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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1975 Page Eight Bi-Centen- Taxpayer Association Reports Average Utah Teacher Increase $900 per Year Devlis Rock House Proposed For BLM Withdrawal Junior League of Salt Lake City Cookbook Prepares nial The average Utah teacher will be paid just overv$900 more a year under recently negotiated contracts for the 1975-7- 6 school year. The Devils Rock House area Average increment increases toapproximately 15 miles southeast of tal another $376 a year. Based on a y school year, and disregardOuray, is being proposed for withdone after hours at and work drawal from all forms of appropriaing tion under the public land laws by away from school, this comes to. $65 a day. the Bureau of Land Management. Utah teachers with a bachelors Paul L. Howard, BLM state 60 acre said the director for Utah, degree will be paid an average of withdrawal would protect the $1,280 more this year than last. scenic, fragile and unique geological Average increase in the state for features from activities which those on top of bachelor's and would damage, destroy or make the master's degree schedules will be area unsuitable for general public 10 percent. That was the breakdown providenjoyment. ed The bureau's application would by Utahs watchdog tax organiwithdraw the area from general zation, the Utah Taxpayers Associtax mining laws, material sales act and ation, a private, leasing under the mineral leasing analysis agency. Jack A. Olson, UTA Executive laws. The application would also designate the Devil's Rock House Vice President, said the figures contract as an Outstanding Natural Area were taken from 1975-7information filed with the State and close it to Board of Education. activities. He said teachers with a bache Recreational activities such as sightseeing, hiking, photography and geological study would continue in the area, added Mr. Howard. All persons who wish to make comments, suggestions, or objections in connection with the proThe executive director of the posed withdrawal, should submit Utah Petroleum Association spoke their views in writing to the BLM out strongly against congressional Utah State Director, P.O. Box to break up the major oil proposals 11202, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, companies. by December 15, 1975. The middle of an energy crisis is the worse possible time to disrupt our supply and distribution system, D. Van De Graaff told the monthly meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution - Utah Society at the Alta Club this month. Breaking companies into less (Continued from page 1) efficient units will only result in the hearing, while skeptics claimed cost incrfeases and loss of estabit was based on pressure from next lished market economies. Further," weeks municipal election. he continued, by breaking up the The area lies between 5th and larger companies, Congress will 9th South 'and 2nd and 7th East. destroy the ability of those compansenior ies to finance high cost energy Only a proposed 650-3rd citizens housing project at programs. Then, when the companEast would not be reclassified, ies cannot develop our energy. commissioners said. Congress will no doubt suggest that The city's planning commission the federal government form a new vetoed the request but sug- bureaucracy and start drilling classification which allows wells. a gested .use residential and Van De Graaff said, The time complies higher with the areas master plan. has come for Congress to realize Neighborhood council director that there is no oil in Washington Kerry Bate said the rezoning was D.C. and that if the petroleum needed to keep land speculators, slum lords and others from ruining the area. He had prodded city commissioners into setting the public hearing before the final election. Its rotten, Mr. Bate said about (Continued from page 1) the attorneys ruling. I'm upset at commisthe delay. People thought gence whose other children are sioners were listening and now normal. Some potential cases of mental retardation can be preventthey are stalling. He pointed to a dozen persons ed by modern scientific techniques, which identify the causitive factor who jammed into Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr.s office and provide effective treatment as the attorney made his speech. immediately after birth. Modern "Theyre the land speculators, medicine, however, adds to the the slum lords, they should be lined total number of retarded persons to be cared for, by keeping alive many up and shot, Mr. Bate declared. The council used a series of infants with brain injuries or conspeakers, slide presentations and genital defects who previously stacks of petitions to influence would have died shortly after birth. The cost of treating mental recommissioners at the hearing. It claimed land speculators are turn- tardation is steadily rising, and is ing the area into a slum and forcing expected to continue to do so. The families out replacing them with growing over-al- l population, the identification and treatment' of a and large apartment complexes office buildings. larger percentage of retardates, The council also struck out at and the rapid rise in the cost of all lending institutions which it medical treatment all contribute to claimed have redlined the area-refu- sing the expanding cost of treating mental retardation. The budget for to give mortgage or loans. Only specula- Utah's Training School has grown borrow tors can money, the council from $2.7 million in fiscal 1968 to almost $9 million for fiscal 1976. said. The council contended the new Programs conducted by Family classification would encourage Services Division and developed people to stay in their homes and over the past 18 months received free mortgage and home repair appropriations of $1.9 million for fiscal 1976. money. 