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Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., Apr." 13, '58-(Sec. I)-3 t r Future Bright for Gifted Children Despite Past Bungling, Leading Educators Predict By G. Kr HODENFIELD ' tea's five million exceptional cM- They have come up with Solid There must be earlier spotting ! effort Jo pay the admittedly high I special education and treatment. been followed for 20 or 30 years, i Much of the convention waj de-ithe plea: , . . , -AP Education Reporter dren. proposals f - of the gifted child co that he may osU of educating the exception-1 -More than once , the educators there to B tendency by teachers to voted to the problem of the truly J "Let i don t make Hie mistake . j-a.a . . .. r.rf .ma i,..,-, j There must b more research he euided-ooshed if neccssary-V a)1 child. ' iwere told there must be a major consider it as something written gifted child, the near genius who. of pushing every gifted child into lff.y11. .ome oi e hT .; iZ, 3o 1 .Tm inio the oroblems of the excen-.tn the full limits of his capabili- i There must be better relaUons breakthrough in the field of train- on stone UbleU and found on a in numbers makes up about two "P.CrtWhta m ZZS 72 ttari. and there must be better W--.v-.i- .between-the school and the par-' ing methods. Imountaln top. We have to get per cent of the nation's school cauuuu uuLiimsni narurnnv innr ...uo . ... . , . . I ...... r . , . ,. . .1 il. . j caution optimism Saturday that things are looking, up for Amer- Attack on Two Magazines by Educator. Hit NEW YORK Ut Roy E. Larsen, president of Time, Inc., Saturday termed presumptious, if not in sulting, a suggestion by aneduca tion official that Time and Life magazines be barred from class rooms, t Paul E. Elicker, executive sec retary of the National Assn. of Secondary School Principals, had sent a letter to the organization's 20,000 members suggesting they consider banning the magazines because of an article on educa tion in" the March 24 issue of Life. Attack Unfair In a letter to Elicker, Larsen said: , - "The; singling out for an attack' to be done, Some 1,500 educators, psycholo gists, clinical therapists, and so cial workers headed for home with those thoughts after a week long convention of the Council for Exceptional Children. In dozens of 'study groups and open sessions they probed the past, present, and future of the children who vary from the nor mal the really bright and the abnormally dull, the crippled, the aeat and the blind, the ill, and the emotionally disturbed, Leopold Aided In Arrest of Wanted Man CHICAGO m Authorities said a photo identification made by Na than Leopold before he was pa roled had led to the arrest Friday of a man sought in a North Side robbery. Miss Cella Miller, 44, told police a man she knew as Jack Keller took $800 from her home Dec. 7 after binding her hands and mouth on a major series of articles aD-;with tape praising education, one fragment Miss Miller recalled her assail of the first article was, I feel, ant had surrendered a chauffeur's totally unfair because it took one 'license, bearing a photograph of section out of context and distorts 'himself, for a traffic violation a Life's general thesis and an edi-lw day earlier, torial position of many year's' Detectives found the photo un standing " ' ' jder the name of Jack Lavergne. The article, by Sloan Wilson, Thev sent il to Stateville Prison said, in part, that a surprisingly 1 on " hunch that their tmn mi8ht small percentage of high school beA1a" e4x"c.?,nvl; . . . .tt.Hnt. i. .fin kof t At Stateville, Warden Joseph E. be considered basic subjects, "Only 12 per cent are taking any mathematics more advanced than algebra, and only 25 per cent are studying physics," the article said. "A foreign language is studied by fewer than 15 per cent of the students. Ten million Russians are studying English, but only 8,000 Americans are studying Russian." 