The Gettysburg Times from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • Page 24

PAGE TWENTY-TWO fHE GETTYSBURG TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1964 BACK TO SCHOOL EDITION COLLEGE MEN PREFER PIPES; HOLD CONTEST Pipee and tobacco are still standard equipment with college men. In fact, pipe smoking contests are becoming a regular activity on many campuses around the country--and draw almost as many entries as a track meet. spring at Columbia University, for example, 43 young men puffed away on all types of pipes in the school's second annual contest. The contestants were given 3.5 grams of tobacco to see how long they could "keep it going." Win Top Honors Marty Cowan, a freshman, took top honors with a snail-like one hour, minutes. The contest is sponsored each year by the Pipe and Tobacco Council, a group dedicated "to preserving the fine art of pipe smoking." Prizes? Pipes and tobacco, of course.

Young Cowan puffed along to victory on a large-bowled lumberman style pipe and studied for his final exams while he nursed it along. Asked if he had practiced for the event, Cowan said that he hadn't. "As a matter of fact," he added, "I only started smoking a pipe two months ago. But I won because, well, everybody knows freshmen make the best pipe Cowan will represent Columbia in the first intercollegiate pipe smoking contest, at the University of Pennsylvania in October. Women Buy Most Pipes Although it's a fact that women bought 70 per cent of the 15,000,000 pipes sold last year, the Council says they often err in selecting a suitable pipe for their men.

Much disappointment may be avoided if the little woman will remember that the finest briar can't give complete pleasure unless it's chosen to complement a man's own personality and contours. For instance, a young, thin-faced fellow would be lost behind the massive bowl of the big bulldog type. That's the perfect pipe for a strapping athlete or outdoorman. A college freshman, on the other hand, will look fine and feel at Plastic Coats Now Defy All Weather Getting caught out in the rain, with subsequent unpleasant damage to clothes, is an experience that every woman has had one or more times. It isn't always possible to know accurately when you'll need an umbrella even if you're weather report watcher.

One solution lies in carrying with you (in handbag or coat pocket) the kind of lightweight vinyl film raincoat that folds into a tiny packet but offers quick and complete protection. Typical of these coats is the style with detachable hood and belt and big, deep pockets. This comes in a transparent version as well as in colors to be matched to your wardrobe. Designs include something for everybody: straight, slim, full and flared models. And no matter what the style, the coat is easily kept clean with the mere swipe of a damp cloth.

Notebook Colors Needn't Be Drab The latest fashion trend in schools is the colorful notebook or ring binder. Popular leathers are now available in such cheerful colors as red, lue and green, some with gold embossing. Plastics, which are easy to wipe clean, can be had in novelty flashes and designs such a-s bamboo, straw, plaids and polka dots. ease with a lighter and less bulky pipe. Choice Is Important The selection of tobacco is Important, too.

The he-man with muscles almost always wants a heaver-than-average smoke, while a desk-bound executive usually expresses a preference for milder, more aromatic blends. Also, it's important that new pipes are broken in properly. "Be atient, and don't try to rush hings," advises the Council. "A pipe doesn't have to be babied, but it does need a little care it is going to be a thing of oy forever." English is the major commer- scientific and diplomatic language of the world. Also, it's the most widely used second language in foreign countries.

for BACK to SCHOOL See Our Values in DRESSES SKIRTS RLOUSES SWEATERS TOT 'N TEEN SHOP 28 Carlisle St rnone 1024-Y HANKIES MAKE HATS, BLOUSES Hold on mlnuU, before you pick out those Are you certain you know what you're doing? According to word from the leading clothing designers in America and abroad, the garden variety of women's handkerchief is coming Into style as a real article of clothing. Designers like Walter Florell. Laddie Northridge, Odys de Paris and Shirley Falk are rediscover, ing old-time handkerchief drawer as a storehouse of material for blouses, hats, gloves, shoes and dresses. You'll be seeing the styles on campuses all over the country this fall. And it's Job any girl can do herself.

After all, the kerchief itself is usually fine rolled linen or cotton with beautiful embroidered or printed motifs. And it turns into apparel with a few minutes of needle work. Blouse making is easy. You begin by placing the hankie's border design as cuffs, and the corners as a peaked collar. As sweater sleeves, beautiful handkerchiefs dress up last year's wear.

Sewing time: less than 12 minutes. Two hankies will combine to make a reversible handbag envelope. One with beautiful embroidery will make an evening hand- Dag cover. Clever ideas, clever fingers and a little patience will turn up a whole line of accessories from your handkerchief drawer. REALISTIC TOYS IN BIG DEMAND FROM KIDDIES Smash, crash and another play- has bit the dust.

That's what usually happens when children get bored with their toys. Children today, living ia the atomic age, are more keenly aware of the outside world. For this reason, they are demanding more and more realism in their playthings. Toymakers realize this, too. For during the past few years the trend in playthings has been toward things that will go right along with the child's education.

