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Show Pink Ladies hear Editorial State Officer Thrcj Sides to This Story Tearhsrs, Governors, Truth Payscn tcachas lens have held and merited an honored and dignified place in our community. Call the roll of our political leaders (cur last three mayors have been teachers), our civic, woikers, our bishops and other church workers the answer more often than not will conje from a school teacher. By their dedication, their willingness to work and serve, often without just reward here and now, teachers have enriched our community, cur churches, our civic, political and social life. This has long been true in Payson. We dont expect it will much different in the future. tco le But the events of the past week, and particularly of Monday and Tuesday, sadden the hearts of all who sense that cmpjiation and accomplishment and high dignity and resp.ct are threatened and eioded by the refusal of many Payton teachers and their collegues throughout Utah to honor their ccntiacts and teach. Pink Ladies Auxiliary of the Payson Hospital held a meeting in which they heard a state officer and saw a film. Volume 77 Number 21 Queens Committee Named by City limits of arguments ever financial support or non-Euip- Stanley Wilson Retires fields, supervised and built a double tennis court where the hospital now stands, supervised and helped build tennis courts at city park, played baseball for the city team for ten years n and was president of the Th:- n less-qualifi- k, State Open Horseshoe Tourney Held Sat. Pay-se- Lions Club. He has taken an active part in business affairs of the com- munity, having first worked in the old Payson Coop and later managing the ZCMI store in Payson. He built and operated the Arrowhead Dance Hall, managed the Bon Ton Dance Hall, built the Chevron Service Station, built Mendenhall Market, and is now building Gladstan Park Golf Course on West Utah 'Avenue. Mc-Mu- blue-ribbo- THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1964 to be Honored Sunday Council Monday queens committee of given education in Utah have no bearing or relevancy. "nvmis annual Homeccming We must remember that education isnt the only facet of C lebration was named in City government caught in the financial squeeze. More money is cuncil meeting Monday night also needed for roads, buildings, welfare institutions, police ty Mayor Eugene Hillman who was in charge of the meetpiol.cliun, and ether vital public needs. Each of these needs ing. consideration. Tr. J. Robert Hogan, city state this the not teacher demands, satisfying Although has not igncrd the needs of education by any means, from councilman, was named chairman of the committee with pkneer days to the present. In teacher salaries, we are not Mrs. Clarence A. Ilill, Miss near the top among states, but weie a long ways frem the bottom. State and local expenditures for public education in Cla a Johnson and Dava n as members. The comUtah still get a bigger slice of the tax dollar than in any other mittee will plan a contest in the state. near future to choose the HarJust last year the Legislature increased school finances vest Days Queen and a Miss by $1 1,600, 0C0, providing for teacher salary increases averaging Payson and two attendants for upwa'd from $600. Funds appropriated for all levels of public 'ach queen. The royalty will education amounted to CO per cent of total increases granted appear on floats in the celeby the Legislature. brations of surrounding comMore disturbing in Ntbo District is what followed after munities during the summer the school board agreed to let the teachers have Tuesday free, months. legally, to attend the special meeting of the Utah Education Pat Neely, city engineer, Association in Salt Lake City to air grievances and chart discussed with the council the future actions. The teachers at first acted wisely, agreeing to necessary changes in sewer teach Monday, against the reckless call from the UEA which lines, water mains, power lines took upon itself the right to determine that a recess would and irrigation ditches because be called Monday and Tuesday. The UEA and its members of the construction of the freehad no more right to declare a holiday not to call it a strike, way, through the west a more proper term than a young truant has to decide that side of Plans drawn Payson. he will not attend school and will go fishing instead. will have to be approved by How can the teacher, our exemplar, ever again be as he State Road commission and effective as he was before Monday and Tuesday, when he vork will have to be completed teaches respect for law and order essentials in any subject? before contracts are let for the