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Evening star., 1960-01-03
BY PHIL YEAGER and
JOHN STARK
ContTihutipe Wrfiar.

Citizen arrest can be very
embarrassing to the would
be policeman. At least one
person. a tourist in San Fran
cisco, found this out last sum-
mer. He saw a young woman
reach into the pocket Of a man
in front Of her.
Shocked by this apparently
fragrant crime in broad day
light. he grabbed the lady, an
nouncing he was going to take
her to the police as a pick
pocket. At this point, the sup.
posed victim pointed out that
the lady was his girl friend,
and she put her hand in his
pocket jokingly and that fur
thermore the man should keep
his nose out OF other peoples
business. The red-faced tourist
left in a hurry.
About the same time, a busi-
nessman from Bay Shore, N. Y,
chased three youths whom he
considered reckless drivers.
Cornering them and whipping
out a revolver, he arrested
them and took them to a police
station. They charged him
with false arrest, and it re-
mains for the court to decide
whether the self = appointed
public protector went too far.
If the teen-agers prevail, it can
cost the businessman quite a
bit OF money.
Most States have laws per-
mitting citizens to make ar
rests when they see a crime
committed. Some go further
and authorize private citizens
to make arrests where they
know a crime has been COM
mitted and where there is
strong evidence that the ar
rested party is guilty. But
there is another side of this
coin. If a citizen makes an
arrest and he is wrong about
the facts, as the San Francisco
tourist was, he is liable to an
action for false arrest.
There are other provisions of
law that apply to citizen ar
Evening star., 1960-01-03

CALENDAR

Meeting announcements
must be in the hands OF the
PTA Calendar editor by
Thursday of each lDeek to in
sure publication in the COL
untn on Sunday. Notice must
include street address of
time and tuH name and locd-
ton OF orgGnizdtion.J
DR.. Fritz Redl, a child pSy-
chologist. will speak on Teen
ayers of Today. and Their
Problems With U.s." at $3.50
pm. Friday at a meeting CT
the Roosevelt High PTA, Thir-
teenth and Upshur streets NV.
1t will be the fourth and last
of a series of lectures on child
management arranged by the
Districts Congress Of PTAs.
Other PTA meetings this
week. all at 8 pm, unless
otherwise stated, are:
TUESDAY
Kelly Miller Junior High. Forty
ninth street and Washington. place
NE, bake sale and regular meeting.
simon Elementary. Fourth street and
MISSISSIPPI avenue SE-Otelo Meucei
OF the Music Department OF the Dis
trict Public Schools, will speak at IA
pm, on The Cultural Needs OF the
Child in Music -
Adelphi Elementary, Adeiphi, Nd -
Fun and Frolic Might" beginning :
m, pot-luck supper win be iol-
loved by games and square dancing
Roger HEIGHTS Elementary, Fifty
elEhth and Emerson streets, Bladens-
burE, hd.-Mrs. Maude c. Cahill will
speak on Parent-Child Study Groups.
Evening star., 1960-01-03

