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Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 23

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13 Wisconsin State Journal, Sunday, November 17, 1996 3C 1 r-i McCallum attacks standards Associated Press NEENAH Wisconsin's lieutenant governor is starting a petition drive asking the state Department of Public Instruction to go back to the drawing board with its proposals for academic standards. "The proposed standards are vague, fuzzy and feel-good concepts," Lt. Gov. Scott McCallum said. The petitions could counter an effort by DPI to solicit favorable comments and defend the proposal at the same time it is asking for public comment, McCallum said.

John Dold, an assistant state school superintendent, defended the proposed standards. "We have to be cautious about the content we put into standards. They are broad to allow local school districts to operate their own curriculum," Dold said. He criticized McCallum's choice of Virginia as a state on which to model Wisconsin education standards. Virginia's standards are so specific that they dictate how local officials are to operate their own systems.

DPI is trying to avoid a stated mandated curriculum, Dold said. The current proposal is the first of three drafts. The second draft is due for completion in December. "This is, frankly, just the begin--ning," Dold said. DPI planned to schedule a series of public hearings in January before writing the final draft thaC will be presented to the governor and Legislature, he said.

The new standards, which local districts can opt not to follow, will; not be ready until 1998 at the earliest r11' AtofaOT Skeleton found decade ago identified as Florida man Telephone employees needed rfi-fri I Associated Press WAUKESHA Thanks to television and technology, a body found in a secluded wood lot in the town of Merton 10 years ago finally has been identified as a missing Florida man. DNA tests confirmed the skeleton found frozen in a sheet of ice in a pine plantation was the remains of Tim Molnar, 19, who had been missing since 1984. However, the victim's mother and Waukesha County deputy medical examiner Paul Konicek said they don't know how Molnar ended up 1,200 miles away in Waukesha County. Molnar left his Florida home in January 1984 to go to aviation school. His car was found in Atlanta a few months after his disappearance.

The teen-ager's mother, Helen Molnar, of Daytona Beach, said the discovery of her son's body has largely put her mind at ease, despite the unanswered questions. The skeleton showed no signs of trauma, and the cause of death could not be determined. About a half-dozen thickly rusted keys were found with the body, and not much else. For more than a decade, Molnar distributed fliers, hounded law enforcement officials and begged for media attention in an effort to find her vanished son. Last February, the man who had found the body saw a television episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" that told Molnar's story.

The man called the show and told them about his find. That put Helen Molnar and Konicek in contact. She said her son had been driving a 1969 Dodge Dart when he left home. Dodge car keys were found with the body. Konicek asked her if she still had the same locks on her house doors, and she did.

She mailed Konicek a copy of her house key, which matched the keys found with the body. "I just sat there, with my mouth open," Konicek said. round-trip airfare, three nights stay in Honolulu, four night stay in Maui, pre-game tailgate and a traditional Hawaiin Luau courtesy of Wisconsin State Journal, The Capital Times and Rhodes Travel. Aloha Dean Marlene! Dean and Marlene Terhall of Madison (shown left), will be Aloha Bound with the Badgers! Laurie Kierna of Rhodes Travel and Phil Stoddard of Madison Newspapers are shown presenting the Terhalls with their Grand Prize package certificate which includes a trip for two to the WisconsinHawaii game, Associated Press MILWUAKEE The increased use of telephone centers by a wider variety of companies is ere-, ating hundreds of jobs in Milwau- kee, but too few applicants have "phone presence," employers say. Two temporary help companies alone ProStaff Personnel Services Inc.

and Olsten Staffing Serv-' ices have a combined 325 openings forjo'bs in call centers. "This is the most we've seen in five years, and we don't see it shrinking," said John G. McGlynn, a ProStaff vice president i Call centers are places where telephone calls are made and an-; swered for order entry, tele-" marketing or customer Every kind of company has or is, starting a call center, McGlynn said. They are also becoming in-' creasingly important to banks, utiH ities, insurance and catalog, companies, said Tony Petullo, president of Olsten's Wisconsin offices. Nearly 100 of ProStaff 200 call center openings are in the finan- cial services industry, McGlynn said.

Banks, in particular, are get- ting away from face-to-face trans-( actions. Some of the jobs require college degrees. However, the majority of those hiring will accept; applicants with significant work, experience, McGlynn said. Pay is well above minimum-! wage levels, ranging from $8 to $12 an hour, with most jobs paying about $10 an hour. Many employees also can earn bonuses and incentives.

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