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Evening star., 1955-07-24
It's a frozen delight,
made of lemonade and
bits of watermelon

66T LOVE my lemonade on a hot
Il morning, the kind to eat
with a spoon. It's cook Rachel's
idea," and Rosa Hart laughed,
get her to give you the recipe"
She knew it was tough going to
get any kind Of cooking direc-
tons out of Rachel. Not that
Rachel isn't obliging, but, as she
explains, Il don't use 'prescrip-
tons for my cookin'."
Rosa lives in the Deep South
at Lake Charles, La, where it's
summer, and truly, when the heat
settles in. Since she was a child
she has loved morning lemonade
as some do iced tea. Rachel,
30 years in Rosa Hart's kitchen,
likes a slice of mid-morning
watermelon. She conceived the
idea of pleasing both herself and
her mistress by combining the
lemonade with watermelon pulp
and by some sixth culinary sense
created this delectable miracle,
cool as a breeze. A refreshment
to eat mid-morning, mid-after-
noon, lust any time"
Rachel Tells Al
IF YOU ever get Rachel's recipe
figured out, give it to me-" said
Rosa, as took off for the kitchen
with notebook and pencil.
"YeS'm honey, sure be glad to
tell you how makes my sherbet.
Buy can of that froze lemonade
and dump it in a mixing bowl,
then fill the can with water and
put that in. About sweetin',
some folks want a lot and some
Evening star., 1955-07-24
"WHOLE-FRIED" POTATOES

A new quick trick to try-pierce ends Of
medium size, unpeeled potatoes with a
fork. Drop whole into Wesson Oil heated
to $500. Cook 20 to 80 minutes depending
on size. They taste better and cook faster
than baked potatoes.
Evening star., 1955-07-24

This Week Maea.ine - July -, 1855
Evening star., 1955-07-24

You pour light, dsiieoss Wssson Oil for a
happy headstart to tasty fried potatoes,
chicken, fish all your favorites. Easier,
thriftier than solid shortening, there's no
digging out-mo meLting-no uuste.
Everything you fry in this purest vege-
table salad oil is sure to taste good, sure
to be digestible. That's because delicate
Wesson Oil stays pure and digestible at far
higher frying temperatures than costliest
solid shortcomings. No smoke, no burning
when you fry with Wesson Oil. So your
Wesson fried foods are temptingly light
good for all, the family.
Evening star., 1955-07-24

FREE RECIPE BOOKLET for modern, easier
cooking with clear, sparkling liquid shortening.
Write The Wesson Oil People. New Orleans, La.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29
Twelve Basic Farm
Plans Are Approved

The Noble Soil Conservation
District supervisors held their
regular meeting recently in
their offices on North street.
Members present were H. R.
Blackburn, Luther Schramm,
John Kurtz, Virgil Moore and
Richmard Starr. Frank Calvin,
farm planner and Floyd Hender-
son, county agricultural agent,
were also present.
Twelve basic plans we're pre-
sented to the group and approx
ed. They were as follows: H. R.
Secrest Of Buffalo township;
George and William T. Warner
of Marion; H. w. Morgareidge
of Noble; Joseph +. Wiley of
Sharon; Lillian Snider of Enoch;
Vernon Dudley of Brookfield;
A. G. and c. r. VanFleet of
Olive; w. L. NeWhart of Beav-
er; John R. Watson of Center
and Edgar C. Richey and Earl
Finley of Wayne.
Mr.. Calvin reported that the
Ohio Division of Wildlife Rep
resentative, Tom Kilmer,. was in
Noble county this past week
working with the district in
making plans for the Wildlife
area development for 1856.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29
KEMN0NSBURC NEWS NOTES

kENNONSBURG The
public is invited TO the union
watch services of the Mt. Zion,
st. John and Kennonsburg
churches, Saturday evening here.
The services will begin at 600
o'clock New Years Eve with an
old fashioned song services, At
nine thirty there will be refresh
ments Of coffee, cookies and
sandwiches served, followed by
prayer, communion services.
In Hospital
Mrs. II. B. Wilson was admit
ted TO the Guernsey Memorial
hospital in Cambridge last week
for surgery and is recovering
nicely.
Personals
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Long enter
ed the following Christmas Mrs.
Emma Long, Mr.. and Mrs. jim
mie Carpenter and children,
Brenda, Bruce, Kim Of Quaker
City, Homer Rich and Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Wyscarver and
children, Joyce, Richard, Gerry
and Ronald.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. j. Magis and
children, Linda, Tommy and
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29
Water Heaters For
Livestock Help Lishien
Winter Chores

