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Show Zoo Boarder WAHsSx ' No Easy Answer To S.L. Schools ,v Center Of Attend Enrollment Decline By LAVOR CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor By ROGER PUSEY Deseret News Staff Writer Every day, Billy Joe Smith, 11, reports to his class at Hillview Elementary School about the condition of an important visitor at his house. Statistics clearly outline Salt Lake City's school controversy, but conflicting emotions complicate its solution. Since 1958. wher the district reached its peak enrollment of 41,939 1962-6- 3 students, there has been a steady decline in school rolls. Only the school term showed any increase, 166 students, in that period. The visitor is a clouded leopard born at Hogle Zoo and being cared for by Mrs. Carl Smith, East. She feeds the valuable cat some kitten milk replacer every four hours from a minature baby bottle. 4243-84- 5 14-ye- ar Zoo Director LaMar Farnsworth said the kitten is valuable property because he has heard of only four other clouded leopard kittens being born this year in the world. Losses ran year (except until the 1965-6- Mrs. Smith, president of the zoos volunteer organization, realizes she is caring for an important visitor and feeds the ounce of liquid during each feeding. A veterinarian kitten reported the kitten in good condition. 600 per 1962-63- ) term when 6 the decline exceeded DESERET 1,200. The rate of decrease, already alarming to school offi- : took cials, Just like a newborn human, the kitten needed feeding an unexpectedly schools enrolled only 31,158 students, 1,571 fewer than were counted at a comparable date last year. (Comparisons made Sept. 22 showed a loss of 1,658. A few more students Farnsworth said the kitten w ill be weaned from the bottle after seven or eight weeks and started on meat. zoo. They were taken away from the mother because female clouded leopards have reputations for not caring for their young. have enrolled since.) The kittens were tried at nursing a Labrador retriever that had given birth to some pups the same day. The dog accidentally bit one of the kittens and it died. The surviving schools the size of Lowell or Onequa or two junior high schools the size of Southeast or Roosevelt. one wasnt getting enough nourishment so Mrs Smith to take over. volun-tee- Thats d Mrs. Carl Smith uses baby bottle to feed clouded leopard kitten.- ' - TEENAGER'S WOUND RULED ACCIDENTAL By DEXTER C. ELLIS Deseret News Political Editor Niceties were put aside and verbal brass knuckles came into use Tuesday night during another round of debates between the gubernatorial and Second District congressional candidates. Gov Calvin L. Rampton lik SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH enough students to fill Wednesday, October (or empty) three elementary Political Fireworks Debate In Election NEWS sharp drop this year when city every four hours during the night for about 10 days, but now the cat sleeps all night. She has her eyes open and is just ; learning to walk. There were two clouded leopard kittens born at the to for 300 ened his opponent, Nicholas L. Rep. Strike, to a robot who is fed all this stuff, then wound up and pointed. Strike, hinting broadly that a third-terfor Rampton might invite corruption and hardening of governmental arteries, said he hopes Utah has seen the last of the bigtime spend-ers'ithe governors chair. ' Sherman P. Lloyd, and Wayne Owens ex- changed accusations of smear and ugly, dirty political tactics. Polls show the two in a com test. . k debates developed differences of philosophy on welfare, the conduct of the Vietnam war and other matters. The n The audience was a lively and Gleaners group of of Monument Park Stake. OUR MAN Detectives said today the presiST. LOUIS, MO. (UPI) St. Louis motorcycle gang apparently accidentally wounded a Provo, Utah, girl. when he fired a shot to break up a barroom brawl. dent of a Tina Fazzio. 16, was listed in critical condition with a bullet wound in the neck. She had been found lying in front of a bar Saturday night. The motorcycle gang has its headquarters in a building at the rear of the bar. Homicide detectives William Cox and Robert Haug arrested Calvin Michael Pool, 20, St. Louis, Tuesday on a charge of assault with intent to kill. The detectives said two witnesses indicated the shooting was accidental. Cox said 25 to 30 persons were fighting inside the bar over a pool game. They were busting tables and chairs, Cox said. Tina was going outside when Pool pulled out a .45 and fired a shot apparently to break up the fight. Its more students than are enrolled in any one of Utah's 14 smallest districts and about the same number of pupils enrolled in Emery or South Sanpete school districts. Since 1958, the Salt Lake City Schools have lost 10,781 enrollment. Thats about the same number of students currently enrolled in Box Elder or Nebo school districts and about as many as are enrolled in Cache and Carbon districts combined. 