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Show outlined only minor changes from the calendar that was approved in the board Sckoot Hoard . . meeting of March 10, 1969, which included the stipulation that the superintendent may make minor adjustments to correlate this calendar with the other two districts of the county if necessary. The specific changes were to establish a firm date for the principals workshop to be Monday and 1969. The new Tuesday August teacher orientation date of Friday, August 22, 1969, and the institute and faculty meetings to be held Monday, August 25, 1969. The end of the first semester be established on Friday, January 16, 1970, and to reduce the number of days in the month of October to 20 instead of the 21 originally submitted giving a total of 180 days of school rather than the 181 previously approved. It was the consensus of the board that these minor changes be accepted and that this revised calendar be accepted as the approved calendar for the school year 1969-7- 0. Agenda Item No. 5: New Business Item No. 5A: Appointment of a person to coordinate the Springville City Recreation Program in relation to school facilities. President Ray S. Whiting made this appointment and appointed board member Glenn W. Coffman to coordinate the Springville City Recreation Program in relation to school facilities ofNeboSchool District. Item No. 5B: Utah School Board Association dues request of $2,594. Motion: Lynn Crook Seconded Glenn W. Coffman That the board approve payment of the Utah School Board Association dues of $2,594 with a request that they be furnished a breakdown of the budget for the coming year or an annual report of expenditures for the past school year of 196 6 9. A The Board of Education, Nebo School District, met in regular session in the District Office, Spanish Fork, Utah, on Tuesday, July 22, 1969, at 6:30 p.m. Prerident Ray S. Whiting was in charge of the meeting. Roll call showed all members present. Superintendent Joe A. Reidhead and LeRoy Whitehead, Jr., were also present. d ffibTOWrcO by Do ;r B Divii Evmi r: The other nigh I was driving home from a late rehearsal when I suddenly realized that a beautiful quarter moon was hanging low in the western sky. It reminded me of a big quarter slice of muskmelon. The moon has always seemed so remote and cold but thai night it suddenly became friendly and near. I felt that it was almost a part of our country; we had staked our claim by pounding a staff with Old Glory attached into that hard lunar surface and two magnificent Americans had moon danced around up there where no man had ever cavorted before. A small step for man but a giant leap for mankind, the statement made by Neil Armstrong as he set foot on the moon will live as long in the hearts of the American people as Pitrick Henrys Liberty or Death expression, Lincolns Stui. .'lot Peris.; from He Earth, MacArthurs We Shall Return, Roosevelts Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself, Kennedys Ask not what your Country can do for you, rather what can you do for your Country, etc. etc. etc. Another sobering thought comes to one as he thinks of the four legged descent stage of the lunar module that remains in that lonely Sea of Tranquility...It is to remain there forever with these words engraved on a plaque attached to the frame: We came in peace for all mankind. Someone wrote of this phase of - the venture: It should outlast the pyramids and all the more recent artifacts of the human race. The scientific instruments left there will endure because on that body there is no wind, no rain and very little sedimentation. Only an imperceptable rain of cosmic dust falls on the moon probably an accumulation of Henry Thoreau immortal man Simplify your life, Dont waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Dont burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple, and enjoy what you have. Dont enslave yourself for luxuries you can do without. Dont destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present, enjoy the present, Simplify! These are the words of Henry Thoreau, a man who made himself immortal by simple living and simple thinking. He build himself a log cabin deep in the Walden Woods. He was a Harvard graduate and tried a number of occupations. But what he most wanted to do was study, think and write; and for those important occupations he had no quiet in the cluttered lodging house where he lived, so for a number of years he took himself deep into the woods and the knowledge and understanding that he obtained while there and gave to mankind will, live on forever. Did people ever do what they really wished, he wondered - what they were by nature - intended to do and what they were best suited for? Everywhere about him he saw people squandering the precious substance of their lives in pursuit of material gains. Everywhere about him he saw people feverishly piling up property and possessions, enslaving themselves at the cost of things that really counted. Following are a few more important truths that this great man has left us: A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Be no simply good; be good for something. In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore.. they had better aim at something high. Why should we live with such hurry and waste of live? When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. In the