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Show SUSC professor takes part in confab , I . r M: '1': ' Dealers' Charitable Foundation and others. It is designed to help build consumer education courses into the curriculum of the nation's schools and is part of the Joint Council's ongoing efforts to increase in-crease economic literacy. The Boise Institute marks the beginning of the third year of the JCEE National Consumer Con-sumer Economics Project. Members of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Prospector's Club welcome the owners and manager of The Computer Room to Cedar City. Pictured are (standing, left to right) Steve Thomas, Chamber of Com merce president; S. Garth Jones, executive secretary; James Hoyle; Royce Chamberlain; Lynn J. Stauffer, owner; and Alan D. Brad-shaw, Brad-shaw, owner. Seated is store manager Howard F. Nielsen. vm.m.mMteA,a . f W tor MS Members of the Youth Conservation Corps work on a fence in Fishlake National Forrest. Several Cedar City youth recently returned from the camp, after working on a number of projects. Van L. Bushnell, associate professor of business at Southern Utah State College, was one of 25 college and university consumer education teachers who recently participated in a 10-day institute titled "Economic Education A Key to Consumer Proficiency" in Boise, Idaho. Bushnell was involved in exploring ways of incorporating basic economic principles into the consumer's decisionmaking decision-making process by improving im-proving the know-how of consumer education teachers. He also developed teaching techniques geared to help students become effective ef-fective purchasers of goods and services. Conducted by the Joint Council on Economic Education (JCEE) in cooperation with the Idaho Council on Economic Education and Boise State University, this institute was the first phase of a four-part consumer education program. During the coming year, Bushnell will be involved in planning and implementing im-plementing a consumer program for teachers in the Cedar City area. Under the direction of Dr. John E. Clow, JCEE Director of Consumer and Business Economics, the institute program is funded by grants from the American Express Foundation, the Fireman's Fund Insurance In-surance Foundation, Shell Companies Foundation, Inc., the National Automobile |