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Show THE VALLEY VIEW NEWS Page 6 mmm the Church Lutheran Women of Granger will be held Tuesday, May 21, according to Pastor Luthro. The morning session will be held at 9:30 a.m. at the home of Mrs. .Tames Herrold, 2733 Marcus Road. The monthly At onement meeting of The chairman is Mrs. Darrell Dewey, with Mrs. Lamont Hoppestad as Bible Study Leader. The evening circle will be held at the home of Mrs. Cecil Swaim, 4083 South Mango Circle. Mrs. Joseph Luthro is the Bible Study Leader and Mrs. Vernon Anderson 1JHj3 Thursday, May 16, Kearns; The Reverend Mayo Brown, Baptist Church, Granger; The Reverend Bill Thornton, Baptist Church, Kearns; The Reverend William is chairman. Whisenhunt, Baptist Church, Magna; The Reverend Howard Johnson, The Oquirrh Hills Ministerial As- Christian Church, Granger; The sociation met Monday morning at Reverend Joseph Luthro, Lutheran the Christian Church in Granger. Church, Granger; and the Reverend Participating ministers of the L. B. Friend, Methodist Church, group are The Reverend Don An- Kearns. The Reverend H. E. Hamme is ex- derson, Assembly of God Church, pec ted to arrive at the Lutheran Church in Kearns about" August ! it was disclosed to the association. The Oquirrh Hills Ministerial Association sponsors a broadcast over radio station KMUR in Murray each Sunday morning at 8 a.m. One minister from the group conducts the program eacah month. During the month of May, The Reverend Whisenhunt from 'Magna will be in charge. Reverend Joseph Luthro, Pastor of the Atonement Lutheran Church of Granger, is the president of the O.HJM.A., with Reverend Don Anderson, Pastor of the Assembly of God Church in Kearns, acting as , secretary. CAMP FIRE GIRLS NEWS A training session for Day Camp Councelors will be held at the Taylorsville Recreation area, 4800 South Redwood Read on May 16, 21, and 23 between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. H The present situation in Utah results from the neglect of the state to provide adequately for its public schools. This has resulted in the inability of our local school districts to furnish the services, supplies and equip- ment. and to pay reasonable salaries to teachers necessary for a quality educational program for your children. For the past fifteen years teachers have pleaded and begged the Legislature for more nearly adequate public school financing. Many legislators worked untiringly for the support of the educational program, but for the most part the pleas of the teachers have fallen on deaf ears. For the past eighteen months the Cooperating Agencies for the Public Schools (Utah School Boards Association, Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers, Utah Education Association, Society of School Superintendents and Utah State Department of Public Instruction) have been united in their request for legislation which would bring Utah up to the average of our neighboring states in expenditure per pupil. This would have required an increase in our educational investment of $100 per child in average daily attendance per year.'. This, it; was agreed, was a minimum program and ' a minimum goal. However, l was not allowed to come out of the House of Representatives Sifting Committee. In other words, the CAPS BILL WAS NEVER FULLY CONSIDERED. Those who opposed the CAPS' program throughout the recent session of the Legislature are now saying over and over that education received the greatest single appropriation ever given Utah's schools. The fact is that it will not take us even half the distance from where we are now to the average of the seven surrounding Mountain States. Regardless of the efforts of some to gloss over that unpleasant reality by attempting to make it appear that something has been done which ha not been done at all, Utahs unfavorable condition in education remains. Your children are being denied a quality It is our best estimate that Utahs The parents of Utah can ill afford school expenditures, under the legislation passed by the 1963 regular session of the Legislature, will lag next year by more that $70 per pupil annually behind the average of the other surrounding Mountain States. By 1965, this lag once again will be approximately $100 per pupil. . to sit by and let teachers migrate to other states where teaching condition! are more attractive. The time for action is now and those willing to provide adequately for Utahs children should not let any groups divert them from their determination and right to prowhich their children deserve. ; ful people working with all available, data. It is not a luxury program and by no means unrealistic. ; While some contend that the intelligent way to solve the educational problem is to go on with school as CAPS-proposa- 8 C content and equally exeit- ing strategies of teaching without' devoting full time (including summers) to the profession. This really is at the xpense of your children. The teachers of Utah have but one ingle purpose In their present action: it is the improvement of their service to the boys and girls of this ject-inatt- , state. While teachers salaries are undeniably a part of the problem, ADEQUATE STAFFING, REASONABLE TEACHING LOAD, PROPER PHYSICAL FACILITIES, REASON-ABLTIME SCHEDULES, ESSEN- E TIAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT, ACCEPTABLE PERSON- NEL RELATIONSHIPS, AND HIGH CERTIFICATION STANDARDS, are equally important aspects of the education. Superintendents cannot solve the problem by changing the method of distribution by alloting a greater of available money to proportion teachers