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1THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1958 ' " HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON -H I I -P PAGE 9 A AWARD for more than 30 years service with the Bureau of Ind ian Affairs was prasantad to Ogden E. Brooks, ra ired forester, by Charles Chester, Klamath Agency forest manager, at the agency June 16. Photo by Sharp Klamath Agency Forester Honored; Given Citation KLAMATH AGENCY Klamath I Agency forester Odgen E. Brooks was honored at a staff meeting at the agency Monday morning, and awarded the Citation For Meritori ous Service. The award, signed by the secretary of the interior, was presented to Brooks in recognition of more than 30 years of superior service. Brooks, who is now retired and resides in Klamath Falls, began his service with the Bureau of In dian Affairs on August 19, 1929. From that time until his recent retirement, he served continuously at the Western Washington and Klamath agencies. Brooks made a major contribu tion to these agencies by his guid ance and instruction of junior for esters in timber sales techniques. He was instrumental in develop ing high standards of slash piling by machine methods, and was able to obtain results that permitted su perior slash disposal under ad verse piling conditions. His ability to obtain the best work possible from machine operators kept danv age to the highly valued reserve stand to a minimum. Before coming to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Brooks served with the Army in World War 1, and the U.S. Forest Service, Depart' ment of Agriculture. Scientist Who Walked Off From Family, Now Found Working As Stable Groom School Facts Editor's Note This is the sixth a series of informative articles dealing with the schools and school budgets of Districts 1 and 2 in Klamath Falls. The articles are under sponsorship of the Classroom Teachers organization of this city. Any questions or comments may be sent to Marilou O'Connor, 133 Grant Street. By MARILOU O'CONNOR The Good Old Days" roman tic, hard headed and practical. And as far as education, the "Good Old Days" are a nostalgic hoax. In those so-called days, say the late 1800s, you walked to school, through snow, no doubt, and took your seat on a hard, backless bench. The scholars seated around you ranged in age from five to 18. Your schoolmarm was the proud possessor of a high school diploma and had had one year in a normal school. She had few textbooks to help her, perhaps a reader and a spell er. She taught only the three R s and maybe a little geography. She knew only one method of teaching drill. Again and again, you re peated sums, tables, spellings. You weren't allowed to speak out or ask questions. And the schoolmarm spent a lot of her time keeping order which meant absolute si lence with the flat of a ruler. If you got as far as high school, which probably was in the same one room, you were a member of the elite. In 1890, less than 10 per cent of the nation s 14 to 17-year- olds were in school. Most of t h e dullards, most of the juvenile de linquents, most of the potential remedial-reading cases had long since dropped out. Today, close to 90 per cent of the 14 to 17-year-olds are in school: and they are learning a lot more than the three R's. Researchers are constantly comparing t h e Johnnys and Janeys of today with the Johnnys and Janeys of the 'Good Old Days" and the results are generally in favor of today's modern youth even in the basic subjects. Teaching is not perfect today but it is definitely superior to the 'Good Old Days." National figures show a surpris ing amount of information on teachers today. According to the u.h. Office of Education, we arc already short about 130,000 teach ers for our 42 million public - school students. To get enough teachers for this tidal wave of young humanity will take nearly half of all expected college grad uates for the next 10 years. Now we are getting one-fifth of them. In addition, each year we lose 85,000 teachers. Another 30,000 are trained as teachers but don't go into teaching upon graduation. If teaching can be made more at tractive, many of these 115.000 can be saved and the statistics will no longer be so frightening. The great fear today among edu cators is that the public will ac cept lower standards for teachers and this is not the answer. T. M. Stinnet. the National Edu- cation Association's specialist on professional standards, has said. INGLEWOOD, Calif. ( API-One, day six years ago Albert Clark Reed, a scientist at the California Institute of Technology, said good by to his wife, patted his son's head, left home and disap peared. The FBI, police, family and friends were baffled. The trail led SO miles east to San Bernardino, (hen grew cold. His wife, Florence, never gave tip hope that he would return. " Yesterday he was discovered working as a groom at Hollywood Park. ' "f don't know why I left," he told newsmen. "I was still am hazy and confused. ."The day I left I sold my car, took a bus and went to Phoenix. I got a job handling freight." Later he got a job handling horses and returned to California working at various tracks. His Identity was discovered through a routine