Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1958 — Page 12

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SCHOOL REPORTER The juniors at PMHS have been very busy recently. Thursday.the juniors are putting on their play and Sunday they are to leave on their class trip. Until the play is over they won’t have time to think about what they are going to do on the trip- The student body hopes the juniors will have a gay and interesting trip. k —P.M.H.S.— The candy sales of the music department is going very good. At the last count Steve Barker, and 8

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i th grade student, was in the lead with $24 worth of candy sold. There is still candy to be sold. It will be sold in front of the grocery store Saturday. —P.M.H.S.— The senior English class presented the history of the school and also some of the town last Tuesday evening to the Adams county historical society. After the meeting was over the group looked at the pictures and maps. - P.M.H.S.— The boys quartet from the

school went to the eßthany E. U.B. church in Decatur Wednesday to entertain at a luncheon for the elder members of the church. Carolyn Luglnbill was the pianist. —P.M.H.S.— Doyle Ldiman, ag. teacher at PMHS accompanied PMHS boys on the county judging contest. The dairy group consisting of Morris Colter, Dean King, Roy Ehrsam, Steve Riely, Larry Jackson, Jim Death Tony Wagner, Jim Wheeler, Jerry Winans, and Jack Butler, placed sth in the county. Morris Colter had the top rating with 382 points. Dean King was second with 376 and Roy Ehrsam and Steve Riley tied for third with 365. The livestock team consisted of Jerry Smith, Bob Martz, Don Edgel, Dale Riely, Mike McGill, Ferris Fox, Dick Ehrsam, Jim Buettner, and Gene Tricker. Their placings is not yet known. —P.M.H.S.— The FFA boys have completed their seed sales. They sold about $275 worth of seeds altogether. —F.M.H.S.Last Os Bad Men Protests TV Shows Scores Weak-Kneed Television Villains FOR WEDNESDAY PMs By VERNON SCOTT United Press Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD (UP) —The last of the Western bad men is still alive and kicking about the sorry plight of TV outlaws. He’s 94-year-old Al Jennings, train-robber and terror of the Southwest during the 1880 s, who now vents his spleen on weakkneed video villains who always lost their gun battles. "Ain’t no real bad men in TV,” says white-haired Jennings. “Hells fire, they all carry two guns, twirl ’em around their fingers and hang ’em too low in the holsters. They , can do everthin’ but hit a target. “I killed several men in Texas —rich ones they were, too—and I seen many a gunfight, but it was dang seldom, law officers or cowboys ever got the drop on a outlaw.” _ Recalls Best Gunfighter “Best gunfighter I ever saw Jim Stanton. He killed 20 men,” Al said, squinting ..into the sun- “ When I was 11 years old I seen him plug a man right between the eyes. The most beautiful gun fight I ever saw. “I knew Jesse James personalhim once myself. Some of the finest men I knew were hoss thieves." Al was an outlaw for three years in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas, and admits to robbing trains and banks. He skips many details because “the statute of limitations ain't run out on some of the things I done,” In 1895 he was given a life term in a federal penitentiary, but was pardoned by presidential -order after serving five years. Held For Shooting “They nailed me on a charge of assault with intent to kill. All I did was shoot a rifle out of Bud Ledbetter’s armfc down in the injun territory around Oklahoma,” he cackled. “Old Bud ran like a turkey when I nicked him.” Al stopped laughing and launched into a tirade against television. “TV shows don’t know nothin’ about the old West In them days everybody stole cattle. Heck, I put my brand on every Maverick I came across, and I ain’t ashamed to admit it.” FALLS VILLAGE, Conn. (W — After using an f ancient roll-top desk for 23 years, Postmaster Martin M. J. Murray received a new one—the day he retired.

