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Show ' Page Four FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1961 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Ford Foundation Launches Plan To Strengthen Utah Rural Schools A cooperative experiment by five western states Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah to strengthen educa-tion in their small,' rural schools was announced by the Ford Foundation. Aided by Foundation grants of $742,000, the education depart-ments of the five states organize a western states Small Schools Project to attack the problems of schools with 200 students or less. The experiment has national significance since such schools account for a fifth of America's school children. Other actions announced by the Foundation were: A grant of $5 million to Educational Facilities Labora-tories, New York, for expanded support of its research and in-formation programs on planning The Foundation's grants to the several state departments of education provide 3 --year support for research and evaluation as well as for teacher workshops and conferences. The Project's regional coordinating office will be located in Denver. Colorado has been conducting an experiment to improve small high school instruction with the assistance of a grant from the Foundation in 1960. Two other projects for small, rural schools have been supported by the Foundation and the Fund for the Advancement of Education, an independent organization of the Foundation. These are the Cat-ski- ll Area Project in Small School Design, which includes 27 schools in a area of New York State, and Resources Project which covers some 150 and uses of school and college schools in Vermont and Maine. facilities. A grant of $1,250,000 to the Cleveland Foundation, for use by a new organization, Greater Cleveland Associated Founda-tion, in supporting experimental projects on problems of the area. The grants to the education departments of the five western states participating in Western States Small Schools Project were as follows: Arizona, $105,-00- 0; Colorado, $256,000; Nevada, $129,000; New Mexico, $127,000; and Utah, $125,000. There are about 1,150 small, rural schools in the five state region, with 93,000 pupils and 5,600 teachers. The Project will begin in September, 1962, with about 120 schools comprising 18,000 pupils and 1,000 teachers. At the end of the Project's third year, the majority of the small schools in the five states are expected to be included. Including today's grant, since 1956, the Foundation and the Fund have provided $1,569,833 to strengthen education in the nation's rural schools. The problem is not one merely of expanding the educational plant to accommodate growing enrollments. Education itself is undergoing revolutionary change in the deployment and grouping of pupils and teachers. The main objective of the Laboratories, consequently is to help devise the physical forms that will ad-vance the process of education and strengthen its quality. Although established and sup-ported by the Foundation, the Laboratories is an independent organization with its own board of directors and officers. The organization supports its consulting and technical services in the planning of the new school and college facilities that may serve as prototypes for improved educational construction. Also research is sponsored on the design and installation of new equipment and apparatus, with science laboratories, language laboratories and educational TV. In its first three years, the Laboratories has supported or conducted 92 projects. Examples, the planning of buildings that provide a flexible range of teach-ing and learning spaces, support was given to school boards in Covina, Calif.; Flowing Wells, Arizona; and McPherson, Kans.; as well as in large cities like Chicago and New York. Ex-amples of special educational structures aided by Laboratories are a school auditorium, Boulder City, Nevada, that is divisible into classrooms, and a fieldhouse in Bethesda, Maryland, that by using a geodesic dome, provides more interior space at less cost than a gymnasium of a more conventional design. As a national information center on buildings and equip-ment, the Laboratories has now distributed more than 700,000 copies of the 21 reports it has published to date. Subjects range from a study of school planning and financing to the school de-sign aspects of instructional TV. "For some time to come, the small school is likely to continue to educate a significant part of the nation's youth. Despite our continuing efforts toward con-solidation of small units, such factors as geography, topgraphy, population sparsity, economics, make this unfeasible in many areas. Therefore, schools with small enrollments must devise other ways to overcome defi-ciencies in faculty, financial and other resources. In attempting to improve the performance, small schools too frequently have followed organi-zational practices established by large schools. The Western ex-periment will seek instead to build on the inherent advantages of the small school setting for example, greater opportunities for individual instruction. Mr. Faust said the Western Project would provide a frame work to help individual schools test and adopt a range of new departures. Among these: The establishment of multiple classes, in which one teacher teaches more than one subject in the same room at the same time. The sharing between schools of special teachers in languages, mathematics and other subjects. The employment of teacher aides housewives and others from the community, to perform clerical and routine instructional tasks. The use of TV, tape recorders and films to expand a curriculum and strengthen teaching. Other methods encompassed in the experiment schelules that permit considerable variation in the length and frequency of the classes, supervised correspond-ence study, team teaching, and co-operat- programs among schools to provide advanced work for able students. I . I THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News ffiar IGSS Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as second IndepeHieRl class matter August 23, 1923, under the act of March 8, 1879. Newspaper 711 South West Temple Telephone EM I I r GLENN BJORNN, Publisher "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." Volume 41 Number 30 P X the--L EASED GRAPEVINE v ' f Salt Lake County Clerk Alvin j Keddington this week drew a S list of 350 names to serve as j jurors during the January term f of Third District Court. The f prospective jurors will be ex- - f amined by Third District Judge I Ray Van Cott Jr. Jan. 2 at 10 1 a.m. Mr. Keddington said about 300 ji of the 350 will qualify for jury duty from Jan. 2 to April 1. 