fingerprint check. He was using the name Alfred C. Reese ! "I'm still stunned," he said "but I'm getting to feel a gradual relief that I will no longer have to live with this secret. He spoke of his wife: Oh, we quarreled occasionally, but that couldn't be the reason I left. ' "It's amazing. I can remember every detail of everything I have done for the last six years. But I can't tell you for sure why 1 left my wife and child. Reed, a Caltech graduate and World War II test pilot, was work lng as an aeronautical consultant on a secret project when he dis appeared. Police say there are no charges against him. Will he return to scientific ork? "I don't know." he said. "I love horses, you know. They're won derful, intelligent, sensible crea tures. I enjoy working with them." Reed, balding and 51, was told his son, Timothy, 12. has been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Dudley B. Smith, Larchmont, N.Y. Smith, a patent attorney, is Mrs. Reed's cousin. Reed chatted with the boy last night by phone. Reed later had a tearful reunion with his mother, Mrs. Cora Reed, of nearby Glendale. But his homecoming also was marked by sadness. He learned that his wife died in December 1935 of cancer. Supers Back Down On Rule CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) Four Methodist district superintendents have backtracked on a previous stand that minister's wives shouldn't work full time. In a report at the annual meet ing of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Conference (560 churches) the superintendents re affirmed their basic stand, but added: "We have no doubt that this practice is sometimes necessary and usually helpful in paying old bills, putting children through schools and preparing for that rainy day." Legion Names Robert Martin McCLOUD Robert Martin was leelected for his third term commander of McCloud American Legion Cheula Post No. 92 at a dinner meeting at the McCloud golf course clubroom June 14. Other officers elected were Wil liam Langley, adjutant; Wilbur Wheeler, finance officer; Robert Tomlinson, first vice commander James Cottini, second vice com mander; Oren Otten, sergeant at arms: George Zafforatos, post serv ice officer; Ross Lddy. historian Joe Cot! mi, judge advocate and Leo Aiello, chaplain. The members of the board of directors, in addition to the offi cers, are Robert Lealherman. Pat Formicola, Edmund Belanger and John Hicci. Mason Caywood; of Chico and a member of Post 62 of Ohio, Percy Lindt of Dunsmuir and Dave Scott, of McCloud, were guests at the dinner meeting. A resolution was passed com mending Ed Belanger for his long service to the post. A 40-year pin is to be presented him at his next appearance at a meeting of the post. "The better and more intensive a man's training the more likely he is to stay with the profession h;'s trained for. If a young man has invested a lot of time and efiori to get a highly prized and resDect- ed certificate, he's not likely to cnucK u an ana go into another line of work." Just how do teachers' salaries compare with salaries in other oc cupations, and with each other? Nationwide, the average salary for the city grade-school teacher. with the years of training beyond high school, is $4,470. The ave nge auto worker makes $5,065. We sperm K'i Dillion dollars in a yeir on public education and over 10 billion dollars on personal auto mobiles. On a statewide scale, there was a time in Oregon as well as the nation when anyone could teich who could read, write, cipher and wield a hickory slick. But those days are gone, and today Oregon has 16,000 teachers, the great ma jority of whom are well-trained and well-educated. How does their pay compare with pay of teachers in other states? The average salary paid to a classroom teacher in Oregon is $4,825, placing us 14th nationally. California holds first place in the nation with an aver age salary of $5,750. Washington is in fifth place with $5,150. This looks pretty good when you think back to the average Oregon salary of 1940-1941, then $1,377. By 1950-1951, Oregon was fifth place nationally but has since dropped back to its 14th position. Aren t these salaries good enough when one considers those 180-day school years? The an swer is no. for several reasons. An inadequate teacher education costs from $12,000 to $15,000, not count ing salaries lost while working three more years for masters and doctors degrees. Summers must be utilized to upgrade quali fications or to take secondary jobs to make ends meet. One recent survey iquoled in the Oregon Jour nal reprint of "ABC's ... to Ph.D's." 19581 showed 70 per cent of all male teachers in Oregon work at secondary jobs. Other summers are spent in further edu cation, which results in the ad vanced training and degrees nec essary for the good teacher. Over half of our 179 classroom teachers in the two Klamath Falls city school systems hold either bachelor or master degrees in their leaching fields. Almost another third of them have received five years of training after high school. Stated in a different manner. over two-thirds of the Klamath Falls teachers have spent four to five years or more preparing to teach. 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