1 1 Thats enough students to fill elementary schools the size of Oi.equa or Lowell or 13 junior high schools the size of Roosevelt or Southeast. ' Whats happened in school construction since 1959? Store's Permit zoning Citing Store, a newly established firm dealing in sex magazines and other materials. has See SCHOOL on Page B-- 6 The store, which has been sharply criticized and taken to court by city officials for what they termed sale of hardcore pornographic materials, The speakers were asked to comment on a list of 14 issues, The Wood Worker Its well built and would be a credit to any housing to those invoked by Gov. ald Reagan of California. devel-opemen- t. Dont tell me that our youngsters are not smarter than we were when struggling through high school. Im thinking of a magazine rack and pig shaped breadboard. It took me all of my junior year and into the second semester of my senior year to get them both finished and home. The pig had a short life. I apparently went against the grain and it split in half within a week. The magazine rack was prominently displayed at home in a back room that visitors rarely ever saw. We gave it to the Deseret Industries, and they still have it. I can tell it is the Rampton said he believes that early childhood education is the answer to welfare and most other social problems. He said he will propose a asking price. It does bring back memories. METAL OR WOOD We had a choice as juniors. We could either take metal shop or woodwork. For some reason, the woodwork bit was called manual training. I had been in class two weeks before I found out that Manual Training wasnt the name of the in- to the next $500,000 program Legislature to try to strengthen the home. structor. it weighed a half-to- when finished n , Dick never got to take his oil can home. No one could lift on our report cards mostly because report card letters went. it. We both got an F that was as low as the to Rampton as the The other kids had inborn manual dexterity that somehow managed to evade me completely I - Rampton shot back, Nick, See POLITICAL on Page B-- 6 What did you say? Asfifey Boyle, East High, asks county commissioners Would-B- e A group of would-bvoters, some as young as four years old, told the Salt Lake County Commission todaythey wanted to take part in the Nov. 7 election on the fluoridation ques-- . tion . I asked. By ROBERT MULLINS Deseret News Staff Writer Salt Lake City Commissioners today were accused of blackmail by members of As the year wore on, and I was struggling with the magazine rack, I found I was also whittling on poor old Mr. Case It really hurt me when he gave me an "F Meeting today in a regular citizens weekly meeting, erupted in a angry hassle about what they called unfair treatment accorded by commissioners to citizens who on toclr tut cnrtnV VU fooos UVi Does this have anything to do wiih my accidently cutting work at the band saw?" your tie off while you supervised my He didnt say anything. He just broke down and cried. Then he gave me the rest of the day off because the school district people were coming to look at our work. And take this rack, or what ever it is with you why fluoridation Because the issue is on a separate ballot and is an 'opinion poll not to allow youth vote on fluoridation question. Voters Seek Fluoride Say binding on officials, the youngsters said they ought to be able to participate. The group, representing schools scattered around the Salt Lake Valley, ranged in age from four to 17. Asked why should be allowed to go to the polls along with their elders, the group re plied that they had studied the issue for many months and feel well enough informed to offer opinions. did However, one say he thought that children nine or 10 or younger might not be well enough informed to vote intelligently. The group suggested that the youthful voting could be done at the schools and the ballots forwarded to the election judges to be included in the count. However, commissioners replied that the great number of students requiring ballots would clutter up the election polls too much. In related action, the approved two new city zoning ordinances which would ; adults only stores prohibit from locating in certain areas 2 of the city namely commer-- . cial l and business C-- B-- The laws also prohibit stores this nature from being located in neighborhood shop--pin-g centers and within three blocks of any school or; church. of SECTION City, Regional Obituaries Action Ads B 1, 4, 6, 7, 20 7 9 Task Forces Accuse City Of Blackmail He had said what I thought he had said. They make some neat letter openers over there, he added. I dont have any letters to open, I said, and he went away muttering under his breath. Thats ' REMEMBER remember Mr. Case, our instructor. When he first saw my pig breadboard, his dolorous face became more and more strained The first thing he said after asking what it was, sounded tike, Kid, why dont you transfer over to the metal shop? I I ' He said the commission had not authorized the issuance of. such a license dueng contro--- ; versy surrounding the opening ; of the store, but noted that; , store officials had gone direct- - ; ly to the city license assessor' ; and collector