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Show Editorial Poge Feature" Fearsome Russian Winter Sweeps Into Moscow MOSCOW (LTD --The fearsome Russian winter feat slew Napoleon's armies and frees HnJer's tanks swept down upon Moscow this week. It drove temperatures below Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Centrol Utah ?. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 1S53 Western leveL newcomers, killed by a late fall into doubting the severity of Mother Russia's last line of defense, became believers. Both Western temporary resSoviet and idents natives cheek-nippin- Corporate Share of Tax Load Taxpayer! reeling: under the heavy burden cf fall property taxes, can be thankful for at least one blessing' the businesses and industries which assume such a large share of the tax bad. For example, think of what the extra burden on the individual Utah County taxpayer would be were it not for just five corporate property owners UJT,. Steel Corp, Utah Power & Light, Mountain States Telephone ni Telegraph, Denver and Rio Grande Western Bailroad, and Mountain Fuel Sup- ply. These companies happen to be the five bijrgest taxpayers in Utah County for 1969, with payments as follows: U.S. Steel, including Geneva Works, $1,683,709.70. Utah Power & light Co., $492,313.86. Mountain States Tel and Tel., $456,896.06. Denver &. Rio Grands Western Railroad, $341,013.81. Mountain Fuel Supply, $285 M3.58. The composite tax bill paid by these five companies amounted to their annual battle against the devastating cold with a combination of fur, felt, vodka and perseverance. "Vodka," said a Russian chauffeur." can be your salvation in an emergency. Put it in the radiator." He said meihtylated spirits are sometimes in short supply end the only way to keep the radiator from bursty is to drain it or put vMka in it launched g Nature's grand design of recycling Earth's water, constantly purifying and replenishing mankind's life sustaining resource, has been copied in small ways by man but unless more is done to reuse Earth's plenty, we may find urselves stifled by our waste. Urgent measures are being taken, both to clean up fresh wrter lakes and rivers and to desalt but even if successful by most yardsticks it is a race with monstrously growing demand. l) .Rep. Harold T. Johnson ays latest estimates indicate a tripling of the nation's water seeds in 80 years. In other words, the total use of water will amount sea-wat- er, (D-Ca- to 5,000 gallons per day per per- son. To meet the demand, drastic redaction and elimination of pollution is required, plus "You Got Ay sWz. 4 mini-viewer- hun-cre- " ' ' ;v German, be listening to a lesson ers to one in French, others using different records may be studying American history, and others a Shakespearean play rr developing accurate skills in shorthand Good schools are alike in that all who work for them endlessly search for bet-te- r ways to improve learning. Nebo School District has developed a "materials center" in the former Lincoln elementary school that disburses thousands of items to the schools in the district Thirty Nebo schools in September made 9,498 requests for materials and 8,559 of these requests were filled. Mrs. Grant Moore, one of the center employees, said, "In spite of these apparent large figures of the ordeis filled, we are certain many other teachers within any given school use the materials while they are at the school." "Phillip Argyle, director cf the center, points with pride to the many learning kits, each about 20 inches by 30 inches, filled with supplemertal materials for science, social studies, or other subject materials. Supt Joe Reidhead declares ls the value and popularity of these to teachers and children is suv'i that more rapid means of delivery from the center of the schools must be found. Among many innovations in Alpine School District are those varying from an extensive outdoor learning seminar program to experimenting in kindergar-t- e reading, to expertise in technical drafting. For our purpose we selected and observed some learning of six and with the use of "programmed" readers in a situation. We asked Mrs. Selma S. Miller (teacher) her opinion of such programmed learning materials with team teachers. Her answer. "I love it I could never be happy again in a classroom where children were expected to leam the same content in the same time." Referring to the advantage of Mrs. Miller said. "You double your strengths with the team." Lucille Preston, the other member of with this team said, "Team-teachin- g programmed materials is perfect for each child to learn at his best without the frustrations coming from others." A new development in the school districts in Utah County is the use of human "aides." These are university seniors or perhaps graduate students receiv ing a modest salary, working under the direction of a master teacher. This year of 1969 has been a fast moving year, and to keep pace with it students are learning everythng from the manipulation of computers to the physics, chemistry and astronomy involved in moon exploration. ma-tera- seven-year-ol- ds "team-teachin- teach-teachin- g" g, 1 Jensen There Yes, Virginia, -2rriI Is A Santa Claus when he is A small boy is a when he is not around and a A burden is always lighter if you lift it with a smile. Some people's mouths work faster than their brsins they say things they haven't even thought " ,'rT-.f- There are no elevators in the house of success. We must toil up the steps, one at a time. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile. Age does the same thing to people as it does to wine it sours the bad and improves the good. ; V-sC' It's been more than two years since Ruth Blair of Orem gave me a copy of a letter sent to the editor of The New York Sun in 1897, by a small girl asking if there really was a Santa Claus. Over the years, it has been reprinted many times and certainly has become a classic. To renew my faith in the Spirit of Christmas and perhaps yours, I would like to and Editor Church's reply to it letter Virginia's reprint Jam my "Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says if you see it in the "Sun" it's so. