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VOfe lh v. WHY CAN'T READ European Classrooms Way Ahead How well do children read? Much has heen said on this subject, and now Kudolf Flesch, who has established himself as an authority on reading and writing, romes up with a hard-hitting book on "Why Johnny Can't Read." Presented in condensed form by the Free Tress, the following to the seventh in a series of articles based on the book. BY KUDOLF FLESCH If you are a mother and have a child in second or third grade who can't read and spell, sooner or later you'll go to the school and complain that your child isn't taught the letters and sounds. You'll then be told, one way or the other, that phonics is utterly out of date just wait, and your boy or girl will suddenly catch on. But if your child is in first grade, the answer you'll get will he considerably shorter, strongly re HOURS ARE LONG for the family of Gloria Jean Singleton, crippled Kalamazoo schoolgirl, who has been missing since Monday afternoon.

Left to right are Mary, Storm Lashes State; Father, Son Killed 2 Under Tree Hil bv Boll; Tornado Alert Called Off 4 1 i 1 1 i I v-- 1 sembling: a brushoff. The teacher will tell you, with a. rather indulgent smile: "He isn't ready, you know." When you get to the subject of "readiness," you approach the holy of holies, the inner sanctum of the whole "science" of reading. In each of the fat tomes on how to teach reading, pages and pages are filled with rrofund discussions of what makes a child ready for reading, when does he get readv, how to tell whether he is or A father and son were killed down when lightning hit a tree dav afternoon during the thunderstorm that swept wide areas in the state Tornado warnings were issued by Weather Bureau, but the 14; 13; the mother and Singleton; Chuckie, 5, and searched for the child until and a second son was knocked under which they stood Tues- condition soon disappeared. Victims of the bolt were Herman Monk.

and his son. Herman, 19, of a Bengal Township farm family in Clinton County. The other son, Edwin, was not injured. Monk had three other children. I1KTKOIT LAV outside the tornado warning area.

But it was hard hit by the thunderstorm. The storm, accompanied by high wind in late afternoon, brought early darkness to the city. Street lights went on before 5 p.m. Many who came to work without raincoats were drenched. Fallen trees, limbs and wires 'caused traffic snarls in scattered sections.

DETROIT FIREMEN made 37 runs during the storm, three to houses struck by lightning where damage was minor, one not, how to speed him up or slow him down, what to do with him before he get3 ready, how to instill readiness, how to make it grow, how to use it, treat it, protect it, diagnose it, improve it, ripen it, and direct it. Deep mystery covers this whole recondite subject, and work has been "going on for decades to explore its inner father, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Stevie, 7. More than 1,000 darknpss Tuesday.

Ford Offer Expected Thursd ay Reportedly Includes Its GAW Version BV ROBERT FKRRIX Fr lres Labor Wrilr The Ford Motor Co. will make a major counter-proposal Thursday to the UAW (CIO) demands for guaranteed annual wage and other economic-benefits, it was learned Tuesday. The "package" offer is reported to include Ford's version of thi GAW, key point in new contract negotiations which started April 12. The T'orrl offer also is expected to contain answers to other union demands, including a general wage increase. Neither company nor union officials would comment on the major development which canceled talks scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

Ford Local 600 said Tuesday night 45,458 members of the union voted to authorize a strike if necessary to support bargaining demands. A total of 46.600 voted. KEN BAXXO.V, director of Turn to Tage 2, Column 4 1 i 8-Year-Old Vanished Monday 1.000 Join Search In Kalamazoo BV FRANK BECKMAN Free Fms Staff Writer KALAMAZOO Hopes of finding Gloria Jean Singleton alive waned Tuesday night as darkness forced an interruption in a mass hunt for the eight -year -old lame girl who disappeared Monday en route home from school. Capt. Riley Stewart, head of Kalamazoo detectives, dejectedly said "I think the chances she Is dead are greater than those that she is Stewart said he was directing his men to press the hunt on the presumption the child is the victim of a sex fiend.

HE WAS questioning a 17 year-old suspect, but so far has ilearned nothing from him about 'the child's disappearance. Approximately a thousand persons have taken part in the mammoth hunt. Earlier Tuesday the searchers sloshed through mud and water seeking a clue to the whereabouts of the pert, friendly second-grader, crippled by rheumatic fever. But there was no trace of the brown-haired, brown-eyed girl. She was last seen wearing a pink plaid dre.s.

