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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 7, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The my pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 108mt. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening May 7, 1970 Price 10 cent Progress report on it. P. Schools by Sandra Williams this year of the census a time of accumulating facts and figures seems an appropriate time to consider some of the aspects of the 1960-70 growth of the it. Pleasant school system. Most of the following information has been gleaned from the superintendents Progress report of june 1969, with additional Progress and growth since that Date duly noted. In essence the report shows substantial growth in All areas of instruction curriculum materials and equipment and possible classroom space. However one Incontro Vertial fact remains. Further expansion and development is not possible without additional teaching and learning classroom space. Quot in preparation for future needs a broadened curriculum and the development of a More comprehensive program a according to the ten year report a serious consideration is and must be Given to further building student enrolment on july 1, 1959, the it. Pleasant Community school District became a reality. In sept. Of that year the enrolment was 1614 elementary and 585 High school students totalling 2199. At the Start of the 1969-70 school year the figures had increased to 1640 elementary 732 secondary and 42 special education. The increase included those students acquired through growth of the school District discontinuation of the parochial schools addition of special education classes and the City a population growth. Personnel ninety two teachers special teachers and administrative personnel attended to the needs of the student body in 1959. Because at that time there was a Large number of separate classrooms in separate locations throughout the District it was necessary to have some multiple classes under the supervision of individual teachers. By 1903 this situation was corrected and with the addition that year of Van Allen and Salem elementary schools the goal of one Grade per teacher was reached. Teacher training qualifications have changed during the ten year period showing a 13% increase in b. A. Degree holders 3.7% increase in . Degrees and a decrease of 16.7% in non degree holders. At present 117 teachers special teachers and administrative personnel Are employed by the it. Pleasant school District. Financial data an increase of slightly More than $200.00 per Pupil expenditures increased valuation for tax purposes of More than $10,000,000, a total budget increase of approximately $330,000, an increase of local property tax support of about $150,000, and a total millage increase of 3 579 _ these figures Are an important Factor in the ten year Progress report. On the other hand in 1959-60, the local taxpayer provided approximately 77 per cent of the general fund expenditures. During the 1938-69 the figure decreased to approximately 61 per cent due to increased state and Federal aids naturally costs have increased but additional staff added maintenance costs an increased transportation system and the gradual inflationary spiral account for the increase. Expansion and Progress do not come free As every businessman Farmer and housewife Are Well aware. Curriculum and in service in order to better serve the student studies have been started and changes made in several areas of the curriculum resulting in unification clarification and up dating of instructional areas. To this end also an extensive in service training program has been established furnishing the time and facilities for instruction of the teachers. In 1966 Donald Young was assigned the position of curriculum coordinator and director of Federal programs. In 1968 Roger Williams was assigned As curriculum coordinator for the secondary level. The curriculum of the English department was revised Grade 7-12 in 1965. The summer work of 1969 produced a revision in social studies curriculum and the 1970 summer work will Deal with study and re vision of the mathematics curriculum grades 7-12and science grades 1-12. Equipment through the general fund and funds provided by idea National defense education act instructional equipment has been added added throughout the ten year period As needed. A series of articles to follow will examine the various audio visual aids being used by teachers and students at All Grade Levels to implement classroom instruction As Well As providing records valuable for later study of some extra curricular activities. New texts have been purchased according to need because of Wear enlarged attendance outdated information and or altered curriculum. Building and Sites in 1959, fifteen separate buildings and Sites were being used for instructional purposes. As of 1963, the number was reduced to eight made possible by the addition of Van Allen and Salem elementary schools. The greatest change occurred at the 7th and 8th Grade level when students in six different locations were placed in a Central location resulting in a much desired unification of staff department ligation of instruction and coordination of program under one Central administrative head. At the High school level the former Dyall House was converted in 1961 to an Art dept., and the former Riviera building As of 1969, houses part of the English department. A relocatable classroom was erected near the High school in 1968 to provide classroom space for the special education classes four others were added the same year to elementary school facilities. The school bus garage completed in 1963, provides facilities for maintenance of a Fleet As