The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 5

(Ark.) Courier News Tuesday, July Pace TEN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS teachers were at Arkansas-Missouri Power last week as a part of field training In Arkansas State University's economic education workshop. Another group visited Cotton Boll Vo-Tech School. Purpose of the workshop is to instruct teachers in the basics of the American economic system. 'Every Child Learns Something' School By RUTH ANN VAUGHAN Associated Press Writer FAYETTEVILLE, Ark: (AP) Retarded children once shunned by society are now taken under the wing of the Washington County School for Trainable Children in Fayetteville where their limited are challenged to "Every child learns something," said Mrs. Fount Richardson, a longtime school teacher and director of the "little school 1 Mrs.

Richardson, a grayhair- ed widow, pointed out, however, that teachers who work with the often become discouraged with lack of progress. "And then sometimes you really get surprised," she said. The 20 Washington County children that the school can accommodate each year are pushed gently to attain the.goals within their reach. An 8-year-old boy could not talk when he came to the school 1 but one day he learned to play a farm animal game. He surprised his teacher when he "clucked" like a chicken.

Another child has difficulty focusing his eyes. His teacher encourages him to watch follow the movable eyes of a big paper dbg to learn eye coordination. A blonde 8-year-lod spoke to no one when she came to school. After many days, she surprised her teacher with a "good morning." "The children are so much happier than they were before they came," said Mrs. Richardson.

Through school activities they make friendships with retardates just like themselves. They learn to read according to their abilities. They are taught simple mathmatics. They discover the art of enjoying a "juice break" at midmorning. They practice table manners and acceptable table conversation.

Mrs. Richardson said one of the most enjoyable aspects of her job is seeing the children enjoy the holidays. Activities are planned around the special days and the children "can hardly wait for the day to arrive," according to Mrs. Richardson. Mrs.

Richardson is assisted by four trained teachers and student volunteers from the University of Arkansas speech department and social welfare department. The privately-operated school for trainable- retardates is located in the United Presbyterian Church, which donates its facilities. The school is not a church- sponsored organization, however. It is financed by individual, club and United Fund nations and some assistance from the Springdale, Fayette- vile and Prairie Grove school districts. The public schools in the area do not offer a program for children of this intelligence level.

When a child is 16 years old he must leave the "little school." Until this year, the "graduates" had no further training available in Washington County. The Sheltered Workshop, has recently received its federal funds and will 1 be able train some of these youngsters in a trade, Mrs. Richardson said. The "little, school" is now preparing for its sixth school term which will begin Sept. 9..

DIRTY BIRD STOLE WORMS ALBUQUERQUE (AP) -The early bird got the of them to be exact recently from a northwest Albuquerque residence, police reports showed. The worms, raised as bait for fishermen, were taken from a worm bed behind the house of -B. P. GambreL Remember Pay Your Paper Boy tarded Second Line of Defense For Korea in By BOB POOS WITH U. S.

YTH DIVISION, Korea (AP) Soldiers of the U. S. 7th Division are carrying member 1950 when tho Commu-. tions force a solid anchor north i invader already worn down of Seoul that might present an I from battering through South insurmountable obstacle to an I Korea's) first defense. nists overran the "Special City" as they call it and came close to conquering all South out with picks, shovels, air-1 Korea, hammers and bulldozers a new The new concept was appar- concept of defense against a ently inspired by the January repeat of the 1950 Communist I crisis when a team of North invasion of South Korea.

Korean agents tried to kill Until fairly recently, most President Chung Hee Park, faith in defense against another I Two days later North Korean invasion was placed on a series of fortificationa strung along the 151-mile-wide Korean demilitarized zone, massive U. S. aerial retaliation a the gunboats captured the U. S. intelligence ship Pueblo.

This idea calls for a second massive line of fortificatons hoped-for ability of the Korean across the Seoul corridor about army and the U. S. 2nd and 7th 120 miles north of the capital. It divisions to contain the Communists along the Imjin River near the DMZ. No one has ever officially admitted it, but if North Koreans cracked the defensive line and came streaming down the 20- mile-wide corridor that is classic invasion route to South, the allies would probably have to fall back and dig in on the south bank of the Han River.

As one military observer understated it: "This is not particularly appealing to the Koreans as Seoul is on the north bank." A good portion of the capital's four million citizens re- is called the Papa Line. Work started on it in earnest in June and a considerable amount of the bunkers have been finished. Eventually, the whole system will be linked by a series of trenches, both for defense and for communications. Just how near completion it is remains classified information but officers say they are pleased wth progress The line, no matter how strong it will be and it will be a massive series of in-depth forts is not the sole hope for the defense of South Korea. But the Papa Line, if nothing else, will give the United Na- GORGEOUS GUSSIE MORAN caused a furor among ten.

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