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Signed, Virginia O'Hanlon. ..... . !' By The - HOTS 4 1; ' V r .;. Today In Herald Staff History Oft the Beat THE CHILDREN LOVED HIM I didn't know Irvin Snow I can't remember of ever seeing but I know people who him did. One woman of my acquaintance told me of her two children's reaction to hjs recent death. They were so it had cast a pall over grief-strick- en oth- production losses. of yet Today, nearly 700 desalinization plants are producing more than 250 million gallons ri fresh water dai'y for cities and industries around the world. Another attack on the problem being studied is the use of giant aerators, resembling big eggbeat-er- s, In Former Snperintendent ' Peve City Scbuds noe the peblie schools of the cation were maintained solely to perpetuate the purposes of the past In this world of speeding change wherein new knowledge Is Increasing every minute of every day, the schools must and are determined to exert extra effort to help chit dm and young people learn substantially more in much less time than wa once the case. .Teacher and all others who direct the kerning process are using an array of teman and technilogical aids to enhance learning. TanjaLarsoL, directing an instructional media center at Grandview School In Provo, is surrounded by a great variety of mechanical gadgets, all used to help children learn more effectively. This center, for example, used by all fourth-- , fifth-- , and sixth-grad-e children (others when desired), has 18 mm. projectors, several opaque projectors, a number of overhead projectors, slide projectors, some film-stri- p projectors, 8 mm. projectors, tape cassette recorders, video-tap- e recorders, slide projectors, a esries of stereo-tur- n s, listening stations, table, AM ana FM radio, tape deck, master-contro- l set that can send any program from a record or radio to any room in the school or to all of them at one time, a computer that, for example, instantly takes the scores in a spelling lesson, sends thest scores to the memory bank in Salt Lake City, and has tfct results back to the pupils and teacher almost instantly. Many of these mechanical aids to learning will be found in other schools. At Rock Canyon School the instructional media center is more spacious than at Grandview. Nine classrooms open directly into the center. Vera Nielsen, coordinator of the center, said, "One d children can be busy learning simultaneously at this center." The center has ten small rooms cr "corners" where one or a small group with a common interest can be isolated from the larger group. "This," declares Mrs. Nielsen, 'makes it possible for a great variety of activities to proceed at the same time and provides a means whereby each child can loam as an individual" Secondary schools, likewise, have the benefits of technological instruments. One example may be the "listening console" at Provo High School instructional media center. Go to this center almost any hour and you will find at one time 19 students "plugged in" to 19 different stations using different records and tapes or just a radio program. ons or more students may , low-co- st Ahead-Fro- m get me loose." The winter's effect on Soviet that the industry is so great Communist party leadership this year launched a "winteriz-ing- " campaign to prevent -- Dr. C. M. Wong, director of the federal Office of Saline Water, told a recent government and industry conference on saline water conversion, that "the day is approaching wawhen the benefits of ter from saline sources will be available to all mankind and the specter of thirst will be removed forever." Which oxygenate river water and increase the water's dissolved oxygen supply. In oxygenated water, microbes thrive and attack organic waste, which is a large part of the pollution but by no means all to put on my said. "My iand gloves," he immediately froze to the pump and I had to wait until they water to brought me some hot pain-in-the-ne- ck Every taxpayer, small or large, contributes toward the cost of the overall tax bill on a proportionate basi. With the tax burden ever climbing, it is hoped the tax base will continue to expand. Computers to Moon Study MOFFTTT press Better Ideas?" "'? t ' lection in 1969. There is not space here to list other large taxpayers, but there are many. Each plays a role in broadening the tax base and in providing payrolls that help wake the local economy 8trong. Schools Look J. C Last year the Soviet r. $364,477.01. This amounts to nearly 25 per cent of the total taxes of $13,178,. 972.32 charged Utah against colowners for property Ccr.nty Herald Guesf Column By DR. stockings. mormng. "I forgot stockreported cases of nylon skin of the to freezing ings waxen's legs, causing painful and ugly scars. Another wintertime hazard is custhe Soviet se. tom in gasoline stations where drivers must pump their own fuel under the supervision of women attendants. A diplomat recounted how he jumped out of iis cozy sedan and grabbed the pump one icy Bye Line by The Race for Sufficient Water ; "But it's expensive," he said, "and some people would rather stay inside and drink it" Broken radiators are but minor worry when the temperature dives below 20 degrees Centigrade. At Ciat temperature pedestrians can suffer frostbite, and every year doctors caution against short skirts and nylon their home. Another lady told me of a child's comment about him: "He's just like St Francis. He feeds the birds and the animals and they flock around him." And another, who called me and asked me if I would please try to convey just a little of what he meant to the children of northwest Provo, and actually to anyone who kuew him. Mr. Snow was, without the children knowing the meaning of the word, a sort of saint to them. He and his team of horses, which he kept far into the motorized age largely because he loved them and the children they so delighted, became a legend long before his death. How many children he has given rii'es behind his team, in