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6-Metro THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 19T4 Educator Blasts stems In Urban Areas By MARY ANNE CORPIN Tribune Staff Writer The curriculum isn't appropriate and teachers aren't prepared for a changing urban population produced by migration to the cities, increased militancy, and community desire to set the educational goals, a distinguished educator said yesterday. Dr. Harry Rivlin, who holds the John Mosler professorship of urban education at Fordham University, New York, said, "Unless we develop the people we need, the programs won't amount to anything. Without competent people, all the goals are just empty statements." RIVLIN, A speaker during the 10th annual National Superintendents Conference being sponsored by the University of South Florida, said that in many localities programs are being organized by college faculties, teachers, and people from the community, to improve the school program.

"The hostility felt by a community which has no way of talking to a school or university leads to confrontations. Once the community works with the college and schools, and becomes con vinced that the colleges and schools are interested in what's happening in the community," Rivlin said, "we have cooperation, not confrontation." A coordinator in starting the Great Cities School Improvement Program in the nation's 14 larqest cities a dozen years ago, Rivlin said big city prob-lems "are very much alike" and are fast becoming the problems of all cities and the suburbs. "IT DOESN'T make much sense to a slum youngster to go to school wheji he has little hope of becoming a useful member of society. He doesn't see school opening up opportunities for him," said Rivlin. "For a teacher to be able to motivate such a youngster, she has to understand what's turning him off.

It's not so much a question of motivating him for a lesson, as for a way of life. "For this reason," the former university dean of teacher education for the City University of New York said, "emphasis has to be placed, more than ever before, on the individual child, the individual teacher, the administrator, because it is only as we evidence our respect for each of them and let each attain his fullest development, are we able to let schools play their part in improving the community and the world." He recommended that schools and colleges work together for continued development of teachers. "It's iheun-usual university which can prepare an instructor who is determined not to spend a lifetime in being a good beginning teacher," he observed. Rivlin, who retired last September as dean of the Fordham school of education, cited a successful school-com- munity plan begun by the university during the past few years. EIGHTEEN people equally representing the community, the local schools and the university worked out a plan by which, for example, university professors worked with teachers, parents, school administrators and community members in improving the schools' science program.

People from the community selected which teach-, ers would be admitted to doctoral program, and which mothers would be admitted to programs for training as para-professionals. Inadequate School Sy School Chiefs Told Students Hillsborough School Board Drops Option On Hospital I TooDependent Raymond Shelton "at sites" By MARY ANNE CORPIN Tribune Staff Writer The structure of school needs to be changed because it makes students passive and dependent, and segregates them from other age groups, the 10th annual National Superintendents' Conference' advised. Bob Martinez, executive director of the Classroom Teachers Association, said the CTA first saw the document Monday and was concerned with fomr points, specifically those allowing for half-year teacher contracts. "We would hate to see the high schools become parttime employerc," Martinez said, asking that action on the controversial sections be withheld until the CTA has time to discuss them with school system administrators. The board agreed to that proposal.

Assistant Supt. Paul Wharton forecast that the formula would require additional teachers. Shelton disagreed. Wharton also said the administration has "been worried for some time" because high schools are staffed on a basis of one teacher for each 29 students, but that high school seniors are opting more frequently to leave school at the end of the fall 12th-grade term when they have enough units to graduate. That leaves additional teachers under contract.

square feet. He suggested a building could be paid for during a two-year period. Board member Mrs. Pat Frank said a contractor had advised her the board could have 80,000 gross square feet, or 65,000 net square footage for $1,750,000. The board originally had been told that St.

Elizabeth's had about 125,000 square feet. Information which an architect provided Mrs. Frank indicated far less square footage, and a considerable cost for renovation. The board called for an appraisal on the structure, and a detailed analysis presented last night showed the appraisal value, and a total space of 87,639 square feet. Renovation needed was estimated at $168,000 plus $53,000 for additional parking space' and a fence.

A NEW 21-point formula for hiring high school teachers, so more specialized courses may be offered, was adopted. The plan would make it possible for transfer of teachers or of students to allow participation in very advanced courses. By MARY ANNE CORPIN. Tribune Staff Writer With the St. Elizabeth's Hospital building having 56,895 square feet of usable office space and an appraised value of $1,280,000, the Hillsborough County School Board voted last night to let its $1.52 million purchase option expire.