sity Of Maryland. Both are in
the College Of Home Economics.
Mary Behling of 5031 Glen
brook road NV, and Mar
garet Friedman of SOIL Thirty
third street NV, have been
elected members of the Trumps
and the Ekos, respectively, two
social clubs at the College of
Wooster, Ohio.
Nancy Little of 1909 Wood
bine street, Chevy Chase, a
freshman at the Pennsylvania
State University's Ogontz
Campus in Abingdon, Pa. has
been awarded a four-year
merit scholarship in home eco
nomics by the Wirthmore Feed
Co.
+
william Joseph Gates, 1919
Twenty-f1fth street Sc, has
been made squadron executive
and second lieutenant of the
Air Force ROTC at George
town University. He is the son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Mat
thew Gates.
George P. Gard jr, oi
| Georgetown University, the
only District collegian to be
awarded a 1860 Rhodes schol-
arship, has been elected presi-
dent of the Yard at the col
lege. He will act as college rep
resentative to outsiders.
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out including such training. "
said Mrs. Gertrude Elliff. 1T
helps me so much. I don't have
to keep on repeating things to
my class"
She was instrumental in the
development Of Minneapolis
outline for the teaching of this
particular branch Of commu-
nication. The schools there
have one of the most complete,
well-organized programs for
listening instruction in the
country.
The basic purpose. according
to Mrs. Elliff, is Ito teach chill
dren to listen critically in a
world filled with propaganda. !"
The students learn to evaluate,
to organize, and to retain what
they hear.
In her English class, she de-
votes six weeks principally 70
this subject. Usually 1t doesn't
take very long to convince the
youngsters they cannot really
listen. Playing a record (such
as Hear 1t Now") and then
giving an oral test on its con-
tent generally does the trick,
Mrs. Elliff said.
During the ensuing weeks the
youngsters must find material
suitable for tests to give their
classmates; they are also en-
couraged to use a specially
equipped listening lab for play
ing records to themselves. after
they answer a series of
questions on content.
The more advanced students
analyze effectively what Mrs.
Elliff calls examples of "persua-
sive speech"-such as Frank
lin D. Roosevelt's request for a
declaration of war in l94l and
Vice President Nixon's so-called
Checkers Speech" in 1852.
Evening star., 1960-01-03
~ HOSPITALS
GIVE COURSES
IN LISTENING

Supervisory personnel at
% hospitals throughout the
country started to take a
course in listening last fall.
This unusual in-service
training program, spon-
sored by the Catholic Hos
pital Association under a
grant from the United
States Public Health SerV-
ice, is given in each hos
pital by a specially trained
instructor.
Details about it we're an
nounced for the first time
last week by DR.. Don Bird
of Stephens College at the
Speech and Theater Con-
vention here. DR.. Bird set
up the program. If it proves
successful, he said, it will
be extended to additional
hospitals.
Evening star., 1960-01-03
Core Is Futile
For Girl Injured
IN Years AGO

YONKERS, N. Y, Jan. 2
(AP).-For 7Iz, years there was
an almost unceasing vigil at
the bedside Of little Beverly
Nilsson. who lay unconscious
from a brain injury received in
a car wreck.
Hour by hour, day after day.
her grieving parents, doctors
and nurses watched hopefully
for a flicker of returning con-
sciousneSS. There was none.
Everything at the command
Of medical science was tried.
Three hospitals and numerous
specialists did their best.
Nurses fed Beverly through a
tube. The hospital put her in
a special rocking bed and
devised a special standing box
in order to give her exercise.
Beverly grew normally. But
she never came out Of the coma.
At 4:45 am. today in st.
Joseph's Hospital she died. She
was l3.
Evening star., 1960-01-03
Solving Puzzles est
..}otes ChiId's Ability

lABDC, BADC. CThe first
three groups start with A but
the fourth doesn't.)
4. You have three things to
write about. Each of these
things can be used in different
ways. Write down all the ways
you could use these things.
Example: Brick "a brick
can be used to build a house, to
build a fireplace, to make a
bookcase, as a weight to hold
papers down. to crack nuts. to
make a fence, to stand on. etc.
S. Write down three ques-
tions you could ask about each
Of three things.
Example: Candle CThree
questions: How do you light it?
What makes it burn? How
long will it last?)
6. Each question has four
words. You are to tell a very
short story with one or two
sentences using all four words.
Example: Armchair, ranch,
necklace. cards. you can say:
When we were at the ranch,
my mother lost her necklace
and the playing cards. Later
we found them on the arm
chair.~
7 Each question has a row
Of words lined up according to
some rule. For each question,
you are to find the rule and
write 1t down.
Example: Mouse, cat pig,
COW, elephant. (Cat is bigger
than mouse. pig is bigger than
cat, COW is bigger than pig, and
elephant is bigger than COW.
The answer is: THE animals
get bigger.~
Evening star., 1960-01-03

