YOU CAN GET BETTER GRADES
Is Your Child Meeting Space Age Challenges
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Or.
Monday, January 30, 1961
PACE (
Editor'i Note: This is the first
In a scries of 15 articles by an
educational authority, civinc stu
dents and parents practical help
on now to improve grades in
tchool.
Technology Division of Long Beach
City College. .' '
Average reading speed for col
lege graduates and U.S. business
i executives is about 260 words a
minute. By conscious elfort Mr.
Wade hiked his speed lo 450 words
a minute in a few weeks. Present
ly he was reading 800. 1,200, and
then 2.200 words a minute. A!
icruising' speed he could swisn
end girls lo know how to mak.i ,a v0 ..
good grades ' Pur' en '
.. ' , . Wade had pushed his reading
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By LESLIE J. NASON, Ed.D,
with HARKY KARN'S
Nevnr has It been as important
as it is today for American boy
contest of brains. Academic stan
dards are rising. The road to the ?()inB imo 0lbu
ute mark and was at the point of
diploma is suddenly rough and
getting rougher. More is required
of the student than ever before.
For every college student in the
U.S. in 1920, there were two in
1940, four in 1950, and six in 1!0,
and there w ill be 11 in 1970. The
increase in college enrollment in
the next 10 yeais will be greate
But does he understand what
he reads?
Yes. Tests show that as a fast
leader his understanding has in
creased. Although Mr. Wade's case is un
usual, speed reading teachers
know, that with proper training
most persons can double their
man ii nas Deen ui me pasi i".lcading spcc(i and increase their
yaars' 1 ! comprehension 10 to 50 ner cent
Thus competition for a scat in
the American college classroom is
just as keen as competition with
the Russians.
We are less concerned here with
the mechanics of the thing than
with the fact that such improve
ment is possible by conscious cf-
Millions uf American boys and furt You chan?e your spe(,d
girls, howpvei. are ill-prepared to
compete in either of these con
tests. They have not learned how to
write, how to pay attention, how
to read for precise meanings,
how to control the speed and ac
curacy of their mental processes',
or how lo prepare for and take
examinations.
In this series of articles we are
going to talk about some common
sense principles of learning that
can help you make better grades
in school and life.
You can improve your understand
ing of w hat you read.
Fast and Accurate
Joe was a student in an inter
mediate algebra class. He had
(roubles. He brought them to what
we shall describe informally as
Dr. Nason's Clinic for Lagging
School Children. His third grade
teacher had told him to choose
between being siow and accurate
or fast and inaccurate. Since he
had chosen to be slow and aceur-i
ate. he now found it impossible
to finish tests within the time al
io Begin with, lets clear awaylIowcd He reared that anv clangc
niaior nusiacie uiai sianas in in n,s rale 0 work would produce
the path of learning. disastrous results.
It's the fashion today lo blame -look. Joe. you're producing dis
poor grades, delinquency, bad !., sl rolls resuits anvwav." we point
ed out, "why not try the alterna-
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NEW YORK (API-Things a Looking for something to cele- 'a1 w 1,0 isn'' 71 i psychiatric study found that even
columnist might never know if he biate? How about the 85th aniii-! Woman's work is but begun: Inj so-called normal people some
didn't open his mail: versaiy of the first U. S. silo, 1900 only 14 per cent of American! times show marked neurotic
women between the ages of 35 to symptoms after as little as three
(i4 years had jobs outside the hours of isolation.
People take health for granted,!0"'1! in Maryland in 1876
but the surgeon's knife still waits
for most, early or late.
Our quotable notables:
suppose mere is nai'dly a
We
We are 180 million people, and '!' has not an apple orchard lcenl do.
home. Today well above 40 per
about one million operations are tucked away in his heart some
done a year, of which some loj where. "Christopher Morlcy.
per cent are still for the removal I The high cost of higher educa-
of tonsils or adenoids. ilion: Bcnninclon Collecc. a Ver-
If your son objects
hold chores as "sissv.
Memo lo the younger genera
tion: We are informed that Ihc
No ono can truthfully call us
"dirty capitalists." This country
makes 2,300.000 bathtubs a year.
It was Arthur Wing Pinero who
to house- monl institution, puts this price ivcicniim.
vou can u" ul" o.iugiuci s learning:
name of a truant officer in an In- observed, "Those who love deen-
diana town was Mary Willllv never crow old: thev mav die
lot old age. but they die young."
lor one year K.650 a year.
Whether you can afford it or not,
that is what it actually costs the
tell' him that ex heavyweight
champ .lack Dcmpsoy, w ho threw
some of the fastest and fiercest
fists in boxing history, as a boy college
helped his mother do Ihe laundry. Keel overworked and under
Caution to cat or dog owners: paid? The average wage in India
be careful of a "runny-nosed" s $50 annually,
child in your neighborhood. It can We're not sure just what this
infect your pet. j proves, but Ihe Hotel Edison hero
Food for Ihe future: A Canadian , found that its men guests spent
more time on the phones than did
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and are highly nutritious. Well,
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manners, and flat tires on your
great-great-grandfather's genes
and on the pattern of the paper
Daddy put on the wall of your
nursery.
You Can Do It!
Heredity and environment influ
ence your life, of course. But the
notion that they cast your charac
ter and habits in a hard, inflex
ible mold is nothing but a con
venient myth an easy, alibi for a
bad performance.
We are mw going to ask you
live that wasn't suggested to you
Try to be both fast and accurate."
This was awful heresy, but Joe
was ready to try anything.
"What do I do?"'
