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2C Fort Laudrrdale Nws, Monday, Julv 8, 1974 County Sends Comprehensive Test Rcsiilts Home Average Hard Pill For Some Parents To Swallow received much feedback from parents. But, he noted, "Generally, if they like something, they don't say much about it." Drainer admitted, however, that many parents might not have really understood the test scores. He said this was the first year such a comprehensive program had been reported to parents and it might take a few years "before parents really get to understand it." Drainer said school officials plan to work on the program to make it more understandable. The school superintendent said he may bring in some parents to discuss how the system might be improved. "We expect each year it will get better," he said.

Under the direction of William Myers, director of evaluation and testing, about 110,000 students were tested. The testing involved all but the eighth, 11th and 12th grades. Myers said the eighth and 12th graders took statewide tests and the 11th graders were skipped because they will be taking senior placement tests next fall. In addition to grade level performance, students were rated on expected ability in accordance with their intelligence level. That information gave an indication if the student was working up to ability or, in some cases, beyond expected ability.

Myers, a former school pyschologist, explained the tests are designed to tell educators how the child is doing compared with a child of the same age and grade on a nationwide average. "It's a sort of like running a race with yourself," he said. Myers also said the tests can indicate to school officials what programs are working and which ones need beefing up. It also could help to match teachers up for team teaching, Myers noted. The test scores might indicate that one teacher is particularly strong in teaching math concepts but weak in English.

For another teacher the opposite might be true. By matching the two in a team teaching program students "would get the best of both," Myers said. teachers are not teaching the concepts needed for him to keep pace with the average student nationwide. In any event, Anderson hopes parents will go to the schools and find out. It was Anderson who last year pushed for the voluntary release of the test score information to the parents so they could get a better idea of their child's academic progress.

He believes school officials will find out the effectiveness of the reports next fall "if parents "come to school to find out what sort of a program the school is providing to help their child." Anderson said he would like to see parents get more involved. "They should go to school. See what the school is going to do for their child. The teacher can do only so much. The child might need help at home, he said." School officials 'were generally pleased with the recep- tion given to the test score reports.

"I've had all positive reaction," said Anderson. School Supt. Dr. William Drainer said he had not By JIM GAY Staff Writer Average student Johnny who had Dad on his back to bring home an A and report card but can manage only Cs may have found seme help. He has, that is, if Dad bothered to look at the comprehensive test report sent home recently by the Broward County school system to more than 100,000 parents.

The report would have told Dad that Johnny is working up to his capacity to get Cs and should not be expected to get As and Bs. School Board Chairman Dr. Lyle Anderson said some parents push a child to make better grades "when really the child is doing the best he or she can." The test report should tell these parents "when to stop pushing and start praising," Anderson said. The test report also tells Dad and Mom if Johnny is not doing as well as he should. It could be the child's fault.

But it could also mean his Rejected By His Family, .7 Elderly Man Needs A Home I I'l 'lM iiuLHl 5 By RUBY LITINSKY Staff Writer DANIA Efforts are still finder way to find a home for Harry J. Hannings, 78-year-Sld man who has been rejected by his three daughters. "It's hell when your family fleserts you. They stink. I'll leave it to the Lord to forgive them," Hannings said last night.

City officials are also trying to help locate living space for the elderly man who appeared at the Dania police station Friday. Mayor Ted Kay has ordered that Policewoman Sybil Ken- iJ tf that time, police learned, they sold that house and purchased a new one in their own names, furnishing it with Hannings' furniture. When Hannings was told his daughter Loretta refused to even come to the telephone, he said "she's shamed, I guess. I know I'd never treat my mother or father like that." Mrs. Kennedy said she was "heartbroken" about this.

She said that when she first contacted Mrs. Rawler and Mrs. Kemp's husband Hwoard, both promised they would make a decision by midday Saturday. They still haven't called, and here it is Sunday." Police at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport said they and other police departments in the area tried for about 12 hours to reach Hannings' family in Pennsylvania before taking him to a nearby motel. Airport Police Chief Howard man and her husband Joseph, of Philadelphia, put him on a plane with a one-way night coach ticket.

Hannings said the Free-mans told him one of his other daughters would meet him at the airport in Florida, but neither did. He said he spent that night in a motel room. He appeared at the Dania police station next morning. Hannings has income from Social Security and a veteran's pension from World War I service. Mrs.

Kennedy said he does not need nursing home care and that she and others are trying to find a home where he might be able to rent a spare room and become part of the family. Police said they have verified Hannings' story that his daughter and son-in-law in Philadelphia had him sign papers deeding his home to them a few years ago. Since Hannings is not handicapped in any way but would need someone to prepare meals for him. One of his daughters, Mrs. Lorctta Rawler of Fort Lauderdale, refused to come to the telephone yesterday to talk to Mrs.

