The Macon News from Macon, Georgia • 28

ix wunai euMMi to 2 The Macon New PHONE 5-2801 Monday xqyembeb 25 hs7 Is Russia Making Good Its Boast To Lick America In the Classroom? 80-Year-Old Actres Dies in Nursing Home EAST ISLIP Ethel Jack son 80 the actress who first play led the title role in The -Merry Widow on Broadway died Saturday I at the Percy Williams home Millions of American youths says Smith are being taught to Shark Removal drive cans weave baskets choose mates and behave grace-1 FALL RIVER Mass The fully gt a when they public works department suspected should be learning to solve a prank when It was asked to send quadratic equations conduct ex- a truck to remove a shark from periments in organic chemistry Main Street But when the truck or parse a sentence I reached the scene there was the Professional educators say these I feet long and weigh criticisms are ntemperate and un- pounds How it got there fair Most acknowledge a need for nobody professed to know some curriculum "adjustments" I to increase emphasis on science mathematics and other basic studies But they oppose sweeping changes -which would upset the of American education or deprive students of freedom to choose courses which meet their ndividual "life ONE PRICE TO EVERYBODY CHERRY ST WEATHER KOKNNe FORD in his Nov 14 broadcast that strengthening schools Is most critical problem" confronting the nation In Ha race with Russia for scientific and military supremacy 1 The President's warning since has been echoed by leading scl-entsts and eiducators and by ml-lions of parents who were concerned about the atate of our schools long before Sputnik I and II While everyone seems to agree that America needs better schools Unitd Press survey disclosed wide range of vievi on the kind pf Improvements most urgently needed Some critics are calling for drastic reforms In the content and philosophy of American education They say high school and college curriculums must be overhauled from top to bottom They would restore emphasis to solid intellectual achievement and the teaching of basic not only math and science but also history geography foreign languages English grammar and literature Rear Adm Rickover a noted atomic scientist said standards" must be raised sharply at every level of ducation He contends they havee become so lax that the average American college graduate has less real education than a graduate of European high schools Mortimer Smith executive secretary of the Council fqr Basic Education said schools are dominated by profcssoinal educa tors who turn a deaf earl to all outside criticism These professors he said are so bemused by their ''life-adjustment" theories of edn cation that they have sight of the real functions of a school present anr organized body of knowledge and teach children to use their minds effectively" RAIN IS EXPECTED tonight in Virginia and North Carolina while showers are forecast for western Washington and northwestern Oregon Snow will fall along the Canadian border from the Great Lakes 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ever have enough English round cellar with aye-lets Especially designed fee men with long necks $400 Talal aiaaa Jaa 1 Kanaal aiaca Jaa I RIVFRS Biasaa ai aai laday: flemalyrr: Macaa Hawkiaivltle Oaaaaai liillcdcevllle Dahlia Raaaaaak: Aafaila Lalaat raaUlnf at atkar aalata: Ormaliraa: Abbeville 4111 sue 1SS 111 lt1 114 1SS TS IS larWIa 11 Dectertewa S1 rilal: Albany 14S Oaaaaa: Ml Varaaa IS llaar farcaaat: ELEGANCE INTERNATIONAL In any gathering one of eur Manhattan Elegance International points out your pood tasta TAB A smell Tab cellar like this is best for dressy clothes $595 Circus Chimp Breaks Out For Stroll Around own By LOUIS CASSELS WASHINGTON I UP) Two years ago a high Soviet official told an American educator who was visiting Russia: not going to Tight a hot war with you We're going to lick you in the classroom" Few Americans were prepared In IKS to take this Soviet boast First of a Series aerously The Si school system despte its shortages of space and faculty was widely regarded then as the best in the world Russia was credited with few good technical schools but Us overaU educational system was considered rather primitive Three recent developments have shaken rudely such American complacency: 1 Disclosure that Russia Is training far more scientists and engineers than the United States Russian schools graduate 60000 engineers a year to our 34000 8a000 science to our 6000 2 Sputniks I and II blasted any notion that Russia is sacrificing quality for quantity in technical education 3 A Office of Education report showed that Russian students work much longer and harder and receive far more intensive training in science mathematics and languages than American students President Eisenhower had all of these facts in mind when he said New Station Goes on the Air newest radio station WCRY Wfcnt on the air for the first time at 7 am today The new statjon is located at 1230 Cowan Street and operates on a frequency of 900 kilocycles from sunrise to sunset daily according to Loudermilk owner Loudermilk said the 250-watt station will be beamed to a 28-county Macon retail trade area and is designed especially for Negro audiences He said the policy will be "to serve the Negro population In ail ways and to sponsor and promote programs of particular Interest to Negroes" Loudermilk came to