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Evening star., 1960-07-17
SPOTLIGHT
on EDUCATION
CIossrooms Make Use of EIectronic Godqets

NEW YORK. July l6.-The
electronics age has invaded the
Nations schools and colleges.
Mechanical gadgets, record
ing machines and fantastic
chronological devices have be-
come standard equipment in
many classroomS. Flesh-and-
blood teachers and college pro-
fessors may not become obso-
lete when schools reopen this
fall, but they will have to share
the lmelight with robots that
talk, reprimand students, think
out complicated questions and
even correct papers and grade
them in the fash of a light
bulb.
A study made by North Amer
ican Newspaper Alliance shows
that the use of technical aids
in public and private schools
is growing rapidly. Educa-
tional television, thanks to the
support by the Ford Founda-
ton, is now an accepted part
of many school systems. Schools
are also experimenting with
films, radio. tape recorders and
new projection devices.
Last year $4,000 students IN
Hagerstown. Nd, public schools
took part of their work by
.closed-circuit television. Since
1857 more than 500 schools in
16 States participated in the
program to experiment with
television.
What is even more fantastic,
next year schools and colleges
in the six-State region of Indi-
ana. Illinois, Kentucky, M;chi-
gan. Ohio and Wisconsin will
receive TV courses relayed from
an aircraft flying $4,000 feet
above an Indiana transmitting
station. This will be a boon
to the small rural schools,
many Of which are now out
Of range of educational tele-
casting.
Probably the most unusual
and farthest advanced of all
mechanical classroom devices
is the one invented by the
New York Institute of Tech
nology. The Institute, in the
heart Of Manhattan, has de-
veloped a revolutionary study
aid which may save Americas S
school systems millions Of dol
lars annually.
Larger Glasses Possible
BY utilizing the new device,
fewer teachers, working with
larger classes, are possible.
Moreover, better teaching is
possible and greater learning
is achieved by students. accord
Evening star., 1960-07-17
Wotereote Offers
225-Voice Chorus

Harmony under the stars
barbershop harmony. that is
will be featured at the Waters
gate tomorrow night.
The 225-voice Chorus Of the
Potomac, worlds largest bar
bershop chorus. will present a
program Of barbershop melo-
dies.
The chorus is made up Of
barberShop quartets from the
District, Alexandria, Arlington.
Fairfax, and Manassas.
The quartetS will perform in
dividually as well as with the
chorus in the program, which
begins at $3.50 pm.
1t is sponsored by the Ma
tional Capital Parks and the
Society for the Preservation
and Encouragement of Barber
Shop Quartet Singing in Amer
ica.
Evening star., 1960-07-17
Colleges Name
Local Lecturer

Robert w. Miller, 80, a
Washington public relations
consultant and a lecturer at
American University, yesterday
was named executive secretary
Of the American Association of
Commercial Colleges.
Mr.. Miller, who lives at 58l7
Marbury rd., Bethesda, was
named at the Associations an
nual meeting in Kansas City.
The group includes private
commercial colleges through
out the United States.
The associations Offices will
be moved to Washington. Its
headquarters had been in Bur-
lington,. Iowa, the residence OF
the outgoing executive secre-
tary, c. w. Woodward, who re-
tired yesterday after serving
the association for 81 years.
Evening star., 1960-07-17

The outhor, o Pulitzer Prize reporter
Is education editor Of the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
ing to DR.. Alexander SEIZURE.
president of the college.
The new electronics teacher
will be put into classroom use
when this four-year institute
reopens in September. 1t is
designed to allow students to
progress at their own speed.
Some students may take a full
semester to complete a course
in geometry. Others may take
half a semester, and still 9TH
ers two terms.
This reporter became a COLI
lege student for a day, and
found that the mechanical pro-
fesSor must be taken seriously.
! sat at a desk equipped with
a record player and a COM
municationS system hooked up
for two-way conversations be-
tween teacher and student. In
addition. the desk is so de-
signed that it is possible to
plug in a television screen. q
tape recorder and other acces-
sorry devices deemed necessary
by the teacher.
The desks also contain a
matrix hooked up to a teleme-
tering device on the teachers
desk. A students responses to
questions can be noted at once.
Somewhat skeptical, I sat
down at an assigned desk and
plugged in the individual ear
phone to the recording device.
At the same time my workbook
was opened to the assign
ment for the period. a course
on Elements of Thermody-
namics: Sound and Light"
Hello, ! am your teacher,
came the clear voice from the
recording machine. MY job
is to help you. I free the hui
man teacher for other work.
I never get tired or forgetful. "
Basic Information
Then came seven minutes Of
basic information on the diff
cult topic of thermodynamicS.
I had to demonstrate my grasp
of the material by answering a
series Of multiple choice ques-
tionS.
Here is one question:
The fundamental forces
which are responsible for the
wonders of electronics are:
(A) Electric force and gravi-
rational force;
(B) Rotational force and
magnetic force.
(C) None Of these;
Evening star., 1960-07-17
ST Million Asked
For City Schools