Kennedy or a reporter about the situation. Mrs. Rawler's daughter, Beth Lettelier, said they have "no comment" on why they will not take Hannings into their home. A second daughter, Mrs. Katherine Kemp of Hollywood, could not be reached for comment.

Mrs. Lettelier said Mrs, Kemp cannot be reached because someone ripped the phones out of the wall at the Kemp home since Friday night. Hannings said he arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport early Thursday after another daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Free I viwniirr- 4- 4,... dy be given today off with Sybil Kennedy of the Dania Police Department and Harry Hannings discuss where he might look for a home.

Jtj(( photj by Ruby U)lniW to continue to help the rfian. 'Hannings has been staying at the Miami home of Mrs. Kennedy and her husband Rnowles since Friday eve-njng. But Mrs. Kennedy said she is unable to continue caring for him because she is at Jork all day.

"This is a very sad story. It must be terrible to be that age; certainly the family must be 'obligated in some way. But, the whole gist of it is, nobody wants the man," Stickler added. Stickler said Freeman told his department (Freeman) had asked Eastern Airlines to make arrangements to put Hannings in a taxi and send him to Mrs. Rawler's home at 1522 NW 12th Fort Lauder dale.

Freeman called the airport police a second time, about half an hour later at 2:40 a.m. Friday and said he had called the airline and that Eastern "told him they were sometimes unable to fulfill their obligations because they were busy," Stickler said. Stickler said that airport police personnel who aided Hannings said "he was a very pleasant man. i Cotintyuide 'Ilk' Police Unit Acts As Lauderdale' 's Good Samaritans Tamarac To Vole On City Hall TAMARAC The location of a new city hall will be one of three decisions voters will make tomorrow. The proposed city hall site is near the corner of 88th Avenue and 84th Terrace.

Also on the ballot are proposals to: Annex Shaker Village Phase I Reaffirmation of the city charter The city wants to annex Shaker Village to assure control of building height limitations. The charter, reaffirmation is being proposed because of many recent charter amendments, said a city hall spokesman. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Iff sx ft wf.

-yS Alcoholic Facility To Get Funds 5 the halfway house probably will begin operation in October in the Belle Glade area. "But we will be treating patients from all of southeast Florida," Gillis said. "That i 11 include South Dade, North Broward and Palm Beach counties." A federal grant of more man $200,000 has been ap-. proved to set up a halfway' house for alcoholics under the Southeast Florida Community Action Migrant Program. Eugene Gillis, assistant director of the program, which has headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, said today Union Dues At Issue Filipino Nurses Score High BCTA Hits Snag In Contract Talks Broward property owners with lots of questions, lined up this morning in the courthouse offices of Tax Assessor William Markham seeking answers about 1974 property assessments.

The revaluations saw the value of a typical Broward home jump 71.8 per cent from last year. Deputy Assessors are manning special booths to handle questions. Below, F. E. Benson's worried expression reflects the concern of many Broward home-owners Staff photos by Paul Willi According to Julia Trinker, director of nursing at Broward General Medical Center, more than 75 per cent of Filipino nurses taking the tests passed.

"The national average for foreign nurses passing is 19 per cent," she said. Twenty-three Filipino nurses, brought to Fort Lauderdale by the North Broward Hospital District to fill positions, "unwanted" by American nurses, have surpassed the national nursing test score averages in some cases by 200 points. Infant Defeating Blood Disease By KEN HARRELL Staff Writer A 65-year-old blind man with nowhere to go, a 19-year-old summer vacationer without money, and an 18-year-old woman looking for work found help from the Fort Lauderdale police Community Relations Unit over the weekend. When Community Relations Officers William Duprcy and Joann Richter were dispatched to the Trailways bus terminal at 130 NW First Friday night they found William Morris sitting quietly on a bench. "I'm just a traveling man.

I have no real home," Morris said as he leaned on his cane. Morris had no bus ticket, no money and his nearest relative was five hours away in Tampa. Besides that he was drunk, Duprey said. "He was in no condition to take to the Salvation Army, and all the social agencies were closed," Duprey said. Duprey and Richter, acting out their rolej as back-up units for the regular patrolmen, worked four hours digging information out of Morris.

According to Duprey, Morris had spent his last dollar for a bus ride from upstate to Miami. When he woke up he was in Fort Lauderdale and he was broke. "I'm not handicapped," Morris said whispering to the officers. "I don't like people treating me like I was handicapped." Reaching into their own pockets, Duprey and Richter forked out $12.50 and put the old man on the first bus to Tampa where his sr-ter lives. Three hours later, Morris was snoozing aboard a bus rolling out of town.

