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Show i ROCKY MOUNTAIN. REVIEW , Salt Lake County , Utah Iage 4 Congressmen , Take Note! Thursday , April 16 , J964 , How About That U.S. Trip To The Moon? Southeast Resident Find Many .Other l) ses For Outer Space Program Dough ffiOaaaa3sB ' FC'RMERLY THE NEIGHBOR Do Serving southeast suburban Salt Lake County with 18,000 copies every Thursday. Subscription rate, $3 per year. Published by Great Western News, Inc., 2265 East 4800 South, P.O, Box 17377, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84117. Phone, B. Lunsford Managing Editor--Joh- n Entered as second class matter at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the act of March 9, 1878. Published every Thursday. think you ,the money spent on sending a man to the moon could be better spent on something else7 278-266- 6. 4 $ vs Lr t Mrs. F. B, West 4636 Sycamore Drive Housewife Yes, Well theres tills drive on poverty that would do more p ople a lot of good. Research or disease and education would w the moon want to go to the money I think should be used for education, then health would follow. Reduce the taxes, too. They shouldnt charge high taxes on these older homes as much as new homes choice of There shouldnt be an either-o- r the Mall, Holladay Village, Olynipus Hills, Cottonwood Heights, etc. Southeast Suburban Salt Lake is expanding - there is room for all, but survival of the fittest goes on. EDITORIALS x V v - Mr Dale Ro'fiinsoo 4733 Ichabod Drive .& v f ?& Saturday afternoon in Holladay YHage means a delighful experience. An atmosphere of warmth and friendliness persists - not because of the commercial environment, but people are warm and friendly. To e successful, the Holladay merchants must combine this spirit with tasteful probecause--Hollada- The first task is to keep the people that live in the area, the second is to draw from outside. Both can be accomplished by capitili-zin- g on the tone of congeniality set by the community. There are scattered individual merchants who do a good job, the grocery store whose meat counter draws from all over the city, the paint store and the bank that actively promote local art, the mens clothing store that combines a typically Holladay friendliness with pacesetting styles. Even the state liquor store here is 'different - as opposed to most of their ilk the Holladay Village Store employees act like they wtfrte in business to please customers. fhese are but a few examples, but individually they are inadequate. The bootstrap action must be collective. The important fact is that it must come from the combined efforts of landlords and tennants - neither can accomplish it alone. Unfortunately, the merchants are torn in their viewpoint and this is nothing new." The problems have been there for years, and the approach of 1939 or 1949 will not work. The time s' and the conditions of competition have brought a sense of urgency. The tremendous response we have received in the mail and m the boxes weve spread A around clearly show that people are concerned. Residents of Holladay feel a proprietary sense about their shopping center. This is why the Garden Club made the effort to do attractive things there. Yet their patience with the patient will extend just so far. The community of Holladay is saying to the and to the landlords, you have in priled separate directions long enough, you have lagged behind too many years, collectively you have ignored us for too long. x enchant 8, 1 The ideas for improvement are not lacking -there are many good ones in the story in this issue. The challenge to the merchants and landlords of Holladay is clear. The time has .come for farsighted cooperative action. It will cost money," and if-- the mistakes of the past are! not repeated there may be a chance of Infusing vitality into a venerable institution. 4, s Operates a paint store I sure do Education, teachers salaries, scholarships, increasing ways of encouraging young people to go to college, taking cafe of the poor Research for diseases is a real good thing. I think they can do a lot for research. y motion, salesmanship and an improved unified appearance. If not wisely done the effect could be cheap and inappropriate for this unique ' community. Mrs 2138 ft X A F red Wunderh East 632I& South Housewife Housewife 1 wouldn't As a place to shop Holladay has'.been there for 50 years. One merchant noted last week that its a little sad when people ask Where is it from the Mall? Yet the Mall deserves the prominence it receives. It is professionally organized and well promoted. a r Magna little pessimistic. But there is hope, and the effort is worthwhile. A particular part of the problem is the minority of merchants who deny that there is a problem. S,'- Will Lucas L.Not A Drinking Man Mrs. Nephi Haworth 2737 South 9100 West The problems that plague Holladay Village will not be easily solved. Frankly we are a j? of Oldest Relative Retrieved But There Is Hope s 'i r .j The Many Moods Problems Not Easy... ' A Opinion, Please schools V . . J- do good too. Lower taxes is an idea too. I think education is We have best crowded