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Show TH BEAVER PRESS E Thursday, November 16, 1978 Veterans Administration Veteians Administration and other federal agency chiefs in Colorado, Wyoming. New Mexico ami Vtah now are appointing only o:,e new permanent employee for every two such employees lost. I he auencies are carrying out a e directive by Presii:a dent Jimmy Carter imposing an iinfetiniie limitation on the hiring ( f federal civilian workers as of la; : hist month. The order came hosrtly after Carter pptioting the VA with its 230, 000 employees was the largest independent agency in the the VA to government ion-vid- status. VA Administrator Max Clcland now attends t Cabinet meeting') at the Whiie House. In bis inflation-restraininemployment directive, Carter a e homed the Office of Management sod Budget (OMB) !o grant pcci!lc, limited exceptions to the hiring "10 assure that eeniiai services are provided and fundamental needs are met." Those needs include. Carter o underlined, "Social Security claims processing, the cheek nee and veterans' benefits i payments, .." high VA official siad, "We'll !' v to design sitme sort of svstcm tb.tt will be as painless as P"'e,!b'e. It is wry oinious this is fer real and if ir lasts for any length of time, as the President's eer says, 'indefinitely', it's in$ to have one heck of an in pact on what we do." The OMB and Civil Service Commission are issuing instructions on the employment cutback U all federal executive departments and agencies and their ctiiona! offices. In inviting the VA's Clcland to Cabinet meeting, Carter pointed out that veterans and their dependents ami survivors comprise nearly 50 percent of the nation's population "and affect nearly every family, "Vour (VA) programs range if the largest hv:tlih care and medical system in the world to a and mil ' compensation pension program." he continued in his Oct. its letter to Clcland. "From 01 housing and home Mans to burial benefits and the National Cemetery System, and from the large-,- ; and most sne.lenl assistance prodollar gram to a A ! i multi-billio- insurance sxstcnt.' Z: : "t y A . , i J fo- Networks, a workshop for women, will be held November 30 at Southern Utah State College. for the workshop Sponsors include the SUSC Women's Resource Committee and federal day-lon- g women's program coordinators from the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service. "There are many interrelating aspects of a woman's life such as family, self, home, career, government, school, community and church. Anyone interested in these networks is invited to attend the workshop," Vivian L. Parks, federal women's program coordinator, Dixie National Forest said. There will be no charge for the workshop. A luncheon for participants will be held. This optional meal will cost S3. Networks will be held in the SUSC Music Recital Hail. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. Kamona Adams, associate dean of students and associate dean of the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Utah, will be the ke note speaker. Other activities during the day vii! include a film "Portraits of Couiaae: Women in American History," presented by E'r. Gene A. Sessions, Weber State College, and another film, "American Parade - We the Women," nam cd by M ary Tyler Moore. Also included w ill be a session on assertieeness, "Take Charge of Your l ife" with Acta Brough, SUSC career counselor, and Betty dean of associate Kingsford, students at SUSC, and a session oh health care directed by King, nursing supervisor, Souihuest Utah District Health n ' Mar-jori- e Department. Another part of the program, "Look "who's Wearing Lipstick," will feature Manila McGregor, Utah's first woman highway M'rohvoinan. The steering committee for Networks includes SUSC Women's Resource Committee members Betty Kingsford, Kathryn Bcig, Ada D. Carpenter, and Pauline H. Nelson, and federal members Vivian L. Parks, workshop clum person, Frances W, Usher, Dixie National Forest, and Cedar City District Bureau of Land Management personnel Hclene Burke Fairchild and Hene R. Anderson, federal women's program coordinator. broken. Z2 I THANK YOU for your support in the November 7 election. e Manpower training, o basis. Off on Upholstered "Sit loose in ths saddle of Francis Yttfts Brown fate." Furniture Off on Bedroom, Dining Sets 10 Off on Appliances ft CHRISTMAS SHOPPER BONUS! lei I a One ticket viii be given for each $10 purchase from November 9 thru December 23 111 counsel- ing and job assistance should be provided on an individualized The Utah Foundation "didn't tell half the story in a news release on the cost and quality of school services, a Utah Education Association Wednesdav, official declared Dr. Daryl J. McCarty, the UEA official, said the Utah Foundation used "a faulty yardstick" to measure the efficiency of