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WORLD HORIZONS A attle Images Over Kansas Park PAGE 2 C IIKRA1.I) AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. .Sunday, March 24. 1963 OREGON'S FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY SYSTEM ""-Til PorMsmfPsrfT .... .7 ) V J ' J ,'lA By 1971, or toon alter, this network of modern highways will link Oregon with the rest of the nation's interstate system. Made possible by the signing of the Federal Highway Act of 1956, Oregon has moved speedily into a new era of highway plan ning and construction. More highway construction was contracted during 1957 than in any other year in the history of the State Highway Department. During the 13-year scope over which the Federal Highway Act currently extends, Oregon will spend about $1,040,000,000 or an average of $80 million per year. This is nearly ; 25 percent more than the some $817 million spent during the entire 40-year ex- istence of the State highway System. ( public urrioa by tha Camant Industry of Ogon) Hew European School Emphasizes Sameness In Languages, Customs By TOM A. CULLEN Newspaper Enterprise Assn. . BRUSSELS (NEA) - "The Eu rope of treaties has been estab lished. What wc are frying to do is build tlie Eiimpe of the heart and of tlie mind. In the'words of one of Its teach ers, this Is tlie goal of The Eu ropean School, a unique cxper ment In International coopera- tion on the outskirts of Brussels. It is the fastest growing school in Western Europe; its slu- dent body increased from 19 to 1,400 In the last four years. '. But more importantly, it is an incubator for a new breed of men and women who call themselves "Europeans" except for some of the adolescent students who prefer "Eurotcens." ' They are tlie sons and daugb tors of officials of the European Economic Community, tlie Com' moh Market. Like their fatliers they come from one of the Six France, Germany, Belgium, Hoi land, Italy and Luxembourg) who make up tlie E.E.C. Some of its older students at the school were asked, "What does it mean to be a 'European' in 1063?" Their answers c a n be summed up as follows: It means turning one's back on all that Europe has stood for in the past, repudiating tlie barriers Vif nationalism which have trig gered two world wars in this cen (ury. It means emphasizing same ness rather uian differences in language and culture. Yank Books Find Favor TOKYO (UPll - Hod China may not care for America's brand of politics, but she's not averse to letting her people read Ameri can books. Works by Mark Twain and po ols Henry Longfellow and Walt Whitman havs been translated in to Chinese and are steady favor ites with tlio Chinese public. According to the New China News Agency, these writens' books are among about 8.000 for eign, volumes translated and sold in China since the Communists took over in 1949, Other Western authors to have parted the Bamboo Curtain in clude Britain's Chatlcs Dickens, W. M. Thackeray and Thomas! Hardy and France's Honore del Balzac, Gustavo Flaubert, Emile, Zola and Guy de Maupassant. Shakespeare's plays are a spe cial favorite in China. New China said 37 titles and 603,000 copies have been put on sale across the country. Romeo and Juliet in three dif-j ferent translations has sold M.-l 000 copies and Hamlet has been snapped up by (15,000 eager buy ers. Besides these modern classics, Red China also has made ancient ones available. Nor arc the Russian authors lelt out. although Peking seldom eye-lo-eye with Moscow these days. It means learning teamwork by playing games together, develop ing understanding by doing class- work together. It means working together to build a united Europe. "But aren't you afraid of los ing your national identity and your love of country by being a European?" I asked Jan Baert. a 17-year-old Dutch boy In his last year at the school "Why should I lose my na tional ' identity?" said Baert, whose father works for Euratom (Europeart atomic energy authori ty). "I can be a European and still remain a Dutchman, Just as their is no contliot In your being Texan and an American at the same time." Its critics have pointed out that tlie European School could easily degenerate into a' snob school, dedicated to training the power elite of tomorrow. But the school has taken stcpsl to guard against this by encourag ing non-Europeans to enroll. Cur rently there are 152 students oti non-European origin attending the school including 42 Americans. Their parents are mostly busi nessmen or members of diplo