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FAUB BEVEN — Better Grades PAGE EIGHT - M*n Timy Dodger*s/ % ’V^tbe Home Daily of theriandiripgw. wmms% fair *r«i vuoh High WtdMidij M.I *• V rI- 1VOL. 53. NO. 166.cm TEH nSfi ]HTekN4TVOHAL ZiKABKD W1BBMIDbLESBORO, KENTUCKY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1963.PHONE62PRICE SEVEN CENTSClaiborne’s Distributive Education Program•ningBY BILL MARTIN iially Now Btaff WriterTAZEWELL; Tend, -* A long-time desire lor • high school students lo Jiavc an opportunity la earn while they learn.Is being offered sludenls at \ Claiborne County High School this year,And, after a month oE the program on a trial bn sis all is working floe and the program is expected to improve. At Ion si, all officials concerned hope so.A class called distributive education, open only to seniors 16-year of njv; or older is being offered for ilie ur.st time. The idea behind I lie pro-gram is to give promising sludenls an opportunity to be a step ahead in 1he business world when lliey graduate next spring,Fifteen students ere enrolled.Such programs have been known in Tennessee, over the past 20 years, lu( this is Ihc first lime It has been tried here. Encouragement to establish such a program came from Die State Department t£ Education and Claiborne Super!hicikI-oiil Clyde Nevils.V/i hours a day In class discussing mutual bush ness problems. They spend 35 hours a week on the job. Most of this time Is during the school day after lunch, or on Saturdays.All receive nominal wages and two school ere dlls for their work,Rules of die class say students 'must deal with die public” during their working hours.Norris Keck, coordinator of the program, say3 it lias five objectives. They are:The coordinator feels programs of this type help students develop into aril]us by taking Ihcm out of the classroom and putting them in Rug to life situations,”I-feel Ibis is one of the best programs We could 'offer silidmfs,n Novlls said. - •“I for one don't *hink all children who graduale from high school are going to college. Euf, ibistype- of program h good Cor anyone going in lochilcollege, loo. Basically U Is for children going info business next year.”• The 15 students enrolled in the program spend11 Provide students with a well rounded practical education in school- and on the job.2) To develop nmturily and self-confidence.3J To help train students according lo their needs and abilities.4) To enable students to develop into active members nf business ar.d community life.r) To better help students adjust socially lo tjfc after high sehool,Keck, who teaches general business, economics end bookkeeping, believes the 15 students will be affected In Lwo ways.‘11 will help llxse who slay in the area siflcr they graduate because they arc already pariially 1 rained. If they move out of the area we believe this program will help them get a job and progress quicker/' Keck said.We have been well received by the merchants and want 1o take this opportunity to thank ihem, Tlie program has gone over extremely well,” Keck said.About 36,000 students in the United States, • Hawaii and Puerto Rico are taking part in a similiar program. Keck reported.The instructor believes such a program helps business firms reduce training problems, provide a reliable source of parMime help and build good will for the business and the school.The program will run 30 weeks of the school year.Those taking part in the class are: Jerry Beeler, Volunteer Cabinet s; Jimmy Loopc, Big 4 Super Market; Gary Harmon, Harks-Rell Donariment •Store; Randy Jennings. Brooks TV Radio,. Ronnie Uolinger, Payne Motor Company; Lester Holt, Tom Ball’s Supermarket; Charloite Hurst nnd Mary Evans, Colton’s Restaurant; Van Johnson, Highway 33 Gulf.Lynn Essary, Tazewell's Florist; Roy Rosuk. Mo/.jngo’s Department Store; Cnril Lynch, oliice of County Judge; Marlha Poore. Claibumc County Library, Superintendent Novil's office; Brenda Evans, office of the County Court Clerk and Bril la Earl, Bailey’s Department Store.Keck said he would like In insiihifc a similiar program in the other high schools in Ilie county But there was a lack of business firms in Ihc area, he said.CLAIBORNE COUNTY EXPERIMENT — Ajji'.w class al Ckilhornc County