Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1953 — Page 10

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Mexicans Planning Mt. Everes Climb j Planning Well In Advance lor Climb MEXICO CITY, UP — Mexico having successfu ly joined the ranks of nations i rhofife swimmers threaten to create a’traffic problem in the English Channel, now is planning to plate her flag atop Mount Everest. < ;/ An 11-man team already is practicing for the Everest Assault, tentatively planned for the autumn of 1955 or 1957. The Mexican foreign ministry is’ I . L . : ,i v .I •

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negotiating with New Delhi to grab a bid for the climb, if the British cancel a permit they have for 1955. Mexicans, who are accustomed to living on some Os the steepest slopes in the western hemisphere, take their mountain climbing seriously. There are dozens of “Alpine” culbs whose members each year tackle volcanic peaks such as Popocatepetl, snow-capped Orizaba peak and the Neveda de Toluca. Government Helps Leading the Mexican Everest expedition will be Jose Mendez Tejada, rated as the nation's best mountaineer. Other members are Bicardo Villalobos, German Gomez, Antonio Romero Benavides, * Lenin Zabra Ramirez, Franciscd Ortiz, Ramon Rivera, Gualberto Alvarado, Adolfo Gutierrez Soto, Agustin Aldama and Agustin Alvarez Avalos. There also are five alternates. \ J The Mexican government is helping the climbers prepare tor the attempt. The defense minis-

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iP- > i . ‘I TOO FEW CLASSROOMS, TOO FEW TEACHERS, NATION'S TOP TWO EDUCATION PROBLEMS Ideal type es medem school building is North East Elementary school In Cecil county, Maryland. \

By RAYMOND WILCOVS Central Prese Correspondent WASHINGTON—Not enough classrooms and insufficient teachers are the two major problems facing the nation as a record 34,233,700 children prepare to enroll In September in school. The United States Office of Education estimates that 110.7; billion were required to construct 325,000 new classrooms needed in September, 1953. However, construction has not kept pace with the ever-increasing influx of new students. By June of this year it was estimated that 350,000 new classrooms were required. Dr. Ray L. Hamon, United States chief of the school housing division of state and local school systems, graphically illustrates the school construction problem facing the nation in these words: r;

“The projection of known data indicates that increased enrollments, along with annual ' deterioration and obsolescense, will create the need for an additional 425,000 classrooms and related facilities by 1960. “In other words, on the basis of children already bom and the status of existing school facilities, 700,000 public elementary and- secondary classrooms and auxiliary facilities will be needed during the next seven years, in addition to the 50,000 classrooms built, last year, in. order to provide basic educational training for American children.” • • • THIS WOULD require an outlay of approximately s2l billion by Imo. |; Former United States Commissioner Earl James McGrath, in commenting on the 325,000 classrooms needed in September, 1953, put it this way: \''' “Additional floor space equal to A one-story building, 52 feet wide, 4-.

' : ■ .. • try is gathering weather infornia-. tion, charts and diet tables. The army gives the climbers periodic physical and is briefing them on medicine. White none of the Mexican peaks are as difficult as Everest, the Mexican expedition has bfteu choosing the most difficult routes on “Popo” for training. fl; The 17,876-foot peak ris storied by hundreds of amateur climliirs each year. Most of tl|em choice the easier route, but at least half- I a-dozen are killed each year on . the mountain. fv' Wrong Nome OVERBROOK. Kan.. UP — A ! city - requested survey disclosed that this town's name is a fooler, i Overbrook is not over or even close to a brook —or any other de- 1 ’ cent supply of fresh water. The nearest adequate deep well wa- > ter is six miles distant. The to‘wn I has been using cistern and shalI low W«ll water. ’ Bilingual Stamps V | VILA, New Herbrides UP—The . Anglo-French Condominium controlling the New Herbrides group of Pacific islands, recently issued two new sets of postage stamps. ! The sets follow the cirstomary pit- I tern —one carrying English inscriptions and the other French. The stamps feature two canoes manned by islanders. They comprise 11 stamps covering a range:; from five centimes to five francs. \ Trade in a Good Town — Decatur ■ ; Vi

