1THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1958
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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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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. The less than one-third, as
well as the former, meet stan
dards of the systems which called
for six units of college credit at
least every four years.
And yet, each year the state of where they earn from $1,000 to
Oregon loses teachers to California I $2,000 more a year.
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