,ion-Grace Lutheran Church,
Sixteenth and Varnum streets
NV.
Palisades Citizens Association
Palisades Field House, Sher-
rier place and Edmunds street
NV.
Woodbridge Civic Association
l-Langdon School, Twentieth
and EvartS streets NE.
Wednesday
Association of Oldest In
habitants-7:30 pm, National
Savings d Trust Co., Fiji
teenth street and New Yofk
avenue NV.
Arlington Ridge Civic Asso-
ciation-Oakridge Elementary
School, l414 Twenty-fourth
street, Arlington.
North Springfield Civic As
ISOLATION = North Springfield
Elementary School.
West Bradley Citizens Asso-
citation = Bethesda Country
Club, 1901 Bradley boulevard,
Bethesda.
Thursday
Mount Olivet Heights Citi-
zens Association - Recreation
Center Field House, Trinidad
avenue and Childress place
NE.
Capitol Hill Southeast Citi-
zens Association-Hine Junior
High School, Seventh and C
streets Sc.
Friday
Federal City American Plan
ming and Civic Associations
pm, Room 901, Union Trust
Building. Fifteenth and H
streets NV.
Pleasant Plains Civic Asso-
ciation--Banneker Club, $500
Georgia avenue NV. $50.
Evening star., 1960-01-03

BY North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-In
developing the Dual Purpose
Plan, educators had to find a
way to measure the ability OF
children to think for themselves
This goes beyond memorial
ton or book-learning. All
children in the Long Beach
N. Y. and Ossining, N. Y, pro-
gram received a special test
called Solving Puzzles Test"
This was prepared by New York
University's Experime entail
Teaching Center. The center
is financed by the Ford Founda-
ton.
Designed for grades three
and four, the first test tries to
find out whether children can
think through simple everyday
problems. Here are a few sam
pies Of the type Of questions
asked:
/. Name all the things you
can think of that hurt. SLAP
ping. fire. needle, knife, falling
bruises, wounds, aches.)
2. Each word below has some
smaller words hidden in it. Put
down as many of the hidden
words as you can find without
changing the place Of any
letters around.
Example: Wallet . wall, a
all, letJ
8. One Of the four groups OF
letters is different from all the
other three in some way. Find
the group that is different from
all the other three and draw a
line under it.
Example: AACD, ACAD
Evening star., 1960-01-03
Experiment Breaks Grade Barriers
By DR.. BENJAMIN FINE

Ten-year-old James Metzner,
who wants to be a psychiatrist
when he grows up, spoke for his
9Th grade classmates.
"I like school much better
this way. The day goes faster.
We're happier now"
"Scnool is so much fun" "
agreed 10-year-old Gloria HUI
herman, future singer by ner
own admission. "It used to be
boring. You'd have to sit all day
with the same teacher. Now
we move around"
II like math and science now,
I didn't last year." added IL
year-old Bruce Somerfeld. q
hopeful future football player.
"Our teachers know their stuff
They make the work in
teresting."
These youngsters. typical 9Th
graders in a most untypical
school situation, are part of
2,700 children from Sd to 9Th
grade who are involved in the
most revolutionary school ex-
pertinent yet to be undertaken
on the elementary-grade level.
Aided by a $1,175.000 grant
from the Ford Foundation, two
school SyStemS-Long Beach,
N. Y, and Ossining, N. Y. -
have engaged in the Dual
Purpose Plan of educating their
pupils. The project is SUPER
vised by New York University,
under direction of Dean George
D. Stoddard Of the School of
Education.
The plan is simple in design,
yet breath-taking in its ultimate
implications. 1t attempts to
break down grade barriers IN
such subjects as mathematics,
science, arts and crafts and
music. At the same time. it re-
tains the grades in English,
social studies and physical
education.
Change In Schedule
If you go into the usual ele-
mentary classroom, you will
find that the children enter
their homeroom at $50 or so
in the morning, and stay there
Evening star., 1960-01-03

