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Show October 10, 1974 The Mt. Pleasant Pyramid Page Eight Feelings on consolidation issue (Editors note: This is the first of a series of articles written by local citizens to express their FAIRVIEW JANET GWILLIAM feelings concerning school consolidation. The first article is written by Paul Pay, Mt. 427-919- 3 businessman. We welcome differing viewpoints.) Well once again consolidation is raising its ugly head, I say again because in 1970 our school were visited over the weekend by their daughter and David and Dixie Robbins. son-in-la- Mr. and Mrs. Han-i- s Cheney grandson, Todd, have and their just returned from a fishing trip to Wyoming. They stayed there a week; they had intended on a longer stay but found the fishing very poor and returned home early. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Peterson the and family attended marriage and reception of Marie Howell and Kevin Parkinson in West Point on Friday. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Howell formely of Fairview. Mr and Mrs. John A. Peterson of Mt. Pleasant, the brides ac- grandparents companied them. President and Mrs. Christian Follett Sanders and Scott of Kansas City were here for Conference and a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Max Beck in Alpine. Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Sanders of this city joined them for a family dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Penny. Visitors during the weekend with Mrs. Alice Stewart were Mr. and Mrs. Gayian Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stewart all of Salt Lake City. The Pioneer Band traveled to Richfield last Wednesday night where they put on a performance for the Richfield Senior Citizens. Monday night visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Sanders were David and Ida Kahn. Mrs. Alice Howell would like everyone to know that her son, Steven Howell, who recently returned from the Montana Wyoming Mission, will be the main speaker at Sacrament meeting in Fairview South Ward on October 13th. Steven was an assistant to the Mission President while on his mission, and some of his duties included attending all the zone conferences held in the mission and orienting the new missionaries their duties. He was suppose to return home in September but the Mission President didnt feel he could let him go that soon, and he therefore returned home October 10th. Mrs. . Calvin president of Erickson Daughters p.m. at the North Ward Building. Their opening meeting was held September 3rd in the North Ward. Mrs. Anna Jensen gave the lesson which was called They were Here in 1874. 2 were served afterwards. A goodly number of people were in attendance. Mrs. Ted Dahl spent the weekend in Salt Lake City visiting with her son. Mark who recently returned from the South Dakota Rapid City Mission but who has been working in Oregon. They at- tended General Conference together. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bunker and their three children of Salt Lake City visited with Mr. and Mrs. Dee Gwilliam on Sunday. Also being visited on Sunday were Mrs. Leatha Bohne and her daughter, Linda. Mrs. Bohnes oldest daughter, Pat Conlon and her three children came from Brigham City to spend the day with the Bohnes. and Mrs Bruce McCormick from Sacramento, Calif, visited with her grandmother, Mrs Dorcas Erickson, last Tuesday. Mrs. Erickson enjoyed the opportunity of taking care of her great grandchildren for a few days. Mrs McCormick came up to Relief Soceity Conference, and both Mr. and Mrs. McCormick have Mr. enjoyed General Conference together and plan to remain in this area for another week Bishop and Mrs Leon Nielsen have staying with them their oldest son, Robert, and his wife, Haesook and their little boy, David James. Robert has recently been promoted to 1st Lieutenant in the Air Force, he is a pilot They are currently stationed at Dyess, Texas, and thev are in Fairview for the next couple of weeks while Robert is on leave. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Sparks visited with their daughter and son in law, Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey, in Provo on Sunday. They brought back a grand daughter, Carrie, to stay with them for a few days. Relief Society Opening Social in Fairview South Ward was held last Tuesday. Each teacher gave a preview of her lessons for the coming year. A program was arranged between speakers Mrs. Marilyn Kinsman played a piano solo Autumn Leaves, Mrs. Eda Anderson gave a humorous reading on the importance of mothers in the home. f f their Tuesday They morning. presented their lesson previews in the form of a school room with a teacher who through the clever use of visual aids, introduced each of her teachers who gave a brief summary of her lessons for the year. A program was bet- presented intermittently ween speakers; Mrs. Rodney Coates sang a solo, Elaine Jensen played the guitar and a sangIts Small, Small and Phyllis Jones World, played a number on the piano. A lucnheon was served after the program. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Howell their family on entertained Sundays on the occasion of Mr. Howells birthday. Celebrating with them were Roger and Mona and their children from Salt Lake City, Ronald and Nada and their children four from Granger, a daughter, Carol with her from Marjorie and Larry children three Granger, and their four children from American Fork, a daughter Vangie from Salt Lake, Wayne and his girl friend from Moroni, and daughter Patsy. Anna and Jim Hendrickson and their family have recently to Fairview from moved Taylorsville. Jim is a brick mason, currently working in Bountiful during the week, but hoping soon to locate employment in this area. Anna was born in Milford, Utah, and grew up in St. George. She graduated from High School in St. George and then moved to Salt Lake City to attend Beauty College from which she also graduated. Jim was born in Washinton D.C. but grew up in Bountiful. He is a graduate