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Show Progress today: ,1 IPP update Timber sale The Intermountain Power Project near Delta is becoming a reality. Many former Hunter construction workers have transferred to the IPP. A review of the project is found on page i 5 The Pines near Emery is the Forest site of a Manti-LaStimber sale, but more is taking place there than the harvest of trees. The story of the sale is f j.,found on page 3B. al 6A. ri 1 t- 'i TT11-.-- i Donalds a duck 5 - I? it I f f i Education X 3 opportunity ladder for teachers which involves a teacher evaluation process, revising the Utah Teaching Scholarship Program to offer more and. bigger grants to promising high school students, inexcessive eliminating school terruptions during the day, and cutting down on extracurricular while stressing teaching core subjects such as reading, language arts, mathematics, science and social studies, checking to see if homework is beneficial as part of an overall learning experience, and use of the Student Education Plan with full participation of students, parents and teachers. Emphasized was the teaching of higher level thinking skills especially applicable to social studies, humanities and the arts. Recognizing the uselessness v veteran Carlos Maxfield, 88, of Ferron received recognition for his service in the U.S. Military at the San Rafael Junior High Veterans Day World War into teaching. A premier $4,000 scholarship abatement of plus a tuition and fees would be awarded to the 20 most superior high school applicants determined by statewide competition, according to the plan. Two hundred scholarships of tuition and fees costs will also be made available to colleges and universities to recruit adults from a variety of sources. One hundred stipends of $500 per quarter in addition to abatement of tuition and fee costs should be established, according to the plan, to recruit teacher candidates into areas of shortage. Currently, there are over 816 teachers of math and science in Utah who are not qualified to teach the subjects. teacher has I last Assembly one day due to an illness. While home, she began working on a history project which became the jumping off point for a series of slides and oral presentations week. Mr. Maxfield received a boutonniere from SR J H student Anna Thompson. Local vets were honored in the program and special recognition was given to those from Emery County who have been killed in action. Photo by Larry W Davit the history about of the American flag as it evolved through the various wars. Included in the scenario were several patriotic songs which were presented by a group of under the high school direction of Bryce Wilson. The junior high band also played a co-e- War. Special recognition was given to Carlos Maxfield, 88 of Ferron, who was the oldest veteran present. Mr. Maxfield served in World War I. The program also included recognition of Emery County military men killed in action. Brief reports were read by students about each of the men while pictures of the war victims were shown on a screen. Many family members were present to receive flowers, including Mr. and Mrs. Homar patriotic number. Adding remarks to the program was Mr. Singleton. He told the students that freedom and democracy do not come easy and are not easy to maintain. You may be faced with the obligation of serving he your country some day, said. I hope that what youve experienced here today will make freedom and democracy a little more meaningful and precious to you. Crews battle mountain in effort to open road days, more demanding courses and higher standards without the guidance of inspiring teachers, the board wants to have legislative appropriation for more scholarships for the potential quality teachers and to draw adults (Continued on Page 7A) 1 Larsons civics class, the program centered around a student, played by Cindy Jones, who stayed home from school several were Honored three-ste- p After the ' Duncan of Ferron whose son Dean was killed in World War II, Bertha Blackburn of Ferron whose son Frank was killed in Vietnam, Melba Funk of Ferron whose brother Keith Simonsen was killed in World War II, and Elizabeth Olsen of Ferron whose brother Royal Nelson was also killed in World War II. Under the direction of Lynn veterans, ranging from service in World War I to the Vietnam courses for the freshmen. Included were an inventive program for superior teachers, sources - ;,A :rv, Tonight when you go home and watch the evening news, youll see a wreath being place on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and there will be other observances honoring Veterans Day, but none will be any more impressive or meaningful than our own, San Rafael Junior High School Principal Sam Singleton told his students at the conclusion of the annual Veterans Day program last week in Ferron. To honor Americas veterans while placing special emphasis on local veterans, the junior high presented a program Friday, Nov. 11. Guests were Emery County veterans and the families of servicemen killed in action. have to provide remedial other Donald Duck is alive and well and living in Castle Dale with a dog, cat, and two birds. He also has some human friends. For the complete story, see page 7B. Progress Editor including Utah have been evolving methods to spike claims that Johnny graduated from high school unable to read, or follow a simple set of directions and complaints of colleges and business that they from fr l X by Larry W. Davis by Elizabeth Hanson Shock troops stormed the threshold of the Emery County School District office Friday and dropped a hefty package in the laps of administrative. and teaching personnel. Since the May report of the national commission on excellence in education stating that U.S. was at risk from a rising tide of mediocrity and that school standards were too low, school days too short, teachers paid too little and education too far down the list of national priorities, most states, of longer school M Veterans Day made special proposal brought to board a I By DAN GORHAM Special to the Emery County Progress was Work temporarily suspended in Spanish Fork Canyon early this week as two rockslides crashed down Billies Mountain and threatened completion of the Thistle bypass road by the Dec. 1 target date. Construction came to a halt Monday after some 30- - to 50,000 cubic yards of rock and debris came loose from a large cut being sliced through Billies Mountain and slid onto the new roadway. Crews will conduct stability tests before the job of clearing the slide will begin. Construction on other portions of the bypass resumed Tuesday. The first and larger of the two slides occurred at ap- a.m. Sunday, followed by a second slide in the same area early Monday afproximately 9 ternoon. Art Chidester, project manager at the Thistle site, said the slides occurred in a congested area, and had it not been a Sunday (when only a skeleton crew is on the job) workers could have been hurt. Were still proceeding with the Dec. date. 1 The slides were apparently caused by the steepness of road cuts being excavated in the notch of Billies Mountain during the construction process. Large boulders were dislodged cut and from the crashed onto the roadway. Officials are still uncertain about how the slides will affect the planned Dec. 1 road opening. near-vertic- al havent given up, but little delay at this point every will have a bearing on us, said Each time this Chidester. to go back and we have happens do preparatory work. Utah County Engineer Clyde Naylor had a somewhat gloomier opinion, saying the rockfall will cause serious We delays in rebuilding the highway. The slide occurred in an area where heavy equipment had cut more than 300 feet into the slope. It is the steepest and most difficult cut that will be required to push a new road over Billies Mountain, skirting the massive mudslide that now blocks Spanish Fork Canyon. This was the big cut, right in the middle of Billies Mountain, said Chidester. Its an area we have always been concerned about. Weve had a lot of people come in to look at it. We were watching the area but didnt expect this. The Department of Transportation has investigated the slide area, and work resumed Tuesday morning. An evaluation of the site has been made, and we will begin reworking the slide from the top down on both sides, said Ar- chie Hamilton, project Were still engineer. 1 proceeding with the Dec. date. That puts a lot of pressure on the contractor, but were still proceeding along that line. Officials estimate that it will take a few days to clean up the slide area. fV v-- i - t? :.:X Xi. .X-r.--r I rMe' ,v v Vvf. . p r v i t I Jp ! I - v ? 4' i, j t. . . 4 i 4 v ( V - ri ? h Yi . ,. . 9 Slide near a slide Crews work diligently to clear the debris from two rockslides which occurred this week at the construction site near Thistle. Photo by Pick Igan |