salaries. TEACHERS ARE INTERESTED IN .THE TOTAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, NOT problem. No group in Utah wants more to see schools opqn on schedule in September than do the teachers. On the other hand, they have seen them open for fifteen consecutive years with increasingly less opportunity for doing the kind of job that needs to be done for your children. JUST IN THEIR SALARIES ALONE. IUN8, KXKX WS that one is needed now. Utahs . educa- - tors believe that the problem of school finance needs to be on the agenda of a special session; For the purpose of. bringing this about and in the interest of quality education, Utahs teacher voted 7,785 to 189 to interrupt contract negotiations for the school year 1963-64- .. Make no mistake! There will be no school in the fall until the current edu- cational controversy is satisfactorily resolved. The Utah Education Association is the professional organization of the teachers of Utah. The teachers elect the members of the Board of Trustees, g who comprise the body of the organization. The UEA and it officers and employees represent the teacher members. The Utah Education Association has stated m&ny times a willingness to discuss any reasonable settlement of the current controversy. Governor Clyde apparently does not understand the significance of this crisis, and policy-makin- apparently does not understand that he is perpetuating it. It now appears that the only way that this controversy can be settled is for the parents of Utah to demand that the Governor allow this matter to be considered fully In a X THETKACHXU Of VIA, ttCUTAKY, UTAH IDUCVUOff lKK2Mtt THW ADVfBTlXto.fcNf TAtO FO JOHN C i The theme cf Day Camp will be Indian Lore. Highights of the event wil be a luncheon cookout and an Indian pow-vvoGirls must be registered by May 24 in order to attend. "Voluntary senitude. Our Constitution provides for special sessions of the Legislature when needed. The Governor has indicated . er Day Camp will take place June through 7. Girls will take part in a variety of activities, including games, singing, dramatics, nature lore, and camp craft skills (fire building, tool craft, and simple cookouts). 3 into a contract to perform services and be required to perform such services. Iegal opinion has stated: No such court procedure or power exists in the United States because it would he unconstitutional. A court may not force a person to perform services. This would constitute "in-- ' com- - ' pounded with each passing year,. Teachers have been forced into distracting side lines and supplemental' . employment when in reality the pro ' fession of teaching is most demanding commitment in terms of both and nervous stress. In this space age no teacher can hope to meet the de-- .. mands of the rapidly expanding Bub-- " During hep visit here she will be the guest of Miss Pat Kaiser, national field staff advisor. Teachers contracts terminate in 'June, After that time teachers have no contracts and therefore no school em-- . ployment. Teachers have been told they are public servants and must return to the classroom. They have been told they could be required to enter usual until the differences can be reconciled, it must be remembered that the teachers have been patient through fifteen years of such negotiations. They have tried in every way possible to resolve the problem without disruption of service. However, all efforts have full-tim- Mary F. Fiedler, Camp Fire Girls Regional Director of Region 10, will arrive in the city this week. She will be present for the first sessions of the councelore, training. vide the educational opportunity "The CAPS program for education i a realistic program which was cooperatively arrived at by thought- been futile and conditions have Among those taking part will be Miss Janet Hansen, director of day camp; Mrs. C. R. Ford, registered nurse; Mrs. R. D. Spies, Mrs. J. D. Calvin, Mis. Jacob Huffman, Mrs. Howard Eogarte, Mrs. Harold Stevens, Mrs. Stanley Josefczyk, and Tvlrs. J. D. Tavey, councelors. special tmlon. Arrangements' have been made for those councelors who need g facilities in order to thanks to Mrs. give their who is in charge of Palmer, Dorothy the Papoose Corral; " . baby-sittin- sen-ices- , . ' 1 '.4r . V. - ' 7 i Barbara Saneoms. group of Camp Fire Girls. had a Mothers '.Tea- last week! Laurie Dletzel read a short the mothers about' Camp story-tFire. Short stories about their honor beads and what they .stood for were given by Christine Bullough, Jo Ann Wilcox, Kay Wilcox, Beverly Ment-ze- r, Dawn Young, Trudy and Trixie Howard. The master of ceremonies was Connie WenseJ. Entertainment for the program consisted of a dance to the tune of Rosy O'Grady, by Laury Wess-maa Hawaiian dance by Vanessa Seuerbach and Cindy Campos; a piano solo by Deborah Sansom, and one by Diane Benson; baton twirling by Edith Van Dyke and Beverly Mentzer; a clarinet solo by Laurie Dietzel; and a flue solo each by Eva Blocovich and Janet Jorgenson. 'Cake, ice cream and punch were served as refreshments. A special surprise was added by Albertsons Bakery, who decorated the sheet cakes with cross logs and a flame the Camp Fire symbol. For Mothers Day, the girls made a hanging basket with a floral arrangement inside. JoAnn Leybas group have been working on planters resembling piggies. They are made from plastic bleach containers. Jackie Krogmans group is making lovely vases from detergent bottles by using gilt. Branches from trees are also being gilted and used as a floral arrangement. Faith Claxton and Mitzi Burke are two new members being welcomed into this group. - n; . |