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Show 'm Volume Tooele, Utah, Thursday, August 6, 19S1 Eighty-Seve- n NumlxT Nine Cost i Twenty Five Cent! nr Teacher Pay Problem Provokes Court Case Tooele teachen and adiniiistrators both want the school district to find more money for salary increases, but the chance of upping the three percent pay hike stems slim. After the Tooele Education Association voted against accept ing the dist riel's offer of three percent last month, Sut. Clarke Johnsen sent out letters telling the teachers their choice is sign or be replaced. "YOU MUST go to the sc hool and sign the contract and leave it at the school with the principal (by Aug. 7). If you fail to do so within these limitations, your teaching position will tie declared vacant and a replacement will lie sought, stated the school districts letter. In response, the teaching association, the TEA, filed a court case which was scheduled for Thursday afternoon. In the 2 p.m. Salt Lake courtroom, a judge will Unhappy Teachers Dissatisfied Tooele County teachen assembled Wednesday in Tooele to listen to I'tah Education Association spokesman Don timer (speaking) and Tooele Education Association President Mel Condie (foreground) talk about strategies teachen have to fight a three percent pay increase. The teachen say the raise is too small. The Board of Education argues it has no more determine whether the teachers can be fired and whether the Tooele School Board must renegotiate the contract. money. Results of that ruling were unavailable at press time. Tooele Depot Ranked Best In Army has the hardest job to deserve the cominspection at Tooele Army resulthas ments. The Tooele depot is the largest of 20 team a experts Depot by that the team inspects. While it does ed in the facility earning the highest check many installations, none of those available rating and scores of complihas as much to keep tabs on as TAD, Mr. ments, TAD Public Affain Officer Paul Powell said. Powell announced Wednesday. The visiting authorities examined the The crew of outside experts conducted k depots security, safety, surveillance, inspections and staged supply, storage, public affain and medimock accidents to test the abilities of the cal areas. The team's conclusions came depot workforce. back with comments like very effecWE HAVE been claimng we are the tive, outstanding, very good, and ...best chemical security force in the "exceptional. of Defense, Mr. Powell Department called THE ANNUAL inspection, a saii and I think this bears it out once Surety Operational Inspection, is made more. once a year. Last year TAD received its best rating ever, Mr. Powell said. But The results also prove again the this was even better according to the depot's claim that the Weteye bombs will be safely stored at Tooele Army team leader, he added. What makes the praise even more Depot, Mr. Powell added. Noting the officials that is TAD to pleasing scope of the inspection, he noted that depot A four-da- y around-the-cloc- workers as well as the public will be protected completely. Mr. Powell referred to some inspected areas that rated particularly well. THE TEAM said the Security Force Response Team operations were outstanding, Mr. Powell relayed. Agent Air Monitoring, one of TADs worker protection programs, also earned st tong praise. The team noted that the areas data gathering and record keeping techniques are exceptional. ' Abo honored were the work of the Medical Response and Support Teams, Chemical Personnel Reliability Programs and key and lock conrol. Operations are being performed in a safe and professional manner throughout the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System, Mr. Powell reported from the teams comments. IF THE judge decides in favor of the school dist net, teachers will be directed to sign their contracts before 3 p.m. Friday. With those contracts, they will attach a letter of protest. The protest letter urges the district to renegotiate with TEA leaders instead of trying to upend the teachers union by negotiating individually with teachers. The letter, called a memorandum of concern, is meant to tell the school board that teachers will return, but unhappily. Supt. Johnsen, a former teacher and coach, may be the teachers strongest We cant have unhappy ..advocate. teachers and teach our children as well, ' he said Thursday. Still, he supports the Board decision on the three percent. IF THE district could afford the money to pay teachers more, it would readily offer more, the superintendent stated. But, he explains, the district used onetime money last year to settle salary Plan Aired For Vanpool At Friday Meet The Utah Department of Transportation, Tooele County and a van group, Too-VVans Association, will sponsor jointly a public meeting at 7 p.m. Friday fic b a starting string of 1 to 8 people per car. A handful of vans carry up to a dozen riders each. The survey covers only the eastbound traffic at the at Lake Point Interchange. UDOT spokesman said. It does not account for the 20 van-ful- b and hundreds of other carloads of workers driving the opposite direction to work at Tooele