Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 5

i The Lexington Leader Lexington Ky Monday August 23 1965 5 TV Canceled Loss Keenly Felt By Schools Youngsters Swarm On Lexington Stores Eastern Kentucky youngsters who learned math" with the nelp of television last year will return to school in the next few weeks to face blank television screens Over 2700 students and 450 teachers last year viewed in Arithmetic" a televised modem mathematics course presented by WSAZ-TV Hunting-ton Va From toddlers to teens youngsters are swarming on downtown Lexington Garbed in dresses cut-offs sneakers and heels they descend in droves by themselves with friends parents or brothers and sisters Their purpose is similar getting ready for school It isn't enough Just to go back to school anymore This trek is preceded by the clothes ritual which is followed faithfully from first grade through college A similar attitude towards the task is not shared by all the shoppers The smaller they come the louder they complain about this getting ready for school business Fitting boots and hot scratchy coats in the middle of summer is no fun Getting a sweater or dress is nice but having to try them on is a nuisance However as they get older the clothes interest intensifies and they drag mother-with-charge-a-plate from store to store Try on dresses sports coats match sweaters skirts and blouses look for just pair of shoes Up and down Main Street from Broadway to Wolf Wile's they fly from one store to up the strong need for an educational network here in Clark commented Superintendent Charles Spears of Pikeville registered his disappointment at the loss saying he had hoped valuable experience could be The proposed Kentucky Educational Television Network mentioned by the superintendents was approved by the 1962 General Assembly and calls for six production centers and 11 stations throughout the state Every area of the Commonwealth would be served by educational television with no foe being charged the schools The network is presently awaiting an apropriation by the legislature to enable it to become operational Jenkins superintendent Chester Sparks spoke on the advantages educational TV offers for small school systems and rural schools simply cannot present the courses on our own that we have access to through ETV In this instance we Just don't have the personnel to teach modem math on the plane television enabled us to present had planned to expand our use of the program this year" Sparks said now we have nothing nothing at another talking the while It is not enough that a mother make the circuit she is cajoled badgered and bargained with for an extra pinstriped shirt the wonderful plaid Jumper that is just a bit more expensive or a pair of wool Bermudas Sometimes parents lighten their job by letting brothers and sisters shop with each other for certain items The trio of Dwyer boys newcomers to Lexington from Massachusetts did part of their own shopping last week Bill a sophomore at Lafayette and Kevin who will be attending Jessie Clark conscientiously helped young brother John buy slacks Unlike mothers who pull and look at the length and want to know if they are big enough criteria was vastly less complicated they feel When John decided they did the wheatjeans were insack-under-arm in a matter of minutes As most people are never quite so happy as when doing for themselves particularly buying something to wear there is a happy air in the stores Merchants are delighted to welcome students whetting their appetites with handsome stylish outfits And today's I clothes conscious young people 1 ve the temptation One of the happier aspects of facing the end of another summer vacation Staff Pkata Shireene Edmundson and Janet Miller college freshmen from ML Sterling stroll down the street loaded with packages and their shopping jaunt had Just begun! ftlff PM Girls have as much fun shopping for a purse as for a dress Lois Cox (left) and Margaret Preston both Henry Clay sophomores investigated every purse on the shelf in the few minutes they stood there However WSAZ-TV a commercial station has been forced to drop in because difficulties in scheduling Superintendents in Eastern Kentucky school systems expressed chagin regarding the cancellation of the televised series comes as a real blow to said Paintsville Superintendent Oran Tester are now moving into a new elementary building which we had wired especially for educational television were counting on having this program he said that it is discontinued hoping that the State will move with dispatch to provide an educational television network for In the Ashland City Schools BOO youngsters were viewing the telecast regularly Superintendent Shattles stated that television sets had been installed in classrooms and preparations had been made for participation in the series again this year program was of great value to teachers and parents as well as the pupils in our effort to introduce modem Shattles said was enthusiasm and interest in instructional television and the cancellation of this program is a loss to thousands of youngsters throughout this entire region definitely feel that we ought to be thinking in terms of getting ETV here in Shattles said Floyd County Superintendent Charles Clark whose school system had 450 pupils participating in the program agreed with Shattles We have had to depend on commercial stations which cannot assure continuity for educational progrims This points Teacher Dropout The high dropout rate among teachers must be reduced before any headway can be made in ending the student dropout problem This was reported through a study conducted by Stanford University Evidence revealed that more than half the teachers who receive teaching certificates in June will not be teaching two years from now Last year only 18 per cent of medical school graduates the lowest percentage In chose careers in general Staff Phats Re $395 NOTEBOOK It's got everything SJ69 SAGESER The first bushes Bruce tried pruning suffered the shaggy look more times than not Now two summers later he can clip shrubs with an adept hand staff pasts 250 Lime and in Southland It's down on the hands and knees to get flower gardens weeded Trip To The By Mowing Lawns Natural instinct tells most young fellows to develop a serious three or four month grass allergy when lawnmowing season rolls around If feigning illness doesn't succeed it is the perfect time to work on your general ability to make excuses Out on the northside however a teenager who seeks out several regular customers to serve in the liawthomcr Lane area As he watched his nest egg grow shades of frugality began to overtake him Every penny went into grass-cutting account and precious few ever escaped Bruce had decided to accumulate a goodly sum then really splurge in a first class way on something to splurge on" turned out to be the World's Fair The Bryan Station sophomore accompanied by his father took the train to New See TRIP TO Page 12 shaggy grass weed smothered flower gardens and straggly bushes He tackles these with lawn mower pruning shears grass clippers and a determined spirit Bruce Paul's concern for the condition of his neighbor's lawns is not stimulated by a horticultural interest but by that old American desire for extra money Two years ago Bruce decided to bolster his weekly allowance by mowing lawns It was a lucrative move Soon he had CITIZENS UNION OFFERS AN EASY WAY TO SAVE TIME AND TROUBLE last day for changes in With our Bank-By-Mail service you can do your banking whenever you please and even without leaving home We provide complete Bank-By-Mail supplies including special mailing envelopes When your envelope is ready you can give it to your mailman or drop it in any mail collection box This is lots easier than fighting traffic and think of the time you save too! 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