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Show 4 6 Brigham City, Utah 1974 October 31, Thursday, BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Special interests set dance here Friday CONSUMER Average salary still lags Foundation follows teacher pay gains Classroom teachers with a bachelors degree in the Box Elder School district received a salary schedule increase averaging $874 or 10.51 percent this year. In addition to this general raise, most teachers not at the bracket of the salary scale top also received an experience increment averaging $338. Thus, the total average salary boost for such teachers amounted to $1,212 this year. These facts were brought out in an analysis of teachers salaries prepared by Utah foundation, the private research organization, and is based on 1974-7- 5 teacher salary schedules collected by the Utah State Board of Education from the local school districts. Bachelors Degree Certified teachers with a bachelors degree in Box Elder district will receive a beginning salary of $7,320 this year with a maximum salary of $11,376 received after 12 years of service. Added amounts are paid to with additional teachers academic training. The 1974-7salary for a teacher with a masters degree, for example, is $7,992 at the beginning level and $13,152 at the maximum step of the salary scale. The report notes that these amounts are for approximately nine months of service during the school year. Foundation analysts observe that a teacher with a bachelors degree who began a teaching career in Box Elder School district during 1969 would have received a starting salary of School This year, this same teacher with five years experience would be receiving a salary of $8,796. Approximately $1,804 of this increase came from boosts in the overall salary schedule with the remaining $1,116 coming from annual increments for added teaching experiences. Retirement Costs In addition to these salary increases, Utah now provides the employees share of teacher retirement costs. Formerly, this expense was borne by the teacher. This adds another $418 to the e pay of a teacher with s experience in Box Elder School district. Thus, the total effective salary increase r over the period is equal to $3,338 or 56.8 percent. Moreover, teachers who earned added college credits during this period might be entitled to an even greater increase. Despite the impressive salary gains made by Utah teachers during recent years, salary levels in Utah still lag some behind Mountain States averages, according to the Utah Foundation study. When an adjustment is made for the special retirement costs borne by the state, the effective average salary in Utah last year was about 3.1 percent below the average of the eight Mountain States. the By comparison, in 1967-6average salary paid to classroom teachers in Utah was about 5.0 percent below the Mountain States average. take-hom- five-year- five-yea- great fun to choose a prize from Pocket Lady ''Red'1 Harris' big pocketed apron, and she'll be around all day for the children attending the bazaar to be hosted by Presbyterian Women all day Saturday, Nov. 2, at Gillespie hall. Bazaar features home crafts; LOWER APPLIANCE COSTS Fifteen years ago, a good price for a gleaming white washing machine and dryer feawith all the tures then available would have set a sharj) shopper back about $480. Today, such a shopper could easily come up with replacement units w'ith more convenience features, a larger 5 $5,876. r 8 QUILT is displayed by Opel Fife, left, and LaVann Hferbert that was made for the Special Interest talent fair. The Special Interest group is sponsoring a dance Friday night at the Indian chapel in Brigham City. HANDMADE motor, and a all for parts longer-lastin- $350, about - Community ? ; " one-thir- d less than in the good old days. Whats the story? In part, its the free enterprise system at work. Manufacturers of major appliances are a competitive bunch and they cant afford to pass on to consumers their rising labor and material costs. Instead, they rely on improved product engineering and higher productivity to offset mounting costs. Without a doubt, one of the reasons the appliance industry has been able to hold down production costs year after year is the increased use of plastics, says an appliance industry executive. Scoffers at the plastic society may he surprised to learn that the appliance industry, which builds parts to last, is a major customer of the plastics industry, according to a recent issue of Exxon Chemicals Magazine. Others using plastics for durable end uses include the automotive, communications and construction businesses. By far, styrenes