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we 'V San Angelo Standahd-Times San Angelo Texas Wednesday Evening April 1 1171 Blackshear renovation project is approved By NORMA JOE WILLIAMS StHMartf-TUiMi Staff Writer A renovation project for 'Blackshear Elementary School 'got the' okay of San Angelo School Board Tuesday night To create added classroom 'space made necessary by the -new Alexander Plaza housing project near the school about $6600 will go into converting areas used for shop and home making classes in the days when the building was a junior-senior high school The "cafeteria also is to be enlarged New steam lines are needed at the school Supt Wadzeck said and school maintenance supervisor John was directed to bring firm cost figures for that job to the May board meeting after boardman Jack Springer declared the steam-line project an Immediate The Blackshear school which traditionally has had a virtually all-black enrollment is picking op at least a few nonblack students from the new housing project It still is overwhelmingly Negro in makeup however and the ratio of black teachers there was the subject of criticism from federal civil rights officials recently Tuesday night boardman Billy WUIig asked are we going to renovate the Wadzeck has told the board in the past that people from the Department of Health Education and Welfare have frankly said that any school with an ethnic-oriented name gets scrutiny automatically It was pointed out that there is some opposition in the black community to changing the school name Boardman Wayland Myers suggested not just go to the P-TA and tell them what our problem is and see what theyhave to One other possibility: find the name of a Texas hero and change it to Nobody came up immediately with a Texas hero whose name is not already in use in San Angelo and it was decided to talk to residents of the area then take up the matter again in May The board okayed a new approach to budgeting for furniture and equipment by individual school principals On recommendation of business manager Lee Elder each school would receive a fixed allocation and could spend or carry over the money from one year to another to allow for major purchases The board was told that only a few principals had been consulted on the matter They will be briefed and if major objections are encountered the matter will come back to the board for discussion Okayed was $500 a year for elementaries with enrollments of 250 or less $750 for 251-500 enrollment and $1000 for 501 to 750-student schools Junior highs of 600 or under are allotted $1200 those of 601-1200 $1500 High school figures are $1800 for 1500 or fewer students $6000 for those of 1501-3000 students In other business the board: Agreed to leave the current football broadcast arrangements with local stations in for next fall If broadcasters are agreeable Accepted the low bid of $9183 for new band uniforms for Edison Junior High Low or he he re re le in a in le 4- in td te is 5T I- I te ie I t- ir le I it 41 IT For San Angelo School System Educational TV a possibility TEACHERS OF THE YEAR Sanderford Mrs Landgraf Miss Hubbard L-R if She says 'j Kids credited with making teacher San Angelo best The possibility of entry into the field of education television was brought to the San Angelo School Board Tuesday by Supt Wadzeck in what was the first mention since the school district lost its bid a year ago for commercial Channel 6 That channel has not yet been utilized by SRC Inc sue-cessful licensee SRC reportedly had its plans for network affiliation dashed after KTXS an Abilene-Sweetwater facility got permission to build a satellite in San Angelo KTXS is ABC-affiliated The Channel 6 license has been extended by the Federal Communications Commission but an SRC associate told The Standard-Times this week there are no plans to launch an independent station here without some network affiliation still considered a possibility briefing Tuseday night was on the possibility of exploring a school district affiliation with Dallas educational station KERA The station would supply teaching plans and special teacher-training to dovetail with Its daytime educa tional telecasts The annual cost would be 75 cents per student paid locally plus a matching amount paid by the state Total initial costs would run about $25000 to $30000 comprising chiefly the cost of buying two to five color sets per school plus about $10000 yearly for service and maintenance Wadzeck said Texas CaMevision which brings in KERA to San Angelo has offered to make -one cable installation free at each school except in a few areas where there is no adjacent service line He was authorized to make a feasibility study to determine the desirability of putting the program into effect in the fall of 1972 Wadzeck specified he would not recommend any TV project which would entail a tax increase would feel negligent if I didn't show this to you this he told the trustees however The school district would be allowed to vote In selecting KERA programming Remedial reading is considered one specialty The station also carries instruction in such fields as science and foreign languages One room in each school here would be outfitted with receivers according to the preliminary tentative thinking School board shies from territorial growth without support by state ic ic Angelo to "gobble small rural districts as they remarked has been claimed The San Angelo disinclination to spend money to reduce the size of the district came up when it was pointed out by Wadzeck that the school district could run up considerable legal costs by pushing for federal court approval of the cutback of a piece of territory to Wall I i bidder was DeMoulin Brothers of Greenville 