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Show A Very Lonely Hour , In A Big Lot Parking OPINION, PLEASE? OPINION PLEASE? DO YOU THINK THE GRAND JURY : Last Friday afternoon was hot - and the two kids in the closed Buick felt the heat and felt the loneliness. They started to cry. Their mother had parked in the Sugar House parking lot off Simpson Ave, left the kids, and had gone shopping. It had only been twenty minutes, but to a four year old girl and a two year old boy, in a hot car, twenty minutes can be twenty hours, and a big parking lot can be the world. So they cried - and they got out of the car - and went in the same general direction mother had gone - across the parking lot and into the street.... The stranger saw the kids and tried to make out the answers between sobs. The little girl was chewing on a couple of pennies. He took the kids back to their car and showed the kids some games with the pennies, and waited another half hour. The mother came back and bawled out the kids for leaving the car and said "I know I never should have brought you in the first place." REV. TEff WILL BENEFIT SALT LAKE COUNTY? (ASKED OF SHOP- Mrs. D. E. Anderson 3406 So. 2940 East Fred PERS IN SUGAR HOUSE) Don L. Fox 420 Highland Dr. University of Utah student It will bring It s bound to help. to light. 'things Rockwood 1630 Mohawk Way Highland High School student "Yes. It may be time for a Housewife I know Judge Anderson and Yes. Im sure he will do a good job. Utah is growing. We need more Jurisdiction, and this should be a good influence to the area as a whole." Editorials July 15, 1965 V, A4 Scott Petty 2255 Redondo Ave. Highland High School student I dont know. I think it will be helpful if we can get rid of some of the crooks, and people in office now will be more careful with their conduct and the way they run the government." Nfwrat safely detire for rounty molorixU mumhc h foliage which blocks safe tision of oiiroming traffic-a- t many intersections. Giant scissors retract once driver leaves device brio reduces Salt Lake County. letters Fred Larlch 7686 Steffenson Drive Eimco employee I think there is some value in finding out what is going on. Most of us dont spend enough time looking into these things, but the jury will do a good Job. Loren Poulsen Mrs. William Muir East Upland Drive 3214 8941 W. 3200 South Housewife I think it will help. Politics can be pretty dirty, and this should help expose those who are Involved in crooked Kennecott employee I Imagine it will help. give people a fair deal. It should dealings. To The Editor ..grow-vour-ow- n youngster danger for the economy minded. Sharp-eye- d soon learns to dodge quickly out of the way if mother lurches into speedtH tow Hi before look-orn jinml all. clear. During schism year, the rig offers lively aim rrX ut itable occupation for grade schisd 12-Mon- ' th A. , School Plan Promises Fewer , v - Your coverage of current educational events and recent developments has been excellent and most appreciated by many teachers in the area. However, as a teacher myself, I would like to comment on your suggestions as to the lengthening of the school year to save dollars My criticism to a twelve month school year in Utah at this time is based school board members, and upon the observation of school administrators, teachers A twelve month school year would not be a panacea in alleviating our dollar shortage and other problems would arise beside those mentioned by Mr. Brown and Mr. Hartvigsen in their letters to your paper. Classes in Utah, and especially in the elementary grades, are too large to permit a teacher to teach months. Many elementary teachers would leave teaching rather than face 0 youngsters on an extended schedule; or leave the state. However, if a favorable teacher-pup- il ratio of 5 pupils were initiated it might be possible for a teacher to teach two more months a year. Of course, this would cost the taxpayer more money as several hundred additional teachers would be needed to maintain a favorable ratio. Teacher's pay would have to be increased considerably on the nine month contract before prorating current pay scales over another 3 months. The writer of this letter at one time taught in California and could earn more money teaching in his former California district on a nine month contract than teaching twelve months in Utah using his present salary as a base and then prorating three months more pay. Unless salaries increased appreciatively on present contracts it would be hard to convince teachers to teach the extra months when they could move to other states and make as much or more money on a nine month contract. Teaching can be very strenuous at times and many teachers could not face up to teaching an additional two or three months even with a more favorable ratio Facing young people, and particularly in the lower grades, day after day is fatiguing and the summer respite from teaching not only allows a teacher to relax but to evaluate himself in retrospect over the previous teaching year. 11-- 12 35-4- Gimmicks Foil Mother Natures. Booby Traps . The odds arc still heavily against motorists who must daily play Salt Lake Countys own version of aoto roulette. Heavy foliage at many intersections blocks safe vision of oncoming traffic. Autoists must drive blind into speeding traffic because they cant see around shrubs and trees which grow out to the pavement on major arterials such as Highland Drive Last September 17, 1964, then commission chairman C. W. Brady, Jr. posed for a Review photographer inspecting danger spots and vowing to chop down Mother Natures booby traps. Mr. Brady evidentally forgot to pass the word along to his successors. Ten months later vehicles still play dodge --em as they attempt to pass the blind comers. 