state/nation/world Educational renewal: Study shows school progress By EVANS WITT AP Political Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. A year after a stream of reports warned of mediocrity in American class rooms, a study released yesterday by a task force of governors, edu'- cators and businessmen has found that educational renewal is "well under way" in dearly every state. The report, "Action in the States," charts the progress of all 50 states in implementing various education reforms. It found that 46 states are working on comprehen sive plans to improve public schools. Twenty-seven initiated such plans in the last year alone. The report noted these steps: 16 states have boosted teacher salaries by 8 percent or more since 1983. • 19 states have passed master teacher, career-ladder or merit pay initiatives to encourage better teaching. Forty-five states have implemented tougher teacher cer tification requirements, annual teacher evaluations and other steps to bolster the teaching profes sion. • 39 states have passed curric ulum reform measures in the last three years. • 27 states have lengthened the school day or school year, reduced class size, or provided state fund ing to increase instructional time. 44 states have stiffened high school graduation requirements to require more math, science, for eign languages, English, social sci ence and computer education. • 20 states have adopted new student discipline policies. Spending on public education is on the upswing, said the report. State legislatures introduced more I got it! It was a case of crossed gloves and closed eyes for Danny,Kozuch, left, and Tony Camlnlti, right, both 7, on a pop-up hit during an Instructional league game in Bristol, COnn. Driver held for . L.A. sidewalk rampage expresses 'remorse' By CAROLYN SKORNECK Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES A man held in a sidewalk auto rampage that killed one person and injured 54 "express ed remorse" yesterday for the vic tims, his Ip'wyer said. "He looked very withdrawn, very quiet, very solemn," said Fred J. Nameth, attorney for Daniel Lee Young, 21. Young, who has been described as a "walking time bomb" and "really paranoid," was booked for investi gation of murder and was held with out bail at county jail after the Friday night incident on a crowded sidewalk in Westwood, near one of the Olympic Villages. than 7,000 education related bills in 1984, and the public seems more willing to accept education-related taxes. But the report, released at the summer meeting of the National Governors' Conference here, warned that the progress of the past year could be lost unless states build on the current momen tum. Specifically, it urged that states must do more to enlist teach ers and principals in the school reform effort. Thornburgh to talk issues on own cable TV program By ARTHUR BUCKLER Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG Gov. Dick Thornburgh is planning to star in his own monthly cable television show, a spokesman for the gover nor says. "If all goes well, we expect to have something ready to go in, the fall," said the spokesman, David Runkel. "We want to do it for sure. It's a question of getting the de tails down." Thornburgh would be following the lead of about 35 state legis lators who communicate with con stituents on their own cable TV programs. "This is not something that will be unique to the governor," Run kel said. Each program would be 30 min utes long and available on video tape to local cable TV companies to show on their public service channels, he said. The exact format of the show has not been decided, but each Police will present the case to the district attorney today and Young may be charged then or at an ar raignment tomorrow, police Officer George Sumpter said. "I had to keep asking him ques tions to bring things out of him," Nameth said. "He doesn't quite un derstand what's going to happen to him. He expressed remorse about what happened to the victims." Young was not prone to violence, Nameth said, but an older sister "who seemed to know him best" perceived a problem. "'Walking time bomb' was how she described him," Nameth said. "She just felt he needed help and he wasn't getting any," he said, adding that he didn't remember the sister's "The message of this report is simple," said Delaware Gov. Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the Task Force on Education for Eco nomic Growth which produced the report. "We've made progress, but if we stop here, we'll quickly find ourselves falling behind again." The report follows by 13 months an initial Task Force study, "Ac tion for Excellence," a widely pub licized education reform proposal which echoed the Reagan adminis tration's call for merit pay. show will likely feature the gover nor and one other public official discussing one or two issues. It will not have a lot of "action," Runkel said. • The state will pay the cwt of producing the show, but the cable companies will be responsible for distributing it, he said. "We've been assured by the cable industry that it would be used," the governor's aide said. About 1.9 million Pennsylvania households are wired with cable. How many people will watch is another question. Legislators who appear on their own shows say they don't know how many view ers they have. Sen. Anthony "Buzz" Andrezes ki,D-Erie, said he taped his own sow for seveh months, then stopped. ' "We were doing it and getting an audience of maybe three people," he said. "It wasn't something that people went looking for, believe me."