of 1969 which numbers 29 buses and 15 cars. It is in this area of buildings and Sites that concentrated Effort is and must be now placed. Designed to accommodate 350 students when built in 1934, the original High school building is now fulfilling the instructional needs As Well As possible for approximately 725 students. The influx has been taken care of through the additions built in 1950 and 1957, plus the Dyall House the Riviera and a relocatable class room. In 1970-71, the existing facilities will be at 100 percent usage. That is every room will be in classroom use every hour of the school Day. The auditorium is used As music classroom and office every possible conversion of storage space into office or classroom space will have been made. There is no space for study work or lounge area for teachers students Are distributed throughout the buildings for study periods. As a result of the full capacity condition some classes have been necessarily limited to one Section each in some cases limiting the student enrolment in these classes to one third of those students desiring to take the class. In 1964, the state department of instruction figures indicated Henry county As second in the state at 51.9 per cent of High school graduates attending a four year College. It is increasingly obvious that More vocational areas need to be offered to non College bound students. It is obviously necessary that curriculum changes should be made areas broadened in All Fields to keep it. Pleasant students at the High level of achievement they currently display. However As this report stated earlier the school study made in 1968 by the Iowa Center for research indicates Quot further expansion and development is not possible without additional ask the students of Mph. They will Tell you that they do not suffer from Lack of concern variety of curriculum or excellence of instruction. They will Tell you of the Over crowded conditions which now exist which will become More pressing in the future. Copies of the superintendents Progress report Are available at the local Public Library and the superintendents office. Further details of the status of the it. Pleasant school system Are available for the asking. Named assistant drama professor a Iowa Wesleyan d vivid m. Ferrell a native of East Stroudsburg pa., has Iren named assistant professor of drama at Iowa Wesleyan College effective sept. 3. According to an an noun Ai int today by or Louis a. Haselmayr inc president. Or. Ferrell 28, is a graduate teaching assistant in the department of speech and dramatic Art at the u. Of Missouri and expects to it Reive a . In theatre this summer. He replaces David h. Increase forces in Cambodia Saigon it up it a american helicopters flew thousands More u. S. And Allied troops into northeastern Cambodia today and into the heart of a vast North vietnamese Bunker Complex. One helicopter crashed killing nine americans in the Accident plagued operation. The crash brought to 26 Robert e. Sullivan reported today from northeastern Cambodia that at least six battalions <4,800 men of the us 4th infantry division had been flown into Cambodia by late today. Also flown in wore units of the american 101st airborne division and 22nd infantry division. About 2.000 americans had been flown in Denise Burchard clockwise from left front Jim Perron mrs. Allan Shook Jane Prottsman Denise Kennedy Nancy Kochneff Carolyn Castore Elaine Keefe Debby Biggs Susi Breazeale ted Boal and Scott Boal. Make final plans for opening of youth Center final plans Are being made for the grand opening of the youth Center which will be held this Friday May 8. Students have been working on the House for several months in preparation for the opening. They have scrubbed painted swept built mowed and collected under the direction of mrs Allan Shook. The students have also helped Tive Janet Mahle Sophomore rep direct the activities. Earlier this resent Tive and Debby by evs year an executive Board and a Gen freshman representative. This eral Board were elected. The exec Board does most of the initial plan i Tive Board includes Elaine Keefe Ning and then the combined president Tom Nau and ted Boal. Boards make the final decision vice presidents Scott Boal Secre everyone is encouraged to come tary Don Kahn senior represent Friday evening and see it. Pleas Tive Rick hand Junior represent ant s new youth Center. Burr who left Wesleyan last Spring number of americans killed in five yesterday despite intense ground fire which delayed some helicopter landings. However today s crash was attributed to mechanical failure. Governor s Day is cancelled a Iowa City it up it a University of Iowa president Willard Boyd said today the annual governors Day ceremonies scheduled for sat a urday have been cancelled a in View i of the emotionally charged Situa it Ion in Iowa City. After the inc Board of trustees i helicopter crashes in Cambodia and cancelled All drama courses at the four in Vietnam since tuesday. U. End of the 1968-69 school year when s. Military sources said the Cam or. Burr refused to accept Wes Bodian offensives and communist Leyan guidelines for the selection reprisal attacks have raised Ameri and production of plays. Can casualties to their highest or. Ferrell holds a . Degree Point in a year in English from Elizabethtown pa., College and an . In theatre from Temple University. He taught j speech and theatre at Way land Baptist College Plainview Texas 1966-67, and worked in the summer enrichment program of the Columbia mo., Public schools in 1968. Or. Ferrell and his wife Priscilla Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops launched More retaliatory attacks in Vietnam overnight killing 12 vietnamese and wounding 21 in shelling at Hue wounding 17 