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Show Carbon moves up Notre Dame carnival Carbon Dinos upset West High in Salt Lake City to move into the championship bracket in the basketball tourstate nament. Notre Dame School's carnival was successful in raising needed funds for the parochial school. Fun and funds exceeded 3-- A Page Thursday Marchs, W7 last year. 4 96th Year Page 14 Price, Utah No. 19 25 cents Sewer needs Town told rules Don Marrelli HELPER said his request to Helper City Council at their last meeting was for installation of a new sewer line along Birch Street. He said the line is very old and sewage no longer flows through it at the normal rate and frequently backs up. Twice during the past year it has been necessary for the Helper water department supervisor, Gary Harwood, to call a truck from Price River Water Improvement District to blow out the line to get it functioning properly, he said. Although sewage has never flooded his basement, he said some other residents on Birch Street have had that problem. The people living along the streets would like the old sets ByARVA SMITH . ch line replaced with an 8 or line, he said. Mayor Robert Olsen said the city could investigate the sewer problem on Birch Street to see what needs to be done. 12-in- ch Staff writer In cardboard armor "Ye Olde Spirit Week" was started off with the arrival of the Castle Heights Knight (Dr. Clyde Larsen) Monday morning. A variety of events have been scheduled for the entire week which is to promote good and self-estee- m pride for students, faculty and parents of Castle Heights c contest Elementary. Students performed in a Tuesday. Also included in the week are variety shows. The program will conclude on Friday. lip-syn- - WELLINGTON Matters to be considered by the Wellington planning and zoning commission must be submitted for placing on the agenda by Friday of the week preceding the planning and zoning meeting, Wellington city councilmen decided at their last council meeting. The planing and zoning commission meetings are held the first and third Wednesdays at 7 p.m. The council also passed a motion to include some money for planning and zoning commission expenses in the next city budget. The two actions were taken after Darrel Dunson, planning and zoning chairman, met with the council to outline planning and zoning needs and problems. He said that people have been coming as late as 4 p.m. the day (Continued on Page 11) Bunnell, Dmitrich tell of recent Legislature By CHUCK ZEHNDER Managing edifor Sen. Omar Bunnell and Rep. Mike Dmitrich told the Carbon County Chamber of Commerce Wednesday noon that the recent Utah legislative session was the toughest in the history of Utah. Was everybody happy with it? No. But some good did come out of it, Dmitrich said in opening remarks. Dmitrich said that fewer bills were introduced than in past sessions, but more passed. That means there was a better quality of legislation, he said. Bunnell said there are three basic problems in Utah which Local teachers salaries up by 54 percent in five years The Carbon School District paid beginning teachers with a bachelors degree a starting salary of $15,320 this year. Salary schedules provide regular increases for experience and added academic training. Thus, experienced teachers with a masters degree receive a maximum salary of $25,141, or about 63 percent more than a beginning teacher with only a bachelors degree. These were some of the facts revealed in an analysis of teachers salaries prepared by Utah Foundation, a private research organization. The study was based on an examination of the published salary schedules of local school districts which are filed with the State Department of Education. Because of the severe financial problems experienced this year, only small increases in the salary schedules were made by most districts in 9186 salary scale received a normal experience increment averaging $758. Thus, the total increase for most teachers in amounted to $1,083, or 1986-8- 7 5.67 percent. Teachers currently at the top step, or course, did not receive the experience increment. A teacher with a bachelors degree who began teaching in the Carbon School District during the 1981-8- 2 school year received a starting salary of $12,793. Over the past five years that same teacher would have received increases totaling $3,233 in the salary schedule adjustments plus $3,199 in annual experience increments. In addition, reductions in the required employee retirement contributions would have added e another $567 to the annual pay. Altogether, the total increase to the Carbon district teacher with five years experience amounted to $6,999, or take-hom- if the 87. 54.7 percent. Moreover, The foundation study shows that the basic salary schedules in the Carbon School District were raised by an average of academic training during this period, he or she would have received an even greater salary or 1.70 percent thisyear. Teachers not at the top of the $325, teacher had acquired additional boost. The foundation report also presents some comparisons with regional and national averages. According to data compiled by the National Education Association, the average salary paid to classroom teachers was $22,341, compared with $24,141 for the eight Mountain States and $25,257 for the United States as a whole. are made salary levels for all instructional personnel (teachers, When comparisons of principals, supervisors, lib- guidance personnel, rarians, etc.) however, Utah stacks up mucn better. The analysis shows that the average salary for all instructional personnel in Utah was $25,528, compared with $25,838 in the Mountain States and $26,567 in the nation. Moreover, if allowance is made for the fact that Utah pays most of the employees share of the retirement cost (a benefit not generally available in most other states), the total compensation package in Utah would be slightly higher than the Mountain States and U.S. average. ' caused the concern in this Legislature. First the federal government owns 65 percent of the land in Utah and they pay no taxes, he said. They have all these installations like Hill Air Force Base, the facilities at Dugway and many federal offices around the state and they pay no taxes, but we have to educate their children. He said the second problem unique to Utah is the commitment people in this state have to church and charitable And churches contributions. own lots of land in Utah and they pay no taxes, he added. And the third thing is we have too many school children in this state. Our birthrate is almost double the United States (average) and increases the school children about 13,000 every year, he said. With this weak (tax) base and all these children, we still do one of the best jobs (of in the United education) States, Bunnell said. Dmitrich said that although there were lots of good bills passed which didnt deal with tax increases, he realized most people were interested in those tax bills. He said the additional cigarette tax of 11 cents per pack will raise about $11 million and that he strongly supported addition per gallon on the gasoline taxes just to keep the roads up. Dmitrich said the state income tax reform package was not what he wanted, but that it would help. Our income tax was more regressive than the sales tax in Utah and something had to be done, he said. He blamed the LDS church for defeating the flat tax proposal which had sailed through the House and then just died. That proposal would have eliminated deductions for charitable contributions and lowered the tax rate to 5.7 percent instead of the 7.75 percent it is now. If we did nothing, the windfall from federal tax reform "Was everybody happy with it? No. But some good did come out of it." Rep. Dmitrich would have added another $50 million to the state, he said. He said what finally passed was leaving the state income tax about the same, but increasing personal deductions and disallowing a deduction for federal income tax payments. That will raise about 60 percent of what the flat tax would have raised, he said. He said the other tax increase came in the form of a .5 percent increase in sales tax which will go into effect on April 1. Between the grand jury and the attorney general, I think we could reduce the sales tax a little, Dmitrich said. Dmitrich said he sponsored a bill for early retirement of state employees which will save the state about $10 million the first year and about years. $400 million in 20 Commenting on a $55 million bond passed by the Legislature, Dmitrich said $2 million would fund the search for another prison site. Although Green River was first... it looks now like its between Sanpete and Carbon counties, he said. Bunnell said state employees and teachers will not get any raises this year but then none of the rest of us are either. Something that really disturbed me in this session was the mob, 5,000 people, standing in the Capitol yelling, No more taxes, no more taxes, like an Iranian mob or something, Bunnell said. Just to say no more taxes is about the worst thing you could do. He said answers have to be arrived at and it appears that Utah is heading for year around schools to better utilize the buildings. Speaking about the local economy, Bunnell commended the college and the increase in enrollment that it is ex- periencing. This college that were developing here is about the best thing weve got going. I want to urge all of you to get in there and support the college, Bunnell said. Bunnell said he was talking with Chris Jouflas earlier about the Legislature and how much he enjoyed it and how he would probably do it if he didnt get paid. But were getting to the point where I might have to get out, he said in closing. |