school and "failed to consider some obvious reasons for rising costs of schools." The UEA leader noted that the Utah Foundation used scholastic aptitude test scores and related them to a "decline in public school achievement." "Those tests don't measure achievement, they measure apt there's a vast difference," McCarty said. He said that the Utah Foundation "seems to have a blind side when considering school costs." "Education doesn't cost, it pays," McCarty said. He pointed to a U.S. Senate of undereducated study persons which concluded that each dollar invested in education would have generated $6 of in 1972 national income over the lifetime of those persons. At that date crime and welfare expenditures attributable to inadequate education were estimated at $6 billion a year and rising. McCarty said the Utah Foundation's statement ignored the fact that the state's schools are educating far more young people than ever before. In recent years the Utah State Legislature has provided additional funding for educating handicapped students, students from ethnic minorities, expanded school guidance counseling, special programs for gifted and talented students, expanded music programs, and reduced class size. The Legislature has appropriated funds to pay the full cost of school textbooks, the collection of taxes for schools and the skyrocketing costs of utilities, student transportation and Social Security. Many of those items did not improve students' test scores one point, because they were not intended to do so, McCarty said. He said another half-tolpart of the Ulah Foundation's story was the matter of the dramatic social changes during the past d decade. McCarty cited the fact that one of every six students comes from a single parent family; the thing" aRttudes that prevailed during the years of the drug culture; that $600 million is spent each year on school vandalism; 20 million children live with an alcoholic parent; the grow th of child abuse and neglect during recent years. "This did a lot of damage to education, and school teachers alone could not control any of those social phenomena," McCarty said. ."Anyone who wants to hear a' horror story about child abuse or child neglect should ask a teacher n about these things, because teachers know about them," McCarty said. "In contrast to implications of the Utah Foundation article. I'm thoroughly convinced that teachers are more dedicated now to the teaching and development of kids than they ever have been," the LEA official said. "Teachers have to be that way today because the situation demands it," he said, adding: "The teachers (if thirty years ago were largely concerned with academic excellence alone. The teachers of 1978 have to deal with each kid's heart as well as that kid's brain." to 20 10 tures, b.) A bill providing for of home day care providers needs to be passed and so Day Care training offered welfare recipients can become providers, and c.) Day Care Service needs to be allowed by the Department of Social for large Services, especially families. 2. Health Insurance needs to be workers. provided for At the present time, some households financial receiving assistance lose needed statefederal health assistance if they work full time. 3. Increase work expense deduction to 570month for full time worlers in order to encourage public assistance recipients to work, reflect actual work expenses, and help recipients get off welfare. 4. Emergency financial and job assistance needs to be available at time of application. Often applicants don't want or need to go on welfare. They simply need a combination of emergency financial and job assistance at the time of initial application for assistance. 5. 50 of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) training and public service job slots should go to welfare recipients. At the present time, CETA often neglects service to those most in need, which are welfare recipients, handicapped persons, etc. 6. Financial, medical, training, and job assistance should be provided equally to everyone based on need. At the present time, Genera Assistance recipients do not receive needed medical services and training assistance. Intact families are denied financial assistance, regardless of need, if they work. Off on Selected Items to 20 0 children to work. Especially needed are services for children under two and services for night shift and weekend workers. To help alleviate the problem: a.) Additional funds need to be appropriated by the legislature to increase both the number of Day Care slots and the amount of reimbursement for infant and night time care. NOTE: Utah Issues estimates that 500 additional day care slots are needed at a staie cost of approximately $250,000 of Title XX is used. This cost would hopefully be offset by a decrease in Assistance Payments expendi- 7. Stanley C. Roberts 10 on the need to remove obstacles to work and to increase work incentives. Strong support for the Governor's campaign to provide jobs for welfare recipients was indicated. A large number of recommendations were made on how to increase the effectiveness of the "Jobs" campaign. Recommendations 1. Day Care Services must be increased in order to enable welfare recipients with young cused You can be surer your asparagus is fresh if it snaps when ..Ar' J Work or Welfare Half the Story is Lett Untold Conference participants Workshop for Women (Pur chases only!) Drawing to be held Saturday, December 23, 1973 at 4 p.m. at SAM'S FURNITURE Store. 