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Eugene seniors to tutor Jr. high students By KEVIN HARDEN Of the Emerald Several Eugene senior citizens will be helping junior high school students better their writing, mathematics and career plan ning skills sometime in October thanks to a program instituted by Wayne Flynn and the 4J school district. The program, called "Senior Readers," is designed to allow nine senior citizens, age 55 or older, to wore as teacning assistants for teachers at Roosevelt Junior High School. The assistants will do the same things teachers have had to do in the past: read, criticize and edit student writing as signments. According to Flynn, principal at Roosevelt Junior High, the writing assis tants are only one part of a three-part prog ram. The other two parts include assisting EWEB! Turn out the lights "Turning off lights is one of the easiest ways to conserve electricity," says John Scofield of the Eugene Water and Electric Board’s Conservation Center. Citing Federal Energy Administration fig ures, Scofield explains that more than 16 per cent of the electricity used in homes goes into lights, much of it needlessly. Scofield lists several energy-saving ideas: • Flourescent lights should be used wherever possible, because they use only half as much energy as incandescent bulbs and last ten times as long. • Oimmer switches should be installed in bedrooms and dining areas for selection of light levels. • The smallest wattage light possible should be used. • Lighting should be concentrated in reading and working areas and where needed for safety. • Fifty watt reflector floodlights should be installed in directional lamps because they use half the wattage of standard 100-watt bullbs, but provide about the same amount of light. The popular belief that it doesn't pay to turn lights off and on because of the “surge of power” is not accurate, Scofield says. ‘‘A minute off is a minute’s saving in energy,” he said. with student mathematic and career plan ning skills. Flynn initiated the program after a review of the teachers’ average work load during classtime showed that teachers had little time for individual instruction. Roosevelt has had an on going program using volun teers, usually mothers, to correct papers. Under the new program, senior citizens will be paid $3.50 an hour to relieve the over night work load of teachers. The program also has another purpose. The interaction between the older people and the junior high students will be good for both groups, Flynn said. “There is a re source of knowledge that these older peo ple in the community have that can be tap ped relatively cheaply and can allow the skills and the energies of the senior citizens to be used more effectively,” he sxplained. There is a need for such a program in every school in the district, Flynn admits, but it is being tried in Roosevelt first be cause of the teachers’ work load. "No teacher in the classroom can give all the writing instructions and help that is needed,” he explained. “They need a prog ram like this because they just don’t have the time to give out an assignment and then grade it. This should allow the teachers more time to work on an individual basis Moslem rebels seek autonomy tUUUH S NUit - A ceasefire signed last Christmas Eve was supposed to have ended four years of Moslem rebellion in the southern Philippines, a predominantly Christian country. But a war-like atmos phere prevails in the jungle islands. Here is a report. JOLO, The Philippines (AP) — Howitzers rumble in the surrounding hills. A shell oc casionally bursts near the airoort. Army trucks loaded with government soldiers maneuber through streets thick with bicycle rickshaws. In spite of a nine-month-old cease-fire, Jolo is a town under the gun as Moslem guerrillas seeking autonomy continue their war against the Philippine army. One day last week, a chartered airplane landed at the municipal airport with medical supplies for Jolo’s two hospitals. Then it took off again with wounded soldiers and civilians — and coffins bearing the remains of two soldiers who had been hacked to death with machetes. “To you who come to Jolo once in a while, you might say the situation is very tense, but we who have been here for a long time have learned to live with it,” said the Rev. Teofilo Faustino, Roman Catholic parish priest in the overwhelmingly Moslem town of 40,000. Living with it includes paying twice pre rebellion prices for smuggled cigarettes, fruit, meat and fish. Jok), 590 miles south of Manila, was the birthplace of the Moro National Liberation Front, the Moslem-led secessionist group now technically at peace with the Ftiilippine government. A four-year rebellion supposedly was terminated last Dec. 24 by a cease-fire signed in Libya. Since then, according to records at Sulu Provincial Hospital here, 107 civilians have been admitted with wounds received in military action. "Those are just the ones who didn’t die" said Dr. Gani Maulana, director of the 100-bed hospital A Philippine army commander said there are 12,000 soldiers in Sulu Province, squared off against 3,000 rebels. Yet Maj. Gene Tulawie, assistant provin cial commander of the Philippine Con stabulary, said Job, the capital, is the only of of 15 towns on the main island controlled by the military. “All towns outside Jolo are in rebel hands,” Tulawie said. “There are Philippine army checkpoints outside Jolo, but the Moro National Liberation Front also has checkpoints. They collect from travelers like Bureau of Internal Revenue men col lecting taxes.” Residents of Job said they must seek out the Liberation Front if they wish to travel outside the capital and must pay a head tax of about 90 cents. The cease-fire agreement gives the Liberation Front the right to maintain its pos itions but not the right to levy taxes. Sources say it is done with impunity here and in Basilan, the province to the northeast where a military operation against the guer rillas began early last week. There is almost daily military action on Job Island, but Maj. Tulawie sab the activ ity is a police action allowable under the truce and not a forbidden military offensive. with the students.” Writing skills among all students have been declining in recent years, Flynn said, and a program like this could be used nearly antionwide to improve teaching conditions and writing skills. “Writing is such a big thing in the schools nationwide, and people have been saying that the basic skills are being neglected-and this is true to some de gree,” he explained. “So this project would be helpful for not only the students but also for the senior citizens. They have needs as well as the kids. They like to feel needed, so this project will use their skills to heop others.” Paying for the nearly $15,000 project may turn out to be more difficult than Flynn once thought. The money is coming from funds provided through the federal Com prehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), which must also screen every ap plicant for eligibility requirements. But, Flynn siad, diffi ulties in meeting rigid fed eral restrictions for the use of the funds have placed the project—in his words—in jeopardy. According to Flynn, the funds may be denied because of the senator citizens’ economic situations..Money received through CETA is to be used for the training of low-income people, and financial stipula tions include an income cut-off point of $2,970 a year for single recipients and nearly $4,000 for couples. Most senior citi zens wouldn’t fall into the low-income category, Rynn said. Flynn's problem, however, may just be one of communication. According to Linda Bennett, who handles CETA projects through the 4J school district personnel of fice, the project’s CETA funds were cleared several weeks ago after a county commissioner’s meeting and are ue to be released Once the program gets into full swing, says Dr. David Mortimore a 4J district in structional director, it is expected to provide other district schools with ideas for similar projects. “I would encourage anything that would have the people of the community help the teachers with the students instead of aban doning them to the classrooms,” Mortimore said. There is a period of time after children have been in school for several years that the parents lose interest in the schools. Such a program would probably restore that interest among the parents and others in the community, he said. 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