Duprey said Morris was similar to other persons who, he said, "escape to Fort Lauderdale from up north. This goes on all the time. Kids, too, will come down here with $20 dollars in their pockets thinking they can spend two or three weeks here. Then they run out of money and come to us." Duprey said the special unit, organized in 1967, works 30 to 35 cases like these a week. Before that, regular patrolman were forced to spend their time working this type of necessary police work.

William Padgen, 19, from Sanford, spent his wad in Fort Lauderdale without a penny to get home, Duprey said. Padgen was sitting in the station house at midnight when the two officers came back from seeing Morris off. The youth's 1972 car sat on a side street out of gas, he told the officers, and he didn't have enough money to call his parents in Sanford. "I need help getting home," he told the officers. A cash advance was given the youth with the hopes he would send it back when he got home.

"They usually pay us back," Duprey said. "What do you do with a kid like this, let him live out of his car? There's no travelers aid in Fort Lauderdale to help him." Duprey said most of the money and equipment that goes into the special six-person outfit comes from contributions. Nancy Buckely, 18, with a pack on her back, showed up at the police steps about 1:50 a.m. Saturday. She told the officers that she had come down from Brunswick, to live with her sister who she thought lived in Fort Lauderdale.

She told them the house where her sister lived was vacant when she got there. At 6:10 a.m. Saturday, the Community Relations Unit helped place the woman in emergency housing, Duprcy said. Duprey said the unit works closely with the Community Service Council of Broward County. "The only crime these people are committing when they get in a bind like this is stupidity," Duprey said.

"They're just ignorant. They leave some small town like Waycross, Ga. or somewhere and think they can make it here. It goes on all year. We're here to keep the road officer from handling these types of cases," he said.

He said he would not vote to approve a contract that includes a check-off provision. BCTA Director Houston Miller said last year's contract included a check-off provision, but explained that the management company, American Transit negotiated that contract. "This is the first contract the BCTA has negotiated since we took over the bus system," Miller said. He has researched the new collective bargaining Jaw. That law has a provision that allows check-offs for any employe organization "which has been certified" by the state under the Miller said the drivers' union "is not certified under provisions of this law so we can disregard this Contract negotiations he tween the Broward County Transportation Authority and the bus drivers' union have hit an unexpected snag.

The proposed contract, which would raise drivers' salaries 11 per cent, contains a clause requiring the county to deduct union dues from pay checks. Commission Chairman Jack Moss says, "I don't think the taxpayers of Broward County should have to subsidize the bus drivers' union by providing a bookkeeping and collection system. "I also don't think the County Commission should provide benefits to union members that are over and above those of other county employes. We have to treat everyone equally." Tiffany Lee Minimi, born 11 days ago with a rare blood disease, remains in good condition at Holy Cross Hospital today. Tiffany's physician reported her platelet count at 68,000 yesterday "and building slowly." It was only 1,000 when she was born.

Normal is 500,000. Tiffany's diet is the normal one for an infant, Holy Cross spokesmen said, although she has not gained much weight to date. Doctors cannot predict how long Tiffany will remain in the hospital. "We'll just keep watching her for awhile," hospital spokesmen said. Hospital Millage Hearings Set Hospital, 6401 N.

Federal Highway, at 5:01 p.m., to discuss a 10 per cent request A second hearing on the 10 per cent request is scheduled at Imperial Point Hospital at 5:01 p.m. July 24. Hearings to consider the additional per cent would be held at North Broward Hospital in Pompano Beach Aug. 26 and 28. The North Broward Hospital District Board has scheduled four public hearings to explain the need for the tax millage increases it has requested for 1974-75.

The hospital district is seeking a 15 per cent tril in-, crease over last year's levy of 1.599S mills. The first meeting will be held on Wednesday in the auditorium at Imperial Point CTA's Decision Due Soon On How To Find Director Man Hurt In Plane Crash is 1 1 1 I imam, i His departure is coming while the CTA is battling the school board over teacher salaries. But Orr said that shouldn't affect the association's ability to represent the teachers. "We've got things in hand. This organization is more than cne or two people.

An organization has its purpose and goals and a person facilitates things. We're alive and kicking," Orsaid. The Classroom Teachers Association will probably decide in the next two days whether to advertise for a new executive director or to search their ranks to fill the vacancy created when Lynn Gilmore's contract expires July 15. CTA President Wallace Orr laid today association officials refused to renew Gilmore's three-year contract, but added Jhey have no specific plans yet on jjow to fill the slots. runway and did not disrupt operations at the field.

The pilot was identified at Broward General Medican Center as Carl Garlough, 56, address unknown. Hospital spokesmen said Garlough was being X-rayed and is listed in fair condition. DANIA A man was injured when a small plane crashed on take-off at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywaad 'Inter-; national Airport this morning. Airport officials said the single-engine Piper Comanche hit in a grpsy area off the.