For or 3 cents a day a farmer
can forget about one Of his most
disagreeable winter chores
chopping ice from his livestock
water tank.
That's about what ii costs to
operate many of the electric
water heaters now on the mar
ket, according to |. P. Blauser,
extension agricultural engineer
of Ohio State University.
Several types of heaters are
available, BlauSer points out. He
believes one of the most prac-
teal is the individual drinking
cup, since it heats only a small
amount of water and no tank is
needed. Initial cost Of a drink
ing cup unit is about $40, he says,
but once it is installed it will
operate on about l kilowatt Of
electricity in "a hours under nor
nal winter weather conditions.
A thermOstat keeps water tenn
peratures around 40 or so de-
greeS.
Farmers who have stock water
tanks may want to use float
type electric heaters. They float
on the surface, warming the
water Immediately around them.
Such heaters cost around $40 or
SIS and they operate on about
the same amount Of electricity
as the drinking cups.
When farmers use float type
heaters, Blauser suggests they
insulate the tank and cover the
top, except for a small opening
where the livestock can drink.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29
BATESVILLE NEWS

n BATESVILLE - The Beaver
Valley Grange held their meeting
last Monday evening. After the
program, gift exchange and
covered dish lunch was served
Il after which a social time was
enjoyed.
Glass Meeting
B The Friendship class held their
meeting last Wednesday even
ing at the church.
In Hospital
Mrs. Rosa Clucus is a patient
in st. Francis hospital in Cam
bridge.
Personals
Robert Deal Of Columbus spent
the weekend with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Deal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Bates and
family of Caldwell route, were
recent visitors Of Mrs. Agnes
Wehr.
Miss Ruth Edgar of Columbus
Mr.. and Mrs. Dean Edgar Of
'Summerfield and Mr.. and Mrs
William Edgar of Quaker City
spent Christmas Eve with Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver Montgomery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Atkinson
were business callers in Wheel
ing last Monday.
SiSgt. and Mrs. Robert Mercer
of Chanute Field, H., spent ;
few days the past week will
Mrs. Carrie Roe.
Mrs. Emma beavers and Mrs
Gladys Whyde of GAINESVILLE
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Franl
Atkinson, Monday p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Major ant
daughters Of Salem, visited Mrs
Pearl House over the weekend
= Mr.. and Mrs. Briscoe Good
hart called on Mrs. Rosa Clucu
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29

and Wilford Gallagher, Sunday
evening at the ST. Francis hos
pital.
The December meeting of the
Brotherhood of the Batesville
and Quaker City Methodist
churches was held Thursday
evening at the church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Atkinson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Atkinson
and sons, Larry and James, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Atkinson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Moore were din
ner guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Floyd of Quaker City, Christmas
day.
Miss Gertrude Osler, of Zanes.
vile, spent Christmas with Mrs
Stella Osler and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne House OF
Lincoln, Neb., Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
ton Huguenard of Cincinnati
Irene House of Jacksonville, Fla
and Mr.. and Mrs. John Gilmore
of Weirton, w. Va, spent the
past week with their parents
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. House.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29

Jimmie spent Christmas with
their parents in Bellaire and
BenWood, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lashley and
children, Lee, Ann, Dennis, and
Gary spent Christmas at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Thompson at Olivet.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Lashley
spent Christmas with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ronald Feldner at Cald-
Well.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Kenneth Tisdale
and children Of Canton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bud Rich and children,
Teresa, Steve spent Christmas
with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Rich and
children.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29

Prices paid by farmers in mid
November for production and
living items dropped slightly,
Ohio State University extension
economists report. Declines were
IN feeder livestock, foods and
feed.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29