111 The so- ceptance is subject to approval of a sample uniform Put off a decision on whether to allow use of Old Bobcat Stadium by nonschool groups this summer A proposal to disallow the use bad been drawn up before watering restrictions were lifted Tuesday Approved the employment of several new teachers One was employed for the current term Mrs Jo Ann Crum as- signed to Belaire Elementary 1 Mrs Crum has the elementary education from Angelo State University- -Hired for the 1971-72 school year were Samuel Aguilera -physical edu-i cation Kansas State Teachers College assigned as athletic trainer at Central High Mrs Alma Contreras elementary education ASU Mrs Suzette Eisenbach elementary education Howard Payne College Mrs Wills Hackney Ed elementary education Prairie View College- Mrs Janice Henry A elementary education University of Texas-Austin Miss Maty Alice Mendez physical education Texas University Also Harold Wayne Mitels ell A math San Jose' State College Miss Mary Ann Roberson BM Ed music Texas Tech University Grady Roe math ASU Mrs Ruth Ross history East Texas State University and Danny Valadez elementary education ASU Granted leave of absence to Mrs Laura Baker of Belaire Resignations were accepted from Richard Barker Central tennis coach Mrs Kathryn Carlson of Glenmore Mrs Billie Curry Lee Junior High librarian Swearingen of Rio Vista Mrs Karen Turner of Lincoln Junior Highland James Wynne of Travis Elementary Mrs Baker fakes SACTA presidency Mrs Weldon (Patricia) Baker is 1971-72 president of San Angelo Classroom Teachers Association moving up from the president-elect post which SACTA members Tuesday elected Mrs Jeannette Boster to fill for the coming year Mrs Baker teaches science at Edison Junior High School Mrs Boster is a social studies teacher at Glenn Junior High Retiring from the president's post at the end of the current school year is Clayton Miller also of Glenn Elected Tuesday to serve on the slate with the new president were Mrs Alice Brancel of McGill Elementary and Mrs Frances Reynolds of Austin Elementary vice presidents Mrs Carolyn Dawson of Alta Loma Elementary secretary and David Neel of Edison re-elected treasurer Winners announced at the Tuesday session of SACTA scholarships to Angelo State University are Susan Archer of Central High School and Kathy Pearcy of Lake View High Both are future teachers Special honored guests at the Tuesday session were teachers who will retire at the close of this school year The retirees win be honored again May during a meeting of San Angelo School Board The new SACTA president is now a member of the Texas State Teachers statewide teacher education and professional standards committee In 1968 and 1969 she did summer graduate study under National Science Foundation grants uled of next week Austin and Day's roundups will be at 1:30 pm while will begin at 1 pm On April 29 Alta Loma and McGill roundups will be at 1:30 pm is set for 1 pm April 30 Later programs are slated for 1:30 pm May 4 at Blackshear and Bradford 1:30 pm May 5 at Fort Concho 8 am May 5 at San Jacinto 1 pm May 6 at Rio Vista 1:30 pm May 6 at Travis 1 pm May 7 at Crockett and 1:30 pm May 7 at Glenmore Santa roundup has already been held and any parent In that district whose child did not attend may preregister him at the school office before the end of the spring term making them has proved successful often for him The setting at Glenn 2 instruction is has provided him with a fertile teaching environment said the science teacher And then like toys and girls I like to work with he summed up like the challenge of getting things across to In the case of Mrs Landgraf little 5-year-olds the needs are clear to their teacher she said immediately to prove that each person is a worthy individual worth something to himself and worth something to After eight years of first-grade teaching Mrs Landgraf is involved in the first year of kindergarten teaching in Texas jj more she finds at the preschool level build this self-con- cept And she added with an ex- pressive shrug our reason for 'r Two of the three Sanderford and Mrs Landgraf are products of San Angelo schools themselves And both took their degrees at Sul Ross Mrs Landgraf had attended Howard Payne for the and she has done" graduate work at Texas She is the wife of Bobby Landgraf and the mother id a son Max 7 She taught eight years at Faiyiitt and Reagan elementary schools here before moving to Belaire last faQ Sanderford is a former science teacher at GrandfaHs-Royalty High School He was there seven years then served as school superintendent at Mozelle in Cole- man County a year before taking the job here when Glenn opened in fall 1967 His wife Sybil teaches at Glenmore Elementary They have two sons Kelly 9 and Max In 1966 Sanderford studied at the Uni- -versify of Wyoming under a National Science Foundation scholarship and in 1969 he received a research grant for work at the University of Oklahoma's biology station on Lake Texhoma Miss Hubbard is a native of Utica Miss and took her and degrees at Mississippi College in Clinton She is completing her sixth year with San Angelo schools During one a summer vacation she attended Vanderbilt University on a Lilly Foundation grant for a study of communism Last fall she appeared during the an- -i nual meeting in New York on a program for the National Council for the Social Studies A bunch of great kids can make a teacher look awfully good a direct quote from the high school teacher of the year in San Angelo Miss Sarah Hubbard It helps to have a topnotch principal and coworkers too her fellow honorees pointed out But it was their own dedication to the ideals of the teaching that won the top teacher awards for her Gary Sanderford of Glenn Junior