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THE HAPPY TIMES Newspaper for Boys and Girls . ■ if - wL It's Storytime ; The Finishing Touch \ I ! i } « “All right, bring it here.” Bill spoke impatiently. “Can’t you see I’m reading? I should think you could work out decimals by this time—but bring it here!” Nell’s face flushed as she brought her arithmetic, "I can’t seem to understand this one,” she mur mured apologetically. Then, after a few moments of her brother’s clear but curt explanations, she said, “Thank you, Bill.” No responsef rom Big Brother! “Bill, can you stop at Mrs. Mor ris’ on your way to the gym,” ask ed his mother, “and leave this material for Nell’s dress?” “Why, ye-es, I suppose so," Bill replied, hesitantly. “It’s a block out of my way, but—yes, I can do it.” “Oii, never mind it, then,” said his mother, “if it’s inconvenient.” "No, I can do it,” and Bill stretched out an ungracious hand and took the package. Mr. Martin, setting out for his office, looked oddly at Bill over his glasses, but Bill did not see the look. Late in the afternoon Bill and his father came up the cement walk together. “Sorry, father,” said Bill, “but 1 had to leave my shoes at Castle’s to be soled. Uppers are good for another three months—but I’m a little short of cash.” “How much do you want?” ask ed his father curtly. Bill looked up. “Why—why, a dollar, father.” “Well — take it.” Mr. Martin jerked a bill from the roll in his pocketbook and half tossed it to his son. “But—but, father,” Bill flushed, “isn’t it—all right?” “Oh, yes, I suppose so,” gruffly. Then, suddenly, a fatherly hand clapped Bill’s shoulder and Mr. Martin laughed. “I am just giv ing you an object lesson. I’ve left out the finishing touches to my work.” Then, after a moment, he con tinued, “I'm quoting from a motto your grandmother used to have hanging in her room. I thought of it this morning when you were helping Nell with her decimals, and doing your mother’s errand. You did what they both asked— but—well, this is the motto—I do not even know who is the author of it: ‘Don’t forget to put the fin ishing touches on your work. God borders the brooks with violets.’ Great things — those ‘finishing touches,’ those ‘borders of vio lets.’ ” “Oh!” murmured Bill, and then again, with a look that pleased his father, “Oh!” —Religious Telescope Mothers of Pupils Help Boost Use of Library Wayne, N. J. (AP)—Weekly cir culation in the library at Alps Road school jumped from a handful to 2G6 books after principal Rocco Di , Pietro got some new librarians. He invited the PTA to “adopt” I the school library and now the mothers of the pupils are in | charge. When a Hopi Indian builds a new house he puts a piece of cactus in each corner to give it “roots.” Birthday Club Welcomes Six This week the Birthday Club is happy to welcome Sonny and Hal Jacobs, brothers who live in Wil mington, Kimberly Jean McKay of route one Beaufort, Joanne Faye Garner of Newport, Margaret Ann Swanson of Durham and Teresa Lynn Gillikin of route two Beau fort. Welcome gang, and we j hope you like being in the club. Each year on their birthdays the members receive cards in the mail and their name appears on the Happy Birthday column on this page. This continues until the member reaches his twelfth birth day. How would you like to get in on the fun? It's easy to do and doesn’t cost a cent. All you do is fill in the birthday blank or write a let ter to THE NEWS-TIMES giving your name, address, present age and date of birth. If you have a picture, send that along too. Get all your friends to join and then watch for your names in the paper. It’s lots of fun, so hurry! We are waiting to hear from you! Ann Swanson The US $100,000 bill, which is used only in transactions between the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury Department, carries the portrait of Woodrow Wilson, • I I I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN I THE NEWS-TIMES BIRTHDAY CLUB | Name _ 1 ■ Address___._ ^ I [ ---Present Age_ 1 I Birth Date ^ . Month Day Year I | (Anyone under 12 Is eligible to Join. Fill in blanks. Please I PRINT. Mail to News-Times, Morehead City, N. C. Include . | your picture if you have one). ' » Happy Birthday Oct. 4 Teresa Lynn Giliikin, Beaufort, was 5 years old. Terry V.asco