The Modesto Bee from Modesto, California • 53

Teachers Take Board To Task MODESTO CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 1972 PAGE D-l Valley Lode Sierra McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS SERVICE Stanislaus Merced Tuolumne and San Joaquin Counties TUOLUMNE CITY Summerville Union High School teachers turned out in force last night to win their case in their charge of improper procedure on the part of the district trustees A two-hour discussion resulted in the acclamation of intention to follow its own policy on grievance meeting that he had rceeived the information and it was a case of a student an impression" it was alright to smoke marijuana A number of students commended the In Site approach as opposed to drug courses taught by peace officers Most young people "turn to law enforcement said the students Constable Roy Clark said he Trustee George Wingo whose had to concur in this reluc-remarks at the conclusion of tantly he said because he tries Traffic detours around Langworth-Highway 108 intersection Two Highway Projects Force Traffic Detours At Riverbank Bee Pholoj Westbound detour route: Left onto South First Street of a highway curve construction of a left-turn lane on the highway for westbound traffic wishing to turn onto Langworth and relocation of an historical monument at the southwest corner of the intersection The project is expected to be completed within 30 days construction of the overpass approaches The old overpass has been in use since 1918 At Langworth Road two miles east of Riverbank Highway 108 traffic is being rerouted around the intersection via a dirt detour The $45901 project will involve realigning Then right onto Patterson Emily Hewitt Manteca Unseats Two Incumbent Councilmen Oakdale Voters Pick First Council woman the February board meeting were responsible for teacher charges of violation of procedural policies at first said he wanted to the faculty request but finally made the motion to sign the pledge requested by teachers He also apologized to two teachers who said damaging insinuations had been made against their teach- ing ability The faculty board interchange was joined by many of an audience of 60 including almost all of the 24-member faculty at least an equal nunv ber of students parents in a lesser number and a scattering of recent district graduates The audience generally sup ported the teachers Drug Education With one exception the vocal members of the audience also approved drug abuse education in the school by the In Site staff a program which came under heavy criticism by Win-go at the February board meeting Wingo at first maintained his right as a trustee to he said was his duty as a trustee seeking better education He had only last month not made statements he said As an example his question on Spanish instruction had been only to ask our Spanish Wingo said Mrs Alphine Billet who teaches Spanish said she welcomed questions as all teachers do but wanted the chance to answer them She explained the background of the specific situation which had prompted question An entering freshman had not filled a language entrance tert as Wingo! had charged she said George Flavin acting chairman in the absence of Mirl Andersen pushed for board adoption of the faculty-proposed pledge to follow grievance procedural steps taking a complaint first to the teacher then tc the administration and finally to the board if necessary Flavin said concur with our faculty If this procedure had been followed what has happened would not have He added that he had been hearing from teachers from other districts that things said and at the last meeting had been slap in the to the Summerville faculty Community Relations Through the adoption of the pledge trustees and faculty also agreed to work toward better community relations and improvements within the school Under a separate agenda item there was discussion of Wingo's charge that according to five parents the In Site staff told students of teacher Richard Simpson there is "nothing wrong with Simpson and Mrs Verna Nosker In Site director reported last night to trustees that no such statement had been made Simpson requested the right to know the identity of five parents who Wingo said last month would willingly testify Wingo said the parents had refused to come to last THS Will Give Hearing Checks TURLOCK Sophomore and senior students at Turlock High School will be given annual hearing checks tomorrow with rechecks set for May 17 The hearing tests are sponsored by the Stanislaus County Schools and are aimed at early discovery of hearing losses among students to keep communications with the ycuth open Livingston Elects New Councilmen LIVINGSTON Municipal voters elected three new city yesterday unseating incumbents Melvin Downey and Wilbur Ratzlaff by a wide margin in their bid for re-election The new councilmen are Fred Worden a grocery store manager who had 272 votes Dan Hanog Merced County probation officer 237 and Lyle Fowler retired banker 202 Downey