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Show results in a new experience every year. BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Thursday, December 13, 1973 Well, we got half Christmas cards mailed. Editorially Speaking of our The cards in other half of the stack are missing zip codes and I'm gonna have to look them all up before they're mailed. Got a little carried away this year. The wife notified me that I mailed one card without the name on it. Pleased to have Oh well, Project Navajo Wonder States WoW! charitable undertaking are well worth the investment of fuel. A year ago, more than 100,000 pounds of food, clothing and toys were collected by the sponsoring Utah Air Force association and delivered to needy Indians in the Four Corners region. That represented quite a Christmas gift for a people whose standard of living LOCALLY, YOU can drop off these items at Building 35 on the Intermountain school campus. Cash donations should be mailed to the Utah Air Force association, Golden Spike chapter, P.0 Box 492, in Brigham City. This money will be used to purchase flour, a prime food item for Navajo families. As in years past, Big J Mill in Brigham City will donate hundreds of pounds of flour, certainly a magnanimous gesture on the part of this local industry. is well below that enjoyed by most of us. On the Navajo reservation, the per capita income is less than $1,000 a year. This is about $3,000 below the national mean. Unemployment is 35 percent. Appropriately, during this time when we observe the birth of Christ, its fitting that we should heed his admonition to share with others. Being sought this year are canned goods, sacks of potatoes and onions, flour, corn, beans sugar, salt and wonder which is more many Christmas across the United during the Yule season? names of Paul 1948-T- he Friday, Dec. and John Howard Eskelsen Anderson, Orion the for nomination presidency of were placed in of Commerce, by report the Box Elder Chamber which reported to of the nominating committee a the board of directors at special meeting last evening. 1948--delegation from the Friday, Dec. 10, he body of the council-tgoverning tribal will come to the of Navajos reservation to look over 17, December Brigham City Friday, and the City Bushnell hospital, Brigham if it themselves out for to find surrounding area, for school their a for is a satisfactory location children, Indian Service employees on the Navajo reservation reported yesterday. 1948-T- he Brigham City Friday, Dec. 10, Kiwanis club, a member of Kiwanis International will be charted in ceremonies following a banquet tonight in the Box Elder We urge you to give your support, too. Our present fuel and energy shortage is nothing compared to the shortages in material necessities experienced by many Navajos every day of the year. 10, the kids pose with Santa Claus again this year and got some pretty good pictures. the My compliments to photographers at Santa's workshop on Forest street. People get mad at the post office and gripe about the service, but there's one thing you can say, if someone sends you a letter sooner or later it'll reach its destination. While the Z clan was waiting to have their pictures taken, the activity there proved to be humorous. Someone sent this writer a letter and addressed it Brigham We had The children stood patiently waiting for their turn with the excitement to talk to Santa just boiling inside of them. The parents in turn would be fixing their child's hair and just sprucing them up a little. Some children were ready for the moment with Old St. Nick, telling him everything they wanted for Christmas. Others would sit on his lap smiling, but sort of bewildering by his charm . . . and wind up not saying a word. Still others would shed a little tear and want their mothers back. Yep taking the kids down to get their pictures taken with Santa A City, Vt. I in got it the other day after the guys Vermont found out where Brigham City's located. Since we've started with something Christmasy let's finish in the same spirit. This writer is going to start the "Spell Christmas, Club." If there's anything that makes this writer mad enough to chomp down on his pencil and break a filling . . . it's seeing the word, Xmas. So if you want to join my club keeping on writing Christmas, Let's stamp out Xmas unChristmas. YE OLE SAGE SEZ: -- . . . High school it's I'd like to meet the guy who thought up Xmas 50 and tell him a few things or two. new things and new ways of doing old things, or in other words, creative teaching-- is education at its best. , The education association solidly supports innovation in this sense. Sometimes, however, importation is substituted for innovation, and the result, time after time, is failure. By importation I mean the wholesale transplanting of ideas, equipment, and philosophy from the setting in which they evolved and flour ised into a new and not always compatible climate. For