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Show iI i f i ' fe-tEi- cht FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1960 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Historical Dramas Under Stars Attract Thousands During Year This summer some 400,000 people will have found theirway to remote outdoor theaters, most of them among the woods, dunes and hills of North Carolina, Vir-ginia and Kentucky. In vast arenas under the stars, they will see historical dramas glorifying builders of the nation and re-enact- ing history where it really happened. The father of this outsize edu-cational entertainment is Paul Green, a rugged, plain spoken post playwright of Chapel Hill, N. C. His story is vividly re-counted in a recent Readers Di-gest article. Green, who won a Pulitzer Prize with a Broadway hit, has attracted more than three million spectators with nine outdoor dramas; Sixteen similar produc-tions by writers who followed him mitlnnrs hnvp ntfrnntArl ihc other millions to such places as Petersburg, 111., and Tucson, Ariz. "This is big show business, and all the more remarkable because it is financed and acted largely by people in the areas. Although some of these dramas were writ-ten for special historical cele-brations and intended to last but a summer, many have proved popular enough to go on year after year." Green's "Lost Colony," staged on the lonely shores of Roanoke Island, N. C, is still a smash hit after 19 seasons. For 13 summers tourists have crowded the 2,600 seat theater at Williamsburg, Va., to his Thomas Jefferson drama, "The Common Glory." His latest, "The Stephen Foster Story," which opened last year in the hills near Bardstown, Ky., draws more than 1,000 nightly. Three symphonic dramas by Green's most successful disciple, Kermit Hunter, also thrive in the southeast. His Unto These Hills, dramatizing the story of the Cherokee Indians, has drawn 1,425,000 persons and millions of tourist dollars to Cherokee, N. C. high in the Great Smoky Mountains. A seventh show, "Old Four Eyes," the story of Theo-dore Roosevelt, is in its third successful season at Medora, N. D. on the principle as one of five moves he has made in the 86th Congress to help small and inde-pendent firms. He also listed these moves: 1. Backed a bill to outlaw sales at prices below cost. "Such sales have always represented decep-tive and unfair competition," he said. 2. Won House enactment of his bill to establish prospecting per-mits to protect phosphate pros-pectors and their claims against invasion by big competitors. 3. Helped write a new patents policy which the House injected into the National Space Act. 4. Helped defeat a controver-sial Department of Defense pol-icy which hurt the small van lines in their competition for the jobs of moving household goods for defense personnel. Rep. King Demands Tax Reform to Aid Small Businessmen Rep. David S. King of Utah Frdiay night said "a tax reform to help small businessmen plow more of their profits back into their own expansion will stimu-late growth and employment and by that growth would increase federal revenues." Speaking to a neighborhood meeting in East Mill Creek, Mr. King declared: "A reasonable tax cut to small business, based on the plow-bac- k principle of expansion, would in the long run generate more than enough new revenue to offset any immediate dip in tax revenue from this segment of the econ-omy." Mr. King listed his bill on a tax cut for small business based U of U to Launch New System For Registration University of Utah students will register in September under a new plan intended to reduce substantially the length of lines for payment of their tuition and fees. Under the new procedure, tuition and fees must be paid before registration material will be issued. To avoid waiting in line to make tuition payments on regis-tration day, students are urged to send their payments by mail at least two weeks before regis-tration. In previous years, payment of tuition and fees has been the last thing a U of U student has done in registering. Under the new plan, the payment will be first and students will not be issued registration forms unless they can show a receipt of pay-ment. Payments may be mailed to the Controller's Office, Univer-sity of Utah, Salt Lake City 12, Utah. One Teacher Schools In Utah Under Average for U. S. Only six states have fewer one-teach- er schools than Utah. This was revealed by Allan M. West, executive secretary of the Utah Education Association, from a study by the research division of the National Education Asso-ciation entitled, "One-Teach- er Schools Today." Utah has only 19 one-teach- er schools. States with fewer are: Connecticut with none, Rhode Island with one, New Jersey with two, Massachusetts and South Carolina with 14 and Georgia wtih 16. There were 23,695 one-teach- er schools in the U.S. in 1958-5- 9, according to the study. This is an 88 per cent decrease in the number of one-teach- er schools in the 40-ye- ar period from 1918-1- 9 to 1958-5- 9. The number of one-teach- er schools in the western states are as follows: Arizona 50 California 300 Colorado 203 Idaho 70 Montana 820 Nevada 41 New Mexico 43 Oregon 86 Utah 19 Washington 81 Wyoming 287 Forty years ago Utah was among the four states with the fewest one-teach- er schools with 138. The other three leading states and the number of one-teach- er schools were: Rhode Is-land (112). Arizona (287) and Nevada (314). Thirty-si- x states decreased the number of one-teach- er schools by 1,000 between 1917-1- 8 and 1958-5- 9. Thirteen states decreased the number of one-teach- er schools by more than 5,000 in the forty-on- e year period. These states and the number of one-teach- er schools eliminated are: Georgia (5,295), Illinois (10,824), Indiana (5,322), Iowa (10,223), Kansas (6,723), Kentucky (5,858), Michi-gan (5,915), Minnesota (6,798). Missouri (7,643), New York (8,-721- ). Ohio (8,303), Pennsylvania (9,572), and Texas (5,811). A one-teach- er school as defined in the study is a public elemen-tary school with only one teach-er. It may include one or more grades and may have one or more rooms. Schools organized for special instruction of physically, mentally, or emotionally handi-capped children were not in-cluded in the study. If It's Printing . . . Call EM 4-84-64 If-YO- U can n MD : A BETTER UOUmSON BUY I T HI fOUNDlH MEMBCH 'Sl'l: : buy the bottle or the case... enjoy the SSIJ greatest Kentucky bourbon of them all JyJj jj KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY . 6 YEARS OLD . 86 PROOF ANCIENT AGE DIST.. CO., FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY Demand Increases For Skilled Workers Report Points Out The demand for skilled work-ers in Utah is steadily increasing while demand for unskilled labor is on the downgrade, according to the current Utah Labor Mar-ket Bulletin. The number of unemployed in the Beehive State has dropped three per cent under the number out of work at mid summer one year ago, but the big demand is for skilled and trained workers. Utah unemployment in August hit slightly over 2 per cent of the labor force, which is consid-ered normal by labor market experts. During the recession of 1959 it was 5 per cent. "The big decline was in un-skilled occpuations as others showed slight improvement. The increase over the year ago figure was primarily in the added de-mand for clerical and skilled workers." Kenneth S. Bennion, President of LDS Business College in Salt Lake City, said that the demand for trained office workers far exceeds the supply, but that calls for unskilled office positions have virtually vanished. "Recent graduates, as a matter of fact, were faced with a new problem not where can I find employment, but which position shall I accept," he said. Arthur Coleman of the Utah Department of Employment Se-curity reported that a recent survey of Utah County showed j the trend is toward fewer un-- : skilled occupations from 25 per cent 10 years ago to around 15 per cent now, and that one out of four persons is employed in an office or sale position. He said this ratio is probably true for the entire Intermountain area. In a recent study of high school graduates it was found that the top six entry occupa-tions for high school graduates were secretary, office clerk, girl cashier, stenographer typist and waitress car hop. These six po-sitions accounted for the begin-ning employment of 75 per cent of the girl graduates from high school. |
