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Show THURSDAY, SEPT. 1, 1977 Ofllliterrates ? Do We Have A Nation By JOHN F. MCMANUS Pin any book publisher down and hell have to admit that the book busi- ness is hurting. Sales are and prospects for the trend are dim. Expensive surveys have been undertaken to deter- - How bad the aituattaMU mine the reasons why can be estimated iron ( Americans are buying assessment of reading fewer books. But the among incoming wer stares us in the face: freshmen at City Univcr-dow- n g We are rapidly becoming asity of New York. nation of illiterates; andsor Geoffrey Wagner rethose who can't read don'tcently stated that prob- buy books. .ably most of the City University's entering class is illiterate." And, U most of those who go on to college can't read, what an-skil- ls Profes-reversin- can be expected from those who do not choose 9 SfostDay Sept. 2. 1977 higher education? CUNY has instituted extensive remedial reading courses for its students. So, too, have state universities all across the land. College freshmen at CUNY also take remedial math courses designed to help them make change for the sub- way! All of these courses cost bnad es of taxpayers' money, of course. These huge sums follow upon other huge sums already spent at the elementary cFabtic uWanoit Pitowdencc, Utafc walls have been done away urban, from racially mix- - trainable recruits, has be- - R'a. But our guess is that and secondary levels where the money was ob-- with; field trips to the local ed to segregated, and from gun its own remedial read- - this cannot be done widely to poor. Every- - ing programs. enough in the face of layer viously wasted. Question ! potato chip factor or the well-to-d- o What did those freshmen inconsequential historical where the finding was the Beyond such practical upon layer of entrenched do for 12 years, if they are site are common; team same: Expensive innova- - consequences of poor read- - government. still unable to read and teaching and the use of tions in teaching methods ing, let no one forget that is wide- - do not work any better uneducated illeratea are add? .. . spread. . than the old tried and true far easier to control then ... the and self- Amerimethods. the .. Paf in 1977, Early can Institute for Research The report noted that reliant. The answer to victimized by educational Palo more time spent on educational decline cer- frauds who have Dera federa three.yeai.i reading, language, and tainly includes getting penmenting with Amen-- a g million arithmetic in early grades back to teaching the three funde(ji ca s children tordeesaes. study of 0f these innova- - resulted in meaningful Instead of real education, tionSi ti fjrm studied and important differences of Ameri- - in achievement." Federal cvery segment and television, classroom can gocjety from rural to educationists, and even some in the private sector, have expressed fears that the difference between an educationist who cares primarily about himself,, and an educator who' cares for his students. Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Admiral James D. Watkins told recently of the case of a young sailor who had been assigned to well-educat- .I ed n repair a diesel engine. Because he could not read the Cliffs White Caesar's invasion repair manual, the England's galleys of Dover, romanticized by landed near Dover then wilor went by the and bom- - known as Dubra and tions, bungled the Job, and barded by the Nazis, have were repulsed by stone caused $250,000 damage, Britons. The Navy, faced with a caught the eye of Telly throwing landed at growing problem of finding other forces Caesars Savalas, among actors. nearby Deal instead. Savalas was high bidder ONLY 21 miles across on a lithograph of the chalky cliffs at a recent the Engish Channel from auction to raise money to France, the cliffs were the preserve the adjacent scene of later attempted farmland from encroach- - invasions. The Vikings ing real estate develop- - failed in the 10th and 11th illustra-Shakespea- PRE-- S PRE-SEASO- HUNTING SALE N Starts this Tuesday 1:00 pjn. at tha ment. centuries, but the fund-raisin- Rifles 39.00 re Nor- The Queen Mother of mans succeeded in 1066. Neither Napoleon nor England had donated the lithograph to the Los Hitler successfully overcame the cliffs, although Angeles TRADERS DEN Ammo A Firearms Reduced The ultimate answer is to get the government out id the schools and to return to private education as scon as possible, g event, which attracted A up! Over 400 Firearms to choose from (areas larfert) When you buy your gun ask about our special scope prices actors Hitlers Nazis chipped who away at them with bombs appeared in the wartime and shells in World War II White Cliffs of until the site became movie, cornknown as hell-fir- e Dover. er. For much of the war ANNA LEE, former thousands of Dover resiBritish film actess and dents took refuge in the chairman of the fund cliffs labyrinthian caves, drive, says the land, most- protected by 180 feet of ly owned by individuals, is chalk. the target of developers Life went on in the with visions of condomin- caves: Couples were iums, hotels, and restaur- married; babies were born. The caves were the ants. The fund-raisehope to make the land on only home some small children had known. the cliffs edge a park. Four years and 2,226 The national park plan would leave the area look- artillery strikes later, in ing as it did when Julius September 1944, the GerCaesar saw it, she told mans guns were silenced. the National Geographic The toll of dead and wounded was about 500, Society. Donations are going to far less than it might have Britains National Trust, been without the caves' which plans to buy up the shelter.1 ? ' several 10-5- 0 rs FREE Bore Sighting A Targets WIN A modcl 94 Winchester Rifle or Black Powder 50 caL Rifle THE TRADERS DEN 434 S. Main, Logan Gun Smithing Closed Mondays 12 miles of remaining About land. coastal THE CLIFFS took on new significance in 1962 B.C. when when a slope under an $500,000 is needed. jOPENJjOOjgjjLjfcOCjLJ It was 55 ancient Norman castle slipped, revealing three layers of civilization dating to the Iron Age. 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