THE NOME NUGGET
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Eiiiwed as second slaaa matter October 14, 1943. at the
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School Twelve Months a Year . . •
TVELVE MONTHS OF SCHOOL. It’s a tax payer’s
dream, says Dr. Leslie Nason, Professor of Edu
cation of the University of Southern California who
advocates that year round mileage out of schools we
have is more feasible and practical than building more
schools.
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He thinks it will work and that the need is not
more classrooms, but better, more intelligent use of
the classrooms we have.
Teachers cost $30,000 each to produce — should
their talents be wasted three months of the year, when
we need to speed up education at this time of crisis?
(We quote from Nason:)
High school education now is geared to pre
pare students for college. Is college the best for all of
these students? Of course not. Maybe a comibination
of school and work experience in which a portion of
the school attends class while the rest gain practical
experience in jobs would keep our classrooms in use
the year around and best serve our youth.
Too often youngsters bored with school just it
and tune out the teacher. Don’t think they don’t. We
teachers know they do. They would be better off work
ing profitably with their hands and heads. And other
students in the class would profit by their absence.
Santa Barbara County in California has been a
forerunner this study-work program. Youngsters at
tend school for a few months, then go out to work in a
variety of jobs: typists, store clerks, stock boys, me
chanics. Schools and community cooperate. Students
are helped in making their choice of life work. Then,
refreshed by this work experience and perhaps the
thrill of having earned money of their own, they come
back to school with stronger goals and are better stu*
dents. Some colleges including Loma Linda (Calif.)
Medical College and Antioch College in Ohio have
used the system for years. . yfcttK,
Our high school system, with its emphasis on
subject matter, was devised at the turn of the century
when students fortunate enough to get into high
school confidently expected to go on to college. Not
any more. Many of our (high school students will not
get to college. They are financially, physically or per
haps mentally or emotionally not college material.
Let’s give them all the help we can in making a good
life for themselves. Let’s devise something better for
them than stuffing classroom type education down
their throats — or into their ears.
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Year-round use of schools is a community ohal- |
lenge. Communities differ, by climate, location, in*
ferests, opportunities. Parents, PTA’s, youth groups
well may consider the problem.
Shall it be:
Three “semesters” per year?
Four (terms a year?
Or, a complete revision, with some short and long
terms?
In Nome seasonal workers could have their chil
dren in school whole they work and then the family
could return fto their village homes for part of fhfe •
year. Other families could gear their vacations dur
ing the Winter when the travel traffic is not so heavy.
It might work in Nome. ' f
League of Women Voters
Mark Anniversary Of
Women’s Suffrage Act
Because Alaska was granted
full suffrage to women in 1913,
the Alaska senators were invited
recently to participate in a sur
prise ceremony honoring Sen. Carl
Hayden of Arizona, who is the
only legislator still in Congress
who voted for the 19th Amend
ment.
The ceremony, planned fry the
League of Women Voters of the
United States, honored not only
Sen. Hayden but marked the 42nd
anniversary of the passage by
Congress of the amendment. Alas
ka granted full suffrage to women
in 1913, six years before congres
sional passage of national suff
rage. Fifteen other areas had
acted affirmatively for their own
states prior to that date, and all
senators from those states were
asked to participate in the event.
Wyoming while still a territory
granted full suffrage in 1868, fol
lowed by Colorado in 1893, Utah
and Idaho in 1886,'Washington in
1910, California hi 1911, Kansas,
Arizona and Oregon in 1912,
Montana and Nevada in 1914, New
York in 1917, and Michigan, Okla
homa and South Dakota in il91S.
Callup of Reservists
Has No Exemptions
For College Students
WASHINGTON Uh — The call
up of National Guard, Army re
servists and Air Force reservists
provides no exemptions tor college
students, a Pentagon spokesman
said Saturday.
However, the Navy has taken
steps to ease the impact on some
of its reservists who are faced
with a conflict between active
military duty and schooling.
A Navy spokesman said re
servists who have been accepted
for the coming sfall semester in
colleges will be eligible for de
ferment from active duty, with
some limitations depending on be
ginning dates for semesters and
| other factors.
NOTICE
Whenever the Police Cars or
Fire Trucks have engaged their
Red flashing lights or sirens —
or when our Fire Sirens are or
have sounded. ALL cars MUST
pull to the right side of the street
and STOP until after Hie emer
gency vehicle has passed ... in
case it is a Fire Call. ALL ear*
should REMAIN STOPPED until
Volunteer Firemen have had time
to arrive at the Fire; thereafter.
ALL cars must yield right-of-way
for approaching Firemen. These
vehicles shall identify themselves
by a continuous blowing of the
born. Wo repeat — even if you
are several blocks away os ap
proaching the EMERGENCY VE
HICLE and you hear the siren or
see the Hashing red warning tight
PULL TO THE SIDE OF THE
ROAD AND STOP . . . STOP 1
Your Police and Fire Dept, will
always use descxetion in applying
emergency signals . . . Please do
your part by respecting these
warning signals and STOP. Re
porting the license numbers of
these vehicles failing to stop will
further asist us in handling this
problem.
R. W. Oliver.
Chief of Police
A Fixe Departments
Letter-siae and legal file lotoses
at The Nugget •
Students to
Face Space-Age
Science Courses
WASHINGTON UR — Renewed
emphasis on reading, writing and
’rithmetic, and a rapid spread in
foreign language teaching, space
age science and how-to-study
courses.
That will be the pattern in
many public schools this fall when
more than 37 million pupils return *
to the classroom.
A survey by the National Edu
cation Assn. (NEA), released re
cently, indicates that grade schools
and high schools from coast to
coast are adding a fourth 4 —
“rigor” — to the curriculum.
The survey doesn’t necessarily
indicate a trend. But some of the
examples cited should please even
the most bitter of those critics
who call American education soft.
In Davenport, Iowa, for in
stance, English classes for all 7th
and 8th graders will be extended
fro 46 to 92 minutes a day.
In Beverly Hills, Calif., stu
dents in grades 7 through 12 will
be expected to write least one
theme a week. Auburn, N. Y..
plans increased emphasis on
teaching pupils to write — anrf so
does Harvey, 111., and Mt. Le
banon, Pa.
A poor reader is inevitably a
poor learner. Many schools this
fall will introduce special courses
to meet this problem.
Cheyenne, Wyo., hopes to identi
fy potentionally poor readers as
early as kindergarten. Many cities
will offer remedial reading courses
all the way through grade school
and high school.
Mt. Vernon, N. Y., has gone a
step further with a course in the
arithmetic of flying, designed to
show the new importance of
mathematics in the space age.
Most educators agree that many
college students flunk out in their
freshman year only because they
don’t know how to study. This
year, for the first time in the an
nual NEA survey, many high
schools reported they plan special
courses to meet this problem.
CASTRO PRAISES QUADROS
HAVANA m — Primes Minis
ter Fidel Castro said Saturday
that Brazilian President Janio
Quadros’ resignation resulted from
“a treacherous stroke of im
perialism’s paw.” He praised
Quadros as one who “firmly and
tenaciously defened Cuba against
U. S. interventionist policy.”
Castro said in a statement that
in Quadros’ resignation “the
Americas lose one of the staunch
est suporters of the principle of
self-determination.”