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Show 9 2 But 9 Jteaia By STEVE WILLIAMS Just received a wire from Sen. Frank E. Moss advising that he will make one appointment to the U S Naval Academy in July. But applications must be in his office by March 1. Candidates must be between 17 and 22 years old, single, and residents resi-dents of Utah. Interested youths should advise Senator Moss immediately imme-diately at his Washington address, Care Senate Office Building, giving giv-ing full name, date of birth, and home address. Trouble with many elected pel-v pel-v iticians is they say the voters gave them a "mandate" then act like it was a charge-a-plate. G. M. Townsend, editor of the Milford (Delaware) Chronicle says Old and obsolete shibboleths sucn as the "tax the rich" idea still dominate too much of the thinking on taxation. "The existing tax system plainly plain-ly discourages economic growth," Editor Townsend says, "and economic eco-nomic groxvth is the only thing that can provide more jobs and better jobs for this fast-growing population of ours." See where the House refused to go along with a Senate amendment on the "School Superintendents' ibill." The House version of the bill would eliminate publication of many of the important items in the annual Board of Education financial statement, leaving the public guessing about the specific places their money went ,and especially es-pecially would eliminate publication publica-tion of teachers' salaries. Seems to us this would put each teacher in the position of bargaining bargain-ing individually with the superintendents, superin-tendents, and would certainly put a lot of power in the hands of the superintendent. Proponents of the bill say publication publi-cation of teacher salaries is "embarrassing" "em-barrassing" to the teachers. Embarrassing or not, more than 70 of the Beaver County taxes go for schools, and I for one want to know where my part of it goes and who gets it. My Dad, a -Presbyterian minister, minis-ter, used to preach a sermon about "It's the Little Foxes that Spoil the Vines," and he'd point out that, the big foxes could reach up high and eat the grapes, but the little foxes couldn't reach that high, and had to pull the vines down and destroy de-stroy them to get to toe grapes. Each session of the Legislature the School Lobby tries to whittle away a little more at the controls over our school operations, and their biggest scrap seems to be aimed at keeping the public from full knowledge Of Board of Education Edu-cation affairs. Each little encroachment upon the public's, right to know undermines under-mines and weakens just that much the basic structure of our American Amer-ican heritage. When a group, or class, or bureau bu-reau attempts to invoke secrecy in any form, no matter how small, it s behooves the taxpaying public to ask "Why?" See by the papers where Statehood State-hood for Hawaii appears to be in the mill for this session of Congress. Con-gress. Looks like a bigger boom for the flag manufacturers, and the new-but-soon-old 49-star flag will become be-come a collector's item before the stores get 'em all unpacked. The Milford Elementary School has a TV set and can't use it! They need an antenna. A Milford resident has furnished them with a TV set, which Prin cipal Edlefsen says will be used for group viewing when educational programs or programs of interest are being shown, and also as entertainment en-tertainment for first and second grade children (who are dismisses before the other grades) while they are waiting for the school bus. Any individual, group or organization organ-ization looking for a community service project? This would be a good one, and benefit lots of future citizens. |