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Show T New Records Set Surplus Helps 32 Colleges 'Ll Mountain States By Spotlighting . S.P.in 1947 a najtion-wid- e spite .of equipment sol: rt age, Southern Pacific rolled up a record cf great achievement in 1947, according to President A. T. Mercier. In Thirty-tw- o institutions of high er education" In Colorado, New j Mexicoj Wyoming and Utah have received 1,294,743 items of war eurplue property "'worth' $2,308,800 for use hi' the training of veterans of World War IL Three Pl federal agencies cooper" I 'PtahTirridy,,'Jannary 2,' 1948 OAOia!,d6Pli YES, KIDS, THEY GIVE TESTS TO TEACHERS, TOO; EDUCATION COUNCIL SLATES EXAMS JAN. 7 & U SOOTH Yes, children,'1 teachers' take ttie tests because they may aid in tests too. Teachers of Northern securing satisfactory placement, in Utah and Southern Idaho may diagnosis and evaluation, and in fihd out much about their, teach- planning a pro ing efficiency through' examina- gram. tions to be conducted? rW 'Utah ; School.... systems are interested State Agricultural college this because the tests aid in evalumonth. The National fc6mmittee ating teacher qualifications and " examinations- - of the in selection and on placements. Education on American Council ent Highway Signs A letter of protest has been,' sent : to - the Nevada State High- - j Reviewing the railroads ac- statement way commission and chambers of i tivities in a year-en- d Pacific "Nevada Southern revealed several commerce that in of S. cities by Commissioner Rulon carried its largest peacetime Teacher training institutions are 12 has established an examination ated in the transfer of build- Howells "of the P.I.D., calling freight load in the past ' recenter at USAC, according to Dr. Concerned also because the tests ing and equipment "under the attention to several misleading months,- setting an all-tiaid in evaluation of teacher veterans educational facilities' pro- highway signs' on Highway U'. S. cord of efficiency as measured by E. A. Jacobsen, dean" of training curricula and practices, a gram 'which 'has enabled approx- 81 between Las Vegas and Glen- - grocs per train-hobnd in selection and recommenimately 7,000 veterans' to attend dale Junction, Nevada. The signs factor involving both the train So the tables will Tar turned,1 dation of prospective teachers. school' in the four states who urge travelers to take U. S. 93 load and the speed with which this time teachers - will be and The tests are a means of otherwise could not have attend- at Glendale" 'Junction' as the fast- - it is carried. This eat was per-e- st ed college. The property, ' provid route to Salt Lake City and formed, he said, through team- the ones to hite their pens and further professionalizing teaching ed by the War Assets administra- - Yellowstone. The fact cf the mat- - work of railroad men and ship-tto- n, scratch .their heads at puzzling and;, increasing the effectiveness of questions. the schools, Dr. Jacabosen said. wu allotted by the Bureau ter is, High way ; U. S. 93 through pers. common test samples Teachers may "take iasoetrlled' '"The of Community Facilities of the Nevada to Salt Lake "City is 112 1947 common examination January 7 professional information, mental Federal Works agency after ' a i' miles farther 'than U. S. 91 - However,- net earnings in abilities and basic skills, general determination of the need, in through Utah lo Salt Lake City. were a third less than the six- and 'optional test 1 January ? a fair cent minconsidered per tests Dean culture' and professional interests, each respective case, by the U. S. Jaccben said. Tbs The St. George chamber imum for industry in general, are The a cne fee and office of Education. examines therell voluntary optional j commercepoints but that the disclosed; This was for Merder ; them. matter of items in mastery of taking subject Principal surplus their city has due, he caid, to the fact that, Is This transferred 'to the schools in dropped off 18 per cent as comproject being spon- elementary 