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Show i i J Page Eight FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1958 THE SALT LAKE TIMES O. GREENWOOD MEADS UTAH COUNTY DEMOS minded delegates that true po-litical parties find their strength in the dignity of the individual. He declared thta "democracy and the government exist only for the individual and unless we learn this concept political par-ties will be a farce and county conventions a sham." During the convention a num-ber of candidates for county of-fice came forth. They included Robert Q. Strong, former Provo City Auditor, who announced he would seek the county auditor nomination; J. Clark Elmer, who said he would seek one of the two county commission posts; and Howard Hinton, Lehi, who announced his candidacy for the State Senate. Three men, Ralph Peters and Sterling Harding, Orem, and Roscoe Kay, Provo, said they would run for sheriff. r An American Fork business-man, Dave Greenwood, is new Utah County Democratic chair-man. Mr. Greenwood was elected at the county organization conven-to- n in Provo Saturday. He de-feated Leon Pritchett by a vote of 235 to 115. Mr. Greenwood is a former mayor of American Fork. More than 350 of the county's 597 certified delegates attended the convention in Provo High School to name county officers and elect 104 delegates to the state convention. In the race for vice chairman Mrs. Roy (Marjorie) Mott, an Orem housewife, won over Mrs. Kenner (Evelyn) Clayton of Pro-vo by a vote of 210 to 143. Elmer Terry, assistant county attorney and for 12 years party secretary, was reelected for an-other term. David Stringer of Spanish Fork, was named treas-urer. Both were unopposed. Mrs. Mott succeeds Mrs. J. Clark Elmer, Payson, as vice chairman. Mr. Stringer replaces Richard Taylor of Spanish Fork. Neither sought re-electi- Milton L. Weilenmann, state Democratic chairman, told the convention that "I think you Democrats sense victory in the air. We have a constructive pro-gram, and if we are careful in choosing our platform and candi-dates we will be victorious in November." The convention was keynoted by Carroll P. Hurd, head of the Department of Political Science at Westminster College. He re- - Big Proportion of Teachers Are Forsaking Utah Schools Last year 902 Utah educators resigned their positions and over 400 left to teach in private schools, the public schools of other states, or to business or other professions. Those leaving to teach elsewhere comprise one third of Utah's total annual need according to a study of the Utah Education Association released today. The study was tabulated by Research Services, Inc., a pri-vate research agency. According to the study, 56.7 per cent of the teachers leaving I Utah to teach elsewhere will teach this year in California, 3.8 per cent will teach in Washing-ton, and 1.9 per cent will teach in Oregon. Less than a fourth leaving Utah to teach elsewhere will teach this year in the seven mountain states fo Idaho, Wyo-ming, Nevada, Arizona, Colo-rado and New Mexico. ' A large proportion of those teachers who left Utah class-rooms last year said that a pri-mary reason for leaving was in-adequate salaries. The study shows that those leaving Utah to teach in other states will re-ceive an average of $1,429 over their Utah salary of last year. Those teaching in private and parochial schools will receive an average of $737 over last year's teaching salaries in Utah. Of those leaving to enter busi-ness or other professions, aver-age earnings this year exceed last year's Utah teaching salary by an average of $1,737. Of the teachers leaving the Utah school system to assume home responsibilities, a large number indicated that they may eventually return to the class-room. However, the more than 400 who left to teach in the school systems of other states in-dicated that it is not very likely that they will return to teach-ing in Utah. Of the 902 teachers leaving the Utah school system last year, approximately one-thir- d left to assume home re-sponsibilities. Approximately an-other third left to assume teach-ing positions in private schools and public schools outside of Utah. The remaining third left to enter some other business or profession, get further education, to retire, or because of death. Questionnaires were mailed to every teacher who withdrew his money from the State Teachers retirement System during the school year 1956-5- 7. Approxi-mately 60 per cent of those who left responded to the question-naire. The remaining 40 per cent were divided in the same propor-tion as the 60 per cent who re-sponded. DemocratWomen Call State Meet Sponsored by the Women's di-vision of the state Democratic organization, a workshop and constitutional convention will be held at the Kiwanis Felt Boys' and Girls Club, 211 East First South, March 2 8 and 29. First session on Friday will begin at 9 a.m., and will be devoted to adoption of a constitution and by-la- and election of officers of a state federation of Demo-cratic Women's Clubs. At 2 p.m. on Friday, Dr. Carrol P. Hurd of Westminster College will give the keynote address, "Politics is Every Woman's Business." Problems of finance, publicity, programs and speak-ers' bureau, membership will be discussed. Speakers on Saturday will be Mrs. James P. Algire, "What the Young Democrats are Doing in Utah," and Mrs. I. R. Morrison, "What Federation Can Do for the Democratic Women and for the Democratic Party." Concluding event will be a ban-quet on Saturday evening at 7 p.m. for both men and women. Motion picture, "Pursuit of