Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 14, 1963, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextN 10 A Tfohd By GERALD S. SNYDER Unittd Prn Inernetionel Somerville, N.J. OJPU In a third grade room in this North New Jersey residential town a group of eight-year-olds confidently raised their voices to the tune of an old Spanish Bong: "El patiti (little duck) hace si cuac, cuac, cuac . . . ei gatito (little cat) hace asi miau, miau, miau . . ." In another room of the same school, a group of fourth-grade children were listening to two or their class- FRANCE ammHr. ) Aif w.., mm i i PUPPETS AID STUDY-Playlng with pup pets In French helps nine-year-old Mary Catherine Johnson and Jay Perantonl in Far Away Places Counterpart Arranged in By DICK WEST Washington-IUPII-"Far away places and strange sounding names , . ." Remember that . song? It keeps coming back like a hHunl Ing refrain ev ery time i pick up a Mirch II copy of the C o ngression- 1 Record. This edition contains the first expense reports filed by our far-flung congressmen on their travels to near and dis tant lands during 19(J2f t it gives a body wanderlust Just to look at neat columns, so round and firm and fully packed with figures. What the senators nnd rep resentatives and their aides reported in the Record was the amount of counterpart funds that they spent while taking care of coiiKrosslonul business overseas. Counterpart funds, as you may know, ere foreign cur rencies owned by the U. S. government, They have been made available to Itin erant congressmen more or') less for the asking. In 1062, as fur as I could tell, our footloose lnwgivcrs left no counterpart unturned. If you arrange their expense accounts in a certain order, they make a sort of poem: "Pesos in the Philippines; "In Austria, the schilling: "In France the franc whs ready cash, "And believe me they were willing. 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ODRINEX is sold with this guarantee by: WISTIRN THRIFT STORE JO Central Mall Orders Fill.d. j i i i c I Weil THURSDAY. MARCH 14. 1963 Graders Speak Airoother Toimgue With Confidence mates- greet each other in French: "Bonjour, Mademoiselle," said a husky, crew-cut boy of nine to a pretty blonde of the same age. "Comment allez vous? ..." In Somerville, population 14.000, boys and girls of all I.Q.'s learn French and Span ish by simple conversation (no grammar) in daily 15-min-ute sessions that begin in the third grade and pick up mo mentum in longer, more for mal Instruction later on. Elementary school language fourth grade at elementary niMiwiw . ... t a. m ini ii i i i ill i i i iw m .,.:'. Spending Accounts Poetry by West "Cambodia supplies riels; "Indonesia mints the rupee; "In Portugal, the escudo "Is UBCd tor making whoopee. "Russia rubles; Swedish kruncrs; , , , "In Italy, the lira "Baht Is spent in Thailand; "Too bad It Isn't nearer. "Yet In Japan; sol in Peruj "Plasters from the Firing on Soviet Trawler Denied Washington - IUPU - The State Department says Rus- s charge that U. S. Navy ships fired on a Russian trnwler was "without founda tion." No "surface vessel" was within 12 miles of a U.S. destroyer engaged in gunnery practice as the Russians said, and a State Department spokesman added that the ship was firing ammunition with only a seven-mile maximum range. Spokesman Lincoln White said Investigation of the al leged incident 70 miles cast of Norfolk on March B when the Russians said two missile cruisers and a destroyer fired dummy rounds at the Soviet fishing boat revealed: The sile of the alleged inci dent is located within "an established and recognized U.S. Navy operations area," and on the day in question, "U.S. naval vessels, none of which were cruisers, were in the area." "Six U.S. Navy destroyers fired Runncry exercises in this area on March 8. "The ship nearest the locu tion of the alleoed incident fired an anti-aircraft practice at a towed sleeve target. At the time of the firing this ship was 10 miles from the position which the Soviet Union reports was the loca tion of the incident. "The ship fired In an easter ly and westerly direction with ammunition which has a sev en-mile maximum range. No ! surface vessel was within 12 miles of the firing ship." Asian Flu Virus Believed Discovered Washington - WPP - The Na tional laxtitute of Health be lieves it has discovered a new type of influenza virus which may have caused this winter's Asian flu epidemic. The NIH Wednesday said the new virus was discovered too late for drug manufac turers to change the flu vac cine that was used this win ter. However, officials said they have developed an ex nerimental vaccine which ran Dc "ca Protective shots given next year. learning is not new in the United States. French has been taught to selected pupils throughout the grades in Cleveland since 1922. At least 30 communities teach Russian before the eighth grade and a few, long-established pro grams in Swedish, Chinese, Serbian and Creek can be found in some elementary school curriculums. Program Gains But the Somerville exam ple of teaching a foreign lan guage to all students not conversational language class school In