Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 14

1 Section Tests Evalute Teaching Here COMPLETE NEA FEATURE SERVICE LONGVIEW, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1958 FULL NEWS SERVICE OF AP, UP AND INS ffmW WWI yMeWJW.FV I MIWf'lW Mill I Iffy IHM'I 1 ri The maailv talent hunt which the National Merit Scholarship Corporation conduct every year in the nation'! high achool ha a new by-product which in helping the faculty of Longview High School to evaluate what kind of a job teaching la being done there. Test eore report measuring the educational development of 205 Longvlew High School Junior of lart year (the aenlora of the coming school year) are now available for study by parents and atudenta at the office of Melvin Wester, Longview High School counselor. An examination called the National Merit Scholarship Qualify i mil in I Plans Shaping Ud For Gregg Fair Plans for the annua! Gregg County Fair are rapidly taking shape. Ken Turk, president of the longview Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the fair', said Saturday, Tuck said that the new permanent rattle Judging arena now under construction will he really for use during the Fair. The arena.

-fzdh, Ing of April 29 to nearly half a million youngsters (about 31 per cent of all students who will be senior this fall.) It Is believed to be the largest number of students ever given the same test on the same day. The Intensive three-hour battery of testa was devised, graded nd reported by Chicago' Science Research Associate, a national educational testing organlta-tion. In other years, the test was given only to the better students but last spring all juniors at Longview High School took the test. The results are now being fully evaluated by Wester. He has found so far In his yet uncompleted study that 14 longview students made scores of 9S per cent or better in English usage and 2(1 score 90 or better.

One student reached th'e flflth percentile In the mathematics division of the test. For the junior class as a whole at Longview High School, the test score report placed local tudents in the 62d, percentile in their ability to read "and comprehend natural sciences, in the 56th percentile in Kngli.sh usage, in the 63d. percentile in ability In mathematics and quantitative thinking, in the 51st percentile in ability to read and comprehend the social ing test, was given on ine morn measuring 60 by 30 feet, is being. 1 OPW Pi. i constructed to American cattle Judging standards.

Turk said that a npw automobile parking lot is now under construction and would be ready fop use this year. It is located immediately west of the exhibits building and a new entrance gate from the parking lot will make a total of three gates this year. The new gate from the parking lot will offer the closest approach to the center of activity at the Fair. The president said that Cliff Bialark and Charles Tombr-r-lain, ro-rhairmen of this year's fair, are presently negotiating with several nationally known acts for (See TLANS. Page 10-BI CATTLEMEN TO MEET HERE.

Norman Moser, right, well known F.axt Texas rancher from DeKalh, who was elected president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association in March will preside at the TSCRA rejnlar quarterly directors' meeting in Long-view September 13. With him are ilefti Dolph Briscoe, I'valrie, first vice-president and Leo J. Welder, Victoria, second vice-president. ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS TO MEET sciences and in the 61st precentile in knowledge of vocabulary. In all rases, the national average was the 50th percentile.

The composite score for Longview juniors was the 60th percentile. Wester noted that an unexpected benefit of the test is that it show which student are really working a their job of learning and which are loafing. If a student's score on the national test Is better thjip hi term grade at school, he i (See TKSTS, Page 10-B) APPLKS, BOOKS, HOOPS AND SCHOOL DA YS When school bells ring In Longview again this week and the fall term opens, jhe well-equipped school child may be carrying an apple for the teacher, notebooks for spelling words and Hula-hoops for recess play. Judy Burton, who claims she can spin the Hula-hoop for 30 minutes without stopping, demonstrates for Gloria Allbright, left, whila Charlotte MrWhorter, center, munches an apple originally intended for the teacher. The photo was mad in front of the Bramlette Elementarv School where all three are fifth-grade students.

(NEWS-JOURNAL STAFF PHOTO). Cattle Industry Leaders Due Here Post Office To Use New Schedule Tues. AMONGST YOUNGER SET School Patrol Is Reactivated Here City To Close For Well-known visitors in Longview are Mr, and Mra. Mndy Berry and children Judy and Joe of Ft. Worth who are the guests of Jim and Betty Starker and daughter, Melind Mndy is a former football atar at Texas Christian University; Mm.

Berry and Mrs. Starkey were roommates at TSCW now Texas Woman'a University) Denton. Jim Thompson, son of Mr. and Mra. K.

D. Thompson. 1007 Harmon Driv, left Wednesday for Memphis, Tenn. where he will attend the Central Officers Training School for members of Kappa Alpha fraternity. Jim is one of the two official representatives from his chapter at Southwestern University, Georgetown.

