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SUH.MW*. WHOAY, fit. It, 1U1 -SCHOOL BELL- State Pupil Test Plan Bill Stirs Controversy By KMIKK Independent Star-News Education Kdllor the state ride herd on the quality of education through a mandatory stale- wide pupil testing program? Much debate Is going on in California today over this question. The debate is being stirred by a bill submitted to the legislature by Assemblyman Gordon H. Wlnlon Carol Lewis hil ADRIAN TEEN MODELS doing Frankie Avalon guested on Winks Show last night whili 3,000 teens walched on Gorlon's Fashion Show wilh CAROL LEWIS, phs VICKIE smhi A AS, Muir a I 1, phs A I Show Queen CAROLYN CAS- commentated BEVE I Internalional 11 selling Friday pm crowning A 1961 Model ol Year award, chasen by CALIF.

FASHION DESIGNER'S over attended PATTY I lifteened A informal modeling a know 18 horn here called back on RHEIH- PEGGY JACOB- ION gels NY SUMMER FESTIVAL title in NY City which her on a nalionwids lour at several Ihousand twas ntroduced on TODAY by Dava Jarroway and NY City-Mayor WAGNER lolher am beat 199 ol lhat city's best we did TWA in color Fri. lor PAUL HESSE San Marino Hi Fashion Show Wed. headed by DIANE SPEEDEY, i twins, elc. PAULETTE LOLLAR got THIRTY-FIVE lor KODAK ad; sames lor KAREN (Pageant) HUGHES DORN'S publicity woilh SIXTY each to SHARON GIROT, pec BONNIE COCHRANE, smhs PAM RECKAS, Muir and GAYLEEN COLLINS, Sunland DIANE ZOOK, 14D greens wilh MAURICE HANDLER lash modeling A BARNHOUSE, smhs, CLARY AD MARY STEWART, smhs every Sal. Tea-Room modeling, BULLOCK'S-PAS.

perl MARGIE BERTELSON L'OCK'S collegiate show COLLEEN CARY pietiy AD CLUB QUEEN, pec, wiitlen up in TIMES the GIFT SHOW with fees for SHARON GIROT. VICKIE SEVITZ, pcc PATTY DEPLITCH, smhs TWENTY lo CARYLE SCANDELLE, phs for DISNEYLAND goodie FIFTY to SHERI RICE for MODERN TEEN cover. LOOK liked Rice cover so much they're adoing more SUE A National A movie shown Fri. pm al UNIVERSITY CLUB here my discovery SHIRLEY (My Sister Eilleen) BONNE and Sheri covers LENNOX CHINA GINGER DUBBERLY in SEVENTEEN arid DUNE WAG- TOR'S NOXZEMA oh MAVERICK LYNN LANGLOIS, Arcadia Hi, has ADORN showing on GROUCHO MARX Lynn's lace on MIRROR- GLAZE Career Day talk by WA al Whillier Hi Wed. iCersn helped SEARS sub- ieen a i show a TWENTY-FIVE each lo CAROL LEWIS, SAND1E NIELSON, CAROL NIELSON, TRESSOME color ALL Drunslores of Iheii R.

BARB (Rhcingold) WILSON on new KENT commercial MARILYN (Bobhi) MOSER back at it SGTON SHERATON selling or FIFTY ner lo COLIEEN CARY and SHARON GIROT, cc, ODoinrr fashion showing "AULETTE LOLLAR, smhs CAROL LEWIS, phs did MODERN TEEN fashions at BEVE WILSHIRE Thurs. alch my column in DIG iur Rose Queen A Gunaike) A 4 ve a 1 to our rWesl om BOHITA GOLD. Sweetheart Bill! ueen for Brown Mililary, lendora Counlry Club if Sheri and Terree are Piinceii telephone. phs Vill rd in ced.) Win- Ion's bill Is growth of a a i a cwide testing by the Citizen A i sory mission on Edu- WELLS cation. The bill is a watered down version of the Commission's request.

The Commission asked a (he state set -up tests to determine achievement in reading, spelling and arithmetic in the elementary schools. asked for state achievement tests in the high schools, and on a subject determined by the Slate Board o( Education. The Commission asked lhat in setting up the tests a I minimum standard of educational achievement be established in the state. The standard, said the Commission, i would provide a local school district wilh "a yardstick by which it may reassure itself a its pupils are not being deprived of the educational opportunities they deserve, as well as providing strong supervisory instrument for stimulating high academic achievement." Translated, this means a the stale would set tho standard and then impose some kind of penalty if looal failed to meet it. Winlon's bill, however, is less dictatorial.

It gives local school districts the option lo pick from a list of standardized intelligence and achievement tesls approved by the State Board of Education. Most school districts in California are now using sland- aixlizcd tests. Therefore, the bill would merely put into law a present widespread practice. Of course, this makes all the debate on the bill somewhat academic. the California Teachers Association, practice or using standardized tests is widespread, says it will not oppose bill.

