Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 14

I 2 Delaware County WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1964 SPRINGFIELD MARPLE NEWTOWN ENJOYING THE FACILITIES at Springfield Public Library are (from left) Jfames Feehery, 3, of 332 Franklin Springfield; Kim DeWoody, 3, of 259 Beechwood Springfield; and Kim's brother, Lee, 5. Springfield Library's Job: Giving Public Better Service By SCOTT HOCKENBERRY. i 'Daily Times Staff Writer service" is the key to success at the Springfield Public Library-now in its second year at its new location on Powell. Road. ''That's our job here," said Librarian Eleanor V.

Downs, "trying to give better service." Ever since the library moved into its new building in May 1963, business has been on a steady increase. So far this year the circulation of books is up nejjV members are on the increase, there are more books anij. library services' have been expanded. Ih a three-month period this year, in June, July and August Miss Downs said, book circula tion hit 13,000 a month. "We usually averagi about nine or 10,000 a she said.

OlderCars Have Class $79,749 Contract Awarded To Renovate Fire House SPRINGFIELD Commis oners awarded a $79,749 con- ract Tuesday night to Eddie onstruction Co. of Springfielo or interior renovations to the re house, Powell Road anc axer Ave. The second low bid of ras submitted by Joseph of Newtown Square. Harold W. Benditt of Bala Cyn wyd, township engineer, will re- iew the contract before renova ions begin, commissioners sai Included in the interior renov ions will be the conversion he former township library he second floor into a loung or the firemen.

A new ceiling and walls wi oe installed and the first floe irector's room and kitchen moved to the second flop A new heating system, ne ockers and showers also ar be installed. Workmen have already begu enovating the exterior under 12,500 contract awarded ear er. The exterior work includ nstalling new front doors. In other business, the commissioners said Delaware Valley Industrial Bank will construct a bank and office facilities oh a three acre tract adjacent to the Star Farm Insurnce building on Sproul Road. On Route 422 above Pottstown there is a lot full of old cars.

They all have the boxy stagecoach lines of pre-1930 and they are allblack. I do riot know what all these antiques are doing up there, but I guess somebody', is the business' of collect! ng. ancient vehicles arid restoring them himself or selling them to those who would do so. We are a nation of cars, more so every year, and quicker than we realize the jalopies of our teenage years become the rolling antiques of today. A man driving around today in a 1950 car has In 1963 the library circulated! 12,245 books.

"I'd like to i 150,000 this year," Miss Downs! a rare bird on his hands, certainly worth more today than it was a few years ago. 122,245 books. to i on an car. But the man with a 1939 car haa said. The library has also been signing an average of more than 100 new members a month this year, the librarian said.

There were 14,394 people who belonged to the library at the end of 1963. The library's collection oi 21,934 books has been increased by 2,000 more this year, Miss Downs said. She would like to add more books but the library's budget will go just so far. And she said, the cost of books is going up. 'i Library services thai have! been expanded, she said, are subscriptions to four daily newspapers and increased business services.

Springfield Library carries Standard and Poors Weekly Advisory Service and the Dun and Bradstreet Million Dollar Dictionary. Miss Downs also has increased the staff of the library by adding three more part-time assistants. She now has two full- time and five pan-time assist- WHEN I WAS a high school freshman you saw a lot battered 1939s. Today most of the 1939s around are prizes, repainted on the outside and clean as a '65 inside. Their owners are not regarded as men of slight means, unable to afford better.

They are, rather, fellows who can afford the luxury of keeping up a collector's item: They value their old cars more than their wives. They will not buy the old lady an umbrella but the car's delicate undersurfaces are spared the ordeal of rainy drive. Like people, cars are suddenly older than we think, and we tolerate an old car poking along a crowded highway much more readily than we do the same conduct from a modern carriage. There is a certain respect for age and an admiration for a piece of machinery that has endured when so many like it have not. THERE IS ALSO a respect for beauty, for the old cars, especially those of the '30s, were handsome beasts.

Cars can only look so different, but the cars of the '30s managed to look as unlike each other as cars can look and even when they were plentiful Springfield Anti-Bias Plan OKd SPRINGFIELD clergymen of the Springfiel Ministerium have adopted a res olution to fight racvial discrim ination. The resolution said in part: "It is the avowed policy of tl church to uphold human digni and decency whenever a wherever we are called upon do so. The Church of Jesus Chri can make no compromise wi discrimination against or segre gation of peoples on the basis race, and still be faithful to Goc "Therefore, not only will assist when called upon, but "WORDS IN COLOR" preview is given to two Marple-Newtown pupils by Dr. Dorothea Hinman. Color to Aid M-N Group In Reading Experiment SCOTT HOCKENBERRY Daily Times Staff Writer shop six years work can be taught in six weeks.