until $3.50 in the afternoon.
The teacher gives instruction
in every subject. from English
to science. For the most part.
the pupils progress at the same
pace-which is set by the class
average.
Under the new plan, which
begins its second year at Long
Beach in February, half the
children report to their home
rooms in the morning as usual.
They spend two hours with
their teacher, receiving instruc-
ton in English and social
studies. Then they break for
lunch. Immediately afterward
they go to other rooms where
they have their math. science,
art or music instruction.
The other half, when they
arrive in the morning, go i'm
mediately to their special"
classes in math, science, arts
or music. After lunch. they go
to their homeroom teacher, for
an afternoon of English and
social studies.
Sounds complicated? Not at
all. According to DR.. David G.
Salten. superintendent of
schools at Long Beach. this is
the education of the future.
Next year, indeed, Long Beach
will expand the Dual Purpose
Plan to the 7th and 9th grades.
Eventually it may go from lst
grade through high school.
Ending the first year of
operation, the new plan has al
ready demonstrated marked
improvements in pupil perform
ance and teacher Satisfac-
tion," DR.. Salten told this
writer. THE plan will create
basic changes In the organi-
zation Of this Nations elemen-
tary schools. 1t will alter even
more radically the professional
Evening star., 1960-01-03

preparation of elementary
teachers in the future"
The plan is based on the as
sumption that every child
should have a knowledge of
English. social studies. and the
basic tools" Of everyday living
But work in math, science.
art or music carries no such
universal obligation. III. Stod-
dard points out. In these areas
youngsters are expected to pro-
gress as rapidly. or as slowly, as
their abilities permit. A boy
may be a whiz at mathematics,
or a girl may show marked
ability in art, and yet be an
average" student in English
or social studies. Under the
traditional program, the child
would rarely get a chance to
take 9Th grade math while in
the 4th grade.
Under the Ford-sponsored
plan, that is exactly what hap
pens. The children are grouped,
outside Of their core" program,
according to ability. They are
tested in math and science and
| placed in levels of achievement.
There is no such thing as 4th
grade math in this Iar-reaching
experiment.
We've simply oroken down
grade barriers" DR.. Salten ex-
plains. And the children like
it, too"
Teachers ReadjuSt
In the words of one of the
children: Last year my teacher
didn't like math, so We spent
all our time on social studies.
But now we have a regular
math teacher who likes his
subject and we get more out
Of it."
The teachers have mixed
reactions to the program. I'm
getting used to it," said Miss
Joan Bailey. a Long Beach
teacher for the last seven years.
When you are used to having
your pupils with you all day
long, it's hard to adjust to two
groups, one in the morning and
the other in the afternoon.
Sometimes it seems as Trough
you can't get to know them well
enough if you have them half
a day only"
The parents grumbled at first
but now accept the program
wholeheaftedly. A sampling of
the Long Beach parents showed
that 78 per cent liked the Dual
Purpose Plan. Ninety per cent
approved the idea OF having
specialists teaching math.
science and art; they also liked
the fact their children could
advance as rapidly, or as slowly
as their abilities permitted, re-
gardleSS of grade.
The implications for both
students and teachers are pro-
found. All children, under
this plan. will have the oppor-
tunity to proceed at their maxi
mum speed. There is no reason
to assume that only the gifted
or the talented will profit. A
boy may be average in all sub
jects except science. Under the
Long Beach and Ossining ex-
periments he may be in the
5th grade in all subjects, but
the equivalent Of the 9Th grade
in science.
A basic change will have to
take place in the teachers COL
leges. II this plan succeeds and
takes root. elementary educa-
tion will have to be drasitically
remodeled. Teachers will then
become specialists in one or two
subjects. rather than know a
little about everything. In to-
days age of specialization that
makes good sense.
The ord-flnanced expert
ment directly involves the
future education of 80 million
pupils. American education
may be strengthened as a re-
suit. The time may not be far
of when grade barriers disap-
pear completely. In that happy
day, pupils will blossom and
develop on the basis Of their
native intelligence.
BY North American Newspaper Alliance
Evening star., 1960-01-03

