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2G w. SILOUIS POST-DISPATCH New Jets For Syria Are Reported Three County Districts Get Education Awards Sumner Alumni Being Sought A search has been started for graduates of Sumner High School, 4248 Cottage Avenue- Early next year, the school will celebrate its centennial. And the Sumner Century Ckib is trying to round up "lost" alumni for the festivities. The club is holding various events this year, inviting all Sumner alumni to attend, to sign up for the centennial invitation list and to bring the names and addresses of other alumni. The first event is a picnic June 23 at Holiday Valley Park, 2477 Marshall Road, Information can be obtained by calling 868-4497, 3884461 or 521-6071.

Those alumni who cannot attend the picnic have been asked to call the telephone numbers anyway. Sumner Century Club members at the other end of the line will take names and addresses for the centennial mailing list WASHINGTON, May (AP) United States intelligence sources say Russia may be preparing to ship some of its advanced MIG-23 jet fighters to Arab air forces. This could spell trouble for the Israeli Air Force if the MIG-23 "Flogger" appears in numbers on the Syrian front More than that it would suggest that Russia is prepared to stiffen Syria's ability and will to fight while the United States is trying to restore a truce between the Syrians and Israelis. U.S. analysts say the MIG-23, with a top speed of nearly 2000 miles an hour, would boost significantly the power of Arab air forces now equipped with earlier model fighters.

Intelligence sources say crated MIG-23s have been seen near a Black Sea port from which the Russians ship military equipment by sea to Syria and other Arab nations. Until now, these sources say, the only verified movement of MIG-23s outside Russia has been to Soviet Air Force units in East Germany and Poland. However, there were reports that Russian pilots flew four MIG-23S in Egypt in 1971 and 1971 These Floggers were said to have returned to Russia after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat expelled Soviet advisers in mid-1971 Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan claimed early last month that MIG-23s were Syria. A Pentagon spokesman said at the time that "there is no evidence that the MIG-23 has appeared in Syria." About two weeks later, Syrian President Hafez Assad returned home from Moscow with a promise of additional arms from the Soviet Union. Beirut Will Head Association John B.

Ervin, dean of Washington University's School of Continuing Education since 1968, has been named presidentelect of the National University Extension Association. He will head the organization in its 1975-76 term. newspapers said Russia had pledged early delivery of advanced jet fighters and surface-to-surface missiles. About that time. U.S.

intelligence reported, Soviet merchant ships unloaded 12 crated MIG-23 jets at the Syrian port of Latak-ia. In recent weeks, intelligence reports have told of Soviet deliveries of tanks, small arms and 18 tracked vehicles believed to carry clusters of SA7 antiaircraft missiles at that same port Meanwhile, U.S. officials have acknowledged a claim by Senator Henry M. Jackson Washington, that there are about 500 Russian military men in Syria. Pentagon sources say the Soviets are believed to be manning air defense units near Damascus, away from the scene of Israeli-Syrian fighting on the Golan Heights.

And at least two new Russian-built air defense radar complexes have shown up along the Lebanese border and south of Damascus. the other programs, with funds granted yider the United States Elementary and Secondary Education Act It serves students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The students are tested by the laboratory if academic difficulties indicate prob lems. The laboratory staff determines whether the difficulitea lie in concept forming, visual or audial deficiencies or personali-t characteristics. There is a special classroom in each school where 6uch students are then brought for weekly remedial work.

"About 120 are going to these special classes now," said Ralph Huesing, director of the program. "We found problems at all levels, but especially in secondary education. The students have made tremendous gains in reading achievement and behavior. And the improve ment in behavior has shown up in improved academic performance in all areas." The Cape Girardeau District was cited for a modular high school curriculum under which the school year is divided into three 60-day trimesters and the school day into 27-minute modules. Under this system, students can spend up to two and half hours a day on one subject as science.

"The students like it much better man the traditional sys tern," said C.G. Johnson, director of the program. "They can take more courses a year but also by taking fewer in any giv-i en trimester they can really get into the subject in Johnson said that achievement scores have shown significant gains by students in mathematics, science and literature. The program involved all 1250 students in the high school; Three St Louis County school districts have received awards for innovative education pro grams from the National Advi-sory Council of the United States Office of In Missouri, only four districts received the awards: Ferguson-Florissant, Maplewood-Richmond Heights, Jennings and Cape Girardeau. i a Ferguson-Florissant preschool program cited, 4-year-olds come to school on Saturdays and also receive a home visit once a week.

In the home visits instruction is given to parents and materials left for them to use in helping their children. More than 700 children participated in the program this year. Emphasis is given to early idem tification of handicaps. Miss Marion Wilson, director of the program, said that 20 per cent of the children have been found to have some sort of handicap. "Of those children now in kindergarten and first grade, we have found that the handi capped who have participated in the preschool program achieve higher than children without handicaps who did not participate," Miss Wilson said, A Maplewood preschool pro.

gram cited involves not only 4-year-olds but 3-year-oMS. The children, about 300 of them this year, come to school several half-days during the weekj "We are not trying to teach these kids to read or do number work, but we try to build on their own interests and follow through on them," said Clint Crites, superintendent ot schools. "Kindergarten and first grade teachers give us really glowing testimonials. These children definitely do come into the regular school system with an advantage," Crites said. i The Jennings Learning Lab cited is made possible, as are Elderly Aid Recipients Still Having Problems By PMt-Dtapafek Correspondent JEFFERSON CITY, May 18-Thousands of elderly Missouri welfare recipients are continuing to have difficulties with their monthly benefits because of problems in the federal takeover of payments, Bert ohulim-son, welfare director, said.

