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Show ryuf" nugwuyo mmppM s 26 B DESERET NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1973 .t v - nmi "&&& " ' Will teachers lose higher salaries to free textbook By Lavor Chaffin Education Editr A bit unsettled of the of bu'inoss loft in the closing hours 1973 Legislature settlement complicate teacher may contract in negotiations this spring As it raced the clock to adjournment, the ltah Senat or by choice ISfi e by accident allowed House Bill to die in sifting committee They're Your Schools The bill, passed by the House on a vote, would hae required school districts to provide free textbooks for pupils in all grades F ee texts now are provided only through grade eight, except m a very-fedistricts The measure would not have provided any additional funds for the tex- 59-1- 4 USU 6.6-o- z. pageant to depict Old West LOGAN Utah Siate University will present a historical pageant, "The West America's Odyssey, Aug ar. part of the first annual USU Festival of the American West, Gerald T Sherratt, chairman said 1 The pageant will be staged nightly in the USU Spectrum and will depict the settlement of the American West Segments of the pageant will cover the Indians, the early explorers, the Mormon trek across the plains, the California rush, cowboys, gold homesteaders and western desperados, and the building of the transcontinental railroad Live and music, dame will he used to tell the story of how the West was opened to settlers A unique aspect of the pageant will be the use of rare photographs, drawings and paintings which will be projected on a giant screen to assist m creating a visual image of the Old West West. Available al your Good Neighbor Pharmacy drama, Sherratt will serve as executive director with Burch Mann as choreographer, Glen Edwards, art director, Eugene Tueller, music director, Kim Biandt, technical director, Sid Perkes, costume designer, William Cottlp, director of the visual presentations and Cleo Smith, pageant Education books Their cost would have been taken out of the $23 million increase provided in the general school finance measure, Senate Bill 72 to join with him in urging local school districts to comply with the objectives of HB156. He held that it was the "obvious intent of the Legislature that free textbooks be provided The State Board of Education staff attempted to get a bill introduced which would have provided free textbooks This would and supplies have cost $2 59 millmm Then it was reduced to include only free textbooks for a figure just under $1 million Legislators would not go for the extra cost, so I1B156 carried no appropriation The problem is simple If the $1 million were to be used for provision of free texts, it would not be available for teacher salary and parents would be relieved of buying books On the other hand, if it is not used for texts, and it is on the bargaining table, so to speak, it can be used for teacher salaries, and parents will continue to buy books for on students nine grades through 12 In Granite Distro-t- , where it already is an Issue m negotiations between the school board and the Granite Elduca-tiothe sum Association, amounts to around $200,000 ficient funds to provide free textbooks This could be August " The UEA held that the record $23 million in- done, ihe UEA said, "at the special session of the Legislature which the governor has crease m school spending is not sufficient to cover the identified needs" of school vs superintendent of public struction, recommended to jhe board, however, chose to reverse its own executive offlcer- - S ccnmter ,0 the gov7 the State Board of Education at its meting in Logan April 13. a Friday, that it support . the UEA districts already scheduled for m- - COUPONS In my opinion, Rampton it would be wrong wrote, for local school districts to accept the full amount of the state support program and use that portion of the cost intended to cover the cost of textbooks for some other school purpose " Later, he said that if districts failed to use the money for textbooks he would recommend to the budget session of the Legislature that textbook purchase be made a categorical item, so that the money could not be spent for any other purpose, and that a retroactive appropriation be made to districts which did provide free texts FOR THESE PRICkS PRESENT AD AT TIME OF ANY SIZE LIVING ROOM CLEANING AND HALL CALL NOW,... GQlLyCJjUAJJ - The Utah Education Association, wanting to keep the other money available for areas of the program, surely including teacher salaries, also wrote to the State Board of Educaton. THe UEA argued that if the Legislature had intended to mandate free textbooks, the Senate would have passed HB156 The UEA In an attempt to set early asked the State Board of EdL Gov Calvin guidelines, ucation to encourage the LegRatnpton, in a March 21 let- islature to appropriate suf of Board ter, asked the State mu rjrr0 SERVICE AND QUALITY WORKMANSHIP n - fV9ar ALL WORK' TO YOUR GUARANTEED a 487-6- 6 SATISFACTION. , ABOVE VALUES INCLUDE MOVING YOUR FURNITURE QUALITY CARPET CLEANING CO. . tois m ife (sim tod - Our offices - - be closed Good Friday will . - V - - f J (Friday, April 20,19731 tiny IFAMIL' SIZE n 'i (Emergency Service Available by Telephone) T. x a r 7 c:y f.'om C ,zi r aWS pet: : V A 4'nI'' " . lA M MOUNTAIN FUEL - EW Phone 521-353- M! 5 OR i. 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