Evansville Press from Evansville, Indiana • 17

VV i Roberts also uld some teachers may Maim way with students changing moms" Browning said He claims the local corporation baa been moving very slowly with the mainstreaming program and believes more problems could develop than be solved by mainstreaming too quickly strearam students joining peers Mike Roberts Evansville Teacher's -Association president noted the ETA is concerned about mainstreaming because It create additional problems" for teachers and regular students well as special students if not handled correctly are concerned that they take all students into consideration not only the special education students but the other students and the teachers as wcl must be total cooperation He added sere a special child has been mainstreamed the special education teacher's role dnes not end "That's not an end in Itself We stress to them teachers that thia child is still In your resource classroom and if he Is in trouble in the regular classroom dont let him sit bring him bark" While he does not believe the need for special education teachers will he reduced he nid the school corporation will probably not add any additional teachers after this year The special education teachers will remain in the resource rooms offering spednl help to the remaining students as well as support services to regular classroom teachers of these kids have to have a home base where they can receive special teacher support" Browning Hid have problems and they need help" He noted some special students can never be mainstreamed into regular academic programs but they can be Integrated with the student body for recess auditorium programs and other non-academic kinds of things" He believes the program will be as beneficial to regular classroom students it is to the special students Important for the regular kids to see there are all kinds of people in the worlds It's a two-way street and the regular classroom children can gain more understanding and more empathy" Special By MARY ANN HUGHES Sunday staff writer Johnny read but be can add subtract and play ball well any other nine-yes r-oid child Johnny has a learning disability which hampers hla learning process In certain academic areas Under a federal program called Johnny is no longer confined to a special education ctaie- Instead children with special problems are integrated into regular classes when it is determined they can handle the workload They spend only part of the day in "resource rooms" with a special education teacher and' other children with special problems There they receive special instruction in subjects and skills that trouble them4 Them special children have speech and bearing problems they are mental- ly retarded oaf blind physically handicapped and emotionally disturbed or far we've tried te mave slowly we dont hurt the kids we are sending into the regular classrooms Problems could develop if we move too fast If we start loading up classes with special kids groundwork must be laid to Insure a smooth transfer of students" He noted teachers In other school corporations have rebelled when the children were placed in their classrooms without proper groundwork being done by their administrations He believee for the program to be a success there must be among faculty members an understanding of what the child's abilities are the special education teacher must assist with Ideas and materials and (regular classroom) teachers must receive in-service training" With mainstreaming Browning explained the role of the special education teacher will be shifting awsy from the classroom rede" to offering support services to regular classroom teachers "They will be helping the regular classroom teachers deal with thou kids" thy are children with learning diubilW Proponents of mainstreaming can- tend the program will help reduce the i which has ai i has accompanied children In special classes They also 'argue these special children achieve more In regular classrooms Linda Feulner a first grade teacher at Washington School agrees definitely good for them not to be isolated mnA lhlwi whicstlwi 1 the first graders know They say there is something wrong with them in that room' If the children are In the regular classes they don't get the stigma And it's good for their egoe to be around other children to hove other children their models" Opponents charge the pregrain will taka the teacher's time away from regular students because of classroom die- ruptkms and more attention being given the special students iv (iiiiripr and Press AUGUST 7 1977 Two stations have big lead not be equipped to handle the ipedal Mane of the special children who problems i will be filtering into the regular dase- Mrs Feulner disagrees noting "there isn't a year that goes by when you dont have a special child out of a dam of or children You will have somebody special education material but who has tasted one or