Army Depot, Dugway Proving Ground, AMAX at Rowley and other locations in al in the auditorium (basement) of the on-ra- Tooele County Courthouse, 47 S. Main, Tooele, to inteiest commuters in pooling together between Tooele county and Salt Lake county. A commuter traffic survey several weeks ago surprisingly shows that 550 cars a day leave Tooele valley and enter Salt Lake valley between 6 and 8 a.m. work and school commuting hours. Tooele County. Survey takers estimate that at least 800 people commute out of Tooele valley daily to work, school and other ap- - -- THE COMMUTER automobile traf New Doctor ins At Family Practice Beginning thb week. Family Practice Group will expand the number of health care providers within the group to include a new family physician. Jay Spector, M.D. Dr. Spector received his medical degree in 1978 from Indiana University School of Medicine, and proceeded to complete hb residency in the Depart- - Dr. Spector ment of Family Practice at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. HE SERVED as Chief Resident there from 1980-8Prior to his medical training, he received his B.A. in Biological Sciences at Indiana University. , Born in Gary, Indiana, Dr. Spector wanted to settle in the west where he could be near mountains or the ocean. His desire to practice medicine in a small community, as well as hb interest in outdoor recreation and photography brought him to Utah. After a visit to thb area last May, he felt the Tooele community could offer the type of lifestyle that he was searching for, and he became enthusiastic about the prospect of building a practice here. DR. SPECTOR felt the atmosphere at the Family Practice Group provides the social support and spirit that he finds desirable for a team relationship with colleagues, and he looks forward to meeting the public and becoming a member of the Tooele community. In addition, he b pleased to have the opportunity to do obstetrics and pediatrics, which are two areas of family practice that he finds rewarding. Family Practice Group b proud to have Jay Spector, M.D. join their provider staff and feel he has much to contribute to the fine group of medical professionals currently practicing in the area, as well as to the community as a whole, said Family Practice Group spokesman, Maisha Spackman. pointments in the Salt Lake area. Utah economics analysts estimate that the commuters return about $10 million worth of salaries to the Tooele county area annually. UDOT officials believe the commuters travel needs merit a thorough checking to coordinate a more efficient and economical system for getting to and from work from Tooele County. Vans can be the key to leaving hundreds of cars at home each day at quite astounding savings of, often $3,000 a year by vanpooling. A few dozen commuters from the Tooele valley area already have learned of the great savings thb year and before and have changed their ways of living accordingly, meeting UDOT HAS approved a program to help out up to 20 such vans on the commuter highways between Tooele county and Salt Lake coimty over the next year or more to start vanpoob on the road to saving individual commuters thousands of dollars a year and conserve energy, expense and time. The program involves the commuters, or riders, themselves taking responsibility collectively to get to and from work daily. Many call the program an excellent lesson in peoples ingenuity and concern for each others mobilty needs. Sponsors of the Friday meeting hope that several vanpoob of commuters can be organized at or soon after the meeting. negotiations. Because that money cannot be replaced, the district dug itself a hole. This year a similar pattern has arisen. Federal 87-- funds for this year were promised and budgeted at $760,000. Now the federal government has cut back five percent, or $40,000. This means the school district again with a hole $40,000 deep. "We have nothing, and there is no place for us to go (for salaries), Supt. johnsen said. He noted adrninstration personnel abo got a three percent raise. TO LIVE the deficit some perspective with salary inceases, a one percent increase in the district requires $88,000 of freed monies. The teachen say, however, that they would prefer to see some programs eliminated instead of seeing Tooele teachen continue for the second year in a row to get among the lowest increases in the stale. Last week teachen showed up at the School Board meeting with black paper lie-gi- armbands and protest signs declaring, Three percent of nothing equals nothing," Is three percent all your child is worth? and If you can read this . . . thank a teacher." TEA PRESIDENT Mel Condie said that the three percent will mean a little more than $6(X) a year to teachen on the top of the salary scale. The troubles of teachen are real, Mr. Condie stated, and he believes the public is starting to understand why. lie said he has been urging residents to pressure school board memtien into helping the teachen. Nearly 150 persons attended a rally of eachen Wednesday night at the city park on Main ami Vine St nils. At that meeting, several teachers supported Mr. Condie s idea, with one teacher asking how can the school Imard lie represent ing the voten with the tiny raise that is I .ring offered. The public wants more than that for their children, the teacher said. THE PEOPLE have to ask the School Board. The liuard wont go to the people," Mr. Condie said. Reviewing the choices the teachers have after the court decision, Mr. Condie said he would not urge the teachers to st like. "They have enough sulist it ules, he said. Mr. Johnsen is not eager for the teachers to take that route cither. 