McGuffey Readers Split Advocates Over Modern Classrooms
Oxford Ohio AP reports a split among McGuffey Readers advocates at Miami University as the old method is debated for today’s classrooms. Federation members vary from full replacement to annotated reintroduction emphasizing grammar phonics and character building.
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McGuffey
William
Holmes McGuffey Federation
Miami University
Gilbert Lease
Lease
Greenville
Ohio
Mary Scholl
Indianapolis
Miami
McGuffey Museum
Federation
J. Donald Pollitt
Marshall University
Ethel
Pollitt
Kanawha County
West Virginia
Ford signs energy and public works bill
President Ford has signed a $9.7 billion bill funding energy research and public works nationwide. The measure surpasses Ford's request by $305 million and trails Congress' budget target by $434 million, and it funds the Energy Research and Development Administration overseeing fusion solar and geothermal research.
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Ford
Congress
Energy Research and Development Administration
Judge jails woman for welfare falsification
A Franklin woman, Saundra Kinney, 26, was found guilty by a jury of falsification to obtain a welfare payment of 139 dollars. Municipal Court Judge J T Lamb jailed her for 30 days and fined 149 dollars in the January 1975 case. Kinney, of 315 Bridge Street, had pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial.
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Franklin
J. T. Lamb
Saundra Kinney
Bridge St
British firm sells cracked Liberty Bell souvenirs
A British company is cashing in on the U S Bicentennial by selling thousands of small replicas of the Liberty Bell, complete with the famous crack. The same firm that produced the flaw originaly cast the replicas.
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U.S
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