two points higher" She believes mainstreaming is also beneficial it takes the pressure off the special education teachers It gets the children out of the room and helps her balance out her program" allowing her to spend more time with the remaining students Of the stadeats ia the Evans-vllle-Vanderburgh School Corporation 1400 are classified as special students Lewis Browning supervisor of special education with the school corporation the 1400 are estimates per cent of the I now being mainstreamed one period a day and only 25 per cent most of the day outside the resource classroom The corporation now has sin "resource" classrooms at the elementary school level This is the student's where he receives special attention from the special education teacher High school students are cally mainstreamed because the nature of the curriculum makes it that hurdle 785000-volt transmission lines UM received approval on Its first per-the Indiana Stream Poliu- mit in June from the! tlon Control Board concerning plans and specifications for wastewater treatment facilities The plant must receive permits and approvals from various local state and federal agencies Six of the permits are local from the plan commission and commissioners' office Another eight are required from the federal government with the remainder falling under state Jurisdiction Indiana 88 is undergoing a chip-and-seal process which Fowler uys is the cheapest method of maintaining a hard surface The process seals cracks which develop In the road such as those caused by severe weather and keeps water from permeating the surface and further deteriorating the pavement Fowler uid The dust has lenlted became the first stage of the process lnvolva laying a layer of fine gravel over the road after it ha been sprayed with a liquid bituminous product Hot temperatures and wear from traffic eventually cause the bituminous to seep back through the gravel causing it te sal and become smooth But until that occurs total agreement and in the past this has i there is com- not happened And unless I plete cooperation mainstreaming can be more harmful to students "We want what Is best for the total class as well for the special student" Roberts uld often a teacher has enough to handle with her Immediate class without tackling the special problems of a special child He believes this addition is often "not beet for the class" over 10 million man hours During peak rkers will be construction over 3500 workers employed After completion the power plant will employ around 835 employes with a permanent annual payroll of about 5 million The Rockport facility will have an estimated coal burn of 8 to 10 million ton a year The low sulphur coal will be supplied under contracts with firms in Utah and Wyoming and according to Richard Morris UcM's public affairs staff assistant In Rockport when available and priced from Eastern Kentucky Power produced will be fed Into An artist's conception of proposed Rockport Generating Plant when completed station clears early SEVENTEEN-A At the time sf the 1977 survey WKY-FM and AM were broadcasting the same material simultaneously which mesns their ARB figures can be added to give South Central Broadcasting Corp- owners of WIKY a 384 share for the survey period Since June 1 the two stations have been broadcasting seperate programs following a Federal Communications Commission mandate Under that edict operation like WIKY can simulcast no more than 25 per cent of the time it is on the air Although WGBF which bills Itself River City Rocker" lost the number one spot it held in the 1978 ARB findings station officials reaching for the crying towel like where we are In the market" said Reipllngcr who will become station manager when the present manager Don New burg taka over a Tennessee broadcasting operation WGBF's parent company Is purchasing According to Rclplinger station officials believed before the survey WGBF might have but Blcanntly surprised to learn It had i steners But eves as they smile over the remits Blake and Reiplinger uid they question the validity of the ARB report pointing to the miserable showing of some other stations in the fivfrcounty area used for the survey Both broadcasting executives are puzxled at ARB's contention that WJPS which was ana the city's only Top 40 station and a market leader could have slipped from a 88 share in 1978 to a 8 share lea than one per cent a yar later Reipllngcr uld his station has even contacted ARB to ask shout that finding adding that WGBF officials if it (the ARB results) Is believable'' WJPS station manager Jerry Smith who says he ha never been a believer in ratings termed them farce for all practical purposes" discounting the ARB report that his station is dead-last in the Evansville area radio picture According to Smith WJPS prefers telephone surveys to find its number of listeners Such a survey involving 10000 alls was conducted last January he