- name. Young has nine sisters" and two brothers. In the incident, a car jumped a curb and careened at 35 mph for a long block along a crowded sidewalk in Westwood, Village, killing a teen age girl from New York and injur ing another 54 people, most of them local residents. Westwood Village is adjacent to the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles where an Olympic Village houses athletes from around the world and where Summer Games competition began Sunday. Young told officers the night of his, arrest that "he wanted to get even with police," Officer Scott Gilliam said. But Nameth questioned whether This is a weather satellite picture taken at 2:15 PM EDT yesterday. Federal weather watchers say the satellite, GOES EAST, which is used to track Eastern weather patterns, failed yesterday when a light bulb that enables the satellite to read the angle from which It takes pictures of the earth burned out. Weather satellite fails at crucial time By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The satellite that provides weather pictures for the eastern half of the nation has failed at the onset of the hurricane season, and it will take nearly three weeks to maneuver another into position to offer similar cover age, the National Weather Service reported yesterday. The satellite that normally pro vides West Coast weather pictures will be moved to the center of the country in an effort to cover both coasts, but that process, to begin tomorrow, will take 19 days, said Bill Callicott of the weather serv ice's satellite office. that was really the motive, "or if he was trying to get people's attention, to get people to listen to him," he said. "He was having some problems in his life that he was having trouble dealing with," Nameth said. "He said he had written some music and was trying to get it published, but he thought someone was taking his ideas. "All this had been building up inside of him for a long time, and this was a release from all the frustration and anger he had," Nameth said. Commenting on a photograph of Young grinning broadly from the back seat of a police car shortly after his arrest, Nameth said, "I The failure comes at the begin ning of hurricane season, when satellite images are crucial in lo cating and tracking tropical storms. They provide photographs of the Earth every half-hour, allow ing meteorologists to find the dis tinctive cloud patterns of these storms and to track their movement. "It is a very bad time," said David Briggs, shift supervisor at the National Oceanic and Atmo , spheric Administration. The satellite, one of two used to keep an eye on patterns across North America, went out at , 8:53 p.m. EDT Sunday, said Briggs, and "attempts to recover the instru ment were unsuccessful." couldn't figure out what was behind that picture." Until yesterday morning, Young was strapped down with "four-point restraints" on his wrists and ankles in the hospital ward of Los Angeles County Jail, sheriff's Deputy Mason Kenny said. "It's a precautionary measure because of statements made by his family that he is undergoing psychi atric treatment," Kenny said. "The policy is that once a person is placed in that type of a situation, he has to undergo a psychological evaluation at the facility to find out if it's necessary to keep him in that posi tion or to release him (from the restraints):" Asked if Young had protested the The Daily Collegian Tuesday, July, 31, 1984 The satellite pictures are seen daily by millions of people through television weather • shows and newspaper weather pages. With the outage, daily satellite photos will be limited to western parts of the country until the remaining satellite is repositioned. However, regular forecasting ac tivities will continue to provide charts of weather systems based on radar and other collecting sys tems. Callicott said once the western satellite is relocated in the middle of the nation it will be able to provide images of both coasts, but some coverage of more distant parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will be lost. • Rabies victim serious By MICHAEL L. GRACZYK Associated Press Writer HOUSTON A 12-year-old girl who con tracted the nation's first human case of rabies this year was in a coma yesterday and not expected to live, and doctors said they don't know how she got the disease. "One of the confounding problems in this patient is not only is there no history of a bite, but upon physical examination, no evidence of a bite," said Dr. Ralph Feigin, Texas Children's Hospital's physician in chief. "Sometime in the remote past, she may have come in contact with a bat or some other animal that might have bitten," he said. "But at the time she was lucid, she denied such exposure." Feigin said rabies is slow to develop and could take as little as seven days or as long as 18 months to show up. The girl, whose name doctors would not release, was hospitalized July 11 after com plaining of a sore throat and headache, Feigin said. She was transferred to Texas Children's Hospital on July 16. "The patient deteriorated quite quidkly," Feigin said. Doctors believe hers is the first human case of rabies since an incident in Michigan in March 1983. Feigin said-it was.not Until Saturday that physicians were able to determine for cer tain that the' girl had rabies. Once it was confirmed, she began receiving ribavirin, an experimental anti-viral agent "effective in the test tube against the rabies virus. restraints, Kenny said, "Even if he did, we can't make any comments." Young, who was not allowed any visitors at the jail until Nameth arrived yesterday, remained hand cuffed, the attorney said. Young has been "really par anoid" and under psychiatric thera py including medication since an April 1983 burglary conviction, said his brother, Larry Young, 24. • Nameth said he did not know what kind of medication Young had been taking. Eileen Deutsch, 15, of Queens in New York City, was killed in Fri day's rampage. Of the 54 people injured, three remained in critical condition yegterday. igh-speed train derails near Scottish village By The Associated Press POLMONT, Scotland Three cars of a high-speed, train carrying commuters and tourists hurtled off the track near this village yesterday, killing 13 people and injuring 44, A regional British Rail