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' "" - MEDKOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOMU. OBEGON MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1903 Area4-H Members Receive Ribbons At State Fair Rogue valley 4-H members took a number of blue and red ribbons at the Oregon State fair last week while showing their skill in planning and executing attractive room decorations in home improvement projects. Area winners at the state fair included: Advanced home improvement: red, Amy Jo Helm, Ashland, and David Bretz, Grants Pass. Plan and decorate your room: blue, Judith Franek. Medford. Ila Moore, Eagle Point, and Judy Fowler, Grants Pass; red, Sandra Mayfield and Susan Tru- ly, both of Central Point, Can dace Benedetti, Grants Pass. Grtfbm your room: blue, Min dy Haekett, Debbie Marsh and Ma:i".yn Marsh, all of Medford, Wren Winniford, Central Point. A red ribbon for making iams and jellies went to Susan Cor nut, Central Point. Other award winners were: Clothing II: (skirt or apron) blue, Jill Peterson and Joan Townes, both of Medford; Ber na Phelan, Ashland, Pearl Dol larhide, Kay Hughes and Sharon Schotte, all of Grants Pass; red, Connie Weide, Rogue River, and Donna Eldred, Grants Pass. Clothing III: (simple cotton school dresses or skirts and blouses) blue, Linda Waddell, Eagle Point, and Marianne Har vey, Grants Pass; red, Connie Burrell, Darlene Gunter and Jannie Williams, all of Grants Pass, Sandra Chancier and Pamela Weaver, both of Rogue River, and Julie Thompson, Central Point. Clothing VI: (wool dresses) blue, Marilyn Schotte and Shir ley Schotte, Grants Pass: red, Paulette Anderson, Eagle Point, Darlene Thompson, Central Point, and Marilyn Case, Grants Pass. Beginning knitting B: blue, Linda Armitage, Eagle Point, Marsha Wilson, Central Point, Cynthia Charley, Medford, Jan et Morrison, Grants Pass: red, Margaret Carnegie, Medford. Intermediate knitting A: red, Amy Jo Helm, Ashland, Carolee KEEDIN'G TIME Shawn Harris, 17-months-old, hands a baby bottle to his mother, Mrs. Delores Harris, 19, as she prepares to feed her children, the nation's only identical quadru plets, at their home in Chicago. The quadruplet girls, two months old, now weigh eight pounds each and drink two gallons of milk daily. Mrs. Harris was awarded $30 a week child support payment from her estranged husband, Ber nard, 23, a $75-a-weck factory worker, and she's wondering how she can support five children in a $193-a-month apartment on the $30 weekly payments. (UPI) Teachers Asked to Help Reduce School Drop-Outs Business-Education Day Plans Reviewed I Missing Family i Reported Safe The Jackson County School Superintendents' association has adopted a resolution urging all teachers and school adminis trators to make every effort to prevent school drop-outs. This supports action taken by six nation educators' associa tions recommending all those in the teaching profession contact at least one student who indi cates he may drop out of school and persuade him to continue his high school education. In a joint statement, the or ganizations suggested that edu cators make direct contact with potential school drop-outs and their parents to convince them Kucst, Medford, Christine Stith, Central Point. Intermediate knitting B: blue, Ilene Mitchel, Medford, Shir ley Roach, Central Point; red, Ann Bowling and Judy Frink, Central Point. that the schools and all those who work in them do care and that they owe it to themselves and then world to continue in school and to graduate." Estimates nationally show that about 300,000 young people can be expected to drop out ol school this summer. Professional o r g a n i zations making the joint statement were the American Association of School Administrators, Associ ation for Supervision in Curric ulum Development, Department of Classroom Teachers, Nation al Association of Secondary School Principals, Department of Elementary School Principles and the National Education As sociation. President Kennedy in his re cent conference with educators recognized the drop-out prob lem as one of the critical edu cational issues, County School Superintendent Alf B. Mekvold said. Children Required To Attend School All children between 7 and 18 years old are required to spend an entire term in a public school near where the child resides, according to Oregon law, Coun ty School Superintendent A 1 f Mekvold has reminded area res idents. First responsibility for such school attendance is upon the parent, and then upon the school administrator, it was explained. Some exemptions from com