matic missions. For the children of E.E.C. of ficials tlie tuition is dee. Others pay nominal fees ranging Jrom $15 a year for children in kin dergarten to $60 for those In sec ondary school. , At present the European school runs tlirough kindergarten to tlie third year of high school. Next year the ' senior high school year will bo added and a "Euro pean leaving Certificate," equiv alent to a high 8cliool diploma, will he awarded to graduates. I This certificate will be recog nized by all the universities in tlie Six countries and by Britain, Austria and Switzerland. In addition to tlie regular cur ricula, moral instruction is a com pulsory subject, the student hav ing the choice of Protestant or Catlwlic Instruction, or a course called ethics. Special history and geography textbooks are tiring prepared (or the sclionl in order to stress the cohesion of the Six and tlie simi larity o( their history. Most of the students 1 talked to found Die courses tough, com plained that tliey were given too much homework. An exception was Michael Boh- linger, an 18-year-old German. wIk would like to have Saturday classes as is the rase in his native Bavaria. language other than their own. At the ago of 11 every stu dent must choose either French or German as his "working lan guage." I Dutch students have to learn both German and French, and French-speaking Belaians have to learn Dutch and Ger man.) In addition, English Is compul sory for older students, a re. qulremcnt of which the school is proud, jointing to 'it as evidence that the E.E.C. is an open com munily. To speed up tlie linguistic proc ess the school started intensive cramming courses this year. In specially built "language labora tories" the teachers operate the controls of their tape-recorder con soles while pupils seated in soundproof cubicles get their in struction through earphones. Other audio-visual aids such as films, slides and tape recordings are used to drum tlie language Home.' Indeed like a modern Tower of Babel with1 this difference instead of a di versity of languages being used to divide men, it is being used .to unite them and to promote inter nal iomil understanding. American Education Fares Well NEW BRUNSWICK. N.J. I UPI) "Campways-USA" is a new program designed to help Amer ican youths "discover" their na tive land. , The Boy Scouts of America have established a network of more than 400 overnight camps from coast to coast for touring Scout groups bent on seeing America. Arrangements also have been made for touring Scout groups to stay overnight at some 800 military camps at minimum tost. . The program has boomed since it was started three years ago.' Last year. Boy Scout headquar ters here processed more than 30,000 trips involving 525,000 boys who traveled some six million miles. The trips cover nol only the United States but often extend into foreign countries. In one week last summer, headquarters processed trips going from Cali fornia to Japan and Oregon to Switzerland. Scout officials, now celebrating Uie 53rd anniversary of tlie Scout ing movement in the United States, say the domestic tours covered visits to state and nation al parks, national forests and other types of public lands, as well as local camps and private properties, Tour groups travel not only In conventional ways, by bus and car, but also hike fabulous dis tances over some of America's famous scenic trails. One group took to covered wagon to go from Arizona to Colorado Springs, Colo, Others have traveled through the backwoods by canoe. One of the more popular tour ing destinations is Philmont Scout Ranch near' Cimmaron, New Mcx'- ico, largest Scout camp in ; the United States. Philmont can han die up to 15,000 Scouts in a sea son. , , ; Several tour groups have earned their own money to tak trips. An Explorer unit in South Bend, Ind., raised camping funds by building reflecter ovens and selling them all over the country. Scout officials say permits are needed for all tours over 250' miles to make sure tlie trip .is properly Supervised X r f t At i :lW; "ft."" 1 'I V 1 ' - 1 ft V f ! i rt Secretary Udall Seeks Prairie National Park PROPOSED PARK Near Manhattan, Kans., a young lady suitably dressed for a hike or horsabaclc ride, looks over site of proposed Prairie National Park. ' I ' ' UPI Telephoto Insulation Vital To Air Conditioning Families who want to build an air conditioned house should know that today's air conditioners are highly efficient, but they, need help if they re to do a lop job at the bottom