added noting that weren't on the bottom of that one" Smith uid that survey showed WIKY (AM and FM) had 294 percent of the listeners WGBF had 284 WJPS had 281 and WROZ had 181 Although Smith doeut pot much faith In Arbitral ratings advertisers apparently do and that's why Blake and Reiplinger whose stations paid for the survey are so pleased with its results are extremely Blake uid noting that over 80 per cent of the purchases of radio time are made on the basis of ratings By FRED BROWN Sunday staff writer The latest radio ratings are out and in the eyes of one broadcast executive thorn figuree show that Evansville has basically a two-station market" Those two stations according to Arbitral Radio (ARB) a research arm of Control Data Corp are WIKY and WGBF Arbitral says that WIKY-FM has a 275 (per cent of the listening audience) while WIKY-AM holds an 89 share WGBF an AM-only operation has 281 per cent of the listeners uys the Arbitral report referred to in the broadcast Industry almost reverently Trailing far behind the leaders according to Arbitral are WROZ with had an 82 share WKDQ-FM of Henderson with a 72 share and JP8 with a share Officials of the market-leading pair are more than a little pleased with "The Book's" findings based on a survey taken last April and May a super book for uid WIKY general manager Charlie Blake foci very positive about It" Hid WGBF ules manager John Rclplinger the man who sea Evansville as a market" The 1977 figures show that WGBF which changed from a subdued middle-of-the-road to a high-energy Top 40 format in 1975 after it was purchased by a pair of Illinois radio stations gained two points climbing from a 241 share in 1978 to a 281 share a year later During the umc 12 months however WIKY-FM skyrocketed from a 18 share to a 275 share a 58 per cent Increase a figure which lads Blake to comment extremely pleased with the response our public ha given us" WIKY-AM's market share remained relatively stable during that time at about 89 per cent the dust is present and the rock continually must be graded "We uk it a lot in areas of low volume traffic where we don't have any heavy truck traffic because It really doesn't develop any strength" Fowler explained Work on the road begun about a week ago and should continue for another three weeks he Hid Indian 88 is the only road ia the Via-cenna District scheduled to undergo the chip-and-seal treatment this summer Fowler uld Traffic on the highway has been greatly reduced by the opening of nearby Interstate 64 Rockport By HAROLD MARTIN Sunday staff writer ROCKPORT Ind Builders of a $12 billion power plant will now wait until Aug -14 to weigh public commenta after receiving key preliminary approval July 15 on i emission controls from the Environmental Offlctalsanciiana It Michigan Electric Co builders of the plant between Rockport and Grandview called even preliminary approval on the permit but uld since it was only one of almost 50 that must be gained all Important" Eric Cohen an EPA engineer in Chicago uld the federal agency had "reviewed the application and found they were planning to use the best available control The EPA has determined the Rockport Generating Plant would not result in nlftcant of airquallty standards in the area The EPA will gather comments for 20 days (until Aug 14) and then review Its material In its regional office Then approval or denial for construction will be I given EPA standards require plants In the area to emit sqlphur dioxide pollution at a rate leu than 100 micrograms per cubic meter for a one-day period Pollution control equipment will I comprise approximately 14 per cent of the plant's construction cuts or more than 180 million Each of the generating unite will be equipped with an electrostatic precipitator Protection I Gravel Ind 66 temporary per cent particles that result from burning coal The plant will have two 1300-megawatt coal-fired generating unite when in full operation and will generate 182 billion kilowatt hours a year Lecatedou about 8800 acres la Spencer County the plant will have two multi-story steam generator buildings a combined turbine building two precipitators one 1040-foot stack for the release of gaseous emissions into the upper atmosphere two 500-foot hyperbolic natural draft cooling towers and coal unloading storage and handling fnHlIllwL To preserve water quality of the Ohio River (the property is bounded on the south by the river) the coo i cooling towers will create a closed-cycle cooling system Each will utilise natural drafts of air to cool steam condensing water so It can be used more than once Each of the towers will be capable of cooling 800000 gallon of water by 20 degrea In one minute Indiana A Michigan Electric Co la a subsidiary of American Electric Power Ooi The Rockport plant will serve more than 425000 customers in east and north central Indiana and southwestern Michigan It will be the largest power plant hi Indiana