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Show Entry deadline (or writing contest 1 5th Entry deadline in the League of Utah Writers original writing contest is July 15, according to Walter L. Maughan, Orem, general contest chairman. All Utah writers may enter the un- published division of the competition, but published division and Special divisions are open to League members in good standing only. Easter Seal camp set (or retarded On July 26th some thirty mentally retarded Utah youngsters between the ages of eight and eighteen will spend two weeks at the special Easter Seal Camp in Grand Mesa National Park. Because there are a few openings available, any parent or guardian having or interested in i a mentally retarded child can make application with the Easter Seal Society. Requests for such an application must be made immediately to the Easter Seal Society at 4868 South State Street in Murray, Utah. Zip 84107. Thisshouldbe done immediately as the Camp Selection Committee will meet on the applications July 15 so that parents or guardian; can be notified of acceptance in time to prepare the youngster for camp. This Easter Seal Camp is adequately staffed by not only a competent Camp Director buy by one Counselor for each three campers. A Registered Nurse is in attendance. Program of many activities are carried out so that the youngsters enjoy a full camp life under careful supervision. The campers will leave the Easter Seal Facilty at the Murray adress at 8:30 a.m. on July 26 returning to Salt Lake City Saturday, August 8. Send all requests for applications immediately to the Easter Seal Society. AD A new division this year is the special contest for young writers. Unpublished nonfiction, fiction and plays must be accompanied by a $1 reading fee, poems by a 50- - cent reading fee. There is no reading fee for the first entry in the youth contest, but a $1 fee will be charged for each additional entry and age will be a factor in judging. There is no reading tee in published division and members may submit one entry in each category with the exception of plays. The same manuscript may not be entered in more than one category and contestants must comply with general contest rules. Cash awards for first, second and third place, plus honorable mention, will be given in unpublished division. Gold quills or diamonds, plus second and third place awards will be presented in the published division. Winners will be announced at the 35th Writers Roundup to be held at the Royal Inn, Provo, Sept. 11, 12 and 13. Entries should be directed to the following contest chairmen: Short story, Jon Gunn, Street, Ogden, Utah 84401; pre-tee- n story, Dora Flack, 448 East 539-22- nd 775 North, Utah 84010; teen- Bountiful, age story, Dianne Jesson, Glenwood, Utah 84730; articles, Hilma Nielsen, 179 South First Utah 84701; one Richfield, West, act play, Beth Marlow, 824 East 400 South, Orem, Utah 84057; serious poetry, Gladys Burnham, 126 East 800 North, Bountiful, Utah 84010; Edward R. Tuttle Light Verse, Wanda Blaisdell, 2664 Shamrock Drive, Ogden, Utah 84401; L. Paul Roberts Serious Verse, Dorothy J. Roberts, 35 F Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103; Raymond W. Taylor Regional Literature Contest, Lilath Hill, 369 East 500 North, Provo, Utah 84601; Special e, Contest for Young Writers, Arlene 850 South 550 East, Orem, Utah Bas-com- 84057. The Raymond W. Taylor Regional Lit- erature Contest embraces the entire field of regional writing, book, article, story, Presentation and deplay and poetry. velopment of the theme of the manuscript must be generated by the problems andor people of this region, in either pioneer or present-da- y background. Prizes will be $65, $25 and $15. Dear Reader: Discipline...Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done. Whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you l, diligence, temperance, strength of will, content and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know... Charles Kingsley The combination of words may not be as beautifully written as some youve read; it may not have as strong a spiritual ring as some youve found in the scriptures, and many of you folks of the Now Generation may not agree with the message, but to some of us old squares, it makes good horse sense and horse sense is what we need in this age when too many able bodied folk insist on being supported by too few able bodied folk. Talking to an unemployed feller recently. He said: Oh, I could have had a job months ago, but I didnt like the work. I must do work I like or I'm not happy." If everyone moved about insisting on doing only (he work they enjoyed, I wonself-contro- der how much of the