peace and quiet of Walden Woods, Henry David Thoreau found what was for him, and has been for countless people since, a wise and tranquil approach to life. Out of his experiment in serene living has come a book of enduring beauty and inspiration, one of Americas most beloved classics Walden," named for the woods and the pond Thoreau so loved. fractions of an inch per century. And now one more profound word combination that I think will live is the statement of President Nixon when he spoke from the White House by telephone to Neil Armstrong on the moon. He said: Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of mans world. And now for the lighter side of the moon adventure.. One announcer said in speaking of the astronauts getting dressed before stepping onto the moon: They kept the world waiting while they dressed to go out." A local Payson feller had this to say: Theyd ought to leave that moon alone; its up there resting and the first thing you know theyll have it in the same turmoils that this country is in. One of the boys at Geneva in commenting on the monkey they sent into space a few weeks ago said that he was glad the animal died that if theyd made ai. : tro-nr- :. t oat of that monk wi:'.t would they have in mind for the steel workers. Well now that weve put a man on the moon, I suppose strange things will be happening and that 28 bil in bucks that we have spent on the space program will seem like a pittance in comparison to what we may spend in he next few years. But on the other hand what if the dirt that our boys sc oped up from that dusty surface of the moon turns out to be diamond dust? You know that space program could be self supporting after all. P.S. No time has man been so alone since Adam, as was Mike Collins in the Command module, Columbia. Dear Reader: , Its a proven fact that finance is a major cause of the high divorce rate in our society. I think the reason is not so much that couples are unable to make their financial ends meet, but the average woman hates seeing a grown man cry. Yet, when a man gets his check and sees how much is deducted for United States Income Tax, State Income Tax, Social Security, Union Dues, Miscellaneous etc. etc.; its enough to make a man cry, such as Im doing now. Ive just studied my deductions and the elephant tears are running down my cheeks and splashing into my soup. You see Im using my left hand to spoon up my soup, my right hand to write this column and all the time my heart is breaking within my deflated chest. But its not these salary and wage deductions alone that is doing all the damage. It seems that most of todays newlyweds want to start their marriages out with more of the good things in life garnered about them than their parents have accumulated after 25 or 30 years of marriage. A poor little feller wrote to Ann Landers recently seeking help. He said he made 92 bucks a week and his fiance wanted him to buy her a set of rings costing $1600. He didnt want to spend over $900. If those kids had any sense at all, they should be looking for rings in the $200 bracket. If a young married couple has to pay out 50 clunkers a month on a stupid set of rings from a $300 salary, that couple is headed for trouble or the hock shop. This pay as you go policy which was part of the American Way of life is now a lost art. Im sure you have all heard a statement like the following: We may as well get an extra $2000 on our home loan so we can get everything we want. People dont stop to consider that extra $2000 at eight per cent interest will carry interest at $160 per year for the next 20 years totaling $3200. Yes, this business of living is getting more complicated. all the time. But you know we cant blame it all onto the times in which we live. It can be blamed onto the fact that few people are willing to wait to get all the necessities and luxuries of our day until they can pay for them. I enjoy my humble dwelling in which I live and the main reason is not because it keeps out the wind andyain; itsbecause I have the deed to the joint tucked away in a safe place and Im buying no dead horse which is about all one can say of the high interest rates and carrying charges with which one can so easily get stuck. Here once again I want to pay tribute to my wife who many years ago was as elated with her modest set of rings as others were with their giant stones, and she has always been satisfied with the things we can afford. You know the thing I hate most about installment paying is that they make the month shorter or seem shorter, and life is short enough as it is. Well good night Dear Reader. I hope Ive not disturbed you toonuieh...Remem-be- r your Uncle Sammy is having one heleva time balancing his budget too. once a Invocation: LeRoy Whitehead, Jr. Agenda Item No. 1: The Clerks Tentative Notes of the meetings held oh June 9, June 23, July 2, July 10, copies of which were furnished to the Superintendent and mailed to each Board Member were approved with the following corrections. In the minutes of June 23, 1969, meeting, Agenda Item No. 3 is to be amended to include the following comments of Mr. Jack Olsen of the Utah Tax Payers Association. Mr. Olsen complimented the Superintendent on the budget that he had presented to the board for their approval. He indicated that this was a very tight budget and that the balance on hand, as outlined in the budget, was really too