Concord Monitor from Concord, New Hampshire • 14

i COW CORD MONITOR WSdnaaday July 25 1914 'I I Weather Mondale Reagan Planning Surprise loSndiliie iSLnuoov1 re- CoidT day thh month to WQWi a Reagan- vhj we are not going to destroy fee safety net lor thorn people who through no fault of their owe muet depend on mu he added But 6e refund to nopond (Hrectly to questions about whether apedflc progerams euch ao Medicare and 'farm price eupporta atari be trimmed Although Reagan nth intention to cut federal i i rataraaa bib qm deralapendliig In general and affirmed again his aupportfor wnatltaitinnal mwiAmiiI mandating a balanced budget he several times skirted questions about what specific cuts he would favor Ferraro's nomination In recognition of the i of women that has been long Reagan denied that remarks he made In a recent speech to elected Republican women officials about had been aimed at Ferraro He said that the speech had been wrttr roanpml ten before Ferraro nomination and that he had been praising the emergence of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as head of the Conservative Party of England saying that there was tokenism or lymboUsm" about her rise to power was talking about Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party of the president said dktat have Ms Ferraro in mind Asked about a remark earlier in the jblican campaign official that Ferraro7 candidi- cy would be a Reagan replied touch that question with a 10-foot He added have never been one to campaign against opponents I prefer to GUNFUNT LAKE Min (AP) -Walter Mondale ie hoping to recapture MuMrilar art mkkUadass votes lor the Democreta thte fall by suggest- Im Mam Pm Ua-I km a IW lag that President Reagan has a tWIHf-iyvfcirWiw cember surprise" which he will announce after the'No-vember election Nearing the end of a week-long fishing vacation hi northeastern Minnesota the Democratic presidential m-im 'sounded themes certain to be heard once serious campripriiig begins after Labor Day Mondale said he took a break from fishing to watch news confer-ence last night on television been hearing fish stories all Mondale said in a statement tonight Mr Reagan told a Mg Mbndale noted that Reagan first said -there would be no tax Increases needed to offset deficits of 9M0 billion or more annually but then set out conditions under which bigger tax revenues might teiMdod Reagan Mondate said also campaign on our record what done and what we intend to do and the way going to conduct myself in this Buttfae can have president I basis said think Democratic basis in He you kit that Ms budgbt policies had hurt the poor and brushed aside a poor si by Ferra OuisUan1 suggerikm Ferraro that he was not a because of those poUdea minute I heard toe made that COMPUTERS (Continued FVom Regal) do some i The Houghton Mifflin software is the only material that works on the Rainbow right now but Digital represents-fives promised that more materials are on the way Mary Haight state sates repreaenta-five for Digital said the company would take any software that educators said needed and either find a way of it work on the Digital machine or find another program that will do the same job John Bowles school marketing manager for Digital said that sometime after September the company will have a version of the popular Logo computer You Could Use Some Help The Computer Said The Forecast Sunny and mid this afternoon I imy and mid this afternoon hteht 80 (27 C) Moody dear tonight In dw tower teaming doiidtooaa tomomwv with a to percent chance of afternoon duet htahe in to aouthwae- the upper 70a Wamady to aouthwas-tariy wmda to mph (8 to 24 kph) mvimmoon ubr vwnoi cwwijni Light Local Data Highaat tamp yeatantoy 86 (30 C) Lowest temp ma morning S3 (12 C) Maan tamp yesterday 74(23 C) Normal mean ramp a) 121C) Ewaaa in tamp Me month IB Warmeat day this month 91 (33 C) 15th CHANNEL 21 (Oantteued From Bags 1) aquare-feet of tapping malls nursing homos throughout New and It owns several businesMO in Nashua tadudhig the Sheraton Tara Hotel Royal Crest Garden shopping mall and apartment bulldima tms does indteate an kinrsifii interest on the part of the Flattey Co la expanding its businem holdings in New said David Elton a vice president of Flattey Co who represented the company it a press confer- ence held by the i Elton arid Flattey was reviewing ssses with other New Hampriiire burinesocB an of gram Channel 21 la the first media acquH- Flattey has desired for a number of years to be involved in the media business" Elton said Flattey plans to help set the direction and become involved in its operation as Ma iil prnilh BHim 1H The sale requires approval by the SUNUNU rOmttauadPtanRggn l) (he expanding economy tenth low unemployment and i conris- growing nWe have a broad-based tax in New eaDed the property tax ofaU been and the crudest tax McEachem told reporters lot of people point to our phenomenal growth as an example of justifying unfsir tsx system but really when you look st the growth its concentric circles from Boston a function of geography it font a function of our tax system" still think the goal Is try and bring that unit ta at 641 (WUon) or 84-2 (bUUon)ao that the consumer tridy gets the benefits of what I think is a constructive managerial change at Public Sendee that understands bow you bring thfi faHHHw in on wmt ana at esu- matoH mIH latest conversations had is that 84J (Mllion) Is stffl a possibility and I hope they use that as a target even though they have made a step in the rigM direction ta capping at 645 (trillion)" McEachen the Saw brook coot cap as evenrfimet butitdoesn riving us a promise they had to calm our srirtts hut it addreoa the problem McEachen hao "uMiImh for months that Pririlc Service rixxdd reor ginise its eompamr under the provisions of bankruptcy law Airlines did It and lowered their ticket prices ThnYe back Id the air The purooae of the oanknqitay law ta to give tne debtor a freeh start and what PubUe Service needs is afresh start without In hte luncheon address to a group of about 90 Rotarlans Sununu spoke of the Coinuaiatlwo temporal! mynHi iwmwnri towoat today 44 1 Degree Day 9 ooolng Total praoip yeatarday zero Total pradp Ihla month 3A4 Excoaa of pradp Ihia month 171 Sunriae tomorrow a Sunaat tomorrow 15 pjn Length of ky MhounbtonWwtei Phaaa of moon new on dw 2Bdi Pntamouth tidaa tomorrow High Low 3:47 The National Weather Service fanttd-caatt weather totonnadon condnuoudy at 18240 on the high frequency FM band from Concord Federal Oommunlcationo Oommterion which Flton nM tan1 45 and 90 days Under FOC rules protective buyers are not allowed to adviae or wwMwwit about staff changes and Elton said none were being planned Chamd 2Ts employees were tad of the before Own sate shortly before Elton described Hatley as a famffy commitment mas with a strong- lie service but no attraction to i has not been an active in poUtiaart has not run A Boston Herald profile of Flattey published early this summer paints Mm as a Horatio Alger success story Flattey came to the United States from a fanntoCourriyMayoIrdand in 1160 at age 18 He i in Ms pocket After working menial Jobs he married and began an electrieal tastaRaUon and refrigeration business as a one- man onwJeep company By 1959 be had djt employees and a company tag 6750900 a year la lfTJt hto 1 fortune was estimated to be 1 650 mflUon and $75 mOBou of Mi lint term and 18 month! ago when I the took office 16 flpaoch and conference that foDowedi were filmed by screw shooting footage for posstte to future csmpslgi advertisements In the past year and a half New average unemptoymrat has been the tewestm the nsdonwMte the rate of growth In Income has been the higbeM New Ham 1 Hamphlra oodUdum to attract buatnenes from oUmt atrtf and could be on the verge of another wnnnmlf hnnnSunniMM He reminded the ooup that Ms bud-I me stated 640 mU-lofat get bad dimtaated me stated 640 Don deflett and produced a surokw least $10 million while tacreani state services ill without the Nmf of a sales or Income tax tea aoUdtunaraoundit was dona wnnin tno ooQitratnti oc ino in tun that we have and it was tngy meeting our ih that otate hadnrrived without a sales or to-come tax largely at the expenre of its schools New numbs ranktag ta SAT i education baa not been neglected ai-pnuN oo though the governor more are to famrove hattealn quality of education for what I the first Qme tea long time we have the reooureea available not to aet ta crisis not to juri flgM the Area of fi nancial need but to an agenda that has abortion to look towardthefutura topregraai are even farther from where wo Shortly beta thepodfum to speak the restaurant fllekered ouL failure lasted about a minute hmpened? a man asked IcSwviceji up to tathe juri went bmtenqri" By ANDY COURT lfanttori Staff Writer A student selects his math lesson The orange print on the computer screen says are 213 bikes parked in the playground 75 are Mue 86 are white The not are gn Can the number of strikes be course he says He writes and pushes the return key The coumut--er however responds with help loryou because even though this is a fourth-grade program and the student is a coUege graduate he Is wrong He cannot And the number of boys riding white bikes only the number of white bikes parted in the playground To help the student see his way the computer responds with some leading the oof questions much Ufa the kind teae graduated mother asked long ago before he forgot how to read word carefully prob- lems "Tbe computer is reacting to your answers" explained John Kalinowski a salesman tor Houghton Mifflin Co He was demonstrating a scaled-down version of the company's software Right now these 190 disks tor reading the only programs that work on Dig- language ai jAyarinnil ital Equipment Rainbow eom-r Through i a deal arranged fiy Gov Sununu and Digital school districts throughout tbe Kate may buy the computers at a discounted rate receiving a least one computer for every third-grade through sixth-grade Invented by MIT professors who created a computerdtoected turtle Logo has been successful in introducing students in early grades to geometric concepts and to conqwter programing The Driscoll students instruct a turtle now to mo around Uie screen art create design move At the Oxford Digital cord on Central America Reagan aaid that