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Show University of Utah Ilbrary 9att SCaker City 12 Granite School Board Says, No! To 4,000 Parents Wanting Phonics FIRST, the Individual IIL RECOMMENDATIONS TO SALT LAKE CITY, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1961 Ten Cents Per Copy THE BOARD OF EDUCATION It is recommended that: A. The program as proposed Private Power Lines Win Support Govt. Grab Opposed as Tax Waste Coming back from Denver on highway 40, we stopped in Steamboat Springs. Always liked Steamboat Springs. Had RESOLUTION some wonderful waffles in the Waffle OF THE SOUTH SALT LAKE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AT A MEETING HELD IN THE CITY OF SOUTH SALT LAKE JUNE The town has a free newspaper called The Steamboat Whistle. It had 40 advertisements. Naturally, this interested us the most. So we had to pick up a copy. Who ever heard of an ORANGE newspaper? i WHEREAS, it comes to the attention of the Members of the South Salt Lake Chamberof Commerce that the Bureau of Reclamation proposes to investor-owne- d - f WHEREAS, it is one of the basic principles of this organiz- ation to help maintain a sound business climate in which industry can operate and to promote the economic development of Utah, it is hereby RESOLVED that the Congress of the United States authorize no appropriation for transmission lines which will duplicate existing transmission facilities or facilities that the and aching pocketbooks. The budget for this one is into the wild blue yonder. Senate Appropriations Committee, United States Representatives David S. King, M. Blaine Peterson, Clarence Cannon, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and to the Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall. . . Stopped at Air Force Acada-m- y and looked at our money, our childrens money, their childrens money, and so on. What a place for aching feet BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary be and he hereby is directed to certify and transmit copies hereof to United States Senators Wallace F. Bennett, Frank E. Moss, Carl Hayden, Chairman of the WHEREAS, investor-owne- d utilities now serving the area where such lines are proposed to be constructed have expressed a willingness and have clearly demonstrated the ability to construct such lines as necessary and perform the function of delivering the power from the Federal plants to any and all consumers at fair and reasonable costs, such costs being well below the alternate cost to the Bureau, so as not lo affect the costs to consumers; and further, have demonstrated conclusively that through construction of transmission lines as an industry rather than a public agency, a fair and equit-able distribution of taxes will be maintained and taxes paid by the industry will greatly assist toward the support of local governments and schools and in addition, substantial taxes will be paid to the Federal government; and further, that it has been clearly demon- strated that the irrigation projects in connection with the Colorado River Storage Projects can' also .be - benefited through earlier pay out of their costs; and further that the Nations taxpayers can be relieved of the very substantial cost of major transmission lines amounting to $136 million; and companies plan to construct which should be used to distribute Colorado River Storage Project power. construct transmission lines in connection with the Colorado River Storage Project, using funds appropriated by Congress; and Recommend it highly. f 9, 1961 Shack. , The Zoom boys have a ten story chapel with no floors between the top and bottom. Built in natures greatest wind and sand tunnel. I guess when the Air Force says blast off they mean the chapel, too. by the Utah Parents for Basic Education should not be undertaken. to 1. The proposal deliberate institute with all haste, a program of articulated .phonics instruction in all first and second grade classes in the district be rejected. This proposal implies that the present Granite District Program of reading does not provide for instruction in phonics in the first and second grades. This is not true. 2. The proposal . . . a supervisor of the elementary reading program who , has received through training in the teaching of phonics at Monmouth College, or comparable preparation, be engaged, and that said supervisor be made responsible directly to the local .board be rejected. This proposal violates every principle of good (organizational procedure and policy. B. The language arts program in Granite District should be planned in the following ways: 1. Each of the thirty-tw- o elementary schools of the Granite School District should ... Editorial use one instead of several of the officially State adopted basal reading programs as the basic text for reading instruction. This selection of a basal reading program by an elementary school staff should be done cooperatively with the District administration and supervisors and by official approval of the Granite District Board of Education. We realize that authors write basal books with sequential development of skills in mind. They have never intended that basal books impose a limitation upon childrens reading. Rather, the basal reader serves as a spring board for all other types of reading interests. It is a tool for skill development in reading and contributes about one-fifof the heading instruction program. The other language areas in the reading program are considered to be extension reading (library reading), reading in the content areas of the course of study, writing (including spelling), and speaking about what has been read. (See Exhibit 2) 2. Phonics should continue to be recognized along with all other word attack methods as an important and integral part of the reading instructional program in all of the grades of the elementary schools. 3. The district should reemphasize spelling instruction which incorporates phonetic and structural analysis of th words. t 4. Sanction of the Majority . there was no way for a property owner to avoid paying for the building if he voted against the building and the majority We will attempt to indicate to you that a citizen can be forced to do the bidding of a majority. But, it can be more than one, it might even be thousands of citizens so coer- - voted for it. If a property owner feels that ced. he cannot stand one more, tax there was ho way for him to defend his property from confiscation. He could have attended to the action and voted against it. But he could not refuse to participate when the action was affirmative. Last Tuesday the citizens (property owners) of Salt Lake County did vote on a' 5 a million dollar bond election. - All citizens (property, owners) gave tacit agreement to abide by the decision of the If he refused to give the majority. Whether a citizen took part or not, did not effect "government his sanction by not the result. The voting against participating in the vote, his the raising of the money in sanction was implied. no way guaranteed the citizen His only chance was that it not his right owner) (property might fail. to participate in .the action. If this had been a moral act, If the majority of those taking then only those who wished to part, even if it had been a mere voluntarily contribute to the 1 plus 1 in favpr and 1 against, all would have been required erection of the building would to abide by the majority vote. have had to pay for same. A mark of a civilized human There was no way that a citizen could pay for the buildbeing is his personal morality. ing if the majority voted To participate in an action against the building. Likewise, which can deprive a human , i : being of his earnings against that persons will, is an immoral act Think not? Should the bond pass and you were chosen as the person to collect the 5'x million dollars, you would be told to go from each year for twenty years and collect one dollar from every property owner, how would you react? door-to-do- or Right now you say, But I wouldnt be chosen.- Whats - the difference between 'your going door to door or your agent going otit and collecting the money? Certain planners have agreed that a new building is needed. The very fact that the planners have decided that a building is needed can commit you to the construction of the building. Let the planners do the paying or at least the collecting of the money, by force, from others. Think there would be less planners, should this be the rule? . EDITOR: The bond election passed with approximately 10 per cent of the property owners voting). training classes which provide aid for supervisors and teachers in strengthening the school program should be contnued. 5. The language arts program should be constantly analyzed and evaluated for purposes of improvement. 6. Research and reports from school districts announcing outstanding results in language arts should be studied continuously for new ideas to improve our school program. 7. Every effort should be put forth to provide for a full-ter- m kindergarten program, a full-da- y first grade program, adequate facilities, and reasonable class loads. 8. The school budget sould include necessary funds for the purchase of required textbooks and related instructional materials to service the above proposed programs. In-serv- ice . IV. THE FOLLOWING SUPPORTING INFORMATION IS ON FILE: Elmer J. Hartvigsen Supertindent of Schools Granite School District (EDITOR: The above material is from a 13 page report handed the parents attending the Granite School Board Meeting on June 6th. Section IV was omitted due to lack of space. Anyone wanting to read the report is urged to call the Granite School District). |