Site preparation work is expected to begin this year The first 1400-megawatt unit should begin commercial operation In late 1981 with the second expected to start up one year later Construction of the plant will require chain in Kentucky along with selling them at a market next to his borne Green Acres McDonald who runs McDonald's Market and Farrar started picking can-taloupu July 2 and melon July 16 the earliest data in many yun BtlH they dont expect a big crop McDonald suggests hot weather and high humidity possible culprits Mefon growers begin placing seeds la boxn In cold frama or hot beds in mid-ApriL A compost fills the lower portion of the box and the seed Is dropped in the middle Pure white river unq is spread cross the top In mid-May each plant is transplanted to the field McDonald and Farrar have a homemade planter fashioned from an old sweet potato and tabacco planter Using school children for help In the evenings Davis planted 63000 plants in ini measure Is 1750 con- May A standai ta loupe plants per acre and watermelons Davis plants five feet apart with each row five apart He dou the same with melons using nipe feet re a guideline McDonald is eeartag 85 years ef ege aed Davis has tuned 61 Both have grown melon their retire lives McDonald usually hopu to pick a semitrailer load of melons per acre He doernt expect it this year According to Purdue University officials a melon crop Is a 5500 Investment per acre Three hundred bushels an acre le considered a solid cantaloupe crop McDonald In Gibson County I melons ripe I By TOM KUNKEL Sunday staff writer CANNELTON Ind Fran the point where construction work Is being done near the Cannelton Locks and Dam east to Sulphur Indiana' 80 has taken on the appearance of a gravel road But state highway officials uy the appearance will only be temporary Residents along the stretch nf highway have been complaining about the gravel and the duet traffic generates since work on the road last week But Marston Fowler construction engiv nlndl- neer for the Vlncennu District of the ana State Highway Commission says the Inconvenience will not last long alls cantaloupa his He can receive three tlma much money an acre for them watermelons McDonald's Market ships melons throughout the Midwest Farrar who man-aga the operation employs three high ecbool boys fulltime in the summer Many days the group will load several trucks by nou for shipment and work until long after dark supplying a of buyers" His group will pick melon util Labor Day then plan (or another season pumpkins squash Indian corn and gourds before ailing It quite In arly November Despite the Posey Gouty tag only two or three farmers grow melons there At lost SO grow the popular rammer treat in the county to the north of it Davis harvests melons in both counties He had a ripe cantataupe this yar a June 22 the earliest time ever for him beu a fair yar nothing to brag about" he reported wu too dry arly then with the rain the melon Just ha vat held up at alL" He an look at cantaloupa and tell if they're ripe pulling only "dip" melons those off or i narly off the vine White growing watermelon have a gilt- I appearance with a white underside or belly When they ripen properly the under side will be yellowish and the outside duller in appearance The area surrounding Vincennes Ind probably producu more melon Devla listed hut added "with our sandy soil little ares right in here Is the hurt of i country" By HAROLD MARTIN Saaday staff writer JOHNSON Ind About four months 1 ago people like Herb Davis Connie McDon- aid and Ronald Farrar put 40000 to 80000 cantaloupe and watermelon seeds in lndl- 2 vidua hot bed cartons A month later they transplanted them by hand tQ their 40-or 50-acre plots The past couple of weeks they've boa 'watching the cantaloupa become yellow- orange They've been turning their water- 'me Iona so the kids an load them on flat-bed wagon for the trip home McDonald and his nephew Farrar oper ate a 44-acre melon farm south of Johnson 'which is located in the southwest corner of 'Gibson County Davis who grew up with McDonald has a 52-acre melon patrh and probably quallfia one of the area's larg- est producers 1 4 The familtes are Jest twe of the many Gibson County clans that turn out thou-unds of County" cantaloupa and 'watermelons i McDonald remembers why ail area melons are tagged County Melons ago when my Dad crated them up they were all shipped out of Poseyvllie" IM had there great big stickers stuck all over the crates and boxcars That's the reason they still all them all Posey Canty melons It's the thing that sella this melon yet Da via rata the antataupe crop (this yar but uys watermelons have pro-educed welL He ships both to a supermarket Ronald Farrar (front) and his return from the fields with another wagonload of watermelons Helping 1 lCkin and gnnnin harve8t are (left to right) Cary Hopf Maurice Brown Ronald's wife Theresa and Bennie Farrar.