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Show SJK ' 7 (M IS ROYALTY. Jeff Middleton, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Middleton and Brenda Stones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mario Stones, were crowned Sweethearts at the Pep Club sponsored Sweetheart Ball held Saturday. Both Jeff and Brenda are seniors at Cedar City High School. Local Students Score well above Average While the rest of the nation has been lamenting the decline in test scores, and critics of education bewail our kid's aren't learning anything, Glen Weight, Western Region Armed Forces lest education specialist brought good news to Cedar High. He indicated that Cedar's sophomores and juniors scored very well on the ASVAB, a nationally administered ad-ministered aptitude test. Cedar High sophomores and juniors did significantly better than national norms in five out of six major categories tested. In verlwd (word knowledge, general science, and general in- students. Only in clerical (attention to detail and numerical operations) did Cedar High students lest out close to national averages. And the, they still scored 7 percent above those averages. Mr. Weight says that Cedar High students rank equally with Provo High and Viewmont High students on the tested areas, and that Cedar High ranks among the top high schools in the state. Dr. Jerald Hawley, Cedar High principal, stated, "It is nice to know that Iron County's education system is developing students that can display their achievement so well." formation), Cedar High students tested out 23 percent per-cent higher than their counterparts across the country. In arithmetic reasoning and math knowledge, Cedar High students were 16 percent higher. In mechanical (special per- rpntinn nnH m ph:i nipii 1 reasoning), Cedar High School students, with an average score of 75 percent, scored 25 percent above other comparable American |