high school years. If this were done, U.S. pub lic schools would have to find classrooms and teachers for 4.5 million children more than they are now educating. It also would mean a corres ponding increase in the local tax load. Such a drastic shifting of the educational burden is not likely to take place in the foreseeable future. Most Catholic authorities arc still committed to the ideal of pro viding a religiously-oriented education for Catholic chil dren throughout their forma tive years. j But even the most ardent ; advocates of this ideal are be- i ing compelled to admit the ' necessity of making some compromise with the goal of "every Catholic child in a 1 Catholic school." j At present, fewer than half ; of the nation's Catholic ! youngsters are enrolled in Catholic schools. About 54 j per cent are going to public '. schools, some by choice, many ' because there is simply no ; room for them in parochial schools. Despite the millions of chil dren who are perforce turned away each fall, the Catholic schools in many cities are se verely overcrowded. Where public schools are trying to limit class size to a maximum of 25 to SO students, many pa rochial schools have classes of ISO to 70 students. This kind of overcrowding makes it difficult to do an ef fective job of teaching, and protests from Catholic par ents have induced a number of major dioceses, including those of St. Louis, Richmond and Baltimore, to take steps to limit parochial school classes to 50 students or less. Enforcement of this ceiling will mean turning many addi tional applicants away to the public schools. Why don't Catholics ex pand their school system to handle all the children seek ing admission? Enrollment Doubled The answer is that they have tried to do just that, but have been overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the task. Enrollment in Catholic schools has almost doubled since 1950. The frantic pace of expansion is illustrated by the archdiocese of Chicago, which has invested more than SfiO million in new schools during the past 5 years. Na tionwide, the total investment in Catholic school buildings is now estimated at $5 billion. There are more than 13.000 Catholic schools of all types. Their annual operating costs exceed tt'15 million. And the coU r rising , sharply. In the past. Catholic schools have been able to pro vide education at a far lower cost per child than public schools because most of their teachers were unsalaried nuns. In 1950, only 7 per cent of all elementary teachers in Catholic schools were laymen. Salaried Teachers But the number of nuns available for teaching duty has not grown as fast as the number of children to be taught. As a result, Catholic schools have increasingly had to hire lay teachers-and pay them salaries. This fall, about 30 per cent of the elementary teaching staff in parochial schools will be composed of laymen. To finance the rising cost of the world's largest private school system, the Catholic church relies heavily on vol untary contributions from its members, or the proceeds of fund-raising activities such as bake sales, bazaars or bingo games. Tuition payments have traditionally been kept low for the sake of poor families and large families. At the ele mentary school level, they rarely exceed S90 to S100 per year, compared to the S600 to $1,000 tuition charge which a parent would encounter at a private day school. These are the hard facts be hind the much-discussed "cri sis in Catholic education." 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