January 15, 1969 (12 pages)

WOLF CREEK, Boston Ravine, seen through old wall, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce directors have scheduled a meeting for 7 p.m. Jan. 16 in the Mother Lode Bank to draft plans for a Nevada City community calendar, ‘ Director Chris Schaaf pinpointed the need for planning activities for the coming year at a meeting this week in city hall, "It's been hit and miss all the past year," he claimed. Conflicting events and the need for coordinating them have been aired -recently in letters from the people in The Union. John Gallegos, executivemanager of the county chamber, asked that the proposed calendar be coordinated with one he is preparing. — Nevada City chamber directors Monday took no action on a AEC Technical Information Services Ask any group of people what a ‘‘neutron”’ is and you will. probably get a more accurate answer from the younger members of_ the group-—those in their twenties and under—-than from their elders. Why? Because ‘‘neutron” and other words of its kind belong to the modern science of. nuclear energy, dramatically-made— public only 25 years ago. As a result, only the younger generations, schooled in « ‘the nuclear age, have been taught the new science from grammar school through high school and college. To help meet the demand by schools and _= students throughout the country for information on nuclear. energy and to inform other interested people whose schooling may have concluded prior to the nuclear age, the Atomic Energy Commission operates a broad, nationwide EducaRiots, More Money For Schools BY LEONARD KREDDT Education News Service SACRAMENTO — Four intricately related educational issues —unrest in schools and communities, financing from kindergarten through the university, public school employer-employee _ relations, and urban problems— promise a difficult, controversial,session of the Legislature in 1969. There is little disagreement among Capitol observers that the trend will be conservative. Assigning priorities among the four top issues is nearly impossible, but campus and community unrest will. certainly hold public interest. until solutions are arrived at. x kk ONE’ OFFICIAL, who will likely occupy an important education consultant post for the new Legislature, includes in “un-. rest” the following: teacher militancy and strikes; parent concern, boycotts and neighborhood: tional Services Program. The Commission’s center for this program is the Division of Technical Information Extension in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where DTIE has set up an_ organizational unit consisting of scientists and teachers who reply to an increasing number of individual requests for information covering all aspects of nuclear science. This is in addition to its primary responsibilities of acquiring, publishing, and disseminating highly techni. cal. information to the sophisticated scientific community and the publishing of Nuclear Science Abstracts, which is the only: abStract journal in the world devoted to nuclear science and technology. Of the approximately 200 publications available through DTIE, 50 comprise 1962 with three booklets to answer queries on: nuclear energy. Pulling from ~ these re'. sources, the staff at DTIE has assembled special packets of atomic energy information for specific ‘areas of science instruction, such as general science, biology, chemistry and physics. The material is alsovaried for degree of difficulty and technical detail for. elementary, junior high and-high school levels. Other special packets are aimed at supplementing existing school texts. and library materials. Robert L. Shannon, DTIE Manager, estimates this year DTIE wil send out some 2,500,000 pamphlets, booklets and specially researched information letters to. help individuals and_groups seeking information about atomic energy. . requests received by DTIE each year. In 1962 the Extension handled some 25,000 queries. Shannon’ expects this’ year’s figure will be nearly 200;000 requests. This includes 4,000 requests DTIE receives a year from students’ in the Republic of Nigeria. In gratitude for the information supplied, DTIE once received a_ beautiful hand-carved -mahogany plaque. which is displayed in the lobby, of the DTIE, building;~on another occasion, a large box of Nigerian peanuts. When this total is added to the additional projected. requests by the various AEC offices and the contractor companies that operate Commission facilities throughout — the country, the AEC expects to answer requests for . information on atomic en-: the AEC’s ‘Understanding the Atom” series, which the Commission began in early control of schools; student disorder, riots, etc. He foresees proposed legislation to forestall and prevent disorders and to keep the schools at all levels operating. He also expects further efforts to reorganize