BALTIMORE. July 16 (AP) i.
Another Of the city's plans
for a six-year program of cap
ital Improvements was disclosed
in a report to the Baltimore
Planning Department.
The Department of Educa-
tion came up with a proposed
$7l million building program
beginning in 1861, covering A
projects for new school con-
struction.
The money would be raised
by bond issue.
The planning agency is COL
lecting proposals from all city
agencies, for major improve
ments recommended to meet
needs through 1867.
Evening star., 1960-07-17
COLLEGE NEWS
Vossor, Wellesley
Pupils Study Here

Fourteen juniors from Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
and an equal number from
Wellesley College, Wellesley,
Mass, this week will complete
an eight-week joint Summer
Internship Program. which
brought them to Washington to
work with Congressman and
various administrative agencies.
Vassar interns with their as
signments are: Pam Rymer,
Senator G oldwater's office;
Judy Goldfarb, Joint Congress
sional Economic Committee:
Marie Craig. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare;
Mary J. Wignot, Senator Spark
mans office; Vasie Pecunes,
Representative McGovern's Of
fee; and Adrienne Leichtle,
Senator Johnson's Office.
Also, Judy Widerkrantz, SEN
ator Bush's office; Lynda Wal
lace, Senator Kerr's office;
Joyce eastman, Senator
Church's office; Charlee Mar
Gus, Senator Humphreys office;
Joan Oxman, Antitrust Divi-
sion of the Department of JUS
tice; Frances Sturman, Senator
Henning's office: Margaret
Rose, Senate Republican Policy
Committee, and Joy Warren,
Senator Cases Office.
Wellesley interns and their
assignments are: Judith Rich
ards, Administrative Office of
the United d S tes Courts;
Diane Burnside and Sigrid Hal
vOrsen, both with the Interna-
tional Cooperation Administra-
ton; Jane FAINT, Joint Eco
nomic Committee of Congress;
Barbara Guss, Senator Clark's S
office; Louise Hillson, Legal
Reference Bureau of the Lii
brary Of Congress; Helena
Jackson, Senator Marlborough S
office; and Nannerl Overh0lser,
Senator Kefauver's Office.
Also. Ellen Read, Kennedy
campaign headquarters; Caro-
lyn Revelle, Senator Jackson's
Office; Gelian Russell, Senator
Longs office; Nancy Spellman
and Vicki Weisberg, both at
Democratic National Commit
tee office: and June Teufel,
United States Information
Agency.
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Michael A. Lintner of Arling-
Evening star., 1960-07-17

or drains resources or facili-
ties" the report said.
Anticipated revenues from
new business should be COM
pared with the cost of services
for the new development and
its employeS-such as roads,
police and fire protection,
water and sewer systems,
schools and parks and recrea-
ton facilities.
A weighing of the benefits
and costs can be made only
after detailed and comprehen-
sive objective analysis, the
bureau said.
Mere increases in quantities
and volumes of persons. sales,
or revenues do not constitute
benefits,
"A community may acquire
longtime problems of depressed
areas: low per capita income
and aggravated public health
and welfare needs" bureau
writers said.
AS an example, the report
cites air and river pollution in
recent years by a plant located
on the Shenandoah River in
Virginia.
Residential property may fail
to pay its way because low-paid
industrial workers cannot af-
ford the type Of housing which,
under a current revenue system,
would produce sufficient taxes
for schools, roads, and other
services.
Each new plant, however
must be evaluated individually
and some will be a fiscal asset
to the community, the booklet
stated.
According to the report, a
firm scouting a new site will
avoid special inducements be-
cause it does not want to be
obligated by special favors.
Business officials are parti-
cularly cautious in looking for
double taxation by county and
municipal governments, limita-
tionS on profits, liabilities of
tax systems, competence of tax
authorities. and state and COM
munity plans for economic
stablization.
Evening star., 1960-07-17

