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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1959
Page
3
Harvard professor B F Skinner explains his Teaching Machine enabling self paced learning. The device uses a turntable disc with 8 000 to 25 000 steps, records wrong answers, and speeds up chemistry lessons while freeing teachers to foster discussion rather to drill. Critics warn of over easy learning and industrial deformation of education.
About 300 Negro youths fought in Festus Missouri for four hours before police with 20 officers broke up the clash. Police said it started over Festus girls dating boys from Richmond Heights St Louis suburb. No serious injuries reported.
George Lancater, 52, of Sumner, drowned Sunday while fishing in a farm pond about 10 miles southwest of Sumner. A companion, William Phacker, said Lancater slipped and fell from an earthen dike. Phacker, on the opposite bank, could not reach him in time. The body was recovered.
In Amsterdam, the Prinsengracht street canal site housing the Anne Frank diary attic is being reinforced by carpenters who must not alter visible wood. By summer, repairs will finish, allowing visitors to again reach the space revered by readers, playwrights, and film watchers from around the world. The article notes German visitors wreathing the site.
Multiple notices outline condemnation actions against parcels in Markham City and a tax sale redemption in Webber Township. Defendants Lucian E Pope and Iva G Pope may face default if they do not answer by July 2 1959. An executor’s claim date is set for July 6 1959 for the Clarence W Harriss estate. John J Parkhill seeks a tax deed for Lot 4 Block 8 People’s 3rd Subdivision with redemption due by October 7 1959. prior owner F E Dillingham is named.
John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, says on NBC Meet the Press that President Eisenhower interfered in a labor dispute by commenting on a potential steel wage and price rise. He argues it limits workers’ participation in free enterprise. Steelworkers and industry resume negotiations in New York toward a contract replacing the July 1 expiry.
The Dewline refers to the Distant Early Warning Line a 3000 mile network of radar stations across the Arctic designed to detect and alert against incoming bomber attacks, including nuclear-armed jets.
The term radio comes from the Latin radius meaning spoke of a wheel. It was chosen because radio waves travel outward in all directions like spokes radiating from a hub.
In St Louis a 35 year old man Prestley Joyner, called a good Samaritan, was trapped and burned to death Sunday night while trying to warn second floor residents of a fire in a evacuated building. Police suspect arson. the blaze caused about 1500 dollars damage to the building and 150 dollars to its contents.
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