1st Prize - 19" Color TV How to Save on Car Insurance With hospital costs and auto repair costs steadily rising, there are no "Fall Specials" or other "Sales" in an auto insurance. Rates have been steadily increasing for all categories of Utah drivers, but insurance buyers can make certain that they take advantage of every saving possible, the Insurance Information Institute suggests. Safe drivers - you can save on your auto insurance of you (and other drivers in your household) have been free of responsibility for accidents or serious traffic law violations during the last three years. The kind of car you drive - if you are in the market for a new car and are considering several different models and sizes, find out from your insurance agent or broker before you buy just what the auto insurance costs will run on the various types. Deductibles - the higher the dollar deductible you are willing to assume, the tower the cost of your collision and comprehensive insurance coverages, in collision insurance, Platform Rccliner Brown Naughahydc 3rd Prize- - Meiarnine Dinnerware 45 piece, Service for 8 $200 deductible can save you 16 per cent over the cost of $100 deductible coverage. Going from a $200 to $250 deductible can save an additional 10 per cent, and increasing it from $250 to $500 makes for an additional 27.5 per cent saving. Similarly, if you now have a S50 deductible on your comprehensive coverage you can save 20 per cent of the premium cost by assuming a $100 deductible. Dropping certain coverages - if your car is over five years old its "blue book" value will be quite low. You might consider dropping collision and comprehensive surance coverage entirely. Premium payments - if you can, pay your auto insurance premium for as long a time segment as possible, every six months or even yearly. Monthly or quarterly payments may be more convenient, but the doubling or quadrupling of bookkeeping work plays a big part in making the policy cost more. discounts - if you or immediate family members living in your household own two or more passenger cars, most insurance companies will offer a premium discount if the cars are insured under one auto insurance Multi-ca- r policy. Young drivers various - discounts. Driving for pleasure - the lowest insurance rates within an area are charged where the car is not used in business or driving to and from work. If you take public transportation, you'll save in insurance, as well as parking fees. Car pools - if taking public transportation isn't a possibility, how about joining a car pool? If you've been driving to work by yourself, participating in a nonprofit car poo! can reduce your auto insurance. Savings for women drivers - a woman ,W through 64 years of age is given a 10 per ecnl premium sav ing by many companies if she is the only person in the household who drives the car. Older is better - many companies now offer a 10 per cent reduction in auto insurance cost to drivers over sixty-fivwho use tliei1- - cars for pure McCarty pointed to what he called a misunderstanding of the teacher's role that was rellected in the Utah Foundation's statement on schools. The statement atirilmted par tnt complaints about trends in "open" and "progressive" edu- cational methods that have shifted emphasis away from educational "basics." McCarty said: "It isn't teachers who decide the curriculum in schools. The people who decide such matters are school administrations and school hoards. It's true that same administrations and school boards gbe a few teachers some input, but this is only minimal. "Teachers who seek to change the curriculum to reflect needs they see in the schools are often told, 'you cannot change the curriculum because this is a prerogative of the district administration and Board of Education.' poses. Work Therapy Program As part of its work therapv program, the Veterans Administration has oh printing plants in its medical centers. Last year this theraputic training helped .1,1 former patients find jobs in private offset printing shops. Toll-fretelephone service is available to Veterans Administration regional offices in all fifty slates. Sonic 3.9 million calls were received last year. e toll-fre- e Beaver Library is Beaver 2 The Library open