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NEW YORK .. The New
York Post reported Saturday
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell will'
not demand $55,000 in back pay
if the House of Representatives
returns his 22 years of seniori
ty-
The Post quoted C. Sumner
Stone, Powell's administrative
assistant before his 1967 ex
clusion from the House. Stone
denied the report when he was
reached in Washington.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled
last Monday that the House had
no right to deny Powell his seat
two years aco.
H SIGHTLINES
Are You long-Sighted?
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Some short-sighted people are ac
tually long-sighted, like the man
above. As the years roll by they
fail to notice that they are holding
reading material farther and far
ther away. And they fail to have
a professional eye examination
once A year, as urged by the
Better Vision Institute. It doesn't
pay to be short-sighted about
vour eyesight.
Programmed Instruction Courses
Prove Valuable Training Technique
The education and training of
the unskilled unemployed is
one of the nation's most serious
challenges today. A second se
rious problem, differing only in
that a lesser number of people
are involved, is the education
and rehabilitation of prison in
mates so that they can re-enter
society to begin career jobs,
many of them for the first time
in their lives.
As unrelated as these prob
lems appear, Du Pont is helping
to solve them in many in
stances by making available
their own training materials
prepared in the form of pro
grammed instruction courses.
Programmed instruction is a
training technique based on the
principle of "reinforcement."
The learner's responses to
questions of gradually increas
ing difficulty are confirmed im
mediately. This gives reward
and encouragement for contin
uing the learning cycle until a
pre determined level of
achievement is reached.
This self pacing method of
teaching basic mechanical and
industrial skills is used fur
training thousands of persons
in industry, government agen
cies, and education.
For example, at the Federal
Job Corps Center in Morgan
field, Ky., Williard Whoberry,
Jr.. program director, reports
that the Du Pont courses have
reduced average training time
by 30 per cent and increased
proficiency by about 25 per
cent. The ultimate payoff is a
job in industry, and 75 per cent
of the 400 Morganfield grad
uates have been placed in jobs.
The fact that the courses are
being used daily at Du Pont is a
big lever in helping job trainees
overcome a built-in block
against that "desk and pencil
stuff." "They feel if the course
was 'the real thing' used in in
dustry, it had to be worth
while," says Clark M. Younger,
director for a Federal training
"YOUTHMOBILIS" for Inter
city youths will be bringing
them to the YMCA for the
months ahead. Eight van* will
transport some 1200 youngsters
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Home owners with a house
hold warm air heating plant,
are especially fortunate in sum
mer, for it is an easy matter to
convert this type of heating
system into a central air con
ditioner to comfort the family
when weather gets hot and
humid.
In wintertime, warm air
from the furnace is conveyed
through ducts to the various
rooms of a house. In summeil
time, these ducts can convey
cool air to the same rooms if
central air conditioning equip
ment is added to the system.
The General Electric Execu
tive model, for instance, is
available in 34,000, 48,000 and
63,000 BTUH capacities to
match the cooling require
ments of any home.
Installation is comparatively
simple. The condensing unit
rests on a concrete base just
outside the house. Cooling
coils are placed in the heating
system near the furnace. These
coils are connected to the out
door condensing unit with
"Quik-Attach" tubing which
has been factory-charged with
refrigerant. This GE-pioneered
development not only insures
project in Philadelphia being
administered by Philco-Ford.
About 800 persons classified as
disadvantaged unemployed are
enrolled in this program.
Du Pont courses also are
being used in another training
project in Philadelphia. Angel
Alba, who advises 60 instruc
tors teaching at five locations
of the Philadelphia Opportu
nities Industrialization Center,
said: "The Du Pont material is
excellent. It tells the 'what' and
the 'how' as industry does it.
That's what our people have to
know."
Meanwhile, programmed in
struction courses have been
used for more than three years
at the Federal prison located at
Petersburg, Va., with consider
able success, according to Dr.
Garland S. Wollard, director of
Vocational Training, U. S. Bu
reau of Prisons. Other prisons
such as the one located at
Milan, Mich., also use PI
courses, with several others to
begin using them in the near
future.
"Individual inmates felt the
program was designed toward
self-improvement for them
selves rather than the previous
attitude which was that they
(the inmates) were being
'used' by the institution," Dr.
Wollard said.
The report indicated that in
from outlying areas each week.
Roger Jones, program assist
ant for the 28th Street "Y"
presides over three of the units
for that area.
i- that the refrigerant is fatjtjjfy
t, clean to permit comfort, jd>ol
i- ing and long component jife,
0 but also greatly speeds up'the
g installation of the system.
i- The Executive model is
y attractively-styled with a stur
d dy polyester cover, designed to
withstand all types of outdoor
1 weather. It is finished in a
d champagne shade that take* op
y nious and unobtrusive part of
f the surroundings.
This unit is most economi
cal to operate, according to
- industry rating standards. The
s 34,000 BTUH model, for ex
-1 ample, produces 9.2 BTUH of
> cooling power for every watt
- of electrical input, almost 20
percent more economical than
' other cooling units manufpc
t tured. _ 3 i ni
t Reliability also is realized iq
! the Executive model because
of the "matched component"
> concept of design wherein GE
• makes all of the major parts
i that go into the unit.
1 It is still another way in
which local merchants can help
to keep you from getting hot
■ under the collar.
many instances the technical
training required was reduced
by as much as 50 per cent be
cause of the programmed in
struction technique.
Dr. Wollard stated in the re
port that many inmates went on
to obtain their high school di
plomas through the General
Education Development Pro
gram as a direct result of suc
cessfully completing the pro
grammed instruction courses.