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— —j extending from New York City to San Francisco, Calif., is needed adequately to house the Ration’s public elementary and secondary school population.” • • • THE PRESENT commissioner, Lee M. Thurston, does not dispute the figures. He is now attempting to find ways to cope with the problem. v . L Keeping pace with the need for additional classrooms, is the need for new teachers. The shortage lies entirely in the field ©f elementary education—in the kindergarten and in the classes yrior to high school. No dearth of teaching personnel fades the secondary schools or the Colleges and universities. Dr. W. Earl Armstrong, acting head of the division of higher education, outlined the problem recently before the 16th Intemational Conference on Public Education at Geneva, Switzerland.

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He stated, “To staff the elementary- and secondary schools adequately within the next 10 years would require an addition each year of the equivalent of approximately half of the number of persons graduated from colleges and universities in 1953.” • • e ONE REASON for the inability to recruit sufficient elementary class teachers is apparently the modest salaries they receive. They do not provide sufficient inducement at a time when higher salaries are prevalent in other positions. The National Education association estimates that the average salary for teachers for the school year 1952-53 was about 33,530. Some teachers received more, some less. Elementary teachers received less. The NEA said that salaries of less than 81,000 a year are.P9ld to some classroom teachers. The NEA edited that in 1961 the average teacher earned two per cent less than the average employe. It feels that a major upturn is needed in salaries “to raise the compensation of professionally prepared teacher* to professional levels.’\ The federal government has done comparatively little to meet the overall problems facing the schools. Its aid is limited largely to providing funds for construction and maintenance of schools in defense areas. In the 1958 fiscal year Congress appropriated 3255,500,000 for this purpose.

Old-Age Insurance To Over 3 Million Average Payment Is Over SSO Monthly Over three million insured retired workers are now getting oldage insurance payments, Christian H. W. Luecke, manager of the Ft. Wayne social security office, said The number of retired workers Increased by almost one million during the last two years. | | ,'■ The average old-age payment being made at the end of June was a little over SSO monthly. About 550,000 were receiving payments based on employment or self-employement after 1950. Their average was about $65 due to two main factors. First, earnings in general are much higher and more regular in the period since 1950 than they were in the period from 1937 through 1950. Also, before 1951, the highest annual eaimings that could be counted toward social security benefits was $3,000, %hile monthly wages or self-em-ployment net income up to $3,60(T a year can be counted after 1950. A total of 5.6 million people, including children and young mothers in families where £he insured breadwinner had died. ,were getting old-age and survivors Insurance benefits at a monthly rhte of $233 million. In addition to the more than three million, over a million and a quarter people are getting monthly benefits as the aged wives or dependent husbands of retired workers; or as aged widows, dependent widowers, or dependent parents of deceased insured workers, he said. j Insured workers added to the old-age beneficiary rolls in 1952 were 531,000. One-third were just reaching age 6s. Some of them retired because of age limitations fbr employment; others in this group had I left work because of illneas of disability. The majority however, continued in gainful work after age 65, so that thp average age of persons who started to get old ageinsurqnce payments in 1952 was 68.6 years Tor men and 68.2 for women, new beneficiaries were age 75 or over. I ' Benefits tpr persons aged 65 to 75 are payable if they are retired from works Covered by the law or are npt earning more than $75 a -B i

month from wages in such work or an equivalent amount of selfemployment income- After age 76, benzils are payable without regard to the amount of earnings the beneficiary receives, Mr. Luecke declared. Rakish H * SYDNEY, Australia UP—Molly Kelly, who sella stamps at Sydney's main post office, found a novel gadget to get the coins placed on her counter. She uses a croupier's rake.

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High Statesmanship TILTON, N. H., UP— Oof. Hugh Gregg and his executive council recently held a meeting aboard a C-54 military air transport service plane 5,509 feet above Tilton. Expensive Meal WATERBURY, Conn., UP — A disturbance that police said wa» caused when Anthony Paukstls refused to pay a restaurant check brought him a $55 fine. The check was for 65 cents.