an age whn this was rarer that a ride on a jet plane, will never be known. How many children he ha3 made happy will also neer be knera, but the numbers would be equal For he apparently never encountered a child he didn't make happy if only for one brief shining moment beside a gentle, patient man, and behind a gentle, patient team of horses. He was never too busy never too much in a hurry that he couldn't give a child a ride about his farm or on the way to his pasture. A couple of years ago, a young man named Jim Foushee did a his love for all living things and a respect for nature. Especially it is true of the children who run to meet him as he drives his team to the pasture. They know Mr. Snow. Generations have known him and will always remember, the gentle man who drove the team of horses and always had are altime for n ways children,' he said. They haven't changed since I first began giving them rides over 50 years ago " Not the least of his gentle greatness wss his treatment of the children at the Utah Valley Training Center. They were the handicapped, but not to Mr. Snow. When he was forced to put "no trespassing" signs about his property, he phoned the center the next day and said: "That doesnt mean the kids firn your school." It was only a short walk to "Mr. Snow's Farm," and to some of those children it may have seemed like the distance k takes to walk to heaven. You couldn't call him a pied piper. People seem to forget that legendary character led children to cblivion. Mr. Snow was more than that to all the wagonloads of children in his iifetime. There is a line by Someone Else who always had time for them. It begins -"- Suffer little children. . ." 1HER0N H. LUKE comes By United Press International Today is Sunday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 1969 with 10 days to follow. The moon is between its first quarter and full phase. The morning stars are Venus and Jupiter. The evening sta are Mercury and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1620, the pilgrims set foot on American soil at Plymouth, Mass. In 1937, flie motion picture animated cartoon, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," produced by Walt Disney and based on fee Grimm Brothers famous fairy tale, was shown in Los Angeles for the first time. In 1942, the United States Supreme Court upheld the validity of divorces granted by the state of Nevada after six weeks residency. In 1944, horse racing was banned in the United States for the duration of World War TL In 1953, former premier Mossadegh of Iran was convicted of attempting to lead a revolt against the Shah. In 1968, Apollo 8 blasted off for moon orbit carrying astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders. thern-'Childre- A thought for the day: President Woodrow Wilson once commented, "Sometimes people called me an idealist Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world." BY TAMES BERRY'S WORLD O. on Mr Snow. I was city editor then, and Mr. Foushee was both my pride and hair shirt as an eager young cub reporter. But when he brought in his feature on Mr. Snow I knew it had been worth it, because he reached that point of sensitivity which makes a great story about another human being. Jim's last paragraph read: "Out of Mr. Snow's philosophy paper. j j n in at u j C I j "...And this one m extin-guise- Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneyr on Christmas Evt to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not sej Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond. la it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God he lives and he livei forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood." Paul Harvey Counteraction In Human Affairs BERRY feature The opinion and state-wienis expressed by Herald columnists are their wa and do not necessarily re-fleet the liews of this sews Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a rkeptical age. They do not believe except what they flee. They think that nothing can be which is net comprehensible oj their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's, children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas I How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight The eternal light d. with which childhood fills the world would be kr NEA. Ik. if roterf 'M' for MATURE chiSdrtnr The year 1970 will be characterized by counter action. Li every area of human affairs where permissiveness has borne such bitter fruit, expect resistance. Isaac Newton's third basic law says mat "For every action there Is an equal and opposite reaction." His physical law is altogether as true when applied to psychological reactions. It was public antipathy toward instancn of police brutality which caused us to legislate and demonstrate in the opposite direction. Now we have gone too far in the opposite direction. Now we are protecting the "rights of wrongdoers" at the expense of everybody else. EviReaction: toughness. dence is everywhere that police, school admin'strators and civic officials are themselves getting tough. When a dozen black militants seized the administration building at the Universty of Akron, Gov. James Rhodes immediate- ly labelsd it a "disgrace," inv mediately alerted the National Guard, immediately Dew personally to the scene. The demotstrators had occupied the building for less than four hours when they decided to leave. Last Veterans' Day in Santa Cruz, Calif., was profaned by some character who ran up a Viet Cong flag. The mayor of Santa Cruz, Richard Werner, personally ripped the flag down. And when the demonstrator tried to use the law to punish the mayor for "malicious mischief," the jury within minutes found In favc- - of the mayor, the jury foreman congratulated the mayor and the mayor said, "You're darned right I'd do it again!" Resistance has set in. The Air Force decided its regulations apply to everyone. At Cannon Air Force Base a black airmar. refused to cut his Afro-styl- e hair. A n court martial board reduced his rank, fined him $180 and sentenced him to three months hard labor. five-ma- |