larger urban districts for greater_community control a la Brooklyn’s troubled Ocean Hill Brownsville Demonstration District. Another Democrat, takes the view that with the exception of amendments to the Winton Act, which governs school employeremployee relations, proper use of existing laws rather than new legislation is required. He anticipates a spate of punitive measures relatéd to the disorders at San, Francisco State College. kK wk OU WITH OR WITHOUT unrest, schools continue to be costlier to operate and many,’ particularly in urban districts, have monumental backlogs of maintenance, construction, staffing Evidence of the increased interest in atomic energy lies in the growing number of and other deferred cost items to catch up with. The major big city districts are due to launch a concerted effort to get new funds to rehabilitate. or replace -deteriorated poverty area schools. This follows the defeat of Proposition 3.in November, which contained ~$50--million.in bonds. for this purpose. Whether these districts will seek bonds or direct cash aid apparently has not. been determined. An effort may be made to divert already-authorized, but unused, State School Building Aid Program bonds for the purpose. The last such attempt was resisted by the administration, and there is also the question of how much money is. available. ‘ Leftovers from last year in the school finance area, which will be reintroduced, include reinstating the enriched full-day Kindergarten program and the $60 per mentally gifted student, both cancelled, plus clean-up ergy from roughly a half million. curious people this year. : and control measure for special education programs. x *« * NEW PROPOSALS will include $400 million omnibus state support measure being prepared by cooperating educational organizations, including the California Teachers Association _(CTA). This mayinclude a “paper” statewide property tax to equalize the vast differences in local tax effort to support schools (See Guest Editorial). This will likely be the proposal, or a modification of it, made last year by Sen. Stephen P. Teal’s special Senate Subcommittee on School Finance. Renewed attempts are expected to repeal the portion of AB 272 (of 1967) which eliminates all school district maximum tax rates as of June 30, 1971. Amendments to strengthen the Winton Act will be sought by CTA. Another aspect of this issue will be an expected effort by the California State EmPd BAS AT RATING NOC Ma rs USES RRS st ning l eg eee free ao ot Sonera _ Community calendar proposed plan for the future to house the county and Grass Valley. and Nevada City chamber offices in one building to be located near a freeway entrance to Grass Valley. Gallegos and Dick Willey, who is director of the county and local chambers. explained the proposal. They said county chambers directors had expressed a belief that the cooperative venture would better promote the area by making chamber information more available to tourists. Nevada City directors decided to explore the situation further before committing themselves, Schaaf pointed ‘out there are several freeway entrances to Nevada City. Director H. L, (Babe) Childers was not infavor ~ of moving the office from Nevada Ctiy. In other action it was announced that Ralph Childers, John Gallegos .Jr., Don Hoagland, and Dorinda Nobles were winners in the recent chambersponsored photography contest. —Tentative plans were made to honor the oldest native of Nevada City at a dinner to be held late in January in the National Hotel, ’ «Directors agreed to investigate the feasibility of a city beautification program which would inchide-spot-landscaping and hanging flower baskets. °: —Willey announced that: the Nevada County Antique Show will be held May. 23-25 in The Armory in Nevada City, The Liberal Arts Commission is sponsoring the third annual event and Mr. and Mrs. Willey are co-chairmen, : An agricultural university. in India has discovered that their sacred cows are much. more contented when they listen to recorded music, and give 15% more milk, to Keep Legislature Busy ployees. Association to bring state employees under SB 1228 of 1968. This measure, authored by Sen. George Moscone of . of San Francisco, gives Winton Act-type rights and more to all public employees, except those working for the state and school districts. * *& LESS CONTROVERSIAL will be education legislation in the ‘following areas: e Implementation of SB 1 (1968), ‘the so-called “Magna Carta of Education,” including standards for general and vocational education, better testing devices and corrective measures for districts that fall below standard. ® A possible major overhaul of teacher credentialing, with colleges and universities having more say-so in who is qualified to teach;. professional self-regulation of the teaching profession; teacher-administrator ratios. he Be