Law and order, the very foundation of all teaching and of all freeway. Cost of the necessary we hold sacred, were tom asunder by the actions of this week. changes will be paid by the Discipline always has been, and always will be a problem in state. any classroom or community. But from this day forward can Name Recreation Director we expect an improvement when cur exemplars ignore their Jos wortn'em, coach at th,e legal contracts, signed by free men of their own free choice? as The teachers wisely recognized last year during the school High School, was approved He was recreation director. ity and our essence of is the republic impasse that compromise essential to our progress and that no man has a comer on he only applicant for the posconcern about the schools. Teachers accepted in good faith the ition. committee to study Swimming Pool to Open June 1 governors appointment of a Councilman Dr. J. R. Hogan an was the school sit', ation. There implied promise of action upon the repoit and the teachers accordingly signed their reported that the storm apron contracts and carried their work faithfully forward until and splash gutter at the swimming pool was badly in need Monday and Tuesday. The work of the governors committee is not finished; of repair. A new one should that is, it should not be. We hope the committee will be wiser be put in but the cost would be than Governor George D. Clyde who so summarily and rudely between $2600 and $2700 and there isnt much time before rejected its interim findings. It is not easy to get along with a mule after' it just kick you in the head. This could be the the opening of the pool, he said. It was voted to repair committee. and reaction of a .he apron and this year But this is no dunderheaded committee. It will overlook, and plan to gutter it next replace it is to be hoped, the hasty rejection by the governor of its year. f recommendations. Finally, if the committee continues, and Dr. Hogan also reported that other groups working on various aspects of education and its the department had set problems add their reports, a. more adequate blueprint of a feeparks of for the use of the $5 action will be forthcoming. And Utah will leave this morass cf charge and countercharge, abandon this sickening repetition ireplace and. tables in the city 30 or more are cf demagoguery that has gnawed into the fiber of educational park where using it. The money will be life during Utahs school crisis. used to build new tables and But if the ruling of the governor was hasty and it was purchase other equipment for the reaction of the Utah Education Association also was. If the recreation area of the ever an organization had a chance to emphasize its true role park. and concern for education this was it. It was as if, in the last second of a scoreless football game.the quarterback (Clyde) handed the ball to an opposing halfback (UEA), blocked out the last remaining man between the halfback and the goal line, and the halfback ran the wrong way. If one thing has become crystal clear during the school crisis, stretching over several years, it is that neither side has a corner on stupidity. If mulishness is bad in a governor, it is equally bad in an educator. The UEA has matched his inanities now for too long; much of its hasty action comes from poor public relations advice. Last week the UEA had a chance for statesmanship; inst:ad it scunded hkc a scnicr-grad- e Jimmy Hoffa, something out of the bad dreams of a Chicago gangster era when touch talk cleared the way for tough men. Just as Governor George D. Clyde has become the symbol cf stubbornness, John Evans, the UEA executive secretary, has become a symbol of radicalism that shames Utah education. The shameful show continues. Governor Clyde will be out of office in short months. The UEA could consider what it must do to provide leadership out of this crisis. It could start by analyzing its image, as projected by Mr. Evans and his but sadly and badly tough-talput forth by a highly-paiinformed public relations advisor, and taking appropriate The PAYSON, UTAH Mr. Wilson was in the US Stanley Wilson . . . retires Army during World War I, and from leaching this year. during World War II he joined the American Red Cross for of Stanley Wilson, principal the Payson Junior High School over seas duty. He was sent for the past nine years, will to India and then to China retire at the close of the cur- where he was attached to General Claire L. Chennaults 14th rent school year. Force Tigers. Later he was An epenhouse reception will Air appointed supervisor in charge honor Stanley Wilson on Sun- of all American Red Cross to 2:30 from 4:30 afternoon day in Burma and activities