"Not a single inmate was
dropped from the program be
cause of disciplinary prob
lems," Dr. Wollard said. Not
one participating inmate had
to be referred to the prison
chaplain nor to the psycholo
gist, he added.
With the increased focus on
training and retraining, pro
grammed or self-tutoring
instruction is finding ever wid
ening applications in industry,
education, and government. Du
Pont's courses, which are made
available through the com
pany's Industrial Training Serv
ice, Wilmington, Delaware, are
being used by more than 3,000
corporations and 200 vocational
schools, as well as by many
Federal, state, and local gov
ernmental agencies. To date,
Du Pont has invested over S3
million in developing about 200
courses, including 25 in safety
training.
Grades to Merge
At Wake Forest
The one-room little red
achooQwuae is being reborn in
northeastern Wake County
with soch vigor that you get
excited Just hearing its
Innovators discuss it
Originially doomed to
antiquity 25 to 40 years ago,
the concept of having many
grades under one roof and in
one room is to be effected in
the first three grades of Wake
Forest Elementary School
next fall.
"The walls must come
down," said Principal E. V.
Meadows, meaning both
physical barriers and grade
barriers that have
traditionally separted school
children according to age.
Ungrading the Wake Forest
primary unit spells hard work
for its principal, teachers and
county supervisors as well as
for pupils and parents. But
most believe that
"nongradedness" is a step in
meeting the needs of every
individual student.
Pilot Project
Wake Forest will serve as a
pilot project by nongrading all
subjects in the first three
grades in September. All
elementary schools in the
Wake County system will
nongrade their language arts
and math and use the multi
level approach in the fall.
If the experiment in the
Wake Forest elementary
school, which has an
enrollment of 835, proves
successful, then grades four,
five and six will be ungraded
there in 1970-71.
Nongraded education is a
"system which allows a pupil
to progress in a continuous
manner in accordance with his
ability, •, rather than age,
Meadows said.
"Kids ages six, seven and
eight play together every
afternoon," he explained.
"They ride together on the
school bus. Then a bell rings
and for seven hours, each age
group is segregated.
"The final bell rings and the
kids are back together again.
We've created a very
unnatural situation."
In the nongraded approach,
students will learn together as
well as play together. A
typical one-room suite will
house three teachers and 90
pupils 3O first graders, 30
second graders and 30 third
graders.
"How can a child learn at
all in such a mob?" was a big
concern of some 60 Wake
Forest parents who discussed
the project during a public
meeting.
Mrs. Helen Frazelle, Wake
County elementary education
director, explained:
"The typical primary
teacher can have only three
reading groups. In
nongradedness, three teachers
with three groups each will
mean nine different levels of
instruction, instead of the
conventional three."
In analyzing the first six
grades Wake County teachers
have discovered 29 different
skill levels in language arts
(reading, writing, spelling)
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and 28 math levels.
Share AbUiUee
In nongradeoess, a child
could conceivably be in an
advanced reading level, a slow
math section, and an average
science group. Tests show that
a student is happier in a group
whose members share equal
abilities.
During the first two weeks
of school in September, each
child will be tested to
determine the appropriate
starting level. Each level has
its own texts and materials
and must be completed before
the child moves to the next
step.
"There is continous
progress," said Mrs. Elizabeth
Barfield, Wake County
primary supervisor. "A child
never repeats nor skips a
level."
If a child completes the
three-year program in 2V»
years, he is placed in a
reinforcement program, where
he deepens his understanding
and applies his knowledge to
new challenges.
At the beginning of the
succeeding year, the child
resumes where he left off. He
is not hindered by slower
students nor is he pushed
along by faster learners. He
works at his own pace.
The obvious and perhaps
most beneficial advantage of
nongradedness is that a child
never fails, officials say.
"Repeating a grade in the
old system may label a child
a failure just at the time when
he may begin to blossom, to
accelerate his learning," said
Mrs. Frazelle.
"Your child's brain operates
in spurts, just as his physical
growth," Meadows told the
parents.
"And when he's in a
learning spurt, we're going to
put the coals on the fire."
Meadows believes that
readiness, not chronological
age, is the key to successful
learning. "Some six-year-olds
are just not ready to begin the
first grade. Others, having a
better home life or higher JQ,
are ready 10 begin work , the
first day. Each will be put in
the proper level."
When several parents
expressed concern about
discipline in a large room of 90
children, Meadows said that
experiments in other
nongraded schools have
proved discipline to be
better.
Eye On Everyone
"In the old system when one
child monopolized the teach
er's time, the other students
were often unattended. But in
nongradedness, two other
teachers are available as
•"circulatingsilperviiori,
keeping an eye on everyone,"
he said.
"The kids work together
better," said Mrs. 1 Barfield.
"Pressure to meet deadlines is
off the teachers. It's a more
flexible system."
In the nongraded system, it
becomes more of the child's
responsibility, along with
teacher support, to apply
mastered skills in learning
new ones.
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YMCA YOUTHMOBILE PRO
JECT—Joseph Montez, left di
rector, counts heads with Ken
neth Morris, right, executive
director, 28th Street branch of
YMCA. The new program for
the urban areas of Los Angeles
utilizes eight vans to transport
children from outlying areas
to the various activities of the
MY M
Purchase Farm
DURBAN, South Africa
—Gary Player, the golfer, and
his brother lan, a conservation-
I ist, have bought a 213-acre farm
i in Natal Province on the Indian
| Ocean.
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