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Show r r rr Page Two - The Springville Herald - May .28, 1981 Scholarships ours commeinit PJlore Students should apply Public hearings set in Mapleton yours Library plans summer programs The summer reading club, sponsored by the Springville Public Library will feature the "Library Olympics" and will follow the theme "Time-eu t For Reading." Opening ceremonies (registration) will begin Monday, June 8, at the library. Each "Library All Star" enrolling in the program will be given a track shoe with his or her name on it. A large racetrack will be set up in the foyer of the library and each child will place his or her shoe on the starting line. As the "runner" reads, his shoe will be moved around the track. As he jumps the various hurdles or haz-zards haz-zards on the track he will be given a small prize. Whenever a winning runner completes -his book log and crosses the finish line, his shoe will be retired to the "Hall of Fame" board. An exciting ex-citing awards ceremony which will feature gold medals, a program and refreshments will conclude con-clude the program on August 7, at 2 p.m. Various programs and crafts will be featured throughout the summer. Times and dates to be announced. Steven Averett will conduct the summer reading program. He invites all of the children in the community to join him in a wonderful summer of reading. Family night movies "will contiue to be shown every Monday night at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center. Story hours or movies will be offered on alternating alter-nating Thursdays at 2 p.m. Summer hours or movies will be offered on alternating Thursdays at 2 p.m. Summer hours at the library are: Monday Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, closed. Some high school students may think there's no chance in the world that they could ever get a college scholarship. So they don't try for one. That's a mistake. Graduating seniors don't always have to have a straight "A" record to qualify for scholarships. I recently had the honor of reading applications for the Kennecott Copper Corp. Scholarships. Applications were judged on grades. But the grade point average was only one of the considerations in the judging. The other three items were leadership, citizenship and need. The young people who applied were basically bright, able, and involved. I have no doubt that they will succeed in college or in anything they attempt. But it's discouraging to think of the hundreds of young people who talk themselves out of applying ap-plying for scholarships, thinking they have no chance of getting one. To me young people think a poor grade or two means the end of their academic careers. (I read somewhere that Albert Einstein flunked math when he was a young man.) True, many students who apply for scholarships scholar-ships don't get them. But if they believe they can be successful, they should try to enroll anyway. But hold it, there's another side to this story. Contrary to opinions held in a lot of circles, college simply is not for everyone. There's a certain "snob appeal" to college for many parents. Some push unwilling sons and daughters into the Halls of Ivy. That's not always successful or good. Some day parents will realize that there is plenty of dignity in work that doesn't require college training. John Gardner said rightly that the society which honors its philosophers above its plumbers will have leaky pipes and philosophy that won't hold water. I offer my congratulations to the graduates of 1981. May they find happiness and success and remember that each oneof them has much to offer the world, by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Utah Education Association by Barry McWilltams Dnereased productivity may solve problems Utah taxes for school support may have to be increased substantially unless unit costs in the schools can be significantly reduced, according to Utah Foundation, a private non-profit research organization. Such a tax increase in-crease might be forced "despite strong public sentiment for tax reduction". Modern' research and technological development have opened the way to increasing productivity in the school system, and may be used to solve a large part of the problem, the Foundation Foun-dation noted in a research brief , released this week. "In private industry, increased worker compensation can be economically justified over the long run only by increased worker productivity," produc-tivity," the Foundation notes. "This raises questions concerning the economics of education. In the school system, an individual's, productivity often has little or no relation to his compensation. Actually, the trend over the years has been to reduce teacher productivity by steadily reducing the number of pupils taught by a given teacher." It is recognized that productivity in schools is not strictly comparable to productivity in industry, but many critics-including -some prominent educators-believe that teacher productivity can be increased without significant loss of educational quality, by utilizing ideas, techniques, and electronic devices developed in recent years. "Utah currently is in a financial position where the issue of school productivity is no longer academic," the report said. "A large and continuing surge in public school enrollment, the continuing economic recession, and increasing competition for available state dollars for other programs have significantly changed the outlook for school financing." The 1981 Utah Legislature appropriated ap-propriated $200,000 for a study of school productivity and possible ways of increasing in-creasing it. Many educators, legislators, and concerned citizens were already busy seeking ways to get more for the state's educational dollar. A paper entitled "Staff Utilization and Educational Technology: Means of Meeting Enrollment Increases in Utah Schools" by Dr. Richard Kendall, Dr. William Carlisle, and Dr. Michael Murphy of the University of Utah faculty was recently presented at a special seminar sponsored by the institution. in-stitution. The university researchers suggest that classroom productivity-i.e. productivity-i.e. classroom size-can be significantly