The parents. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Singleton, could offer no explanation for their youngest girl's disappearance. But they said she was overly friendly.

They were positive, however, that Jeannie, as sh was called, would not have entered the car of a person unknown to her. "I had warned her too many times against such a said the mother. Mrs. Dorothy Singleton, 32. Her husband, Steve, 41.

nodded. BF.CAt'SE of her lameness, Jeannie frequently found ths long, steep hill to the family's two-story white frame home too much for her. She would stop midway and rest on the curb. It was on "the trek up the I hill that Jeannie was last 9een Turn to Page. 3, Column emotionally," said the mother.

"But she was so tired when she walked home." Jeannie was left with a distorted right instep by rheumatic fever and walked on her right toes. She had a pronounced limp and found it difficult to keep up with other children. The family could not afford an orthopedic shoe prescribed for Jeannie, the mother said. Jeannie "was wont to poke along" when walking home, stop- FlnS 0 mother said. The mother told of how Jeannie enjoyed being sick.

It began when she was struck with rheumatic fever four years ago. "She loved taking medicine and going to a doctor. Earn he bas actual- played sick just to visit ths doctor Just hked being th 1 center of attention, even to in sisting on saying grace the table." i U.S. Clears Most Serum Released No Fresh Vaccine Approved, However WASHINGTON The Government declared Tuesday night that all Salk polio vaccine which has "already been used or recleared" for use has proved safe, except possibly two of nine batches produced by Cutter Laboratories. However, there was no indication when new shipments would be cleared.

Fifty-six cases of paralytic polio have occurred among children inoculated with Cutter vaccine, and Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele said there was "strong presumptive evidence that there was a cause and effect relationship between the cases and the two lots of Cutter vaccine out of the nine released." However, officials said It was not definitely proved that the vaccine was the cause of the polio. They said some cases may have occurred naturally. Since all the Cutter vaccine has been withdrawn, the statement Tuesday night had the effect of giving a clean bill of health to all vaccine already administered to children, or recleared for use after a recent halt in the vaccination campaign. AT FIRST the Public Health Service seemed to go further and approve all vaccine now in the hands of manufacture awaiting Government clearance.

Dr. Scheele's statement said: "Vaccine produced by all manu- Fear first Michigan child receiving shots has polio Fage 4. Drew Fearson says Parke-Davis was only firm risking funds on Salk Page 16. facturers has been proven to be safe except possibly the lots of Cutter vaccine." A few hours later, however, the Public Health Service rushed out a clarifying statement. It said Scheele's "statement applied only to those vaccines which Shave already been used or recleared.

An announcement concerning lots of vaccine which are 'awaiting clearance can be ex-'pected soon." No clearances have been granted since May 15, when a Turn to Fage 4f Column 1 Slate Names Advisory Unit On Vaccine From Our I.aninir Biirmn LANSING With supplies of Salk polio vaccine remaining for only 40.000 inoculations. Gov. Wiiliams Tuesday named an ad visory committee to co-ordinate Michigan program witn me Federal Government. Williams acted on advice of Dr. Albert E.

Heustis, State health commissioner. There have heen administered onlv 325,000 doses and 15,000 second doses to first and second grad ers in Michigan. SOME OF the 40.000 remaining shots will be used for makeup clinics. The rest will be used in areas where schools close first. Dr.

Heustis will head the ad visory committee. Others on it are Dr. Kenneth M. Johnson, of Lansing, representing state doctors; Dr. Joseph A.

