THURSDAY, JUICE 29, x.962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE __ Rusk Goodwill Mission Seeks to Reach Accord On U.S.-Portugal Strife Hit Farm Program At Estes Hearings Godfrey Criticizes Administration For Neglecting Committee System WASHINGTON 0A)-An Agriculture Department official lashed out at the Eisenhower Administration yesterday as Senate Investiga- tors opened hearings into the multimillion dollar operations of Billie Sol Estes. Horace D. Godfrey, administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said he accepted his job under the Kennedy Administration to help rescue the Farmer Committee System from "eight years of neglect and outright knifing by the previous Adminis- tration." These committees are local groups which help administer farm programs. Godfrey's remark brought a protest from Republican Sen. Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota, who accused Godfrey of taking advantage of his appearance at the Estes hear- mgtoaeve ~ oitiaistm Discusses Reading Conference fl I" to S, a e 1 S t t a n p 0 s C t I To Continue Discussions With Salazar Secretary Visits Allies On Euronean Tri By G. K. HODENFIELD Associated Press Education Writer CHAMPAIGN-A national con- ference called by James B. Conant last September to discuss the Leaching of reading has been de- scribed by one of the participants as "a complete whitewash of everything that is wrong with reading instruction today." Mrs. Margaret H. Greenman said the conference report, to be published soon, "is an attempt to tell parents, your child is getting the best possible instruction. Why are you complaining?'" Mrs. Greenman, director of ele- mentary education in the Cham- paign schools, said her dispute with o t h e r conference participants stems from their insistence on en- dorsing whole-word recognition- the so-called "look-say" method -as the single best way of begin- ning reading instruction. Sponsored Conference The conference was sponsored by the Carnegie Corp. of New York, and held there last September. Twenty - eight experts on the teaching of reading attended. The chairman was Conant, former president of Harvard University and author of widely read reports on the American high school and junior high. "It was stated specifically, and several times," Mrs. Greenman said in an interview, "that the purpose of the conference was not to dis- cuss the methods of teaching read- ing, but only those things which are part of a good reading pro- gram.. "Yet, the final report insists on endorsing one single method of beginning reading instruction - while at the same time trying to say there is no single best meth- od." Phonetic Approach The Champaign schools more than 10 years ago adopted a phonetic approach to reading in- instruction in which the children learn to attack words by their sounds. Some familiar words such as "mother" and "father" are learned by sight, but the emphasis is always on phonetic analysis. ing to deliver a poitical stump speech." WINDS UP TOUR-Secretary of State Dean Rusk (left) will meet with Premier Antonio de Olveira Salazar (right) and other Portu- guese leaders in an attempt to iron out some of the differences be- tween the United States and Portugal. SUPPORTED BY U.S.: S Government Troops Fail I V NOffensie SAIGON (A)-A four-day major land-air-water offensive against pro Communist guerrilla jungle strongholds ended yesterday in ex- haustion and frustration for Government troops. They claimed little concrete military success. The Government reported 43 Viet Cong rebels were killed and 26 { captured by the 2,300-man South Viet Nam task force that struck at three peninsulas in the Mekong River Delta region 50 miles south of il . d E"1' FStatement Was Proper LISBON (P)-Secretary of State Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark), Dean Rusk flew to this problem- chairman of the SenateInvestiga- filled country yesterday on a mis- tions Subcommittee, told Godfrey sion to iron out some of the dif- he possibly went a little afield but ferences which have all but de- "most of your statement was quite stroyed the once close friendship proper" and added that no great between the United States and harm has been done. Portugal. Meanwhile, in Pecos, Tex., the Rusk is winding up here. a 10- felony theft trial which Billie Sol day tour among European allies Estes requested halted abruptly of the United States, a tour on yesterday and Judge J. H. Star- which he has touched on