Ohio is one Of the fifteen
states in the nation which pro-
duce rs percent of all sheep and
lambs in the country. Meat
animal sales in Ohio in 1854
totalled more than / million dol
lars a day. Of the farm income
in the state "a percent is deriv-
ed from the sale of meat animals.
Latest census figures show
there were 100000 fewer farms
in the United States and $4,000
fewer farms in Ohio in 1854 than
in 1850.
Photo Observation-Disclosures
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29

Good production practices are
more important than ever when
farmers use. bulk milk tanks.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29
WEEKS NEWS

's'Fs-li-' A.
REAR ADMIRAL
RICH A R D &.
BYRD (center)
leaving by plane
enroute TO III 9
Antarctic, on q
venture which he
believes will fore
shadow the first
permanent settle
ment Of the T
continent.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-12-29

SttsAb wv -
EARL WARREN,
W h o s e o " n
daughter wos
once q polio VIC
FIN. visits polio
potienis al Chill
dren's Hospital.
Washington, Of
ter being named
Chairman Of the
Copitol's March
Of Dimes Com-
poi9n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-23

the individual letters Of the al
phabet have little meaning or
even no meaning to little chill
dren. But such meanings viii
develop during the progress Of
their work in grades two and
three.
OF course. American children
need to master phonics. But
phonics are not very helpful in
grade one and they are of doubt
full value in grade two.
All languages are more or less
phonetic. But it happens that
English is one Of the least pho
netic of languages-and English
is our language. The examples
given by DR.. Flesch about the
teaching of shorthand, Latin,
Spanish and Hottentot are far
fetched and his differences from
them do not necessarily apply to
English. We are not teaching
shorthand or Hottentot in our
primary grades but we are
teaching reading in a manner
that has meaning and value to
the great majority of Ameri-
can children.
Let us hope that our teachers
will continue to teach reading as
a useful tool or skill for daily
use in the lives of their pupils
not as means for word calling
in an unknown language in
order to astound strangers on
the streets of Prague.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-23
u. S. Unit to Help
ROKs Stund Alone

SEOUL. May % (P.-A United
States military advisory group
Is being formed here to make
South Korea's armed forces self
sufficient for defense purposes
and provide for eventual with
travail of United States forces
from Korea.
It is still in the provisional
stage, said responsible source,
and its aims are far off.
Commander Of the new unit
Provisional Military Advisory
and Assistance Group Korea-is
Tt. Gen. Claude B. Ferenbaugh,
deputy 9th Army commander
who led the 7th Division in the
bitter Korean fighting Of 1851
The 7th is one of two, under
strength United States divisions
still serving in the Korean for
ward areas. The other is the
oath. Both are carrying many
Korean servicemen for training
purposes.
PROVMAAG-K will have ad'
visers from the United States
Army, Navy and Air Force, with
the Marines represented by the
Navy adviser.
The operation is to be similar
TO United States advisory groups
N Wet Nam. Formosa. the Phil
lppines, Greece and Turkey. I,
is expected to come under the
United States military defense
program about July /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-23

ideas and information from
printed material.
Discussion Groups
There is something Of primary
Importance In the teaching of
reading which seems to have
been overlooked entirely by DR.
Flesch. He has failed to find the
heart and soul Of the reading
program in the average Ameri-
can elementary school of the
present era. Learning how to
read takes place in the reading
circles which primary grade
teachers organize in their class
rooms. These are pupil and
teacher discussion groups.
AS they progress, the teacher
writes words, phrases, and sem
fences on the blackboard. Later,
these blackboard notes are used
to make reading charts which
have real meanings in the lives
of the children. They are in
tegral parts of the units of
work about which most of the
elementary school programs re-
volve. The pre-primers. primers,
and readers which DR.. Flesch
ridicules in his book are used
to supplement and support the
reading materials which the
teachers and pupils manufac-
ture for themselves. Nor does
DR.. Flesch give proper credit to
the wide assortment Of good
story books which also supple
ment the reading program. IN
practically all American ele-
mentary schools.
There are some things which
DR.. FIesch has gotten out of
their proper psychological order,
in his recommendations. He has
tried to be logical" and he has
assumed that the logical APP
proach is the right one.
Need to Know Alphabet
OF course, American children
need to learn the English alpha
bet. It would be helpful if they
were required to learn it both
forward and backward. But they
do not need to learn it during
their first week in school. To
most of the children the alpha
bet will be of little use until they
are in the third grade. Most of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-23