1 !"- County Treasurer Charles O. I Bonner this week reported Salt y Lake County tax payments are nearing the $35 million mark. More mail is yet to be processed, f he said. The two week loan period on books checked out from the Salt I Lake City Public Library was j extended to four weeks by the library's board of directors. The board also voted to increase the two cents a day overdue fine to five cents a day effective Jan. 1. Verl G. Dixon, a veteran of Utah County political wars, this week was elected Provo mayor. Mr. Dixon, chairman of Citizens for Charter Repeal, polled 4,361 votes to J. Earl Lewis' 2,696 votes. W. Smoot Brimhall, former city councilman and commis-sioner, was named four year commissioner and Luke Clegg, state senator from Utah County, was elected two year commis-sioner. Purchase of an apartment house at 263 East 5th South as part of a site for the proposed new joint Salt Lake City-Sa- lt Lake County Metropolitan Hall of Justice was approved this week by the Salt Lake County Commission. The county is purchasing the property for $37,500, said Louis M. Haynie, coordinator for the county's capital improvements program. Salt Lake City Commissioners this week promised "every ef-fort" to save as much as possible of the city's sales tax revenues for capital improvements. The pledge was made after discus-sion of the proposed budget for the first half of 1962, which must be adopted by Dec. 29. Hunters who were planning to take part in Utah's last deer hunt of the season, the five day notice special two deer hunt on the Hart's Draw in San Juan County, will be refunded their permit monies, according to H. S. Crane, director of the fish and game department and chair-man of Utah's five man board of big game control. The hunt, scheduled original-ly for 500 two deer special per-mits, is being called of for two reasons. Primary reason for the cancellation s weather. Enough snow has fallen in the area to make travel difficult but the usual severe storms which are needed to push deer into the area have been lacking. Second factor considered by the board in cancelling the hunt was its apparent lack of popular-ity among hunters. Only 50 of the allocated 500 permits were sold. Don't Worry About Fallout This Christmas (Continued from Page One) expand. There are still many unknowns, but research is going rapidly ahead. "Meanwhile, we shouidnot get panicky over something we cannot control," sals Dr. Jorgenson, "and since the best tonic for good health is to be happy, let's be happy this Christmas season. That's an order from your family doctor." As a Strong Man to Run a Race If the great plan for lowering world tariffs is the right step to take, ways will be found to keep it from unduly hurting anybody. This is the only tenable approach to a project that offers large opportunities, is based on good economic principles, has strong conservative as well as liberal support, and can inflict serious damage on many honorable businessmen and workers. ' With active concern for this minority, the American people and Congress can face the nation debate on this topic with poise. Without it there is danger to everyone concerned. The American people have steadily supported freer trade as a general rule, but specific demands for protection wields a legitimate and more proportionate influence when it comes to votes. One depressed factory can often cause a congressman to vote no, or to vote yes and then hobble it with restrictions. If attention is paid only to one remark of President Ken-nedy, the national debate could get off on the wrong foot. If all the businesses and workers with a stake in exports will work as hard as those with a stake in protection, he said, the necessary legislation will pass. So it probably would if not next year, then the year after, but by itself this is a divisive approach. The task of liberating trade, keeping abreast of the new onrush of enterprise in the non-Commun- ist world, calls for 'a better and more generous attitude than a bare majority vote. We do not ask for a bureaucratic approach, for buying off the dissenters with tax money. The enterprise approach is to tackle adjustments in the way that business leadership in the United States has pioneered: by welcoming the need for change and converting it from a disaster to a step forward into new products and new markets; by starting with the individual busi-nessman and calling in the voluntary group where necessary; by calling in government where and when the group properly needs assistance. On this latter point, Mr. Kennedy was on firm ground. He promised to ask Congress for a program of "adjustment assist-ance." Just as government helped industry reconvert after the war, it would have "an obligation to help those who must adjust to a national trade policy adopted for the national good." An advanced society should expect to convert steadily and gladly to those products and processes that keep it advanced. Progress is for the American who "rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race." Utah Symphony Ballet Music Named Best in the Nation The Utah Symphony's record-ing of the complete "Nutcracker Ballet" music conducted by Mau-rice Abravanel on the Vanguard label came in for top honors this week. The New York Herald Tribune listed this outstanding album as one of fifteen orchestral works singled out as the "Year's Best Records," in the December 17 edition. The "Nutcracker" recording was released by Vanguard to coincide with the University and Utah Symphony presentation of seven performances of the ballet at Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City Dec. 26 and 30 and two other performances January 2 at the Ogden High auditorium. According to Vanguard offi-cials this popular two record album for the price of one disc is enjoying a brisk sale in the New York area especially, but also in the nation. It is on sale at all fine record shops for $3.96 monaraul and $5.98 stereo. ftJL$flrflr flunni lot you J (y"ORANGE AND jJ FOR YOU . . YOUR FAMILY . . . 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