americans in bombing a theater and killing six u. S. Soldiers in attacking a paratroop base. The new attacks brought to 75 Are expected to arrive in it. Pleas the number of americans reported ant sometime in August. Water softener business for Sale expect smoke to reduce at reunion plans Are being made to have the reunion grounds in partial operation sunday afternoon May 31st, which is during Iowa Wesleyan College commencement weekend. Directors of the Midwest old settlers and threshers association Are making an Effort to reduce the amount of smoke at the reunion this year and have authorized the Purchase of a special Coal which is supposed to produce less smoke. In addition there will be an increase in the use of Wood to reduce the amount of Coal necessary and fire formerly used for the portrait gallery. The it. Pleasant utilities Board is offering lha City operated water softener business for Sale a Legal publication elsewhere in this Issue announces that the business is for Rale. Bids willbe opened june 9. O o o an attempt was made to sell the the Board has placed the Book business four years ago. But was a elementary steam Power engine abandoned because of he oppose Eringi by Edgar Macnaughton m. Tion that developed on the part of killed this week in Vietnam. Another 44 have been killed in the eight Day old cambodian offensive. Military sources said this meant the death toll for the week would be the highest in about a year. Today a casualty report for last week said 123 americans were killed and 997 wounded. O o o although South Vietnam announced it was pulling Back 6,000 hostile comments to cease Nixon Washington it up it a with striking College students pouring into Washington to protest . Intervention in Cambodia president a xon informed eight College presidents thursday that hostile admin from one completed Mission ministration official comments in Cambodia up correspondent about students would cease. A a a in the it. Pleasant Public Library As a memorial to the late Charles Mcmillan of it. Pleasant. A group will be going to Pella saturday May 9th, to participate in the Tulip festival Parade. Everett Wright who is in charge of arrangements reports that the Jim Miller representing the it. Old Thresher bus will be leaving pleasant Parent teachers Assoc ventral Park promptly at 7 00 . Atin met with the Board and Dis users at that time. Carswell to undergo surgery create rent housing Agency Here men on the engines will be asked a those accompanying the group cussed the possibility of a project to cooperate by using More care in Are requested to be in costume. The during the reunion. No immediate firing the engines in order to re Prickett Stevens will be action was taken As other groups a used in the Parade to pull one of i on a waiting list would receive Duce smoke output. O o o Fenton Powell reported to the Board wednesday evening that he had been in Marshalltown polishing parts and checking the bearings and rods on the big engine that is to be moved later to the reunion grounds. He indicated that he would make a Complete set of drawings of the engine before the move is begun. The ground train trailers. O o o authorization was Given by the Board to pacemaker Clear Span buildings of Washington Iowa to erect a new 24�?Tx24�?Tx7 a restroom and Bathhouse on the South end of the Camp ground. The Structure will have an 8 foot canopy and is expected to be completed by August 15 the. Prior consideration. Board members discussed at some length the placement of the Large engines in the machinery building. Placement of the log Cabin on the South track by Merle Massey will begin within a Short time. Or. Saj thursday Massey indicated that he expected the resignation of or. C. Dendy. To Start foundation work and re chaplain place Merit of a log or two now that governors called to Washington Santa be. N. M. Up a president Nixon has called the 50 governors to the White House monday to discuss a the disruption of peace violence and potential violence throughout the nation a gov. Raymond p. Shafer of Pennsylvania Tallahassee Fla. Up a j former judge g. Harrold Carswell a Resolution creating a reported today he will enter a tal j housing Agency for the elderly in to co. Of it. Lali Assee Hospital this weekend for my pleasant was adopted at the prostate surgery monday morning. Council meeting wednesday Carswell who announced As a night and mayor Charles Hanna Republican candidate for the us. Appointed five persons to serve As Serrate after the Senate denied commissioners of the Agency him confirmation to the . Us named to serve for two years were preme court last month said he r. O. Elefson named chairman will be hospitalized about a week i it ale Longwell vice chairman and rent i a status report from Abel Cable and it stated that Progress was being made towards the selecting of Sites for two Cable to towers and for materials Here. Faa approval in expected in six to eight weeks. To 10 Days. Cedar rapids gains in population Cedar rapids up a Cedar rapids had again of about4.6 persons daily during the past 10 years Jean Wiley. Appointed to one year terms were Rev. Q. Gerald Rose Berry and Jack Kin ton. Councilmen Max beavers and Ray King along with Rev. Rose Berry Ami Wiley inspected rent housing areas for the elderly at Charles City recently and their re port was read at ithe meeting. Other attorney Dave Mccoid who represents the Abel Cable to company which was granted the franchise Here said that the target Date for the Start of construction is nov. I. The Henry county fair Board was granted the use of Mcmillan Park for the 1970 fair july 19-25. Garrett As association was regretfully accepted. Or. Garrett and his family will be moving from the Community in mid june and he will no