starters, lets consider a simple example, the overhead projector. Its appearance on the education scene was healded as the greatest thing since thei blackboard. Soon with the aid of Uncle Sams generous title programs, some school districts were able to provide an abundance of "overheads and no classroom was considered respectable without one. Now, I have no personal quarrel with the overhead projector. I find it a useful and convenient tool, and it has been a boon to teachers of foreign language, math, and Innovation-tryi- ng . , ; ' ' ' v ' many other subjects. In fact, it has been a boon to every teacher who has found use for it in his teaching. Nevertheless there are hundreds of these expensive devices which have been relegated to the dubious functions of occupying space and gathering dust. ACROSS OUR nation stand dozens of new schools with open classrooms and centralized resource centers. Some of them serve as highly effective educational , institutions. Some stand merely as monuments to architectural genius while teachers and pupils alike deplore the confusion and general disorder that prevails. Modular scheduling is a similar paradox. It is acclaimed as the answer by some educators and is abondoned in disgust by others of equal distinction. Who is right and who is wrong? It should be noted that there is nothing inherently right or wrong in any of these equipment, things. Buildings, audio-visumethods of approach, textbooks, are all teaching tools. In cases where the teaching staff is actively involved in planning, selecting, experimenting, investigating, al and recommending, the system, whatever it may be, is usually working well. When the system is arbitrarily imposed from above because it is the newest thing or because it is highly successful in Three Oaks, Del., chances for success are slim. I KNOW OF a creative teacher who stimulates interest in social studies, grammar, creative expression, health, geography, and current events by producing a weekly newspaper. She has in her classroom a tape recorder, and overhead projector, and a television set, all of which she would gladly exchange for an duplicator. But duplicators just arent the going thing for individual classrooms. In a small Idaho school where there was great concern about the necessarily limited curriculum, the administrator decided to inaugurate a series of mini courses. The faculty was skeptical, even hostile; so he backed away but encouraged the teachers to come up with an alternative solution Shortly they enthusiastically proposed periodic enrichment days and soon had the students signing up for two-hoblocks ss Years Ago the first man Thursday, Dec. 6, and talk to desk to here his at sit in Brigham City York New in man a busy business City was to talked who Neyer Hoff of Joseph F. Hansen was seated at who the Savage Arms Corporation, his desk in New York City Tuesday morning, December 4. It was not a radio message but an actual conversation for six minutes over the long distance telephone. 1923-Prob- ably ELDER JOURNAL BOX by Ray M. Hall cafeteria. 1948-T- he Box Elder Wednesday, Dec. 15, at a special meet will education of district board to consider session next Tuesday evening plans and specifications for the new Central school building, as prepared by Karl Krusmark, school board architect, it was announced yesterday. Innovation in education An Educoiumn Years Ago 25 how cards passed other nonbottled staples. Also, warm, serviceable cothing, such as shirts, coats, dresses, pants, shoes, underwear, boots and other items for men, women and children. Toys in serviceable condition also will be accepted. We were pleased to hear that this years Project Navajo would not be kayoed by the fuel shortage, agreeing with Gov. Calvin L. Rampton that benefits from the I important the name or zip code? Brigham City in established weekly newspaper published every Thursday by the outh 55 l, Cider First West, Brigham City, Utah, (4302. Second .''Class postage paid at the post office, 15 South First West Briqham City, Utah, 04302. A of horsemanship, leather tooling, chocolate dipping, slide rule, or day-lon- g career exploration projects. Enrichment days or mini courses-sa- me basic idea, same general goals. The difference? One was an attempt to impose a plan, the other evolved within the school. I do not mean to imply that a successful idea must originate in the school. Ideas can come from anywhere, but the motivation to incorporate them and modify them to local needs must come from the involvement of those who must work with them. 1909, Box 24 North Third West Charles W. Claybaugh Publisher Emeritus Charles "Tuff1 Claybaugh Publisher General Manager Bruce T. Keyes, Managing Editor Pete Zimowsky, Sports Editor Sarah Yates, Society Editor Nancy Goss, Advertising Manager Shirley Richardson, Classifieds Betty Claybaugh, Circulation Arlend Tinqey, Newspaper Supr. Van Claybaugh, Photo-Pres- s Supr. H. E. Anderson, Commercial Printing