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Show ' THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1958 Page Three Foundation Report Shows Need For Additional Utah Classrooms . Utah will have to build 4,180 new. classrooms by 1964 or 4,888 classrooms by 1974 in or-der to meet existing backlogs, provide for anticipated enroll-ment increases, and make allow-ance for the replacement of building which will become ob-solete during these periods. This estimate of school build-ing needs was contained in an extensive analysis of the state's school housing problem released this week by Utah Foundation, the private governmental re-search agency. The report observes that Utah must build 380 classrooms each year in order to provide for all needs by the 1969-7- 0 school year, or 306 new classrooms each year in order to meet all require-ments by the 1974-- 5 school year. In order to provide for "emer-gency needs" only, as deter-mined by the School Building Advisory Committee of the Utah 'Legislative Council, 546 class-rooms must be built during each of the next three years. Foundation analysts note that if an average cost of $40,000 per classroom is assured, Utah must spend $15.1 million each year until 1969, or $12.5 million each vear until 1974 in order to meet these needs. Providing for the "emergency needs" only by '61 would take an annual expendi-ture of $21.8 million during each of the next three years. Actual expenditures for school sites, new construction, and additions (excluding remodeling equip-ment) averaged $17.9 million annually during the past four years. The amount spent for new schools was $20.7 million last school year. All but five of Utah's 40 dis-tricts should be able to finance their "emergency" school build-ing needs by 1961 with local re-sources. The "emergency needs" that cannot be met from local re-sources for these five district total $6,638,500. If the reduc-tion of overcrowded classrooms were included as an "emergency need," the deficit would be. S14,-522,50- 0. The Foundation report men-tions that the School Building Advisory Committee has recom-mended the continuance of state aid for local school building con-struction, but that opinion on the Committee is sharply divided as to how such aid should be dis-tributed. One group, led by the professional school representa-tion on the committee, favors a permanent continuing program of state aid for school building Other Committe members main-tain that aid for building pur-poses should remain on a tem-porary emergency basis, and concentrated in the districts where the greatest need exists. A significant point made in the Utah Foundation study is that the birthrate in Utah has leveled off since 1950 and that school enrollments should begin to level off during the latter 1960's or the early part of the 1970 decade. The report observes that "enrollment increases after 1965 are not expected to be as large as they are now and have been during the past few years." Foundation analysts note that the principal reason for the big increases in school enrollments during the past few years has been that the youths who are leaving the public school system were born during the low birth-rate depression years, while the children entering the public schools were, born during the high birth-rat- e postwar years. By the latter part of the 1960's, however, all the students who will be leaving public schools will have been born in the post-war era of high birth rates. The net difference in the number of those entering and those leaving will not be as great as it has been during the past ten years. Old Cabinet's May Prove Death Trap Do you have an old ice box you've been using as storage space? How about a discarded refrigerator you've been plan-ning to toss in the dump but just haven't got around to? Well, it's a good idea to get rid of such cabinets as soon as they're of no more use as a food preserver. They can be killers of children. Such cabinets, lethal because they are air tight and because their doors can't be opened from the inside, anually snuff out the lives of about a dozen children. In 1957, according to the Na-tional Safety Council, 14 chil-dren five boys and nine girls suffocated in air tight cabinets. In 1956, 11 died, and in 1955, 18. More than 50 million refrige-rators, ice boxes, freezers and other similar air tight cabinets are in use today. At a rate of about a million a year they're being carted to junk piles or, worse yet, kept in the basement or left in the back yard. "The suffocation of children in discarded cabinets is an espe-cially needless form of acciden-tal death." Most states have legislation prohibiting, discarding or stor-ing the death dealing devices where they can become coffins for children. A new federal law requires that all household refrigerators shipped after Nov. 1, 1958, shall be equipped with an inside re-lease latch. "Even that does not insure the safety of children today. It will be many years before the pres-ent refrigerators are no longer in use." Meanwhile the Council which in cooperation with the National Electrical Manufacturers Assn., is conducting a campaign against discarded cabinets gives these tips on how the cabinets can be made harmless: 1. Remove the door. Even with the latch removed, many freez-er cabinets of the chest type have lids too heavy for a trapped child to lfit. 2. Remove latch stops so the door can't lock. This you can do, usually, by removing four screws. 