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000 SECTION 1 METROPOLITAN NEWS VOL LXXXI CC SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1962 Times-Mirror Square, Los Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 5-2345 Schools to Cut Tests Aero Truce Half Gone-Still Stymied Negotiations Halted Pending Word From President's Board State Officials Here Accepting Mandatory Pattern With Mixed Feelings on Value BY DICK TURPIN, Times Education Editor A mandatory statewide testing program, aimed at ensuring quality education in California's public schools, is being accepted locally with mixed feelings. Los Angeles fifth, righthf and 11th erade students will'students caught up in the i Hum 3 V'e --7 1 BY HARRY BERNSTEIN Times Labor Editor The fiO-day truce in the aerospace industry is now more than halfway over, and there has been no change in the stalemate between companies and unions seeking agreement on new contracts covering 100,000 workers. Representatives of the companies and unions, in most cases, have even recessed their bargaining sessions which they were urged to continue by President Kennedy's special aerospace board established to help bring about a contract settlement. The recesses were not re- rrn I'firirA i iffy Virt.i- ever, since it was clear neither side had moved from its original position.

Still anxiously awaited is word from Dr. George W. Taylor, chairman of the three-man board, who said when he left here Aug. 17 that the board would decide soon" on its next steps. Call Expected There has been specula tion that the parties would be called to Washington.

possibly this week, for fur ther mediation sessions which might include Secre tary of Labor Goldberg. However, one ind list RECOVERY DRAWING Drawing shows how Douglas space booster would be supported for recovery for re-use after returning from orbit to desired area on ground command. Drag cone would permit water landing at less than I m.p.h. Structure would withstand re-entry heot and be 327 ft. in diameter.

Douglas Suggests Plan for Rocket Recovery Aircraft Firm's Proposal Would Permit Reuse of Expensive Booster Devices Famed Stage Figure Lillian Alberfson Dies Services for Miss Lillian Albertson, 81, famed theatri Wafer Project Acquires 12 of Land Needs The state has poured more than S10.5 million into a lnnp-rancp nin.crram in as semble rights of wav for its Under 1,000 MARINES RETURN FROM ASIAN DUTY A Marine band and hundreds of relatives loudly greeted 1,000 Marine officers and men who returned here Saturday from emergency duty in Thailand. The men are members of the 3rd Battalion, 9th Regiment, who spent 10 weeks in the Asian country during the Laotian crisis. They were brought here aboard the USS Navarro, which docked at the Long Reach Navy Base. The Marines left San Diego 13 months ago for duty in the Far East, including service at Okinawa, Japan and Korea. About half of the troops will be assigned to Camp Pendleton, the others to other posts.

3 Sail Pacific 'in a Breeze' on 39-Ft. Boaf "It was so easy that an old woman in a wheel chair could have done it." That's what Josef Pachern- egg, skipper of a 30-ft. day as lie, ins liancee and a journalist sailed into Is Angeles Harbor after a 57-day non-stop trip from Yokohama, Japan. Pachernegg, a 39-year-old veteran of the German Navy in World War II, who operated an Australian govern ment patrol boat before charting the Pacific cruise, said the trip was a breeze." Ran Short of Supplies His fiancee, Benita E. Burge, 3S, an Australian nurse who works in Wewak, New Guinea, was the cook.

"We ran a little short of biscuits and milk," she said, "but we also got lots of reading done." he third nasseneer was ters correspondent who in terviewed Pachernegg and Miss Burge in Japan and was invited along for the voyage to America. "I was being transferred lo London and had three months he said, "so I went along." He plans to leave. the vessel and go to London foi a new assign The two-masted schooner, called the Okeanos, carried only SO gallons of water, so Please Turn to Pg. 7, Col. 1 be among nearly 700,000 students to be given intelli gence and aptitude tests throughout the state during a oil-day period beginning Oct.

15. Dr. Howard A. Bowman, director of the city system's evaluation and research section, said the legislature-enacted program of testing is far less comprehensive than the local system's existing program. $79,000 Added Cost But since it is it must be fitted into the, academic year at an addi- tional cost of more than 000.

The system's present testing pattern costs from $90,000 to $140,000 yearly, It will be necessary to cut back the system's own, long- established program to finance the state required plan, he said. He estimated that tests to be administered will cost $50,000. while another will be needed to process and tabulate results of the testing of 44.000 fiftK graders. 40.000 eighth grad- crs and 32,000 high school juniors. Funds Not Allocated When the lawmakers created the uniform testing pro gram, they did not allocate funds to implement the plan.

Local districts must pay for Lit out of local tax sources. Neither Dr. Bowman nor others on his staff are op posed at all to gauging the progress of students; that is their business. They are concerned with the internal shifting required to carry out the law, perhaps to the detriment of ft. BY MARVIN MILES, Times Space-Aviation Editor A huge, balloon-like container, larger than a football multimillion dollar Feather rvicHionnpr hud tn sav Satur 4 River project.