Walker, Royal Oak osteopath; Dr. Joseph G. Molner, Detroit health commis- i sioner; Robert Kugel, of Grand a i representing pharmacists; Mrs. George Cook, of Ionia, i woman's advisor of the National Polio Foundation; Mrs. Margaret Price, of Ann Arbor, chairman of the State Youth Commission, and Miss Caroline Brown, Calhoun County health officer.

i I 1 of" a gar-Re hit by ihtning and Ike's Veto On Mail Pav Sustained Senate Vote Is 5 1-39 In Bid to Override WASHINGTON The Senate upheld President Eisen- hower's veto of the 8.6 per cent postal pay increase Tuesday in a vote billed as a possible guide to his attitude toward a second term. Before the climactic vote in a crowded chamber, some Eisen-Ihower hackers passed the word jthat if Republicans deserted the President in sizable numbers on issue, he might figure it was hardly worth running again in 1956. THK VOTK on a motion to-override the 'veto was 54-39 in favor of the bill, eight short of the two-thirds majority required nice locHslatinn without the President's signature. The mea- sure thus was killed. n.u: stood bv Mr.

Eisenhower on the issue. They were joined by two Democrats. Senators Byrd and Robertson of Virginia. Forty-six Democrats and Eight Republicans voted to override. The Republicans were: Senators Capehart I Duff Kuchel Margaret Chase Smith Langer and Young (N.D.), Ma-lone (Nev.) and Welker (Idaho).

Two other Republicans. McCarthy and Wiley (Wis.) and one Democrat, Murray did not vote but were announced as in favor of the motion to override. SENATOR MrXAMARA Mich.) voted to override the veto, but Senator Potter Mich.) voted to sustain it. The original Senate vote on the bill was 66-11 on May 4. Prospects for a smaller wage increase for the Government's .500.000 postal workers re-i mained bright, however.

Senator Carlson Kan.) immediately offered a substitute bill which he said "I know will be approved" by the President. It provides for an 8 per cent average raise retroactive to March 1 and corrects some of the salary "inequities" to which Mr. Eisenhower objected. I senator johnson S.C), chairman of the Postoffice Committee, also proposed what he called "another Democratic compromise plan." It is the isame as Carlson's except that it! doesn't contain the job reclassi- fication features the Administra-i ition wants. I Mr.

Eisenhower vetoed the bill because, he said, it would create new inequities in the Postoffice i Department without correcting old ones and would cost too much I i A GRAHAM SLIP Tithes Waiter For a Bishop EDINBURGH. Scotland (P) Billy Graham told 3.000 Scottish churchmen Tuesday night he couldn't tell the difference between a hishap and a waiter. The American evangelist said he was a guest at a banquet in Holyroodhouse Palace Monday night and met so many dignitaries and titles he didn't know to whom to bow. "I bowed to one gentleman," he said, "and shook hands and said 'How do you do, Your "The other man stuttered a little and said 'I'm your 2 Dogs and Horse illed $200,000 ST. LOUIS (P) Two dogs and a horse have been left the income from a trust under terms of the will of their mistress.

Mrs. Edna Stocke Foster-man, of suburban Ladue. left the income of another $200,000 trust from her $1,427,805 estate to her 67-year-old husband, Harry B. Fosterman. ToTourTLS.

TOKYO () Eleven leaders. of the Japanese steel industry will leave May 31 for a six-week tour of steel plants in the united States. You'll Find: i N. Carolina To Rcgiilalc Vnlo Industry Tne RALEIGH. N.

Legislature enacted a law Tups day to regulate the auto industry in North Carolina. The law gives broad powers to the State Motor Vehicles Com- missioner. AH ailtC All auto salesmen, dealers and representatives of distributors nd manufacturers must apply 'for licenses. He may refuse licenses or he may suspend or revoke for cause those already issued. THF; LAW goes into effect July 1.

The bill had the V-i Vrtvth ro rnl i a A ntnmnhilp Deaers Association. Some of ils provisions are aimed at protect-J ing the dealers from being over-I loaded with cars by manufac- turers. Shorts Fall Under Edicts Vice Squad Lt. Wilton Shaw ruled that his San Antonio (Tex.) policemen cannot wear Bermuda shorts and knee-length socks. Detectives Frank Lombadino and Chesley Jones appeared in the shorts, but 'not for work.

Clarence Breithaupt. principal of an Oklahoma City high school, ruled that students in his school cannot wear Bermuda shorts. Three students, including a football player and a husky six-footer, had reported to classes Monday in the shorts, one a bright orange and yellow combination. Jijjf Toddler 1 JljC ef rrit III viaitl It FLINT Pamela Myers, 2, youngest of five children of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Myers, drowned Tuesday when she fell into a cistern under the porcn of her parents' home at G-6225 S. Vassar. I '0111 MnkPS upport Flesch recesses. One "authority" in fact went so far as to devote a whole book to the subject of "reading readiness." 1 went through that whole book in search of a definition of readiness," being- sincerely curious to know what was meant by the word. There was no definition to be found.