dollar. Among the factors important to air conditioning a house efficient-, ly at minimum original cost for equipment and continuing low op erating costs are scientific orien tation, shade, and construction. The house should be oriented on Network Of Camps Traverses Nation They- say other advantages the program of fers include, control standards of me European School is operation; improved' information service on leadership training, lood service, equipment apd transportation; Deiter travel in-i formation, and the opportunity for camp fires and exchanges among the boys. site so that during the hottest part of the day the sun strikes the least vulnerable parts. Ideal ly, the broad sides should face north and south. West walls can be protected from the hot after noon sun by a garage, porch, or utility room. Low shade trees can effectively block low morning and late after noon sun from the east and west sides Of the house; and shrubbery, high fences, or trellises at the west end will further deflect the heat. Insulation is vital to low-cost air conditioning, since the proper amounts carefully installed pre vent considerable heat, gain in summer, as well as much heat loss in winter. hi the ordinary frame house, mineral wool batts or blankets la beled R-19 should be installed in ceilings, R-U in walls, and R-13 in floors to meet the National Min eral Wool Insulation Association's Quality Home Requirements fr both air conditioning and electric heating. As foiToofs, the lighter their color, the. more heat they'll re flect , away from the house. An ideal choice is a roof of white or light pastel asphalt shingles, which bounce the sun's heat away with out glare. The roof should be NEW YORK 'UPH Despite tlie feelings of some persons such as Adm. Hyman RicBover that Amer- lean education is in a sad way, there are those who disagree. One notable exception is a Uni versity of Massachusetts student Mary Ann McNiff, 19, who, de spite her youth, has some strong views to the contrary. In a study on "A Comparison of the Russian and American Educational Systems," she finds tliat the American educational picture comes out pretty well in comparison with that of the So viet Union. She notes the alarm created in the United States when the first Soviet sputniks made Americans: panicky, and sent them looking for a speedy way to catch up. Education at that time became the be-all and end-all as a solu tion to everything. But its results were not immediately evident. To reach the level desired, Miss MoNiff is convinced that a lot of money will have to be spent and a great deal of additional ef fort expended, even though the United States has made consid erable progress in a few years. "There is a direct relationship between tlie money spent for edu cation and the quality of educa tion," she says. "At present," she says, "Rus sian education has an edge over American education in certain critical areas' such as technology, the sciences and mathematics. "American education has an EDITOR'S NOTE: L'nknowa la millions of Americans who might whe day have a vital ia terest In the outcome, a fierce battle is raging in the heart of Kansas over creation of na tional park. On one side are those who believe it Important to preserve a part of vanishing America; on the other, those who would be driven from their komes If the park became reality. The author of this dis patch, a UPI Washington re porter, spent much of his child kood in the area. By NORMAN RL'NVION United Press International MANHATTAN. Kan. UPI - The landmark ' known as Twin Mounds in central Kansas has wit nessed many notable events in the long and colorful history of the Great Prairies. Buffalo roamed it, Indians camped on it. and Stew ard L. Udall was kicked off it. The man who gave the boot a verbal one to the U. S. sec retary of the interior was cattle rancher Carl Bellinger. A tall and lean man, -with a small mustache edne over Russian education in and twinkling Blue eys, Bellinger iberal arts and the free discus sion and criticism allowed in classrooms. "Ultimately, the Russian chal lenge will be beneficial because it will create in tlie American people a desire to equal and surpass Russian accomplishments in all fields. American education is con fronted with a variety of problems which require, immediate atten tion. "Perhaps the greatest problem is that of halting the vast leakage of general talent from our school system. For every student who enters college there is one of equal ability who does not enter." Another point she