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Show Letter to the Editor . j More about the school problem EDITOR'S NOTE: Letters to the editor are welcomed. They should be reasonably short, not of a slanderous nature and be signed by the writer. The name of the writer need not neces- sarily appear in the paper, however. We let John L. Lewis ruin the coal industry (and he has since admitted this). The Unions Un-ions have practically ruined the steel industry. About 2 years ago a California contractor wrote an editorial to a Utah paper begging the Utah contractors con-tractors not to let unions bring disaster to the industry as they had done in California. Now are we going to let Unions ruin the teaching profession? When a leader is found to tell outright lies, as Evans has been guilty of, how can teachers teach-ers follow such a person? He seems typical of most union bosses he personally has nothing no-thing to lose it's just the teachers and students. His play that the main concern is the welfare of the students, is a farce, or why would he jepor-dize jepor-dize the last days, and possible graduation, of the students? At this time of year, the only person hurt was the student. And why would they want to cut the school year to 170 days and no summer teaching (and they get paid extra for this) when Russia is going full year, and reputedly ahead of us in education. Looks like we are playing directly into Kru-schev's Kru-schev's hands. Where can you find a job with more security, as many free hours, with insurance and retirements? They say the teacher is professional and should not have to work at another job during the summer. sum-mer. What other job, professional profes-sional or otherwise, has three months off every year? Are teachers any better to work the year around than any one else? My husband also has a college degree plus post graduate gradu-ate work, but because he is an employer, puts in from 10 to 15 hours a day, 6 days, not 5 each week. And all this with very little protection of security. secur-ity. I AM for schools and teachers teach-ers bettering themselves, but I AM NOT for the way it was done. Calling a special session of legislature would cost considerable con-siderable money to the taxpayer. taxpay-er. It seems that six months would not have been too long to wait, if the teachers were sincere in their motive, especially espec-ially in view of the substantial substan-tial raise they were given last year. Another Taxpayer Market in stainless The world's largest market for nickel continues to be for production of h i g h-quality stainless steel. During 1963 an estimated 162 million pounds were used for this purpose, 30 million pounds more than in 1962. Every duty which we omit, obscures some truth we should have known. |