'Hasty Action' Larsen, In his letter to Elicker, said: "I am particularly dismayed by the - fact that your action was taken after reading only the first of what was well advertised to be a series of articles in Life on education. . . . "Would it not have been more in the tradition and spirit of free in quiry to suggest to them that they read the whole series of articles in Life and then let you and me know what they thought of ttemT" - --' " H. Larsen has been active in edu cational fields for several years. Name Refused LA SPEIZIA (A-Giorgio Garbi ni, a businessman, just happens to like the name Genghis Khan' and plans to sue the city for the right to name his new son Genghis Khan Garbini. The city had refused to register the name under Italian law bar ring names that are funny or of fensive or against national or re ligious sentiments. . Ragen said Leopold recalled see ing th; man at services in the prison , chapel. Leopold also re called' that his name was Jack Besmel, 52, a lifer paroled in De cember 1956. Police picked Besmel up Friday night at a rooming house where he formerly had lived. Officers said he admitted the holdup. The check of the photo at the prison was made some time be fore Leopold was freed on parole March 13. Yakima City Official Freed In Jury Trial YAKIMA Ml A Superior Court jury which deliberated only one hour today acquitted" Kenneth Schutt, city finance commissioner, of grand larceny and corrupt practices charges.' Schutt, whose trial began Mon day, was charged with having caused the disappearance, of two petitions which sought his recall as " finance ' commissioner. The Citizens Committee for Better Government claimed it filed 116 petitions at the City Hall March 6, 1957, but two were missing in a subsequent check. The recall petitions were circu lated after Schutt had attempted to fire Police Chief Oscar Soder strom while Schutt was acting mayor. Billy Graham Prepares for Crusade in San Francisco BAN FRANCISCO U - Evange list Billy Graham opens a six week crusade in the Cow Palace April 27. Advance preparations al ready bave reached a high pitch throughout the bay area. Statistically, the San Francisco revival will be overshadowed by Graham's 16-week marathon in New York's Madison Square Gar den last year when more than two million persons attended and 56, 000 made decisions for Christian ity. - . The Cow Palace will seat 1500, about 2,000 ' fewer than Madison Square Garden, and the crusade can be extended at most to eight weeks'. But in other respects the San Francisco effort may surpass the New York crusade. The Rev. Walter Smyth, crusade director, reports that 1,160 church es of many Protestant denomina tions have promised cooperation, compared with only 900 in New York at this same juncture. Since March 10, 4,500 persons have been taking counselor train ing to assist the drive. Charles Riggs,. director ,of training, says this exceeds New York and ap proaches that in Glasgow, Scot land. United areawide prayer meet ings, aided by radio programs, have been in progress since April 1. Graham leaders list more than 3,000 prayer groups, meeting four times weekly. Dr. Robert Munger, crusade leader and pastor of Berkeley's First Presbyterian church, says churchmen's interest was sparked by knowledge that- only 30 per cent of the population of northern California claims any church affil iation, compared with a national average of 62 per cent. The services will be televised nationally by ABC each Saturday, starting May 3. Telecasts to the East will be at 10 p.m. EDT, with a rerun for the Pacific Coast at 10 p.m. PDT. Wieders Satin-smooth Inner , Collar No "Buckles" er .. "Bulges" Shirt Bosom Smooth . Silk Easy Tie-slip Collar Looks Like New Low In Front for. " Greater Neck Freedom Sta-No " Dry Cleaning ,Will Amaze . tout Each Shirt Packaged in a Useful Transparent Bag ' ' More Shirts in a Grip More Shirts in a Drawer Call EM 3-9125 263 High St. South trained teachers and supervisors! -The nation's thousands of small ents so .that the parents can be - John Wagner of the University away from that idea, we have to to interpret what the research dU- schoor districts must consolldate'made o understand that , their of Texas put it this way: explore new ways of teaching our closes. i ' ' land reorganize so hat they can, chlld'to. exceptional and' needs! ' "After a teaching practice has, children:" . population From all sides including sci ence teachers themselves came science and mathematics. Those fields are important in today's world,' but let's don't go over board. The United States needs leaders in other fields, too." , ' (2 Hi - . 4 4 4 I v t V
