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Show Thursday. Ortcb;r THELE A DER, IZZl ZZ. Tremonion. Utah iSew Stage Concept, SYNDICATE BUYS A'S,' ENDING MACK ERA 'Three for Tonight" At Ia vV'V- - V . Hall KiiiKs-hur- University of Utah Theatre will sponsor the only iMermoun-t- a n production of the new Paul Charles Laughton Gergory called "Three for production Tonight." i The nationally famous producers of '"Don Juan in Hell" and "John, Brown's Body" will Featured in the cast of present their latest show in Hall starting Tues- - are Don Eeddoe, well-krday, Nov. 9, through Saturday, for his many characterizatl c' on stage, screen ar.d televlsi Nov. 13. "Three For Tonight'' is described as a variation in the concert presentation of music, drama and dance. It stars Marge and Cower Champion, the talented and popular husband-and-wif- e team of stage and screen fame; Harry Belafonte, recent star of the Broadway hit, "Almanac," and the voices of Walter Schumann and Ectty Tenser., who is : membered for her fine looks in "J" and good Brown." This production will be t first offering of the Uni er. i Theatre's major subscriptu of six shows. Tic. orders addressed to Kingsbur Hall Box Office, University ' Utah will be promptly filled. series tS.L.Ht'OK i'E REFERENDUM OF SENATE BILL 29 PROPOSED BALLOT TITLE IN REFERENDUM OF SENATE BILL 29 (CHAPTER 22. LAWS OF UTAH. FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 1953) An Act providing that Carbon College be discontinued as a state maintained college; that the Board of Examiners dispose of all real and personal property comprising said college in such manner as it deems to be to the best interests of the State of Utah. DYNASTY of Connie Mack family, syndicate of eight Philadelphia businessmen buys Athletics, Investing approximately $4,000,000 to keep American League team In City of Broineriy Love, seated, xrom leit: a. a. aauagner, Roy Mack, Connie Mack, Earl Mack and Ar thur Rosenberg. Standing, from left: Paul Harron. Barney Fischer, Ted Hanff, Connie Mack III. tect Rensel, M. Llebman, Isadore Sley, Tom Crlsconl and J. Llebman. ENDING 54-YE- VOTE Nov. 2nd AGAINST ARGUMENTS AGAINST SENATE BILL NO. 29 WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE ABOLISHMENT OF CARBON COLLEGE Tribute to an Old House The December Special Session Utah Legislature passed two separate bills pertaining to Junior Colleges: benate Bill No. 29 closing Carbon College and Senate Bill By MRS. ELIZA WOODRUFF VVWVWWWW " VVVV W V V V- w of East Tremonton In last week's Leader an ac- across its threshold as a bride. count of the burning of an It was our first home together abandoned frame farm home in our three sons. East Tremonton was published. In fact it was our home for The firemen responded to the fourteen years and over that alarm and the fire chief reported space of time, we learned to love it as I am sure did the George the building a complete loss. ; Abbott's before us, because their From the window of my children were reared there also. home about a mile and a half It had known love and laughnorth and east of the fire scene sorrow and heartache. It ter, I stood and watched It burn. had watched time bring about As I did so I could not help its changes and progress, and but compare it's going to that of inside it's walls many lessons a loved one or an old friend and decisions were taught and who had lived No. 39 I transferring Dixie, Snow and Weber Colleges to The Latter Day Saints Church. Carbon College is the only college to be abolished. The 'Latter Day Saints Church will operate Dixie, Snow and Weber Colleges if Senate Bill No. 39 is approved by the voters; but Car-bo- n College will be transferred to Carbon School District to be used only for a high school if Senate Bill No. 29 is approved. Neither the L. D. S. Church or any other group will operate Carbon College. Carbon College will cease to exist. There will be no college or other state institution of any kind in Southeastern Utah and if Senate Bill No. 29 is approved, 56,856 people in six counties of Southeastern Utah will be, without the light from any college of any kind. More than $1,000,000 worth of d college buildings in Trice will be given away at a time when the number of youths who will enroll in college is greatly increasing. Sound predictions give Carbon College approximately 400 students by 1962. Why give away d buildings and then have to build more college buildings elsewhere? Population in Southeastern Utah has been increasing and continues to do so. In 1940 Carbon County had 18,459 inhabitants. By 1950, it had 24,901. The discovery and rapid development of gas wells and uranium mines in Emery, Grand and San Juan Counties has result-- ! ed in a great influx of new settlers. On what basis can the closing of a college in a rapidly growing area FOR (continued) go away from home and pay room and board. Utah can support Carbon Col lege. Ihe cost to each person in the State of Utah to operate Car- oon College for one year is not more than fiteen cents. College education should be considered an investment for future prosperity of the state. Where most is spent for education, great er prosperity is always found to follow. Utah needi more junior colleges; not fewer. The bill to close Carbon College was hasty and It was passed in a very short special session. It was first defeated in the senate. It took tremendous outside influence and pressure to persuade two or three senators to change their votes and pass the bill. Vote against closing Carbon College until a thorough study and investigation, of the junior college issue can be made by an impartial group. The