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SUNDAY. JANUARY 20. 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
The Family Council
Editor's note! The rmlly Council consists of a luat.
nhvchtatrliL thrco clcrivmen. three edlton and a women'i editor,
Each article ti a summary of a family dliaf rcement presented to the
Council. The .council aears vmn prooiemi. major ana minor,
encountered by guidance counselor! and social workers. Edited
Mrs. Alma Denny. (Copyriiht by General Features Corp.)
Flo T. Because of her
1 theories, she's holding her
child back.
Karen F. - I refuse to let
my child be pushed, Just to
how oft.
Flo T. - I'm here from
Denver, visiting my sister
and her family. I'm particu
larly fascinated by my niece
Debbie who s tnree years oia
year younger than my little
boy. I hear Debbie babbling
the A B C's. Then she pre
tends to read, holding the
book upside down and even
over her head. She seems
, ready and eager to read, but
' her mother ignores this and
changes the subject with her,
usually for Ring-A-Round-A.
Rosy. .
I'm amazed at Karen's stub'
bornness about this. Where
come from they encourage
parents to teach pre-school
kids to read. My son had
book at Debbie's age. He call
ed it his favorite game. Unless
Karen helps Debbie with the
. letters, the child will ask
others and Set all mixed up.
' Karen F. - There's no one
more unfortunate than
youngster who's being pushed
to satisfy her parents vanity,
That was done to me ana
don't want to repeat it with
Debbie.
Why must a child of
read? Even Flo's little boy
would be better off If they
kept books away from him.
By the time our children are
eleven and twelve they 11
probably read several books
a week and no one will know
or care when they learned or
how, whether at 3 or at 7.
But this is a child's age for
sandbox and climbing and
dancing.
My sister Is misled by Deb
bie's fun with books. It's only
imitative. She sees my hus
band and me holding a book
at every . spare moment so
she curls up with her Mother
Goose for Aunt Flo.
The Councilt When you got
ta go, you gotta go, and when
you gotta read, Karen, you
gotta read. Controversy
abounds on the question
raised here, but the majority
of experts feels that the Law
of Readiness is the one to go
by. There's a difference be
tween forcing a pre-schooler
to read and allowing her to do
so.
Ploughing under, holding
back any. growth which is
ready to function Is an un
healthy process," Surrounded
words, the child of 3, 4, and
cannot help but wonder about
letters and sounds. They flush
across TV commercials, out
door signs, ever skywriting
in the heavens. Interest and
curiosity are inevitable. And
those are the essentials for
learning anything. Hence,
many people say, "Seize th
moment of greatest eagerness
and get in the reading instruc
tion while it s easy."
The project in Denver
which Flo mentions is one of
several where reading is pre.
sented to 3-year-olds as play,
often the sort of active play
Karen seeks for her daughter.
Youngsters carry around
large models of each letter, or
mould them out of clay. They
identify words flashed on
screens from an electric type
writer. Sometimes they have
their own typewriters on
which to bang out letters and
numbers.
"At their own pace" is the
guiding rule for these courses,
Karen must admit that it's a
fair approach and that
works two ways. One has no
more right to slow up a bright
child than to push an average
or dull one. And one can't be
glib about a parent's motives,
Usually the young child who
reads really wanted to Icarn
and wasn't hurried along so
mat nis parents might bras,
lo sum up, reading can be
as much fun as painting, sing
ing, sliding and swlneine.
Just because it's a skill that
will be used all the child's
life Is no reason for nostnon-
Ing it until he's had his fill of
other forms of fun. If Debbie's
ready, for reading, her moth
er's quibbling Is foolish.
Salem Newsman
Going To London
Salem -OIPD-J. Wesley Sulli
van, news editor of the Ore
gon Statesman, is to leave
Portland for London Jan. 25
lo begitutwo months, of news
gathering in Britain and on
the Continent. He is lo be ac
companied by his wife, Elsie.
His trip is to be sponsored
by the Statesman and the
Portland branch of the Eng
lish Speaking Union with a
grant of $1,000.
Sullivan expects to return
to Oregon about April 2.
Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. W ATKINS
(Register and Tribune
Syndicate, 1963)
PROGRAM CRITICIZED
Salem - H1P11 - Gov. Mark
Hatfield's proposed $45 mil
lion higher education build
ing bonding program has been
sharolv criticized by Sen
by words, words, and moro Ward Cook (D-Portland).
Nature Selected Figure 7
As Magic Number of Bones
One of the most amazing
characteristics of the giraffe
is its exceedingly long neck
That, and the fact the animal
is prehistoric, make it a stand
out in the animal kingdom.
Alongside the giraffe in the
zoo, not at all amazed at the
company it keeps, will usual
ly be one or more English
sparrows. Here arc two am
mals with very dissimilar
necks the very short neck
of the sparrow and the very
long one of the giraffe. Unbe
lievable as it sounds, there
are over twice as many bones
in the short neck of the spar
row as there are in the long-
necked giraffe. The sparrow
has 26 vertebrae; the big mam.
mal only seven.
