Progress-Bulletin from Pomona, California • 30

'jy tfkp 6-T I fjL sP 1 i lGSt vrs. MilH needs t- of GIFTED'- ENRICHMENT in opxil SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1959 POMONA, Unification In Covina Area Rejected The State Board of Educa tion has rejected a proposal that three unified school districts be formed within the Covina High School District, The board made it clear that it likes big unifications rather than small ones. The proposal was that three elemental school districts Charter Oak, Covina and West Covina divided the high school district along their boundary lines. Each would unify with its own portion of the high school district. Thus there would be thiee separate districts, each responsible for the education of children from kindergarten through 12th grade.

The recommendation for this came from the County Committee on School District Organization augmented by representatives from each of the i i cts inv olved. The state board referred it back to the committee for further study. "Ve think this is a move backward instead of forward, said Board President William I Blair of Pasadena. He intimated, however, that the board might not make its stand final after further study and showings. He stressed that the board had great confidence in the commit tees judgment.

Several board members noted the board policy to encourage formation of larger school administration units. Said Byron II. Atkinson, of UCLA: Obviously we like hi unifications. They are neater more economical. Fred W.

Bewlcy, adviser to the Los Angeles committee, contended that the three unifications proposed each elementary district joining with high school in its own area would conform to the enlargement policy. Bewley said he must carry the bad news back to Los Angeles and ask for guidance on what the board would now like the committee to do. The boards decision would be accepted in good part, he acknowledged. He was advised to tell the committee the boards policy and ask it to review the FRIEND OF GIFTED Mrs. Yula Moore, on expert on teaching gifted children, sits in front of poster ond books she is using in a course on such teaching ot the La Verne College summer session.

(P-B photo) Gifted Children Are Topic of New Course OLD ENEMIES MEET This beautifully reconstructed fighter plane i one of the two Japanese super-Zero" aircraft still in existence. It is shown here ot Coble Airport near Claremont where Walter Voiles (posing In Japanese flying togs) supervised its renovation for the Air Museum in Claremont. The photo wos taken from under the wing of U. S. Navy Corsair, the Japanese fighter's principal adversary in World War II.

(P-B photo) die such groups, she said. Some high school students are permitted to take college courses to enrich their education. One such was a studpnt in a large high school who was not even recognized as gifted until his junior year. "This boy had been bored with school and was satisfied with playing dumb to keep out of work, Mrs. Moore said.

"With effective counseling this student found himself, and presently is finding himself in an electronic college course. In attempting to improve the recognition and teaching of gifted children in order to boost along the future leaders of the country, La Verne College is acting as one of Californias frontier colleges, Mrs. Moore said. Two World War II Air Foes Readied for Museum Duty njHI the iep.nr vvoik lie and otheis of the museum staff did was patching bullet holes in the fusilage. Helping rebuild the plane were Walter Voiles.

Bob Hara, Bill Clutter, Frank Ry- Swim Schedule Announced LA VERNE The schedule for the La Verne San Dimas Red Cross free swim Instruction program was announced this week. The instruction will be given in the David and Margaret Home swimming pool from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.

each weekday! from July 27 thiough Aug. 11 Classes for both clnldien and adults and fiom beginners to lifesaving students will bo held. Thiee classes will run at the same time. No advance registration is necessary; pupils may simply show up at the proper tune and legister on the fust day. Hete's the schedule: 9 9 40 Sw unmets; second advanced Intel mediates; tv-ginners, 9 13.

9.50 10.30 Beginners, 7 and advanced Iceginners, 7 and fust intermediates. 10:4011:20 Beginners, beginners, adult Intermediates, 11:2012 Adult beginners; beglnncis, advanced Intermediates. 12 1 Junior and senior lifesaving. 1 1:40 Advanced beginners 9-13; beginneis 9 13; fust intermediates. 1:50 2.30 -Bcginncis, 7 and advanced tteginners, 7 and second intet mediates.

2:30 3:20 Beginneis, 7 and beginners. one class to be announced. 3.204 Swimmers; first intermediates; adultt beginners. Mrs. Douglas Lobb is the director.

She explained that fust intermediates are those who have just passed beginners tests. Second intermediates aie those who aie more advanced. Junior lifesaving classes aie for youngsters 12 to 16. and senior lifesaving Is for those 16 and over. The other instructors are Mrs.

Ed Jones, Miss Jane Brow nsberger ami Miss Carol Flora. The La Verne and San Dimas Red Cross chapters 1 Pag 1, Sec. 4 split the cost of the program on a 60 40 basis, an. Dennis Frailey, Pat Morgan and Bill Wait. The Corsair is an example of the plane that Maloney des-cnlHs as probably the finest Navy and Marine fighter of the war.

This particular aircraft had three kill" flags painted on the side and was named "The Frisco Kid." This is the type of airplane used by the famous Black Sheep Squa-dion led by Major Pappv Boyington in the South Pacific. The Air Museum is the only place on the West Coast here such historic aircraft are kept. It is open Monday through Friday from noon to 5 and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10 a.m. to 6. Beginning this weekend, the museum will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening from 6 to 9.