worlds work would get done. I have in my possession a hardwood peg, hewn out by hand. It was used to hold the logs together in the old Stewart home in Benjamin where Walt Stewart is now remodeling the original log house, built by his grandfather. I wonder if those old boys enjoyed every minute of their tedious type of labor. I look at .home of the rock foundations laid up a hundred years ago and I marvel at the hand workmanship and labor that went into it all, not to mention the mashed fingers and toes that resulted. Those fellers were building a nation and I dont think they stopped to decide whether they liked their work or not; they Just knew it had to be done. When I stand by the grave of a pioneer. I think of those gnarled hands and bent bodies being at rest and I revere their memories. They did their thing, not because they liked doing it but because it had to be done. I suppose my experiences with the Seminole Indians in the everglades of Florida and the Navajo and Utes in South Eastern Utah taught me the value of work more than any other experience that I have ever had; I saw young and old members of those tribes hang around their hogans or palmetta houses day after day, having no interest in life but to look to the day when their Uncle Sammy would send their allotment checks just for being an es Hundreds of full grown Indian. boys lieing around in $40 boots, $20 hats, $60 leather coats, sheltered in a $20 hogan, looking at the pictures in back-breaki- Speakers invited to address Roundup meetings include Rodello Hunter, nationally known novelist with a Utah background; Carol Lynn Wright Pearson, widely published Provo poet and playwright; and Paul D. Bailey, a successful fiction writer who is also editor of Westernlore Press, Los Angeles. Scott Whitaker will also host a tour of the BYU Motion Picture Studios for those attending the Roundup. Other convention speakers will be announced by Betty G. Spencer, American Fork, League president. Board sets hunts for big game After completion of public meetings the State, Utahs five man throughout Board 6f Big Game Control set big game hunts for 1970. The Board declared all elk units open bull permit areas for eligible hunters. Three elk units were closed to hunting in 1970; they include the Heaston, Cedar Mountain and Indian Peak areas. In further action, the Board reduced the waiting period for elk permits to two This reduction is in effect this years. year, aid hunters who had elk permits in 1967 or prior years are now eligible to obtain another permit. Price of the elk permit remains at $15,00. Either sex elk permits will be available on a drawing basis, if over subscribed, on the following units; Ashely-Dagge- tt, Ashley-Vern- Ash al, ley-Whlt- ocks, er and part of the Manti unit (Trail Mountain). The Board emphasized that the liberalized elk regulations are experimental and an attempt to provide Cache-Ric- h, additional recreational opportunities for Utah sportsmen. They will review carefully the results of this years hunt to determine if such a hunt can be continued. The Board authorized 2,050 special deer permits, and set buck only hunts on the Heaston, Oak Creek, Dixie-We- st Pine Valley and Valley deer herd units. Five day hunts were set for the Vernon, East Tintic, Ashley-Vernand North and South Book CUff units. Dates for big game hunts were set as follows: Elk October Deer October 7, Antelope August 22, 23, 24 and August 29, 30, 31, Moose September 7, Buffalo September 11, Bighorn sheep September 11. The archery deer hunt is August 13. Dixie-Terry-- al, 3-- 17-2- 19-2- Report on water able-bodi- funny books. I think Ill repeat the words of Kingsley again. You dont have to read them but here they are anyhow: Discipline..,Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred other virtues which the idle self-contr- Well owners in Utah withdrew an estimated 670,000 acre-fe- et of water in 1969, according to the seventh in a series of annual the Shops WANT AD WAY on ground-wat- er condi- er 75,600 EVERYBODY reports tions. Reports in the series are prepared cooperatively by the U. S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Water Resources, and they provide current ground-watinformation to water users, legislators, administrators, planners, and other interested parties in the State. The estimated withdrawal of 670,000 acre-fe- et of ground water was 40,000 acre-fe- et more than in 1968. Industrial use of ground water grew to an estimated acre-fe- et about 19,000 acre-fe- et more than in 1968. Irrigation use increased by about 18,000 acre-fe- et from that in 1968. Withdrawals for domestic, stock, and municipal use, however, increased only slightly. The increased