He is treasurer for the ensuing year. ooo Member of the Longview Charity League will hold the first meeting of the year Wednesday at JO a m. at the home of Mrs. Harry Harrinrton 524 Young street announcement was made bv Mrs. A.

M. Willis. Jr. ooo Mia Annie Ruth Dillon, Bobby Balsom. Leo Horan and Misi Sandy Olson of Houston were guests last eek of Misa Dillon' parents, Mr.

and Mr. Pat H. Dillon, 207 South Hoskins street they were ac-rompanlea to Longview by Pat Dillon Jr. who spent a vacation in Houston and Galveston. .10 0 Mr.

and Mr. Carol Moaeley and (See TODAY, Page 10-B) Hula-Hoop Craze Has Hips Swinging When the post office opens for business Tuesday morning following the Labor Day holiday, new hours of operation will' be in effect, (iuy Wetzel, Iingview postmaster announced. Wetzel said that the service windows of the post office will be kept open one-half hour longer on weekdays than has been their schedule during the past year. The service indows will operate from 8 a.m. to 5 m.

daily Monday through Friday and from 8 a m. to noon on Saturdays. Heretofore the service windows have operated from Sam. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.

Wpt7ol said that the extended 30 minules of operation was for the benefit of merchants, to allow them additional time for the -end-of-the-day mailings. The postmaster said that Labor Day would be a' full holiday at the post office. Only box patrons will receive their, mail. All service window and city and rural routes will he nn holiday Monday. At the Invitation of the Fast 9xas cattle industry leaders and the Convention Committee of the Longview Chamber of Commerce, the City of LonRview will be host to the next regular quarterly meeting of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers -Association board of directors, on Sept.

13. Ray Cowart of Henderson, owner of the Cowart Cattle company and director of the association, said that the organization was more than 100 years old He said that' at one time it had been considered primarily a West Texas organization since for years that part of the rotintry dominated the cattle raising picture. Cowart said, howevere, since the raising and production of beef cattle has berome so much a part of the economy In Fast Texas that the association has attracted a wide membership in this area. The Longview meeting will mark the second' time in history tion have 'met In Fast Texas. In observance of this historic occasion, President Norman Moser of DeKalh and General Manager Charles Stewart of Fort Worth are conducting an Intensive campaign among East Texas members to get them to attend and participate in this directors meeting.

"All of our members and the general public, too. for that matter, are alwavs welcome at our quarterly board meetings," Moser said, "but the September meeting in Longview is something special and we are not only inviting members to attend but we are urging them to be present. I hope that member cooperation with this September meeting sets an all-time attendance record." Also presiding at th's directors meeting, in addition to President Moser, will be Vice President Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde, and Leo J. Welder of Victoria. The order of business calls for i See CATTLE, Page 10-B) Labor Day Monday liOngvlew ws preparing Friday for the long Labor Day weekend ahead.

Monday, Labor Day, will be observed by a general cleaning of business house throughout, the rity as well as banks, the post office and all city, county, federal and state offices. Labor Day Is one of the five official holidays designated by the Retail Merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce for closing. Only departments of the city to he in operation will be the police and fire departments. The sheriff's department will he the only county operation on Monday. The return of Iongview school children to classes on Tuesday prompted Police Chief Roy Stone Saturday to announce the reactivation of the city's school patrol, a group of part-time officer in semi-retirement who re stationed at stratecic points.

before and after school hours to guard the lives of children crossing streets. The men report at their various stations at 7 HO a.m. each school day, remain there until 8:30 a return at 11:50 a m. for patrol during the noon hour, again at 2 30 In safeguard children in the primary and then at 3:30 In help homehntind children in the (See SCHOOL, Page 10-B) and to acquire the hip-swaying rhythm necessary to keep that hoop sqinning about the torso without any hands touching it. Ona local fifth grader has acquired such finesse that she has been able to spin it 30 minute at a time without interruption.

Sold under th highly imasin-tive name of "Hula-hoop" becaua of the Hawaiian dance one must perform to keep it spinning. th toy Is chalking up fantastic (tie records at local stores. W. A. (See Hl'LA.

Page 10-BI Tops, Jacks and yo-yos were once the outward trappings of a well-equipped school rhild. But in this year of orbits, longview schools are about to reopen for the. fall term just as a brand new spinning top is driving local small fry hip-happy. Obeying the centrifugal force of follow the leader, Longview', youngsters and some oldster have been rushing to local stores to buy a light plastic hoop re-semhling a piece nf isirien bos that the directors of this associa SELECT THESE FINE TABLES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY! i a 1 'It I 7 eaance with modern scaling! loixa t'WA. -PCLCLlt styles in highly figured Swirl Mahogany Regular 69.50 FINE REPRODUCTIONS OF St 1 II mm maim 1 i X.

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