There are one or two dozen
textbook houses In America. By
far the most lucrative part OF
their business is the publication
of readers for elementary
schools.
There are millions Of dollars
of profit in these little books.
Naturally. the competition is
tremendous. So Is the invest
ment; 50 is the sales effort; so
is the effort that goes into
writing. editing. and illustrating
these books.
Now, with our Chinese word
learning system you can't pro-
duce a series of readers by print
ing nice, interesting collections
Of stuff children of q certain age
might like to read. Oh no.
Every single story, every single
sentence that goes into these
books has to be carefully pre-
pared and carefully checked to
make sure that each word is one
Of the 637 that the poor child
Is supposed to have memorized
up to that pointer If it's the
638th word. that it appears In
Just the right context for opti-
mum guesswork and is then re-
peated II times at carefully
worked-out intervals.
Tireless Drudges
Naturally, the stupendous and
frighteningly idiotic work Of con-
cocting this stuff can only be
done by tireless teamwork OF
many educational drudges. But
if the textbook house put only
the drudges on the title page,
that wouldn't look impressive
enough to beat the competition
So there has to be a senior
author" one with a ma
tional reputation who teaches
how to teach reading at one OF
the major universities.
And that's why every one Of
the so-called authorities in this
field is tied up with a series OF
readers based on the Chinese
word-learning method.
AS long as you use that
method, you have to buy some
$50 worth per child Of DR.. So
and-so's readers; as soon as you
switch to the common sense
method of teaching the sounds
of the letters, you can give them
a little primer and then proceed
Immediately to anything from
the Readers Digest to Treasure
Island"
I have personally met some
Of the leading authorities in the
field of reading. They are all
very nice ladies and gentlemen
and obviously sincere and well
meaning. But they are firmly
committed to the application Of
the word method. and it woulc
be inhuman to expect from them
an objective point of view.
HoSfilifv Met
Consequently it's utterly i'm.
possible to find anyone inside
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-23
Educator Reps FIeseh
Views on u. S. Reading

This criticism of Rudolph
FIesch'S stand in why
Johnny Can't Read" series
currently appearing in The
Star is by Samuel Engle Burr,
| jr., chairman of the Depart
ment of Education, American
University.
| DR., Rudolf Flesch's book
why Johnny Can't Read" rep
resents an extreme point of view
In it. he makes an attack upon
the opposite extreme-that man.
ner of teaching reading which he
states is universal In America
In many cases. extremes are
wrong and this means that the
middle of the road is likely to
be a better position.
DR.. Flesch goes to the extreme
of placing. too much emphasis
upon the alphabet. phonics and
phonetics. 1t is quite likely that
in some American schools not
enough attention is directed to
these elements. The desirable
position. in the matter of how
to teach reading, lies somewhere
between the extreme points OF
view. Furthermore. it viii not
be the same answer for the
teaching of each individual pu-
pill.
The book is we'll named. II
has grown out of a study Of the
reading difficulties of one bog
who is called Johnny" In the
second paragraph of Chapter 1
this statement appears: To-day
Johnny can read-not perfectly
to be sure, but anyone can see
that in a few months he will
have caught up with other boys
of his age" 1t is evident. then
that present day reading meth
DDS have proven to be success
full for other boys, that Johnny
was an exception, and that a
remedial reading program was
needed in his case. The remedial
measures recommended in the
book certainly have their value
One Part Of Program
AS a whole, the book gives the
impression that DR.. Flesh de-
fines reading as a process by
which a person recognizes the
letters of the alphabet, attaches
certain sounds to each of them
and uses this knowledge as a
means of pronouncing printed
words. Word calling" is the
proper name for this process
1t is only one patti of a COM
plete reading program. Reading
is a complicated procedur
which we use in order to derive
meanings from the printed page
1t includes the recognition OF
| WI 10 dllu SiOupo Va WINS ous
in addition it includes compre-
hension and understanding.
On page 2 of his book, DR.,
Flesch tells of German children
who. before the end of Grade 2,
can read orally almost anything
in print. In parentheses is
added: Without regard to de-
gree of comprehension"
On page %, DR.. Flesch tells
with evident pride that he once
surprised a native Of Prague by
reading aloud from a Czech
newspaper. The paragraph about
this so-called reading ends with
this quotation: II don't under
stand a word of it. I can only
read it." r.,a ..s
To American educators, this
isn't reading. Unless people can
understand what they read, then
they are merely word calling and
this has little value. Evidently
DR.. Flesch is interested in pro-
nounci1g the words that appear
on a page rather than in getting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-23
West Texas Area Hit
By Two Tornodoes