Chino Church To Begin Bible School CHINO The Chino Pilgrim Church will begin a daily va-l ration Bible school Monday evening, and the sessions will continue through July 24. School sessions ill be from 6 to 8:30 each weekday evening, with the closing program on July 26 at 7 p.m. "Adventuring With Christ" Is the theme which has been chosen for this year. Stories, singing, work books, handcraft, recreation and refreshments will be some of the activities of each day. The school is open to all between the ages of 4 and 12.

Anyone desiring free transportation may call NAtional 8-5323. M. B. Wright will serve as school superintendent. Mrs.

Charles Rickel and Mrs. Earl Neher are in charge of the pre-school department; Miss Amelia Brubaker and Mrs. Kyle Wagner will direct the kindergarten department In charge of the primary department are Mrs. J. W.

Westlake and Mis. Bruce Chamberlain. Mrs. M. B.

Wright and Miss Phyllis Pritchard will supervise the junior girls, and the junior boys activities will be directed by Darrel Dawes and A1 Pond. Mrs. Darrel Dawes and Mrs. A1 Pond will be In charge of the Intermediate Good Samaritan Loses His Home WALNUT Getting his house burned down was the reward Wiliiam A. Garrett, 20631 Valley received for lending a helping hand to a passing motorist.

The motorist, Terrell Gorgard of La Puente, ran out of gas in front of Garretts house and asked to borrow enough to get to a gas station. While Gorgard was pouring the gas into a container on Garretts back porch he spilled some. A nearby refrigerator set it afire. Flames quickly spread through the house. The fire was reported by another passing motorist who saw the two men trying to put out the blaze.

The one-story frame building and its contents were destroyed. Estimated damage of the Friday evening fire is $4,000. Violations By Cyclists Cause Mishaps UPLAND Police began a campaign against traffic violations by bike riders "to keep one of them from killing him self" this weekend. An accident between a 7-year-old boy on a bike and a car driven by a city councilmans wife started the campaign. Police said it w'as the fourth accident involving a bicycle in the last few days.

Leonard Kobnnsky of 175 White Upland, was shaken lip and bruised when his bike ran into the side of a car driven by Mrs. Ethel G. Nicholson, 47, of 289 W. 9th St. Friday.

Police said the youngster ran a boulevard stop sign and hit the car at Arrow Hwy. and San Antonio Ave. They Issued a citation. Within a few hours two more bicyclists had been cited for violating traffic laws, and police said the campaign would continue. Crash Kills Covina Woman A Covina woman, Mrs.

Jean E. Errend, about 35, was killed this weekend when the car in which she Mas riding crashed In Clines Corners, N. M. The car skidded in the rain and slammed into a concrete culvert on U. S.

Highway 66, state police said. Mrs. Errends husband, Daryl Edward Errend, and their two children were injured. Errend is a clerk in the Covina Post Office. The family home is at 4550 Roxburgh Covina.

Woman, Daughter Hurt in Crash UPLAND A woman and her daughter were bruised in an auto accident at 1st Ave. and St. Friday. Mrs. Helen Audrey Cowley, 36, and her daughter, Joan, 18, both of 9568 Marion Montclair, were treated at San Antonio Community Hospital after the car Mrs.

Cowley was driving collided with one driven by Dorothy Ann Vejar, Cucamonga. Nobody Injured In L. V. Accident LA VERNE Two cars crashed together at 3rd and A Sts. yesterday morning, but nobody was hurt.

The drivers were Foircst 40, of 2164 4th La Verne, and Marjonc Briggs, 39, of Gardena. The cars collided at 10:45. Both were damaged. P. E.

Station LA VFRNE-The Chamber of Commerce is joining the City Council in a protest against the proposed closing of the Pacific Electric station here. I E. wants to close the station and has applied to the Public Utilities Commission to do so. BiiMnovs would be car-tied on fiom 1.1 Monte. Tbc Count il opposed it on the grounds that the closirg would detrimental to get ting Industry to settle line.

The Chamber of Comnieicei LA VERNE Teachers attending a summer session class at La Verne College are learn ing how to handle gifted chil dren in such a way that they will be inspired to work up to their full abilities. The course is another in the attempts to keep children of unusual ability from bogging down through lack of inspiration. The teacher of the course, Mrs. Yula Moore, said this about such children: "Society always has needed the contributions of the gifted. Their contributions have been varied, occurring at least in the intellectual, scientific, artistic, social and technoligical areas.

As a country we are awakening both to their needs and to the fact that we have failed in part to help the gifted contribute to meeting these needs. Research needs appear to be particularly acute in this area of educating the gifted. Mrs. Moore has been a curriculum consultant with the Orange County Schools Office for 12 years and has served on the faculties of several colleges on a part-time basis. Schools are beginning to meet the needs of the gifted child in several ways, she said, among them acceleration or double promotions, enrichment within the normal classroom, special grouping of children of high ability, and extra-curricular activities such as science clubs.