Hap-piness," narrated by Senator J. F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, will highlight this session. Mrs. Delia F. Loveridge is chairman of the planning committee. All interested women in the state are cordially invited. yj Judge Wolfe Dies In California Former Utah State Supreme Court Justice James H. Wolfe died this week in Sonoma, Cal., after a long illness. Mr. Wolfe was elected to the Supreme Court in 1934 after serving six years as a judgejTj the Third Judicail District. c retired in 1954 at the age of 70 and moved to Vineburg, Calif. He was regarded in legal circles as an authority on constitutional and administrative law and the law of torts. Politically, he was associated with the Democratic Party. Utahns Urged to Seek Aid For Public Library Act Utah is participating in this much-neede- d library develop-ment. Already our state is estab-lishing a state library. Prior to this act Utah was the only state in the nation without a state library. The Utah State Library is starting to loan collections of books to small rural libraries and shortly will have a bookmo-bile to aid in loaning books in the rural areas of Utah where there is no library. Duchesne county under the simulus of this act has created a county library and with aid from the state li-brary will be able to give li-brary service to 6,506 residents of the county who have been without such service in the past. Without the federal help to get started most of these activities will have to be curtailed. Citizens of Utah this week were urged by the American Library Association and the Utah State Library to write to their Sena-tors and Representatives to vote the full $7,500,000 fiscal appro-priation for the nation's first federally assisted public library expansion program provided by the Library Services Act. Under the legislation, the states match federal funds and the state library extension agencies con-duct their own programs in rural areas. Utah is among the states that are participating, and the pro-grams already started in the state cannot be fully carried forward unless the appropriation is made. Congress authorized grants of $7,5000,000 a year and for five years when the act was passed in 1956 but only $2,050,000 was appropriated for 1957 and $5,-000,0- 00 for 1958. This was cut to $3,000,000 in the president's buetary request recently pre-- sefitecl to CohgreSS: Arthur H. Parsons, Jr., director of Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md., who is president of the Public Library Association declared: "It is necessary for citizens to write to their congressmen and rescue from disastrous curtail-ment this important program at the very time when America's basic educational needs are be-ing recognized as vital to the national security. If the state of the world makes it necessary for us to spend billions on missiles, it is even more necessary for us to spend a few millions to help give our people the means to evaluate properly the issues that make necessary the billions for missiles. The role of good public libraries in our democracy will always be vital; this is particu-larly evident at this time." SLC Commission Hikes Rate For Parking Meter Salt Lake City Commission this week voted to increase parking meter fees in most of downtown Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce im-mediately began legal measures to block the move. The new parking meter ordi-nance would eliminate penny parking. Some 1700 new meters have been purchased by the city and will be installed immediately. The new meters eliminate the visible time dial and therefore do not show the amount of time left before the meter is in vio-lation. Mayor Adiel F. Stewart said that other commissioners agreed on the increased parking rates. The act was viewed as a means of increasing revenue to meet rising cost of traffic control. But the Chamber of Commerce charged that the move was un-fair to downtown merchants who bear a large share of the eity's tax load. The Chamber noted that no public hearing on the matter was called, Referring to the lack of a pub-lic hearing City Attorney E. Ray Cnristensen said that under city laws the commission may hold such a hearing but that one is not mandatory. The minimum charge for any parking meter under the new rates will be five cents. The mini-mum charge for an hour's park-ing will be ten cents, twice the present fee. Present 12 minute zones will be replaced by 15 minute zones and the cost of parking in such areas will be five cents. Current 36-min- zones will be changed to 30 minute zones with the 5-c- ent charge prevailing. Two-ho- ur zones will remain the same, ten cents. .PERFECT m -- ISffWDRIVERQL fcyF Because it's yr light and WOOuUjS if priced so right, ifyiJSj VODKA ! naturally with (J everything i MTODlWjj s o -- 80 PROOF - DISTILLED FROM 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS THE FLEISCHMANN DISTILLING CORP., NEW YORK CITY II ni II Tn Offer rhoto Courses Courses for both beginners and advanced students in photog-raphy, including both black and white and color, will be taught spring quarter by the University of Utah Department of Journal-ism. The courses will meet in three groups, each on a different eve-ning of the week, Dr. Quintus C. Wilson, head of the department, announced Thursday. A course for beginners, desig-nated Photgraphy lOx, is open to the community, including high school students. To meet each Monday at 7:30 pm, beginning March 31, the course offers no credit. Three other courses offer three credit hours in resident and resi-dent extension credit. |