That is, if two amendments are written into It. One is assurance that the power of local school boards will not be usurped. The other Is a the bill spell out how the slate will use test results, and lo whom they will be made available. The Commission Itself was n6t in accord on the testing plan. A four- member minority argued that in essence such a test program would make education in California loo inflexible.

"Mandatory state testing," said (he minority, "can inhibit creativity and individual incentive and be a hindrance to the development of an educational program. A school curriculum shaped by state legislative action is likely to be too rigid to utilize effeclive advances In knowledge and to lack comprehensiveness and balance." Experiences In other states seem to bear out this assumption. A nationwide study shows (hat mandatory testing with built-in minimum standards are falling into disfavor. A study made by Assemblyman Winton by Legisla live Intern Rose Elizabeth Bird, shows that many states have dropped such programs. Kansas! which, slale'wlde testing on the elementary level in 3900 abol Islied It in 19'19.

It has adopted scliool testing program which is not conipul sory. The program serves merely as a guide for coun seling and to discover talent. Minnesota dropped its 7 year-old mandatory testing program in The state (Iocs have tests tor guidance purposes, but they are voluntary. Pupils of non-accredited schools, however, must pass mandatory Oregon, too, had dropped a long standing state-set program. It is now consider- i i standardized achievement tests.

Washington dropped its statewide program in 1935. It had nothing on this level at present. if The much touted New York Regents Examination has also undergone many changes. Today, the Regents test is given during the Inst Iwo years of high school lor above average slitdenls. The state also has standardized tests at the elementary level for diagnostic purposes only.

The tesls at the elemenlary level are not mandatory. The Regents tests are mandatory only to the extent that they must be given to some pupils. Delaware also has diagnostic tests, which are not mandatory. "From all available infer- malion," said the Bird report, "there is no state which uses statewide testing for" the maintenance of minimum standards." Why did these slates drop their rigid testing programs? The most significant comment was a because "teachers tend to teach to the tests." In other words, in their to have the pupils pass the tests teachers concentrated on a body of facts they thought would be in the tesls, ralher than the broader view of education. The second was lhat local school districts can best suit needs of the community by establishing its own standards.

Testing, concludes tha Bird report fc like an ax. It can be a useful tool or a deadly weapon. It is an ax when the're- sults of single test are made the sole criterion for promotion of a student, granting state funds or comparing teachers or schools, for a high test score is then treated as an educational objective. As a tool it provides more accurate and refined in formation to guide the pupil to greater achievement. High State Jobless Rate Laid to System SACRAMENTO UPI-Cali ornia's unemployment rate -quoted at eight per cent by lov.

G. Brown -limbed to lhat height partially realise of a new statistical ystem, a state official said 'csterday. George Roche, chief of re- earch and slatistic.t (or the Slate Department of Employment, said that the department used the new system to compile January unemployment it Ihe request of the federal government, which had been onsidering change since 959. Brown, at his press confer- nee Friday, said there.were 17,000 unemployed last month California. Under the old yslem, the number would lave been 476,000.

With a lotal workforce of Ifie now system howcd an unemployment rale 7.95 per cent, which the de- arlment rounded to per The old system showed rale of 7.37 per cent. Rocho said a the government wanted the new system to bring unemployment statistics oveY the a i into line. He explained a California, for instance, was using figures from its own farm labor offices lo compute the farm unemployment rate. "But the federal government did not have this facility In other states," he said, "and the California figures were always a low compared with the federal count." "We had our reservations about using the new system," he continued, "but it they're going to allocate federal con- tracls on the basis of unemployment, you have to have a standard." He said a the federal sys (em grew from conferences in 195!) and 19GO designed to i suilablc standards for a na- lional unemployment rale. The government made Jan.

1 the compliance dale in California a correspondence wilh state officials last spring and sum mer, Rocjje said. Jobless Insurance Hike Asked A I O'N--U: 'President 1 Kennedy a asked. Congress to do for hii what It wouldn't do for hi predecessor. lie has. requcsled that It ap prove a permanent Increase i the unemployment Insitranc tax base, which is paid by en ployers.

Former President Eisci hower asked for a similar crease when he was In th White" House. The Democrat Ii controlled Congress have no part of it. The only major diffcrcnc between what Kennedy is ast and what Eisenhowe didn't get is the -size of th ncrease. "Kennedy wants Hi ax levied on. earnings up a year.

The Rcpubllca President was turned (low when he asked for an iiicreas lo a year The i low 53,000. Kennedy has linked the pot nancnt lax rise with a tern icrary program to extend th jerlocl of unemployment tnsm mce payments by 50 per con' jp to a maximum of 39 week; 5-Floor Fall Kills Woman LOS ANGELES CNS--Al Utractive office worker fell ier death yesterday from 1h i floor room of her Lo Angeles apartment. The woman was Identifiet by police as Joan Jarper, 2G, who lived at the Hotel. Police detectives said tenant; old them Ihe girl kept to hei elf and. did not have riends.

