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WEDNESDAY, Education Board Junks Community College Program SALEM (L'PI) - The State Board of Education Tuesday junked the planned $1.3 million community college building pro gram, adopted a curriculum guide for community colleges, and approved two school district reorganization plans. Acting on orders from the governor after last week's tax election defeat, the board i n definitely postponed allocation of the following community col lege construction funds: BIU2 Mountain $248,270, Cen tral Oregon $206,890, Clatsop College $90,370, South Western Oregon $331,030, Treasure Val ley $206,890, Eugene Technical- Vocational $124,000, Portland Community $69,230, and Salem Technical-Vocational $73,200. Approval of the curriculum and course eligibility guide for community colleges came after board members expressed t h e hope that the Board of Higher Education would adopt a similar guide for programs and lower division courses. Public Instruction Supt. Leon P. Minear said while the state board liked specific outlines lor courses, higher education iradi tionally avoided sooeific out' lines. Board members felt there should be more coordination in setting guides for community college programs. Two administrative school district reorganization plans, one covering parts of Washing ton and Yamhill counties, the other Clackamas county, were approved and now go to a vote of district residents. Action on a third proposed district, including parts of Polk and Yamhill counties, was post poned. The board announced i t would hold another public hear ing early ncx year, probably at Hood River, on boundaries for the proposed Mid-Columbia area education district. Proposed boundaries for the new community college district were changed after objections were voiced at a hearing Aug. 27 at The Dalles. School News Crater High School Knur Crater High students re ceived letters of commendation recently for the National Merit Schlarship qualifying tests giv en last spring. They were Rnald G. Smith, son o( Mr. and Mrs. Robert G, Smilh, route 1, box 179, Gold Hill; Dave Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. 11. D. Force, 443 First St., ('old Hill; Terry Mooster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley " Mooster 459 North Eighth St., Central Point; and Donald L. Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Thmpson, 926 Hop kins rd., Central Point. About 32,000 letters of com mendation were sent to students from 16,500 high schools throughout the nation. Dale Hoecker of the county extension office, was guest speaker at the Crater High In ternational Relations club meet ing recently. His topic was "Brazil," where he and his family lived for eight years. He also showed slides showing progress of the country. The talk was of interest to students since they had studied the Alliance for Progress the previous year. The subject ol this year's program is Atlantic unity. Officers from the Medford IRC, and Angus Duncan, presi dent of the Oregon High School International Relations club, met with members of the Crater chapter recently. Plans were made (or the pre conference to be held at Crater in December. It will be a mock conlerciuc of the state meeting scheduled in Eugene in Febru ary. The Region II FTA executive council met in Roseburg at the home of Patti Doerncr, region 11 president, recently. Rick Mayes, Crater represen tative to the council, and Cyn thia Owens, Phoenix, council member, both attended. Also at the meeting from the southern district were Marlene Bean, Phoenix club president, and Mrs Shirley Drysdale, Crater, Region II advisor. Plans were made for the spring convention in Roseburg. The Ruseburg club will host that convention under the direc tion of their new advisor. Miss Carle-no Felker. Theme for the convention will he "Measure of a Teacher." Miss Doerncr will also act as hostess (or the next executive meeting. Charles Rateman. local busi ness man and president of the Crater chapter of American Field Service, will meet with Hie student council at Crater Thursday. A discussion will he held on the possibility of Crater High participating in the AKS Ameri cans Abroad program. The school already takes part in Hie AFS activity of bringing students from other countries to the U.S. Judith Gultridge, stu dent from England, is living with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Tom linson, 156 West Pine St., ('en Iral Point, and attending school at Crater. OCTOBEt U, , ltXK gpssiP CARDS DRAWN Nancy Davis, Queen of the 1963 Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Calif., begins the task of drawing 1,750 cards from a bin containing an estimated 24,000 post cards sent by persons offering to purchase football game, to be played