and received a ? license. third-ter- candidate. said the zoning was turned down 1 after an investigation by the citys zoning enforcement offi-;- cer and the city Planning and? Phillips application claimed that the license had been obtained improperly in-- : the first places. e Strike chided Rampton for ignoring the national and state Democratic platforms stating he is proud to run on the platforms of his (Republican) party. He repeatedly referred a dud at working with wood. The only one anywhere nearly as bad was my friend Dick. He took metal work and made an oil can. It had so much solder on the seam that I was ; In approving the revocation; of the business license, Commissioner James L. Barker Jr.', Ron- However, he said that in Utah, probably due to the strong work ethic, only 4.7 percent of the populace is on welfare, while the ratio in California is 11.5 percent. The incidence of fraud is much lower in Utah, the governor added. same one because of the bird of paradise decal on the end. It fii 1 off-stre- Rampton said he would like welfare reformed, but Congress had failed to do so and Utah must live with the present rules. didnt transfer too well, and looks more like a bald eagle. They have had it for 20 years and havent been able to sell it. Its not the price. I would be ashamed to tell you the ; vehicle required parking and thepocation of an. adults only store in ac-- 1 commercial zone contrary to adopted by the Planning and Zoning Commission Sept.-14- . the womens equal rights amendment,' favored capital punishment and said he would seek welfare reforms similar marvel every time we drive past Olympus High and see the neat little house built by the students of the Granite District. Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr. said that requests for approval of the stores zoning ' application had been denied? and asked the commission, as ahresult, to revoke the busi- ness license and refund the $77.50 fee. Zoning Commission. Among the violations cited in the zoning denial were: Failure to provide the? but only Strike got around to touching on all of them while the others concentrated on two or three subjects. He opposed abortion on demand, gun controls, legalization of marijuana, favored I had just received the business license last week." violations, the Salt Lake City Commission today revoked the business license of the ABC Adult Book 1 constructed three elementary schools (Inand dian Hills, Matheson Parkview) and two junior high city B 1 Zoning Violation Cancels 'Adult' 20 The 1972 , marvel at our high school kids of today' Model Cities task forces. , Arguments hroke out over a request by Public Safety Commissioner James L. Barker Jr. for more funds for his safety department than had been i preliminarily allocated by the Model Cities Agency and staff and as worked out by the neighborhood Coordinating Council and the task forces. said the joint authority of the should Model Cities Board, clear up te proportionate rights between citizens and commissioners. right make Barkers requests for Model Cities funds was to have been submitted to the agency and ? ? crime and q delinucncy task force as of last Sept. 15. Dedriek said for and called it blackmail the commissioners to be allowed to make additional reQuests for funds after the deadline had been set. commissioner is one of his and commissioners bosses, have political leverage. Commissioner B. Conrad The commissioner reportedly learned last week that his department would receive on!v $325,000 from Model Cities i id his' needs were at least $125,000 more than that. Fred Dedriek, Urban Crossroads Center. 347 S. 4th East It is unfr-r- , Peter Giunafossen, Model Cities Director, said he had given a Sept. i5 deadline to commissioners several weeks ago at a special meeting in Mayor E. J. Cams office. No other citizen has the of commissioners to such requests, said Dedriek. Grundfossen said he allowed Barker's request because the Harrison who chaired the, meeting, said commissioners are public officials and as such have the right to make requests in areas of their concern It is not up to the task forces to come to the commissioners to tell them when dea dlines have been set, said Dedriek. Grundfossen said he would begin a program to inventory-al- l projects within the Model Cities program to avoid future probleus. He added that he was dumbfounded that the comas department missioners, heads, had not been seeking help from the Model Cities neighborhood task forces. Obviously, there is a problem here and we will try to solve it, the director said. Three major priorities million allocated to Model Cities by the Department Housing and Urban Development lor the second action year should be spent were set several weeks ago. Those priorities are education, housing and physical development improvements, and crime an. ? deliquency. Mrs. Alberta Henry, chair-- ; man of the education taks , force, initiated the , black- - how- - $3.2 mail" charge against the joint ? authority, saying that." "apparently the same guide, lines to be used by the citizens do net apply to on jssessA |