such ley said he will transfer the case topics as Berlin, nuclear strategy out of this area-possibly to Ty- and the Common Market. Here the ler, 480 miles east. talk could range over Goa, Angola Judge Starley said Tyler was and The Azores. agreeable to attorneys for both Runk ThndAortugs. slesides but no order would be issued Rusk and Portuguese leaders, i- until approval could be obtained cluding Premier Antonio de Ohi- from Judge Otis T. Dunagan of veira Salazar, will attempt during Tyler.T Rusk's 22 hours inn Lisbon to ex- Not Immediately Available ndersthed possibilities of closer The Tyler judge was not imme- un detandings. diately available for a decision. In effect Rusk and his official The new trial date will not be host, Foreign Minister Franco set until after the case is trans- Nogueira, will renew conversations ferred. Judge Starley said he will they started last May at a North not sign the transfer order until Atlantic Treaty Organization July 23. meeting in Athens. Postponement Requested Renewal of the agreement per- The postponement of his felony mitting operation of United States theft trial was requested by at- military bases in the Azores is at torneys for the 37-year-old Pecos stake here. Covering facilities on promoter. which the United States has ex- They said questioning of pros- pended more than $100 million, pective jurors indicated knowledge the agreement is due to expire at of Estes' activities is so widespread the end of this year. it would be impossible to obtain a One sore point in Portugal is fair trial in Pecos at this time. that the United States and other The defense joined the state in fellow members of the North At- opposing a transfer, however, say- lantic Treaty Organization kept on ing it preferred to try the case in the sidelines when India's armed this county. forces seized Goa last December. The financier is accused of bilk- Another is American criticism of ing a Reeves County farmer, Portugal's position in Africa, par Thomas A. Bell, of $162,144 in a ticularly in operations to put down purchase agreement involving the revolt in its colony of Angola. liquid fertilizer tanks. I1 I U.S. Astronaut To Orbit Earth, For Six Laps WASHINGTON ()-The United States announced yesterday plans to try late this summer the next big step in its man-in-space pro- gram, a six-orbit journey around the earth ending in mid-Pacific. Navy Cmdr. Walter M. Schirra Jr., a 39-year-old veteran combat pilot, was picked as the astronaut. If he is unable to make the flight, his backup pilot, Air Force Capt. L. Gordon Cooper, 36, will be in the capsule. The decision, to go ahead with the six-orbit mission apparently wag reached only in recent days. Two weeks ago Civilian Space } Chief James E. Webb told a con- gressional hearing that if he had to make a decision then he would order more three-orbit flights. He did not rule out six orbits as the next. project. However, the National Aeronau- tics and Space Administration did not say flatly that the flight will be launched as a six-orbit mission, only that "we are hoping and plan- ning for a six-orbit flight." "We believe that another three- orbit mission will increase consid- erably our growing knowledge of space flights," said Dr. Brainard Holmes, director of manned space flight for NASA. "Anything more than three orbits should be con- sidered a bonus." Saigon. There were no official es- timates of government losses. Government forces were backed up by United States helicopters, naval units and 40 United States military advisors in the offensive. One Jump Ahead The elusive rebels managed to keep one jump ahead of Vietna- mese troops and fought only de- laying battles. United States advisers said one objective of the offensive was to clear the area of guerrillas. Thougl this failed, Americans claimec partial success for the huge opera- tion that started Sunday. Apparently feeling it impossible to root out every guerrilla in South Viet Nam's jungle and swamps, the Government is putting the greatest stress on "strategic ham- lets," where peasants are being trained to defend themselves against rebel attacks. While this effort is under way, the Army's job is to prevent reg- ular guerrilla units from forming up for all-out attacks oni hamlets and other Government installa- tions. In this respect, the four- day offensive succeeded, the Unit- ed States advisor said. Fled without Packs The guerrilla unitsascattered. Red officers fled without packs and map