of Bountiful High and also from Trade Tech in Salt Lake City. The couple met and married in Salt Lake City and have lived in Taylorsville until recently. They are the parents of six children, Tammy 13, Connie 9, Brian 8, Sheri 4, Greg 3 and July 17 months. Open letter Do you know all of facfs? As I was reading in Mathew about what Jesus Christ said to and about people I was reminded of our times and the people. They haven't changed so much, really. In our nations capitol we have the generation of vipers and in our state capitol we have some more of the same vipers. When we voted them in it was like digging out a rattlesnake, thawing it out and expecting it not to bite. When we speak of being kind hearted, is it the same as being soft hearted? If so, do you suppose that if the condition beomes cronic that it could creep right up to our ears and even farther? Id like to ask you about another generation. A generation of whimpering cry babys. of course many times we have to have some excuse for frustration, perhaps like saying Boys will be boys and that is supposed to explain away a lot of faults. If the barrel is a bad barrel and it cant be good and be a Rockerfeller barrel, how can we expect good apples? Looks like the same difference to me. They say that barrel is known as the C.F.R. where the president may come and the presidents may go but Henry, the flying Jew goes on forever. Add this all up and it spells British Israel and British Israel spells all the bad things that have been and those that are to come. Do you know about all this? Alfred Mapes Paul Felt slated as speaker at LDS Forum Speaking at the LDS Institute Friday Forum held at Ephraim at noon will be Paul E. Felt He of a professor is presently Religion at Brigham Young University Mr Felt has attended BYU where received his Bachelors Degree. He received Masters Degree from his the University of Utah. He is the former Bishop, Counselor in the Stake Presidency and was the Mission President of the South West Indian Mission. He served in the United Stakes Navy for four years and was a Lieutenant. Mr. and Mrs. Felt have 12 children 5 boys and 7 girls. Two of their sons, Larry, and Ron are attending Snow College. Left is Ron Bennion the new owner of Bill Reynolds Right is Bill Reynolds who is retimg after 48 years. Ron Bennion is new Bill garage. owner of consolidation issue, operated this business since 1948 is retiring. He has done a fine job over the years mending broken equipment and could always be depended on for efficient quality work. Ron especially likes to build things mechanical. He has built Historical tour cars, motor cycles and even a real helicopter. He enjoys building model planes and rockets. Ron also enjoys sports and water skiing. He says Mt. Pleassant is a real neat place and town. He likes being able to walk down the street and meet friendly people and bring able to trust them. Ron and his wife, Claudia have two children Todd, 5 and Rochann, 10. The Bennion family live in the former Fern Truscott home. of the consolidation they consolidation of the high schools. Remember how the South Sanpete school board was so in favor of the consolidation and how everything including the funds would go down there? Well here is another known fact. The law reads that a simple majority of the school board can consolidate the school systems without the voice of the people! Did you ever consider the apportionment of the five school board members in the new district? The state school board members are aware of it, I am sure. There would be two up here in the North and three in the south and the South could consolidate anytime they brought up the subject! Why are we so against consolidation of the schools? There are so many reasons, but here are just a few, first and foremost its our students that count and they are the ones to be taken away from the home more and more at such a tender age and placed on busses in a dangerous situation for more and more time each day. By the way, those busses cost thousands of dollars. and must consolidate the school districts in order to conserve funds. Hog wash! If the North and South Sanpete school districts unite, we will loose one Superintendant and the of another reason, namely the wanted to get on with it right there! As you also know, we finally, and again against their will persuaded them to drop the subject. Then in 1972 on the front page of the Pyramid we got the Senate bill which had hundreds of words in it. All they boiled down to was this, we will give you the opportunity to voluntarily consolidate your school systems, or we will force you to do it! Thats real freedom, folks! But no more for a while till we now have the latest survey by Dr. William Borea (I guess they must try to make it look good) Once more, here is the dragon with the four ugly heads, only this one appears to be the same as the first. The theory is, we dropped it for awhile, we went back to earning a living, and they to planning. In 1971, up came that ugly head again and our school board told us we must consolidate to give our students better opportunities (our students are so well educated now that they hardly have any time at home if they get all their work done, and we have a very high standard of graduates here.) Any way it was another excuse to start the baH rolling toward consolidation again. It will be remembered by many the same promise made by that school board at the time Reynolds Machine Shop Ron Bennion of Murray is the new owner and operator of the Bill Reynolds Machine Shop in Mt. Pleasant. Mr. Reynolds, who has so mittment to consolidate. Well, fortunately we were there and during the course of the discussions the South Sanpete School board seeing how strong we were opposing the issue, and knowing that with consolidation they get all the schools finances etc., down there, said to our school board, you dont have to listen to them; we can con- solidate without them considerably because of the long distance involved. How can we take care of our students if during the day he