The state is attempting to rectify the situation as quickly as possible when the individual problems are called to the Welfare Division's attention, Shu-limson said. He gave this explanation: In the first three months of this year, numerous elderly persons received overpayments from the Federal Government. When information on the amount paid by the Federal Government was fed back to the state, the state reduced its supplementary benefits because the overpayments disqualified the recipients from receiving as much as the state had been paying. Then the Federal Government discovered its overpayment and cut back payments and the recipients were left with reduced income from both the federal and state governments. Last Jan.

1, the Federal Government took over the cost of welfare for the aged, blind and disabled. But the state created supplementary payments for persons on the welfare roles at that time so that they would suffer no loss in income as a result of the change in the system. Shulimson said persons who received the federal overpayments actually will realize more over-all income for the period than they would have if a mistake had not been made, but he acknowledged that when the cutbacks occurred it caused hardships. He said that when the cutbacks are rectified the recipients will be compensated for any excessive reductions in future benefit checks. Finds Mother Is Alive After 32-Year Wait jllff citom decorating sale custom sIipDar amd cooling of the cold she decided to write.

"I wrote a letter on Easter Sunday," she said, "and sent it with a prayer to the Lord to stop it somewhere if it would cause my family trouble if they were alive." When the postman arrived last week Mrs. Berezow began thumbing through en assort' ment of magazines and throw away mail. i "Then I saw the letter with all the stamps on it and my brother's name," she said. "I began screaming and The letter was written by the daughter of one of her brothers It said her two brothers, Leonid and Sedia, were alive living In Drushkovka, Russia end her mother, Stephanie, was liv ing with Leonid. However, the letter also brought bad news.

It said hen father, Vassily Pivin, died in 1952. "She said my mother was standing by her crying and saying she wanted to see her 'little girl' again," Mrs. Berezow said-Mrs. Berezow rushed off another letter asking about her mother's health. If her mother Is able, Mrs.

Berezow hopes to get permission for her to visit in America. If not, she said, "I want to go to Russia to see her." I MURPHYSBORO, 111., May 18 (UPI) For more than 30 years, Mrs. Sima Berezow woiw dered if her mother was alive; "It's God's miracle," she told reporters, spreading the news that her mother was still living; Mrs. Berezow was separated from her family during the German invasion of Russia in World War II. The Germans sent her a prison camp in Gelsen-kirchen, Germany, and while there she received one letter from her father.

He told her that her mother had undergone surgery and was seriously ill' and unable to walk. Mrs. Berezow met her hus-band, Dmitri, in the prison camp and they were married there in May 1945. They came to the United States in 1950, and Murphysboro sponsors found him a job in the Lustour Corp. plant, where he still works as a pressman.

"For 32 years I have been praying every day that my mother was alive," Mrs. Berezow said. 'The Lord has answered my prayer." i Mrs. Berezow said she did not' try to get in touch with her family for years because she thought they were dead or that, they were alive, inquiries might cause them problems. But when she learned that friends were corresponding with relatives in Russia after the Complaints In Writing Required By Bureau Have one of our decorators help you select therightfabricsforyourchairs and sofa.

plaints could be processed more efficiently by the staff. Persons calling the bureau will hear a recorded message about how to file a grievance. The bureau will begin publishing a monthly list of firms that have been unresponsive to consumers or to suggestions by the bureau for Improving customer relations. "We also will offer businesses and dissatisfied customers a chance to arbitrate the differences," Schmitt said. If the nor-mal complaint process fails to resolve the problem, both sides may agree to let a third party decide the issue.

Dissatisfied consumers must write their complaints to the Better Business Bureau of Greater St. Louis under a new program that replaces the tradi-t i a 1 but apparently worked telephone lines. Complaints to the bureau have increased significantly over the last year, James C. Schmitt, president of the private agency, said. "We handled more than 30,000 inquiries in the first four months last year," Schmitt said.

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Election Campaign Reform Passed Senate; in House committee. Elementary and Secondary Education Act Extension Passed House; before Senate. Emergency Energy Legislation Vetoed. Energy Windfall Profits Tax Awaiting House action. Impeachment Inquiry In House committee.

Legal Services Corporation Awaiting final Senate action on compromise. Minimum Wage Increase Enacted. Reporters' Sources Protection In House and Senate committees. I No-fault Insurance Passed Senate; in House committee. Pension Plans Regulation Passed Senate and House; awaiting compromise.

Tax Law revision In House committee. Trade Negotiating Authority Passed House; in Senate committee. Sale prices effective through Saturday. Merchandise available only at South County Northwest Plaza RiverRoads West County rm am t- m. iafc.

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