are the plastics most widely used in major appliances. In 1973, appliances consumed 403 million pounds of this material. ABS plastics were next with nearly 106 million pounds and then came polypropylene with 97 million pounds. Exxon Chemical USA is a major producer of polypropylene as well as such petroleum-derive- d chemicals as propylene, ethylene and benzene which are essential components of nearly all the 40 families of plastics now in commercial use. dinra' t73LKHD Presbyterian nD'uIiifcV luCIIEmPuBlV foroliETTi flRTf (ffi) ifTITw (TTf Gtnmlb Thurza Kingston serves Mrs. Calvin Rampton and Mrs. Frank Moss as the Democrat Women's club of Box Elder County hosted a tea Saturday honoring the governor's wife. Club members Alma Alex and Mrs. Elmer Ward are pictured chatting with the two honored guests, who greeted women from throughout the county at the social event. DEMOCRAT WOMEN Heeling changed Couple goes to confab of the Guild, planned for Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. has been postponed to Nov. 12 at the same time. The guild will meet at its regular place at Box Elder Junior High in Brigham City. The regular meeting Wasatch Red and Peggy Marsh of the Westward Ho Best Western motel in Brigham City recently attended the 26th annual Best Western Motels convention at the fabulous MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev. Soil EDdeir Ga&tt-nuuui- P oaOiajpfK) kids deserve as good an education as anyone elses thats why I'm voting for Kathy Coffman for school board member from precinct 5. She will work in behalf of all students for better education. Juanita Payne My (Dnxunmtty JAKEGARN U. S. - (fcnntto UiECfcazias 43lli E. J. Its Sonomas Anniversary Sale flair (fcr 2, church it is the date for the pre- holiday bazaar which theyve been planning for months. Held in Gillespie Hall, 150 East Third South, the bazaar will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and will feature holiday gifts, indoor garden items, crafts for home decoration, home baked goods, island imports and enchilada dinner, and a fine collection of attic (UIlLI kfltlJqpnoifcfl ( may be pheasant season for some people but for women of the Nov. an impressive display of talent including quilts, needlework, paintings and a variety of skills produced by the single members of the community. There were assembled to enjoy the program, more women than men, however due to deer hunting opening on the same day some men might have been in other pastures. In addition to the program to participate in there was served hot bread and milk with homemade jam and honey. The next coming event includes a dance sponsored by the Brigham City group to be held Friday at the Indian chapel on Seventh South in Brigham City. The dance band will be The Five of Us, with the beginning time at 9 p.m. and a $1 donation fee to help pay expenses. At intermission time, a program is planned. wide range of colors... holiday items Saturday, On Oct. 19, talent fair was held in Honeyville chapel with RONALD INKLEY Senate U.S. House of Representatives Shop Now and Save treasures. Wandering about the bazaar will be a pocket lady with pockets jammed full of toys and prizes for the younger set and j there will also be a lot of gift items priced just right for little . pocketbooks for Christmas giving. Mom will be free to browse about the shops, too, since the senior high youth of the church will be offering nursery care and entertainment for tiny tots . for per hour. A sidewalk cafe will be open for goodies, coffee and punch beginning at 9 a.m. and will expand the menu at 12 noon to include an enchilada dinner. Mrs. Evan Day and Mrs. George Church, for the bazaar, extend an invitation to the entire community to attend the bazaar both for holiday gift bargains and for a pleasant Saturday afternoon in a friendly general store atmosphere that will be the theme of the bazaar. WILLIS HANSEN State Senate State House. Dist. Wm. 61 ED KERR State House, Dist. 62 JOHN P. HOLMGREN . K. B. OLSEN MALCOLM YOUNG County Commissioner, 2 yr. County Clerk-Audit- MARGARET EVANS County Recorder WHOS NEW Of Interest in Meor River Valley Jeff and Myrna Anderson Kent of Garland proudly an-- : nounce the arrival of their first : Child, a boy, born in the Logan hospital Oct. 21. : Happy grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Anderson of Tremonton and Mr. and Mrs. ; Dan Kent of Fielding. Great grandparents are Mr. - and Mrs. Roy Anderson of Thatcher and Emil Andersen of Tremonton. ' 0. D. LUND County Attorney Brigham City NEWELL TIM" FRANCIS County Sheriff II County Commissioner, 4 yr. 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