A new report issued 1 the State Department of YVa- i tcr Resources says the stale, through 1961. had acquired rog ram change-over from the local alternate-year testing plan to the state's proposed three-year plan. Disrupts Procedures Financially, because of the failure of a 60-cent tax override election last June, budgeting' of the additional was a strain and disrupted satisfactory testing and evaluation procedures. Philosophically, the tests will nrnviiif thp Statp T)P partment of Education with norms which individual school districts may use for comparative purposes. Area3 covered will be intelligence, reading, arithmetic and Ian- guage usage.

The program is considered nationally as an attempt one state to test tne prog- ress ot public scnooi stu puonc dents. It has no jurisdiction over private or parochial schools. Will Add Other Subjects State education officials estimate that more than 2.1 million students will be tester! fliirincr a thrpp-vpr initial period inlhe basi. skU1 sub. jetts 0ther subjec.ts wiu be thp nbn latpr A variety of tests has been approved by the State De partment of Education at that there will be no attempt to achieve absolute uniformity.

Direct comparison of one school district with another will not be possible but the district can match its results on a specific test with statewide averages ori that test. Los Angeles, unlike many school systems, has always revealed' its test results: The state program, for the first Please Turn to Pg. 7, Col. two buildings are being, financed entirely by voluntary contributions. Following the official pre? entation of his check, Gov.

Brown strolled up 1st St. from his office in the State Building to the seven-acro site between Hope St. am' Grand Ave. where the tow ering Memorial Pavilionval ready completely funded, gradually beginning to take shape. 'Can Take Pride' There, surrounded by some of the 375 constructioi' workers assigned to the project, Brown expressed his pleasure at the progress of the center and extended his congratulations to everyone concerned with its realization.

"California will be th first state in the nation, by the end of this year," he reminded his tin-hatted audience. "I cannot think of Please Turn to Pg. 7, Col. BUILDING FUND about 12 of the land it will i need for the sprawling sys- tern of aqueducts, reservoirs and other facilities that will deliver water lo Southern California in 1971. source said.

I he long delay in any word from Dr. Taylor makes us feel now that it may be a week or more before any effort is made to bring us together again with the board." Mr. Kennedy authorized the board to make recommendations for a settlement if necessary. Dr. Taylor has repeatedly said he hopes it will not be necessary since the recommendations would not be binding and it would be easier for the parties to reach a voluntary agreement without "outside" suggestions.

Possibilities Dim The possibilities of a set tlement without some "out side pressure" seem to be The report estimates the total cost of all land the i state will require at $88 mil- lion. An estimated 3,454 par-i eels will be needed with 113 cal producer, will be conducted Monday at 5 p.m. at the Pierce Bros. Hollywood Chapel, Santa Monica Cremation will follow. Miss Albertson, who produced such hit plays as ''The Desert Song'' and "White Collars" nearly five decades ago, died Friday at her home at 4639 Los Feliz Blvd.

Debut in 1902 An actress who made her stage debut in San Francisco in 1902, Miss Albertson Wcis a Los Angeles favorite in the old Belasco. Stock Company days. She also appeared in the lead role of Belasco's hit plav, "Paid In Full," in New-York. Miss Albertson, who resumed her maiden name aft-' er divorcing Ixiuis Macloon, playwright, in 1 933, was once married to the late Abraham J. Levy, New York millionaire, to whom she bore a son, Edward.

She is also survived by a grandson. Coroner to Meeting Dr. Theodore J. Curphey, countv chief medical exam- already required. Despite the size of Oroville Dam and Reservoir in North- growing dimmer because of.William Gasson, 29, a Reu- Gov.

Brown. Wife Join Music Center Donors Endow Orchestra Seat in Memorial Pavilion; Voluntary Contributions Total $9.5 Million the adamant positions so firmly adhered to. The two key issues blocking any progress are union demands for a union shop clause and for a supplemental unemployment benefit program. Douglas Aircraft Co. is the only major aerospace firm "exu VV1U1 uimeu aiuo workers ana ine interna 1 ne uougias pacts provia- Please Turn to Pg.

7, Col. 4 Chicago Sept. 1 to attend thejwnich hal reached an agree- em California, the largest as semblage of land will be for the California Aqueduct's past branch south of the Tehachapi Mountains. The state has acquired 64 of the 1,305 parcels needed for this branch, which will stretch from Antelope Val ley, across the Mojave Des ert and through the San Bernardino Mountains to Perris in Riverside County. The east branch will include two large reservoirs one at Cedar Springs in the San Bernardino Mountains and the other a terminal reservoir at Perris.

County to Build New Hiking Trail A riding and hiking trail will be built in Flint Canyon Wash, near Oak Grove Park, under an agreement between the County Parks and Recre ation Department and the city of Pasadena. The trail will- parallel the Foothill Freeway near Highland Ave. and cross beneath the freeway to the Oak Grove service road. American Societv of Clinical; Pathology's annual confer- ence. lie will be chairman of a meeting of the Council of Forensic Chemistry.

