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At What Age Should Children Enter School? North Carolina law requires that Junior be six years old by October 15 before he enters first grade. The rule is a good one, opins Dr. Joseph E. Bryson of Appala chian State Teachers College, Boone, N. C. Dr. Bryson, an authority on school law, endor ses this view of Temple Univer sity’s Dr. Robert E. Wilson. “Ex perience has proved that the older children of a grade usually have more success in school, a cademically as well as socially and emotionally.” The greater Junior’s maturity when he begins formal school ing, says Dr. Wilson, the more likely he’s to adjust to school and handle first-grade expecta tions. Join Our Premium Plan CEDAR ROCK GREEN BEANS — - MORTON CREAM PIES MORTON FRUIT PIES - - TALL CANS PET MILK BEEF LIVER No. 21/2 CANS -19c 3 TO R -31.00 EACH -29c 3 TOR -39c LB.' • 29c LUZIANNE COFFEE-- 39c FRUIT COCKTAIL - LIGHTS FLUID 3B3EAN -19c IDEAL FUMRO PIES -9c l-TJOZ. -39c GLASS GROCERY ••YOUR TRIENDLY L N. S. STORE" GROVER ROAD PHONE 739-9950 itiC itdioiiliijj Ut.iuuiij iC'£JC*v.<!y: some parents to delay their child a year in starting school, even though he’s old enough, If they feel the youngster Is too ba byish, small size or will have difficulty keeping up with class mates. This is legally done, states Appalachian’s Dr. Bryson, be cause most school laws require that a pupil begin his formal e ducation not by six but seven year of age. And in case of boys close to the age deadline, the move may be smart strategy. Psychologists say the male child lags about a year behind the girl in develop ment because of slower matura tion. At any rate, the youngster held back a year starts his first grade work with the advantage of greater physical and mental maturity on his side. It may make the difference between his being ahead than behind during his bookflearning days. The logic is not easily under stood by many mothers and fa thers,however, whose child’s age falls just a day or so--or even an hour or two--past the dead line and who Consider their off spring above average in bright ness and maturity. These parents think their youngsters may be harmed ra ther than helped by holding him back. And they be can right, too, since many children mature much earlier than others. Some guardians have felt so Strongly about this that they’ve contested the rule In court. Others have gotten around it by sending their child to a pri vate first-grade. On completing the grade, the pupil enters a pu blic second-grade. And the move has worked out well for some. For one boy of short height and average ability whom I ob served for years, it didn’t. The small boy was ‘‘peanut" to his class and he experienced increasing difficulty with each passing year in keeping up with the older, bigger and more cap able classmate competition. For attention, he acted as the class clown. Had his parents delayed his school entrance, the boy’s com petition would have been less crushing. He could have been a leader. The success might have developed within him a confi dent, healthy concept of him solf. As it is, he’s now entering a BESTFORM/ The slimmingest, trimmingest panty you’ll ever wear! With long legs that sleek your thighs, satin elastic hip panels and a verti cal stretch back for all-round control. And smooth to the tiniest details: recessed gar ters, a 1" stay-up top. Power net with lace front panel. White only. S-M-L-XL. Also available : convenient side - zipper opening, 2" stay-up top. $6.95 js/WVl^ $5.95_ Paula Prentiss decides there are no teeth missing in this Army hospital scene with Jim Hutton in Metro- Coldieyn Mayer’s comedy, “The Hori zontal LieutenantThe picture marks the fourth appearance together of the popular Hutton-Prentiss team and also stars Jack Carter in his movie dehut. It is in Cinema Scope nod eotr*— dulthood feeding inadequate. For the extremely bright and mature, however, delay in start ing to school may bring nega tive results. This has caused a few school districts with the October 15 cut sufficient degree of mental, phy sical, emotionad and social ma turity. In Nebraska, which has a law, the Stanford-Binet individual mental test determines the de gree of maturity. Other aspects of maturity are judged by a psy chometrist. Nebraska established the ear ly entrance procedure in 1950 Over 11,000 children were ex amined during the first ter years. Seventy-two per cent o: them were judged “mature.” A follow-up study made cev eral years later to find out hov the early-entrance ptgtffe wen doing in the third grade reveal ed their IQ average to be 121 (a hove normal for third graders. The conclusion, reached bj Robert Stake of the University of Nebraska’s department of ed ucartional psychology and mea ^Hipinens: ' Appeiently very intelligenl children are likely to be among the! top achievers even when they’re the youngest in cilass. But What’s best for your Child will have to be judged on iits own merit. 