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Show N. E. A. CONVENTION SUCCESS Teachers returning from the Utah Educational Assn." convention report it the best attended and most successful ever held in the state, and very enjoyable. enjoy-able. The following are extracts from the proceedings. Election of all county and city boards of education at large on nonpartisan non-partisan tickets, and financing Utah's schools largely on a state-wide basis, were among the changes proposed in ; resolutions passed Thursday afternoon ! at the meeting of the house of delegates dele-gates of the Utah Education association. associa-tion. Delbert W. Parratt, secretary of the association, reported that Utah leads all other states in its high percentage ! of teachers who are members of the j educators' organization. Utah's per-i per-i centage is 94.3. He recalled the united efforts of the teachers in support of the successful effort to repeal the Redd racing law, but added that race track gambling has : continued in Utah. He expressed hope J that it soon would be stamped out definitely de-finitely and finally. President Fowler made his report, in which he urged the teachers to take deeper interest in primaries and elec-! elec-! tions. He said that the association I was approaching the 100 per cent membership goal, pointing to the fact that members now numbered more than 4800. |