The outhOr. O Pulitzer Prize reporter,
is sdueotion editor Of the North
American Newspaper AIIionee and
deon Of the Gsoduote School Cf
Education. Yeshivo University. New
York.
Evening star., 1960-01-03
Progress Reported

A steadily increasing number
of schools. he reports, at least
talk about listening instruction
in their guides for teachers.
And the day may not be too
far of. claims another COM
munications authority, when
remedial listening classes will
be as common as remedial
reading ones.
In fact, says DR.. Ssm Duker
Of Brooklyn College. a few in
stitutions have already found
that some tagging students i'm
prove their academic perform
snce more with specific train
ing in listening than with any,
thing else.
The need for more emphasis
on this subject in formal edu-
cation. he SAYS. is urgent. A"
The big problem: How can
we get 1t a place in an already
overcrowded curriculums?"
To show that somehow this
must be done. DR.. Duker, a pro-
fessor Of education, notes that
much Of college instruction
rests upon the doubtful as
sumption that students are
adept at listening"
The result-professors blithe-
ly delivering lectures with the
misplaced assurance" that the
students comprehend them
would be "comical if it we're
not so tragic in wastefulness,
DR.. Dllker says.
Panel Discussion
He participated last week in
a panel discussion on the teach
ing Of listening at the Speech
and Theater Convention here.
Another panelist. a high school
teacher in Minneapolis, backed
UP his statements with her
actual experience in training
students to listen.
IN never teach again with
Evening star., 1960-01-03

John r. WithrOw history
major at Lynchburg CVa)
College, has been elected fresh
man class president. He is the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A.
Evening star., 1960-01-03
Listening Now Rated
New Literary Foctor
BY ANDREW W. BINGHAM
star stan Writer

ny hENDRI" We DANOuhn
Star stan Writer
Listening has become the
fourth recognized branch of
communication.
The ability to read. write
and speak no longer means you
are literate. the experts say:
you must know how to listen,
TOO.
To-day listening is definitely
considered one of the language
arts" says DR.. Arno Jewett.
English specialist for the
United States Office of Educa-
ton.
Evening star., 1960-01-03

A seminar on the history and
future Of military tactics and
strategy will be held at noon
Friday in the Founders Library,
Howard University. Organized
by the Department of Air
Science, the participants will
include 1t. Col. Daniel James
Of the Air Force, 1t. Col. Will
lard Stewart of the Army. and
1t. Benjamin Cloud of the
Navy.
Evening star., 1960-01-03
COLLEGE NEWS

Barbara Brown of 1852 Cent
raj avenue Sc. has been elected
a the staff of the "Ogontz
campus News" student publi-
cation Of the Pennsylvania
State University's Ogontz Cam
1us in Abingdon, Pa.
-
Ellen Kamarck, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Kamarck
Of 7113 Meadow Lane, Chevy
Chase, Md, is one of the "a
Smith College, Northampton,
Mass, students who have VOL
unteered to aid their professors
in a variety of non-teaching
tasks ranging from tipping to
laboratory work.
The program was inaugu-
rated to relieve faculty mem
bers of routine, non-teaching
tasks, leaving them more time
for teaching, and to enable stu
dents to become better ac-
quainted with their professors
outside the classroom.
Evening star., 1960-02-08
Some Royalty to Get
Philips Family Name

LONDON, Feb. 8 (AP).-
Queen Elizabeth II announced
tonight that future generations
of her family-except those in
direct line for the throne-will
bear the name Mountbatten-
Windsor. giving them her hus-
bands name as well as her
own.
A palace spokesman said,
THE Queen has had this in
mind for a long time and it
is close to her heart.
'"The Queen has always
wanted to associate the name
Of her husband with her own
and his descendants, without
changing the name of the
royal house established by her
grandfather"
The official announcement
of the change said:
THE Queen at a meeting o1
the Privy Council today de-
clared her will that while she
and her children would con.
tinue to be known as the house
and family of Windsor hel
descendants, other than those
entitled to the title of Roya
Highness and Prince or Prin.
cess and females who married
and their children, should beal
Evening star., 1960-02-08
Mrs. Nutter Convicted
OF I'd Degree Murder