ton, a sophomore at Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, has been awarded a $500
scholarship for the current
year.
A Deans list student t,
Michael belongs to Alpha Phi
Omega fraternity and is a
membrr of the Rifle Team.
b. parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
Rooert Lintner, 3425 South
-
Utah street.
Robert Paxton of Lexington,
Va, who is doing his Ph.D.
work in modern French his
tory at Harvard University, will
leave for France in September
for research at various French
institutions.
Robert earned his bachelors
degree at Washington and Lee
University, and his masters at
Oxford University, England. He
is currently in Washington for
reading at the Library of Con-
gresS prior to his European
trip.
He is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. M. w. Paxton.
Il \
Washington students making
the Deans Honor List at Buck
nell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
are:
William S. Erdahl, 7072 Wyn-
dale street NV; Jon P. Kraus.
3l01 Highland place NV; Sus-
an E. Rumbaugh, 3943 Military
road. and Howard b. Silberberg,
5433 Thirty-first street NV.
Truman b. Cross Of 1929 La
mont street NV. has been
awarded a 3-year National De-
fense Education fellowship for
graduate work at the Russian
and East European Institute of
Indiana University.
Truman holds degrees from
Portland State College and
George Washington University.
y y
Stephen H. Paley of Kensing-
ton, Md, a senior at Washing
ton and Lee University, has
been awarded the Henry Ruff
ner Scholarship and the de-
partmental scholarship in COM
merce for his academic record.
Stephen an honor roll stu
dent, is majoring in commerce.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Paley, 5202 Bangor drive.
Evening star., 1960-07-17
Bombay Strikers
Return to Work

BOMBAY, India, July 16
(AP).-A general strike Of In
dian government employees for
higher wages which began at
midnight last Monday ended
tonight.
Union leaders here said the
groups which sponsored the
strike had told Premier Nehrp
in New Delhi of the decision.
1t followed reports from most
cities that a trickle of return
ing strikers yesterday became
a flood this morning and was
almost a stampede by after
noon.
Evening star., 1960-07-17

TIME 70 Time unoer auspices OF
DR.. Frank H. H. Roberts,
Bureau Of American Ethnology,
said there is much material
from ancient Indian days along
Virginia's rivers and in the
Shenandoah valley.
Smithsonian workers found
abundant material in the area
later flooded by the John H.
Kerr Dam on the Roanoke
River in southern Virginia.
DR.. Roberts said in an inter-
view that scientists still are
working on a report on these
findings. This report is ex-
pected to be completed within
a year.
The Shenandoah valley is
described as another fertile
area.
THE S Shenandoah h Valley
seemed to have been a great
thoroughfare for Indians NOV
ing between the north and
SOUTH" DR.. Roberts said. 1.-THE
Indians would stop on and live
there a while"
Much Of the material found
in Virginia is related to ma
terial found both in northern
and southern States.
Virginia was a sort of mid
die ground" DR.. Roberts said.
"A sort of border state even
in those days"
Recently, studies were made
at sites in the counties of Au-
gusta, Bath. Rockingham,
Highland and Rockbridge. A
report has just been completed
on these studies by DR.. C. G.
Holland under the auspices of
the Ethnology bureau.
Prehistoric objects were COL
lected at 81 sites which showed
some six time horizons dating
back to pre-ceramic periods.
The only apparent artifacts of
that time were Clipped stone
knife blades, axes, probable
spearheads and the like.
That was some time before
the use by the Indians of the
bow and arrow.
The Smithsonian also re-
ported from these studies that
during the pre-ceramic periods
the predominant stone used by
the ancient Indians was quart
zite. That was followed by use
Of the harder, flint-like rock,
ebert. Both materials were OBJ
tanned locally.
Then came four pottery pc
riods. These were distinguished
by differences in technique
These periods extend up to the
first time of the earliest white
settlements.
The Smithsonian said no ar.
ticles of European make were
found in any of those Indiar
sites. The Jamestown colonists
Evening star., 1960-07-17
BY DR.. BENJAMIN FINE