or she becomes sick? It is difficult enough for some of us to get over to Moroni and back. Now let me talk to your pocket book for a moment. Remember that wonderful gift offered by the State school board? One and a third million dollars if we would consolidate. , Of course that offer has been withdrawn now, but when it was there, we investigated the costs AND there was a high school being built then about the same size as we would need in Wood Cross. The cost was over four million dollars. We had at that time an indebtidness of about seven hundred thousand dollars, so if we had taken the bribe we would have had about six hundred thousand as a down payment on a four million dollar project and our property taxes would go sky high! If then, think about now! Let us remember our children are the most precious possession we will ever have. When they have to leave us, it sometimes seems all too soon. Therefore, let us not give them away before we have to. We must do something before it is too late. The Juab school district is fighting it, why cant d one evening the South Sanpete school board had been invited by our school board to meet with them up here for as we saw it the confirming and the com- board and the Superintendant were persuaded to consolidate the high schools, on the grounds that we could not afford to run two high schools here in Sanpete county. Part of that persuasion came in the form of a bribe from the State school board of one point three million dollars! On the surface this seems like, quite a gift, but as we shall see later, beware of strangers bearing gifts." Many of you recall we had some very unpleasant meetings with our school board, heated arguments etc. Finally we persuaded them, much against their will, not to consolidate. Now the school board here and theState school board both knew how the people felt about the North Ward also Opening Social on Fairview held of the Utah Pioneers in Fairview, reported that they are having much successs in their meetings which are held every Monday at Refreshments and Virginia Mower and Janet Gwilliam played a duet called Sans Souci Polka. A delicious luncheon was served with attractive table decorations, and each lady was given a small basket with straw flowers to take home with her. decrease would ticipation e over nothing Surely we can remember another. old addage once bitten twice shy. So we had more heated arguments at the school board meetings, till Pleasant Bishop and Mrs. Keith Hansen Secondly, the work load will remain the same. So there will be more hiring of extra help and the transportation expenses etc. will be more hiring of extra help, and-thtransportation expenses etc. will more than make up for the saving of the funds. Incidently, as you can see, this places the balance of administration away from the to the elected officials Superintendents office which appears to be directly an influence of the State Board. This writer does not believe for one minute that the uniting of our two school boards if for the conserving of school funds, as it has been proved to the contrary in many other districts when it was too late; but rather for Moranj and Mt. Pleasant Jr. and Sr. High schools, dnd. when it was all materialized. the participation of our students in sports or anything else would be cut by more than a third. parteacher, parent-studen- t five school board members, but we? Paul oivcs V. Pay YOUR (UOGfT MtAKl A termed success Venice Anderson, Effie Blackham, Ida Donaldson, Clarissa Green, Rula Lamb and Dora Morley, all members of the Sanptich DUP took the Sanpete Historical Soceity tour last Saturday. met at The group of forty-twthe Gunnison High School where they were instructed in the things they were to see and do that day. After boarding the school bus, they were driven first to the old settlement of Dover where they visited the old cemetary. Most of the graves were unmarked except for a wooden slab at the head. These slabs had been broken off through the years and were laying flat on the mounds of earth. Most tourching were the graves of three children which were decorated with dolls for the two little girls and a toy dog for the little boy. Many interesting things were told about the settlement of Dover. The next stop was the Jewish old settlemnt of Carion. These Jew came from Russia and were part of the group depicted by the movie Fiddler On The Roof. Twelve pioneers came in August 1911, to prepare for those who were to to follow. By Spring planting time in 1912, they had cleared, plowed and planted 1500 acres of land to wheat, oats and alfalfa. The colony reached its peak in 1913 when fifty-twJewish families had come to Clarion. Financial difficulties in early 1916 forced the colony to come to a close and the lands were forfieted for inability to BUY o o pay. The families all left except for the leader, Benjamin Brown, and twelve other families. They experimented with poultry praising and eventually founded a highly successful operation which became the Utah Poultry Incorporated. This recently expanded into the Oroducers has Intermounain Farmers Association, which in 1967 did over nine million dollars worth of business in the State of Utah. At present, the most notable remains of the Colony are two craves, inscribed in hebrew, on the hillside just East of the old site of Clarion. Dan Witt, a teacher at Snow College, translated the Hebrew for the group A very delicious turkey dinner with pumpkin pie was then served in the new Gunnison Stake House by the Centerfiled Rejif Soceity. the afternoon, During Mayfield, Fayette, and Morrison tere toured. Some of the especially lovely things seen were the pioneer buildings made out of handmade brick or stones cut from the mountains. Many of the homes were built from the red rock found in the area. Interesting stories relating to the Blackhawk War were related People came from as far away as Thistle and Salt Lake City as well as local people to learn more a the early settlement of Sanpte County. 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