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U.S. Involved In Controversy Over Education Parents Smack In Controversy Over Education Method By LYtE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) — What the moms and pops of the United States do not know is that they are smack in the middle of a Mg national controversy which directly affects them and their kids The controversy is about education, and there couldn’t be a hotter subject in this dawning moment of the space age. It is a controversy about what should be taught in the schools and who should teach it. The controversy about what should be taught goes about like this: Should high schools continue to short change such tough ahd basic subjects as mathematics and other sciences to find room and money for such educational gizmos as the design of frying pan handles to fit the palm? The controversy about who should do the teaching goes some . thing like this: Should teachers be required to a cq u i r.e profound knowledge of teaching methods at ' the expense of basic knowledge of the subjects they undertake to teach? Students Like It , The short changing of tough and basic subjects has been under . why in the United States for some 50 years in the name of progres- ■ sive education. The students like it. The U.S. Office of Education . has gone along with it and, in ’ fact, advocated for the nation's , high schools something called “life adjustment - education." What “life adjustment educa- . tion” means is an emphasis on • studies calculated to prepare the f young for adult life without neces- ' sarily undergoing the rigorous mental discipline involved in sustained exposure to basic education. Small wonder that the stu- . dents do not object if they are ' given the chance to substitute sos courses for stiff ones. The Council for Basic Education with headquarters in Washington, pointed this up by citing a recent report on public education in West Virginia. • « . ’CBE, “we .. ■ ’call attention to the manner in which West Virginia has been meeting the stern demands of the day. In , the last decade the biggest ini creases in> enrollment in that state have been in Driver education, office practice and band.” Higher Teaching Standards Opponents of this kind of progressive education contend that it does not fit students for higher learning but, instead, confronts colleges with shoals of high school graduates who are unable even to read and write the english language properly. The' controversy about who should do the teaching seems to tie in with that. Some of the most powerful individuals and institutions in the field of education press for higher and higher standards of knowledge of teaching methods. Elementary school teachers here in Washington, for example, must have 40 semester hours of professional education in how to teach. That is the highest requirement in the United States. James R. Killian Jr., President Eisen•hower’s special assistant on science and technology, would not meet that qualification to teach in the capital’s public schools and, presumably, would be disqualified if he sought a job.

Cites Reasons For Turbulence In Cuba Correspondent Flies To Miami To Write Editors Note: What’s behind the turbulence in Cuba today? The following dispatch was written by a correspondent who has just spent 10 days there. Censors in Havana would not dear bis stories so he flew to Miami. By JACK V. FOX United Press Staff Correspondent MIAMI (UP) — A United States senator gets a salary of $22,500 a year. A senator in Cuba gets $50,000 with another $50,000 for expenses. ' That simple fiscal fact goes a long way to explain why there is pressure for a change in government in Cuba. Cuba has a weekly national lottery, printing 46,000 tickets. One senator is known to get an allotment of 500 every week. He sells them for $2 apiece more than he pays for them. That figures out to another $50,000 a year. An American government employe posted in Havana lives in a home once occupied by a minister of treasury in a former Cuban government- In the bouse is a large vault. It has an interesting history. During the minister’s term in office, the government issued a new series of currency. As old banknotes reached banks and the treas-

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ury, they were replaced by crisp new ones. But instead of burning the old and still valid bills, the minister puts them in his vault. When he fled he had between 15 and 20 million dollars in his suitcases. Variety of Opinions Political graft is an accepted fact of life in Cuba and the pressure for removal of Gen. Fulgencio Batista is motivated by greed as well as by the very genuine Cuban indignation that their president is a man who seized power at gunpoint in 1952. You can hear all types of opinion in Havana about Batista and about rebel leader Fidel Castro who has announced he will launch a revolution by next week. Here are some of them. A Cuban lawyer: “This man (Batista) murders at random, he steals* at random. This is not a social or economic revolution. The people are fighting for a basic cause-justice Castro represents it to many of us.” An American importer: “Fidel Castro is living on his press clippings. He has no political strength or military strength. He is arrogant. He has no program. He simply wants himself in and Batista out?’ , A Cuban president of a sugar company: “Batista has brought a certain amount of stability, but it doesn’t make up for the excesses under his regime. It is questionable whether he can control his own police and troops. There is no doubt some of the officers have been vicious and sadistic killers.” “Levers Not Fighters” An American broker: ‘I think if Batista had been elected he would

be considered a great president. Materially, he has done wonders for this country. But he cannot continue in office. At least 90 per cent of the people would agree on that”

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A Cuban communications worker: “I am afraid for my wife and children. I would like to get them to the United States. I saw a blood bath here 25 years ago and I will never forget those scenes. 1 don’t want to see them again.”