LUBBOCK, Tex, May % (Pl.
Two tornadoes and scattered
deluges of rain struck the south
plains of West Texas last night.
The tornadoes caused no in
juries and only small damage
One struck Lorenzo. 80 miles
east Of Lubbock, unrooflng a
home. Another was sighted near
Fairview. more than 100 miles
south, but apparently did no
damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-23
Benson Addresses
Mormon Purley

Religious bigotry and persecu-
tions of the Mormon people to
the extent of mobbings and
being driven from their homes
has changed in our day to a
feeling of acceptance and re-
spect, Secretary OF Agriculture
Benson said yesterday.
He addressed 1900 listeners IN
the local Latter-day Saint Stake
conference.
He noted that the 36O-voice
Tabernacle choir Of Salt Lake
City will tour Europe on a con-
cert tour this summer. Not too
long ago, however, he continued
the church was not permitted
to rent halls there to hold meet
ings or to preach on street cor
ners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-23
By RUDOLF FLESCH

the official family Of the edu-
Gators saying anything even
slightly favorable to the natural
method of teaching reading
Mention the alphabetic method
or phonetics or "phonics" and
you Immediately arouse derision
furious hostility. or icy silence.
Take the case of the late DR..
Leonard Bloomfield. professor of
linguistics at Yale. DR.. Bloom
field wasn't just any scholar in
the field Of language: he was
universally recognized as the
greatest American linguist oil
modern times. His masterpiece
was a book simply called Lam
guage." published in 1888.
In the last few pages of that
book, Mr.. Bloomfield dealt with
the teaching of English and
reading in our schools. Our
Schools" he wrote. ARE utterly
benighted in linguistic matters
Nothing could be more dis
couraging than to read our
'educationalists' treatises on
methods Of teaching children
to read"
Several years later. DR. Bloom
field took time out to prepare
an alphabetic-phonetic primer,
based on strictly scientific prin-
ciples. It was an excellent piece
of work. carefully designed to
teach children quickly and pain
lessly. After DIR. Bloomfield's
death in 1949 his literary execu-
tor offered the manuscript to
every single elementary textbook
publisher in the United States
Not one of them considered it.
AS am writing. the book is
still unpublished.
Taught Daughter
The introduction to this
Bloomfield primer was, however
published as an article in the
Elementary English Review in
April and May, 1912. I ran
across that article eight or 10
years ago and that's what start
ed me on this whole business
Taking the ideas of that article
and applying them in homemade
fashion, I taught my eldest
daughter Anne to read when she
was five years old. She's 10 now
and reads anything and every
thing, all the time.
| Here is what DR.. Bloomfield
| told the country's elementary
English teachers IL years ago:
1.-The most serious drawback OF
all the English reading instruc-
ton known to me -. is the
drawback Of the word-method.
The child who fails to grasp the
content of what he reads is
usually a poor reader in the me-
chanical sense. If you want
to play the piano with feeling
and expression. you must master
the keyboard and learn to use
your fingers on it. The CHIEF
source of difficulty in getting
the content Of reading is imper-
feet mastery Of the mechanics
Of reading. -. We must train