mentions is one that "arises due to the vast increase in the number of school age children, and the severe shortage of competent educators." Since flie plans to become a teacher herself, she also notes the shortage pf an estimated 140,000 teachers in science in the elemen tary and secondary schools as a serious drawback in the American scheme of things. ' walls and windows when the sun is high. Because wood is a natural insu lating material,1 wood windows, preferably double-glazed, will con tribute to a cooler interior. The best place for large windows is on the south side of the house, where pitched to permit adequate attic the roof overhang will protect! ventiliation, and should overhang them from the summer sun. which! sutliciently to, provide shade for'is high in the South at midday SENIOR COSTS NEW YORK tUPI) - Old age assistance continues to be one of the biggest items in the cost of, state government, the Tax Foun dation says. A large part of the funds come from tlie federal gov ernment, though. Total payments to all recipients in 1061 was $1.9 billion. FARM AUTOMATION MECHANICSBURG,, Pa. (UPD Capital Products says it has de veloped a device that can chemi cally grow enough green fodder to feed a herd of 40 cattle daily. Oats planted in aluminum trays mature as forage in seven days. 'The unit sells for about $5,000. Profit-Making Airline President Once Prime Candidate For Least-Likely-To-Succeed Post was only "doing what came na tuially to his ancestors a century ago defending his rights against all comers. Bellinger's father, in this same territory, saw a Pawnee Indian war party moving by his house 86 years, ago. They passed west without slopping. Udall halted awhile and, to 52-year-old Carl Bellinger, the secretary's abrupt and explosive stroll on. Twin Mounds a year ago last Dec. 5 mne fria mniA rlnnrtneni le lUoa tllfl Pawnee. Prairie National Park What Udall wanted .then, and still seeks, is a Prairie National Park on 57,000 acres of Pottawa tomie County. The idea is to pre serve part of the vanishing prairie for posterity. The hope is that Americans of future generations may then be able to see for them selves what the great grasslands were like when their population was the buffalo and the antelope. What Bellinger wanted then, and still seeks, is to be left alone. II is land that is his home and his livelihood, as it is to Glen and Viola Dodge, to Dave Carlson, Earl Moyer and a host of other ranchers who dwell in the 57,000 acres of proposed park1. A bill to create the" park will be submitted shortly to Congress. If it should pass, within a matter of a few years the. ranchers would be off their land, the fences and man-made ponds removed, buffalo and antelope herds installed, a road builLand camp sites estaiv lished out in the mils. . A similar bill died in the las'. Congress, which set up the Point Reyes Seashore National Park in California. One park per Congress usually is the rule. The issue of the Prairie merely was postponed. Sticky Dilemma Sooner or later the senators and representatives must deal with one of the stickiest natinmd park dilemmas in a long time. Unlike any other, this one would be created on land that is lot per cent privately owned. To pro. vide pleasure and history for the whole nation, it would be necet sary to bring chaos to the few.;- Is it worth it? The ranchers,ask.. Udall has written: "We have no doubts about the need for preservation of a representathi section of prairie illustrating an important part ot the country's heritage, so that present and future genrations may experience and enjoy a sample of prairie ai it existed during the davs of the Indians, early settlers and eroi- To this Bellinger replies: "Doi- gone it, I think it's just a bureau cratic grab. They've just tried to run 'over us rough-shod, just as if we don't count." Time Nothing For Officer Coin Buyers Start Hunt Of Treasure Bohlnger. a well-built, dark, haired youth, said that he got along with all tlie nationalities at the school except the Italians, whom be found to excitable, too volatile in expressing themselves. As might be exported, lan guages have been tlie European School's greatest problem. Indeed, it looked for a time as though tlie school miglH founder on this particular rock. Instruction is given in the four basic language of the Common Market countries French, Ger man, Dutch and Italian but as tlie school aims tt a truly Euro pean outlook the students are re quired to be fluent in one or more WASHINGTON IUPH -.He f 1 linked mathematics