longer be Able to serve in this capacity. O o o approval Wras Given to the Henry county ministerial association to arrange for an exhibit of old bibles and religious materials at the september reunion. This added Fea the exact location has been established. O o o color pictures of the reunion have now been placed in the information Center along interstate 80 at Wilton Junction along with coloured brochures and flyers. Brochures and flyers have also been placed in one of the centers along the eastbound Lane of interstate in making the announcement. Shafer chairman of the Republican National governors conference also cancelled the groups semiannual meeting scheduled to open Here thursday night. According to the 1970 census. The latest census figures reveal 1 Sites will be inspected in the fued that Cedar rapids has a popu Ture by the commissioners lation of 103,111 a gain of 17,076 the step is preliminary to taking since the 1960 census was taken. Further action in providing rent streets. In a preliminary report Dubuque housing locally through the use of had an increase from 56,608 to 61, Federal funds. 309 and Clinton has a population of 34.423, com Jared with 33.589 in a it pm Morris and Donald Young 1960. The Council approved a building permit revision for Francis l. Smith who is the contractor for the reconstruction of the new Spurgeon building at main and Madison Joe Halferty Iivo be manager was Given permission to have a new by Vee sign erected at the Northwest Ture will be housed in the building 80 at the Western Edge of Iowa. Child Alert program ready soon hold classes despite strike of teachers of the Henry county historical so Corner of the stores property on piety were present at the meet East Washington ing and Morris told the Council that the group needs a building for its archives ail suggested using the there was a reinvestment and investment of Money from various funds in certificates of time deposits. Mrs. Leon Shahan . Safety chairman reports that instruction will be Given to elementary students in the near future concerning the child Alert program. Most neighbourhoods now have parents or citizens without school age children who have volunteered their services. However there is still need for applicants in some area at least one Home in each teachers in Iowa. Block is needed. If you wish to participate please fill out the form below and Send it to your area chairman. The following Are chairmen Harlan school mrs. Leonard Kuchenmeister Lincoln school mrs. Harold Rankin Saunders school mrs. Jay Wehrle Van Allen school mrs. Bill Bankston. Keokuk. Iowa up ii a teach however Coffey a Junior High ers continued on i Trike Here t Day engl ish teacher indicated that the the first strike by Public school me mews a 1 n0 lenten. Lion of honouring the temporary in Junction. A class b Beer permit was renewed for Walgren a Market. Councilman Darrel Donnolly and . No the other terse verse by a. C. Gordon participants application for child Alert program school kids Are like canoes to handle and to rear managed with More ease when paddled from the rear. 1. Applicants full name. Birthrate. 2. Husbands full name. 3. Address. Phone number. 4. How Long have you lived in it. Pleasant. 5. Where employed. How Long. 6. Have you Ever been arrested for other than traffic violations. 7. If yes to no. 6, for what when and where. 8. Are you in Good health. 9. How Many people in your Home that Are Over 10 years of age. 10. You should understand that As a child Alert Parent you do not have any official police status. 11. You should also understand that the child Alert card May be voluntarily turned in or that the card must be surrendered upon request by the . Safety chairman or the police department. Date. Signature. However superintendent Robert Leland who called off school wednesday following the strike announcement said today Tia classes Are being conducted with a Skelton Crew of regular and substitute teachers. However he said not a 11 the students Are in attendance. 0 o o Tom Coffey Kea president said the teachers will stay on strike and continue picketing until negotiations resume. He said the school Board president gave him a negative answer on negotiations wednesday evening. Coffey said the Board chairman indicated that he was too Busy attempting to keep the schools open to plan for future negotiations. Only one of the 196 teachers a member of the Kea. However Leland said Only about 180 of the regular teachers Are on strike. He said he did not know How Many teachers or students were attending classes today and would not know until the end of the Day a temporary injection to halt to strike was issued wednesday by District judge j. R Leary at the request of the school Board. Judge Leary in ordering the injunction said it was illegal for teachers to pumping station building on City property on North Broadway which has been used As a Coal storage lot. Morris said if the City would repair the outside of the building. Van Winkle voted the society would improve the inside councilmen yes. He also mentioned the possibility j there was discussion on the Proto of the area around the building be j Lem on Large trucks being parked ing made into a Small Park. The on the City streets overnight and matter was referred to the Public those in violation will be noticed to grounds committee. Move them. Two persons killed a the cab of the anhydrous ammonia truck was demolished As it rotted following a collision with a car at an intersection three Miles South of Stockport tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Elizabeth Van Winkle of Salem Driver of the car and Milton Newman,51, Galva i1l, Driver of the truck were killed in the Accident

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