Carver, Louisville, Tenn., was 12 years old. Carolyn Ruth Willis, Morehead City, was 8 years old. Lynn Talbot, Beaufort, was 9 years old. Oct. 5 Denise Lawrence, Brunswick, Ga., was 5 years old. Oct. 6 Mary Thompson, Beaufort, was 11 years old. Today: Johnny Smith, Morehead City, is 6 years old. Chuck Walton, Morehead City, will be 5 years old. Saturday: Roslyn Denise King, Morehead City, will be 5 years old. Monday: Billy Davis, Straits, will be 6 years old. Kimberly Bedsworth, Morehead City, will be 2 years old. Joanne Garner SHOW ON WORTH! NEK 61 CHEVY WHIR More space ... more spunk and wagons, too! 1 I 1 I The newest car in America: the CORVAIR 700 LAKE WOOD 4-DOOR STATION WAGON. Vj/i CORVAIR 700 CLUB COUPE. Like aB coupes and sedans, it has a longer range fuel tank. Here’$ the new Chevy Corvair for ’61 with a complete line of complete thrift cars. To start with, every Corvair has a budget pleasing price tag. And Corvair goes on from there to save you even more. With extra miles per gallon . . . quicker-than ever cold-start warmup so you start saving sooner ... a new extra-cost optional heater that warms everyone evenly. Riding along with this extra economy: more room inside for you, more room up front for your luggage (sedans and coupes have almost 12% more usable trunk space). And our new wagons? You’ll love them— think they’re the greatest thiDg for families since houses. The Lakewood Station Wagon does a man-sized job with cargo, up to 68 cubic feet of it. The Green brier Sports Wagon you’re going to have to see—it gives you up to 175.5 cubic feet of space for you and your things. Corvair’s whole thrifty lineup gets its pep from a spunkier 145-cu.-in. air-cooled rear engine. Same rear-engine traction, same smooth 4-wheel independent-suspension ride. See the polished and refined 1961 Corvair first chance you get at your Chevrolet dealer's. 1 Spare tire is in the rear in coupe* and sedans—leaving more luggage space up passengers sit pretty; thanks to Corvair’s practically flat floor. Now in production—the GREENBRIER SPORTS WAGON with up to twice as much room at ordinary wagons (third teat optional at extra cost). i See the new Chevrolet ears, Chevy Corvairs and the new Corvette at your local authorized Chevrolet dealer's SOUND CHEVROLET COMPANY, INC. 1308 Arendell Street Morehead City Phone PA6-4071 Kft. II# Dealer Ueaaae We. 1W Kimberly McKay _ Teresa Gillikin Ability Grouping Popular; But Educators Disagree By JOHN COREY Education Department Appalachian State Teachers College Grouping children into fast, av erage, and slow classes by “book learning” ability is a rising trend in American schools today, from I first grade through high school. A survey conducted by Dr. Stu art E. Dean of the Office of Edu cation in Washington reveals that 30 per cent of our elementary schools now teach the bright and the dull separately, at least in some subjects. It’s one answer to the cry for greater academic achievement. Philosophers support the com mon sense notion that with “men tal segregation” pupils can learn more. Won't bright youngsters take off with jet speed when no longer held back by the plodders? Won’t slower students pick up when instruction is geared to their pace and need? But many schoolmen don't think ability grouping i ither fair or dem ocratic. They don’t like what it does to a child. How would you like to be officially labeled a dul lard? And make no mistake, chil dren know the real difference be tween the “fairies” and the | “brownies.” Moreover, schoolmen can cite good research showing that ability grouping alone isn’t particularly effective. Other factors affect achievement much more impor tantly—the competence and matur ity of teachers, class size, etc. They add the ability grouping, once popular, \yas abandoned in the 1930’s because of its damage to the child's “self-concept.” It’s certainly a sour note that to separate by ability is also to sep arate socially. This distinction is vividly seen in an actual class room . With but few exceptions, pupils in the top class come from wealth ier and more socially prominent families. This is true in practical ly any city or neighborhood, ac cording to Dr. Maurice Ahrens of the University of Florida. These more privileged kids spar kle in all aspects. They’re gen erally