Mondale and the Democntaet i either do not understand the Communist A Ait tiinfttuKn toning said that rixtamortant MBs ImM niH1 Ka uj mull aWa include proposals for the Constitution to mandate Us expanding Irttvldn-Aceounts for nowworfc-creating Incentives for te- in 75 to create Jobs and aid cities granting hd- rtmkUfrto- tlon tax credits for low-and i who send thdr chldren to an antkrlme package restrictions on ball and restrictor laws come parents wh private schools i to provide restrictions on ball an quire tougher sentondngand sb enforcement of thug trafficking 1 and an equal access MU to permit student groiqis to use public Ugh ecfai for religious hours The teghlstlnn at teem Reagan de- whether the dared perfect test of 1 Democrats sic concerned about indue-log UMsCiiit rewanunf wort ana niniig and our dtloa and hoods safer and Increasing personal ltoertteothmughut our land He accuaea the House Democratic tesdenMp of being of an open wteue sr tt afraid of you American people grew up a laid Reagan who duumed his party affiUdon in 1962 Roosevelt party of HarryTniman wouldn't hide from responsibility behind llamentary procedures common sense reforms that our want from coming to a earefa project has nothing to do with putting computers in the schools and riie will abstain from voting on the issue If riie feds there isaconfltet of interest To buy the computers Concord would pay 657000 pirn $125 for every teacher trained Some printers and a set of 110 diskettes of software for each achool are included in the price 'Additional software such as the word processing programs would cost extra Before Sununu announced the deal Concord was planning to use 637600 of its Mock grant money to buy about rix era If It participates in the Dig- compute ttaldeal Ital deal and spndi an mmwhii 2Q-000 more it would receive about 85 computers according to mierintendent Mark Beauvais Concord administrators have described tt as sweet deal But others tadudhig the state School Boards Association nave been con- cerned that school districts that have already made a large to Apple or other types of should ifil- I still receive portion of plus sweepriakes money The governor has maintained amM- gnjrwthls point Former state comp- indwi Cornelius and others questioned whether file governor file authority to put eondtuons on i authority toput eonduono on state money distributed to achool districts On the other hand Sununu acknowledged last week that he was concerned more might jterid altfmi against the statewide deal if they knew tr would get the money either way Education cennnfenonfr Bnmeile said yesterday that the governor will go to the Legislature with a proposal far providing first graders seconacradars providingllnt graders secondjgraders and seventh through 12th graders with computers as welL hope the governor sticks to Ms said Cofswell He believes tewul hand i tegrthiT wd participate ta the program only if there a monetary incentive tor them to do so coo many benef from striewide te- a oama CbgnreD said every district can go oufandbiqrinAppteoraRadiqShaa van Anile down fiie ti the whole gram goes down of a statewide pro- California which indexes software re nals The office found a review to the March UBS tame of Ctaqputtag Teacher by Judith Beckermen a pafaUe school teacher ta CommackN She wrote students have used In materiam for two and a half Dolphta yean on a regular baste and not one younmter hasTalled to gain aomethtag from 'totoncfing wtth thte NO PRE PAYMENT PENALTY no Limit TELEPHONE APPROVAL 1st-2nd-3rd MORTGAGES that he would cut Medicare veterans Mondale has said that whoever is elected president win have to ask Congress lor a tan increase The former vice president has also said he Is esaiw Mug HnmfHf federal programs ----will have to be cut next year But Mandate said Reagan Is refusing to make pubHc Ms own proposals for easing the deficit and Is Instead a December surprise If he bm-riected" They include he said budget cuts and a tax increase that win sock the middle HecaUedonReagan to agree to (devised presidential debates where the two budgetary and tax plans could be arguea out before the American people don't want a fish story (before the election) said Mondale who tentatively plans to leave this lake reaort for htahome in North Oaks Mina Friday statement I turned the other Reagan said with a smite Then more seriously he declared: is not one single fact or figure to substantiate that charge" which he termed He said that when he took office In helping the needy was $47 1 and that now the figure had risen to about 184 billion are aiding more people and spending more money on those programs than nas ever been In an Interview yesterday before the meeting Anne Knight president of the New Hampshire Association for Computer Education Statewide explained why she opposes the Digital deal airedation iwpwnta about 900 educators who who share information about using computers in the Knight said the Rainbow computer is too complex for elementary nudmts that its selection of software is too limited and that teachers cannot be adequately trained In three days to uw the wiThlnw designed as a business computer Would