WOLF CREEK, Boston Ravine, seen through old wall, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce directors have scheduled a meeting for 7 p.m. Jan. 16 in the Mother Lode Bank to draft plans for a Nevada City community calendar, ‘ Director Chris Schaaf pinpointed the need for planning activities for the coming year at a meeting this week in city hall, "It's been hit and miss all the past year," he claimed. Conflicting events and the need for coordinating them have been aired -recently in letters from the people in The Union. John Gallegos, executivemanager of the county chamber, asked that the proposed calendar be coordinated with one he is preparing. — Nevada City chamber directors Monday took no action on a AEC Technical Information Services Ask any group of people what a ‘‘neutron”’ is and you will. probably get a more accurate answer from the younger members of_ the group-—those in their twenties and under—-than from their elders. Why? Because ‘‘neutron” and other words of its kind belong to the modern science of. nuclear energy, dramatically-made— public only 25 years ago. As a result, only the younger generations, schooled in « ‘the nuclear age, have been taught the new science from grammar school through high school and college. To help meet the demand by schools and _= students throughout the country for information on nuclear. energy and to inform other interested people whose schooling may have concluded prior to the nuclear age, the Atomic Energy Commission operates a broad, nationwide EducaRiots, More Money For Schools BY LEONARD KREDDT Education News Service SACRAMENTO — Four intricately related educational issues —unrest in schools and communities, financing from kindergarten through the university, public school employer-employee _ relations, and urban problems— promise a difficult, controversial,session of the Legislature in 1969. There is little disagreement among Capitol observers that the trend will be conservative. Assigning priorities among the four top issues is nearly impossible, but campus and community unrest will. certainly hold public interest. until solutions are arrived at. x kk ONE’ OFFICIAL, who will likely occupy an important education consultant post for the new Legislature, includes in “un-. rest” the following: teacher militancy and strikes; parent concern, boycotts and neighborhood: tional Services Program. The Commission’s center for this program is the Division of Technical Information Extension in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where DTIE has set up an_ organizational unit consisting of scientists and teachers who reply to an increasing number of individual requests for information covering all aspects of nuclear science. This is in addition to its primary responsibilities of acquiring, publishing, and disseminating highly techni. cal. information to the sophisticated scientific community and the publishing of Nuclear Science Abstracts, which is the only: abStract journal in the world devoted to nuclear science and technology. Of the approximately 200 publications available through DTIE, 50 comprise 1962 with three booklets to answer queries on: nuclear energy. Pulling from ~ these re'. sources, the staff at DTIE has assembled special packets of atomic energy information for specific ‘areas of science instruction, such as general science, biology, chemistry and physics. The material is alsovaried for degree of difficulty and technical detail for. elementary, junior high and-high school levels. Other special packets are aimed at supplementing existing school texts. and library materials. Robert L. Shannon, DTIE Manager, estimates this year DTIE wil send out some 2,500,000 pamphlets, booklets and specially researched information letters to. help individuals and_groups seeking information about atomic energy. . requests received by DTIE each year. In 1962 the Extension handled some 25,000 queries. Shannon’ expects this’ year’s figure will be nearly 200;000 requests. This includes 4,000 requests DTIE receives a year from students’ in the Republic of Nigeria. In gratitude for the information supplied, DTIE once received a_ beautiful hand-carved -mahogany plaque. which is displayed in the lobby, of the DTIE, building;~on another occasion, a large box of Nigerian peanuts. When this total is added to the additional projected. requests by the various AEC offices and the contractor companies that operate Commission facilities throughout — the country, the AEC expects to answer requests for . information on atomic en-: the AEC’s ‘Understanding the Atom” series, which the Commission began in early control of schools; student disorder, riots, etc. He foresees proposed legislation to forestall and prevent disorders and to keep the schools at all levels operating. He also expects further efforts to reorganize larger urban districts for greater_community control a la Brooklyn’s troubled Ocean Hill Brownsville Demonstration District. Another Democrat, takes the

