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...Adams and Lee to pay half their fines immediately or go to jail. They paid. Meantime, Saul Allen, returning to his office, found waiting on his desk the latest postcard from Big Joe. "Dear Saul: Just a card to let you know that I just arrived here from Atlanta, Ga. Spoke to Zeke Williams there, and he told me he is sending you what he owes for tickets. I also spoke to other boys, and they promised to do the same thing." On the face of the card was a handsome photograph of Florida's Hialeah race track...
...sixth, 7,200 to 8,500. But some will have more and some many less, and this brings the teacher hard up against one of the knottiest problems in modern education. "I was in one rural school," says Superintendent Paul West of Fulton County, Ga.. "where there were 17 children in one class with IQs ranging from 48 to 152." Reading ability varies accordingly. In 1944, St. Louis found that of its 7,380 eighth-graders, 138 read below fourth-grade level, 353 at fourth, 3,439 below eighth and 2,909 above. The big question...
...Macon, Ga. and Champaign, 111. have experimented with a phonic system developed by a Texas schoolteacher named Cornelia Sloop. This also starts with vowel sounds, then goes on to consonants, and within a few weeks, to the rules of spelling. Last year Champaign found that while 43.4% of the pupils taught by the standard method scored below the nation al reading level, the score for the Sloop-trained pupils was only 20.7% below...
...chairman of five. In the winter of 1955 he was the ranking U.S. Senator, and as the Senate's president pro tern he stood fourth in line of succession to the presidency. Last week, on a warm winter's day in his home town of Vienna, Ga. (pop. 2,200), Senator Walter Franklin George, 77, submitted his good record and his good name once more to the voters of his state. "I will be a candidate," he announced, "for nomination for the office of United States Senator next year...
Died. Major General (ret.) Charles Stewart Farnsworth, 93, first Chief of (U.S.) Infantry (1920-25), commander of the U.S. 37th Division in World War I, one of the developers and onetime head (1919-20) of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.; in Corona, Calif...