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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1976 Page Two THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal Neu Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah 711 South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher "Thu publication it not owned or controlled by any party, dan, or corporation." Volume 56 clique, 364-846- 4 faction Number 35 State Board of Education Involved in New. Educational TV Project The Utah State Board of Educa- tion is one of seventeen state and provincial agencies that are sup- porting and participating in the design of a major television project to strengthen instruction in the learning skills. To be developed over a three- lf year period is a series of programs for the sixty and sixth grades that will be to American and Candian classrooms beginning in September 1979. Intended as a major learning resource to complement existing instructional materials, the series will emphasize the critical thinking study skills and include review the mathematics and communi- cation skills. TheMOO.OOOdesign phase began July 1 and will continue through next June. The production pha, which has budget of J3,50ooOO is scheduled to underway in.- . after mediately The cooperative project is the and most comprehensive to be undertaken by state and provincial educational agencies un- direction der the organization of the Agency for Instructional Television (AIT). Utah State Board of Education has participated in eight of these projects. The area of the essential learning skills was given highest priority at regional meetings of American and Canadian educators in 1973 and and-a-ha- 10 te (continued from page 1) Progress Toward Sexual Equality is Slow stated that they proportion of the students (over believed that both dating partners should have equal power in the relationship. To the extent that the couples in the same are representative of other young couples, these results suggest that marriages in the future may be more egalitarian than they have been in 85) the past. . the team, commissioned at AIT, then developed recommendations for a project in the basic learning skills, These recommendations were refined at meetings during the spring and summer of 1976 with represen-essentitatives of the Utah State Board of Education and other interested ds three-quarte- rs GRAPEVINE I al - agencies. The design phase now in pro-fift- h gregg involved a sequence of tent seminars that began in early August and ended in late Octoberr. con-availab- le Their purpose was to identify the components of each of the skills and to develop instructional methods that would enable children to d view an(j appiy the skills in situa-o- f tions relevant to their lives, re-an- , . , T cooperating and other vr . . . A lifelong resident of Salt Lake Citys west side, Chris Segura, was named director of Salt Lake County Social Services Department this week. His appointment was anBUI nounced by Commissioner-elec- t Hutchinson. The appointment is effective immediately. Mr. Segura has been staff associate in Granite School, District. He has had extensive administrative background, having served as director of the district's Title I Program for the past five and one half yers. "8" st President-elec- t Jimmy Carter of the .the res.ulta week this asked was vls.to by eight seminars and the emerging cumcu- - House Democrats from Rocky um esin-nintMountain states to name a fellow Through cooperative develop- westerner as Secretary of Interior. ment of projects like the essential In a letter to Frank Moore, Carters learning skills television series,' the transition congressional liaison diUtah State Board of Education can rector, they said the nominee ?" wl re" h When asked to report on the actual balance of power in their relationship, however, fewer than half of the make instructional materials of students thought that they had actually attained this high quality widely available to do has ideal. When Who think Utah's schools at a fraction of the asked, you egalitarian cost of producing them. more of a say about what you and your partner do States and provinces partidpat- together, only 49 of the women and 42 of the men ing in the design phase are: Alaska, of felt both were equal. Among the rest, Alberta, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Mississippi, men and of the the women the thought 1974. An Ohio, Ontario, Oregon. study man had more of a say. The researchers also found that the likelihood of having an egalitarian relationship because of the peoples right to know and freedom was greatest among couples in which the woman of the press. Yet the answers to these problems have never come education and wanted a longplanned easily to any of us.. term career. After all, havent newspapers printed stories which There was a great deal of diversity among the couples with respect to attitudes about the roles of the violated official secrecy orders? Arent they always two sexes, both in patterns of etiquette (who should either criticizing somebody or invading someones drive? should men hold doors open for women?) and in privacy? Dont they abuse their freedom? Why, then, venture praise for the institution of the patterns of marriage (who (should women stay home? who should have major responsibility for the chil- American newspaper? Despite the warts and the