1 le said the countys teachers cannot lie replaced that easily. He praised the teachen in the district and stated firmly that he does not want to lose them. WHETHER it comes down to that or not will be determined by the Salt Iarke City judge's decision. Most likely, teachers will work under protest or try to convince the board to renegot iate. Even after this years solution Ls found, the superintendent warns that the problems will not lie over. Federal funds may be cut even more. In danger are the 874 funds which help the dist rid finance students on federal land. Those brought $720,000 net into the school budget this year, but they may lie phased out. The real crunch is yet to come, Supt. Johnsen said. County Mill Levy Is Reduced, But Residents Foot Bigger Bill The county mill levy was reduced wont see the difference when thb years tax notices Tuesday, but homeowners arrive. The countys rate was reduced by 1.01 milb during County Commission action, but because of reassessments made on county property, taxpayers will actually pay about 11 percent more this year than last year. County Clerk Dennis Ewing said. THE 1980 mill levy totaled 12.5 milb 12 for the general fund and .5 for the capital fund. Thb year, the county levy of 11.49 comes from 11.03 milb for the general fund and .46 for the capital fund. The state legblature in its last session decided that cities and counties must not increase their budget by more than six percent. The move was taken so home-ownewould not see whopping tax bilb rs caused by the reassessment program mandated by the State Tax Commbsion. If all the properties taxed belonged to a county, then each would see only a six percent jump. But many properties, especially in Tooele County, are assessed by the state. Those properties did not face the sudden reassessment of county properties like homes did. BECAUSE of this, the county properties are carrying' the increase that the state properties did not bring. The state says its assessments are accurate and did not need the reassessment that county properties received. Many of the counties in Utah have banded together to fight this assumption by the state. While the countys total budget can not rise by more than six percent, the approved budget goes slightly over that. The county passed a budget of about $960,000. THE SHORTFALL is real, but the County Clerk said the county will prob- ably have no trouble making up the $40,000. He said the payments-in-lie- u the county will probably get should cover the bill. Setting the mill levy was not advertised in the newspaper because of an oversight. The County Commission had to move ahead with the action because it b required to set the levy by Aug. 10. The countys next meeting would have been Aug. 11. sponsors say. To help pass around the technique for welcome changes in the commuting habits of people, the Friday meeting sponsors will explain to the public how to cash in on ride sharing. UDOTs Planning Division will explain a program for vanpoolers to obtain loans of more than 90 percent of the cost of 5 passenger vans to take lots of individual cars off the highways during commuter traffic and conserve fuel and clean up the air as a result. Commuter groups, themselves, need only rabe less than 10 percent of the price of each van to get wheeb rolling. 12-1- Downed Plane Claims Life Of Fighter Pilot An Air Force fighter pilot died when the F-1- 6 he was flying crashed on Eagle Range Wednesday afternoon. The pilot was Capt. J. E. Moats, an officer assigned to Hill Air Force Base. Capt. Moats, 29, was on a training mission in the plane 50 miles west of the Air Force Base. The plane, valued at between $9 million and $12 million, was destroyed from HAFB on impact. Four have crashed thb year. The captain was assigned to the 4th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing. A board is investigating the crash to determine a cause, said a spokesman from the 388th Police Seek Help F-1- Wing. Tooele County Sheriff Walt Shubert, Utah Highway Patrol Officer Dan Chidester, Grantsville Police Chief Richard Maycock and Tooele Police Chief Jesse Petersen show off equipment purchased for a new law enforcement program. have access to the The program will let persons call in information anonymously. The four departments will then calls elsewhere in Similar untraceable she if he or can caller prefers. programs featuring information, but the stay anonymous the west have all been effective, the law enforcement experts said. Bumper stickers giving the phone number for the service will be placed on patrol cars of each department. Tip-A-Co- p (882-660- 1 |