20-2- 2-- The great bulk of school funds goes into constructing classrooms. Obviousif existing buildings were used for 12 Instead of just nine months fewer schools would be needed. The money saved could be spent for other purposes In numerous stories and editorials, the Review has maintained that the idea educadeserves to be fully explored by school boards as a means to tion by freeing funds for the job of teaching - instead of building. ly, de GimmIv, I was trip NOTE: The common misunderstanding about the stag- plan is that all students would attend classes for a full year As conceived by a management consultant, this is not the proposal Actually, the plan would accomplish the very objectives Mr. Monroe says are necesEDITOR'S ol sary. First, schools would be in session for a full-yebut each pupil would still attend for only Attendance would be staggered with three-mon- th vacation periods scattered through the year. Thus only 75 percent of the student body would be attend.ng at any one time and Individual class enrollment would therefore be reduced by be remaining 25 percent It's calculated that economies thus tffected would allow a 30 percent pay increase for all teachers immed,aely if the same basic scale was maintained However, since the basic premise is to reduce capital outlay by using each school building to the fullest, it's conceivable that other pay raises would be possible The Idea is to do the basic job of education first and then add the frills The plan need not necessarily halt summer enrichment programs which appear to be so dear to professional educators On the contrary, if finances permitted, a special faculty would be organned d to conduct the three-monenrichment programs on a basis, ro tating pupils who would normally be on vacaion It's conceivable also that teachers who did not care to work the full 12 months could schd 4e themselves into the system on the same basis as students Modem technology lociaemany, is wnai makes this idea feasible although it has ben considered by many school districts across the nation in former-yea- rs ar three-quarte- Telescope can actuallv eer around rumor but if Ion fop in rain or iio. warning ign pop out to alert oncoming traffic. Hand contain electronic t which automaticallv hako fincqip-meii- a. comnii-ionc- rs th year-roun- r' Computers can now handle the d.fficult job of guaranteeing frat all children in a single family, although fty m.ght abend d.fferent schools, would be on vacation at the same bme In most cases, families could pick a summer, winter, fall or spring vacation of Senator Robert Kennedy's od tut Utah's I always under biggest hope was its beauty and tourist attraction As a native Salt Laker I am very proud of our state. I was very embarrassed that a senator from New York couldnt come here and enjoy our state without being rid culed You infer that Senator Knnedy's trip was a political one. I know enough about politics to know that if you are In a state to Impress t ie voters you don't forget your Ski -- Utah pin or do you refuse to carry a heavy trophy on a river trip Would you please explain the p name? In one sentance you call Senator Kennedy a liberal Democrat and then a p To mo, a gum drip Is a fat glob that can be mol, 01 nywiy you wish Surely even you can't say that about Senator Kennedy. In the name of responsible reporting I think you should apologize to Senator Kennedy. You ;ao always use the Tribune's public forum for your sour grapes. gum-dro- gjm-dro- MRS MARGARET OHLSON 3541 SOUTH 980 EAST he Many Maatln o( The summer school oroeram in the Granite District has much to offer and the enrollment should increase each summer. Many teachers are taking ad uus program to increase their income ana are finding that teaching vantage on a half day schedule can be delightful for both the student and the teacher This also leaves time in the afternoon for the teacher to attend a graduate class at the University and a short vacation at the termination of his university class before a new school year begins No matter how you look at it, an extended school year would cost money and lots of it We should seek to Improve education in Utah with the school calendar now in effect before attempting such a far reaching change. I gered-scho- Shi Like Gum Drop interested to read your reportLig very to Utah ft WILLIAM K MONROE 1834 EAST 3990 SOUTH ear ta Kids Per Class, Higher Teacher Pay driqi-oiit- s. ger in hame should a countv .. . i II ill Luca Crusading Columist Back On The Rocks by Will Lucas terrible thing has happened. They're printing me again in the Review femdiar with Review, That's the only newspaper ever banned from the State Capitol and here I thought I was going to be the only columnist to be banned from the Feview . . but now theyve spoiled it by printing me. It s been so long since Ive held any semblence of communication with my vast readers that I feel the need to rename my column . it should perhaps be called . . Lucas, Back on the Rocks or Casting Stones on the Pocky Review. Or just plain . . . 'Stoned'. Being as this is crusading newspaper and I'm a crusading columnist I launch the first crusade of July Its called, Save Attorney General Phil Hansen Today', or S A G P H T for short. Because of the rattier tragic turn of events on Phil's economic earlibriun with especial preference to the plight of his Diners Club card . it is my compassionate plea that you people open your h arts and send Care' packages to Phil Hansen in care of Will Lucas, KALL Radio. Then we can get the Utah National Guard to lend us the support of their and manpower to load up the huge volume of equipmen 'Care' packages and we 11 deliver all the goodies to the capital building on 'Care For Phil Hansen A X.011 . ... Dav in Utah. (The date to be released later ) Ppraj1n fills Phil's empty pantry , ... then, who knows, perhaps he blll's And i'lst everybody will be happy KPayn The Diner s r? be happy, the gas stations will be happy the department stores wiU be hapnr and the traffic ticket division of the Salt Lake City corpor- last but Dot ,east B,e eternal Revenue Depart ' ment peqple of our federal government will be happy, 'mafine makine all those people happy just because you cared enough Caii iboTft Cm paf'ka?etoPtur?? 11 maies yu feel arm all over just thinking P m'S atl" AS. A FNAL1. N0TE: Don t Care packages To those smart alecks don't who are thinking of sending |