better looking, better dress ed, better mannered, better be haved, more personable, more ac tive, healthier, cleaner. In fact, if your child lands in a top group, he’s in sharp company. But in the slow class? Us members for the most part stem from families at the lower end of the social and economic ladder, Dr. Ahrens notes. As a group, the slower learners lack appeal, dress shabbily, often seem unhappy and antagonistic. They’re absent from school more 1 often, appear unclean (some teach- i ers actually detect differences of 1 smell between low and top class- i es), and create more discipline I problems. In certain worldly respects, how- 1 ever, many members of the so- ! called low ability groups learn 1 fast. Unfortunately, it’s the wrong : subject-matter. For instance, too many can curse and “fight dirty.” 1 They know a lot about cops, knives, < sex, and stealing. Further, they enjoy exchanging such informa tion with classmates. i For obvious reasons, m a n y < teachers (who usually come from < the middle class themselves) in- ( tensely dislike working with slow groups. The fact that ability grouping in practice conforms so closely to so cial grouping moves Dr. Ahrens, along with numerous others, to ad vocate mixing pupils in the tradi tional manner. The teacher then meets individual differences as best she can. And Dr. Ahrens says that com petent teachers can do this job ef fectively. despite ability differences of several years which occur among pupils of the same age in the same classroom. In this way American society as a whole, not just the bright elite, will be uplifted. The social distance between the poor and the rich will become less instead of greater. However, almost as many edu cators, according to the National Education association, share Ad miral Kickover's opinion that schools don’t exist to uplift the lower end of the social scale. They exist to accumulate and pass on knowledge, in the fastest and most efficient manner. In fact, Rick overites contend that in today’s competitive world, the nation which does the best job of develop ing its brain-power resources will come out on top. Ability grouping better accom plishes this purpose, they believe. And if this means social segrega tion, that's too bad. A youngster quickly learns his social rating anyway, they say—grouped or not grouped. The final decision on grouping, of course, lies largely with parents. Before deciding, however, put your Junior in the exclusive class af dull learners and analyze this classic education question from that viewpoint. (Headers having questions con cerning education are invited to send inquiries to School and Your Child. Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, N. C.) Clerk Probates Guy Morris Will The will of Guy Morris of Atlan ic was probated and filed Sept. 29 n the office of A. H. James, clerk >f court, Beaufort. The will was irawn July 11, 1956, and was wit lessed by Donald Clarke, Murray Robinson and Mrs. Jack P. West. The will directed that the execu or pay all debts of Mr. Morris, erect a monument at his grave, and make provision for the care )f the family cemetery lot, To his wife, Ellen R. Morris, was eft all property, both real and per ional, fof as long as she lives. At ler death the property is to go to i son, Charles Graham Morris, lis heirs and assigns. The will instructed that if any of dr. Morris’s daughters became eparated or widowed, they be irovided a home by his wife or on, if the daughter desires. Charles Graham Morris was ap tointed executor of his father’s state. The Apostle Paul left such an mpression on the Island of Malta luring his visit in the year 60 that von today half of the male resi dents arc named Paul. *©*e °f THIS... fl/EW Johns-ManvilU Seal-O-Matic Asphalt Shingles 1 They hold tight h high winds because they ore Setf-Seofiof Han't Hm »<r.l: The *»'» Itaef *a«b *• automatically bacauw at a •pactal pafralava ratin camaitt drip a* Hta witdanida. Thi* development of Johns-Mariyille re search is the most important contribution to roofs In the last 20 years. Seal-O Matics seal themselves down-grip the shingles underneath with bulldog tenae* ity. Cost but little more than ordinary shingles.' HUNTLEY'S HIGHWAY 70 EAST, BEAUFORT
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