Hollada)' Village, Part III f ,V j. V Mrs. Thomas L. Dillon 3030 South 2900 Fast Housewife I believe we need to do both. I dont think its a matter of We have such urgency. to of. care take here problems We have enough. I believe we should work on the moon shot and things here. Editors Note- - Is Salt Lake County ready1 Rumors have been circulating - easily established as fact'-- - that there was another little Lucas on the -- way It happened las Sunday Holy Cross Hospital1 And in her own circles, the new Lucas daughter is having the same explosive effect as er old man we 'being outAre numbered' It wouldnt take many, you know a4 Note: Shocking column. . . for adults only ... must be 18 years old to read ... (I mean to be read). Oh my gosh ... my gosh .. my gosh ... I dont really know how to start. I mean, It w as too shocking to me ... and ... well, that story In the Los Angeles Times ... It said IT! An anthropologist (a person who digs old men) found our oldest relative In tropical Africa. And this old geezer (the By W ILL LUCAS communication from a Pink First of all, I thought Lady" it was some subtle ad from a liquor company ... then, I thought it was from some nudist colony for ladles who were extra sensitive to sunlight ... then, (sucking In my breath through clenched teeth) I thought my name had been added to the mailing list for one of those left wing womens clubs. But alas ...all my fears were quickly subdued when I read the letter I The Pink Ladies are a g?oup of lovely civic women who dedicate their time to the help and clisupport of the nic for the sick and the poor at Holy C ross Hospital. Whew And, theyre gonna have a charity ball, etc, for this worthy purpose, and all proceeds go to help finance their fine work. Its April 18th, Larelative, not the anthropoHotel Utah. around fayette Ballroom, logist) was jumpin Pink Ladles are nice ladles some eight hun... (booby prize, two pigeons). dred thousand years ago I And Oh, and guess who just got you know what they labeled' appointed to the Board of Rehim? ... Homo habllis ... yeah! gents at the U. of U.? Edward And you know what that means' W. Clyde . . yeah. He joins ... Handyman! W. W. Clyde on the same My gosh, my wife's been Board of Regents. Yeah, two calling me her little handyClydes on the Board of Reman for years nd I thought gents at the U. of U. Ami It was a compllm nt ... when George Dewey Clyde is gonna all the time she was calling be out of a job soon ... but me a hairy aped homohabilis! there is hope that we can get the only Maybe shes right him on the Boai d of Regents, time she ever says it is when too ... cause if Secretary Im heading for the links with of State Lamont Toronto gets my putter in hand. Fore! to be Govenor, then hell Listen ... I just received a leave his chair on the Board letter from a gioup called the .. and think of the noble Pink Ladies. My gosh ... gesture if Lamont changed another shock! I mean, canyctf chairs with George ... Now, imagine what went through gentlemen, will the Board of my mind when I found I was Clyde kindly come to order. the recipient of a piece of nt one-milli- A to the Shocking! Funniest commercial on television ... Have you seen It ... you know ... right after all the stuff from the U. S. Governmait purvey on smoking and all ... and then this well known brand of ciggle to (well call 'em Joints avoid court overwhelming litigation) flashed on the TV screen and this very suave Botany 500 fella looked you straight in the eye and said, Here is an important announcement from the makers of 'Joints . Because of the recent government smoke survey, independent testers have proven that Joints are no worse than any other brand of ciggies on the market!' (Gosh, guys, dont you feel Just a whole lot better now ... wheeee.) ... no worse ICARUS SAYS: Have and If j , 6r disa lot of unfortunates-aneases thev havent got yet. I have charge of the Cancer Crusade this coming week. I think theres a lot that could be done here yth the money. 1 had a child with polio, and I know what a wonderful thing research and medicine can be. Cancer, heart disease, and a lot of others could use the money rpore. The welfare of mankind is much more im- portant tljan outer space. tJr Mrs. Don C. Summers 2684 East 2900 South Housewife Yes, I certainly do. I think it would be better spent on education - probably schools and research. I think it ought to be spent on something else too, in the Held of medicine on heart and cancer research. -- you noticed that t,fe people who brand modern abstract art as decadent are the same ones who look at realistic studies of nudes and label them as dirty. I suggest that those same people sponsor .n art exhibit ... and for a hint of what Itll be like ... acres and acres and acres of trees! moon is theres nothing on the moon, wh the big rush7 Just to be the first one there isnt worth it. Shotting research. Mrs. Lenore Grunimann 2015 Emerson and Chairm Housewife Cancer Crusade Yes, I do. Well, theres Mr. Jack Mills Meadow Drive 1812 Salesman Granite Furniture question. Not particularly. For the scientific reasons, for the advancement of our civilization Perhaps the