Committee to Save Carbon College will be glad to abide by the group's recommendation. Reliable studies indicate a rapidly growing college population throughout the United States and in Utah. The Utah Foundation predicts a 40 percent increase in college enrollments over the 1953-5- 4 enrollments by 1962; Jackson Martindale predicts a 50 percent increase in college enrollments, and Ronald B. Thompson of Ohio State University predicts that college enrollments will increase 78 percent by 1969. Carbon College can be expected to have 382 students in 1962 if the Utah Foundation is correct; 410 if Jackson Martindale is correct; and 664 equivalent e students in 1969 if Thompson's predictions are correct. Why give away state owned college buildings now and later have to build more elsewhere? The quality of work done at Carbon College is equal to the work done during the first two years at the senior colleges in the state. There are strong reasons to justify this assertion: a. It is approved by the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools. b. Its graduates have made outstanding records in other universities and colleges. Letters from the registrars of the University of Utah, the Utah State Agricultural College and the Brigham Young University support this statement. More than 17 states operate a total of 47 junior colleges and vocational schools entirely at state expense. A junior college located near the homes of the people has several advantages: (1) continuation for two additional years of parent-so- n or daughter relationship; (2) nat ural and easy transition from high school to college; (3) teacher-st- u dent relationship natural and pleasant with the student always as an individual whom the teachers know and understand, and (4) the cost of an education greatly reduced to allow more students to attend and assist those who do enroll to hus band their resources so that al four years of college education can be afforded. from continuing the school as a junior college or of utilizing the properties of the school towards strengthening and improving the local high school program. This recommendation would be consistent with the program adopted by nearly all other states. FINANCING THE STATE SCHOOL PROGRAM The action of the Legislature in voting to discontinue state support for Carbon Junior College was prompted, in part, by several economic factors. Utah has a greater percentage of its population enrolled in colleges and universities than any other state, but it ranks last among the states in its financial ability to support such schools. Consequently, to support its colleges and universities, Utah must make a greater effort than n statany of the other : forty-seve- es. One reason them. In addition, there is the Uni versity of Utah and the Utah Mate Agricultural College, as well as several private institutions of learning. The educational facilities of the state are more adequate even without Carbon College, considering the population demands that exist in most other states. Many of the faculty members devote a portion of their time to teaching high school courses and performing other high school duties. It is readily apparent that where there is such a division of responsibility the school cannot as consistently well attend the complex responsibilities of an institution of higher learning. The argument has been raised that . Utah needs Carbon Junior College in order to avoid the necessity of students in the southeastern counties from travelling to attend classes. Such a position is inconsistent with the geography of our state. While some students are not obliged to travel so long as Carbon continues in existencef many of those enrolled in that institution are even now required, because of distance, to attend a school away from home.' If travel then is necessary for these students in any regard, there appears no valid reason why they cannot travel as well to one of the remaining Utah colleges. CAPACITY OF CARBON JUNIOR COLLEGE Carbon Junior College serves primarily as a transition between high school and university work. Students who attend the school are in most instances required to seek specialized training in other institutions before they are prepared to contribute to the economy and welfare of Utah. The notable exception to this is in the realm of vocational training which in any event, could easily and effectively be made available throughout the local school district. This is now being done in many school districts within the state. The need for further academic training is evident upon examining the major courses in which the college students were enrolled for the year ending June 30, 1953. Carbon Junior College provided training in the following major fields: Academic, 126 students; Business, 44 students; Home Economics, 1 student; Vocational, 56 students; Nurand sing, 4 students; Dental. 