SINCE the experts don't seem able to help us, I'll offer Readers praise and assail Flesch's theories. Fage 15. my own definition. "Reading readiness" means the readiness of the teacher to let the child start reading. If ever there was an example of reasoning in a vicious circle, this is it.

You take a six-year-old child and start to teach him something. The child, as often happens, doesn't take to it at once. If you use a common-sense approach, you try again and again. Exert a little patience Turn to Tage 'Z1, Column 1 Hesse Bans Reich Vaccine WIESBADEN, Germany (U.R) The Hessian State Interior Ministry Tuesday banned the German-developedBehring anti polio vaccine pending the results of tests. The vaccine, believed similar to the Salk vaccine developed in the United States, has been used to inoculate German children since shortly before the Salk serum was released.

The ban is understood to have been imposed after negative results were observed in animals used in periodic checks. Lady Grapples With Her Career CHICAGO (U.R) Ada Ash, a lady wrestler, had two obstacles in pursuing her profession the Illinois Supreme Court and her family. The Supreme Court ruled she had the right to become a professional lady wrestler. She had a father and three brothers "who thought I was too frail, so I beat 'em all up." AND WALKING TIRED HER She Loved Affection GirVs Mother Says Special to the Free Prem KALAMAZOO Gloria Jean Singleton's for af- 'fection may have led her into the hands of a person with levil intentions, her distraught mother said Tuesday night. tering wires.

A Dearborn house also was struck and lightning knocked out. traffic signals at three busy intersections during the rush hour. Street lights were blacked out in a 10-square-block area when a transformer was hit in Dearborn. The tornado warnings were issued in midaftemoon for an 1 area 100 miles wide on both sides of a line from Fort Wayne, to Youngstown, O. The threatened area included the southern parts of Monroe and Lenawee I counties.

A SECOND warning was issued an hour later, this time for a large section of the Lower Peninsula bounded by Grand Haven, a point 30 miles south of Jackson, Kalamazoo and Saginaw. Downpours and high winds swept over most of the area but no heavy damage was reported. The thunderstorm In Detroit broke on a steaming, muggy day. The temperature reached 83 degrees and the humidity made it seem higher. THE WEATHER Bureau fore cast showers ending during the night and a low temperature of 55, Cloudy and cooler was the outook for Wednesday with temperatures for the remainder i0f the Week expected to average four to five degrees below the n0rmal 72.

At the height of the storm In Detroit, a huge elm was blown across the northbound Ian of Southf ield between Turn to Page 2, Column 1 "She just loved attention and would strike up a conversation 'with the mother said. The mother's pastor, relatives and family surrounded her in the modest home in an older resi dential section. "Sometimes she would come home and tell me about a nice lady or nice man buying her an ice cream rone," she said. "I talked to her several times about it, but neer spanked her because I didn't want to teach her to distrust anybody." Mrs norothv Sineleton would not rule out the possibility thatj Jeannie could have gotten into ja stranger's car. "She just migiit; have," she said.

THE MOTHER explained that: because of Jeannie's lame leg the four-block uphill walk home irom scnoni was parucumny 1 hard for her and that frequently neighbors or persons who knew her would drive her home. "The other children didn't make fun of her affliction, and her lameness didn't bother her Amusements 14 Astrology 17 Bridge 22 I)ay in Michigan 38 Prew Pearson 16 Editoriali 8 Financial 29-31 Movies 31 Radio and Television 37 Sports 25-28 Want Arts 32-36 Weather Map 3 Women's Pages 18-21, 23 TO HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED TO TOFR HOME PHONE WO 2-8900 an estimated 179 million dol- lars a year. He wanted some thing in the neighborhood of a 7Vi per cent increase. LIMA, Peru (IP) Peru felt 1 three earth tremors Sunday and 'Monday but none caused casual-j i ties or damage. 1.