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Show Phillip F. Bird selected for workshop study Phillip P. Bird, 340 North 200 W., Springville, Utah, is one of 36 high school teachers from Utah, Wyoming and Idaho selected to participate in a University Uni-versity of Utah Economics workshop, June 25 to August 8. The NDEA Institute for Advanced Ad-vanced Study in Economics is the first Intermountain area summer seminar on intensive economic training ever held for high school teachers. It is funded fun-ded by a $55,000 grant provid ed by the National Defense Education Ed-ucation Act. The eight-week course is geared to teachers of economics and of closely related subjects who have had little or no formal form-al training in the subject, according ac-cording to Dr. Joseph S. Peery, associate professor of economics and director of the institute. Mr. Bird, a teacher at the Springville High School, will participate in a three-pronged program of basic economic theory, the role of government in a free enterprise system, and the economic problems of alternate alter-nate economic systems. Is the Old Farmer's Almanac Alman-ac weatherman all wet? He's back again with a forecast of showers for Wednesday, July 4. |