you take a business computer and give ft to a third grader to die asked afraid these computers are going to be left on the shelves be- meeting however Francis superintendent of schools ta Mass said his dtstrict has used computers for four yean and nd mem magnlfi- He also praised the inriruetdn at 'Teacher Center FTench River 1 people who are going to bo woridng with your teachers are teachers be told the school officials Representafives of computer committee said they felt their questions particularly about software had been answered a ten of software for the Apple mid not ao much for the Rain- aaid principal Clint Cogswell BTlbeeon- if a market I version (of programs to the Rainbow) and some conversion M- ready begun" Asked about the Houghton Mifflin software Cogswell said fine software Cogswell said drill and practice tt goes from one skill to snother a good filing thing for the teachers to start on" Concord ochool board mwmiiiw wsi Brown said riie would like to see a written guarantee that the Houghton Mifflin software will scconqiHsti what tt says it will but die too favors the deal Brown is working this summer as a unpaid totem at Digital She said her re- ihf said Students ean for example he presented with problems that they must decide how to approach The computer totfaeirdec then responds to ta some good quality software reliable on the Apple computer and it run on the Knight said Some of criticisms could be applied to some of the Houghton Mifflin language arte material which ta rim- pier than the math programs Students are for example (frilled taputfizw an reoatwphe ta the correct place When they err the program basically trite them the rule again One Independent review of Houghton software comes from the San Mateo County Office of Education ta Word Processing Training It's fun it's fast if free Secretaries and typists conre register with Manpower Temporary Services After working approximately one month on various assignments you'll be eligible for FREE nands-on training on an actual ward processor Automation is here to stay Step into it the painless way Call for appointment The Houghton Mifflin materials involve mainly drill and practice of basic reading writing and math skills Students will be wing these machines to complitnenl their lessons The programs are more than just an expensive electronic workbook Kali-nowskl said you got the answer wrong ta a workbook nothing would lead the students sup by step toward can get it In the case of the wrong answer about Bowies alio said schools could buy two word promsing programs that work on the Rainbow Sessions to train teachers to use the computers will begin in mid-August according to commtarioner Ro bert Brunette Although achool boards id fntrif hmlprthy GODOOnl have not yet voted to buy Digital computers Brunette said he already has enough districts committed for the deal to go through is a BruneUe tokl the achool orndals not a question of to it going to happen or is it not going to happen going to happen You can partfcqiite If you want to and if you want to you your Asked bv one administrator whether school districts that decide not to parttc- ipMewouMstffl receive sporttooffiie surplus money BruneUe said no But Attorney General Gregory Smith whose office reviews the legality believes the who personally or-the has repeatedly yes or no thte fall At the wqy who have looked from Pena- rtude hrief jewwn be- tore they started the eswetees He atao they started the exercises He also liked the wsy the program responded when students made an error Ame Knight head of a statewide as-n of wnpup educators has not dosdy mmhMrf the UbteTbut available but feds that software available should do more than just drill and practice used skills Computer programs can he test dedskxHnaktag the white bicycles in the playground the computer asked many blue takes are parked ta the playground? The riudent typed fiw matt also ftgtiiigMoH the ta the ittag that one knows only about bow many bicydes are betas parked not how many were ridden by boys After a few questions like this the atthm machine returns the student to the wftwsre had taal problem and gives Mm another of such arrangements swer is yes Sununu deal avoided saying either work in their classrooms sooured ware win be on the The school officials Special Of The Week SNOW CRABMEAT 113 Qz Can While Supplies Last Afp-fo-Shon Seafood Car In Front Of St John's Church South Main St Concord Every Thursday 11 Quality Guaranteed bus's TurkwPfas Also AvaiMiii dunce At the end of the section the machine teUs fiw student the number of problems he got right the number he got wrong andfl after the machine gave him help At the end of me day Kalinowski said teacher could look at the restate tor each student and see who needed more work ta what skills KaUnowsU told achool officials during a meeting ta Laconia yesterday that (he Houghton Mifflin software will allow teachers to put the computers to Sidewalk Sale Continues Inside The Store With Savings Of 20 to 70 On Summer Merchandise cneuEtf raw ORTGAGELCO iW' i MANPOWER 0 "the complete outdoor out-flttets" cysii vaipjn TEMPORMY SERVICES 224-7115 MUhfM MWIi A I --1 J- or.