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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1963 i r.i! EDUCATION IN AMER ICA . , : j . Percentage of Teachers Who Are College Graduates Varies By DAVID NYDICK UPI Education Specialist Are all teachers college grad uates? . Does your child's teacher have a college degree? The National Education Association in a nationwide survey found that the percentage of elemen tary teachers with college de grees varied from 99.8 per cent in one state to 28 per cent in another. The total picture in the na tion is not available since IS states are not included in this survey. In only four states all of the teachers in 1962-63 were college graduates. The remain der continued to permit various percentages of non college graduates to enter their schools as teachers. Among the non college gradu ates there are those who have been in teaching for many years. These individuals are gradual ly retiring. Many have gone on and obtained their degrees. They were comparatively well trained and have learned a great deal through experience. Serious Concern The major problem is pre sented by the many new indi viduals entering teaching even though they have substandard qualifications. This one aspect of education is of serious con cern. It has long been recog- J V r' jut-?' --r-i? ra b ? MI SL f fff if J - , f ELECTED PRESIDENT Gen. James F. Collins, Commander of U. S. Army Forces in the Pacific, was elected President of the American Red Cross Tuesday. He succeeds Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther who retires next March. General Collins will assume the presidency March 1 after retiring from the military. (UPI) Senate Probers to Question Witnesses In Baker Inquiry WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen ators investigating "outside ac tivities" of former Senate offi cial Robert G. (Bobby) Baker may question a Washington girl friend of Mrs. Ellen Rometsch, West German beauty who was sent home after an FBI inquiry into her private life. Baker resigned his $19,600-a-year post as secretary to Sen ate Democrats Oct. 7 following disclosure of his side-ranging business ventures, including a S1.2 million luxury motel and a vending machine company. The Senate Rules Committee was to meet today in closed session to complete arrange ments for the Baker inquiry. Chairman B. Everett Jordan, D-N.C, said the committee "might call the available wit nesses today if we can work it in." Jordan said there were "two or three people" in Washington who could be summoned on short notice to tell what they know about Baker's wheeling and dealing outside the Senate. Called Later Mrs. Rometsch's friend, who works at the World Bank and lived with the West German and her husband while they were in Washington, probably will be called as a witness lat er, Jordan said. He d i d not identify the girl. Mrs. Rometsch, a statuesque brunette married to a West German army sergeant, was whisked back to West Germany after an FBI investigation of her high-living ways. nized that excellence in educa tion cannot be achieved without excellent teachers. Regardless of the equipment, facilnes, or ganization, and other factors, the teacher is the key to qual ity of instruction. Parents concerned with im provement of their school sys tems should look carefully at the qualifications of the staff. Usually the state Departments of Education are responsible for issuing teaching licenses. There are different types of certifi cates. The regular certificate will usually require a bachelor's degree with prescribed courses in education. There are also substandard or emergency cer tificates which are issued when fully qualified individuals are not available. Regardless of the state's min imum requirement, local boards of education may set any addi tional requirements which they might desire. The implication is that they must be able to obtain teachers with the de sired qualifications. As an ex ample, it would be unrealistic for a school system with a par ticularly low salary schedule to require a masters degree for a teaching job. The most direct approach for parents is through their local boards of education. The poli cies set by a school board can achieve rapid and effective im provement m the quality of its scnooi staii. Many Factors Ncccssarv Along with reasonable salaries there are many other factors necessary to attract qualified teacners. A prospective teacher will consider such items as liv ing facilities, working conditions, class size, equipment, commun ity interest, available rccrea tion and entertainment. Thes advantages will always var with the community. A farm area cannot offer musical con certs, but it can offer a com munity which respects and sup ports the schools. Extensive ef fort in the recruiting of teach ers is necessary if they are to be attracted to your commun ity. The improvement of state standards is also very impor tant. A ruling set by the state affects many communities and therefore is more difficult to implement. Professional teach er's associations, PTA's and other interested groups are con stantly working to improve all aspects of education. Parents should support both approaches in order to achieve an improved quality of the educational pro grams in the schools. . ft V - v? . v,. vr.W'. fcU4! 2. t - v , X i--f tv-" 4"Vrvii K3 k'1v l-wl 7 lWt jj Zy- H vK"'1 i HEAP 0' HOT DOGS LONDON (UPI) - The spon sors of National Hot Dog Month predicted today that enough frankfurters would be eaten in November to girdle the earth or make a mound bigger than the ocean liner Queen Mary. Sfofe Employes to Consider Resolution SALEM (UPI) -A resolution urging that state employes be allowed to run for public politi cal office will be considered by the Oregon State Employes As sociation at its annual general council in Eugene, Nov. 7-9. The OSEA said today the con troversial resolution also asks removal of the legislative pro hibition against political activity contained in the Oregon Little Hatch Act. .tESERVOIH COLLAPSES . Engineers and ripping up large chunks of pavement and several home owners received a rude shock in shaking foundations of several homes. The tank, Oakland, Calif., Tuesday when a new water ' which was being filled for the first