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WASHINGTON (AP) — Most public school teachers in a national survey rated the widespread practice of leaving children on their own af ter school as the biggest cause of youngsters’ difficulties in school. Parents questioned separately for the Louis Harris and Associates sur vey also expressed concern about the latchkey cnild phenomenon, which has spread as more and more par ents take jobs outside the home. Forty-one percent of the 2,000 parents surveyed said they leave their children on their own between the end of school and 5:30 p.m. at least once a week. Almost a quarter left them alone every day. The survey, sponsored by Metro politan Life Insurance Co., was re leased Wednesday at the National Press Club. The poll found morale on the up swing among the 1,000 teachers sur veyed, with younger instructors say ing they are less tempted to defect from careers in the classroom. The percentage of teachers saying they were satisfied with their jobs rose in the past year from 81 percent to 85 percent, while the proportion likely to leave indicating they were likely the profession within five years fell from 27 percent to 22 percent. Only 20 percent of those with less than five years’ experience said they expected to switch careers, down from 39 percent in a 1986 Harris survey. The survey report said higher sal aries and “the sneer amount of at tention given in the past couple years to the state of education” may explain why teachers are feeling bet ter about their jobs. Harris surveyed teachers and par ents at random by telephone. T he poll has a 2-to-3 point standard mar gin of error. When asked to rank seven possi ble causes of students’ difficulties in school, 51 percent of teachers picked “children who are left on their own after school.” Poverty at home was cited by 47 percent; automatic pro motion by 44 percent; teachers’ fail ure to adapt to individual student Old-fashioned pharmacy still contains soda fountain IdNC! needs by 43 percent; single ft of a hobl families by 42 percent; ‘boring more agr rit ulum b) 34 percent and fan his leisun where both parents work full than goin l>\ 25 pen ent ■interes Both parents and teachers has been asked their views on some con::tdpk Spar criticisms of parents. bask how Sixty-two percent of teachers brewing 59 percent of parents agreed home-bre ents leave theii <hildren alone Recent much af ter school; 51 percentof “b< ;st of si chers and 58 percent of parent. l be yea the mothers and fathers fail toe s P <)ns<)ret pline their children. About ybrewers J each group faulted parents fa ers group glecting to make sure homewon °f show' done and foi not shosMngr the Hami interest in their children’s edm nati. HSpangli Hs. He i; the attrai LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — It’s al most noon at Eby’s Pharmacy, so nearly all seven of the red-cushioned stools at the soda counter are occu pied by people sipping milkshakes and munching on egg salad sand wiches. It’s definitely summer. The cus tomers say things like, “Hot enough for you?” and “Who ordered this heat?” But the year? That’s a bit more difficult to pinpoint. Inside the store on Columbia Avenue, it could be any year during the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s or ’50s, any year before lunching out turned into trips to fast-food drive- ins, and family-owned neighbor hood stores turned into all-night chain operations. At the soda counter at Eby’s, sand wiches are served on white bread. when the then-nearby Hamilton and Slaymaker plants were working overtime to meet war demands, the Ebys served hot meals. They don’t serve hot meals any more, but the soda counter remains a place where customers can sip 35- sl< hanged The >gan “It’s always been this way. We're just an old drugstore that never really changed. ” — Paul Eby, pharmacist Food is served up by women named Bea and Janet and sodas are jerked by boys whose voices haven’t changed. The employees know the names of their customers and their customers’ parents and kids. You can order a lime rickey or a choco late Coke, but you won’t find a yup pie pasta salad or gourmet burger in the place. Established in’ 1923 by the late Maurice H. Eby, the pharmacy and soda counter are now run by Eby’s son and daughter, pharmacists Paul and Marguerite “Peg” Eby. During the World War II years, cent cups of coffee while they wait for prescriptions to be filled. “A lot of people cut out their soda counters because it’s a lot of work,” said Paul Eby, a portly, bespectacled man in dark slacks and white shirt who was born the same year as the pharmacy.“And it is a lot of work. But we’ve been very fortunate in that the people who have worked for us have been very good people. “It’s always been this way. We’re just' an bid drugstore that never really changed.” In February 1952, a photograph of an unnamed drugstore with a brand-new tile floor appeared in an Armstrong Corp. advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post drugstore was Eby’s. The ad’ read, "Nothing is floor.” A sepia-toned photograph taken in 1930 and now nanging on a wall behind an old Schrafft’s Chocolates rack shows that nothing had changed at the pharmacy between the ’30s and ’50s. A visit to Eby’s to day shows that litde has changed since the 1950s. Eight-sided, glass-covered wooden tables and tri-cornered wooden chairs sit near an ice cream freezer that holds 10-cent single stick pops and 20-cent Fudjos. A pay telephone is tucked in a cherrywood cabinet built in 1923 be cause Maurice Eby thought it would be in poor taste to have a pay phone more prominently displayed. On the other side of the room, a cherrywood-and-glass counter holds penny candy. Next to the candy counter is the chrome-and-linoleum soda counter, the gem of the 64- year-old store. Bea — Beatrice Mack — is the queen of the soda counter. She’s been running it for the Ebys since 1959. Working with Bea is Janet Stef- fish, a wavy-haired grandmother who lives “across the alley” from the pharmacy on the same block where she grew up. She used to come here for ice cream and penny candy when she was a kid; now her grandchil dren do the same thing. lilt ,1111 cl' Fisherman fc’-s'd turns hobby j” . . i Bs work hobby into business !«»■;[ 01 Rfssell, 3 SPRINGFIELD. III. (A! ■ 4l 11 I- . 1- u- I u ur go and bn I he first fishing lure BobF .1 invented was just a pipe dta wound around a hook. Hec fish on it. “When I was a kid," he u used to fish Lake Springfit! cry day. I was fishing onceo Sixth Street Bridge, andl: school of bluegill in the v Thev wouldn't bite on anyth wrapped a piece of pipe ch around a hook and droppe theie just to try it. I startedi mg hluegills.” T hings aren’t so simple that Folder has turned hisi hood hob into a ven gr< business. His hottest curreni features streamers madeoftis but he couldn’t just pull t from fiis Christmas tree. Fc developed a spec ial alloy- how is a secret — and mam tures it himself. This isn’t nickel-dime. " safety pin and string fist: There is big money invoh Nick Creme 5r., the invent* the plastic worm lure, was* $58 million when he died Bob Folder Lures, on Hl I^uie in Springfield, isn't in: league, and Folder sau doesn’t intend to get that big “We just don’t want ton® big thing out of it,” he savs get tcK) big, I’d get so tied do 1 couldn't do anything else." The Student’s World Highlighter- A Chronicle Subscription I Special discount to Texas A & M students, faculty and staff for the fall semester. News from around the world, the nation and the state. Thought-provoking editorials. Special features. Sports stories and scores. Movie, album and video reviews. You’ll find all this and more in the pages of The Chronicle. There is no better way to keep abreast of current events than The Chronicle. Highlight your fall semester Subscribe today. Only $17.00 for delivery from August 31 through December 18. To subscribe call 693-2323 or 693-7815 or use the coupon. The Chronicle. 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