I Douglas Aircraft for the re rockets. third of the rocket would protrude from the recovery bag. The concept includes permitting the entire assembly to orbit the earth at a 300-mile altitude for perhaps 24 hours or until its track again approaches the desired re covery area. While thus parked In or bit, the booster could be used as a rendezvous point for a space craft returning from a lunar or planetary mission and serve to give the smaller craft a piggyback ride to home base on earth, Douglas engineers point out. Re-entry of the entire as sembly would be triggered by an electronic command firing small retrorockets in the booster.

The ROOST system, it is calculated, would permit the whole buoyant package to drop gently into the sea at less than 1 m.p.h. Fabric of the shielding drag cone, developed by Goodvear Aircraft, is de igned to withstand 1.S00 deg. but would encounter temperatures no greater than 1,520 engineers say. Cone Rc-usable Once landed in the ocean. the huge cone and the booster within it could be towed to home port, where the rocket, would undergo minor repair and adjustment and become available for reuse instead of ending up at the bottom of the sea.

The ROOST concept was developed by Douglas engineers Robert Kendall, Philip Bono and John Hayes. They pointed out that the system, in addition to per-Please Turn to Pa. .1, Col. 2 SPACE CRAFT TO DRIFT 12 OF 18 ORBITS When a United States astronaut circles the earth for 18 orbits next February about 12 orbits will be drifting flight, a space official told The Times Saturday. Drifting flight, with no attempt to control the attitude of the Mercury spacecraft, is required to conserve on-.

board fuel for re-entry maneuvers. Astronaut Wally Schirra, scheduled for a six-orbit mission late npxt month, is expected to drift for three orbits. field, ha been proposed by covery of future heavy space The concept, called ROOST (for reusame one-stage or bital space truck) is designed lo prevent the loss of costly boosters and permit their reuse. Such a recovery system, Douglas engineers say, would cost less than $50 per pound of payload placed in orbit and reduce space booster expenses to a fraction of current totals. Considering present pay- load weights, it could be used at l20th the cost of anv currently operational booster that is dumped into the sea upon fuel exhaustion, its advocates say.

In action, after a space craft has been hurled on its mission, ROOST would be inflated aloft to envelop a sin gle-stage booster rocket 273 ft. long and 50 ft. in diameter. Inflated in Orbit The blunt, conical recov ery bag would be inflated slowly in orbit by gases es caping from the nearly emp ty luel tanks of the booster, gases generated by solar heat. The gases would fill the bag in two sections: first, a snrourt-like container de ployed from the base of the booster that would envelop the rocket like a raincoat; second, a large collar ring around the booster that would expand within the outside shield of the first section.

The entire fabric struc ture encasing the booster would then resemble a vast nose cone approximately 327 feet diameter at its widest point. Iess than a of misusing union funds and failure lo turn over union documents to his successor, A temporary injunction was granted last month by U.S. District Judge Harry estover while Judge Yank wich was on vacation. Union officials said vacat ing of the injunction indicat ed that the unions procedures for trying its mem bers are adequate and not a matter for the federal courts unless these procedures break down. Judge Yankwich also dis missed a suit brought against the IAM by Brown and Skagen, who charged conspiracy to oust any member who "dared to run for high office." I When the Music Center for the Performing Arts is completed one of the orchestra seats in the Memorial Pavilion will bear a name familiar to all Californians Edmund G.

Brown. Last week the governor, with a personal contribution of $1,000 to the building fund, loined the growing ranks of civic leaders, corpo rations and public-spirited citizens who are helping to create the cultural complex by endowing seats in one of the center's three buildings. The governor donation, combined with others received during the week, brought to $9,533,908.10 the total of funds subscribed by private sources to the campaign. Funds Needed But almost $2.5 million still is needed to meet the building costs of The Forum and The Center Theater, which will complete the Music Center complex. These MUSIC CENTER Court Upsets Injunction on Union Trial of Aides ib 111 IWji 'i mrr si feyt i I am interested in joining other members of the community in building the Music Center, a Living Memorial to Peace.

My contribution (or pledge)' is attached. Nstiig 1 4t Address An injunction blocking the union trials of four officers of the International Assn. of Machinists has been vacated by U.S. District Judge Leon Yankwich, Roy Brown, former IAM vice president; Herb Cook-sey, head of IAM District Lodge 94; Ed Skagen, former business manager, and Charles Edwards, onetime business representative, Jiave been accused by the union's officers of questioning th integrity of Elmer Walker, international secre tary-treasurer. Brown was also accused BUI Henry Is on vacation.

Hi column will he resumed on his return. City Amount Contribution Pledge This form, with the contribution attached, should be mailed to: Music Center Building Fund Committee, 455 Lorraine Ios Angeles 5. Checks should be made payable to The Music Center Building Fund. WORK PROGRESSES John Gully, construction superintendent for Peter Kiewit Sons, contractors, points out to Gov. Brown Music Center building progress.

The governor and his wife have endowed orchestra seat in Memorial Pavilion..