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Show Page 2, THE LEADER-TH- E GARLAND TIMES, May 1, 1975 the highest costs $101,194,353 or to $240, 530, 407, percent in the 10 since 1964," the Utah years Taxpayers Association said today.. "The costs do not include funds spent for Capital Outlay and Debt Service," the UTA News noted. 138 operating costs in Box Elder District were $850.25 compared with the state average of $840.64," said the Tax Research organization. Alpine School district had the state's lowest per pupil costs with $754.14. Grand District was next with $762. 46. Daggett District had h Utah classroom teachers were $9,146, or $1,016 per month for time actually worked. ' The 1974 average teacher salary Is $643 over the $8,503 paid In 1973. Pox Elder District average salary was $9636, Association analysts said that fringe benefits-retiremesocial security, and insurance-co- st taxpayers an additional $32.3 million. This is equivalent to about $1,462 for every school When the erating costs. ratio drops just one point, it costs the taxpayers an add- Double Since '64 "Iter capita THE UTA NEWS further noted that the 1973-- 74 average contract salaries of 8L, that the teacher-pup- il ratio is the most important item in school opdetermining School Costs "Total Maintenance and costs of Utah Operating schools increased from $1866. claims UTA itional $5.5 million. According to the Association, in the past 10 years the ratio has dropped II percent, from 25.9 to 22.9. This cut in the teacher-pup- il ratio means that 1,421 more teachers are now being used to teach a similar number of pupils than tenyears ago. ; ratio The teacher-pup- il in Box Elder District was 22.4 compared to the state average of 22.9. Daggett District had the lowest ratio, with 12.6 and Washington the highest, with 25.7 followed by Nebo with 25.6. nt, per year. Adding this to the $1,016 per month salary would put monthly average teacher salaries at near $1,179. By districts, average salaries range from a low of $7,630 in Daggett to a high of $9,810 in Tooele. Bihe Clinic Set Republicans A drawing for a boy's and girl's bicycle will highlight the activity of the second annual "Bicycle Roundup" sponsored by the T rein onton PoMce Department and the Leader Publishing Company. The event will take place May 17 at 9 a.m. at the Box Elder County Fairgrounds. Boys and girls of any age are invited to participate from throughout northern Box Elder County. Tremonton police will be on hand to give courtesy inspections of bicycles and licenses. Slate Convention The Box Elder County Republican Convention will be held Satuday, May 15, at 7 p.m. at Bear River high ening will be the election of new party officers. Molgard and vice chairman Delone Glover have both announced they will not seek reelection. school, according to Jack Molgard, party chairman. Former Brigham City Mayor Olof Zundell will be the featured speaker. Mr. Zundell is currently serving on the Public Service Commission of Utah. Chief business for the ev- - Licensing cost Other plans call for a film on bike security, an obstacle course and a road race for bike owners or older. Refreshments will be served by the Tremonton Kiwanis club. The two bicycles will be given away at a drawing at the conclusion of the event. 50-ce- Secretary Diane Carter and Treasurer Ralph Coleman will both seek to retain their current posts. Delegates to last year's convention plus visitors are urged to attend. Gold Free Textbooks? Mot Spike To Visit con! from, page o"je Bear River High Principal factor There is an old saying, "Nothing is free - someone has to pay for everything," which holds true in the implementation of the new law as passed by the recent legislature. The law does ic say that textbooks and class fees are not to be charged to high school students next year the taxpayer will pick up the tab in the $2 million plus appropriation for this outlay. aca-dem- The question is "How will it effect Bear River high school?", and while school officials are busily engaged and W.H. Union Pacific, Geare, Southern Pacific. Dr. Peter C. Knudson, president of the sponsoring as shop courses, etc. the fee can still legally be charged. Fees that are still to be charged students, as there is a renume ration trying to work out the details, the following thoughts seem to be emerging. Bear River high school students will be given a credit of $22 to help pay for $15 the 'Ixjoks and fees will help to pay for the books (the district to pick up any addition) and $7 for the class fees. Principal Woodbury has estimated that the above figure will pretty well cover those two costs. It is to be pointed out, however, that any class where a fee is charged and the student is able to "take it home" such involved, are: Fees $7.50; Class Locker Fees (P.E. & Books) .50; Student Handbook .25; Book Deposit Fee $10 (Which is refundable at the close of the year if books are taken care of pro- Fees perly.). ! also "out" under the new law. A per student allocation from the state of $2.50 per student will have to cover that expenseall-in-al- l, school will be less expensive per student, but anyone who thinks that their child's education will be totally free, should take time to read the fine print in the new law. May 2nd and 3rd 9:00 County it will be represented by more than 100 cars and $1; Charges for fieldtrips are Elder Golden