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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1969
Page
3
Statewide reading scores parallel Long Beach results with 1st graders below the statewide median while 2nd and 3rd graders exceed it. Data show gradual gains since 1966. phonetics remain part of a blended approach used by local teachers per Helen Myers.
Statewide first grade scores rose from 30.6 to 34.5 and second grade from 37.6 to 41.7 as tests show steady progress toward a national norm. Third grade scores ticked up to 63.1 with national 72. Rafferty credits phonics methods and state funded programs for the gains while noting slight declines in upper grades. He urges phonics in all California schools and calls Dewey a foundational influence on progressive education narratives.
Smog control chief Louis J. Fuller said he is ready to move ahead with Rule 67 to curb future power plant expansion in the Los Angeles basin. The action targets the DWP plan for a $55 million Scattered steam plant expansion at Playa del Rey and will pit the county air district against the city department. Fuller will file his report with county supervisors today.
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury convicted former City Councilman Thomas D. Shepard Wednesday of bribery tied to a Chatsworth zoning change in which he allegedly received an $11 000 loan. Eight women and four men found him guilty on one count, acquitted a second, and were deadlocked on a third. The 43 year old, nicknamed the quiet man, faced a sentence of one to 14 years with possible probation but disqualification from future public office.
The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners rejected the Cabrillo Beach marina proposal after years of protests. Acting president Frank E. Sullivan announced plans to instead study a north Cabrillo site in Fort MacArthur for 1350 to 2000 boats, with costs possibly reaching 6 million dollars. The decision ends decades of civic conflict led by the Citizens Committee to Save Cabrillo Beach and local critics.
A 15 year old boy from La Puente, Donald Eugene Bell, died of a drug overdose early Wednesday while in custody after being arrested with 16 year old Donald Robinson of Los Angeles in the stabbing deaths of elderly brothers Thomas Nash, 94, and Louis Nash, 90.
Betty Fouquet and her husband were ordered to Los Angeles from a Bakersfield jail to produce their 8 year old son Jeffrey whose whereabouts are unknown. A Juvenile Court Referee ordered them turned over to the Los Angeles sheriff for questioning.
A private group offers a 100 reward for information leading to conviction of an adult who sells drugs to a minor. Project Prevention promotes tougher narcotics laws and seeks a 30 year minimum penalty and one million signatures for a state Legislature petition.
A 17 year old Saddleback High School junior Raymo Terrance Dunphy of 1 Carlton Place hanged himself in a Santa Ana police station waiting room while awaiting questioning on possession of pills. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Orange County Medical Center after officers found him hanging from a belt on a pneumatic door closer. Police said a vice principal called for help after the youth was described as acting funny.
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