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Show 'V. , &&'A !.?. ViVA SALT FLAT NEWS, MARCH, 1972 V 8 V-r.A- V by Keith Moore Today I had an hour to kill, and did so effectively in a downtown coffee shop. Who should be adjoining me at the coffee counter but two junior high school teachers, one of each sex. I believe the state educational convention is waging this weekend. ruling out names and doing other On the counter, their coffee was incidental to books of note-papesheets, cards, charts, diaand briefcases. Now and grams arms their would disappear gain into briefcases and portmanteaux to retrieve elaborate charts, sheets, diagrams, lists, rolls, tallies. On some of the papers a name might be ruled here and there, in a manner ever so painstaking, with unsurpassed parallelism and precision. One could imdevoted to agine whole free-hour, Keith Moore rs meticulous things with a pen and ruler. The props alone overwhelmed me, but get a shipment (as Jimmy Hatlo used to say) of the dialogue: Now, heres a boy, said the male one, got at86 on the September exam. Now that represents a 34.3 drop from his entrance placement, and now look, Annette here, she Annette Potts? Oh, she placed real low on my multirepresentative overall inventory. The female one took an' IBM card from her purse as she spoke. Yes, problems there, that girl. Now, here's a boy, Bill ODea, placed second highest in a rlium of fifty-on- e on his you know. Now heres a boy me. Made a 71 on his specified qualitative, but soared way up to a 93.2 in his basic overalls, which I tested all my classes on, basically, Monday and Tuesday of last week, and but fell right down to a 41.8 on gain Tuesday, Wednesday, and his verbality test you know, Thursday of this, as a quantitative correlathe big ones that was adminispreview to the exams coming up tered in the cafeteria first of tive October. in May. Promising student Now I have a boy here, my slight stuttering, problem peer third period, said the female, rivalry in the Home Situation. rose to a 90 after two weeks of Mother divorced, drinks. Both concentrated rehabilitative over- Doctor Sickenbarff and the state sub-un- it all aptitudes superintendent says Oh, you mean Paul? Paul theres a definite underachieval pattern being established in this Boggs? Oh, he's no good. Hopeat these instance. But just-looon a Hit 54.9 less. my scores to test, but dropped fifth lowest. Of course, thats a Now, just a minute, look at retarded group. Peer problems my graphs first. I have Marlene there. I expect, however, at least going from an 83.7 to a 69 that cant be right, can it? 65 out of him before Christmas. It was strange to hear that Oh, ye, shes dropping way Christon my overall cumulative down old word, schmaltzy mas. ratios. Here, just have a look at Now, said the female one, my collective comparatives. No, I have a girl here Marlene thats not them oh, here they Slater now, just give a. look are. Now, I have her raising from a here at where she fell on my genunit to a 'promising-poo- r' 'middling-excellineral exhaustive. Quite a shame, peer unit. represents a 23 drop from the Could that be possible Marlene overall class mean since SeptemSlater? 18. ber Not if she keeps running Can't expect better out of around with Patty Blankenship. her, her Home Situation and all, Patty fell into a percentile thats thrilling all-uni- sub-testi- mid-Septemb- ts ng er k g' ... wms omniM -- COLOR T.V.'S ELECTRIC HAIR SETTERS TUNE UP'S DEE HAMBURGERS mi ELECTRIC DISHWASHER'S STEAM IRON'S CASH WASH'S DEE HAMBURGERS ELECTRIC MIXER'S ELECTRIC CAN OPENER RECORD ALBUMS DEE HAMBURGERS ' ' J98)ft(3) iffliflgiaffi) OHsHSfi 3UHSEV' 3&r7Eff) Old wooden flume used to conduct water from the Provo River td a small hydro-electr- ic generating plant in Heber City is due to be replaced soon. Officials say the old pipe Just doesn t hold water anymore, and has sprung thousands of leaks over the' years. Sign pasted along the old aqueduct indicates the problem has become critical. , ........ 9 |