| Show I Rep Dixon Takes Up Education Problems in Three Local Talks I Congressman Henry Aldous Dixon in a Monday visit to Moab deferred political questions and directed the texts of three addresses addresses ad ad- dresses desses to local problems of education edu edw education cation and actions of the economy economy economy econ econ- omy minded congress recently ad ad- The former fonner Utah educator of 01 Weber College In Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den and Utah State University prior to being drafted for the republican nomination for congress congress congress con con- gress in 1954 said he was here mainly because two laws effecting ef of federal aid for impacted areas are in danger of being discontinued As the two taws laws and vitally affect Grand county schools Dixon spent considerable time with school officials in order to learn leam the extent of crowded conditions in the schools resulting rp from population influx Public law allows the district dis dis- dis for each student that thatis is brought into the system as at a I result of federally connected activities ac activities ac- ac In io the area The money I C-I I is for maintenance of the school system Public law aids federally federally federally fed fed- impacted areas in school r building Public law aw the congressman congress congress- congressman man said is being questioned and was deferred by the present con con- gress Should it be discontinued he continued this district could not make up the cliffer difference nce in funds by levying all of their remaining remaining re re- mill levy one of the reasons I 1 am here he said After witnessing a change of classes at the high school where the enrollment Is at an ant I unprecedented high the congressman congressman con con- congressman gressman said he was going I back and work for It it L Law I In three addresses before belore high school students Moab Rotarians and Moab Lions club members I and guests Representative Dixon stressed that the greatest Investment investment in In- n vestment that can can be made is in young youn people through education In describing the congested conditions conditions conditions con con- at the high school Dixon told Rotarians The kids deserve deserve deserve de de- de- de serve a better break than that that Dr Dixon commended school Continued on Page 12 I REP DIXON v Continued from Page I 1 officials for tor the vision and resourceful re reo iness that has permitted a rapid adjustment to meet new I problems Civic officials were commended also as Were the civic civic civIc ic clubs which Dixon saw as hav hay haying having havIng ing some fine opportunities to help youth In determining needs for the future Dixon recommended careful care care- careful careful ful consideration must be given to all the factors the uncertainty of the uranium industry the great new developments in other other minerals and the continuing needs In discussing a new high school he said the need is surely sur sur- surely surely ely there for a new high school Dr Dixon told Moab Lions and guests in an evening meeting atthe at atthe atthe the Towne and Country club that he Is continually struck by how Moab has grown but wanted to pose the question How have we grown He then urged that growth be spiritual educational and cultural along with the economic economic econ econ- growth that is most obvious The former educator educator- then thim listed reasons why education has become become become be be- come of increasing concern to the nation and to the President I during the past few years He HeI I demonstrated by statistics the high crime rate in the sub high I school educated population In our own state he Illustrated thisby this thisby thisby by telling the three groups that only 15 per cent of the men menat menat menat at the Utah were high school graduates despite the fact that the average education in this state is a high school dl di ploma I A concern of the President is the fact that Russia is ing us in educating its promising I scholars Too few of our top high 5 school hool graduates are going on to college said Dixon Representative live tive Dixon testified before a aHouse aHouse aHouse House committee recently on that subject and will wUl be In Salt Lake with w th members members' of the t committee I when they Investigate the Utah situation a hearings in the University University Uni Uni- of Utah Union building November 1 1 |