cases and single soldiers often were seen scooting out at one end of a village as Govern- ment troops entered the other end. It will be weeks before the guer- rilla commander regroups his units and replaces equipment lost to in- vaders' torches. Government troops made no effort to hold ground they won, but moved on quickly trying to overtake the lightly equipped fast-moving guerrillas. Report Drug Fights Virus CHICAGO (P)-A relatively sim- ple compound that blocks some vi- ruses as effectively as antibiotics knocks out bacteria was described yesterday to the American Medical Association. Dr. Herbert E. Kaufman said the 1 anti-viral drug-the first chemi- cal agent proved effective against any true virus disease-resulted in apparent cures in 87 cases of a virus disease known as Herpes Simplex Keratitis. He told a news conference at the AMA convention that the com- pound-identified as 5-Iodo-2- Deoxyuridine (IDU)-will be test- ed against many virus diseases, in- cluding some types of virus formed cancer. Herpes Simplex Keratitis is an infection of the eye cornea that causes the transparent tissue toI turn opaque and develop blinding scars. , The usual treatment has been the removal of the ulcerated area.a However, Kaufman said when the anti-viral compound was ap- plied directly by eye dropper, the ulcers healed and disappeared in a large percentage of the cases.1 UN Assembly Votes Nations' Independence UNITED NATIONS (P) -The United Nations General Assembly. voted independence yesterday toi two new African countries, Rwan- da and Burundi. It decided that on July 1-next Sunday-they should "emerge as two independent and sovereign states" from the Belgian-adminis- tered United Nations trust terri- tory of Ruanda-Urundi and that3 Belgium's trusteeship should end.. The resolution setting the datei was adopted by a smashing vote of 93-0 with 10 abstentions with only one United Nations member, Iceland, absent. The whole Soviet Bloc abstained on the final roll call after the As- sembly voted down a Soviet amendment calling on Belgium to withdraw its 900 troops from Rwanda and Burundi by Indepen- dence Day. The amendment was defeated 46-24 with 33 abstentions. Cuba, Yugoslavia and 12 African and Asian countries joined the Soviet bloc in voting for it. The resolution as recommended by the Assembly'srTrusteeship Committee and as adopted by the Assembly itself called on Belgium to withdraw the troops by Aug. 1. 1 e IS 5s is State Legislators Boost Own Salaries by $2000 By MICHAEL HARRAH City Editor Special To The Daily LANSING-The House voted itself a pay raise yesterday, approv- ing by a vote of 57-41 a measure granting a $2000-a-year increase for each legislator. After the bill was passed, House Speaker Pears (R-Buchanan) called the action "extremely unfair to the people." "Here we have been for the last three days," he Under the whole-word recogni- tion approach which swept the na- tion in the 1930's, the children are first taught to recognize words by the way they look. Only after a number of these words have been memorized is there any instruc- tion in phonics. Depending on the reading books used, this number may range from 25-30 up to 75- 80 or even more. Mrs. Greenman said the report "pays lip service to the use of phonics, but only after saying that a good reading teacher begins with words that are memorized by sight. Sight Words "This leaves it up to the teach- er to decide how many words shall be learned by sight. The teacher can start out with 50 or 75 sight words before introducing phonics. "And what will we have? More of the same old thing, the thing that parents are objecting to so strenuously today." This, Mrs. Greenman said, is the basic difference between the "pho- netic keys to reading" program used in Champaign, and the whole- word recognition system used in most schools : "In our pre-primer, the cmld's first reader, he learns 39 words. Only seven of these 39 are sight words which he memorizes; the other 32 works out phonetically. In other systems, all 39 of these words would be memorized. Vowel Sounds "In our program, the child starts out by learning the vowels. In oth- er systems, he gets the vowel sounds in the second semester of the second grade. "Our first graders learn about syllables, prefixes, compoun d words, contractions, suffixes, and so forth. With other reading pro- grams, he won't learn these things until the second or third grade. "The big difference is that we teach a child to find