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SPEAKING OF DRAGGING ONE’S FEET
Khrushchev Speech Reveals Western
Agreement on Major World Problems
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW, HI—Nikita Khrush
chev said Saturday that Presi
dent Eisenhower and British
Prime Minister MacMillan agreed
with him that there should be a
summit conference “the sooner
the better.”
In a major foreign policy
speech before the rubber stamp
Soviet Parliament, Khrushchev
made no direct reference to
French President De Gaulle’s sug
gestion the conference be held
off until spring.
But the Soviet leader predicted
that bis forthcoming visit to
France would be useful for
France, for the Soviet Union and
for world peace.
Wearing a gray suit with his
usual medals, Khrushchev was
wildly cheered in his 1 hour, 42
minute speech covering the whole
* international range.
Among the major points he
made were:
Case of Pregnant Prisoner
Embarrasses Sheriff of
Tennessee County Jail
MEMPHIS, Tenn., HI — The
county jail’s embarrassing case of
the pregnant prisoner has been
kicked back to the sheriff by the
grand jury for “appropriate ad
ministrative action.”
The Shelby County Grand Jury
reported Friday it could find no
indictable offense but that two
deputies were intimate with Lela
Fay Flick, 22, who is serving one
to five years for robbery.
Mrs. Flick was jailed December
4. Physicians say she probably
became pregnant in February. Her
baby is expected within a few
days.
Sheriff M. A. Hinds said the
grand jury reported that concep
tion took place in a sheriff’s
squad car while Mrs. Flick was
being transported to City Hos
pital for examination. She was
taken on several such trips in
February.
1. Disarmament'is the most im
portant problem of the present
day and its settleemnt depends
whether there will be war or
peace. The Soviets want complete
disarmament but are willing to
consider other proposals.
2. The Soviet Union supports
Red Chino’s determination to take
Formosa “until the question is
solved.”
3. “We regret the incidents on
the Indian-Chinese frontier, es
pecially where they involved cas
ualties and wfe hope they will not
be repeated. We hope the diffi
culties will be solved by nego
tiations.”
4. His visit to the United States
convinced him the majority of
Americans do not want war and
he feels they now understand bet
ter the Soviet desire for peace.
6. He called for withdrawal of
foreign troops from South Korea
to speed unification of the
country.
7. He declared the Soviet Union
desired that not even the “mi
nutest hotbed of war” should re
main in Laos and said ‘foreign
countries ought not to interfere
because of possible “undesirable
results.”
Western diplomats were im
pressed by the mild tone of the
speech and pointed out to news
men that there were not attacks
on anybody, even West Germany,
a favorite whipping boy for the
Soviets.
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Getting Acquainted with Your School
(Today's editorial is by Superintendent of the Nome School
Conrad Potter, who is not only educating our children, but endeav
oring to make the adults of the community realize just what goes
into making a good school, and showing them what they should
know about their school and what it teaches. Next week is Education
Week, and every day this week there will be articles on the subject
in Mr. Potter's column, "Report Card."
THE REPORT CARD
READING . A
WRITING . A
ARITHMETIC . A
By CONRAD POTTER, Superintendent of Schools
W/HEN YOU ADD-UP September’s back-to-sehool activities, P-TA
meetings the year round, room mother program's, mother
daughter and/or father-son affairs, invitations to “come see our
art corner” — it’s pretty clear that if you don’t become acquainted
with your child’s school, it won’t be for lack, of opportunity.
Yet, judging from queries and comments that come into the
office, opportunities to get acquainted with the School do not neces
sarily result in parents knowing how to judge that School. The
question most often asked (outside of professional queries) remains:
“How can I tell if my child’s School is a good one?”
The fact that parents find that question a puzzler is well under
stood by most educators. In education, as in most other matters,
you have to know what to look for before you can determine value.
Just as distinguishing between red and green doesn’t make one an
authority on fine art, a quickie conference with a teacher or a
twelve-minute tour of a school building can’t possibly permit you
to be an authority on how good a school really is.
Because most educators feel that we won’t have better schools
until the general public knows how to judge a school, and because
citizens’ groups themselves have asked for it, the NEA recently drew
up a list of guidelines to help laymen evaluate their local schools.
Let me warn you, however, that the guidelines are not meant
to be used as a simple check-the-right-box type of quiz. Education
is too complex a process for that. A school, they say, must be judged
by how well it is serving its community, and communities differ.
A school must be judged by how well it is serving modern society, and
our society is a fast-changing one. Further, a school must be judged
by how well it is educating for occupations, for college, for adult
life, for citizenship. These values just don’t lend themselves to
neat little checks in neat little boxes. What’s a necessity in one
place may seem a “frill” in another. What serves a college-going
community does not necessarily serve a community struggling to.
keep teen-agers from dropping out of high school.
With that warning, here are some guidelines that represent
the best thinking of informed laymen as well as educational
specialists:
Does your public school system provide:
For all ages from Kindergarten through adulthood?
For the average, the mentolly retarded, the highly talented?
For the handicapped §nd/or emotionally disturbed?
Do all elementry and secondary school pupils attend FULL
TIME sessions?
Is each child challenged to achieve to his maximum capacity?
Is he placed in a situation where *he can achieve a satisfactory
measure of success?
Does the school attempt to develop in each learner a respect for
work and excellence in performance, an appreciation of learning
and the ability to carry a task through to completion?
Are classes small enough to insure individual attention for
each child? What proportion of classes have no more than 25 pupils?
Is there sufficient space in each classroom for pupils to move
about freely?
Is there work space for exhibits, demonstrations and projects?
Doss your school have a well-organized pattern for testing the
intelligence, achievements, aptitudes and interests of pupils?
Are standards of achievement mutually understood by teachers,
pupils and parepts?
Does the system of reporting pupil progress give sufficient
information?
Are community resources and the special talents of laymen
utilized to enrich the school program?
Do pupils attend school regularly and arrive on time? Do they
take pride in the school?
To what extent is discipline a problem? Why?
Is the morale of the staff high? Are teachers adequately paid
and do they have stature in the community?
Has the curriculum of the local schools been critically reviewed
in recent years?
These are just samples of questions you should be asking about
your local schools.
It’s plain to see that learning how to judge your child’s school
is neither a one-time nor a some-time thing. Like everything else
about parenthood, it’s a bigger job than you may have anticipated.
But if you care enough, the time to start getting the answers is on
your next trip to school.
Visit us this week, during Education Week, particularly during
the Open House. '
You’ll find the school administrators and teachers willing to
answer questions because, after all, these are the goals they’re
working toward, even if they can’t always give rosy answers. When
you really get into the subject, it’s a good bet that you’ll find it
fascinating enough to plunge in more deeply.
And don’t say we didn’t warn you. You’ll soon be following
news reports of board of education meetings, campaigning on school
bond issues . . . and enlisting other parents in the crusade for
better schools.
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Workers Trapped in
Vermont Marble Quarry
DANBY, Vt., Iff) — Eight men
were trapped two and one-half
hours in a marble quarry shaft
Friday by a fire that destroyed
a machinery building at the shaft
entrance. They were rescued un
harmed.
The men, trapped in a 1,500-foot
shaft that tunnels into the hill
side nearly horizontally, dropping
only 25 or 30 feet through its
length', moved deep into the
shaft as smoke swirled in. They
said they were able to stay in
clear air .under the smoke.
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