Faced again with a search for an administration building, the board voted to place $1.25 million into high-interest investment funds, and consider buying, leasing or building a structure. "WE'RE TRYING to look at the sites available as well as the acre the county has offered," School Supt. Raymond O. Shelton said. The Hillsborough County Commission voted last month to give the board a one-acre block on Kennedy Boulevard near the Courthouse Annex as a construction site, or $500,000 to buy or build elsewhere.

Shelton said he thought the school system could build for $25 a square foot, or $1,250,000 for 45,000 "The problem isn't with what the students are learn-ing, but with the kind passivity and dependency forced on them by the present structure of schools." Dr. Joseph F. Kett, member of the President's Science Advisory Committee panel on youth, said the panel's report calls for an experiment in which school would be subordinate to work; students would receive educational vouchers good for college study at any time in their lives, and government would pay youths for their service club civic work. KETT, A history professor at the University of Virginia, told 40 superintendents from school districts throughout the nation, "The problem isn't with what the students are learning, but with the kind of passivity and dependency forced on them by the present structure of schools. "Therefore," he said, "we suggest changes that pertain not to curriculum but to I The panel, which began its investigation in 1971, had no youths as members, Kett disclosed.

REFERRING to the statements of panel chairman James S. Coleman of the University of Washington, Kett cited a "common threat running through the youth culture of the '60's admiration of youths who challenge adults." The Presidential panel recommended financing of pilot programs "rather than mass departures from current practices," Kett said. Sewer, Water Law Gets Nod from the charges will be used to finance sewer and water utility expansion and repair, City Manager William Nun-gester said. By JEFF STANFIELD Tribune Staff Writer TEMPLE TERRACE -The Temple Terrace City Council last night approved an emergency ordinance establishing sewer and water hookups to new developers. The charters become effective today, based upon water meter 6izes and the number of dwelling units in each development.

THE MONEY received sidized, and the employer would be repaid from public funds for the cost of instructing and training students. "To rectify a possible injustice and increase the range of options" open to students, education vouchers would be offered, good for study at a four-year public college at any time during the person's life. Government would pay youths in civic organizations to perform socially acceptible jobs. "Our feeling is that if society doesn't want to pay for it, society doesn't regard that work as socially significant." KETT OBSERVED that as formal education developed in the 1890's and thereafter, youth no longer was defined as the critical period of life, but as a psychologically turbulent stage. "It is possible," he said, "that the school itself creates some of these problems." The conference, sponsored by the University of South Florida, is geared to, "The Catalyst for Transition." Dr.

Jean Battle of the USF College of Education remarked to delegates, "We are about to get into the 21st Century but we haven't brought education up in is transition to the 20th Century." Student Grief Says Papers Are Public Developers applying for future sewer hookups will be required to pay a base charge cf from $600 to $39,800, depending on the size of the water meter, and $200 per dwelling unit. But the same token, the base rates for water hookups will be from $50 to 59,950, and a $50 payment will be required for each dwelling unit. Although the charge is labeled an interim charge, the rates are permanent unless it is determined through periodic review that they need to be adjusted, Mayor George Fee said. THE BASE SEWER rates are equivalent to Tampa's Nungester said, but the Temple Terrace ordinance tacks on the $200 charge per dwelling unit to defray the cost of upgrading the city sewer system. Water rates were set according to projected needs for water system improvements, AMONG THESE propos- als: The expansion of specialized schools, to encourage more intense concentration of activity.

A trimester during each of the last two years of high school, so all students could attend two terms of school, and work during the third term, rather than having a summer vacation. Some businesses could be publicly sub University of South Florida Does USAF Have UFOs TECO Rate Hike Hearings To Open subscribe these days. Dr. Eichhorn also maintained, with some passion, that "there is not a single reputable, active scientist who will come out and say flying saucers exist and carry intelligent creatures." But Carr, who plainly had the support of the 100 or more in the audience, cited Major Donald Keyhoe, an author of flying-saucer books, and said there are numerous scientists who believe that "our airways are inhabited by alient craft unmatched by anything we have." In addition, Carr said the CIA (under the guise of the U. S.

Air Force) is making a concerted effort to keep these aliens a secret in spite of "considerable evidence." WHILE CARR read a list of names he said represented noted scientists working in universities for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and various governmental agencies, Dr. Eichhorn yawned, shrugged his shoulders and munched on crushed ice from a cup. Eichhorn said of the list, "I am not impressed." Carr related a plan outlined in Maj. Keyhoe's most recent book, "Aliens from Space," for setting up a giant movie screen on a mountain top in New Mexico to show friendly motion pictures that characterize human beings on earth. Keyhoe's plan, Carr pointed out, is outlined in the final chapter of his book and credited, he read from the volume, to Robert Carr.