High School and Mrs Barbara Landgraf of Belaire Elementary School say the plaques they carried off happily The three teacher of the year awards were announced here Tuesday during a meeting of the San Angelo Classroom Teachers Association The organization picks a top teacher from each level then later selects one of the three to be its nominee for the Texas Teacher of the Year Award a prelminary to picking a national prizewinner Miss Hubbard who teaches government classes at Central High School laughingly declared herself at the close of the meeting A total surprise agreed Sanderford science teacher at Glenn And Mis Landgraf kindergarten teacher at Belaire was and and sure that husband just wont believe All three were picked by a committee whose Identity was pot disclosed and all three were popular winners judging from the warm outburst of applause that greeted their naming Asked for brief summations of their philosophy and approach to teaching the three had ready responses in my mind is getting students involved to have them initiate projects on their said the Central teacher Miss Hubbard remarked that things just interest the kids and then wham something comes up they reaUy get excited This year it was Project VOICE on Issues Concerns in which her class members put together a resolution for introduction in the legislature then traveled to Austin to testify for (and against) it Another time there was a film that them that high level of student involvement she always seeks Sanderford was saying something similar when he talked about Getting students to help out with his projects to the point of sometimes North Carolinians relieved at school busing decision The San Angelo School District want to grow bigger unless it can break even on the deal financially But its trustees want to spend any money to make the district smaller either what they said Tues-day night when by common -consent the boardmen endorsed a statement by Supt Wadzeck saying no condition should we take any additional area into the district" unless arrangements are made to acquire the incentive funds along with the territory Without any reference ex-- cent mention of small dis- trict that is having the statement appeared to focus on the possibility of the county school board annexing the Carlsbad district to San Angelo It was made clear that this would be acceptable to San Angelo only if prior arrangements were made with the Texas Education Agency to qualify for the aid money which comes automatically if districts merge by means of an election Wadzeck pointed out that added territory which contains no federal lands to qualify for special credits on the economic index can mean a -financial loss to a school district The economic index is the basis for calculating a district's share of state-wide education costs In such cases the new territory can cause losses of credits that would more than offset the addition of new tax revenues the board was told A group of Carlsbad residents was due to discuss local problems today with the county board In the course of the talks Wadzeck and board president Tom Parrott took occasion Tuesday to disclaim any past or present desire for San The Justice lawyers are asking that a petition to put the land back in the Wall district from which it was carved last year be denied by Judge Joe Estes unless proof can be furnished that the status of desegregation will not be reduced in either district The federal involvement is an outgrowth of a desegre also prod the school board to refine the plan so that fewer children would have to be bused School officials said some 20000 pupils bused this year would have remained in neighborhood schools if the plan had not been ordered with 10000 traveling between schools in widely Did he use a crow-bar? Foul play by a burglar Monday night resulted in the theft of a valuable rooster at the Turnbow residence at 2023 Pecan according to in: vestigating patrolman Jack Beckham of the San Angelo Police Department Turnbow said his 2-year-old Claret game rooster described as having a red neck black tail with a streak of white and a black lower body was taken sometime Monday- night by someone who cut his fence in two places laid down the wire and walked into his chicken pen He told police the rooster was valued at $50 tsassss ssszssssa fall 1977 Attendance will not be compulsory Mrs Brown said classes will be taught again next fall at the schools with present kindergartens: Blackshear Reagan San Jacinto Belaire Rio Vista McGill and Sam Houston Others will be added if necessaify A child may attend kindergarten at any school in town without regard to where he lives In addition to the regular kindergartens San Angelo has special bilingual kindergarten programs for children from Spanish-speaking and English-speaking homes Some children as young as 4 are included Full Information about the bilingual program is available from the office of the Sam Houston Elementary School gation suit the department took in court against San Angelo schools last summer The San Angelo board agreed to give in supplying information but approved stand that legal fees and court costs not be incurred and that such outlays be borne by the Wall which wants the territory back separated and racially divergent neighborhoods The opposition to this inconvenience felt by many white parents prompted Harris and others to predict that the ruling would signal a departure from public schools into private academies my judgment this decision is going to mark the beginning of the downfall of public said William Booe an attorney elected to the board on a strongly antibusing slate last May- think going to be tremendous number of people who look for and find private Harris said Dr A Craig