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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1963
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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-
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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. .
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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.
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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. Half of that pay, Rob
inson said, went to Cook to
"pay off some sort of alleged
debt."
Cook beat McKenzie on the
head with a pistol and used
"other force to make him
work in the fields," said U.S.
attorney Terrell L. Glenn.
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