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.
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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
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Friend Flees
Feathered Friend
WASHINGTON (UPI) Ogden
Nash, the poet laureate of
piffle, once wrote:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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