in high school and left in his sophomore year. He lost his first job - bill collecting for an electric utilities firm when his boss caught him taking flying lessons on company time. He, washed out of un airline pilots training1 courusein- sb pilots training course because in structor, found out he was keep ing student mechanics up late night working on a hot rod sir piano he was racing on weekends,. Monday, this one-lime candi date for least-likely to - succeed honors celebrates his 35th anni versary as president ol one of. the worlds most successful air lines. It was on Feb. 3, 193s. that Robert Forman Six took over as head of Continental Airlines. At that time. Continental had fewer than 20 employes, served only four cities i Albuquerque, rueoio, ei Paso and Denver and its fleet consisted mainly of three twin-engine Lockheed 12's whose mortgages figuratively weighed more than the fuel they carrted. Continental was flying the planes only because Six tion's second smallest trunkline carrier (only Northeast is small er) but its profit-making ability is the frank envy of biggerlines. Only twice in that quarter-of-a century' span has Continental failed to make money, even though it competes with one or more larger carriers for nearly 80 per cent of its traffic. For the past four years, Continental's operating costs with a plane only 36 per cent full. The industry's average break even point is well over 55 per cent. It is axiomatic that employe morale in an economy minded company frequently resembles, that of a football feam with a 25-g.nne losing streak. Continen tal's rank-and-file from pilots to mechanics seem to be the profit margin has surpassed that 'exception. They are as cost-con- of its five competitors and ranked scious as their president, Contin sccond only to Delta in the en- ental's labor relations have been tire industry. The standing is sig- remarkably smooth, and the en niflcant Six private!) admires tire airline has adopted not only Delta whose aggressiveness isjhis "no wasted motion" philoso- much like Continental's. phv but even his enthusiastic The man largely responsible for I personality Continental's success is a big (6 feet, four inches' 210-pounder with the soul of an airman and the personality of a salrsman. He is 56 and looks 10 years younger. More than one observer has called Continental a "split per sonality" airline. Six runs a Six was horn in Stockton, Calif.. the son of an Indiana doctor who migrated west and eventually be came one of the country's first plastic surgeons. Six 'has been married three times once to stage star Ethel Merman who was said to have lose-to-thc-vest, tight - fisted complained that she couldn't corn- operation with an eye to costs. Yet Continental's reputation for plush service ha no peer. "It reminds me." an industry official once observed, "of a Spar tan running a Roman banquet." The comparison is valid. Conti- helped finance their purchase bv.nental's iets feature cold caroets mortgaging his house. -When the chic stewardesses wearing jaunty tederal government issued s red berets, and a general atmo regulation in 193B requiring ill'sphere of opulent luxurv. Yet airliners to carry two-way radios. .Continental's chief offices in Den- I I ., , oi i urn ui oorrow mem trom competitor United to keep opeiating. Continental's 2J yeais under Six has brought it to the for in the airline industry. It Is the na- ver have all the swankiness of pete with an airline. He now is married to television actress Audrey Meadows. They have adopted t,wo Chinese children, a boy and a girl aged 11. under the foster parents plan. Mis. Six was born in China, the daughter of an American missionary. Six is an expert hunter, fisher man and golfer and still goes 'off on,' an annual grizzly bear hunt. Rut his time for relaxation has dwindled steadily in recent years tool and die factory. The airline las Continental's growth demand has the lowest breakeven factor ed more attention. And Six. with 'percentage ot available seats oc,-la right to a nostalgic look back cupicd by paying passengers' in, at the last 2i ye.us. is looking the industry. It can cover a jet's 'restlessly to the future. '.irv.:- V AM i 11 rS3 t V i ":.; r vej'--H NEW YORK ("UPD-When Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said the: Justice Department needed young lawyers who were willing to work hard and not be clockwatchers, he must have had in mind meni like William C. Lucas. Lucas is a New York City po liceman. He has six children , and owns a home