Mrs. Moore said experts now frown on special classes for gifted children. Not only does it set them apart from others, but it takes away from them the practice in leadership that they would have in a normal classroom and which it is expected many of them will use all through their lives, A good device, she said, Is the use of "cluster groups in a classroom six or eight sharp youngsters can work beyond the rest of the room but still remain in the room with the other children. It takes a teacher with perception and understanding to han- Crash Injures Manuel Yera CLAREMONT The lead In the current Padua Hills Theater play, Manuel Vera, 25, of 1238 W. 11th Pomona, probably will be out of the cast all next week as a result of injuries he received In an auto accident.

Vera was hurt Thursday afternoon near FOntana when his car and one driven by James Lee Dauss, 16, of Fontana collided. Vera was treated at Kaiser Hospital for cuts about the left eye and was released. Dauss wasnt hurt. Vera is the male lead in "Xochimilco, now being presented by the Mexican Players at Padua. His part will be taken by Luis Abundiz until Vera can return to the cast Opposes Closing voted this week to send its own letter of protest to the PUC.

The chamber also is recommending to the Council that an advisory committee on industry he selected to work with City Manager Allen Schell In a campaign to bring industry to Ia Verne. The chamber voted to underwrite the cost of a booth whuh will be built by the La Vcine Junior Chamber of Commerce for the agriculture building of the Ins Argelc County Fa.r this falL Central Park Wins Favor In La Verne LA VERNE The park and recreation commission recommends that the City Council sell two outlying park sites and use the money to buy a larger one near the center of town. The action was taken this week after a discussion of park proposals. The commission favors a park of at least 10 acres east of Bonita High School. The city now owns two undeveloped sites of around five acres each, one in the west part of towrn next to Grace Miller School and the other at the east edge of ihe community.

The commission said both are too remote from the most heavily populated part of the city to be as useful as a central park would be. At hi weeks meeting Chairman Jan Hypes asked that recreation directors set up a program of dancing or other activities for teenageis. Theres plenty of recreation for younger children but nothing for teenagers to do, she said. area. Our whole family are nat uralixts, Conklin said.

Ive always loved nature, and I've studied it for 50 jears. We all did a lot of hiking and looking in the High Sierras. We'd find out as much as we could about what saw and then go home and do mote research. The kids fell right into it Conklin said bis Ik je.us at the San Dimas park ptoved to him that the public is appte-dative of a well kept pl.uo to go. 'This has been a model CLAREMONT Two air- planes th.it vveie mortal enemies during Woild War II vveie together on Cable Airport this week.

Both are to become exhibits in the Air Museum at 923 II. Foothill Blvd. east of Clate-mont. One is a Japanese Ki 81 llayate (Hurricane), the hottest airplane the Japanese produced during World War II. The other is a Navy Corsair, the Vought F4U-1.

Fifteen years ago such aircraft wcie fighting daily in the South Pacific. The Japanese llayate was a super-Zei with a top speed of 427 miles an hour and a reihng of 41.000 foot. It had armor protection for the pilot and bullet proof gasoline tanks. A water mcthonol system was used to give it extra speed. More than of those planes were built during the war, but the one in Claremont is one of Iwo in existence in tile wot Id.

It was eaptuiod in the Philippines and evidently had seen plenty of action, according to Edward Maloney, curator of the museum. He said much of has txvn so because of the public we've had hete. he said. We've had as many as 4.000 people hete In a day, and very little litter to pick up when the day was over." ile said that he and Ms daughter have made thousands of the most vvondetful ft lends here. They've done so much to help us that I wish then vveie some wav to thank them Conklin nnd bis daughter will make their lieadipiat tel at their home In Pijvs Canyon near Yucca Valley when they airnt traveling.

SERVICE ENDS Percy Conklin, who ha fust retired oi lupervtsor ond naturalist at San Dima Park, pose with the park ot a background. Conklin and hit daughter, Evelyn, are planning to travel, take picture and lecture, (P-B photo) Closes Career at S.D. Park that next summer, The other plant and animal life of the county patk, nnd it Naturalist SAN DIMAS The man who started the nature programs at San Dimas Fark has retired. Percy Conklin, 66, retired this month after 18 years as supervisor and naturalist at the rark. His next plan is more nature study.

He and his daughter, Evelyn, will travel, taking pictures and preparing notes for lectures and articles. "There are two things 1 want to do." Conklin said. One Is to hike the 150-mile John Muir trail from Yosem-Ite to Sequoia. I hope to do VCT Plans Summer Show Late in August CLAREMONT Valley Community Theater will have tryouts next week for its first summer show in five year. Martha Palmer Fuller will direct "Dangerous Comer," a siKpensoful drama by Joseph Priestley.

The presentation has txvn sot tentatively for the lurt week in August in the Pomona College Greek Theater. Ti units will tv at Wednesday and Thutsday nights at Mrs. Fullcts home, lilt) Via Zuuti inoith cf Foothill Blvd. and east of Indian Hill There are parts for three men nd four women. is drive the Alcan Highway.

Then I can die happy." Conklin has had 264 years with the county. At San Dimas Park he develojved the nature trails with his daughter. They catalogued some 2.000 plants that grow In the park, labeled the main ones and prepared a brochure to help the public understand the plants that grow naturally In Pomona Valley. They also started the Tia.l side Museum, and this became Evelyns project. Thousands of visitor came to the museum every year to study.