China, p.m. The reception will be held India. in the Payson Junior High He returned to his teaching School and will be under diat the Payson Junior position rection of the Junior High SchSchool in the fall of 1945. High ool faculty. He was educated in the His first teaching assignment Schools and graduated n was athletic coach at the Pay-sofrom the Brigham Young UniHigh School in 1928 where He did graduate study he coached all sports for ten versity. of Utah, Utah at University years. His teams won two re- State Northwestern, University, two region and University of Southern gion football titles, track championships, one state California. track and field championship, His wife is the former Gladys and three teams participated Smith of Payson. They have tournastate basketball in the been married since April 29, ments. He transferred to the 1919. Payson Junior High as a teaWe as PTA officers and as cher in physical education and health until he was appointed parents wish to pay special tribute to Stanley Wilson on principal April 1, 1953. Even though Mr. Wilsons his retirement from the field first love has been the school, of education. Seldom do we his time has not been devoted find a person in any field that exclusively to them. He has has been as dedicated to his been active in LDS (Fourth work as has Mr. Wilson. AlWard) church affairs having ways, his primary interest has served as superintendent of been in the youth and the imthe YMMIA, Elders Quorum provement cf their minds and President, member of the bish- characters. He has worked opric, and Bishop. hard, been fair, and always He has been active in civic given the best of himself to affairs serving as city council- his work. We have been privman, city recreation director, ileged to work with him and to have him teach and lead supervised and built mile track at the race our children. Jr. High PTA Officers track, planted three football Pay-so- one-four- th n An open state was held Saturday night at the Payson courts. Sixteen players from all over the state participated. Clive Walin. state champion, won the Class A with no losses. Harold Chipman won the Class ROUND-URHYTHM A daned review will be presented in B with one loss. the Park-SecoWard church on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. Participating in the review are, left to right, front row, Janean Moore, Debbie Kalletta, Janet Peterson, back row, Salley Olson, Keela Bott, Joan Page. County P nd to Name Dance Group to Present a Variety Show Friday, Sat. The Second Ward is spon- thm Round-U- p to be presented soring a Variety Show Rhy- - on Friday and Saturday, May and 23. matinee is scheduled for children Friday with curtain time at 4 p.m. An evening performance will be held Saturday at 8 p.m. The show is being prepared by a greup of young people and is good entertainment for people of all ages. All proceeds will go to the Second Ward Missionary Fund. Both performances will be held in the Second Ward Amusement Hall. 22 Raymond Curtis Heads Fed. Employees Unit Raymond G. Curtis of Payson has been elected president of Local 264 of the National Fed- -' ration of Federal Employees, largest and oldest general organization of federal workers in the United States. Mr. Curtis is an employee of the United States Bureau of Reclamation at Provo. A Dairy Princess Dairy princess of Utah County will be selected June 1 at the Scera Theatre in Orem, according to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wright, County A.D.A. Dairy Princess chairmen. The princess and her two attendants will be selected from the applications submitted to dairy committeemen before May 25. To be eligible, a candidate must be a graduate of high school, be beteween 17 and 25 years of age, unmarried, and enjoy dairy foods. Special application blanks and Sunday Meeting The Board of Education of Nebo School District met in a special session Sunday after-neoMay 17, at 4:00 p.m. at the District Office. At 6:00 p.m. the Board of n, Education met with the offi- cers of the Nebo Education Association to discuss the problem. The following officers of the Nebo Education Association were present: Blaine H. Moore, Goodrich president Boyd Sterling R. Swenson, Ralph J. Snelson, J. Rulon Nelson and Blaine L. Montague. After considerable discussion and deliberation, it was mutually agreed that in the best interest of the children and the educational program of Nebo School District, school would be held as usual on Monday, May 18, In as much as the school calendar provided for 181 days of school, It was also mutually agreed that the Board would declare Tuesday, May 19, as a holiday with schools closed. Beard instruct the Superintendent to make an