Phillips the state superintendent of education said decision still leaves us with a great many problems It docs not really answer -the question how children shall be assigned to public schools in North Carolina and in this country as a Hi some quarters however the reaction was elation: their said a Negro mother with four children in public schools their hearts for doing sched Roundup programs include briefings for parents while their children go to classrooms for a preview of what school is all about Ail meetings will bo in school cafeterias and will last about an hour The schools will dismiss their first graders at noon on the day of the roundup except San Jacinto which has a morning hour roundup First graders will attend classes as usual there This week the Reagan School roundup will be at 1 pm Thursday and the Sam Houston School roundup at 1:30 pm Friday Next Tuesday Holman Bowie and Fannin schools have 1 pm schedules On Wednesday Chinese table tennis team to visit in US CHARLOTTE NC (AP) -City-county school officials although dejected that the Supreme Court ruled to allow busing for desegregation say they are at least relieved to have definite word after eight months of waiting though I might detest the decision sure glad got something on said Thomas Harris vice chairman of the Charlotte-Meckienburg County Board of Education The Supreme ruling upholding an order by US Dist Court Judge James McMillan means that the fleet of orange buses transporting some 40000 pupils a day will continue to roll Another school board member Dr Carlton Watkins said he hopes the decision would mean a drop in racial tension that order generated in the system's 100 schools among thousands of parents least the community knows what is expected of Watkins said it can react in a positive way instead of the negative feeling had Watkins said reception of the final Judicial word might fall and should be brought to the spring roundups if they are available now Children who will be 6 years old on or before Sept 1 are eligible to attend first grade in the fall and those who are 5 years old on or before July 1 are eligible far kindergarten provided they are either: Unable to speak and understand the English language well enough to do normal first-grade work or From a family with an annual Income of $3000 or less Free public kindergarten classes are being taught in Texas for the first time this year and will be enlarged to take in more children each year so that all 5-year-olds will be eligible to attend by Steenhoven said the visit probably would come within 12 months A spokesman for the US State Department who confirmed that the visit had been approved said the Chinese team might arrive next March White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said Tuesday the President would ask Steenhoven about Preschool roundups Hospital notes his impressions of the Chinese trip and the Chinese acceptance of the reciprocal invitation Ziegler said the administration would welcome the Chinese team and expedite visas Steenhoven said the costs of playing host to the Chinese team would be bone by private sources IT HOSPITAL AtfmlHlM retorted Tueidey: Mri Milton Valor Mwon Mra Andrew Singleton 4IS Poe Mra Higgins 122 River Ooka -Mrs William Smith Jr Routt 1 Mra william Hlcki US Rlvaraide Mn Carrie Edmonton S41 Harris Mra Iwtler Derrick 435 16th Sidney Snow HI 17th DhmllloM Reoortod Tuoidov: Mra Charlai Bumalt ill 17m Mra Ita Holt 207 Wobitor Mn Raymond Youn It Ml Monroe BIRTHS Shannon Htulttl: Mr and Mn MarNn Volte 1306 Glenwood a dawdler Aorll 20 Mr and Mra Henry Cortot 86 Edaewood Drive a daughter April Mr and Mri Richard Sosa 1117 Tarver SI a daughter Aorll 20 Mr and Mn Dwight Nelson 414 I Garrotl a daughter April 20 DETROIT (AP) The president of the US Table Tennis Association says Communist Chinese table tennis players have accepted an invitation to visit the United States the near future" and he will discuss the invitation today with President Nixon Graham Steenhoven president of the association and leader of the 15-member US table tennis team that toured Communist China last week disclosed Tuesday at a news conference that the invitation was made when his group arrived tn China The visit was the first by an American group since 1949 Steenhoven said Song Chung acting president of the Chinese Tame Tennis Association accepted the invitation before the Americans left the country last week but gave him the option of when to announce it Steenhoven said he had received assurance of visa approval from US Embassy officials in Tokyo earlier for the Chinese visit but that no dates or schedules had been act Children by the hundreds rill take part in a big event in heir young lives during the text three weeks in San Lngclo as the yearly pre-chool roundups are held in he city's elementary schools be first is set for Thursday it Reagan Elementary Besides first graders oungsters who will attend Jndcrgarten next fall are in-rlted to the roundups this ear too Mrs Clarice Brown lementary coordinator for he school system reminded oday that birth certificates ind smallpox vaccination tertificates must be furnished the time school starts next (Publication outtiorliod By patlant or rotative) SHANNON HOSPITAL AdmtMtant reported Tueidey: Mr Martin Vails ZIOS Glenwoed Drive Mr Henry Garbee 226 Edgewood Mill Carol Ann Bradford 404 Kennedy Mr Richard Seen 1017 Tarver Mro Georoe Helton 2M Oxford Mr Dwight A Nelion 414 GarreH Mra Adam A Hennecto Mllnoor Mro Thamat Rainey 7J Roney Mri Goorte Heeler Route I Mra Union McMlnnfll Jctfonan Mra Calvin MeGIntv l0S Marx David Madina 11M Woodruff DnmluaH retorted Tedev: Mra Santoe Becerra Jr 2301 Hill Mra Lamon Cole J7 lh Margot Garcia Hlh Mri Rov Kino Milo David Pullen M2 17th.