Soviets Change Personnel
On Arctic Ice Floe
MOSCOW, iff) — A team of So
viet scientists headed by Nikolai
Blinov has relieved the staff of
the Soviet “North Pole-8” floating
station on an Arctic ice floe, Tass
reported yesterday.
The retiring staff, led by Vya
cheslav Rogachev, has been con
ducting studies from the station
since it was established last
April on a floe pack 10 feet thick
and about 4 Vt square miles in
diameter.
Tass said the ice, drifting north
east of Wrangel Island, covered
1,242 miles in the central Arctic.
The report said daily measure
ments enabled the staff “to de
fine the precise limits of the con
tinental slope of that part of the
Arctic Ocean boddering on the
Pacific.”
In addition, Tass continued,
studies of ice movements “helped
to ensure smooth shipping in the
last navigational season along the
northern sea route. . . .”
The station radioed its observa
tions to Moscow for use in weather
forecasts.
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Internal Revenue Closely I
Scanned Greater Number
Of Returns In 1959
CHICAGO — The U. S. took a
close look at more tax returns last
year than in any of the preceding j
three years, according to Com
merce Clearing House, national
reporting authority on tax and
business law.
A record total of 2,888,000 tax
returns of all kinds were thor
oughly audited by the Internal
Revenue Service, the CCH report
said.
Official figures show that of
998,000 corporation returns filed
in 1059, 173,000 or about one in
every six, were scrutinized by
Revenue experts.
Of the 59 million individual J
tax returns filed, about 2Vt mil
lion went through the auditing
process.
But this doesn’t tell the whole
story! Many millions of individual
taxpayers took the standard deduc
tion or reported all income sub
ject to withholding, narrowing
the scope of profitable audit. If j
these returns, for which official I
statistics are not yet available,
were subtracted from the 59 mil
lion total, the remainder subject
to audit would indicate a much
higher percentage actually
audited.
These audits, together with
other examining procedures, re
sulted in additional tax assess
ments of $1.8 billion in 1959. This
amounts to 8 per cent more than
the tax added in 1958 and marks
the highest total reached since
1952, the CCH report said.
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Annual Testing Program
Plans for an Annual Testing
Program recently apprvoed by
the School Board have been com
pleted, and agreements reached
between School officials and Sci
ence Research Associates of Chi
cago, a research and development
firm whose primary function is
the development of tests in most
major fields.
Under the terms of the agree
ment, Achievement Tests will be
given annually during the second
week in May, and Mental Maurity
Tests (I.Q.i will be given annually
in Grades 1, 4, and 7, during the
third week of school each fall.
The SRA Achievement Series is
an integrated program for meas
uring the educational develop
men of pupils in the following
broad curricular areas — reading,
arithmetic, language, arts, work
study skills, and language per
ception. In later columns we will
discuss test areas and point out
the nature of each test and what
we hope to measure.
Application and Use
We have several objectives in
developing this testing program.
From the Board and Administra
tive standpoint it is expected that
the program will provide a sys
tem wide survey which will give
an overall picture of pupil status
in relation to National norms
(standards!. When programs such
as this are administered annually
they generally yield information
regarding educational develop
ment from grade to grade. The
test results may thus be used for
purposes of curriculum develop
ment or revision in the following
ways: a. Test scores provide a
basis for discovering and correct
ing the causes of poor achieve
ment. b. The relative value of
different curricular patterns and
teaching techniques may be esti
mated by comparing scores from
the Series.
Teachers will be interested in
the tests because they will show
the relative abilities of the pupils
within a group and they may be
used for analysis of individual
strengths and weaknesses as well
as to measure individual and
group achievement.
Parents
Parents will be informed about
test results through our distribu
tion of a special leaflet entitled
“Your Achievement Scores and
What They Mean.” This leaflet is
designed for guidance and infor
mational purposes through the use
of a Pupil Progress Chart which
helps the pupil and his parents
see his standing in school achieve
ment. The form includes sum
maries of the meaning of each test
score.
This year’s Testing Program
will begin Monday, May 9, and
will take most of the week. We
would like to point out that these
tests have no bearing on the reg
ular classwork or Report Cards.
They are not final examinations.
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New Style Woman to
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ROME, Of) — "Fanny the Flame”
is about to become the first flat
chested woman ever to attract
much attenion in this land of
luscious Latins.
The near-nude, 14-foot-high
bronze figure will thrust the
Olympic torch skyward in front
of the new Sports Palace at the
1960 Rome games.
She’s a long-legged gal with
curvy hips and a well rounded
tummy, but one of the big myster
ies of the coming Olympics is sure
to be: Why does she wear that
shoestring brassiere?
She couldn’t need one less. Even
her sculptor says the bra covers
not even a hidden meaning.
“I was concentrating every
thing on the torch she bears,”
said sculptor Emilio Greco. “The
only reason for the other lines
are stylistic and architectural.
There is no hidden meaning.”
The shoestring bra and an
equally thin band around the
bulging hips were put on “just
because it looked better that
way,” Greco explained.
Greco, at 46, is one of Italy’s
greatest sculptors.
The Board of Equalization is
recessed until Monday, April 11,
1960, at 10 p.m. Property owners
will have this further opportuni
ty to appear in matters of real
and personal taxes.
The tax rate will be set at this
meeting.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk.
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WASHINGTON, UP) — The Sen
ate yesterday refused to strike the
key voting rights section out of
the civil rights bill.
A motion by Sen. Allen Ellen
der (D-La> to erase this part of
the bill was tabled and thus killed.
The vote was 73-18.
Ellender and other southern
senators denounced this section as
clearly unconstitutional. They ar
gued it would ride roughshod over
state election laws.
Under it, federal district court
judges, or referees appointed toy
them, could register qualified Ne
groes as voters in areas where
systematic discrimination to bar
them from the polls had been
found.
Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill), the
Senate GOP leader, made the mo
tion to table the amendment.
Dirksen said that if the voting
referee section was eliminated
‘the bill would be reduced in ef
flect to a point where in many re
spects it would be meaningless.”
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