had 102 votes and Ratzlaff 56 Mayor Robin Corbett the other present incumbent is retiring Despite blustery wind and supposedly poor election-day weather there was a turnout of 72 per cent of the registered voters There was a field of 10 candidates for the three seats open The other candidates and their vote totals: Mike Torres 196 Bud Powell 126 Woody Campini 115 Augusta Bamell 103 and Ray Perez 52 Running unopposed were City Clerk William Boesch who had 369 votes and City Treasurer Jane Winton who had 408 Lathrop Has Traffic Jam: Asks Help Pointing out that Lathrop Road traffic has grown to proportions as Bay Area motorists attempt to bypass traffic-congested Manteca en route to the Sierra the Lathrop Chamber oi commerce is asking that Lathrop Road be widened Lathrop chamber official Otto Muller appeared before the Manteca District Chamber of Commerce at its latest meeting to seek support for a proposal to widen Lathrop Road to a four-lane highway from Interstate 5 to Highway 99 The Manteca chamber referred the matter to its highway committee 1 Thought For Today saith unto him Thou shalt never wash my feet Jesus answered him If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me Simon Peter saith unto him Lord not my feet only but also my hands and my John The text was chosen by David Neidigh pastor Modesto Central Seventhday Adventist Church Modesto RUN A LITTLE SHORT of GASH? You May Borrow To Consolidate Debts or for Any Good Purpose! TOWN COUNTRY FINANCE THRIFT 14th Modesto 524-5571 RIVERBANK -Two Highway 108 detours are in effect here one for a project involving demolition and reconstruction of the Santa Fe Railroad overpass the other at Langworth Road east of the city where highway crews are realigning a curve During the 140 working days alloted for the $339171 overpass project traffic will be detroued via Patterson Road and First Street In preparation for the 9000 cars per day expected to use the detour highway crews have widened the First Street-Patter-son Road intersection and have installed a stop sign for westbound Patterson Road traffic at the intersection Four-Lane The overpass project will involve construction of a four-lane structure to replace the present two-lane overpass as well as re Ex-Judge Is lo Be Freed From Prison STOCKTON Former San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Maxwell Widens will be released from the California Institution for Men at Chino Dec 4 as a result of action yesterday by the California Adult Authority The authority yesterday set his term of imprisonment at four years a year in jail and three on parole Widens has been at Chino since last December He was convicted in June of four counts of bribery includ ing accepting a Cadillac and $5000 in cash from local attorney John Barkett to keep clients out of prison Barkett convicted of bribing Widens will not be eligible for parole until May 1973 He is serving a term at the Sierra Conservation Center Hughson Begins Preschool Signup HUGHSON Pre-registration for the fad kindergarten session has opened To start kindergarten in September a child must be 5 years old on or before December 2 State law requires proof of age and immunization before a child may attend Parents should take these verifications to the Whitmore Elementary School office soon as possible or call to give the name of the child to be registered Cable Television Firm Plans Turlock Office TURLOCK Sammons Communications Inc which holds the franchise to build cable television system is making preparations to open a local office-studio on Lander Avenue The firm formerly called National TransVideo Inc will open an office at 910 and 916 Lander Avenue in a building formerly occupied by Volk Manufacturing Co Inc The cable television franchise was granted to NTV-Sammons in 1970 but the firm made very little progress on the local system until late last year Presently Sammonds is ironing out site surveys a tower location pole facilities and other arrangements before work can actually begin on the system i as OAKDALE Voters elected their first councilwoman yesterday when they chose Mrs Emily Hewitt with the highest vote 853 They also elected incumbent Councilman Elmo Garcia by a vote of 731 and James Beeman who had 686 votes Other council candidates on the ballot were Mrs Tassia James A Beeman Sixth Graders Look To Camp Elmo Garcia Jolly 173 Denis Snell 188 Robert Voorhees 564 Dean Zahn 269 and a write-in Charles Ulrich 357 Mrs Pearl Tichenal polled 838 votes to win the city position Other Candidates Others running for treasurer were Joseph Cook 135 and Hector Ericksen 195 Eldon Kitterman unopposed for clerk polled 855 votes Voters also approved a measure to elect a mayor and four councilmen by a vote of 730 to 602 and approved a two-year term for the mayor by 910 to 392 A third measure for four-year term for mayor was defeated 480 to 626 The approved measures will go into effect two years from now There was an approximate 50 per cent turnout of voters with 1426 voting out of a possible 2856 