5 students, and Engineering, 16 students. In every instance before a college degree could be granted to these students they would have to seek further training at other schools, and in the case of any of the more technical fields, the student would not be qualified to even engage in the occupation he desired without further academic work not available to him at Carbon. for this unfavorable situation is that Utah has twice as many public colleges and universities as it has private. The national average is just the reverse twice as many private schools as there are public. long and well made. A comparison between Utah's among us, and now, in spite of weather-an- d it all and Pennsylvania's better situation had it Through all efforts to save him, passes illustrates the problem confronting became the of birthplace from view and becomes Just a taxpayers of this state because of ed the storm and served as a the large number of public colmemory. shelter to the many people who leges and universities. Utah, with Just as the old friend or loved passed a 1950 population of 688,862, had it's doors.' through one leaves behind many lessons 17,137 students enrolled in public T'is true it was not as modcolleges and universities that year of service and many friends, so and only 5,966 in private. Pennsylern as our homes of today, but too did this old house. with a 1950 population of vania, you could still eat and sleep, 10,498,012, had only 13,571 stuDEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE Before it burned it had lost live and love, learn and teach dents in public colleges and univerFor most of its glamour. It's windows there Just as well as sities but 127,799 in private you can were all smashed and its doors now in the most convenient and schools. It was little wonder then that Pennsylvania ranked first broken off. The paint was worn up to date home of the present. among the states in its ability to Solicits your vote and stands and many shingles missing, but support public colleges and univerSo like the old friend it pas-se- s it had seen better days. sities, whereas Utah ranked last. on record of past years as from view after a life time The 1952 report, "Higher EducaEnters as Bride of service to mankind, leaving County Assessor. tion in the Forty-EigStates," Paid Political Ad. Almost a quarter of a century behind memories of days gone says that "the great majority of public junior colleges today are loago my husband carried me by in our ever changing world. cally controlled and largely locally supported." This is not true in Utah. As a matter of fact Utah and Louisiana are the only states in which junior colleges are 100 be justified? Since the industrial wealth in per cent state supported, and Louisiana has only one such school. Southeaster Utah is greatly and The Utah Foundation, in a rerapidly increasing, the added revport on higher education in Utah, enue to the state justifies the condisclosed some statistical facts of tinuance of Carbon College. 4 importance in understanding the In the average enrolle stument of equivalent problem of state financing of junior colleges. The report shows that dents at Carbon College was 274. Utah's ability to support higher A total of 676 were enrolled that education, as measured by the toyear. The people have confidence tal income payments to individin Carbon College. The enrollment uals in the state in proportion to 5 for the Autumn quarter of the number of students enrolled in will be the highest in the hiscolleges within the state, is the Two hundred of the school. tory lowest in the nation. In some parts e students seventy-fiv- e of the nation the major part of were enrolled by September 18th the higher education burden is of this year. Several additional borne soon by private institutions. be classes will started night Percentage-wise- , in Utah, only to bring up the enrollment of part-tim- e 25 percent of the total college enstudents. I. CONCLUSION rollment is in private institutions. The cdst to the State of Utah The to discontinuing alternatives 49 with the for e stupercent compared for each equivalent in houses-onation as a whole. Throughout the state support for Carbon College dent for one year is consistently United ' States only 27 percent of should be carefully considered by lower in the junior colleges than the total enducational and ereneral the voters. Not only the immediate cost in other state colleges and this income for all institutions comes cost of supporting this school is at Carbon College over the 16 from state government sources, involved, but also the precedent of years is at or near the lowest. One However, the State of Utah, while the action as it concerns other Colmain Carbon reasons of the being the least able ,to support areas of the state.' If Carbon lege operates economically is that such institutions, pays more than should be continued, can we deny it is operated in conjunction with It is the 40 percent of the total educational granting similar support to other Principle. Carbon Senior High School which and general income for all institu institutions yet to be created in has 650 students. The expense is other areas of the state? As de- -f tions of higher learning. divided between the state and CarI, LAMONT F. TORONTO, Sec The people of Utah spend a lar sirable as it might be, can the peobon School district, in proportion retary of State of the State of ger proportion of their personal ple of this state afford to support to the teacher load. II. 1 Utah. DO HfcKfcBY UEKilr X income to support education than a junior college in every large city 80 show least at that Surveys the foregoing is a full, cor- do the people of that students attend who Carbon any other state. or geographical area, in addition of the and true copy of the argument This outstanding effort rect at Logan is reflect- to the four-yeCollege could not meet the added transfer of Carbon Col- ed in the tax burden the people and the Universitycollege at Salt Lake House vote cost of attending college away againstas the to 11 filed by the "Save Car must shoulder Utah is one of the City ? There will be increases in lege, from home. bon Committee.' College athighest taxed states m the nation.' college enrollment in years to come of the students Fully 74 Senate vote 16 to 7 tax burden is almost certain which the other colleges and uniThe I IN Carbon WITNESS have either WHEREOF, College