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Show Thursday, August 27, 1932 The Daily Herald scores mark first rise in 7 years SAT Average teacher salary incroasos AverWASHINGTON (AP) age schoolteacher salaries have increased in virtually every state, but ' union officials say educators are ' still shortchanged for choosing a ' career in the classroom. A 3.6 percent boost in 1991-9- 2 brought the average public school teacher's salary to $34,213, ac- cording to a report released today by the American Federation of Teachers. But the union, which represents 796,000 teachers and school workers, said the increase was the smallest in 27 years. And teachers still make less than attorneys, engineers, accountants and other professionals, the group said. - Vu j for Israe- Palestinian spokeswoman Han-a- n Ashrawi said the delegation needed clarification of Israel's policy on Jewish settlements after an ordered slowdown. "The settlement issue continues to be an unjust obstacle on the ground, an obstacle in negotiations," she said. "Resolution of the settlement issue will certainly contribute to the speeding of negotiations and reaching a concrete agreement." Poll: Most favor condoms at school ; er-: WASHINGTON distributhe icans strongly favor tion of condoms in public schools, an idea that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, according to a Gallup poll released today. : Some 68 percent of the adults responding to the poll would ap--! prove of condom distribution in their local public schools. While should be ; 43 percent said condoms want who students all to given Jhem, 25 percent said the schools should require parents' consent. Twenty-fiv- e percent objected to schools issuing the contraceptive device at all. seniors college-boun- d 500 ATH 4761 480 440 1 VERBAL 463T ' 0J:H 420 4001? 's8f & ft ; Woman admits check scheme Jf i - ' j r s t """" """' 'otmi v, r ' , t mm&m. r ' 8 Alaska 42 Ariz. 27 Ark. 6 Calif. 46 Colo. 29 Conn. 79 Del. 66 Fla. 50 65 Ga. Hawaii 56 Idaho 17 III. 15 Ind. 58 5 Iowa Kan. 10 Ala. 800. AP Photo Elizabeth Chambers cries Wednesday as she returns to her home in Reserve, La., to find it destroyed by a tornado generated by Hurricane Andrew. - HurriJEANERETTE, La. cane Andrew seemed almost calculating at times, finding people in hiding as it moved across Louisiana. The storm tore off the roof of Jeanerette High School, where hundreds of people had come for shelter. , The damage forced them into the school gymnasium, and the storm followed, tearing off the roof of that section of the school. Their last refuge was the school corridor, where one person in the crowd of 1,800 had a heart attack. By the time a rescue squad arrived 40 minutes later, two other people had heart attack symptoms. "I wasn't too calm. I thought that was it. It was a mess," said Willia Smith of nearby New Iberia. Meanwhile, also along the south-centr- al in New Mrs. Schaubert. "They told us this was the best place to come. It ended up as the Du-ga- s. the New York-base- d testing agency. "We hope we are beginning to see a trend, upward." But the National Education As- Ky. 9 Maine 66 Md. 66 Mass. 80 Ohio Gkla. 23 Ore. Pa. Sr Mich. Minn. Miss. Mo. Mont. 11 R.I. 10 S.C. 4 S.D. Term. La. 11 24 Neb. 11 Nev. N.H. 27 76 75 12 75 57 6 N.J. N.M. N.Y. N.C. N.D. 11 '. C 15 44 Texas Utah r 63 63 Wash. 50 Vt. Va. W. Va. 1 T 1i Wis. 13 Wyo. Source: College Board .p sociation, the nation's largest this year in verbal skills, to 419. teachers' union, was not as upbeat. and three points in math, to 456. "The NEA looks at a one- - or Men's scores rose two points in rise or fall as not of ma- each, to 428 and 499, respective!) l The last year in which botli jor significance," said spokesman Bill Martin. "Rather, we think and math scores rose was h scores like this should be looked at 1985, when the verbal score went over a much longer period, maybe up from 426 to 431 and the math four or five years, to detect rose from 471 to 475. Scores weie trends." unchanged in 1986. The latest report showed that th . In Utah, 1991 math scores were 494; verbal scores wre 537. Utah's number of minority test takers rov 1992 figures are 496 in math, 545 to 29 percent, almost double the verbal. percent in 1976, when the C'oIIey j Since 1969, scores on the verbal Board began an accounting by ethskills part of the test, reflecting nic group. Since 1976, the m.un comprehension and word mean- scores of black students rose 2, points on the verbal sections and ings, have dropped 40 points. In math, the 1992 average was 31 points on the math section , still 17 points behind the 1969 while the mean scores of v.hit: fell 9 points on verbal and 2 u mark of 493. Women's scores rose one point math. two-poi- nt . Elsewhere, a tornado ripped low-lyin- where about 250 people had sought shelter. It tore into parts of the roof, knocked down a brick wall and leveled three trailers used as temporary classrooms. In other twist, Andrew had appeared to be headed west when it turned back on itself and headed straight into the state capital of Baton Rouge, about 50 miles east of Jeanerette. I , son - really," she said. Ms. Lawson's father died in August 1967 at age 80. Investigators discovered he was dead during a review of all retirees over 100. Operation Rescue founder jailed - HOUSTON (AP) Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry was sentenced