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Show i 1 I Jaek-Sfraws By Jack Wallis : ) usical treat was presented to esidents Monday when the U.S. rce Academy Band gave an : concert in the Bicentennial band played stirring patriotic rs made popular over the years, lconaires, a jazz-rack ensemble, tunes from the Glen Miller era alar music. The Moods in Blue ! gave a rendition of Spike Jones' lemories to older music lovers nemories to older music lover ntertained those of younger tions. I' the concert, the band com-'jr com-'jr conductor Major John D. id, said he had really enjoyed s ning in Vernal and would like to lack soon. He said the pavilion ideal facility for band concerts. Air Force Band conductor also ted that the Uintah High School ttend Band Day at the Air Force ny on Sept. 20. On this day school from all over the country meet . !r and perform as one big band, rformance is recorded and the is given to each participating to take back home and play, her interesting sideline of the vas when several 5 year-olds elected from the audience to ip and conduct the band, hope the professional band nance may spark more interest Mnior high and high school band nis. A good school band is the a good active community that bout developing musical talents, ir Force Academy Band per-ice per-ice is a good example of what a an do ana now it can be an asset irganization. lank Major McCord for bringing id to Vernal and we do hope he '.urn soon. s the preliminary 1980 census A have been released, most jinities have been unhappy with J the indicated population growth of their areas and have even challenged the count. It seems like the preliminary figures are much less than the estimated figures used during the past years. Everyone likes to see their community com-munity grow in size. When the government figures come out and say, you're not as big as you thought you were; problems arise. It will be interesting in-teresting to see how the final 1980 census figures finally come out. Someone said the U.S. census is a senseless expense for the taxpayers. There may be more truth to this statement than one realizes, especially after all the problems encountered in the task of counting noses. Speaking of counting noses, a report published in the recent publication of the Utah Taxpayers Association concerning con-cerning Utah's school dropout rate is perplexing. The three Uintah Basin school districts were listed with the highest dropout rate for the year 1979 in the entire 40 districts. Uintah School District rated number one in the state for the number of dropouts, according to the report. Uintah had 43 dropouts for every 100 high school graduates. Duchesne was listed with 37 and Daggett had 42. The state average was 23. Sevier School District is making a formal protest disputing the Taxpayers' Tax-payers' figures that it had 32 dropouts out of 100 graduates in 1979. Uintah Superintendent Wayne Reid said, "The UTA report on Uintah's dropouts isn't right. I don't know how the figures were compiled, but we don't have that many dropouts." There again we have a conflict on how counts are made and how statistics are presented. It has been said that you can prove anything with statistics. Sometimes this seems to be true. Figures don't lie, they just get misquoted. |