Supr. Art Exhibit: Paintings by Stewart, Kaysville, his sen Maynard December Stewart, Santo Clara, California. Collector's Cornar: Fabric Design (Wall Hangings) by Sandro Bickmara, logon, Utah. Christmas Nostalgia Permanant Exhibit: Pionaar Heritage; Game Birds, Butterflies, Fossils, Navaja Family lift; Golden Spike Memories, Brigham City Yosterday and Today. Crystal Collection, Fairbanks Sculptvras. Subscription rate $8.00 per year payable in advance in connection with the Box Elder Journal (published Thursdays) $4.00 for 5 months in Box Elder County. Subscription rate $10.00 per year payable in advance in connection with Box the Elder Journal (published Thursdays) $5.00 for 6 months: outside Box Elder County. TEAM TEACHING, the open classroom, individualized instruction, flexible scheduling or any other innovative practices can neither be labeled good nor bad, successful nor unsuccessful. Each one is a useful concept or a crazy newfangled notion depending upon whether or not it is effectively employed. It can be effectively employed only by those who are converted to its use. y Museum-Galler- Coming in January: Utah Paintings '73 by Uloh Profassionat Artists, Quilt Craxa. NATIONAL NEWSPAPER h IliUutllN " ;S Innovation comes from within; importation from without. We favor the former. inf nna sustaining - MEMBER 1972 Sat. - Sun. 1 :00 Week Nites 6:45 ROXY fti pick someone up. 3. Try to organize your trips around town to avoid unnecessary trips. 4. Form car pools, not just to work, but for shopping trips too. 5. Buy foods ahead of time to avoid frequent unnecessary trips to the store for a few items. Letters to the Editor,., Take that first parking place instead of cruising around town looking for a better one. I would also like to invite suggestions from other readers with energy-savin- g tips. 6. How to save energy up to the sky. I wished that everyone who had a son or daughter take part in it could have been Robert G. Kaltwasser Salem, Ore. We in the land of plenty have finally reached the point of not enough: not enough recreational space, not enough energy, not enough common sense. As a concerned citizen, I would like to suggest a few possible ways your readers can help to conserve our energy resources, and thus our d environment and our (?) dollar, that they, perhaps, had not thought of yet. 1. Turn off everything not in use immediately. 2. Replace all lights not necessary for reading or close work with lower wattage bulbs (40W). 3. Unscrew all but one bulb in each light fixture. 4. Close doors to unused rooms, and close heating vents in those rooms to 5. Close outside doors quickly. Dont stand and converse on the doorstep. 6. Avoid buying unnecessary electrical appliances for Christmas, and dont use appliances you already have, if the same job can easily be hard-earne- one-thir- d. done by hand. Here are a few more ideas on how to stretch our gas dollar: 1. Avoid warming the car up before starting. 2. Avoid sitting in the car with the engine idling, e.g., at railroad crossings or waiting to JL Lauds yule program Editor: Last Saturday night me and my family attended the opening program of the Christmas season at the tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. The program was put on by choruses from 31 hieh schools from all over the state, which included our own concert and Madrigal choirs from Box Elder High. In all there were 5 ooo singers. Tliis is the first time that I have ever seen this outstanding program. They sang all the beautiful old favorite carols and some new ones, but just before the closing song, which was Silent Night, they sang the Hallaliah chorus from the Messiah. I have heard a lot of choirs sing this song, but if you have ever heard 5,000 young people sing it then you will know the feeling that came over everyone in that outstanding building. It sounded so beautiful and like the roof was going to open A fy.ab, O' d$cas who OAOh there. I think that we owe so much to our Miss Lenette Lehman, who is the choral director at the high school and also the young men and women who sang. If some of you people here in this community have never seen and heard this program, please dont forget it next Christmas season. Mrs. Ross Eskelsen Sincerely, Editor: SPECIAL NOTICE! The monaqenwni An, Rumba lessons? wmto'i JOSEPH COTTEX - ELKE SOOMFR CAPITOL THEATRE LOO Saturday A Sundays 6:00 p.m. Weekdays - UrCN TODAY THRU TUESDAY ALBERT - R BROCCOLI n! HARRY SAUZVAN p'ore- ROGER W1MRE JAMES tfgsP Editor: With the advent of the new garbage collection and burial fees, I am happy to note the city council has found new ways to use it. Namely, an all expense boondoggle to Puerto Rico for councUmen and their wives. What is going to .be the fall-ofrom the important affair requiring three councilmen to attend? Free rumba lessons at city hall? ut Yours very truly, L. G. Koch, General Delivery, Brigham City Take stock in America. 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