pulsory school attendance are: legally employed children be tween 16 and 18 when release has been secured from the school administrator, high school graduates, children being taught in private or parochial school, children who are abnor mal or are physically unable to attend school, when distance from school bus route or school makes attendance "unreasonable." The sixth annual Business-Ed' ucation day will be held Thurs day, Sept. 5, with the largest number of educators and busi nessmen in the history of the project participating, according to the Medford Chamber of Com merce. Medford teachers and school administrators, numbering 450, will assemble at Hedrick Junior High school at 8:30 a.m. for a 30 - minute program for which William J. Williams, president of the chamber, will be the principal speaker. Frank Bash, chairman of the education committee, of the chamber of commerce, will be master of ceremonies for the meeting. Dr. Leonard B. May field, superintendent of schools, and Dr. Elliott Bccken, assist ant superintendent, will be pres ent to announce the final de tails of the annual visitation of business by teachers. To Pick t'p Teachers Representatives of the 77 host firms will be present to pick up the teachers who will start on their tour ot Dusincss at a.m. During the morning the busi ness firms will furnish the trans portation and will devote time following the tour to an explana tion of modern business and the problems with which it is con fronted in many fields. The teachers will be guests of the host firms at individual lunch eons, each firm working out its own pattern. The decision factors, involved in merchandising; the type of advertising firms feel must be done to promote sales; the vol ume of sales required to finance Vancouver, Wash. (UPD one day's operation, the kind of The State Patrol said Sunday evaluation necessary to guess a family of 12 persons, report the trends and the risks involved issi earljer ui will all be discussed with the . , , ...... ,. . educators 1 "om Lebanon to Seattle, had On Thursdav, Oct. 24. the checked in Saturday evening, business leaders participating in 1 Mr. and Mrs. Vcrn Peterson the September tour will return 'Sr.. Lebanon, and 10 of their the visit and go to school for 1 children, had been reported mis one half dav to see what is ! sing earlier by a son, Vcrn Jr., being done to achieve a better when they failed to arrive at product in education. Don Mc-: their destination. Neil, chamber manager, said. 1 They were traveling in a bus wmcn nad been converted tor : private use as a camper. An i officer here said that Peterson i called the Washington State Pa : trol Saturday evening. IIEPORTS OWN CRASH Holt, England (UPI) A physician found that John "Cow an, who walked a mile to re port that his car overturned, had suffered a fractured pelvis, broken arm and bruised spine in the accident. "John has always been a tough lad," his mother, Mrs. Lydia Cowan, remarked. DRIVING PROBLEM SOLVED Bilston, England (UPI) Frank Williams said Sunday he solved the problem of motorists driving too close to him' by painting a large sign on the back of his small truck that read, "high explosives keep clear." Advertising Club Installs Officers More than 30 members of the newly formed Southern Oregon Advertising club attended in stallation ceremonies for the or ganization's first o f f i c e r s at North's Chuck Wagon Thurs day. On hand to install the offi cers was Alan J. McKelburg, district vice president of the Advertising Association of the West and a member of the Portland Advertising club. Officers are Bob Ford, presi dent; Lou Tycer, vice presi dent; Margaret Ford, secretary, and Jane Hundley, treasurer. The Southern Oregon Adver tising club is made up of indi viduals who are involved in the selling, producing or writing of advertising in Southern Oregon. The group meets each Friday at a noon luncheon and once a month for an evening busi ness and social meeting. Any one interested in joining the or ganization may contact Ford, 772-9453. Vice Raids Net 24 Pasco Persons Pasco, Wash. (UPD A se ries of vice raids here early Sunday netted authorities 16 women and eight men who were charged with vagrancy and tak en to the Franklin county jail. The raiding squad was led by Franklin County Prosecuting At torney James Rabideau and in cluded a team of investigators and several sheriff's deputies. Rabideau went on the raid armed with a pocketful of jus tice court warrants, some of them charging violation of state liquor and vice laws. 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