appeal for parents to contact the principals .of the various schools in the District and offer their services to come into the schols as substitute teachers and that these volunteers would be paid in accordance with the Districts pay schedule for substitute teachers. The Board also instruct the Clerk and Business Manager to implement the rule that all regular teachers who have absented themselves from their assigned buildings are to have their additional information can be obtained from Ivan Carlisle, who is the local A.D.A. chairman. Board Acts on Teacher Walk-O- ut d to annual contract the actual number of days worked. Motion unanimous. The Clerk reported that the changes required in the annual contracts of all teachers who walked out would necessitate the business office working overtime in order to have the payroll ready for release by May 29. A motion was made by Dr. William H. Sorensen, seconded by Mark B. Anderson, that the Board authorize the Clerk to extend the payroll release date to June 5, or as soon as feasible pro-rate- pro-rati- Monday Meeting The Board of Education of Nebo District met in special session at 10 am. Monday, May 18, at the District Office. All members had been contacted by telephone except Leo A. Crandall who was out cf town and could not be reached by telephone nor by telegram. President S. Roland Lindsay was in charge of the meeting. d, action. Utahns, will pay for the best in education; they always have. But they will not be insulted much longer as they have been this week, by the governor and by the Utah Education Association and by the striking teachers. President Lindsay stated that he had, called the special session of the Board of Education because the teachers of Nebo School District had met in a mass meeting at 7:00 a.m. this morning and voted to walk out Monday and Tuesday thereby the mutual agreement made by their officers and the Board of Education Sunday evening. After discussing the situation, a motion was made by cver-ridin- g Dr. William II. Sorensr n, sec- onded by Alfonzo Kester, that the Board rescind its action! PROGRAM Ammon Lance, Payscn BICYCLE SAFETY policeman, is shown with Jce Jackson, also of the Payson Police Dept., completing the inspection of bicycles at the Wilson School. About 200 were inspected for bad brakes, ti.es and JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BAND CONCERT B handle bars at the Wilson on May 13 and about 250 were The Payson Junior High School A and a concert will Bands 2. whose evening Each Thursday student present on May checked at the Taylor School in the Payson Memorial Park beginning at bicycle passed the test was given an operators license. Hope S. Bettilyon, chairman of council on hospital auxiliaries of the state, was the guest speaker at the meeting. Also at the meeting was Cleo Ream, Utah Valley Hospital, Pmvo. A film, A Tie That Binds, was shown. The film won first prize in national contest of the American Hospital Association. It is the story of the volunteer service at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Dean Ashby, president, was in charge of the meeting. Anyone desiring to join the Pink Ladies of Payson may do so by making application to either Mis. Ashby or Mrs. Roy Holden, secretary, Payson. taken Sunday evening The Board instructed the Superintendent to announce that the schools of the District are to remain open, May 18, until 1:30 p.m. and convene again Tuesday morning at 9:00 a.m. with school running until 1:30 p.m. Tuesday after- p.m. The A Band is pictured top and the B noon. Band bottom-- The public and school patrons A motion was made by Dr. are invited to attend this music festival, William H. Sorensen, seconded by Alfonzo Kester, that the 8 SANTAQUIN ROYALTY Royalty of Santaquin Homecoming Celebration, June 12 and 13, named recently, are Velda Greenhalgh, center queen, and attendants Vicki Fowkes, left, and Marie Martell, right. Events of the "Week THURSDAY, MAY 21 Taylor School Art Exhibit, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Jr. Cultus Club Meeting FRIDAY, MAY 22 Variety Show, Second Ward Church, 4 p.m. Taylor School Art Exhibit, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Seminary Graduation, Tabernacle, Payson American Legion Meeting 8 p.m. SATURDAY, MAY 23 Variety Show, Second Ward Church, 8 p.m. Santaqum-Tintic- e Stake Senior Citizen Day, 10:30 SUNDAY, MAY 24 Stanley Wilson Open House, Jr. High School, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. MONDAY, MAY 25 Lions Club Meeting TUESDAY, MAY 26 Jayshees Meeting WEDNESDAY MAY 27 Kiwanis Club Meeting MIA Leadership Meeting, THURSDAY, MAY 28 lst-5t- h Ward, 7:30 p.m Payson High School Graduation Exercises |