High Sellout this year, to be. tried on mi experimental basis, is ilislribuiivo ciliK'ulinn, The riflcen students enrailed work 13 hours a week amiattend class 90 minutes n, day- They receive two credits toward graduation. Mrs. Kat* Breeding, left, ouerutor of Cu I toil’s Restaurant, is shown giving student Charlotte Hurst, some food to serve Mic public*.FestivalTo Host1,500The kids will lake* over Mid* dlesbora on Nov. 16./This prediction was made last night as James Ely, director of the Middiesboro High School band, told the Round Table of plans for the first annual Soul hnn stern Kentucky Musical Association Marching Con lest.Under. 11 jo current plans, Mitt* dlcsboro svill play host lo 27 association bands on Nov. 16. Included isr an area from Pulaski to LetchGr counlies.The Middiesboro Merchants Association will kick off its Christmas promotion on the same day Ely said ho expects about 1,500 school children with • their parents for the event/ . .; :, , i -ked Over Corbin .Nuclear Test Ban Trea ty VotedBy Senate; Kennedy Hails StepPul the Real Thing Before the PublicClasses in Windoiv SuggestedAs Education Week Project HerePickedWe are one of- Hie two towns which wrs thought could handle the event and the members of the association voted’to hofd Lhe first one here,11 Ely told the group. Corbin was the other alto.r »After a parade during- the morning. Comoelilion hfihvpfn thn unr.Yearling to deal with the i*eBuc-^ckii»orno countyHigh School senior Gary Harmon, loft, and Donald Rader, right, manager of Ihc New Tazewell, Tejtn., Parks-Relt Store, discuss the liner petals of selling; cloth tag and dealing with t!iu public, Gary la a member, of the first clays In distributive education at Claiborne High* He will work 30 weeks at the job. .School in a window?This Is one ut the suggested projects for I he National Education Association's American Education Week, Nov. 3-D, Juanita, Markham^ chairman* of • ffio'-1 -publfeily* coni'mitlee, made the suggestion at. the monthly meeting of the Mid-rifesboro Educalion Association ye sid’d ay.Miss Markham said tlic class would work this way:The ME A would ‘ contact stores and negotiate the use of a window. After the window isobtained seata will hr* r»Inr»edfilm on the 1063 NEA convention in Detroit, Mich. Miss Sewell told of attend mg a conference called Rx Inf eel ions Ignorance. . ..,Sfurte Program /'Sic Siif’d Hie conference was conducted by tlie Cooke County, III. Board nf Education, The board started a program, in con nee lion .with the Welfare Department last year, to teach recipients of welfare checks fa read.Under the program, recipientshad to ail end Ihe classes be (ore they could receive I heir chocks. Miss Sewnil said, It was surprising how many actually became infereslcd in the program and learned how lo rend. A large number of those persons then job.1: and got off die relief chock rolls. ^ In an in-service meeting, Ihe first of eight to be held this year, Mrs. Mary .Marshall of the State Department of Education spoke on non-graderl primary education,The Ayes Have ItIn 80-19 PassageWASHINGTON (UPD-The Senate 1lt;xlay ‘ratiHcd the.UVsC-BriLish-Russian treaty lo ban all but underground nuclear tests.Approval of the historic pact, signed I a si month by the three powers in Moscow, came on a roll call by a margin well above the required two-thirds majority.The vole was S0-19, or 14 more carried loo great a military hafc-than required. arct to U.S. security.I5resident Kennedy, hailed-it .1fc ..Time who supported it.in the a .single but substantial” stop lo- If days of floor debate and more ward world peace. . Hum two weeks of public hearingsIt was a diplomatic If not a ill- agreed with top administration of-rect political victoiy for Press- cials that the risks were accept-dent Kennedy, whose plea for ap- able. They insisted that the hope pi oval of the treaty had support it offered for avoiding nuclear from both Republican and Demo- holocaust could not be rejected, cr??5c leaders. Some confessed they votedSignificantly, the treaty outlaw- -yes” reluctantly, but felt they mg tests in the atmosphere, outer had no clwice.space and under water earned noAt the insisfpn/v nf srmafnr*
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