By FRANK BENTAYOU Tribune Staff Writer One of the best-kept secrets of the United States Government is that in Hangar 18 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, there are two flying saucers of unknown origin, a University of South Florida instructor said yesterday. They are not for sale; and, anyway, one is in bad repair, having ubeon damaged in a crash, Robert S. Carr, a USF mass communications instructor said. The other is in "perfect" condition. CARR MADE the statements in a debate with Dr.

Heinrich Eichhorn-Von-Wurmb, chairman of the USF astronomy department and critic of the "unidentified flying object hysteria to which, he says, so many Americans Student Government President Bill Davis said yesterday that a state deputy attorney general informed him that papers a USF vice president was withholding from him should be made public. Davis said he has been trying to see copies of documents held by Dr. Joe Howell, vice president of student affairs at USF for "several months, but Howell told me they were 'working papers' and therefore not public documents." "I MAINTAIN," Davis continued, "that they are public documents, and now the attorney general's office will probably tell him (Howell) that they are also." The papers Davis seeks pertain to issues of the USF student govermnment. Davis also has threatened to take Howell and other USF administarators to court at his own expense "to settle this issue of working papers." Dr. Howell has told The Tribune that "certain papers are merely notes we (administrators) use among us, and are not really public documents" in that they do not relate to policy of the university, he said.

he said. In other action, the council voted to set a public hearing for Feb. 5 to decide whether to reduce sewer rates charged to Temple Terrace residents from $1.05 to $1.00 per thousand gallons of water used. The maximum charge would be for 20,000 gallons of water used. The figure which is an average consumption rate, would not apply to commercial users.

The Florida Public Service Commission will begin possibly up to three days of cross examining Tampa Electric Co. officials today on their bid for an $11.2 million rate increase. Sessions, open to the public, begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Manger Riverside Inn. Stress Put On 'Good' Candidates For GOP THEY WILL continue Thursday and, if necessary, Friday, a PSC spokesman said.

TECO officials submitted their case for the increase Nov. 7. PSC attorneys will ex-ploce their comments during the Taampa hearings. TECO asserts it needs $11.2 million to "make whole" its authorized rate of return on investment, authorized by the PSC at eight to eight and a half per cent. THE COMPANY says increased operating costs have pushed the rate of return below seven per cent.

Among TECO officials who will be questioned are H. L. Culbreath, president; W. J. Campbell, director of rates and research; James Tag-gart, treasurer; and consulting professor C.

F. Phillips an economics analyst from Washington and Lee University. Birdsong. ALTHOUGH neither Dougherty nor Birdsong would mention any specific persons they wanted to see as candidates for local offices in 1974, Birdsong said, "I hope we have two or three good candidates to support." Dougherty said he expects the GOP club to be active with candidates running statewide and locally making appearances before the club and getting support from the club members. "I would like to have quality Republicans.

We need to settle for quality. Unfortunately, like any party, we get some people in there that make the ticket look bad and that's no way for a party to grow," Dougherty said. state senate race and Birdsong a county commission contest. "I don't think I'm going to have any interest" in being a candidate this year, Birdsong said. Dougherty's comment was similar: "I really don't plan to run for anything." Birdsong is outgoing president of the Men's Republican Club of Hillsborough County and Dougherty will be president in a month.

"We are the only club in town that raises money in campaigns," Dougherty said. Individuals and clubs, such as the one he heads "can't afford not to take an interest and spend a little money for the people they want elected," according to By JACK GREENE Tribune Staff Writer Two men prominently associated with Republicanism in Hillsborough County as candidates and boosters said that they do not expect to be candidates in 1974. But Charles Birdsong and Ward Dougherty said they will be helping "good" GOP candidates. "In view of the problems our party has had," said Birdsong, "I think we ought to get behind good candidates and not try to fill up a whole slate." "My thinking parallels Charlie's on that. I don't want a full slate," Dougherty said.

BIRDSONG, an auto dealer, and Dougherty, a rancher, were candidates, in 1972. Dougherty lost a BUT DAVIS said, "According to this case, Copeland versus Cartwrlght, there is no working paper exemption to the Florida statute" called the "sunshine law." Deputy Atty. Gen. Barry Richard, whom Davis said asserted there were no exemptions for "working papers," could not be reached last night..