185-da- non-prof- it Mrs. James L. Ellsworth, left, Vice President of the Junior League of Salt Lake City, Presents' Mrs. Calvin L. Hampton with Utah's official Bicentennial cookbook. On October 18, Mrs. James L. Ellsworth, Vice President of the begin each section putting fresh emphasis on some of the quiet and Junior League of Salt Lake City, courageous people from many backpresented Mrs. Calvin Rampton grounds who though perhaps not have played a signifiwith Utahs officially designated cookbook. The Heri- cant role in shaping the culture of tage Cookbook features a collection Utah. The patchwork quilt, repred of recipes both old and new includnature of senting the reciof The cover on unusual ethnic the Utah's history ing exotic and pes plus a special childrens section. Heritage Cookbook is from the Members of the Junior League of Temple Square Museum. All publication costs have been Salt Lake City, Inc., a community conscious volunteer organization, met by the Junior League of Salt have personally home tested, rated Lake and all profits realized will be and considered the 565 recipes returned to the Community submitted by some of Utahs fore- through the League's Community most cooks and personalities, in- Trust Fund. The book is available cluding Dan Valentine, Bonnie through the Junior League Flea Lake, Lucybeth Rampton, Lucy Market, 444 East 2nd South, Salt Lake City, from League members Abravanel and Jackie Nokes. Excellent research has resulted and in many locations throughout in the delightful footnotes that the state. well-know- n multi-facete- of Soviet Grain Pact A Sell-oFarmers Says Farm Bureau ut Americas grain agreement with Russia announced by President Ford is nothing but a formal of this announcement of the sell-onations farmers and their right to deal privately with foreign nations for the sale of American food products, the head of Utah's largest farm organization announced. ut de"Coupled with AFL-CIO- mands that the government bow to their wishes and restrict trade with Russia, this latest announcement of a grain deal is an insult to the independence and freedom of our most efficient industry, agriculture, the Farm Bureau leader nt five-yea- so-call- ed New Enrollment Record Set at Utah Tech Full-tim- full-tim- e - all-tim- year. increase of 10.07 percent across the board. All teachers except those at the top of bachelors and masters steps will receive the increment hikes as well as the general boosts. Highest settlement was in the Juab District 13.54 percent average salary boost. Lowest was Carbon with 7.99 percent. Average salaries range from a low of $7,987 for bachelors minimum to $13,464 for masters maximum, Mr. Olson said. Jhe record for most to a teacher on the masters maximum step is h $15,382 in the relatively tax-ric- Jordan District. Tooele District holds the record for bachelors maximum step !13,990. UTA said since 1970 the average annual pay for teachers on the top step of a bachelors degree has risen from $8,556 to $12,01040 percent (or from $46 to $65 per day). . Utah Petroleum Association Says No to Oil Company Breakup Zoning Approval Faces Delay 100-un- it continued. He added that minor price contrading is wrong, and the initialing cessions by Russia in selling oil to r the U.S. are a drop in the bucket by President Ford of this grain purchase deal with Russia is representing only about 1 percent dead wrong in principle, said Elmo of this nation's oil imports. And he Hamilton, Utah Farm Bureau Fed- pointed out that free exports of eration head. American agricultural products He pointed out that deciding have been the major factor in U.S. world markets on political negotia- payments for imported oil. tions marks a serious infringement on free trading by private businesses in the United States. While state trading is a regular practice by many nations, the U.S. has avoided it because her free enterprise policies seem to erode under government control of busie student enrollment this ness deals. fall The United States doesnt own quarter at Utah Technical the grain; her farmers and grain College at Salt Lake has increased trading companies do, Hamilton 15.8 per cent to 3,721, up 508 pointed out. The fact that our students over last year, according government has seen fit to sign to an enrollment report issued deals for privately owned commod- today by Utah Tech Pres. Jay L. Nelson. ities is a dangerous precedent. This interference with the free Total enrollment for all programs market system is a direct contra- at the is 6,047, an increase diction of President Fords word of of 403 college students, or seven per cent, last year that if farmers would go over last year. all out to produce a record supply The of food- - they would have free equivalent student is figure up slightly over 10 per access to world markets. 354 students. Farmers cannot and will not cent, or in food supply produce an increased e All enrollment figures are the face of government authority to vocational-technical highs for the manipulate the market from year to college. Government-to-governme- 6 lors degree negotiated an average R-2-- A supplies we need are going to be produced, they will be produced by free enterprise, not by government decree. We are becoming increasingly more dependent on foreign countries for our oil supply. This dis- rupts our economy and threatens our national security. I believe, he continued, this has happened because in some cases national interest has taken a back seat to party politics. There are those who seem to vote for any punitive measure directed toward the oil industry because they believe its the popular way to vote. Others vote in a way they believe will embarrass the other political party and give little thought to our national needs. The result is we have no national energy policy upon which to plan future energy development and Congress spends its time getting the oil industry while it should be providing incentives for additional domestic oil developments, he concluded. Utah Leads in Some Programs of Mental Retardation Treatment home-improveme- nt The State Department of Education, under terms of a law enacted in 1969, provides schooling for all handicapped children (including the mentally retarded) either in regular classes or in special classes or schools. Funds for the program are provided through the School Finance Act. Approximately $19 million went into school programs for the handicapped not restricted to the mentally retarded last year. Retardates of and are ages relatively neglected, the Foundation reported, although programs to meet their needs are being developed and expanded by both state agencies and private organizations. A major unsolved problem is care for the most profoundly retarded. At the Training School, they are placed in larger groups, with a lower attendant-patien- t ratio than for patients who fit into the training program. Some authorities and concerned parents . believe that these children could be placed in smaller groups and given more individual care, with parents financially able to do so sharing in the cost. pre-scho- ol post-scho- ol |