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Newspaper Page TextVISITOR’S IMPRESSION — Dr. Allen Lee, assistant state superintendent of schools in Ore gon, said something to a Georgia audience that I think you would be interested in. He said, “If I had to pick out the half dozen best state departments of educa tion in the nation, Georgia’s would most certainly be among them. He has visited all 50. UNIONS AND THE NEA — Handsome, blonde Hazel Blanch ard, president of the 850,000 edu cators who belong to the Nation al Education Association, flew in to Georgia recently on her 150,- 000-mile year-long trip around the country. Looking very lively in a beige suit with a black blou se, Mrs. Blanchard frankly dis cussed the new issue of whether teachers should join unions and strike. She said, “Strikes often are associated with violence and are not in the commonly inter ests. We recommend professional sanctions. That means that we do not recommend, for instance, a community as a good place to teach if there are bad conditions there that affect teachers or edu cation.” WE WANT 250 A YEAR — We have 500 bright young Georgians in college on state scholarships, studying to be teachers, and to teach in Georgia. Our plan is to build up this scholarship fund un til we have 250 new ones going in each year, 250 coming out into Georgia classrooms ready to teach your children in a space age world. Now is the time to suggest to your most personable, brightest child, “Have you ever thought of being a teacher?” If you are interested, write Mrs. S. C. Patterson here at the Depart ment of Education, Atlanta 3, Georgia. Average scholarship is $750 a year, can go to SI,OOO with summer school. WATCH THOSE WORDS — OSE WORDS — Don’t call them “trade” schools. Call them Area Vocational- Technical Schools. I admit that’s an awkward mouthful. If your tongue hasn’t time for all those syllables, just say “Vo-Tech Schools.” But not TRADE schools, please. NEW GIRL IN SCHOOL — Farmington, the fashionable girl’s prep school started by the sister of a Yale president, has a new enrollee for 1974: Caroline Kennedy. This is her mother’s alma mater, and Caroline’s name has already been put on the fu ture waiting list. Tuition: $2,700 a year. Rich school for rich minds, they say. DOES THIS STARTLE YOU? — An educator in these parts has I Il A STOWS J*J I WXjv I TIDE POWDER REGULAR SIZE 25c I | Instant Nescafe Coffee 6 Oun<:es 69c 1 | Riceland Long Grain RICE 3 pounds 39c I I SHAWNEE FLOUR 3 59c I | Pure Gold Pickles Sweet & Mixed Pint 25c I I SWIFT'S PREM 12 OUNCES 45c I I Powhatan Peaches N ° 2 * Can 19c I I Morrell Prido Shortening 3 Pound Can 49c I | NABISCO SALTINES POUND 27c I | PET MILK 3 cans 39c I | PINE CONE TOMATOES 303 Can 10c I I Blue Plate Salad Dressing P|NT 25c I I BLACKBURN SYRUP HALF-GALLON 49c I | Oleo Aluminum Foil 12INCHES 29c I | MAZOLA OIL QUART 65c I | GREEN CABBAGE POUND 5C I | Sunnyland Smoked Bacon pound 35c I I PORK CHOPS POUND 59c I I FRESH DRESSED FRYERS POUND 29c I I Brisket STEW BEEF AA GRADE POUND 39c I QUANTITY LIMITED I Morgan Grocery I Phone HO 2-2561 Nahunta, Ga. ■ Tales Out of School By Bernice McCullar State Department of Education come up with the suggestion that all three big educational agencies — State Department of Educa tion, State University System, and State Teacher Retirement — be put under one board that would have 15 members, one from each Congressional district, and five from the state at large. How does that strike you? WHAT THE ASTRONAUT SAID TO THE BOY SCOUTS - John Glenn, youth’s new hero, told Boy Scouts to “Keep a spirit ual center in your life to give you direction and purpose.” He said that he hoped what they are learning in the Scouts will carry over into their adult lives. One of Georgia’s Scout leaders is the Department’s Dr. Allen Smith, assistant state superintendent of schools. (Did you know that Georgia had a John Glenn once who was secretary of the very first patriot group that met in this state?) He was there when the first Georgians met at Ton dee’s Tavern to get sassy with King George 111 on August 27, 1774. They met in spite of Royal Governor James Wright’s forbid ding them to do it and labeling them a bunch of hot-headed reb els. THEY PRESENT THEIR SU PERINTENDENT — J. R. Trippie, who has been superintendent of the Vidalia schools for some years, is being presented by his folks down there for president elect of the Georgia Education Association. When I think of Judson Trippie, I remember a funny tale he tells on me. I was down there to talk at commence ment, when a traveling salesman, in the hotel, said, “There’s a movie on that was a New York play, would you like to go?” I said I would but I had promised to go to commencement. Where upon, the man said, “Oh, DON’T do that. Commencements are al ways dull, and tonight they are having a WOMAN speaker, so you know it will be awful.” SUDDEN DEATH — A White county math teacher, Paul Kin sey, died while watching his students, the White County War riors, win a football game the other night. County School Su perintendent Herbert Glover said, “This is a tragic loss to education in our county.” IDEA FOR YOU? — A PTA in the West put on a school dis play in a downtown bank every month to help its community understand its schools better. First display in the autumn was a picture of each one of the teachers, with a note about where she graduated, where she came Grocery Specials I Friday and Saturday, Oct 5 & 6 Get Mere for Your Money at Morgan's from, and what grade or subject she teaches. THAT FUSS ABOUT THE PRAYER — We get many ques tions about whether schools must stop having prayer since the Supreme Court ruled about it. Answer is NO, NO, NO! What the Court said was that no edu cational group, like a board of education, has a right to prescri be a certain prayer for pupils. They did not say pupils and teachers could not pray. Georgia law decrees that the Bible must be read in the classroom each day. (Code Section 32-705). The pupils and their teacher usually pray the Lord’s Prayer. Georgia law also specifies that if any parent objects, he or she may ask in writing for his child to be excused during these proceed ings. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES — Little boy whose mother was trying to rush him toward school, ‘“Mother, God didn’t make me to hurry.” SCHOOLROOM IN ALASKA - I met some people from Alaska this summer and they told me a bout the nation’s largest “school room.” About 400 or 500 elemen tary and high school youngsters who live in an area stretched o ver 586,000 lonesome miles, are enrolled. But they never meet their classmates. They get their school by mail. They get also a little news sheet called “Scat tered Chatter.” The school is ope rated by the Alaska State Depart ment of Education. The elemen tary students complete their les sons and then send them in to Juneau, where they are read and rated by 40 expert teachers. High school lessons are sent to the U niversity of Nebraska, with which the Education Department con tracts for this service. Best thing about this plan is that it encoura ges the students to study on their own. I have always called this “lonesome learning.” In the snow clad stretches of Alaska, it must be lonesome indeed. (Did you know that William Seward, who bought Alaska for the U. S. from Russia, once taught school in Georgia?) The law says the Georgia child must be in school 180 days a year between his 7th and 16th birth days. Most Georgia children start at six. The local school system has the say-so about when they must have become six be fore they can start to school. (“You mean to tell me I can be prosecuted if I keep my child out of school without an excuse? That’s rediculous,” says Mamma. “It’s my business.” No, it is not, Lady. It becomes society’s busi ness if your Johnny and Jane turn out to be among the unskill ed and the unschooled and have to be a burden on society when they grow up. Besides, they are bright youngsters. We need their talents, their developed minds for voting, their intelligent ser vice on juries, councils, county commissions, and PTA commit tees.) 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