Knif ers Rob Woman NORWALK Eu lice B. Poppen, 31, Santa Fe Springs, was robbed at knife )oint of J125 yesterday, after ier car was forced to the curb an automobile containing our men. ROY S. KEUOGG heads society Kellogg Named President of Historical Unit Roy S. Kellogg, a resident Pasadena since 1893, former managing director of the os Angeles Advertising Club nd an honoraiy member of le Pasadena Advertising Club, as been named 1961 presi- ent of the Pasadena Histo- cal Society.

Other new officers include arl Messer and i Rohey, ce presidents, and Harry S. achin, secretary treasurer, ellogg appointed Frederick Nelson as curator and Wilim F. llollz as lecturer. New trustees Mrs. Waller and Dr.

John H. Katon-were introduced by retiring President Hugh S. Spaulding at the trustees' election meeting in the Public Library's Historical Room Thursday. ,1 1 I i GETTING READY-Plons for a pro-Easier banquet lor planning and preparation for tho annual Rose Bowl Easter Jorvicei are being made by Cecil Potter, left, Pasadena insurance executive. Dr.

J. H. Hukhins, retired.pastor.of Lake Avenue Congregational Church and Richard Curley, business manager of Fuller Seminary in Pasadena. Dr. J.

Vernon McGee, paMor of the Church of tha Open Door of Los speaker at the banquet set for al tho Pasadena YMCA. Dr. Bob Pierce will bs Easter speaker. U.S. to Put Billion Into Home Building WASHINGTON-- ll'l --The government moved yesterday to strengthen home building by adding more than billion lo the supply of money available for mortgage loans.

The steps taken are ex'pecl- eu to lower Interest, rates and cut some cash down payments on houses costing more Irian $18,000. The action was taken as the commerce department report- e' a 12 per cent increase of housing starts In January. The department said the end of Ihe was partly brought about by stalls that liad been delayed by bad wealher in December. The federal home loan bank board look steps lo give Ihe 1,800 federally-chartered savings" and loans associations more money to lend lo home buyers. Kennedy asked board In a Feb.

letter lo cooperate In the administration's drive to "secure a level of Interest rates which will stimulate the construction housing i (hereby aiding In our overall recovery program" from (he current business recession. (ADVERTISEMENT) Pensioners! Recipients of old age security may now obtain eya examination' and-glasses under the new California i a care program. Consult tlen, Optometrist, Member Natl. Optometric A 11., 352 E. Colorado' Boulevard, Pasadena, SY 6-6554.

POLITICAL NOTES Speaker of "Assembly Job Battle Foreseen By LEONARD KRKIDT Independent Star-News 1'oIItloil A behind'the-scenes lussle is in the California As embly over an event which is as yet, purely in the realm oj peculation. The prize is the speakership if the Assembly, presently held ly Ralph Brown (D-Fresno). A bill to establish some nev, appellate court juilgeships in California, two of them report dly in Fresno County, kicked the silent, deadly, catch-as competition. Assemblymen of both parties a position to know believe hat Speaker Brown will be appointed to one of the new icnch positions, leaving the Speaker's seat up for grabs. A major contender lo sue- ecd him.

of course, would Carlos Bee (D-Hayward), peaker pro tem, a former resi- ent of San Marino Another aspirant, and a pow- rful one, would be Jesse Un- uh (D-Los Angeles), chair- nan of the A embly Ways a lommittee. A i onsidered a a om i andidate he- ween Bee and Is Goron i D-Merceri). KREIDT Fourth on the list, with some sported Republican support, Vincent Thomas (D-San edro). At this time Bee is reported have the lead in the race by group of conservative Re- ublicans who unofficially avor him, but prefer to re- nain uncommitted. Unruh, who spent most of st week in Washington as- sting tha Kennedy adminis- in screening 400 or 500 pplicalions from California a government ibs, is reported lo be pulling it all Ihe slops in his bid for the Speaker's post.

De.spito influence as a close associate of the Governor's and his power as Ways and Means Committee chair palli to the Assembly rostrum is uphill and strewn wilh po- itical boulders, according to Capitol insiders. They say he'll need some Republican support. One Republican legislator said Unruh "fights hard, he fights dirty and he fighls to In Ihe course of his Assembly career, the heavy, bull- log-jawed assemblyman has nade his share and more of according to this informant. If Brown steps up lo the Mich it is inevilable that a Democrat will succeed him. Accepting this, Republican leg- slalors are weighing (lie mer- Is of Ihe various candidates and, no doubt, waiting to be wooed.

Sectionalism is an Issue in She fight with a noi'th-soulh attle over Ihe Feather River Water Project already in Die skirmish stage. Reapportion- vient and Senate representa- ion can also be expected to be brandished by the Democralic candidales over the heads of heir Republican colleagues as Ihe bailie waxes wanner. While these things will have heir effect, the uncommitted Republicans will be weighing Bee's methods, which one assemblyman says "are in the a tradition," against Unruh's rough-shad landling of men and measures the past. Another important consider- ition will be Unruh's closeness i Ihe Governor. "Team hose two up and we'll have sledding," a GOP assem- Published Sunday only al S2J E.

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