time, had reservoir collapsed, sending more than 325,000 been pronounced "okay" by a city engineer gallons of water cascading down the street, only an hour before its downfall. (UPI) Broadcasters Face Stiff Penalties For Violations WASHINGTON (UPI) - A Federal Communications Com mission (FCC) official warned today that broadcasters face possible stiff penalties if they transmit information about the New Hampshire - sweepstakes "under the guiso of a news story." The New Hampshire lottery based on horse races at Rock ingham race track will pay up to $200,000 to holders of win ning tickets sold by the state. It is the first state-operated lot tery since I "uisiana abolished one in 1894. FCC Secretary Ben F. Waple urged broadcasters to exercise "greit care" in airing stories relating to the lottery which begins next year. He said that only "in unusual cases" would lottery information be consid ered news. I Waple made his comments in reply to a letter from Richard G. Rozek, president of the Unit ed Press International Broad casters Assn. of New Hamp shire. Rozek asked FCC Chairr man E. William Henry for guidelines in broadcasting lot tery information. , Rozek asked whether the FCC would authorize the transmis sion of numbers and winners of the sweepstakes. He also said, "we assume, or course, that legitimate news about the lot tery is authorized by the com mission." . Waple noted that federal criminal law forbids broadcast ers ' from transmitting - "in formation concerning any lot tery" with penalties ranging up to loss of license and $1,000 fine and one year of imprisonment. He said the FCC "may not au thorize actions contrary to the criminal statute." The FCC official also took is sue with Hozek's assumption that the FCC would approve news stories about the lottery "It must be pointed out that this assumption may not be justified in view of . the statu tory prohibition ... " Waple said. A 3 Quorum Club Hosts Capital Newsmen to Stop Speculation United Press Internstional -WASHINGTON (UPI) - Cap itol Hill's suddenly famous quo rum club, located in a suite that was once a Nixon-for- president office, ; held ' open house for newsmen Thursday. The purpose was to show there's nothing sinister or ultra - secret about its operations. The club fell into the news spotlight because former Senate Democratic Secretary Robert Goldwater Sponsors Tax Reduction Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.', spon sored legislation Wednesday to give homeowners a tax reduc tion of up to $100 a year for the support of local grade and high schools. the two-part bill, co- sponsored by four other Repub licans, also would grant tax de ductions up to $2,000 a year for parents of college students, The measure is similar to one offered by Goldwater as a sub stitute proposal for an aid to education bill in 1961, It got only 10 senate votes then Treasury officials, who oppose tax write-offs for education ex penses, have estimated that a plan similar to Goldwater's pro posal would cost in excess of $3 billion. . -ii. Under the proposal, a person income tax bill a maximum of could subtract from his federal Income tax bill a maximum of $100, representing local real es tate taxes paid by a homeown er which are used for support of schools. Joining Goldwater as spon sors were GOP Sens. Gordon Allott, Colo.; Milton R. Young, N.D.; Thruston B. Morton, Ky.; and John G. Tower, Tex. Grand Jury Charges Carolina Farmer With Holding Slave An average adult breathes 10, 000 to 12,000 quarts of air per day. G. (Bobby) Baker, now under investigation for his non-Senate business dealings, was an orig inal memDer. Answer Questions But Ihe only thing approach- mg excitement in the three room drink-and-dlne snuggery this morning was the traffic created by photographers and reporters. Thomas and William Pickford, co-owners of the Car roll Arms Hotel which houses the club across the street from the Senate office buildings, an swered questions frankly. , Tom said Mrs. Ellen Rometsch, the 27-year-old Ger man beauty whose name has cropped up in stories about the Baker case, "never worked here for a minute." And, to the best of his knowledge, she never visited the club as a guest, he added. Have there been any with drawals from the club member ship of some 180 persons as a result' of all the Baker case publicity, he was asked. "Zero," he replied. "We have had an increase of about five members since the' publicity." The hotel owns the facilities and leases the layout to the club, and the hotel gets any profit from the food-and-drinic business. Few Lobbyists Only about 25 per cent of the members are lobbyists, Bill Pickford reported, and only 90 of the 180 members are resident in me areai r our senators ana . two House members are mem bers, he said. . Lyle Snader. an Association of American Railroad employe now president of the club, was not on hand at the time. The Pickfords fielded all the news men's questions. During , the 1960 presidential campaign period, the rooms now occupied by the quorum club were rented out to the Nixon-for-president organization, Tom Pickford reported. Before that, they were a hotel suite. The club was formed in May, 1961, . with Baker an original member, Pickford Baid. COLUMBIA,. S.C. (UPI) - A prominent farmer in the South Carolina tobacco country was charged by a federal grand jury Wednesday with holding a Negro laborer in "slavery." The farmer, Robert Moultrie Cook, 48, owner of a large farm near Johnsonville in Florence County, was scheduled to be arraigned before a U.S. Com missioner in Florence today. He was accused of violating federal laws prohibiting invol untary servitude and peonage by forcing Max Roy McKenzie to work on his farm against the Negro's will. "As far as I know, this is the first case of slavery in the South in at least 40 years," said assistant U.S. attorney Klyde Robinson of Charleston. A man was convicted in Con necticut on similar charges last year, he said. . ' Maximum penalty upon con viction of the charges is 10 years imprisonment or $10,000 fine, or both. . The grand jury was told that Cook has held McKenzie, a fa ther of four, in peonage since last April 27, paying him $3 a day for an average of five days a week. 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