Why, with some of the "do it- yourself" toys today the kids can practice real life trades such as mechanics, plumbers, cooks and nurses. In other words, the toy. manufacturers have heeded the words of psychologists who explain that constructive toys give children the incentive to build rather than destroy. Have Scale Models The Charles Doepke Co. is one firm that has entered this new field.

Doepke, for example, is turning out scale operating models of large earth moving equipment as well as a model aerial ladder fire truck. With these toys your child can be his own construction engineer or fire chief. In the educational line there's a junior size plastic planetarium, a toy that will not only appeal to children but adults as well. With this instrument, manufactured by the Harmonic Reed you can locate and identify any of the constellations or important stars. It wiH be marketed as the Spitz Junior Planetarium and will retail for about $13.95.

The toy will be accompanied by a beautifully Illustrated and written explanatory booklet. -em LARGEST AREA in student's room is bed. Visitors sprawl here, records, books, clothing are dumped here. so the spread should be sturdy, hard-wearing and washable. cover's color is important to room decor.

Choose it wisely. BEDSPREADS CAN BE KEY TO BRIGHT ROOMS Whether at home or away at school, young people are interested in their own rooms. At home it may be a bedroom as well as a place the crowd throws their coats when they come to a party. At- it's a triple duty room which serves as a bedroom, living and place to study. For this reason, the bare, bleak, oorly lighted room is a tiling of he past in most college dormitor- es.

Modern dorms are attiactive- but purposefully furnishsd. Let's take a mental look around Plan applicants indicates that budget payments will range from $7 to $30, with the average payment falling aboui $15. Applications for the Budget Plan --under wnichr annual heating costs can be leveled off in ten even payments--are still available at the gas company office here. 400 Gas Users To Adopt Budget Plan At least 400 families using gas heat in this area will pay their gas bills tiie Budget Plan way this winter. That's the number of customers served by the Gettysburg office who have asked to spread out their annual heating costs since the Budget Plan was announced July 8.

Reporting on the plan's reception here. Gas Company Manager Julian N. Estep said that applications are continuing to be received at a rate of about 10 a day. By September 1, when the Budget Plan goes into effect, he estimated that its coverage might take in as high as 15 of all gas heat users in this area. A sampling of estimates furnished Experiments With Typewriter Kids Prove Machines Help In Learning After a generation of controlled experiment by leading educators and psychologists, the question Mill remains: should children learn their writing at the typewriter? flit'a your problem, you'll have to decide Tor yourself.

The best that science can do is put the data before you. The experleent itself began more than 20 years ago when Doctors Ben D. Wood and Prank N. Freeman put typewriters at the disposal of children in kindergarten through the sixth grade. Classes were divided Into two sections.

Half the children used the typewriter in all written work. The other half used pen and pencil. The course of study was the same for all, and periodic testa were given to determine the effects of typing. Well Ahead Of Others The results: 1. In reading, writing, spelling and arithmetic the young typists proved themselves well ahead of the normal standards of their it.

He learned how, CORRECT ANSWER THE for All Back to School Supplies BOOKMART STATIONERS GETTYSBURG Belter Luncheons and Snacks at PLAZA and SWEETLAND, Too! a typical college room. The largest 'surface area" of color is the bed and the bedspread. Let it be colorful by all means. Must Be Sturdy Too But there's more to a bedspread than meets the eye. Don't forget that a major part of your school iving goes on in your room and that your bed does double duty as a couch and bed.

It's the spot where you sleep; where the gang from down the hall sprawl and relax for midnight snack. you pile records "for a toss jooks and term papers. In other words, the spread must sturdy as well as atti active. It must be ready and willing- to stand the pace of laundry life as well the social one. It should" not muss or wrinkle too The answer is today's bedspreads.

Colors are more "fast'" than other types. The material is sturdier, launders befr- ter. And patterns are more varied and easily adaptable to doimitory needs. Patterns Popular While solid colors are available in woven bedspreads, patterns are more popular. Soil and wrinkling do not show as easily, and designs add interest and gaiety to a room.

A bedspread can make 01 break ihe decor of a room. Conbmed. with matching draperies in an attractive manner, the color scheme is automatically and dramatically set up. Or with no thought, the combination can make or break the success of the whole interior. Therefore, it's wise to choose aid buy one at home so you can start plotting your color scheme.

Use Gay Pillows Remember, a and matching draperies are the key to the color scheme of your room. 1 One firm, Bates Fabrics, turns out a variety of colors and I patterns that will give your col-' lege "home" just the right fern-; mine touch. Their "Zuider Zee" model, for instance, has colorful tupips planted in rows white lace. i Also, you can accent the colors with pillows or something similar. For instance, you can cover your desk chair and put a plant on the window bookcase.