view that with the exception of amendments to the Winton Act, which governs school employeremployee relations, proper use of existing laws rather than new legislation is required. He anticipates a spate of punitive measures relatéd to the disorders at San, Francisco State College. kK wk OU WITH OR WITHOUT unrest, schools continue to be costlier to operate and many,’ particularly in urban districts, have monumental backlogs of maintenance, construction, staffing Evidence of the increased interest in atomic energy lies in the growing number of and other deferred cost items to catch up with. The major big city districts are due to launch a concerted effort to get new funds to rehabilitate. or replace -deteriorated poverty area schools. This follows the defeat of Proposition 3.in November, which contained ~$50--million.in bonds. for this purpose. Whether these districts will seek bonds or direct cash aid apparently has not. been determined. An effort may be made to divert already-authorized, but unused, State School Building Aid Program bonds for the purpose. The last such attempt was resisted by the administration, and there is also the question of how much money is. available. ‘ Leftovers from last year in the school finance area, which will be reintroduced, include reinstating the enriched full-day Kindergarten program and the $60 per mentally gifted student, both cancelled, plus clean-up ergy from roughly a half million. curious people this year. : and control measure for special education programs. x *« * NEW PROPOSALS will include $400 million omnibus state support measure being prepared by cooperating educational organizations, including the California Teachers Association _(CTA). This mayinclude a “paper” statewide property tax to equalize the vast differences in local tax effort to support schools (See Guest Editorial). This will likely be the proposal, or a modification of it, made last year by Sen. Stephen P. Teal’s special Senate Subcommittee on School Finance. Renewed attempts are expected to repeal the portion of AB 272 (of 1967) which eliminates all school district maximum tax rates as of June 30, 1971. Amendments to strengthen the Winton Act will be sought by CTA. Another aspect of this issue will be an expected effort by the California State EmPd BAS AT RATING NOC Ma rs USES RRS st ning l eg eee free ao ot Sonera _ Community calendar proposed plan for the future to house the county and Grass Valley. and Nevada City chamber offices in one building to be located near a freeway entrance to Grass Valley. Gallegos and Dick Willey, who is director of the county and local chambers. explained the proposal. They said county chambers directors had expressed a belief that the cooperative venture would better promote the area by making chamber information more available to tourists. Nevada City directors decided to explore the situation further before committing themselves, Schaaf pointed ‘out there are several freeway entrances to Nevada City. Director H. L, (Babe) Childers was not infavor ~ of moving the office from Nevada Ctiy. In other action it was announced that Ralph Childers, John Gallegos .Jr., Don Hoagland, and Dorinda Nobles were winners in the recent chambersponsored photography contest. —Tentative plans were made to honor the oldest native of Nevada City at a dinner to be held late in January in the National Hotel, ’ «Directors agreed to investigate the feasibility of a city beautification program which would inchide-spot-landscaping and hanging flower baskets. °: —Willey announced that: the Nevada County Antique Show will be held May. 23-25 in The Armory in Nevada City, The Liberal Arts Commission is sponsoring the third annual event and Mr. and Mrs. Willey are co-chairmen, : An agricultural university. in India has discovered that their sacred cows are much. more contented when they listen to recorded music, and give 15% more milk, to Keep Legislature Busy ployees. Association to bring state employees under SB 1228 of 1968. This measure, authored by Sen. George Moscone of . of San Francisco, gives Winton Act-type rights and more to all public employees, except those working for the state and school districts. * *& LESS CONTROVERSIAL will be education legislation in the ‘following areas: e Implementation of SB 1 (1968), ‘the so-called “Magna Carta of Education,” including standards for general and vocational education, better testing devices and corrective measures for districts that fall below standard. ® A possible major overhaul of teacher credentialing, with colleges and universities having more say-so in who is qualified to teach;. professional self-regulation of the teaching profession; teacher-administrator ratios. he Be