CD Electric force and mag
netic force"
With a stylus the student
is asked to mark the answer
he thinks correct. I checked
(A). A red light went on in
the gadget on my desk. A
voice from the recorder said
softly:
You have chosen the wrong
answer. Study the lesson again
and retake the test"
Another try and another in
correct answer. This time the
mechanical teacher lost its
electronic patience.
Listen, son." it rasped an
angrily. you're being very
careless. You must study hard
er. Check with your instructor
at once"
BY this time I gave up. I nev-
er did find out the correct an
swer. If I had, a green light
would have flashed on my desk.
and I could have passed on to
the next assignment.
Preliminary Studies
Will the electronic teaching
machine work in actual class
room use? DR.. SEIZURE, on the
basis of preliminary studies
carried on this past year be-
lieves that it will. Under Or
dinary conditions, a student
learns by means of text mate
rials, lectures, demonstrations,
or a combination of these. He
may not graS everything be-
fore the class moves on to the
next lesson. He may soon fall
behind and never catch up.
With the teaching machine,
which the institute calls an
AutoTutor, the student and the
teacher know i'm m g diately
whether the lesson is going
across, which students have
fallen behind, and which por-
ton should be repeated. The
teacher, presumably, is relieved
of much drudgery. and can de-
vote himself to the individual
student who needs the help
most.
Our experimentation has
shown a significant increase in
learning efficiency by the new
methods" DR.. SEIZURE reported.
This method can be equally
effective in industrial orienta-
ton and in the military
service.
Will the AutoTutor replace
teachers1 Not in the near fu-
ture. They are primarily in
tended to serve as a teachers
aide. to bring the space age
closer to the classroom. A ma
chine. no matter how clever,
cannot put a sympathetic arm
around the shoulders Of an
emotionally disturbed young
Ster, nor can it impart human
warmth and understanding to
a child in trouble.
The new technology, how
ever, has a definite place in the
school curriculum. Mount Saint
Scholastica College. Atchison,
Kans., has pioneered the de-
velopment Of teaching by mag
netic tape. 1t has equipped
"electronic classrooms" with
recording and playback appa-
ratus. Students of varying
abilities, from excellent to slow,
receive lectures simultaneously
in the same classroom. BY
wearing earphones they hear
only their own lesson; they
communicate directly with the
teacher.
The electronic age has begun
for American education. Dra-
matte developments are Just
around the academic corner.
Evening star., 1960-07-17

the institution.
Director of the Smithsonian's
of 1907 apparently never
reached so far West in their ex-
plorations.
A Spanish mission, the
Smithsonian added. has been
reported to have been estab-
liShed earlier on the Rappahari-
mock river, but no Spanish arti-
facts were found.
DR.. Roberts said scientists
now estimate that Indians
came to the Virginia area some
1000 or 5000 years ago.
Use Of the radio-carbon test
for age of certain materials has
pushed back to some $4,000
years ago the estimate Of when
Indians first came to this con-
tinent, DR.. Roberts said. For
merly it was thought these early
settlers came 5000 or 10,0e0
years ago. =
Evening star., 1960-07-17
Shenandoah College
Gets S713,0OO Loon
BY the Associated Press

The community facilities ad-
ministration announced yester-
day a loan Of $4,000 to Shen-
nandoah college to construct
housing and dining facilities
on its new Winchester, Va,
campus.
The college now is located at
Dayton, Va, but is being moved
to Winchester. The pending
project will provide housing for
96 men and "a women students
and dining facilities for 100.
Evening star., 1960-07-17
Report Scouts Tax Gain
From New Industries

Areas seeking industries remedy to tax problems
up with headaches instead of anticipated fiscal
relief, according to University Of Maryland report
An assumption that businesses and their employees in
base "is clearly faacious
Evening star., 1960-07-17
Smithsonian Uneorths
Virginio's Prehistory
By the Associated Press

Virginia is proving fertile in Smithsonian Instl-
ton studies Of prehistoric life.
Studies Of Indian occupation SITES preceding jamestown
by hundreds and thousand years are being made from
time to time under nf he Inst
Evening star., 1960-07-17
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Silver SnHins, Md,