"When you're working 'slow and
accurate.' does your mind ever
have space left over to think about
other things?"
He admitted that when he
worked slowly he tended to daydream.
"All right then. The point is to
to forget that myth. We are poingimake your mind and your pencil
to ask you lo accept in its place work so fast that Utere s no time
a simple but revolutionary truth: or space in your brain for day
Jaycees' Man Of Year Is Active
In Several Local Organizations
South Sixth, He hunts, fishes, boats and water
resident of iskis for recreation..
He has instructed gymnastic
cee man of the year during the i as a vownecr in me
, ,., ,, , . , , 'YMCA program for eight years
Wes Sine, 7305
Street, a ' lifelong
Klamath Falls, was named Jay
You can consciously control the
operations of your brain just as
you can control the speed and di
rection of your automobile.
' In World War II the Air Force
psychologists proved that you can
4earn. to see more in a shorter
span of time. By flashing pictures
on screens they trained pilots to
take in a fantastic number of
'details in the wink of an eye and
.U describe them accurately. ,
'. Similarly, the Navy, experiment
ing in ' its radio schools, proved
;that operators could develop ac
curate receiving ability to the
point where a sentence of Morse
code was almost a blur of sound.
Several years ago. a Long
Beach, Calif., man, Thurman
Wade, enrolled in a speed read
ing class at the Business and
dreaming.'
We gave him a lest comparable
to one in which previously he had
completed 12 problems (nine cor
rectly) in 50 minutes. This time,
consciously, trying to speed up his
brain, he finished 20 problems
in 40 minutes and got 18 right
Presented w ith proof of the mar
velous new theory thai speed and
accuracy do go together, Joe start
ed getting his algebra done on
time.
"Haste makes waste." . , . "Slow
but sure.','
Those old sayings, dignifying
slowness, are mere excuses for
plodding.
The truth is that you can con
trol your thinking habits and, by
controlling them tremendously
improve your learning.
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annual Klamath Junior Chamber
of Commerce award banquet in
the Klamath Union High School
cafeteria Thursday.
Sine, 24,
and during summer is a volun-
5. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Blake of 1018 Eldorado
Avenue.
THE BUSY BAKERETTES
Eight girls met at Mrs. Mar
vin Brown's home Jan. 24. Club
members are Susie Bray, Karen
Werner, Marie and Cathy Angel.
Donna Tofull, Janice Reid and
Dianne Bard.
We met on Tuesday and decid
ed to havo our meetings on Mon
day.
Officers for the club are Cathy
Angel, president; Susie B'ay, vice
president; Dianne Bard, news re-!
porter.
Marie Angel is going to giv:
a demonstration, setting the table
for a one-place selling.
Wa discussed money for a par
ty, bul haven't really decided
what to do with our club money
yet..
Dianne Paid,
News Reporter. I
Ihe women.. (Our conclusion: The
men were listening to women.)
Nex'. to the common cold and
its buddies such as the flu di
gestive ailments keep more peo
ple from their jobs than any ma
jor disease. The loll is hard to
stomach: 50 million lost working
dcys each year j : r
How much does your medicine p J
cost you? The price of the aver
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Here's something new lo brood
about if you're tired of old wor
ries. Some researchers feel (hat
gravity, the force that holds the
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lor at the municipal swim pool. - h. Dccl..d inl0 ls.VMr.old
He has been a member of theijaqueline Hawry's bedroom win-
has been very active ys Men's Club and has partici
pated in a number of YMCA
membership roundups. He is a
member of the Elks Lodge and
has served on numerous Elks
committees. He is also a charter
member of Linkville Kiwanis
Club, a member of YMCA and
is vice president of (he Klamath
Jaycees.
Though Sien has been a member
less than two years, he has been
secretary and director. As a Jay
ccc. he has worked hard on
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Sine was graduated from KUHS
in 1954. He was active in sports
there. His brother. Merle, is a
KUHS student and has won let
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Sine parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Elwood Sine, 4821 Climax Ave
nue. His wife is the former Kay
Blake. They are parents of two
children Elwood. 6, and Weslyn,
dow when the buses stopped out
side her house.
Today in the w indow they have
two statues of women, pul up by
Jaqucline's father "to give them
something else to look at."
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starts a new job. as director of a
teen-agers' club. Howarth is 80
years old.
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WES SINE
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by his public service and with his
sincere, soft-spoken manner.'
Sine works indoors as manager
of the appliance department for
Montgomery Ward and Company,
bul he is x lover of the outdoors.
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How Dr. Nason Helped a Boy's Future
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The boy van overweight and unpleasant. He lacked con
firjf'nce; he wa failing In school. Nobody liked blra except
his mother.
lf he eould juat learn to make better grades1 she said,
"maybe that would help."
She had failed) help him improve thoje grades. So bad the
ichool. The boy Vas failing. Then aomeone told the mother
about a man who might perform the mirai If.
An he had io many times before, Dr. Le)ie J. Naon, educa
tor and specialist in itudy hahiti. took the rate.
By teaching the hoy how to study he performed the mirarle
of lifting him from failure to scholastic success as well as
surrrtt with other children.
He wasn't stupid.11 Dr. Nason notes. "He just never had
been taught how to learn.'
In simple, nontrrhnirul language, Dr. Nann now reveals
some effective, neglerted techniques nf the art of learning.
Don't mi's the articles on "Vou CAN Get Better Grades,"
which Dr. Naon has written with Harry Karns. The series
starts in this paper Monday.
Read
Dr. Nason
today
in the
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