pioneering of the west or Columbus coming over here - it opens new vistas. The way this place is growing, , well probably need space. Mrs Welthea M. Learned 2641 Glenmare Thats acres NASTY NEIGHBORS: Our Can of Worms award for this week goes to the fella who applied for a job at the a good -- County Commission the other day. He said his name was to try Abe Lincoln. to talk Commissioner Buck Brady out of seceding from Salt Lake City. Housewife No. I think scien) the would benefit,' over the long run more than public works now. They will be able to learn more about the nature of the universe and how life started. Perhaps it would be of some military significance too. knowledge FINAL NOTE: Will Lucas can still be heard on KALL Radio ... Isnt that courageous of KALLs management7 Mr Grissom Virgil Gus 'Florida Pilot Probably, but good thing when going for you Point Of View whv knock a ouve got it A False Conclusion From The Coordinating Council The public higher institutions, in Utah must somehow assimilate about 7,5000 more students during the next biennium than they are now accommodating. That is a statement of opinion- - not Tact. It comes from the annual report of the Utah Coordinating Council of Higher Education It is based on' the' assumption that we should keep taking 53.2 percent of high school graduates into college even though that percentage is about twice the national average. This assumption in turn is based upon the that a large part of those 7,500 (12,000 total counting private institutions) will get a reasonable value out of a college education. We have glorified the concept of quantity in Utah beyond all reason in higher-educatioof vocational training. to detriment the and to We have tried give a greater prestige to a college education than it deserves and m doing have taken away much of the prestige it should have. In an April 13 editorial, the Deseret News stated An easy way out of this problem might be to raise entrance requirements. But that could only mean that Utah would have to build more vocational school facilities instead of college facilities. Besidelq failing to help as many of our young people as possible to achieve their full potentials through higher education could easily leave Utah with a lot of dissatisfied, frustrated citizens-oits hands. We take issue with t!ie News. The dissatisfied, frustrated young people will be those belief n who just pass four years of snap courses and come out of college with nothing in the slowly and somewhat reluctantly to the demands of a new era. We agree wholeheartedly with this premise, we do not agree' with the conclusions. It is time to stop glamorizing a college degree, and to recognize the dignity of a wellJrained craftsman. way of either a rounded broad education or a solid preparation for making a liying. Yet we have drummed into these people that they qriust have a college degree (the degree as symbol seem? to be paramount). The 7500 . . . only possible outcome of accepting more students is the dilutibn of educa- tion and its descent to a lower average. As the coordinating councils report indicates, we have assimilated more students not so much by increasing the faculities or the facilities but by increasing classroom size. We should by all means drastically raise the entrance requirements. The Deseret News statement that Utah to build more vocational school facilities reveals an attitude that underlies our whole problem. For a good percentage of the 12,000 that will try to go to college biennium, a good thorough during the 1965-19.well directed vocational education in the complex skills required by automation and the space age would be much more rewarding for the student and the state than any college would-hav- e 67 education. general Utahs vocational training facilities are pitifully meager There are exceptions, as in Provo, but when the Salt Lake school is still housed in an old laundry building something is wrong. In n Council The force of long The Coordinating stated t j preface 'ition yields - And A Good Idea! The council stated in their 1968 report some of 'the traditional concepts and practices in higher education may be challenged. The credit-hou- r, considered sacrosanct bytQi accrediting associations, may achieve a" more flexible prescription or possibly disintegrate under the pressure of expediency. More sophisticated evaluation techniques may be devised to ascertain the learning achievements of students. Lock-ste- p curriculums may give way to independent and personal learning programs tailored to the individual student... Even though Utah institutions receive uniform school funds for research purposes, very little of it is devoted to institutional studies to determine more effective methods of instruction or means of stimulating accelerated " .training. The council as an advisory group has indicated on the one hand a great prediction toward the college degree - yet it has also shown some creative imagination on questions of the directions and financing of higher education. disagree with some of the Councils conclusions as indicated above; wholeheartedly approve of others. We We ing , ' . |