New Jersey. (UPI) Vietnamese; ' "Sucre's sweet in Ecuador, "But in Brazil, cruzeiro please, "The Deutschmark in ' Germany; "From Yugoslavia, the dinar; "In Guatemala, It's quetzal. "Than which there's noth . ing finer. "Guilders in The Netherlands; "Colon In Costa Rica; "No wonder that our congressmen "Were heard to cry 'eureka!' " Leased Telegraph Rale Hike Postponed Washington-IUril-The ' 'eder- al Communications Commis sion indefinitely postponed Wednesday Its order to In crease rates on May 1 on telegraph lines leased by the press and others. The FCC said the stay was granted pending study of pe titions to reconsider the or der submitted by United Press International, the Amer ican Newspaper Publishers Association and the Amcri ran Telephone & Telegraph Co. The rule increases were grunted on Jan. 28 to AT&T and Western Unlonv The in creases would have boosted costs for the press and other users of such private leased telegraph lines by $4,102,000 a year. Klamath Falls Man Enters Guilty Plea Joseph James Bettles Jr., Klamath rails, pleaded guil ty to charges of obtaining property by false pretenses and execution of sentence was suspended for 12 months when he appeared In Jackson county district court this week. The charge Involved cheek. MUST HAVE YOUR USED '59, '60, '61 CHEVY! Win $10,000 f Lcj Motors. Rjmbltr'i $1,000,000 Bonus Givf.jwy row In progrtu. You miv hvt tlrajdy won. . . Comt too! LEA MOTORS lartleft at Sfh Medfere MEDr'OHD Just the bright and follow. ing this up with an effective program in the junior and senior high schools is only now beginning to come into its own. "It is part of a current great excitement almost a revolution in language learning now taking place in the United States," says Don ald D. Walsh, director of the Modern Language association, a learned society of teachers with offices in w York. Fourteen years ago, when Instruction of a foreign tongue was first introduced in Somerville, the local edu cators were out to , prove a point. , "Since we were going to AA fill I II 111 I f I I 1 I 1 I I I I I : l I BE SURE TO COME IN EARLY AND SAVEI In many of our previous money-saver events we have sold out the first day on some of the items. We cannot always get big quantities of values like these. Come in early and be sure to get what you wantl ; itifwr'i't'iiW'tMwtiwiCT 1 yfc- Trv i HELGMCA WARDS SLEEVELESS SHELLS ...INCREDIBLY LOW PRICED Fashion's newest pet, the versatile pullover of Helenca nylon. Wash-in-a-wink, no-iron shells, priced so low at Wards you'll want a wardrobe of them. Scoop, mock turtleneck styles. White, black, pastels. 34 to 42. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDIORD. OREGON teach a foreign language in the same manner the child had learned E n a 1 1 h by practice in simple talk about everyday things we be lieved it could be given to all the pupils," explained Doro thy Chamberlain, who helped start the program in 1949. All Talk Language "We knew that by the age of three, the baby had learned to use its own language all the babies, the bright, the average, the dull," she said. In the Somerville program, no formal grammar was taught until the seventh grade and no written work was giv en in the elementary grades, Learning by absorption, with almost no English, the young NO MONEY DOWN ON CREDIT m ' -L. f JUL VLK JL U UJ1 l L J sk ' ! sters began to speak Spanish and French easily, naturally and well. Students of low I.Q. learned as well as those of high I.Q. sometimes better, said Miss Chamberlain, "because the most important piece of equipment a child needs is just a good ear." The stutterers didn't stutter in the new languages, she said .and soon Somerville's eighth-grade students knew more about a second tongue than most pupils who had completed the usual first-year high school course elsewhere. Princeton Watches Commented one Princeton University professor of the Sommerville program: "If I I I I 1 1 I f I I I I I I I J V r .... .... TWO DAYS ONLY! FRI DAY AN D SATURDAY REG. 3 YDS. 1.17 COTTON PLISSE 3J1 Ward buy on perma nent crinkle cotton plisse prints. 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Modern Language associa tion director Walsh support ed Miss Chamberlain's view, and he proposed serious lan guage instruction even earlier than the third grade. AT WARDS MACHINE WASH REG. 2.98 SETS 88 Fun sets at Wards ; money saving prices slim-fit cotton duck, pedal pushers, striped -, knit top. 7 to 1 4. VINYL WINDOW SHADE, 33 OFF Reg. 1.49 99' u. Sturdy 4-ge. plastic cleans easily, is tear and fade resistant. Won't crack, mildew. White only. 37!i"x5'. . L J wm.w.L ''-'''yeweMBy-Mrsjeysisp "I'd like to see a set-up in kindergarten with three or four teachers each speaking a different language," he said. "We're convinced the young sters would take to it like a duck takes to water." Before Age of 12 . Extensive instruction should take place before the age of twelve or thirteen "when hardening of the vocal organs sets in," he said. "Five years ago, the public was ignorant about elemen tary school language pro grams. Now they are impa tient. They want to know more." . 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