small of a balance to be a good workable budget. More cushion should be included for the Superintendent to function with. Mr. Olsen pointed out that to date, Nebo School District had been one of the two districts in the State which had increased their Instructional Budget where all others to this point had had a decrease. Mr. Olsen also pointed out the balance that was developing in the Tort Liability levy be reviewed, so that in the near future it may be desirable to reduce the mill levy so that the accumulation in this particular fund would not become too great and keep it more in balance. Motion: Dr. William H. Sorensen Seconded Glenn W. Coffman That the minutes of the board meetings of June 9, 1969, June 23, 1969, July 2, 1969, be approved with the above corrections being made in Agenda Item No. 3 of June 23, 1969 minutes. Voting unanimous. Agenda Item No. 2: Claims amounting to $1,850,338.83 (Vouchers No. 3403 to 3804 inclusive) a list of which was furnished to the superintendent and mailed to all board members on July 18, 1969, were approved for payment. Motion: Glenn W. Coffman Seconded Dr. William H. Sorensen That the above claims be approved as presented- - Voting unani- Engineer at water hollow Delbert Curtis from Salem is the engion an electric powered muck train operating in the Water Hollow Tunnel. The tunnel is being drilled through a mountain east of Strawberry Re ervoir. When completed, this 4.1 mile-lon- g tunnel will divert critically needed water for use along the rapidly growing Wasatch Front. A huge Mechanical Mole is chewing its way through solid rock leaving a hole 13 feet In diameter. Rock chewed up by the mole is caught in revolving buckets and dumped on a conveyor belt for loading in muck cars. Three trains are used to remove the cuttings from the tunnel. They are hauled over the highway and dumped in the reservoir basin. The mechanical monster operating in the tunnel is driven by four 100 horsepower electric motors. Hydraulic legs braced on the sides of the tunnel hold the machine stationary while a hy- draulic ram forces the revolving cutting head against the rock. After cutting about 5 feet, the machine is slid ahead to obtain-new grip and the process is repeated. The total cost of drilling and lining the tunnel will amount to about $5.5 million. Water Hollow is the first portion of the Strawberry Aqueduct to be built which is part of the large Central Utah Project. Strawberry Reservoir will be enlarged to three times its present capacity to accomodate the additional water. neer 80-t- Orchard hills , . : 8-- Voting unanimous. Item No. 5C: Discuss the safety problem and fence project at Spanish Fork High School. Item No. 5C 1: Superintendent Reidhead presented to the board a safety problem that exists at the Spanish Fork High School where the school busses for the Spanish Fork area meet for the redistribution of students to the various schools throughout Spanish Fork. The present facilities seem to be overcrowded with seven or eight busses congregating in the present unloading area, along with parents bringing their students to the Spanish Fork High School, has created a safety hazard which needs a solution. It was the recommendation of Superintendent Reidhead that the Board of Education petition Spanish Fork City to extend center street west beyond its premous. sent point of third west thus enabling the Agenda Item No. 3: Communications Nebo School District to establish a parking from the Board. lot south of the Spanish Fork High School. Item No. 3A: Board member Glenn W. This parking lot would then be used for Coffman complimented the way the grounds redistribution of students to the busses at the Springville High School were being and allow the present area to be used by maintained. He pointed out, however, there parents and others coming and going from were a few weeds that needed to be the Spanish Fork High School. removed to make the grounds look better. Motion: Dr. William H. Sorensen SecItem No. 3B: Board member Dr. J. onded Lynn Crook That the board authorize Robert Hogan discussed with the board Superintendent Reidhead to petition Spanthe comments which had come to his ish Fork City to extend center street attention regarding the orientation probeyond third west thus enabling the estabgram of the Neighborhood Youth Corps lishment of a parking lot south of the Group. These comments had also come to ' Spanish Fork High School pending the board member Lynn Crook. Superintendent availability of funds to do so. Voting Reidhead reported that he was investigatunanimous. ing this problem and trying to determine Item No, 5C2: Superintendent Reidhead the source of the question. The Superindiscussed with the board the project of the tendent pointed out there would be only vocational-agricultudepartment of the one more of these orientation meetings Spanish Fork High School to use the area before the summer project was completed north of the Spanish Fork High School and that he felt the information that was parking lot as an experimental project for of the the enrollees to being presented growing crops. An amount of $1,000 has Neighborhood Youth Corps was good and been appropriated through the Vocational the problem that had developed may have Division of the State Board of Education been by misunderstanding of the comments to help fence the property being used for orientation made by those