It must have been nature,
not man's superstition, that
selected the figure 7 as the
magic number. Nature creat
ed all mammals from the tiny
mouse up to the mighty whale
and including man with
this magic number of neck
bones.
Nature also designed two
other neck arrangements:
birds, with 16 bones except
for the swan, which has 23
Lacks Flexibility
The neck of the giraffe
lacks the flexibility of the
swan's neck, but inasmuch as
the long neck gels the ani
mal's head up where the foil
age is fresh and green, it
serves its purpose. If the poor
old giraffe had as many neck
bones as the swan, he would
be able to bend his neck in
order to eat or to drink from
pool without having to strad
dle his long legs out at such
ridiculous angles.
That's where the birds have
it all over all the other ani
mals in having so many neck
bones: their necks have ex
treme flexibility. The birds'
way of life dictates the num
ber of vertebrae in the neck.
The swan needs 23 to make its
neck about as flcxibile as a
piece of rubber hose. It comes
handy in reaching down
to the bottom of shallow water.
All the other bird specleR
sparrowi robin, owl, heron,
eagle have to get along
with 16 neckboncs, but even
that many makes it possible
for the bird to crook its neck
into seemingly impossible po
sitions. By twisting the neck,
the bird can clean and oil
every feather on Its body.'
Man, mouse, whale, giraffe
and all the mammals in be
tween, with only seven neck
bones, are handicapped to
some degree. Man can turn
his head far enough to either
side to look over either shoul
der, or can tip the head up
or down. But birds can turn
their, heads almost completely
around; bend their neck in
crook, a loop or almost
circle, or, as the great blue
heron frequently does, bend
the neck in the shape .of the
letter S.
The neck in all living crea
tures is a continuation of the
backbone, and the backbone
classifies the animal as a ver
tebrate. But enters here
seeming contradiction: the
fish is a vertebrate as it pos
sesses a backbone, but it. has
no neck. It Just can't turn
its head at all. The fish must
turn its entire body, but this
proves no real problem. In
the environments in which the
fish lives, a "stiff neck"
no neck at all is a decided
advantage. Could the fish turn
its head, the added resistance
against the water would slow
its forward progress. So in
stead of having a flexible neck
the fish turns its entire body
and continues a straight line
Train Hits Trailer,
Scatters Pipe Load
A trailer load of galvanized
pipe was scattered for about
100-yards along the tracks
Thursday when a Southern
Pacific company locomotive
and an Armco Metal Products
truck were involved In a col
lision at the railroad crossing
on Table Rock rd. near Kirt-
land rd.
State police said that the
collision occurred about 9:25
a.m. Front end of the loco
motive was badly damaged
nd the semi-trailer attached
lo the truck was demolished.
There wore no personal in
juries, police reported.
Driver of the truck was
Rex Arellanos, 52, Portland.
Armco is a Portland firm.
Engineer of the locomotive,
which was towing 31 cars,
was John David Burgoyne,
47, Klamath Falls.
Police stated that the west
bound engine hit the right
center of the trailer of the
northbound truck. The trailer
remained connected to the
truck and was pulled a short
distance along the tracks.
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Konaa eiaine neison. ' nz, 01
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CIRCUIT COURT
Vivian A. Shepard vs. Thomas
O. Shepard, divorce complaint.
Charles Laughton's
Estate Left To Wife
Los Angeles fUI Actress
Elsa Lanchester was the sole
beneficiary in the will of her
late husband, actor Charles
Laughton.
Laughton, who died Dec. 15
after - a long battle against
cancer, left his entire estate
to his wife in the one-page
will admitted to probate
Thursday.
The estate was valued "in
excess of $10,000" and his an
nual income was estimated at
more than $12,000.
Cascade Snow Lack 'Alarming'
Portland - (DTD - The lack of
snow in the Cascades is
"alarming," W. T. Frost, snow
survey supervisor for the Soil
Conservation Service, said Fri
day. Snow level at key points in
the Cascades in mid-January
was less than one-sixth nor
mal, he said. "
Frost said the situation was
similar to 1959 which pro-
Portland Woman Dies
When Struck by Car
Portland (UPD Mrs. Jen
nie Henry, 44, Portland, was
killed when she was struck
by a car here Wednesday
night.
STAY REFUSED '
Olympia, Wash. - (UPD - The
state supreme court has re
fused to save condemned mur
derer Joseph Chester Self
from the gallows.
duced subnormal water sup
plies for irrigation.
Stream flow in the middle
fork of the Willamette was
only 29 per cent of average,
in the Rogue about 33 per
cent of average and in the
John Day river 29 per cent of
average, he said. Below nor
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