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Show Geography called one dominant teacher factor Geography is a dominant factor in determining where Utah school districts obtain their teachers. This is disclosed in a district by district study of where the 13,302 teachers who staffed Utah schools during the 1968-69 1968-69 academic year obtained their training. The study, compiled com-piled by Elvin H. Ossmen, specialist spec-ialist in statistical research, was released today by the State Board of Education. Districts tend to obtain their teachers from the nearest teacher tea-cher training institution the study shows. Thus Utah County Coun-ty school districts draw heavily heav-ily from Brigham Young University; Uni-versity; Salt Lake County districts dis-tricts from the University of Utah and Cache County districts dis-tricts from Utah State University. Uni-versity. More Utah teachers, 32 per cent obtained their training from Brigham Young University Univer-sity than from any other school according to the survey. Other schools ranked as follows: University Uni-versity of Utah, 26.2 per cent; Utah State University 25.4 percent; per-cent; Weber State College, 3.9 per cent; Southern Utah College, Col-lege, 0.6 per cent; St Mary-of-the-Wasatch, 0.1 per cent and out-of-state schools, 10 per cent. All of the stainless steel components com-ponents in the experimental plane "Pioneer," built by The Budd Company of Philadelphia, which flew for the first time in 1931, were found to be in excellent con- dition when the plane was recently recent-ly rededicated at the Franklin Institute In-stitute in Philadelphia. The body of the "Pioneer" employed welded nickel stainless steel in the fuselage fuse-lage skin and inner framework. The high-strength metal was also used for the ribs, spars and struts in the wings and tail section |