association, said the Golden Spike Vintage Car club of Ogden has indicated Box Spike occupants. Special presentations, remarks by Supt George Church and a drill team performance also are plan; ned. Climax of the program will be a of the driving of the Golden Spike by a cast of costumed play- ers. Golden Spike National Hisopen the year Garland iJg !PiTonfrgf to ici Clean-U- p Ccsctrf cert Would you be interested to know how the money is spent that is collected from the fund raising Cancer Crusade? In these days of inflation and the shrinking dollar everyone should be assured the money given to the ACS is budgeted in such a that it furthers the way cancer fight on many differ ent levels. In a most recent budget 29 percent of all ACS income went to support a wide variety of cancer research programs. But while the ACS is waiting for basic answers from research, they are also trying to teach people how to recognize , cancer's Warning Signals and the importance of early detection and prompt treatment There ' are many lives that could be saved without learning anything new from the research if people understood that Hence, the public education programs which took about 17.2 percent of the budget , , ACS services to the cancer patient which include rehabilitation activities, required another 12,f percent of ACS income. Professional education for phusician's and nurses on the front lines of the cancer fight took another 10.5 percent and community service 9.3 percentThe latter includes cancer detection programs, mass screening and cancer registries. That comes to 78.7 percent of the budget and ACS is proud to say that they keep management costs at 9.6 percent and fund raising to 11.7 percent They are able to do this because of the and dedicated energetic people who volunteer to do much of the work of the . ACS. Really; Someone Pays Darwin Woodbury iff lEinsns Meredith Weese Crusade Chairman Ghostly Visitor cont. from page one the hook in the process, and becoming entangled in the sheet. Frightened by the teenager's arrival, the pheasant momentarily gave a ghostly shape to the sheet. Matt gave the bird its freedom Saturday and it quickly scooted into the safeditch ty of a bank. weed-cover- ed Meet Set 0 Garland will attempt to organize its annual beauti-ficaticampaign with a kick-o- ff meeting May 6 at the Garland Library at 7:30 , p.m. All "civic minded citizens" are urged to attend to share their ideas and suggestions to make Garland "a beautiful town," an official said. Block captains are also ' needed. Interested persons should contact Thad Poulter, 5. 1975 chairman. on This crazy weather is getting down right dangerous. A fellow's health is endangered. er Old happened to absently mindedly say "Good moming" to a farmer the other day during one of our April snow storms and it took me an hour to pull my hat up over my ears. ril learn to keep my mouth shut. It seems, no matter how bad things get for one segment of the people somebody else can turn it into a profit Undertakers do a booming business during a plague, a tire sale sman love s snow and an umbrella salesman thrives on rain. The folks benefitting over our latest seige of bad weather are the cafes operators. Mel Foxley, a Tremonton insurance man, said he was at the Cross X Cafe Tuesday morning and he "never saw such a collection of grumbling farmers." Coffee sales should be up. Everybody keeps wondering when Spring will arrive, ready has. Star-Gaz- town The department also hopes to increase its membership to 20. Application forms can be from obtained officers Steven L. Jensen, Kent Lish, Bill Bishop and Ray Quig. ley. accepting appcurrently lications for new members. Fire Department officers indicated that one former member has moved out of vV- - YOU ARE INVITED pBSI at thenew l page one 257-377- The Garland City Volunteer Fire Department is i from " firemen Wanted f fi a cont. It was during the Skyview baseball game, about the fifth or sixth inning when the snow was hitting me in the face that I realized it A few minutes later, the clouds swept south, the sun poked its shy little heat out and that my friends, was spring. Course it was kind of short, about six minutes to be exact But I got a lovely tan. He is also active in the LDS church serving as a 45 West Regional Representative of the Quorum of the Twelve from 1967-7- 4 and as Bishop of the BYU 66th Ward from 1966-6- 7. He was a member of the General Sunday School Board from 1962-6- 6 and was President of the South Sanpete Stake from 1956-5- 8. He is a member of Phi Delta Kappa, the professional education fraternity and Phi Eta Sigma, the freshman scholarship fraternity; National the Education Association and the Utah National Parks Council Boy Scouts of America. Dr. Cameron is married to Maxine Petty Cameron, of Nephi. The formerly couple have four children, three married and one a student at Provo high school, Lock and B & A for 1975 Main Tremonton, Mar 1 - 2-3 Key i Utah Powerful 3.3 cu. in. engine Cuts an 8 log in seconds 16" bar ft chain Automatic oiling, too Only $20995 QUAY'S CHEVRON SERVICE. Riverside, Utah f toric site around is located 32 miles west of Brigham City via Corlnne. , v ' 1 A p.m. a.m.-5:0- 0 e Leader Garland Tunes msi t73D $iuB &wjm turn, tu Published every Thursday by the Leader Publishing Co. at 10 North 1st WestT Tremonton, Utah. 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