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Show DESERET NEWS, fa rrs - M'ami's an elementary censorship reading workbook prompted a (UFI) 14, 1968 Censoring irks Publisher Hex MIAMI October Monday, of California srhool book publisher to retort the nuts are coming out of the woodwork" and has drawn criticism from other big city educators. i County school authorities decided to censor the M. W, Sullivan Reading when a crusading Series mother complained of the violence in the material designed to teach joungsters how to read on their own. Dade-Miam- The workbooks, drawings of people hitting each other, a mar. robbing a bank, a girl pouring gasoline on ants, a boy hitting a cat. a policeman referred to as a cop and a woman throwing a plate of food at a man. One illustration shows a boy clutching his wrist after birg struck by a dart. The caption reads: If Ned starts to toss more darts, Art thinks, I'll have to get a gun. developed by Sulivan and nis under a Carnegie Foundation grant, are being used this year to teach some five million youngsters in a number of urban school systems, including New York, Washington and San Francisco. Mrs. Elizabeth Bettner got the support of a local newspaper and a television station wnen she thumbed through the books issued her two daughters at Coconut Grove Elementary School. She found While Miami educators decided to appoirt a committo materials delete tee The Pick Of PUNCH from First Page coastline were clearly visible. As the ship swept over Cape Kennedy, where it began :ts mile voyage Friday, one of the astronauts said, This should give vou a good shot of the Cape today. When the camera was first turned on, anxious observers at the Houston Control Center saw nothing. Monitors showed nothing but the snow of a weak transmission, and a spokesman said We are getting indication from the network controller that the signal is too weak to read. But a few seconds later, the picture came up cleaily. Here comes the picture, mission control reported. four-millio- n "Rise V and shine, Benjamin. It's still here." Spacemen Chitchat During Apoilo Cruise (VmHniipj from First Page pilots manner duilng a cross- ing of Mexico: Houston, this Is your captain speaking as we fly across the Gulf of Mexico where we are cleared to the Yucatan Peninsula. Looks like its good weather for the Olympics. Looks like a nice day to be on the beach. This exchange occured Sunday when Apollo 7 picked up a radio commercial broadcast 150 miles out in freak space; Schirra: propriate Where I think thats Rush in Angels Fear to Are you playing Fools Tread. music, Jack? controller Ground Jack ap- Swiggert: among themselves the possible source of an apparently minor electrical difficulty. Cunningham: ". . . . not associated with anything I can think of. Schirra: This ones to be a witch bunt . . . one of those things that happened. Its also the going this is sort of reason why were going to keep somebody on watch all the time. to capsule communicator non Evans on I dont think the ground: there Is anything you can do about it, Ron. Im just reporting that we have had it happen twice. Cunningham Jack Negative. Schirra: Ve heard the song, Fools Rush In Where Angels thats why Fear to Tread. the remark. Were hearing Research Labs of Palo Alto, Calif , publishers of he Sulli-a- n series, flew to Miami to meet with school officials when the controversy erupted I'm just shocked at what Stern said. It happened, would serve no good purpose for me to discuss it with you. The nuts are coming out of the woodwork Stem told the school officials there are more than 30,000 illustrators in the 24 workbooks comprisseries ing the and probably only a few hundred represent violence." Doctors Ration Astro Cold Pills Look at Erele. Among the viewers at the Houston Control center were Schirras wife, Joe, Eiseles wife Harriet and Cunnin- ghams wife Lo. Apollo 7, at best, will be able to transimit only one a standard system which lights a red light on the Apollo control panel and sounds a buzzer in the astronauts headsets. We sound casual now, Schirra said as he reported the We were not then. problem. Once the problem was resolved, Apollo 7 was told to continue its planned opera- black-and-whit- e TV broadcast camera. The Apollo camera required only six watts of power to operate. It used a lens for the spaceship interior scenes and e wide-angl- a telephoto lens for the views through the window of earth more than 130 miles below. The system was tions. While spacecraft electrical failure early today believed caused the spacecraft was to beaming the telecast ground stations, a spacecraft racar unit on the ground fruitlessly attempted to track the a by momentary electrical overload. The remedy was to turn off the fans in one o' the ' ship. The experiment was designed to test the radar system that will be used in the d moon landing oxygen tanks. ships The developed problem shortly after midnight when the spacecrafts two altenat-in- g current (AT.) distribution systems failc... Systems specialist Cunningham flicked a swatch to reactivate them. Tlie failure triggered (lie ships master alarm warning GIFT SHOP TRAVELWARE O mm 3 Astros Put On TV Show, First From U.S. Spaceship Continued Jj. thought obiectionable, school officials in San Francisco and Washington defended the Sullivan senes and said they have had no complaints. Roy Minkler, head of the reading project in San Francisco, told LPI he strongly disapproves of the censorship move in Miami and said he believes the program has in relating been successful children to the real world where such words as grab and slap are commonplace. George H. Stern, executive vice president of Behavorial V 152 South Main MEN'S FAMOUS "SKYWAY" air-tra- vel luggage The proven and guaranteed luggage. Dashing in black with silver trim. 2. ROOMY 3 SUITER Reg. $49.50 four-legge- spacecraft. It must track the iun.ir from Apollo mothership in orbit before blasting off the moon and flying to a up with the command for the trip back home. hook- craft telecast a seven to day, when it sweeps ovnr Corpus Christi, Tex., and Cape Kennedy, the locations of the stations two ground only equipped to receive the signals and convert them to be beamed into the nations FURNACES homes. 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