conducting the this crop experimental project. This fencprogram. ing of the area would also tie in with Item No. 3C: Board member Lynn Crook the approval of the board of June 6, 1969 discussed with the board the problem of board minutes where they agreed to erect adequate custodian help to maintain the a six foot chain link fence along the boundof the district. Superintendent buildings ary line west of the property of Mr. Reidhead recommended that the board LeGrand F. Smith and William D. Bowen, consider the possibility of hiring college It was the recommendation of the board or high school students to work as groups that this fence project be instigated to to do the routine sweeping and dusting of enclose the area being used by the Spanthe schools in each area while the custoish Fork Voc. Ag, Department and include of act this as supervisors dians cleaning. the fencing of this 20 foot strip of land The custodians main function would be the being donated to the school board. repairing and maintenance of the buildings. Item No. 5D: Clerk Treasurer, LeRoy After a brief discussion of the group it Whitehead, was the consensus that Superintendent Jr., discussed with the board the need for appointment of an auditor to Reidhead should try this approach to help audit the books and records for the school solve the problem of adequate custodial year 1968-6- 9 and that time was approachhelp. ing for this function to be performed. Item No. 3D: Board member Lynn After considerable discussion it was the Crook made a request to the board that a of the board that inasmuch as group had approached him for the use of consensus rs had been two there used to the be the Benjamin School by this past year that the procedures during Ward while the Church Benjamin Benjamin outlined with the prior clerk had been Church was being razed and a new ward & made by the firm of Gardner-HawkiReiderected. Superintendent chapel being in this for that the tie past year Borup head reported that an opinion had been could more effectively be handled by this issued by State Department of Instruction firm. accounting that public buildings could not be used for The instructed board instruction. religious Motion: Lynn Crook Seconded Glenn W. the superintendent to investigate the posThat the accounting firm of Coffman sible use of this building by the church Gardner-Hawki& Borup be appointed while their new church building was being one year only to audit the books and for constructed. Superintendent Reidhead records of Nebo School District for the to obtain a legal opinion from Supyear 1968-6- 9 fiscal year. Voting unanierintendent: T.H. Bell, Superintendent of mous. Public Instruction for the State of Utah, as Item No. 5E: Superintendent Reidhead the schools legal advisor. to the board that Mr. James reported Agenda Item No. 4: Old Business Revel of Payson, Utah had requested Item No. 4A: Superintendent Reidhead permission to rent the property west of outlined to the board the status of the the Payson High School for agriculture salary negotiations to date, indicating that purposes. After a brief discussion it was four salary proposals had been submitted the feeling of the Board that the Superinto the Nebo Education Association Represhould investigate the useage of tendent sentatives all of which fit into the approved as may be required by the faculty land this 1969-70 school year. The budget for the of the Payson High School and authorized association had rejected the proposals but him to rent this parcel of land on the wanted to study alternate proposals with that it was not needed or planned basis the superintendent. for by the faculty of Payson High School. Item No. 5F: Superintendent Reidhead Motion: Dr. William H. Sorensen Secto the board a salary schedule presented onded Dr. J. Robert Hogan That the board for the lunch workers of the Nebo School authorize the superintendent to continue District which had a breakdown for workto work with the association in an effort ers in schools between 100 and 250 to reach a settlement which would: participants, another one between 250 and 500, and a schedule for schools for 500 1. Meet the competition of beginning or over. The salary schedule spread from with salaries the surrounding districts $1.45 per hour up to a maximum of $1.60 2. That they should stay within the per hour. approved budget amount 3. That a fair increase be granted for Motion: Dr. William H. Sorensen all employees of Nebo School District. Glenn W. Coffman That the salary Voting unanimous. schedule for Nebo School District Lunch Workers be adopted. Voting unanimous. Item No. 4B: Superintendent Reidhead Meeting adjourned on a motion by Dr. to the board a presented proposed revised William H. Sorensen at 11:10 p.m. calendar for the 1969-7- 0 school year which re j 0. main street By Thelma Lance All right! All of you guys that love the of freshly baked bread, hold up hands! Thats quite a few? Now, how your many of you just love the smell of nice aroma tasting cookies? Thats spicy home-mad- e even more than before? Well, now, just how many of you are just too darned busy (or lazy) to make them yourself? I thought so! Do you know how you can solve this problem, when you truly love food such as this?Ill tell you how! Just stroll down Pay-so- n Mainstreet any morning real early and wander in the place your nose leads you! None other than Roes Bakers. For those