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Show Uglier Education Law Voiding !ue for Supreme Court Review I :. ill's Higher I'duomein ,et 't s UIVimsUllltioll.il lli.:t llu- Hoard of Kiln ration must diroet. nil public edeeation. I'etor W. l!illint;s, Hoard ill Higher Education cliairnum, said the decision will bo appealed ap-pealed to (ho State Supreme Court. "We'll do whatever we can to permit the hoard of U'-tr U'-tr Education to funetiou until un-til the Supreme Coiu't acts on our ease," he said. The Constitutional Hevisiru Commission had attempted unsueees.-fully to obtain in. traduction of a proposed constitutional con-stitutional amendment in the last Legislature to legalize the Hoard of Higher Kdueation. Kduea-tion. Ketardation Battle Utah Social Services De-irtknent De-irtknent heads are tryin? to stem a growing movement fer a new law to establish a -Mate division to deal with problems of retarded children child-ren and adults. Paul S. Sagers, supcrintend-dent supcrintend-dent of the Training School at American Fork, said June 29 that there is just as much justification for a retardation division as there is for a Mental Health Division. The Mental Health Division Divis-ion assists persons who can be aided in meeting emotional emotion-al and related problems. Markedly retarded persons can be taught but. they sol-dom sol-dom become self-sufficient. Sagers was one of several speakers at a Family Services Ser-vices Subcommittee of Tie legislative Council meeting. $6 Million Budget . He reported that his school now has an annual budget of $6 million and 670 employes, more than docs the Family Services (welfare) Division which new administers the school. Residential services to retarded re-tarded children are now bring br-ing given at seven group centers cen-ters and these will be increased in-creased to 15 by next year, Sagers said. Group therapy centers also are being established, he said. He urged speedy organization organiza-tion of a new division with a board which could mediate between parents desiring care of retarded children near their homes and par-nils par-nils of chndren now al tin; American Fork School. Willing T Wait Mrs. Oma Wilcox, Fast Layton, member of the Family Fam-ily Services Division Hoard declared that If the Mental Health Division is retained, a retardation division .should be created. She expressed willingness to wait two years, if necessary, for creation of the new division. l'aul S. Hose, executive director, di-rector, Social Services De-piirtinent, De-piirtinent, opposed a new di-vi-ion. This, he said, would tend further to fragment services ser-vices delivered to the public by competing agencies. ' "We already have seven divisions di-visions in Ihis department, and these, too often, compelc-with compelc-with each other," he said. "We want, to try to prevent shopping about among duplicating dup-licating services for maximum maxi-mum benefits to an individual! individu-al! or family and instead combine services as much as possible," he continued. Pilot Program A pilot project of providing unitized services to residents of five southwestern Utah counties is being launched this week with headquarters in Cedar City, he told. After six months of expedience expedi-ence under this program, tl;t department should be read to make recommendations to the Legislature, he said. "We should have some idea of the success of the regionalized region-alized program by January," he said. Richard W. Crouch, assistant assist-ant director of planning and evaluation emphasized that if the regionalized unitary program is succos-iful a restructuring res-tructuring of the program at the departmental level must come. $1 Million Bonus Bl.Tine J. Kay, state highway high-way engineer, reported June 30 that Utah has been given an additional $1 minion in federal funds because th s state had plans ready and other states are not prepared prepar-ed to use the money. The money will be used building ramps for the Moark Interchange north of Snanir.n Fork. The interchange when completed in about three years (to allow for settlement settle-ment of the ramps) will be used by cars leaving 1-15 and proceeding up Spanish Fork Canyon along U.S. 50-ff, the read to Price, Moab and oth. er points. The Highway Department reported that traffic over I-70 I-70 west of Green River is continuing to grow. San Rafael Bridge During May the average daily traffic crossing the San Rafael River Bridge 12 miles west of Green River was 913 cars. This was an increase in-crease of 33.7 per cent ahead of the average daily count of 683 cars in May 1071. Traffic over U.S. 50-6 at Weedcide which slumped with opening of I 70 in the fall of 1970, has started to increase again. The average daily count at this bridge during May 1970 was- 1,822. This dropped to 1.594 in May 1971 but increased increas-ed to 1,661 cars in May 1972. Another alternate road, U-10 U-10 at Emery, held its own compared with last year. Traffic at this counter dropped drop-ped from 471 cars in May 1970 to 336 in Mav 1971. The May 1972 total again was 35u cars per day. |