in the 1,750 persons who have cards that they are to have the option game. (UPI) Vincent Gives Travel Talk at VA Domiciliary The second in the 1963-64 sc ries of Travel Talks sponsored by the American Red Cross as part of the library program at the Veterans Administration Domiciliary, While City, was given this week by Dale Vin cent of Central Point. Vincent, with his wife spent several months in Death Val ley had recorded his talk to coincide with color slides. He had also taped a musical back ground. The opening views of Death Valley showed a landscape that looked like the surface of some uninhabited planet. In striking contrast to these and the eerie music accompanying them, the audience was shown another part of the valley, Furnace Creek Ranch, with its modern accommodations for tourists, its golf course, swim 1W m ICK WCST Friend Flees Feathered Friend WASHINGTON (UPI) Ogden Nash, the poet laureate of piffle, once wrote: Z Zi , K ,,JJ'" . ,, . That requires one to love , '"".u""' , , . Let this couple serve lo n- (reduce you to a friend of mine who shall be known for pur- . . , . .,. poses of this narrative as Mrs. ,,1M' . . . . , , Mrs. ASSISI has 8 reputation in her neighborhood of being a friend of our feathered friends, As she put it, "I'm the one they come lo when baby birds fall out of the nests." One recent Saturday evening a man brought to her door a homing pigeon that had crash landed in his yard. According to Mrs. Assisi, "The poor thing was in a catatonic condition. Story Hours Slated At County Library A series of story hours for pre-school children beginning tk't. 29 is planned by the Public Library of Medford and .lack son county. The stories will be scheduled regularly at It) a m. Tuesdays. Mis. Bayard Getchell, from the children's department of the library, will be leader for ot (lvworthv. So that night the first in the series. Hallo- rs Assisi telephoned the own ween stories and a flannelhoard or j Richmond. Meanwhile, she story will be featured. drove a considerable distance On Nov. 5, Mrs. Virginia 1 1 buy some special pigeon food. Card, an authority on Oregon The owner asked Mrs. Assisi history and Indian legends, will l0 Rjv(, (hc pigeon some cod be guest story teller. Names of liver oil and ship it back to him the leaders, who serve as vol- by rail. Mrs. Assisi persuaded unteers, will be announced each her husband to build a crate week. (or it. and on Thursday, much ine programs win oe varices but each will feature picture stories and finger plays that will appeal to small children. This is the first time a flannel- board has been available tor Vm j teJktrs' v.t. tickets to the 50th Rose Bowl Pasadena Jan. 1, 1964. Each of drawn will be notified by mail of buying two tickets to the ming pool, stores and its 40 acres of date palms, all set down amid the crags, hard ened dunes and statue like rocks of the surrounding land scape. From this oasis, the Vin cents made many side-trips to such places as Scotty's Castle, Telescope Peak, Butte Valley and me famous charcoal kilns. Other slides included views of isolated ghost towns, ancient caves still used as dwellings and Striped Butte with its multi colored rock formation. After the program refresh' ments were served. Helping in the serving were Mrs. Leatha Jones and Mrs. Lora Stewart. The next Travel Talk will be given Nov. 18 by Gerald Z. Wollman of Rogue Valley Man or who will present color movies on Western life. He couldn't move anything but his eyeballs. Man i-crfc.lly Sober lShe was- ot co"r5e- ,alkinR about the pigeon. The man was ! )orfet.v True to h e r nature. Mrs. Assisj R h distresscd crca. turc , hc. ho , ,,. .. . . V J , , some bud seed and bedded it dmvn (or ,hc njght jn , para. keel's flight cage. , Till. n,.vl rlnv sh r,irn,lr.rl hrr husband to climb upon the top of the carport and attempt to relaunch it. The bird, how ever, was so weak it couldn't fly any betlcr than her husband. On Monday morning. Mrs. Assisi called the Audubon Soci ety, hoping it could identify the bird's owner from the markings on his (the pigeon's) legband. The society referred her to the U.S. Fish 4 Wildlife Serv ice, which connected her with the banded bird division, which referred her to a pigeon fancier in Maryland, who referred her to another pigeon fancier in a different county. Mill Not Kl worthy Finally, it was ascertained that the bird belonged to a pigeon fancier in Richmond, Va. Mrs. Assisi was advised to "take the poor thing down to Ml. Vernon and point it south on U.S. 1." I he bird, however, still w as . relieved, she put it aboard a southbound train. That very same day, en route to visit a neighbor, what did Mrs. Assisi sec bul a homing pigeon hopping across the lawn Mrs. Assisi turned and ran. Thrift Week Gains Support To NEW YORK (UPI) This is National Thrift Week, and of all the various "weeks" which clut ter the calendar this one prob ably has as substantial backing as any. At the same time, some econ omists point out, what consti tutes thrill is not as simple to determine as it was 100 or even 50 years ago. Thrift in the mind of the thrifty person may not mean what it did to his father. Small World AroHRd Us Lynn W. Wrtkint y tilrUr 4 Trls... i?nuu, hi Monkey-Faced Owl Forced To Roam Daring Darknen In spite of the fact the mon key - faced owl is common and in goodly numbers throughout much of the U.S., very few peo ple ever see one. They choose to remain hidden during the day light and do their roaming at night. In the entire world o( birds there is no more strange looking character than this. Aside from the fact this bird is the world's most efficient mouse trap, no one has ever beat a "path to his door except to kill him or drive him from his home. His other names are many, such as church or bam owl and they all fall short of describing his one outstanding facial char acteristic. When viewed from the front or head-on, he looks, as much like a monkey as does a real monkey. It is also easy to see why some people call him a church owl. He knows his neighbors so well that he has selected this location to escape them. It is the only place where he can enjoy any privacy, for the entire owl family has a great many hecklers, even some of his very own relatives. Condemned Bird Nearlv every feather in bird- land is turned against the owl, just because he or some mem ber of his family at some time or other was caught robbing a bird's nest or eating the baby birds. For this reason every other bird instinctively knows that he is the enemy and they never let him forget that they remember. Just how the word got around that some owl-member grabbed a songbird is not too clear, but it did ana toaay even the very best behaved monkey - faced owl is condemn ed on general principles. An owl's life is a nightmare. He knows better than to be caught out in broad daylight when otner Diras are aneia. Once they locate him they never give him a chance to explain or a moment's rest. He will stand it as long as possible, then, in disgust he flies away. Then it is only a question of a few minutes until they locate him again or another noisy group will spot him and the formula is repeat ed; ridicule and vocal invective will be thrown his way and he knows what they mean. Not So Wise If the owl was as wise as he is reported to be or even as wise as he appears, he would most certainly figure out some easier way of hiding, instead of stupidly sitting where every noisy blue jay or crow can lo cate him and pester him to desperation. It's dumb of him after being driven from one lo cation to take up a position in plain sight at some exposed tree limb. He should crawi in somewhere, but no, he plants himself in plain sight and suf fers the consequences. Talk about "the pot calling the kettle balck" or "keeping one's own doorstep clean," the blue jay as well as the crow should be the very last of the ones to condemn, but they do. They heap insults and cast re flections, regardless of their own soiled reputations. But, in dealing with a sleepy old owl, both the crow and the jay arc actually profane. The trouble is that sometimes both men and jays see no refloe lion of themselves when they look into the mirror of their conscience. Maybe a conscience can become calloused -ir cloud ed over as easy as a glass mir ror if it isn't cleaned once in a while. The owl's background is not spotless but neither is hat of its persecutors. Too often some birds, as well as some num ins condemn, despise, or r-:vosc what thev do not understand. New f xom$ Announced For Civil Service I iew examinations sic uit-n to fill two Federal civil service positions, military personnel clerk (typing), and staff admin istrative assistant, according to the civil service commission. Additional information may be obtained from local post offices. oe FALSE TEETH Reek, Slid erS.'i? rmrrni. atmpaw r.? pr.rUJJ M upp! M lo Pl". Holm ft I. utm or Urtr.lT in pift Do nt tiia. up or twi No iuf--m ptitf (Mim. rwv TV 'IH ti tlkiltnf tnsB'tfid. I" fart torttlM. Oil rASTKTl tt U0 tru nuiw MttDPOBB MAJfc TKI8UN1. iltUTOB, Dr. Herman B. Well, chair man of the National Thrift Committee, said the purpose of the week is to focus "attention on the rewards of personal thrift and the part played by the individual thrift institutions of the United States in motivat ing programs that inspire great- More Funds Urged To Cut Death Toll PORTLAND (UPI) - The president of the American As sociation of State Highway Of ficials said Tuesday the nation must spend more money on highway programs to reduce its traffic death toll. John