3. Drill holes in the cabinet and remove the rubber gasket , around the door. Best of all destroy the box. Parents should insure the safe-ty of their children by knowing where the children are playing, by providing safe places for them to play, and by telling them of the dangers of ice boxes and refrigerators. 1 COL FRANK THOMPSON TALKS ABOUT 7Tear Mellowness "PERFECT 7 YEAR MELLOWNESS is one of the reasons our Old Kentucky Tavern is recognized as the world's finest Bourbon. You'll find its flavor and bouquet at their very peak-tha- nks to fresh-ai- r aging in our open-ric- k warehouses!" COL. FRANK THOMPSON. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. GLENMORE DISTILLERIE9 .'.v. v.'.-.-- ...'.,'.. v.wv.v .,..'..'.,'.,.,...,.v..w.v.v., .'.V.V.V vOTv..w.vy? esiM'&Ht 7 ! ii 86 PROOF & 10Q PROOF B0TTLED-IN-B0N- D ffifS KENTUCKY STRAIGHT M JWH BOURBON WHISKEY U Jfy YPfe5 GLENMORE DISTILLERIES CO. tegfiig - Where Perfection of Product h TndttiM 0 LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY Utah National Guard Offers Spiritual Services to Soldiers towards their own individual awards in the wards and stakes to which they belong. The Sunday drills are limited and only conducted when train-ing sessions are needed to com-plete required recommendations in weapons firing training and field exercises which cannot be completed at weekly evening drills. In cases where chaplains are not available to units drilling on Sundays, members of a nearby LDB Bishopric often voluntarily devote their time to conduct the field services for the men and in most instances stay and have lunch in the field with the citi-zen soldiers. Major Leon H. Flint, State Chaplain of the Utah National Guard, coordinates the state-wide religious program and acts as supervisor of all chaplains in the Utah National Guard. To provide Utah National Guardsmen with the ultimate in training it often becomes, as like wise with all other branches of the armed services, imperative that training exercises be con-ducted on Sunday. Since the Sunday drills would cause interference with attend-ance at the citizen soldier at his local religious institution, unit commanders of the Utah militia have been ordered to provide Sunday spiritual services for all men training in the fields, ac-cording to Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General. "Whenever training schedules of guardsmen necessitates Sun-day drill, at least one hour of the drill time is devoted to re-ligious services," he said. Since the majority of Guards-men are of the Latter-da- y Saints faith in the state of Utah, the special Sunday services are often carried somewhat along the pat-tern familiar with LDS Guards-men at a neighborhood chapel, he said. However, provisions have been made for Guardsmen who so wish, to be released to attend services at the church or syna-gogue of their own choice. Utah National Guard officials met with members of the Pre-siding Bishopric's Office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and a program was arranged whereby LDS Guards-men who attend Sunday drills can receive credit to be counted Utah Records Boost1 n Federal Taxes For the first time in history Utah's federal income tax col-lections have hit the 200 million dollar mark, it was reported this week by the Internal Revenue Service, which noted the new high in Utah collections for the fiscal year 1958 was in the face of a national downturn in busi-ness. The service reported that while Utah's collections jumped about seven and one half million dol-lars over fiscal 1957, the national . total dropped almost 200 mil-lion dollars below the all-tim- e high of $80,200,000,000 collected last year. Utah, the Internal Revenue Service said, now contributes more to the federal treasury than do 13 other states. They are New Mexico, Montana, Wyo-ming, Idaho, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Ar-kansas, Alaska, Nevada, Missis-sippi. Deadline Monday For Some Taxpayers Teachers and other eligible taxpayers have until Monday to file federal income tax refund claims for deductible educa-tional expenditure made in 1954. Charles I. Fox, District Direc-tor of Internal Revenue Service, said the November 3 deadline results from the additional 60-d- ay filing period provided by Public Law 85-86- 6 enacted Sept. 2, 1958. |