'educaion, Fnglish, of all eluded"' buildings' for classrooms pared with the same period - last although wages and prices by school districts" and the cial studies, mathematics, biolog-scho" materials have greatly increased, and laboratories; Office furniture, year1 due to the diversion of Education, ?Dean wJa- -' icali sBencesi physical sciences, of : ' ' ' fares ' and freight passenger W" ch: said. Testa cobsen will' German, machine laboratory' Spanish, Latin, equipment, traffic over U. 3. ' 93 because of remain ' less on he aver- ministered Prof. Keber C. and Iridustriar Arts education. shop tools and equipment, cafe- the unethical road signs in Ne- charges by age than they were 25 years ago. Sharp of the psychology "'de-teria, laundry, electronics, auto- vada; j ..- -; r ' motive and electric equipment, j , Southem Pacific has ordered or partment. T rospectlve teachM, according to a report submitted Beet Yields Up authorized more than $152,000,000 chrlrtma. R.lalj.e, W. H. those in service may . take the . endivision by Cheney, Sugar beet yields throughout worth' of new freight and pasMrs. Frank Jenson gineer of the Bureau of Com- the Utah treritory' this season senger equipment since the end tests. Objective measurement of ? Mr. ''ahd ;A'6n' having ' their munity Facilities; to WAA Re- averaged slightly over 19 tons per of the war, the rail president an- certain skills and ablUUlthat';t'l3nried " to effective gional Director John A.' Skeen. acre as compared with 17.7 tons nounced. teaching "lives from Salt Lake City for include These orders Institutions participating in the per acre in 1948. The is Christmas dinner. --They expected the goal. 20,580 freight train cars; an ad-program were: ditional 5.000 refrigerator cars for A teacher may wish to taker-te- r b'here for a day or nure. average is 12.3 tons per acre. ' Ocforado, "University of Colo1948 The prospects indicate Pacific Fruit Express company, cf rado, Boulder and Denver; Uni- sugar "beet prices ' ' will remain which Southern Pacific is half versity 'of Denver and Regis Col- substantially' the same as in owner; 107 streamlined passenger lege, Denver; Colorado A.M., Ft. 1947 ' when lllOO per ton was cars, 48 Diesel-electrlocomotives Collins; f Colored Stats Teachers paid for bests of hational' aver- for main line use and 43 addiINDEPENDENT College! Greeley; Colorado Col- age sugar' content. The field labor tional Diesel-electr- ic switch lege, Colorado Springs; Colorado picture Is better in view of the School' of Mines, Golden; West- fact that 6,000 Mexicans ' will be ern State College,- Gunnison; Ad- imported 'into Utah for work and Shortages of materials difficulties in railams State College, Alamosa, and construction 1$48 season. the during road equipment builders plants junior colleges at Trinidad,' La have held backdeliveres of new Salt (Grand of Junta,' Utah, University Utah, Junctino, Pueblo and Sterling. Lake City; Utah State "Agricu- rolling stock so urgently needed cars and augNew Mexico, University of New ltural College, f Logan; : r Brigham to replace worn-o- u ' NOW PLAYING ' Mexico, Albuquerque; New Mex- Young "University, Provo; Weber ment the overall supply, Mr. a We are carrying ico A.&M. College, "State College; College; Ogden; "'Branch "Agricul- - Mercier sa5d. New Mexico ' Highlands Univers- - tural college',' 'Cfedar City; Carbon on as best we can with the ity, Las Vega.; Eastern New Mex- - College, 'XPrice;'1 Snow College, equipment now available to the Jane Waymftn and James" Stewhrt in '' ico Normal School, Portales; New! liphralm;"'1 Dixie' St. railroads, he continued, and we College, are glad to report that new Mexico School ' of Mines," Socorro; George: v of New Mexico State Teachers Colt WyoUniversity freight cars are now reaching us Wyoming "fi-C' Silver Q) WarCS3" ''"1 at rate the faster than old, lege, City; College'' of' ming, Laramie, and "Caspar ' Christian Brothers, Santa Fe. weary cars are being retired. College: 1 tea-che- r ' - f ton-mil- ur es . ! 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