LARCHMONT Nearly 300 Each of the 20 vowel sounds ndergarten and first-gradeiand 27 consonant sounds are upils in the Marple-Newtown oint School District will learn eading this year under an ex- rimental program making use color. The pupils will be in six kin- ergarten and six first-grade lasses. Stepnan Marple- administrative assist- nt in charge. of elementary education, will be said the first-graders taught the new ap- iven seoarate colors. On a large chart, for example, the in "up" is printed in yellow as is the in "done," "oe" in "does, and "oo" in "blood." The in "no" is tan as are seven other spellings of the same sound, including "eau" in "beau" and "ough" in Pupils short pronunciations of vowels an some consonant sounds (p, to learn the components fo points to a consonant (s), vowel (a) and another consonant (t) and the pupils have been taught a simple word (sat).

Dr. Hinman, who taught in te education department of 'ennsylyania State University rom 1953 to 1957 and at San 'rancisco State College from 957 to 1961, said motivation on he part of pupils to roach this fall. They will be in he lowest ability group, he said, and will use the new method un-1 mid-year. that time, Oselinsky 'said, the oldest and more advanced kindergarten pupils "who are in a state of readiness for instruction" will be taught the new method for the remainder ofl the year. According to Dr.

Dorothea Hinman, a consultant for En- cyclopaedia Brittanica many words. The teacher the ng through the use of color s-high because the method is ike a game. "Learning comes first, teach ing comes-, second," Dr. Hin man said. "This method enable ate words ithout teacher as-; sistahce." "Words In Color" can also be, used to help older children who: have problems with.reading or' adults who never learned to ead, she said.

Dr. Gattegno conducted an ex-: periment with adults who were- at the second-grade reading level, Dr. Hinman said. At the end of nine hours they were read-: children to figure out compli-lyear. ng newspapers, she said.

"Words In Color" was used; last year in 100 schools in seven states. Dr. Hinman esti-- mated the method will be used three to four times as much this To Participate in Horse Show in the annual 4-H District Horse jSaturday, according to C. R. Bryan associate county agent.

ants and nine high school pages "We don't have volunteers TMs not so d.ff.cult to tell a Ford from a a Plymouth. There was a personality and character to the older machines, and it is all the stronger now that only the fittest have survived. This is not to say the cars of the '30s are more pleasing to the eye than those of today. Their line!) leviate and or rectify by all legal means within our power, situations and circumstances which deny the rights of any human being by discrimination against him because of his race, or the color of his skin." Signing the resolution.were: Rev. Robert B.

Scott of Princeton Presbyterian Church, Rev. Wallace F. Stettter, Rev. Richard Cookson and Rev. John S.

Reese, all of Covenant Methodist, Rev. J. George Mamourian of Hancock Memorial Methodist, Rev. Peter Young of St. Paul's United Church of Christ.

Also, Rev. William Elbert and Rev. Henry A. Ireland, both of St. Matthews Lutheran, Rev.

T. Norman Mason and Rev. John A. Smart, both of Church of the Redeemer, Rev. Robert E.

Norman of Victoria Baptist and Rev Vincent T. Goble of Church Christ. "Words in Color" was originated by an Englishman, Dr.jshow grounds in Chester County Caleb Gattegno. It was Dr. Gattegno who first introduced the Cuisenaire rods to the United States.

These rods, teacher who invented them, are in general use in the Marple- Newtown schools to teach mathematics. Oselinsky said there is no mathematical concept that cannot be taught through the use of the Cuisenaire rods. are wooden rods of different size, each with a different color "or numbers one through 10. Nineteen Delaware County 4-H) Saturday will mark the first Clpb members jviH participate day of! National 4-H Club Week, Sept. 26.

to Oct. 3, and will. be celebrated''by 2 and '4 million 4-H members in the United There are more than 600 14-H in all: phases of Candy Sale Slated For M-N Uniforms here," she said. But volunteers! work with the Friends of thej Library Association which con-i ducts story hour programs and) exhibits in the display cases, Another new service which; Miss Downs has developed is ai union list of newspapers and were the curves of an era when styling was barely recognized as a selling point, and a man who really thinks a Stutz Bearcat is prettier than Grand Prix must certainly hold the Fokker Tri-Motor to be more beautiful than a Boeing 707. periodicals and a guide to the Delaware 'County libraries which handle them.

Stie is doing the same for reference books, she said. The guide to newspapers and periodicals covers libraries in Wallingford, Chester, Lansdownc, BroomaU, Media, Lima, Prospect Park, Swarthmore, Essington and Upper Darby. On Oct. 29 the library will be host to the annual meeting ol the Southeast District of the Pennsylvania Library Association. Miss Downs said she expected about 100 librarians to attend the meeting.

Miss Downs has been librar ian in Springfield since 1937 She began her job when the Springfield Library was in small room on the first floor the fire house. The Springfield Library oper ates on a total annual budget tbout $59,000, Miss Downs said This includes salaries, purchase and replacement of books, main tenance on the building and the retiring- of the bond issue the, library building. YOU MIGHT HAVE MADE an argument of comparisons a few years ago When Detroit thought cars ought to look like airplanes and put everything but wings on them. Never were unsightlier crates loosed on the American road than the chrome- cluttered products of the late '50s and the public responded to this insult to taste by buying millions of the horrors. Ford was Hie only major company which kept its head in that era of fins, swoops and rust-prone chrome.