in Hempstead, a Long Islafid suburb. Lucas has been a policeman since 1953 and once received a departmental citation for subdu- ing an armed man. But his coal I has been to be associated with the law other than by means of gun and badge. In addition lo pursuing his full time job and caring for his home and expanding family, Lucas has gone to night school four nights a week, three hours a night for the past four years. Early in June, he received his law degree from the Fordham University Law School. After taking his bar examina tion this summer, Lucas plans to join the criminal division of the Justice Department in Washing ton, a position offered him in a chance meeting with Atty. Gen. Kennedy last spring. The 34-year-old patrolman wasl Great Britain and that all were introduced to Kennedy, when theiseht to Bermuda and Nassau, attorney general participated in Bermuda received nearlv all th the dedication of Fordham's new 1951 dates. Law School facilities. It was then Bishop, who says he has no per; Kennedy said he needed "men manent U.S. home, offered 12 that were willing to work, work cents each for the pcn.nic'- A iiom, una n oe ciocKwatcners. lew other co ectors. who un- HAMILTON, Bermuda (UPD American coin dealers, waving fistfuls of money at Bermudiani and shouting invectives at one another, have started a fanatical treasure hunt on this semi-tropi; cal island, They have sent everyone scurrying for 1950 and 1951 pen." nies, which were mipted in relai' lively small numbers exclusive) for Bermuda and Nassau. Ths dealers are buying them by the thousands for as much as $1.7.5 for each 1951 copper with prices still going up. Only recently, a British penny was a cumbersome nuisance. Ten .of them in each pocket would make a person bow-legged. Shop-; keepers often told customers ;to, "keep the copper" if "purchases totaled with an odd cent. Now Bermudians are so eager to get their hands on these coins that the banks have been forced to stop exchanging bills for pen ny rolls. One taxi driver handed , a teller $150 in notes in exchange for pennies. nd shop owners and restaurateurs report the number of pennies that cross their count ers has dropped by about 75 per .cent since the penny craze start ed. Urge People On While Bermudians dig in their pockets, bureau drawers and cookie jars for the coins, tlje American dealers urge them on with frantic promises to p a y them top prices" for each '50 and '51. A 23-year-old New York coin- dealer, Robert Bashlow, set up headquarters in the lobby of the Kenwood Hotel in Hamilton and announced through radio, televi sion and newspapers that no one could match his prices. And other U.S. coin dealers were suggesting that the valua ble pennies be mailed to them. Meanwhile, the man who start ed the penny madness was des perately trying to keep up with 'the big boys from New York." . He is amateur coin collector Lloyd G. Bishop, a Texas-born U.S. - Immigration officer sta tioned at the Bermuda Air Term inal. Bishop Makes Discovery It was Bishop who discovered early in January that only 240. ooo of the 1950 and 120.000 of tlie 19ol pennies were minted in Lucas measured up to that and other ' qualifications. Before joining the police depart- doubtedly had noticed in K. E. Bressett's 1962-63 Guide Book of English Coins that a 1951 penny Of!'' AIRLINE PRESIDENT Robert Forman Six, 56, president of Continental Airllnei, climbs aboard a fighter aircraft. Six, once considered the lestt-likely-to-iuccetd, cele brated his 25th snniverjsry as head of the nation's sec ond smallest ir carrier in February. UPI Ttlcpfioto ment, Lucas was graduated from might sell for anv price between Manhattan College with a bachel-iti so and si i H"n.nrtino nn in. or's degree in physical.educationJdition, started topping Bishop's He was captain of the colleqe'offer. cross : country team his seniorj Then the American profession-y"1-- ills took over. I One local coin collector estima- iPRCM'.RESS ;ted there still are some 20.000 of NEW YORK 'UPI' Truck de-,the sought-'after currency pieces llivenes of heating oil to tanks hijin Bermuda. By 1973, several Be-'-(homes is being eliminated in newimuda numismatists have estima i housing developments by a cen-lted. a 1951 British penny will be Itrally located community tankWorth no less than $150. from which tlie lucl is metered As one Bermudian housewi dircct to healers in individual,quipped: "When these feilows get noincs. according m Kcpublic.inrouiih with us, steel engineers. !any cents at all.' we won't have