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The last days before school Opens are the time for malting certain that the youngsters are . ready physically tor another nine ■ months of learning. The pre-registration physical examination is a must in all well regulated families1 and is even re r quired in some school districts. r Ask your doctor to look over the Children before they report for classes, just to make certain that no ailments have cropped up dur ing the summer that demand at tention. Ask your doctor to give your children their necessary immuni zations. These might include 'boosters for polio, smallpox, tet anus, whooping cough and dip theria. The physical exam should in elude tests of sight and hearing. Many a child has been tabbed as a slow learner or not very bright When actually he doesn’t see the blackboard or doesn’t hear much of what the teacher says. A young child often won’t realize what’s wrong and will be baff led and frustrated. .. A dental checkup, including having teeth cleaned, also is an important part of preparing for school openinig. The dentist often can fill small cavities and save a tooth before the decay becomes serious. (While you’re getting junior ready for school, don’t overlook the fact that mom and dad need Checkups too. When you’re taking the children in for their physical, make an appointment for the old er Stilks in the family too. Reg ular Checkups are even more im portant for adults. When ;a Chicago woman went apartment hunting recently, she didn’t (find .a place but did locate he<r car Which had ’been stolen four month* before. IT ROUNDS with row on row » of circular stitching! IT LIFTS— with contour bands lined in soft cotton flannel! IT SEPARATES with a comfortable center section of elastic! M \ to shape curves yc C0SM0Pr by BES Only a bra that rounds and lu rates can give you curves like <. only Bestform brings you such a br^ little money! It’s carefully stitched oi ton broadcloth. Has adjustable should^ AGRICULTURE IN ACTION By WALLACE PARKER, N. C. Form Bureau Federation The Senate on August 22 pass ed 'its farm hill (H. R. 12391 ,i by a roll call vote of 47 to 37. As approved toy the .Senate, the bill differs substantially from the version passed last month toy the House of Representatives. It also differs in many ways from the measure reported earlier , this month by the State Agriculture Committee. The bill, as passed toy the Sen ate, provides for a multiple-price certificate program for wheat. It calls for a 1962 referendum and a plan for 1963, but Senator Allen Ellender (D.) of Louisiana, chair man of the Senate Agriculture Committee ,said 'he proposed to change the referendum to 1963 in a Senate-House conference be cause it is now too late to have a 1962 referendum. In that case, the certificate program could not become effective until 1964. There would be different sup port prices for “certificate” and “non-certificate'" wheat and ex port subsidies to bridge the gap between the domestic price of certificate wheat and the world price. Thus there would be at least three different prices for wheat. Wheat produced within an ac reage allotment — but in excess Of the quality for which the pro ducer received certificates—could be sold, used for feed, or turned over to the government under the price-support program for “non-cetificate” wheat. The plan would become effect ive if approved toy a two-thirds 1 majority of eligible wheat pro ducers voting in a referendum. Besides extending the present corn and- feed grain program for another year, the Seriate bill re peals the corn and feed grain ! price support provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1958 and p. o , vtides that, effective, in lOiil, the Secretary of Agriculture would | set corn price supports “at such tlevel, not to exceed 90“ pbr cent of the parity price therefor, as the Secretary deternyinps yvrill not result in increasing Commodity Credit Corporation stocks of con.” The Act of 1958 is the basic farm law for cotton and rice. It provides minimum national ac I reage allotments 'for both of these commodities. Producers of ■cotton and rice are disturbed that the reapeal of the 1958 act may eliminate their programs at a la ter date. The land use and P: L. 480 pro visions are similar to those in the bill approved by the House' in July. One part of the bill pro vides for recreational uses of ag ricultural land and another part provides the authority for more P. L. 480 sales. 'Unlike the House Will, the Sen ate bill does not contain any dairy price support provisions,. The bill now goes back to- the House which can (1) accept it, (2) reject it, or (3) request a conference with the Senate to try to resolve differences in the two versions of the Will. . Men's Rally Set Sunday • GASTONIA, N. C. — Some 500 men of the Kings Mountain Presbytery are expected to at tend the annual Men’s Fall Ral ly Sunday, September 9, at the First Presbyterian church, Gas tonia. Plans were announced this week by John Friday of Lincoln ton and Roland Lanier of Gas toniai co-chairmen of the rally. Frank Matthews is president of the men of the host church. Speaker for the meeting will be Dr. Albert G. Edwards, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Raleigh. A native of Scotland, Dr. Edwards was educated in A merica and is considered one of | j the top ministers in the Assem- < bly. The meeting will open at 5 p.m. with a program of rr furnished by the choir r host church. Dr. Edwr dress will follow a bu sion and dinner in fellowship hall. ‘Glorifying Go-' tion’ is the t* and the ger wterian K Officers who have served the Presbytery this year indhde Sto ver Dunagan, Jr. of Forest City, president; Ernest Harrelf of Shelby and Steam WarRck of Linoolnton, vice presidents; Bill Craig of Gastonia, secretary; Roy Robinson of Gastonia, treasurer: the Rev. George Webb of Shelby is minister advisor, and the Rev. Sidney Maxwell of Tryon, fessoci at ministr advisor. John Friday of Linoolnton is past prsid* it. District chairmen wh served the Presbytery indlude Ed Webb T Rutherfordton, W. of Shelbv. J. P. r mont, Hal GiR ton. Donald r nier of Ga P rr itP'
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