Then you'll have a room conducive to studying but ready for that surprise party for your roommate. If you want something mere conservative or tailored get a set in rose, beige, blue or green. Then use gay pillows of the same color stitched with wool to add a soft loach. A Campns "Must" A lamp shade, rug and handy bulletin board "Rill tie the together. If you have a talented roommate you might get her to paint a nice modern wash drawing to frame and bang on the walL fci any case, bedspreads a matching draperies are a campus "must." And.

interesiragly enough, both coiiegc men and women buy most of their sets to taie back to school with tlwm, as they do their wardrobes, radios and other necessities. So. decide what you'll msed now. And plan to make your room not onlv the best dressed room oa campus, but one thai have the uncluttered atmosphere you need for study. The champion "school hater" award has to go to a schoolboy in Australia.

He smuggled a bottle containing 40 termites into class hoping they would eat up the schoolhouse. 2. The non typing children showed less interest in their work than the keyboard kids. 3. The typing children showed traits of neatness far greater than their brethren of the graphite claw.

The Reasons Assigned reasons: The doctors on the case reasoned that all young children have an intense desire to express themselves, record thoughts and relate incidents. In writing with pen or pencil, the doctors figured, the children are faced with serious coordination problems. Besides, their writing never looks like the teacher's or the book's. Typing, however, produces a clear looking page with neat margins, parallel lines and letters that look like printing. At the end of a typewritten line, the child had produced a legible thought--anyone could read it.

The children using typewriters came to bigger words and better spelling because their mistakes were glaring on the page. Scientists Amazed Reading was no longer as much a problem. Little tots would tell stories to their teachers who recorded them in typing. It was the child's story, and he wanted' to DIFFERENCE between sloppy and neat work, muddy and clear thinking can lie in typewriter. enough.

The scientists were amazed to learn that children did their arithmetic work on the type-writer too. The columns of numbers were neat and even. Careless errors were' eliminated; the figures appeared clearly; and the youngsters were not blocked 'by the mechanics of writing numbers. There was a correlation of ages and learning that came out of the experiment. Kindergarten children LOSING GLOVES MAKES PROBLEM Children's tendency to lose one of a pair of gloves Is so well known that for parents have resorted to tying the gloves together.

The long string through the sleeves and across the chest is the answer for youngsters, but what about college men? Gloves will always stray. Even a tied pair manages to be mislaid, and the college lost and found department seems destined to have a fine library of forlorn single gloves. The obvious answer Is to buy warm and handsome but Inexpensive handwear, and gloves fill the bill. Knitted wool mitts or gloves for the grade and high school student will keep their hands warm, and can be replaced at little expense Wool Gloves Also, the college man has seen wool gloves, because thsy have been smartly designed to su't his taste. Dark gray gloves, with a a touch of ligher gray and white Scandinavian design on the back, and solid colors in gray, navy, brown or dark green are examples of the wool gloves the college man likes.

New dressy leattoer gloves for the older include the customary gray chamois and tan pigskin. But the' new use of thicker suede leather will draw the eye of the man with a taste for novelty. For the man wants a warmer glove with a leather shell, there -about five years old--were gen-j are many combinations of wool erally most interested in seeing and leather. One of the newest is their own names in print, and quicJcly learned to type them. Children about seven or eight years old learned punctuation, including the difficult marks like the apostrophe, semicolon and quotation marks.

Some Answers Missing By nine years old, the children were old enough, and their hands large enough to learn correct fingering of the keyboard. By this age, too, they were old enough to write long compositions and think clearly at the typewriter. However, the experiment did not explain what the nation was going to do with children who had not learned how to write in long-hand. Unanswered, too, were the questions: Is the coordination learned from in black capeskin with gray rib knitting between the fingers, and it is lined with wool. pencil writing a desirable thing for children? What does one do about writing if a typewriter does not happen to be around? aWtthe hurry to learn to read and write? Another experiment by opticians showed that children really should not be allowed to read small print until they are seven years old at least.

From the typewriting children, only one fact seemed certain. If youf child wants to write with the family typewriter, don't dia- him. He'll learn deal from at. Open Saturday Evenings Till 9:00 O'clock For Your Shopping Convenience AT ROYAL AT ROfAt. 27-STORE STOCK READJUSTMENT EVENT! HATS DIAMOND ONYX SIMS $32.50 LADY'S BNTTMSTONE A EEk SOc LADY'S 2 DIAMOND BKTHSTONE SOc 5)9 J5 MAN'S NNTtAL WEEK Save BNtfffiTONE $24.75 $29.7 LADY'S BttTHSTONE SOc S32.5I Vata LADY'S 2 DIAMOND MRTHSTONE MATS 2JKON Rflffi 5Ce 4 Fillers Education Russia Js markedly less advanced than in Western Eu- 'rope.

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