to 7:30 p.m. The library is closed on Saturday and Sunday. For information cull Wanda Roberts, L438 "I 'siniiliire anil Appliance ;i i 11 Ila vcr. L'lah CROSSWORD The Utah Youth Soccer Association (UYSA) will be sponsoring "Girls Day" on Saturday, November from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm at Jordon Intermediate School, 1040 West 600 South, Salt Lake City. Girls soccer is new-a- nd Utah, proving that soccer is not just a game for boys The Girls League, anymore. which consists of 22 teams, has just completed their first season. "Girls Day" will provide an opportunity for interested girls throughout the state, ages 6 to 14, to see soccer in action. A clinic will be held that day where soccer skills will be introduced and demonstrated by participating coaches, all of whom volunteer their time and talents. There is no charge for the day's activities, and spectators are encouraged. The Utah Youth Soccer Association is affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation which includes all pro and college organizations, and U.S. Olympics, which is affiliated with FIFA, the world soccer body. For more information about "Girls Day" or the Girls Soccer Leaytte, please call Sarah Kurrus at ACKOSS 1. A store 5. Pant 9. Near 10. Grant 12. Volga 1 1 grow-ing-i- 3. 4. 5. (poet.) 6. 7. river city Plainer 13. 14. E:poch 15. Yes, in n 8. 9. 11. Spain 17. Consumed 18. Compass point .16. (abbr.) Wheel 20. projections East by 21. south (abbr.) A bowling' game Pilfer A fop A 23. Short snoozes Alden's love 24. At home 25. Chatter Cry out STotJi in pain (colloq.) 26. DraMilkfish. Girl's matic name arts 27. Water Make believe god Grows old (Babyl.): 30. Lofty Stylish mountain (colloq.) 33. Slice again 37. Gaelic 34. Sour name 41. Ponders substances 42. 35. Unable Reach 44, to speak across Charter John clergyman : grain Father IS '2i 777 27 1-- 80 The Utah Department of Transportation today opened bids on a grading contract for the final connecting link of Interstate 80 in Utah. The apparent low bid of $45,990,353 was turned in by S. J. Groves & Sons Co. of Reno, Nevada. The official engineer's estimate on the project was $46,971,974. UDOT engineers have been developing the final design for this complex 15.1 mile stretch of for the past eight years. The freeway, when completed will connect the current end of west of Redwood Road with the freeway adjacent to the Great Salt Lake. The completed freeway will contain 41 bridges including the the major interchanges at West Valley FreewaySalt Lake International Airport and 5600 West. Sheldon- W. MeConkie, UDOT Preeonstruction Engineer, says, between the "The section of Redweed Road ramp and Sallair will be the largest single grading contract in the history of the Ulah Department of Transportation." The project calls for 27 million tons of fill material. How much is 27 million tons of fill material? If a unit train, consisting of fifty cars loaded with seventy tons each of borrow material were delivered daily to the jobsite, it would take 21 years to deliver the 27 million tons. Or, if the borrow material w ere to be contained within Temple Square, the Temple Square walls would need to be raised to the height of 934 feet to enclose the 27 million tons. Borrow sites serving the Salt Lake Valley have been depleted considerably during the construction of the interstate system in this area. As a result, the UDOT has had to investigate new borrow areas and sites in outlying methods of consider various transporting suitable material of sufficient quantity. UDOT has looked at five possible borrow sites. Factors in each site were investigated and an environmental assessment prepared in an attempt to ascertain a location that is economically feasible with a minimum of detrimental impact to the environment. Of the five borrow sites studied, only three were found to be practical. Plans allow the contractor to choose which borrow site or combination of borrow sites he wished to use, negotiating the best price he can get for the borrow considering the cosi, ease of access and transport, traffic interference, cic. It's anticipated the grading portion of this be will freeway development completed by November 1981. r I Method of learning de mer Cunning Hewing tool 23 A shield Particles Silent Iron or gold J. Ooze J 52 THANK YOU! supported me in the election. Rondo Farrer DOWN" Sleep sound Wife of Zeus (poss, ) 6 y it w Wholesale trade's share of total earnings in the state increased modestly between 1971 and 1976 (from 6.4 percent to 6.9 percent), ith Uintah, Duchesne and Grand Counties showing more than average gains. Retail trade's share of total earnings in the state also increased modestly (from 10.9 percent to 11.2 percent). Fairly large gains were registered in several counties with tourist-baseeconomies. 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