increased without loss of educational quality by providing lower-paid, nonprofessional non-professional teacher aides to handle management and "housekeeping" chores that now take much of the classroom teacher's time away from actual instruction, and by intelligent use of mini-computers and other electronic teaching devices. The professors warn against providing additional staff for teachers on an individual in-dividual basis, as this would be an undesirable "add-on" expense. They point out, however, that a pool of teacher aides could serve a large group of classroom teachers effectively and at lower cost. Recent research indicates that a key factor in the educational progress of students is the ratio of "engaged time" (time spent in an actual learning process) to total time in the classroom. In smaller classes, the teacher has fewer extraneous duties and can devote more time to actual instruction, and some researchers feel that this is the element that provides better educational quality in smaller classes. Class size per se may have little significance. Use of electronic teaching aides have proveffsuccessful in many places, and while some students are working with electronic machines, more of the teacher's time can be devoted to other members of the class. Utah Foundation said there are additional possibilities for increasing school productivity, and that all of them should be thoroughly explored and used where appropriate. Attention is directed to an examination of staffing patterns in the school system's supervisory and administrative structures, to see if cost-saving streamlining may be possible. "Also, sound business management practice would appear to favor the establishment of a full set of priorities for the several elements of the public school program," the report said. "At the top would be the basics of elementary and secondary education, while successively lower priorities might be assigned to sub-programs that, while desirable in themselves, are less essential than higher-priority items. With such a priority list prepared in an atmosphere of calm deliberation, school administrators would be better able to meet sudden financial crises by cutting the least essential features with minimum damage to the basic program. (MimmQ -fOSCMF -m (mo mi aw m wd...a 1 v. l180 . 1 rri v m m m By Franklin Nielsen Back to back public hearings will be held on June 2 starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Mapleton City Building. The first hearing will review the matter of changing a city ordinance which required a primary election in selecting city officials. Present procedures for selecting candidates for office is done by group meetings instead of by primary election voting. The ordinance will have to be changed -to-permit this procedure. The second hearing, scheduled at 6:45-p.nv. will be for reviewing additions to the master street plan in the area between Main Street and 400 East and between 400 and 600 North Streets. The 200 East Street was recently deleted from the master plan by the council and the new proposal is the agreement reached between citizens of the area and the city planning commission. QUESTION: What is the deepest well ever drilled? ANSWER: The deepest well drilled in the United States was 31,441 feet, in Oklahoma. It was a dry hole, producing nothing. The deepest producing well in the United States is in Texas, at 26,518 feet, or about 5 miles deep. The deepest offshore well drilled was in the Gulf of Mexico, at 22,840 feet. It was a dry hole The deepest offsliore producer also is in the Gulf of Mexico at 21,188 feet. Such wells are expensive, ex-pensive, costing many millions of dollars. Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. Evening school at Utah Tech From accounting and art to horseshoeing and welding with some 50 topics in between will be taught at the Evening School of Utah Technical College at Provo-Orem during the coming spring quarter. This was announced by Dr. Roger Plothow, director of the Office of Continuing Education and Evening School at Utah Tech, who said spring quarter classes will begin March 24 and run through the first week of June. "The spring quarter is a time when roads and weather are usually good," said Dr. Plothow. "If you don't have a job, there's no better place for you than in school at Utah Tech, and if you do, the Evening School offers you the opportunity to further enhance your skills." Evening school classes, for regular college credit except a few specified non-credit courses, usually run from one to three or four times a week. Persons holding daytime jobs, or mothers and wives with daytime responsibilities may use their leisure time at night at Utah Tech. Evening school students may register anytime between now and the start of the quarter, said Dr. Plothow, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 8, a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fridays, at the Evening School headquarters on the Provo campus. College-wide College-wide registration will be conducted March 23 just prior to beginning classes March 24, on the Orem campus. QUESTION: The oil industry has scientific techniques such as seismology. Why do we keep hearing how difficult it is to find oil? ANSWER: Seismology, and other scientific techniques do not "find" oil. They merely suggest where oil might be found by revealing some of the underground rock structures and faults. Sometimes the most likely looking structures yield nothing. The only way to find out is to drill, and that is always risky and expensive. ex-pensive. In areas where oil has not been discovered before, such wells are called "wildcats." "wild-cats." On the average, only one in 10 wildcats results in a discovery. In the days before seismic technology, J geologists . followed surface clues to drill for oil. Most such areas already have been drilled. UTAH 0 OFFICE SUPPLY I . no doubt about it. You've done the job a 371 UTAH 0 OFFICE SUPPLY 489-7469 191 South Main, Springville Springville Store The Springville Herald (UPS 513-060) Published Weekly at Springville. Utah 84663 by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Phono 489-5651 Martin W. 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