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Show A 1970 8 presents (ij) 9 p.m. 1 a.m. featuring Disco Unlimited Productions Casual Dress 1 1 Discn ita Year s Utah Foundation Reports: Utah Highway Funding Picture Darker Than n Most Utah's ability to finance its state-administered highway program is declining in relation to those of other states, according to Utah Foundation, the private, non profit research organization. In total highway user revenues, which finance state highway programs, Utah's position in comparison with other Mountain States and with the national average has changed only slightly over the 1966 1976 decade, the Foundation Foun-dation noted in a research report released this week. However, in terms of the amounts available for actual construction, maintenance, and administration of state highways, Utah's position has deteriorated. Utah's total highway user revenues doubled between 1966 and 1976, a rate of increase slightly below the Mountain States average, but above the national average. But funds available for actual state highway programs increased only 50 percent in Utah over the decade, compared to an average 84 percent increase in the Mountain States and one of 75 percent in all of the United States. This situation is largely due to the fact that Utah has turned more of its highway revenues to law enforcement and to assisting local roads and streets, the Foundation points out. Between 1966 and 1976, the amount of highway user revenues allocated to law enforcement and safety grew more than three and one half times, two thirds faster than the average for the Mountain States and a third faster than the average for the nation. The funds for law enforcement here referred to are those coming from highway user revenues only. Utah's Highway Patrol is financed entirely from highway high-way user revenues, but some other states may also use other sources of funds for highway law enforcement. Highway funds allocated to local roads and streets also increased much faster in Utah than in most other states. Utah's collector road program, one of two major state supports for local roads and streets came into existence in 1970 and was a major factor in the increase in this category. While a major reason for Utah's problem in funding its by Kay Mitanl In planting the rock garden, remember that there is a great wealth of material upon which to draw. Someone has said that there are 40,000 different plants suitable to the rock garden. The ideal rock plant should be a freely flowering hardy perennial of neat habit, and dwarf in height. It should be an easily grown plant but not a rapid spreader. The best time to plant these plants are in the spring as soon as frosts are over and in the autumn. If you are a do-it y ourselfer you don't have to waif until spring to start a project with a rock garden, how about starting a terrarium? 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However, a comparison of highway funds available in 1976, in terms of 1966 dollars, indicates Utah suffered above average impact with regard to its state program. In constant dollars, Utah had 28 percent less money for its state highway program than in 1966. The Mountain States and the U.S. average showed declines in constant dollars, 1966-1976, but the decline in the Mountain States was only 11 percent and the U.S. average was 16 percent. per-cent. Proposals to increase Utah's motor fuels tax, chief support of the transportation fund, appear certain to come before the 1978 budget session of the Utah Legislature, the Foundation Foun-dation notes. The most talked of proposal would raise the tax from the present seven cents a gallon to nine cents a gallon. This would provide $14.4 million a year in additional funds available to the state program, and $2.6 million a year additional to cities and counties. Twenty states now have gasoline tax rates of nine cents a gallon orhigher. 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Growing Violence in Schools Examined by Utah Educators Marked changes in society's attitudes toward schools, children's rights and other Openings Available At Utah Tech, Provo Good-paying jobs await qualified graduates of more than a dozen programs in which winter quarter openings still exist at Utah Technical College at Provo. according to President Wilson W. Sorensen. "Actually," said President Sorensen, "openings are still available in most of the nearly 40 programs of study offered by the college and students may still begin most programs when classes get underway Jan. 4 for the winter quarter." About a dozen of the programs for which a good many openings still exist constitute areas of study where graduates are most in demand, he pointed out. 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Provo campus offices of the college will be open during the holidays for both day and evening potential students from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays with exception of Monday, Dec. 26 and Monday, Jan. 2, the legal holidays for Christmas and New Years. ethical standards may be the indirect cau;e of increased violence in schools, according to Dr. James E. Cole, associate professor of education at the University of Utah. "Children have been caught up in the 'Nader syndrome,'" says Cole, "and many feel not only free but compelled to demand some kind of warranty that the lessons they learn will absolutely work. Children now see themselves as consumers of such services as education." Cole reports that as a result of the recent children's rights movement, "youngsters are well versed in the covert protection afforded by recent children's rights legislation." A softening of parents' l W ' ..Xk. fcrst Tlf Vt I ? 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In an informal survey of junior high schools with a high incidence of violence, Cole found: -the schools are located in districts with higher than average amounts of community com-munity violence. -the divorce rate in most of these communities exceeds the national average by as much as eight percent. -about two-thirds of the sch(K)l population in these IT UP happy 3? 57- L 11 ft 399 East State American Fork n All Meat Weiners 98 lb. All Meat Bologna 89 lb. Crisp DffH Celery J stalk Nalley's Chip :sr Dog Libby 2V4 Size Can Pumpkin AMfcKlCAN FOKK CITIZEN schools are Caucasian. -teachers feel that violent acts have increased both in incidence and severity during the past two years. -the population of the schools surveyed has become diversified because of busing and demographic changes within the district. -most curricula were traditional and academically based. -The Utah educator indicates in-dicates that the cause and not the violent act must be dealt with. 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