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Evening star., 1960-07-17
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Evening star., 1960-07-17

Michael A. Lintner of Arling-
Evening star., 1960-07-17
Larger Glasses Possible

BY utilizing the new device,
fewer teachers, working with
larger classes, are possible.
Moreover, better teaching is
possible and greater learning
is achieved by students. accord
Evening star., 1960-07-17
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The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-11-17

'SUBVERSIVE' GEOGRAPHY

My home town, Levittown, N.
Y, is always getting in the
news. Latest fracas was about
a best-selling geography text,
GEOGRAPHY A ND WORLD
AFFAIRS Grand M c N ally &
Coz, which some lame-duck
school board trustees charged
was too "one-world-ish." Writ
ten by Yale University Prof.
Stephen B. Jones and Marion F.
Murphy, the book did admit
that we all live in one world.
In one chapter, it declares:
"Here and there in the world,
people of different nations or
different origins have learned to
live tremendously together. On
the Hawaiian Islands, In the
middle of the Pacific, people
from many parts of the world
have come together. On one Of
these islands there is a univer-
sity where sons and daughters
of island people are taught. The
motto of that university Is:
Above All Nations Is Human
|ity.' When the people of the
world really adopt that motto
and act upon it, we shall at last
have world peace"
You can see how "subversive"
all this is. Fortunately, we now
have q new school board ma
jority and 100 copies of the
book have been purchased for
advanced students.
THE REBEL YELL
The largest high school in
Austin, Texas, is Travis High,
Continued ON Page 4
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EAST SIDE
CONTINUED from Page -

However interested in and must admit than
little amused by report September 12th from Aber
dee Miss The story reported by the Associated Press
and the local daily ran it under the headline:
MIXED JURY EATS TOGETHER AT ABERDEEN
ABERDEEN, Miss-Four Negro members of federal
grand jury ate meal with eight white jurors, two white
U. s. marshas and two white lawyers in otherwise
segregated cafe here Monday Sept IL, 1860
The judge recessed another jury today at noon per-
hitting them to eat separately
No incidents and disturbances reported
Federal District Judge Claude Clayton declined a
statement the incident saying: ut would be improper
judge to make statement concerning anything that
happens in his court"
u. s. Marshal John Phillips refused to answer ques-
TONS
cafe worker described the incident unavoidable
but when judge tells you, what you do? They ate
in the back all together, and 1t very quiet"
BY DAMN there you see, in part, anyway, the true
horror of the whole complex picture in these parts You
just can't depend anything anymore trust you noted
it-that the cafe worker said :" it very quiet"
bets been made before lunch that day. I'd have bet
my leather bound copy of "A Manual For Southerners
(put out by the citizens council too that those
white and colored would have sonped their feet the
floor while eating. But, no. dammit, g. 1t very
quiet" the cafe worker reported. 80
Well l. for one will never believe It, Such my friend
is not the will of God Some of know, too
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A BOOK REVIEW

; (9) Kansas City and the
Southwest, by Franklin ).
briggs, a chronicler, whose con-
tributions to English and Amer
lean magazines have added
many names never before rec
ognized in the history of Jazz.
(1O) The Ellington Style, by
Gunther SCHUYLER, first French
horn player at the Metropolitan
Opera.
(11) Charlie Parker, by Max
Harrison, who recapitulates and
supplements valuable work on
Charlie Parker by Andre Ho-
DER, Ross Russell, Tony Scott,
and others.
(12) Bebop and After: A Re-
port, by Martin Williams, who
tries to reassess the main de-
velopments in a movement, and
extract all the main insights
into jazz-making that have
been discovered.
(13) TIL Re-emergence Of
Traditional jazz, by Editor Al
bert J. Mccarthy, a British
Jazz critic and editor of Jazz
Monthly.
(14) Who's Art FOrm?, by
Editor Nat Hentoff, whose many
books, articles, and editorial
enterprises he is too modest to
enumerate. He Is editor of The
Jazz Review and co-editor OF
The Jazz Makers and Hear me
Talkin' to va.
The book contains q selected
discography and well prepared
index, together with pictures OF
famous name bands.
Even though you may have
thought you couldn't under
stand call that jazz" you will
find the book rewarding.
w. w. STOUT
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