to six months in jail for violating a court order not to get too close to abortion clinics during the Republican National Convention. Terry and group leader Joseph Slovenec were sentenced Wednesday and fined $500 for violating Judge Eileen O'Neill's temporary restraining order. zone, "This is a Gospel-fre- e which we will never tolerate," Terry said as he left the court. . Both men reported to jail this in morning. They will be freed less if prommonths they six only jhan ise not to violate the judge's order in the future, she said. -- Weather aids firefighters in California, Idaho blazes By The Associated Bali Fall Sale Save on our entire stock of Bali control briefs :: Press ' A Firefighters helped by favorable weather gained ground today in their efforts to contain two huge fires in northern California and southwest Idaho. Cool weather in Idaho, includovering freezing to has helped night temperatures, firefighters check the flames of a the nation's 257,600-acr- e blaze burning 30 miles east of largest JiHHV '! , ' :! - BB!" - JI,J . V "hi sr- - Boise. "The fire is not advancing," Forest Service spokesman Larry Frederick said Wednesday. Crews hurried Wednesday to complete the final 21 miles of a fire break around the Idaho blaze before the weather warms. Temperatures were forecast in the 80s today. Full containment was expected Sept. 6. "I don't think we're at a critical stage yet, but with the warming temperatures and some erratic winds we could be right back to where we were before." Frederick 127-mi- le mi, '" : if, to Mf ' .WW-y';- Buy two, save 25 said. Half a dozen structures, livestock and wild game have been burned. So has a Ponderosa Pine, believed to be the oldest in Idaho. Land managers weren't sure whether the 400- - to tree would survive. Buy three, save 30 500-year-o- ld suits of Bali' cotton blend and Lycra' spandex control briefs when you buy two or more now during the Bali" Fall Sale in Body Fashions: Save on these and all other George Leonard, associate Forest Service chief, spent Wednesday afternoon flying over the fires in the Boise and Payette national forests. In northern California, crews, worked on digging the final five miles of containment lines around brush and timber a 64,000-acr- e fire that authorities suspect was caused by arson. The fire was 75 percent contained Wednesday night, said Cali- A. Reg. brief in 8500 Something Else basic light control 0 w hite; B. Reg. 9.50-11in white; 8700 Something Else' tummv panel brief 0 C. Reg. 0 WI0 Satin Smooth medium control brief with triple tummv control, in white; J14-14.5- c:m i fornia Department of Forestry spokesman Larry Harris. Calm winds were helping firefighters keep the blaze in check. But hot spots continued to nag at efforts to tame the ferocious blaze that destroyed 307 homes and forced 7,500 people to flee from small communities along Highway 299 northeast of Redding. ; 70 59 o vei-ba- Iberia, into John L. Ory Elementary g coast of School in LaPlace, about 30 Louisiana, Gail miles west of New Orleans, Schaubert and three neighbors rounded up their nine children and checked into a $69, second-stor- y room at the Scottish Inn. Early Wednesday morning. Hurricane Andrew slammed into it the motel full of evacuees, peeling open the roof and destroying 49 units. "There were flying objects all over. Tin, wood, branches everything got messed up inside. It 80-un- was just a big wooooosh," said worst place," added Brenda seem like much, but each point is meaningful on a test taken by more than a million students who repreof all ensent roughly two-thir- tering college freshmen," said Donald M. Stewart, president of Survivors say hurricane merciless By ROBERT DVORCHAK AP National Writer "One or two points may not near-freezi- A SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) woman has admitted that she cashed her father's government retirement checks for 24 years after he died, to the tune of more than $123,600. Jeanne Maclean Lawson, 75. of Atlanta pleaded guilty Wednesday to bank fraud in federal court in "Savannah and faces up to 30 years in prison. A sentencing date was not set. Prosecutors said Ms. Lawson drove from Atlanta to the post of fice in Folkston, in southeast Georgia, to pick up the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board checks made out to her father. Edmond R. Maclean. "I just picked Folkston, no rea- ' Percent of H.S. graduates who took 1992 SAT, by state two-pa- rt (AP)-Am- .' j 1 if Israelis, Arabs dispute elections - scores National averages of Scholastic WASHINGTON Aptitude Test scores for high school seniors were up marginally this year for the first time since 1985, leaving some educators heartened but others unconvinced that the nation's academic slide is ending. The College Board reported Wednesday that average SAT scores rose 2 points to 476 in math, and point to 423 in verbal skills, compared to last year's results. The test, though not universal, is administered throughout the nation, primarily to high school seniors interested in pursuing higher education. A perfect score in each part is . WASHINGTON (AP) SAT AP Education Writer . lis and Arabs took sharply opposing stands on elections, land and settlements as they headed toward the end of a week of talks characterized by unusual cordiality. Assistant Secretary of State Edward P. 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