manager, Vivian British Rail and police reported. Chadwick, had said earlier that the final toll The lead coach somersaulted and crashed "appears to be 13 dead and a lot of people in upside down in a woodland, demolishing a hospital, but we can't be precise." stone farm wall and tearing up part of the The six-car express was carrying some 300 track, said Donald McTeggart, a British Rail passengers on the Edinburgh-Glasgow run, spokesman in Edinburgh. The two following McTeggart said. The accident occurred at coaches toppled on their sides, but three 5:30 p.m., 30 minutes after the train left others remained upright after running off the Edinburgh for the 35-mile run. track. Soon afterward, an oncoming train on the Helicopter hunt begins in Grand Canyon area By ROBERT MACY Associated Press Writer LAS VEGAS, Nev. Planes and boats searched the Grand Canyon and Lake Mead yesterday for a missing ; sightseeing helicopter carrying a family of four and its pilot. The helicopter took off at 9:45 a.m. Sunday from the Hughes Aviation Terminal at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and was due back 3 1 / 2 hours later. More than 15 helicopters and fixed wing aircraft were joined by boats in tracing the route of the missing craft yesterday. 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"We're in contact with the search people and they're con ducting a full sweep along the route," said Alice Bauer, one of the owners of Bauer Helicopters, the company operating the sight seeing craft. The helicopter was piloted by her son, David Bauer. She de clined to identify those on board other than to say they were tour ists. Newton Sikes, chief ranger for the National Park Service in the Lake Mead area, said the passen gers included a man and wife and their two children. - .N..m.- - Vir ri o OA as 4. NIP 4110 40 quar Wide Selection of food items especially reduced for our sidewalk sale . var ji 0 , 11 Candy Cane 128 W. College Ave. Glasgow-Edinburgh run screeched to a halt with blankets and there were dozens and miles from this village in southeastern Scot to avoid smashing into the wreckage of the dozens of people helping the injured out." land. Police in Stirling, 12 miles away, said 39 first train and hurled passengers to the floors Two Canadian tourists Jeff Chomyn, 26, people were hospitalized there, some with of the cars. Police said 13 people on the and his wife, Jane, 28, were traveling in a serious injuries. second train were injured. rear coach. Telephone wires were torn down, cutting The mangled remains of a cow or bull were " The , first we knew that something was off service to many homes in this village of 5,- found on the track, but British Rail officials Wrong was when the carriage in front of us 000 people. said it was not clear if the animal caused the started to shudder," Chomyn said. "The Tom White, assistant administrator at the express train capable of traveling at too brakes then went on violently and the car- Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary, said mph —to leave the track. riage disappeared in a cloud of dust. I some of the injured had serious head wounds "It was just utter devastation,"-slid Bill grabbed my wife and was screaming, 'Hold but most had broken limbs and severe Mailer, editor of a local paper, the Falkirk on, hold on!."' The couple escaped serious bruises. and Grangemouth Advertiser, who joined injury. Chadwick, speaking of clues to a possible rescuers." There were severed limbs around Ambulances ferried the injured to a hospi- cause, said: "The only thing revealed so far the embankment. The dead were covered up tal in the nearest sizeable town, Falkirk, four is the remains of an animal. " Philadelphia homeless want to vote Committee of street people go to court for voting privileges By PETE BROWN Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA A man who gave his address as a bench outside City Hall testified at a U.S. District Court hearing yesterday that he wants to vote because he is worried the U.S. is headed for "another Viet nam." Sidney McFadden, a 34-year-old veteran of the Vietnam War, took the stand in a suit aimed at forcing the city commissioners to allow Philadel phia's homeless to register to vote. Chief Judge Emeritus Joseph S. Lord denied a preliminary injunction against the commissioners yester day, but he agreed to hear arguments aimed at securing a permanent reme dy. No hearing date was set. nittanv h7tt springs Ycw're in ilot \VLLICF no\v.. and you deserve it. 44. Today, how about a long, relaxing soak in a hot tub? Escape to Nittany Hot Springs ... private re treats include in-ground tubs, stereo systems and color tv's in a, tropical patio atmosphere. Hour ly rates start at ' . 4r" Nittany Hot Springs...you've earned • `lf we send an investigator out on high noon on a sunny day, how are we able to tell what person is attached to what park bench?' Being challenged in the dispute is a city requirement that a registrant give a specific street address for their residence. Authorities maintain the outcome of the dispute could affect voting rights for as many as 8,000 street people here. Three homeless Philadelphians and a group of street people calling them selves the Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless are asking that they be allowed to give any —Ralph Teti, deputy city solicitor location they have staked out as their own such as a park bench or street corner along with a mailing ad dress, such as a shelter for tran sients, when they register to vote. Stephen F. Gold, the lawyer for the homeless group, noted that the Dis trict of Columbia adopted such a practice earlier this year. He said a similar challenge is underway in New York City. 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"If you read. the news and watch what's going on, if the policy doesn't change soon, they're going to have another Vietnam."
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