justified criticism of some drawn from four dren?). Students in the sample different colleges in the Boston area represented a newspaper coverage, newspapers are still an essential wide range of views from traditional to the eaglitar-ian- . part of our democratic society. Whether small or large printed on antiquated equipment or on giant There was a strong tendency for both members e presses newspapers symbolize both our dedication attitudes. of a couple to have similar Of the 231 couples in the study, slightly more than to the principle of liberty and our trust in our fellow half stayed together over the two-yea- r period, while men and women. Newspapers suggest liberty because even in the the remaining 103 couples broke up. Couples were most likely to stay together when both parties were face of sometimes severe public and governmental criticism of the press, our society has retained the equally involved in the relationship. Of the equally broke up over the basic right to speak through the printed page without involved couples, only 23 As a society, we two-yeperiod, compared to 54 of the couples in government interference or restraint. a which one partner was more involved than the other. continue to reject the alternatives to this principle It was often difficult for couples to break up, Dr. government bureau, for instance, to license the press Rubin reported. ,Jn particularl, men who were highly and assess the truth. involved in a relationship often found it terribly difficult to cope with the ending of the relationship. Women seemed somewhat better at giving up their love when their situation demanded it. Rubin also reported that couples were more likely to stay friends Rubin emphawhen the man initiated the break-up- . sized that breaking up can be a valuable experience for young couples. It is important for young people to develop skills that allow them to break up before No one IndMdual has time to be an exmarriage, he said, rather than waiting until after pert in all phases of estate Investment and administration. Thats why First Security's marriage, when breaking up is likely to be much more Trust Department Is many people. painful and disruptive. and two-thir- LEASED should have experience in dealing with public land problems affecting the western states. The letter said, The Interior Department is vital to the weU being of the public land states, and it has long been looked upon as an area that mandates incumbency by a westerner. American-Canadia- n post-gradua- te sex-rol- ar First Security can earn youy People knowledgeable Newspapers and Liberty Gag orders, ethics, invasion of privacy are current catchwords for controversial newspaper issues. Behind each are people taking very different points of view on the rights and responsibilities of well-intention- ed newspapers. Under the banner of National Newspaper Week, it would be easy to say that newspapers are always good and that their interests should prevail in each case , experienced In Investments, accounting, taxation, pen- sions and profit sharing plans, computers and much more. People sensitive to family needs and flexible to changing conditions. People ready to help you and your clients any way we can. Call us for all the details. Trust Department First Security Dank of Utah, N.AT 350-536- 1 Member TD1.C. may bring pay raises as high as 14 percent to more Salt Lake than 300 upper-echelo- n City employes. The raises, first suggested in a consultants study, are being considered because of the difficulty of hiring certain professionals. The study, called the Hay Report, said middle to lower echelon workers were paid generally on a par with similar workers in other western cities. Mid-Janua- ry , This week the Salt Lake County attorney was ordered to investigate and take possible legal action to eliminat hazards at the . Monroe Quarry, where two young Cottonwood Heights boys drowned ly. County Commissioner Pete Kutulas said I want that hazard eliminated," referring to a deep pond at the quarry, located about 26th East and 65th South. Commissioner Kutulas said the Salt Lake City Water Department may be partially responsible, because its equipment pumps water into the pond from a city well. He asked the county attorney to investigate this and other aspects to determine if negligence exists aind if legal action is necessary. Consumers will pay about three percent more at the grocery store, although farmers received about four percent less for their products in 1976 and 1975, according to Elmo W. Hamilton, Utah Farm Bureau Federation president. Quoting U.S. Department of Agriculture figures, Hamilton said marketing costs for foods rose about five percent this year, accounting for the price increse, despite low farm prices. Hamilton said, farmers are paying more for their supplies but are getting less for what they produce. Birds go south for the winter Salt Lake City's drunks and down and outers go to jail. Dewey J, Fillis, Salt Lake City Police Chief, said the large number of persons arrested over the weekend for 16 was not public intoxication the result of a police cleanup or crackdown on drunks. It merely indicated that cold weather has arrived. Chief Fillis said, These guys are smart. They know they can have it soft in jail. They get drunk to get arrested, or shoplift for the same purpose, just so they can get a sentence at the County Jail. 60-90-d- |