C. Mackie, a Michigan state highway commissioner, spoke at the opening session of the 49th annual AASHO conven tion at the Hilton Hotel here. He also predicted that Con gress would authorize 10,000 to 20,000 additional miles of inter state highway when the present 41,000 miles were completed. He called for a speed-up in com pletion of the present sys tem before the 1972 target date. " r' ' ? f !pi m . " . - , . ' IV (MO er accumulation of capital for the ever increasing demands of economic growth. Leaders Back It According to statements re leased by the committee mark ing the "week" which extends from Oct. 20 to Oct. 31, the purpose and objectives of the week are hailed by Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treas ury; William McC. Martin, Jr., chairman of the Federal Re serve Board; Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, minority leader of the Senate; Joseph P. McMurray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and R. Stew - art Rauch, Jr., president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks. Subscribers To report Improper er Mn delivery ot the Mail Tribune In Medford. phone 772-6111; Ash land call at 416 Bridge St.. or ohone 482-3002: Yreka, phone Vlc'ory 2-2898 before 6:43 p.m. daily and 1030 a.m. Sunday. If reetlar delivery arrivea shortly after you call please notify office, thus eliminating apecial messenger service. You're surrounded by clean and quiet warmth when you heat your home electrically. Every room is the exact tem perature you wish. Flameless electric heat is as clean as sunshine itself no grimy walls or drapes. And just as silent, too-no noisy furnace startups. And think of the extra benefits you enjoy with electric heat! Less redecorating bills! No furnace maintenance costs! No wonder electric heat is becoming sG popular, especially here in the Northwest where PP&L rates tar below the national average. Pacific Power & Light Company You Live Better... Electrically! Focus Attention on Saving While the week was getting under way, Melvin A. Eggers, professor of economics at Syr acuse University, was talking to bank association of New York state about their role in partic- Siskiyou Robbery Case Nearing End PORTLAND (UPD-The fed eral government may be getting ready to clear the books in a famous, 40-year-old Oregon train ! robbery, Acting U.S. Atty. Sidney Lezak said an indictment against three brothers convicted in the sensational 1923 Siskiyou robbery may be dismissed. Lezak noted that Roy D'Aut remont, 63, has been in state custody since 1927 and is in the state mental hospital. Roy's twin brother, Ray, was paroled in 1961. The other brother. Hugh, was paroled in 1958 and died a short time later. The brothers were imprisoned on state charges. The only fed eral charge lodged was for as saulting -a mail clerk. ular and about the practice of thrift in general. Eggers also is the author of a special study prepared for the association, and in it he says "there is widespread consensus that thrift is old fashioned and on its way out" Then he sets to work to show that this is not the case a all. Eggers said "to hold thrift ob solete, on the basis of modern thinking and available evidence, is no more reasonable than to hold that cleanliness has ceased to be a virtue because of de clining sales of soap, without re gard for the rapid growth of nonsoap detergents." Changing Definition Continuing, he said his study "holds that thrift is not obsolete but that a definition of thrift is obsolete if it relates thrift solely to financial accumulaion, especially for precautionary purposes. The thesis is that the nature of thrift has changed, but that the change has not been universally recognized, so that the word is used to de scribe what today is only one aspect of thriftiness. "To those most directly in volved the households them- . selves thrift today consists f the accumulation of oroductiv personal capital.. .this statement is made flatly and without qual ification. It is not to be inter preted merely as a change in the definition of the word thrift. It reports on a change in thrift itself." Eoconomists have been chang ing their thinking on thrift, Eg gers said, particulary those try ing to define a "consistent pat tern of . household saving be havior in relationship to expect ed lifelong income." They find best results can be obtained by including both financial accu mulation and the acquisition of durable goods under savings." They also consider education as a form of investment, he noted, and said it is "a very good form of investment, in terms of ordinary profit-related criteria." HOLY GHOST CVINCCUSTS ClDDIDCt NS UTH KuKMTT JON'T MISS OUT ON DECEIVING THE HOLY 5K0ST I SPEAKINS N UNKNOWN TONGUES Writs talnha Chute in iwlss 5, calif. o 0 ( (5 J G id