of you who are not very well acquainted with Payson and dont know where this is, it is located on Mainstreet just south of the House of Originals. It is owned and operated by Roe Wilde, and he bakes the most scrumptious things you could ever hope to imagine. In this place of business yoj can purchase freshly baked bread, rolls, buns, cookies and cakes, and are they ever delicious, just try them and youll see. I know you will agree with me when I tell you that they are very reasonably priced, too. Roe has operated this bakery for many years and has done a very good job of it. He has also had in his employ, several people in the Payson area. This is good, for these people do not have to worry about traveling toother towns to secure and keep employment. This is more than a lot of us can say. He has made a lot of improvements hoping to erve the public better. He has served as Bishop of the Third Ward LDS Chirch, and has served and been a leader in other worth-whiassociations, too. He is indeed worthy of our consideration when we are spending our money for baked goods. I would rather have one loaf of fre hly baked bread or cake than all that you could buy, if it is the lease bit stale. One of the most dreaded of jobs in the role of housewives, is the prospect of baking anything in this kind of weather. Id rather take a beating than to have to bake in the summertime. How many of you agree? Sometimes, however, our budgets require that we do this, but when we do have an opportunity to splurge in this sort of food, lets all support a reputable place, Roes Bakery. I know you wont be disappointed in your decision to support him. le PAYSON CHRONICLE 7 Thursday, August 7, 1969 ionnoaaasianaoQnnannDnne The View From Here By Ruth Roth 18-1- 9, Clerk-Treasur- ROUND THE THE Clerk-Treasure- yinmar2nr2nnnr3nr,nnnnnfjfjf I have heard people say that Its all in the way you look at it," and Im beginning to believe them after listening to Aunt Stell describe her trip to California. I also made the same trip to the same area and about the same time. After listening to her I wonder if there are two Californias. We enjoyed the beautiful palm trees, the lush green grass, the flowers which grow here as house plants and grow in the yards there reaching two or three times the height that ours do and loaded with lovely blossoms. I dont imagine that all of the people have gardeners, but most of the yards are very well cared for. The only beaches we visited were comparatively quiet, and clean. The only out of place thing was some sea weed that seemed to be a bother to some of the swimmers. People seemed friendly and peaceful. Relatives and friends seemed anxious to show us the sights and do everything possible for our comfort and happiness. All in all we found few things to really upset us except housepets, barefeet and traffic and you find those things in abundance here in our area too. Aunt Stell remarked that she thinks it is another world. Her pet peeve was of course the no shoe bit, she says that even respectable people there shed their shoes the minute they reach their car or their home and some of them dont wear shoes lots of other places. She began to worry that the shoe manufacturing industry would go bankrupt. She was sure that all of the barbers had moved to other locations or gone on strike. She says that if they ever run out of ice cubes there they will be dead in minutes. She stated that they serve you iced pop, iced tea, iced milk and iced water and if they run out of everything else they serve you ice cubes. She is used to a good old flowing well with nice water and she knew that if she somehow could transfer it to the heart of Los Angeles she could make a billion dollars in no time at all After traveling the freeways she was in a state of shock and could see why Californians live on tranquilizers, or worse. She was sure that the women had all lost their cookbooks or never owned one because of all the meals they eat out." She never ate one slice of home baked bread or cake or cookies in the whole two weeks she was away. In her book that was a terrible condition! We enjoyed some foods we had never eaten before, perhaps they are sold here too, but we have never seen them. One of these was buttermilk doughnuts, a long thin pastry which resembled glazed doughnuts in texture etc. and which tasted very 4 good. Also there were a number of cookies and fruits new to us. Their aU day suckers were even different. They were called torpedo pops and were round and pointed on the end and I am told very enjoyable. All in all Aunt SteU came back from California disiUusioned and disappointed and her conclusion was that when it falls into the Pacific Ocean they just as weU take the whole thing instead of half of it because its a sinful wicked place that should be done away with, quick. All I can say is, Im glad I didnt go with her on her trip. mini-skir- ts, pre-cool- ed J I FREE LAGOON TICKETS Free Lagoon Tickets When You Subscribe or Renew Your Subscription to the ns ns , Payson Chronicle $2.00 in tickets pood for any Lagoon ride and swimming any day during any season is yours when you fill in the enclosed subscription blank and mail to The Payson Chronicle Enclose ) (Price) or we will bill you later. Think of the fun you will have at Lagoon and think of the good reading you'll get all year long. 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