Even the distinguished Cadillac, which started it all, stuck lethal-looking harpoons on its rear. That period is gone and it is unlikely that anyone will want to preserve one of those awful creatures for 20 years unless it is to show a grandson how silly cars looked at one time. The new cars are beautiful, almost without exception, and you have to search to find a new model which really offends good taste. The automobile business is back where it was 30 years ago, making cars that excite the eye. MORE SNOW EQUIPMENT PROMISED The state has pledged additional snow removal and ice control equipment this winter, for Delaware County and three other suburban Philadelphia counties, state Sen.

Clarence D. Bell (R-Delaware County) of Upland said today. Bell said the Pennsylvania Highway Department has assured legislators in Delaware, Bucks, Montgomery and Chester counties the additional equipment would be hired from private contractors. This would reinforce the equipment ot state highways department and the local municipalities, he said. "From lessons learned during January and February, 1964, we now plan our defense of Delaware County's and other suburban highways from the ravages of next winter's icy months," Bell said.

matics can be taught For instance, two white rods, each with the value of the num- which has the value of two. Teaching reading through the use of color works in much the same way. Dr. Hinman told Marple-Newtown teachers work- BROOMALL Marple-Newtown Joint School Board ap- (2,125 for six stereo Bausch and Lamb microscopes was accepted because the low bid did not meet specifications ale by the secondary schools uring the current sphool term raise money for senior high and uniforms for 1965-66. The board also aiver of rental fees for the an- ual community ba- aar, sponsored by the Marple ownship Women's Club.

This ear's bazaar is Nov. 14. Rental fees were waived be- ause a large part of the money rom the affair goes for schol- rships and benefits to Marple- Newtown students, the board jxplained. The board accepted low bids various items of school equip- bility for master point game ment. The second lowest bid of requires participation in least one fractional game dur ing the preceding month.

This year the club will inau, urate a series championsh game. It will Stan Oct. 14. Games Slated At Synagogue BROOMALL--Beth El Suburban Synagogue's Duplicat Bridge Club will resume its reg ular schedule of games at 8 to night in the Temple's club room Monthly master point game will be conducted the first We nesday of each month. Elig 7 COFFEE FR.EE School Set To Sign Up Registration for the Marple- Newtown Adult School will be from.

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday in the Senior High School Media Line Road. Jerome J. Fischer, president of the adult school board of directors, announced brochures describing the courses have ccn mailed to residents of both communities.

He said registration may be made in advance by mailing the coupon in the booklet. Club work in Delaware ounty. The 31 clubs are head-; by 78 local volunteer lead- rs. I The district horse show has 4-H members participating who ave qualified in county com- etition in six counties. Twenty- ve different classes afford op-i ortunities for all types of in- i and and riding competition.

epresenting the Delaware ounty 4-H Horse and Pony Club re: Bill David Gardiner, 'age Torchiana, Paul Brown, oan Devlin, Patty Miller and Robert Wax, all of Glen Mills; Cheryle Wright, and Ferd Latch nd Betty Pinkerton, Media; Linda and Edythe Tegethoff and' )enise Russell. Broomall; Georgette Dickey and Jill Mac-; Icey, Newtown Square; TyreH Sharp, Berwyn; Linda McCardle and Linda Sutton, West' hester, and Donna Club leaders are Mr. and' VIrs. Bruce Sutton, RD, West Chester, and Miss Fran Bell, High Meadows. The.

Delaware County 4-H Horse and Pony Club has more than 65 mem- ters who meet monthly to dis- i cuss all 1 phases' of horse and'' pony management. 4-H Clubs in Delaware County are administered by Bryan and Miss Maryetta Duffner, assist- ant home economist, through the Agricultural and Home omics Extension Service located in the courthouse, Media. AT RESCUE SYMPOSIUM Vertol Copter 'Saves 9 2Men in River Drill ESSINOTON About 150 persons from 20 nations watched a 1 Vertol built helicopter go through its paces in a mock rescue on the Delaware River Tuesday afternoon. The demonstration was part Fischer announced Alfredo of the fifth annual Pacienza will conduct his oil painting class Monday nights in the high school. Herman Cohen's art class will be Tuesdays Mrs.

Sylvia Helman or Mrs. Information may be had from at Paxon Hollow High School. Florence Plenty, 44 Radnor Drive. Rescue Symposium. The Vertol Division of the Boeing Co.

is host For the two day symposium which began Tuesday. Attending the Navy sponsored symposium are represents lives ot the Navy, Coast Guard industry and governments. Further demonstrations scheduled for today. Tuesday's demonstration began about 3:30 p.m. when two men' were dropped into the river by parachute.

A Vertol It? helicop- er, owned by the Royal Canadian Air Force, quickly raw-; ed in and picked them up. The helicopter crew then dera- onstrated bow a raft can into the helicopter through its rear hatch. The guests waicbed shore and from maO.boats, tn-1 eluding several hydnlbib brtfc; by the Ludwig KonoM luring Co. ot Fofcrott..