tending to heavier in future, years versities, public and private, ' are e grow and hereunto set or part-tim- e hand to have my jobs help or because the steady increase in capable of absorbing and will abaffixed the Great Seal of the State support them. sorb unless the state's resources College education should be av- of Utah at Salt Lake City, this the costs of the public school are spread too thin trying to mainunless the state can be re stuailable near 1954. the homes of 28th the of in day September, lieved of some of its present obli tain institutions which it does not dents. Three to five times as many LAMONT F. TORONTO gations, mis was one of the con need and cannot afford. It is betwill take advantage of a college siderations that prompted the Gov. ter that the state maintain superwhen the college is locateducation Secretary of State. Arizona - Nevada Netc Jersey ernor to recommend to the Legis ior colleges and universities at a South Carolina ed near them than if thev had to (SEAL) lature tnat the state discontinue high level of support than to divide its support of Carbon Junior Col its resources inadequately among Netc Mexico Montana. a greater number. lege. Senate Bill 29 was passed by a One of the important questions 1938. next to the campus of Car IS CARBON JUNIOR COLLEGE sound thinking legislative assembly to be decided by the voters this bon High School on land donated NEEDED ? which considere all aspects of the is whether or not Car by the taxing units of Carbon November 1V. The Governor, a native of Price, measure before acting. The bill bon Junioi College at Price, Utah County. The mixed high school- was one of the original sup- best serves the interests of all the Utah, should be longer supported as junior college campus arrange Collece people of Utah. The burdening jun state school. The First Special Ses- ment still exists. In its short life, porters of Carbon Junior d knowland from knows ior college problem has been with fulCarbon has Junior not sion 30th the Utah of Failed to meet the issue. College Legislature, us for many years and much of its and edge accomplishments filled the high expectations of Bill through enactment of voted to discontinue state sup- - many of its original supporters. shortcomings and its role in com thought given toward a solution. 29, to agree. nie. Because of his close Now that a solution ha been rea for Carbon Junior College, Its enrollment during 1944 dropped munity identification with the College and ched, it becomes incumbent upon fort action 22' to students and, while it is being contested by only those who believe the Legislature has since increased, there were the community in which the Col- the people of Utah to give full sup to is located, the Governor would port to tne act of the Legislature in this instance should be overrid only 53 students graduated in lege have recommended that the in passing Senate Bill 29. not 1952 den. state discontinue its support if he It is the considered opinion of I, LAMONT F. TORONTO. Sec those of is preparing this state- THE EFFECT OF SENATE BILL were not convinced that such a retary of State of the Stat of move was in the best interests of 29 LTON THE COLLEGE ment that the Legislature's acUtah, DO HEREBY CERTIFY the state as a whole. tion, while controversial in some the foregoing is a full, correct that Should state support be withhas col three lunior Ltah other areas, was taken in the state's best drawn from Carbon Junior College and true copy of the argument for REAPPORTIONMENT which be will in leges, colleges interests and should be suDDorted. the facilities of the school would operation regardless of whether or transfer of Carbon College. a.t filed iThe voters, in deciding this issue, not AMENDMENT be lost to the state. It is cen- - not the state continues control of by the Committee For the Return should sweep aside personalities of Junior Colleges, as appears of understood, and the Governand emotionalism and base their erally record in my office. or has so recommended, that the solely on the cold facts assets of the institution be turned TJtah Foundation Report No. 91 judgment Box Elder IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I Sponsored by your County legislators and hard realities that are involv- back to the local school district for Report on Higher Education in the have hereunto set mv hand and who Toted for ihe reapportionment bill 43 ed. States operation or other disposition. Ibid. affixed the Great Seal of the State There is nothing in the bill which HISTORICAL of Utah at Salt Lake City, this Utah Foundation Report No. 91 Carbon Junior College, onlike would prevent the district itself 2Sih day of September, 1954. an. 4uruiwest laimc industry, j Utah's other institutions of higher 1953 LAMONT F. TORONTO learning, is not an old. well estab 'Utah Foundation Report No. S8 The Statistical am Personnel Re Secretarv at Stat lished In school. was 1950-6- Z founded It Scnooi Utaa Keport, Tremonton port, 1953 Tremonion (SEAL) , W ! state-owne- Fred L Petersen state-owne- County Assessor The Constitutional Amendment on Legilislative Reapportionment HERE ARE WE FACTS . 1953-195- full-tim- 1954-195- full-tim- The amendment preserves representative ne government a legislature of two non-politic- al full-tim- ht Pre-med- ic -- full-tim- house based on population one house giving equal representation to all counties. federal egislature approved it. ar 45 for. for. full-tim- It works pro-rra- m other states. Idaho FOR Opposition failed. first-han- Failed Failed VOTE FOR Sen. reapportion. MOW on OER? Gifton Kerr Rep. Kleon Kerr Rep. LeRoy 'White Brigham City |