Ripon Firm Is To Build Center RIPON Henry Beuving Sons of Ripon will build the $364349 federal plant material center near Lockeford The firm originally had a low bid of $373749 to build an office building seed cleaning-storage facility greenhouse and equipment shed but it was reduced when the government decided to reduce the size of the equipment shed The Lockeford center will test plants grasses legumes and shrubs for this region of the nation election Winning council seats were Jack Snyder Mark Oliver and William Phillips Snyder 45-year-old glass plant industrial relations manager had 1605 Oliver 28 an insurance agent 1072 and Phillips 35 a power company line foreman 1000 Oliver and Phillips are members of the City Planning Commission Fourth was Albert Boyden Strikebreaker Ban Is Set By Stockton STOCKTON The City of Stockton has adopted an ordinance banning the use of professional strikebreakers although it does not prohibit management from keeping the business open during a strike Under the new ordinance it will be unlawful for an employer to knowingly employ a strikebreaker or for a strikebreaker to knowingly offer himself for employment in place of a striking employe The new ordinance was adopted at the urging of representatives of the Central Labor Council Teamsters Local 439 Building Trades Council and other unions It was opposed by Roderick Barklow executive vice president of the 200-member San Joaquin Employers Council He said the labor scene is peaceful and the' ordinance is not needed Denair Hi Shop DENAIR The Denair High School auto shop under construction on the north side of the campus is expected to be completed by June 1 earlier than originally scheduled Road with 930 votes followed by Stanley Mortensen with 863 Behrens with 795 Jack Olson with 523 and Stoker who has been hospitalized several weeks with 425 There were 2561 votes cast out of a possible 6097 a turnout of about 42 per cent Mrs Nell Cornell ran unopposed for city clerk and George Dadasovich ran unopposed for city treasurer (JQP Will Host Math Field Day STOCKTON Students from seventh grade through high school will participate in Mathematics Field Day 1972 in the University of Pacific rotunda from 8 am to 2:30 pm Saturday Written problem solving games puzzles and one- and two-person activities will be included The day is cosponsored by UOP and the San Joaquin County Schools Office Delta Actor-Lecturer Will Have TV Role STOCKTON Screen and stage actor Alan Dexter currently in residence at Delta College appears in a sequence of United States on Channel 10 Friday at 8 pm Dexter takes the role of Richard King in the series the immediate superior of played by David Janssen Dexter is lecturing to classes and making community appearances for Delta and will star as Willy Loman in of a in May at the college Speech Arts Auditorium LEASE 36 Month Lease As Low As $5r Plus Tax License Voters here gave the City Council a new look in balloting yesterday electing three new councilmen in an eight-man race which saw the mayor and vice mayor lose out Mayor Delbert Stoker and Vice Mayor Robert Behrens were eighth and sixth respectively A third incumbent An-gele Bressani did not seek re- Fire Guts Los Banos Home LOS BANOS A fire gutted three rooms of the six-room Antone Pricolo home at 581 Mercy Springs Road at about 11:45 last night The fire apparently began in a den at the opposite end of the home from the bedrooms where the Pricolos and their daughter Nancy 17 were sleeping Awakened by crackling sounds Mrs Pricolo roused her husband who say the fire when he went to investigate The family escaped without injury Firemen said they would try to determine the cause of the fire today They gave no estimate of damage Our Expert Decorating SERVICE Is Available to Help You Beautify Your Home Phone 522-9097 CUSTOM DRAPERIES LAMPS CARPETING FINE FURNITURE Buy on Convenient Terms and Streets Open Thurs Nites 'til 9 BALLICO Two sixth-grade classes at Ballico School will be able to attend a week of outdoor education camp at Camp Green Meadows thanks to a recent public breakfast Mrs Vernon Payne and Mrs Charles Biddle breakfast co-chairmen said students sold more than 800 tickets well above sale for previous years The camp will start the week of April 16 72 VOLKSWAGEN Beetle As Low as 2116 50 Plus Tax License Covenant Church Set High Congress Meet HILMAR Another Covenant High Congress project meeting will be held from 10 am to 4 pm Saturday by the youth of the Hilmar Covenant Church who plan to attend CHIC (Covenant Hi Congress) later this summer in Colorado The project will be a garage-rummage sale in the Hilmar Produce stand on Lander Avenue next to the youth center Those having items they would like to donate are asked to call 634-3076 or 632-3491 so pickup can be arranged 2nd HOME LOANS BORROW ADDITIONAL CASH WITHOUT REFINANCING Pro I oct that low interest rate on your first deed of trust Combine all debts into one low payment WE HAVE MONEY AVAILABLE! 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