Macon from' Atlanta where he had been chief engineer for station WERD He has also been affiliated with stations WEAS Atlanta WJIV Savannah: WGOV Valdosta WSWN Belle Glade Fla and KWEM Memphis Tenn Downing to Head Fitzgerald Group FITZGERALD Lowell Downing veteran member of the board of directors of the Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce has been nominated to succeed Paul Stone as president of tl yt organization for 1958 The nominatirg committee recommended the election of Mr Downing as president Mr Stone as first vice president and Albert Gelders as secretary in Its report to the board Nomination for second vice president wlU be made later The annual meeting has been scheduled for Thursday Jan 9 when Ivan Allen prominent state chamber executive will be the principal speaker New officers will be installed at that time Art SuppKos Pictures Pictures Framed Picture Frames Toys Games Books Office Supplies 357 COTTON AVC DIAL 5-5739 Suzy a big chimpanzee who Is due to star in the Shrine Circus opening in Macon tonight broke out of her cage and saw the town Sunday afternoon But the prospect of a good supper got her back In captivity again Local Shriners Macon police and Interested citizens helped chase Suzy after she bent her cage bars apart and set out at a- lope to see Poplar and New Streets The chasers had no luck catching her though and she climbed a pecan tree on Poplar Street and sat there She stayed in the tree until her caretaker arrive and gave the supper call That did it Down came Suzy ready to eat She and other members of the chimp act had arrived here by truck from Sarasota Fla and were being unloaded at the Macon Auditorium by Mr and Mrs TREE PAINTY INTRODUCTORY zi coupon na MARY CARTER PAINTS Frea aaa af aay famai with every aaa yea by Factory affer S4JS ay Award wlaaar PHONE 5-0967 1625 HOUSTON AVL Bfiid pw fHKfipthe iPROMPTICAREFUl COMPOUNDING a with Med colons Accuracy and Professional SkiU DRUG STORES SHRINE CHARITY CIRCUS 23rd YEAR Opens Monday Nov 23 Continues nightly through Thanksgiving Week Presenting 20 of the biggest most amazing and elaborate acts in show business gathered from the four corners of the earth TICKETS ON BALK XOW-04 Tears flaw Say Skilaef Macon City Auditorium Nst 25 throneh Nov 36 Daws open nightly at ADMISSION ONLY CENTS lame as In past years Next: A detailed comparison US a ad Soviet edneatiea Since 7903 'LUNCH DINNER LEU Post Office Alley YOUR HAPPr THANKSGIVING THURSDAY! 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Finding Wood SOUTH BURLINGTON Vt UP Glen Woodbury has given up dairy products and turned to wood After eight years of butter and cheese-making the fascination of wood-turning caught up with him and he decided to try earning a living at it Now 15 years later lie owns i fully-equipped two-story wood-turning shop He sells his products to approximately 500 department stores and gift shops in the United States and Canada "My biggest problem" Woodbury said finding real good wood woods like teak and mahogany are so high that I use them only on special orders' Most of his birch maple cherry and comes from Vermont But even native woods of fine quality are hard to find takes a big tree to make block 14 inches across and four and one-half inches Woodbury explained "The wood must be free of cracks knots and blemishes of any He estimates that half of the rough wood coming into his shop ends up as firewood for his two kilns A Look at Costs In Good Old Days PORTLAND Maine UP -trip through the childhood home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow here Is a quick course in early American economics It will make every penny-watcher and advocate of "the good old days" say "I told you In the record books are these Items indicating the cost-of-living scale In the early 19th century: It cost the Longfellow family $5 for fees to bring the future poet into the world In 1807 A term at Bowdoin College cost $8 for tuition His board bill at Bowdoin for 1314 weeks was $27 And room or as it was called then "chamber fees" cost $330 a term a Guide Maps Show Urban Renewal CHICAGO UP The "see-it-yourself system can be used when Inspecting urban renewal projects In Philadelphia Chicago and Denver Demand for guided tours of urban renewal areas in those cities proved too much National Association of Housing and Redevelopment officials reported so the cities prepared maps showing the urban renewal story Depicted are traffic Improvements slum clearance rehabilitation recreation facilities and housing problems yet to be solved The urban renewal sightseer on his own or with a group on a bus can take a map and be off The running commentary is right there prepared by the cities housing officials Cardinal Sets World Tour NEW YORK Lft-Francis Cardinal Spellman leaves Dec 16 on a flying 'round-the-world trip to pass the holiday season with men and women In uniform for the seventh consecutive year Cardinal Spellman archbishop of New York and Catholic military vicar to the armed forces plans a 33-day trip The 6S-yeai old prelate will go by air from one military installation to another The Maeoa Ncwa I laaued every vuk day afteranea Second dan mall privt-lefci authorixed at Macon Georgia 4 A INMFARR AT 7:00 10:10 Calling Homicide Today at 12 1:33 3:241 5:15 7:12 9:69 STARTS THANKSGIVING Songs fi Dances Gaiety Delight! 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