out for him- self what a word is-the sight word system means that someone has to tell him." Mrs. Greenman also said the Conant report lays the blame for today's poor instruction in read- ing on the teacher "instead of the system, where it belongs." Mastered Teaching "The report says the problem is inexperienced teachers, teachers who haven't mastered the teach- ing of reading, large classes, poor libraries, inadequate equipment, insufficient books and supplies, and poor public support. "All these excuses overlook the fact that for more than 20 years we haven't been giving our teach- ers the proper training in how to teach reading." World News Roundup By The Associated Press TAPEI-Waves of Chinese Nationalist jet fighters flew over Que- moy yesterday apparently as a warning to Chinese Reds against at- tempting a new attack on the Nationalist-held offshore island. The flights were reported, by the Defense Ministry Information Service, which recalled Nationalist victory claims in air, battles over Formosa Strait during the Quemoy crisis of 1958. * * * * WASHINGTON-President John F. Kennedy appealed urgently for passage of his trade program yesterday as the House prepared for a final vote on the measure today. The President said the bill is "vital to the future of this country." He opened his news conference with a plea for bipartisan support of the bill and referred to it several times afterward in a manner that indicated it was uppermost in his thoughts. WASHINGTON-A shot which may have been the biggest so far was set off yesterday in the United States nuclear test series in the Pacific. The announcement from the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense described it only as being "in the megaton yield range." A megaton is the equivalent of 1 million tons of TNT. * * * * NEW YORK-The Stock Market rallied briskly near the close of trading yesterday in a struggle to overcome early losses. The final pattern was irregular with the popular averages up and declines of in- dividual stocks exceeding advances. said, "voting against amendment after amendment which could in- crease state spending. Then we turn around and vote ourselves a fat $2000 extra a year, when we don't even know whether we'll be able to meet our present com- mitments." Speaker Pro Tem Wilfred Bas- sett (R-Jackson) had earlier de-] nounced this and all other spend- ing proposals as "a program for perpetual insolvency." Rep. Harry DeMosso (R-Battle Creek) noted that the pay hike was tacked onto a major appro- priation bill, and called it "a sneaky way to get more money.", Democrats generally favored the move; the economy-minded GOP split 2-1 against it. However, Rep. Harry Hogan (R-Birmingham)1 and Rep. Gilbert E. Bursley (R- Ann Arbor) spoke out in favor; of it, saying if we "are worth our salt to our constituents, we should not be afraid to go on record as favoring the pay we deserve." They said anyone who voted against the bill was "hypocritical." That remark brought House Ways and Means Committee chair- man Arnell Engrstrom (R-Tra- verse City) to his feet. "Just be- cause I want to see this thing dealt with out in the open does not make me a hypocrite," he said. OAS Claims Peace Reigns ALGIERS (/P) -The European Secret Army Organizationpan- nounced in a broadcast yesterday that peace reigns throughout Al- geria. It called on Europeans who have fled to return and help the Moslems reconstruct the country. The announcement supported an earlier report from French author- ities that the terrorist secret or= ganization had downed arms in Oran, Urges Support Of Democrats Former maverick Republican leg- islator George W. Sallade has an- nounced he is urging liberal Re- publicans to support of Democrats Neil Staebler and Thomas Payne in their bids for election to Con- gress. Staebler, who is running for congressman-at-large against Re- publican Alvin Bentley, will carry "immense prestige" to Washington as a fighter for liberal causes, Sallade said. He also announced support for Payne in his fight against incum- bent Rep. George Meader (R-Ann Arbor). Sallade described Meader as "undistinguished in Congress." w U at ON FOREST Off corner of S. University opposite Campus Theatre. MONTH- END I _.__i Buy your 9 SUMMER SUBSCRI PTION Iap to NOW! \ llv V) nn SALE S PRING COAT S Everything you want in Fashion by Famous designers Fine Fabrics most wanted Silhouettes Come scoop up a wardrobe. 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