FRIDAY, AUGUST 6. 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE THIRTEEN
Growing Number Of Ore.
-SNeds Poses Problems
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM 11 Facing a 25 per
cent increase in the number of
school children In the next six
years, Oregon Is headed for more
trouble in finding enough teachers
to man the class rooms.
Mrs. Joy hills Gubser, assistant
state superintendent of public in
struction, says that of the state's
8,500 grade school teachers, 19 per
cent now have emergency certifi
cates. That means they don't have
the requirements to be regularly
certified teachers.
She predicts the shortage of qual
ified teachers will get worse.
Eor the school year beginning
next month, the state's school dis
tricts are hiring 1,198 new srade
teachers. Mrs. Gubser estimates
that only 200 or 300 will come
from the 1954 graduating classes
at Oregon colleges which train
teachers.
The rest will come from outside
the state, or will be teachers with
emergency certificates.
At this time last year, there was
a' need for 1.249 teachers. But all
positions were filled by the time
school started, although half of the
new teachers had emergency certi
ficates. Emergency teachers can teach
juui yvaib. Ai uie enu ui mm ume.
they either must have become
qualified, or quit.
The shortage doesn't exist in
high schools, or in schools in the
larger cities. But it's bad in rural
areas and .small towns.
Mrs. Gubser has some ideas as
to what to do about it. :
"In the first place," she says
"we must induce all. the graduates
of teacher training courses to
teach. Many complete their
courses now, and then go into other
fields.
"We have to take steps to re
duce the turnover. In the United
States last year, 60,000 teachdrs
left their profession.
"We must maintain better stand
ards for the profession. We lose
good teachers now by reducing the
standards.
"We must maintain adequate
salaries. The salaries generally
are good in the larger cities, and
these cities don't have much
trouble getting good teachers."
Mrs. Gubser said salaries are
so low in some sections of the
state that the districts can't keep
good teachers. She cited Eastern
Oregon as a low salary area, as
serting that this part of the state
is strongly influenced by low teach
er salaries in Idaho.
"Some men," she continued, "go
into some areas as teachers for
$3,600 a year, which isn't enough
to support their families and to
take the extra college work that
is required of them. Many of these
men teach a short while, and then
they go Into business.
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"Another factor in getting good
teachers is for the public to be
aiert to the election of good school
beards. Some communities don't
pay am' attention to what goes on
in their schools, and they elect
school boards that, don't know very
much about running the schools.
Consequently, it's hard to keep
good teachers in those school
systems."
Mrs. Gubser thinks the teachers
can do something about it, too.
"Teachers have to take a more
positive attitude toward their pro
fession. They don't have to apolo
gize to anyone for being a teach
er," she said.
She thinks there should be more
financial help for students who are
taking courses to become teachers.
But she pointed out that the Ore
gon colleges which train teachers
couldn't get rid of all of their
scholarship money last year. There
weren t enough students who ap
plied for the aid.
The high schools, she thinks, can
do something about influencing
their students to become teachers.
She also suggests that standards
can be raised for principals and
school administrators. If this is
done, . she says, the teaching pro
fession will be more attractive.
French Teen-Agers
Touring World "
NEW YORK A couple Of
French teen-agers have arrived
from South America on a trip
"around the world In 80 days" to
commemorate the 80th anniversa
ry of the Jules Verne novel.
The pair, Francolse Haurie, 16,
and Jean Francois Bernede, 14,
won a soap company contest.
They confided last night that lan
guage difficulties sometimes make
things confusing.
In Peru, lor instance, they asked
for a deck of playing cards and
got peanuts.
"But the peanuts were good,"
they said.
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BRADFORD COLE, announcer for station KFJI is presented
with a certificate of appreciation by Mrs. Kenneth Hartley,
president of Klamath Unit, No. 8, The citation was in recogni
tion of the contribution to the education, entertainment and
inspiration of the public in the listening area including Bly,
Lakeview, Klamath Falls, Merrill, Malin, Tulelake and Dorris.
Programs included information on Legion auxiliary activities
and other pertinent facts of units. A similar certificate was
presented to station KFLW and received by announcer Charles
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CALGARY, Alta. WV-Four Mex
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of their four climbing partners
killed last Friday on Mt. Victoria
left here Wednesday .aboard a
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U.S. Admiral
TOKYO ( The Russian Navy
may have as many as 90 subma
rines in the Pacifio area, Vice
Adm. William Callaghan. com
mander of U.S. naval forces iu
the Far East, estimated today.
"These submarines definitely
would be a threat to maintaining
sea lines of communication," said
the tall, grey-haired admiral,
whose job would be to fight them
in the event of war with the So
viets. "Russia has a total of 375 sub
marines," Callagban said In an in
terview, "and we feel it would be
reasonable to expect that one-quarter
of them are in the Pacific."
He estimated the Russian Pa
cific fleet also has 50 destroyers
and two cruisers, but no aircraft
carriers or battleships,
"Submarines and air power are
their greatest threat, so far as So
viet capability is concerned," Cal
laghan said.
Two weeks ago. Gen. Earle E.
Partridge, Far East Air Forces
commander, said combined Soviet,
Chinese and North Korean air
forces had 1,500 planes, most of
them Russian.
Russian ground strength in the
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Far East has been estimated at
35 combat divisions by a high-ranking
officer on the staif of Gen.
John E. Hull, Far East command
er. Callaghan, the first skipper of
the famed battleship Missouri, is a
veteran of both world wars. He
was in charge of the Military Sea
Transportation Service during the
Korean War.
His. present command Includes
the U.S. 7th Fleet, made up of de
stroyers, cruisers and aircraft
carriers, but presently no battle
ships. The 7th Fleet is charged with
preventing a Chinese Red Invasion
of Formosa, Chmese Nationalist
redoubt. v
Callaghan also is In charge of
the Amphibious Force. West Pa
cific, made up of attack trans
ports, cargo ships vand lnhding
craft and also in charge of 5 yards
at Yokosuka and Sasebo, Jnpan,
and Inchon and Pusan In Korea.
Although there are no battle
ships in the Far East at present,
there are four aircraft carriers
the Boxer, Philippine Sea, York
town .and Hornet. The latter three
are doing service with the 1st Fleet
In the South Pacific. The Boxer
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Russian Asiatic Sub Fleet
has been In Yokosuka undergoing
routine repairs to the flight deck.
Asked about the chances the Rus
sians would have in getting air
craft carriers Into the Pacific In
case of war, Callaghan smiled. "I
would certainly hate to be In com
mand of a Russian naval force
trying to come around the Cape
of Good Hope," he said.
There were no surface actions
In the Korean War. United Nations
warships roamed the coasts at will,
hammering shore batteries and
sending carrier based planes deep
Into Korea in support of ground
troops. Many Communist mines
were encountered, however.
Russian submarines, Callaghan
said, were operating from bases
around Vladivostok and to the
north.
"The weather would be against
them operating from these north
ern bases during much of the
year." .
He said that any submarine force
could only keep one third of its
strength in operation.
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But that one third the Russians
have In the Pacific could block
sea lines by prowling outside har
bors. "At least at first they would
give us trouble."
But, he said, "hunter-killer
groups of carriers and destroyers
are tne greatest potential capabili
ty against this submarine threat."
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TOKYO W Japanese doctors
said Thursday the critical stage
has passed for 23 Japanese fish
ermen showered by radioactive
ash after a Bikini hydrogen bomb
blast last March.
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