Mrs. Elizabeth v. Nutter was
found guilty today of second
degree murder in the fatal
shooting of her husband al
their new Lake Bancroft home
last June.
Judge Paul E. Brown of Fair
fax County Circuit Court, who
heard the case without a jury
gave his verdict after an hour
of closing argument.
Judge Brown, who said a
persecution complex is not an
excuse for a killing" deferred
sentencing until probation Of
tf1cials give him a report on
Mrs. Nutter on March II. The
penalty for second-degree mur.
der ranges from S to 20 years
in the penitentiary.
Pending the probation report
Mrs. Nutter will remain at lib
erty under $4,000 bond.
Mrs. Nutter, frail, graying
and appearing older than hel
49 years, was charged with
shooting her husband, Dale. so
a United States Information
Agency official, on June Is in
Evening star., 1960-02-08
Custro's Plane,
2Abourd, Missing

HAVANA, Feb. 8 (AP). -
The chief of the Cuban Air
Force confirmed today that
Fidel Castro's personal air.
plane is missing on a flight
from Havana to Miami. He
said it was presumed lost at
sea.
Sergio Del Vale, the air
chief, identified the planes
two occupants as Capt. Ru-
dolfo Cossio, an assistant mill
tary attache at the Cuban En-
bassy in Washington, and his
co-pilot, Suarez Alfia, of the
Cuban Air Force.
Mr.. Del Vale said the twin
engine CAT, named Sierra
Maestro and normally used by
Premier Castro, had been sent
to Miami for propeller adjust
ments.
He added that the Cuban
Air Force was notified late yes
terday that the plane was
missing. Two bombers and two
helicopters were sent out to
search of Cuba, but they found
no trace of the plane, he said.
Earlier there were reports
from Miami that a search was
under way by American planes
Evening star., 1960-02-08

the surname of Mountbatten-
Windsor"
The announcement will have
its first practical effect if the
Queens coming child is a boy.
This child's grandchildren
will be outside the range of the
royal titles of Prince, Princess
and Royal Highness. Therefore,
they will carry the surname
Mountbatten- Windsor.
The Queens declaration
leaves the title of the royal
house unchanged. 1t does not
in any way affect other men,
bers of the royal family such as
the Duke of Windsor and Prin-
cess Margaret.
Mountbatten was the family
name of Prince Philip, the
Queens husband, until their
marriage in November, 1947.
He relinquished it on marriage
so that the royal children do
not bear their fathers real
name.
The royal family once before
changed its name from Han
over to Windsor in 1917 because
of anti-German feelings. The
Mountbatten name was changed
from Battenberg for the same
reason.
The Queens third child is
expected any day.
Evening star., 1960-02-08

their lakeside home at 516
Waterway drive.
Defense Lawyers Louis Kou-
toulakos and Harry Lee Thomas
had contended Mrs. Nutter
acted under irresistible i'm
pulse" in the killing after years
Of mental and physical abuse
by her alcoholic" husband.
Defense psychiatrists sup
ported this theory, which was
contested by a prosecution
psychiatrist who said Mrs. Nut
ter was suffering from a men,
tai disease but did not act
under irresistible impulse, a
legal defense under Virginia
law.
Judge Brown, in handing
down a verdict, commented: II
don't understand a lot of these
terms psychiatrists and psy-
biologists use."
Asserting that it was "just
one mans opinion" the Judge
said psychiatry and psychology
were not exact sciences. Work
ers in these fields differ in
their opinions, he added.
The case was prosecuted
by Commonwealth's Attorney
Robert c. Fitzgerald.