use of ground water in 1969 was partly due to a dry summerin some irrigation areas. Even though precipitation for the year was above normal in most of the State, some irrigated areas received less than normal amounts of rain during the growing season. Water levels in observation wells gen- - srwffs eviepr ' MORWI TWO Supt. Jo A. Reidhead the desk of the Superintendent From is The main responsibility of the I.M.C. to function as a distributor of films, filmstrips, picture sets, etc. These mabe used by teachers, children and citizens alike. You may question the emphasis we place on the .use of such material in instruction. I must remind you that the known results indicate that the use of audio-visumaterials affect the students in the learning process. An objective of every good teacher is to stimulate as many of the students senses as possible. The use of audio-visu- al materials comes closest to achieving this objective than any other known method of instruction. In a day of technology when virtually every person has access to television, radio, motion pictures, stereo or recorders at home, we would be derelict in our duty if we did not emphasize the use of these modern materials in our schools. It is the responsibility of the I.M.C. to provide our schools with this media. At the present time, the I.M.C. maintains an inventory of approximately 30,000 items which are continually being used by the teachers and students in our district. I think that it would be interesting for you to know that in the LM.C. we have 720 films (16mm), 5000 filmstrips, 1550 pictures, 300 transparencies, 60 films (8mm), 75 maps and globes, 80 charts and graphs, 8500 library books, 7500 400 professional books, 10 textbooks, video tapes, 1550 records, 2200 recorded tapes, 525 unit kits, and 1560 pieces of equipment. In as much as these items are centrally located for the purpose of multiple use, which reflects a tremendous financial savings, the procedure used for teachers requesting items and the delivery ofthese items becomes a crucial part of the total operation of the LM.C. To make each teacher knowledgeable of the materials of the I.M.C., available for check-o- ut we periodically publish a total listing of materials in the form of an LM.C. catalog. Each teacher, librarian, principal and staff member receives a copy of this catalog. It is updated about every six months to list all new items that have come to the LM.C. from day to day. This summer we are in the process of making a new catalog using our data processing depart- terials may al ment. As pec ivAoure pineapple INST COCOA 4 IQ ' FoYs FSWlXiE us da prime Beef Full cot Bee? . round sreMt Rjmppmst Buooi&CHlP leMM teachers identify materials needed t,w i--W 3 Jiao (S)l for class instruction, they telephone the and make their requests. Upon verification of the availablity of materials, the LM.C. personnel make a written request and fill the order to be delivered on the desired date by the LM.C. delivery system. It might be interesting to note, that at the present time our teachers are receiving approximately 98 percent of all items requested. Teacher use of these materials is continually increasing. We have moved from approximately 600 requests per month in 1967 to an average of 3000 requests per month in 1969. The estimated usage of materials housed at the I.M.C. last year was 80,000. This, we think, reflects the efforts of Nebo District personnel to keep abreast of new methods of instruction, as well as their desire to use technology in instruction. Some people have expressed concern as to where we get funds to operate such a program as the LM.C. Let me begin by stating that the concept of a central LM.C. saves a considerable amount of money over the traditional program. The traditional method would be to purchase desired materials for each of our schools. You can see that this would require 28 duplicate copies which would cost considerably more than we are presently spending. At the present time, the LM.C. receives about one third of its financial support from federal programs. Next year the federal portion of the LM.C. budget will be reduced even further. The state school finance department, by direction of the legislature, designates certain amounts of money to be spent in predetermined areas of the curriculum. Nebo District receives these earmarked funds in the areas of special education, vocational education, media program, summer school, etc. If our district does not use this money for the purpose for which it is designated, we do not receive the funds. The LM.C. finances fall in this category. Most of the state and local funds which go into the operation of the LM.C. are designated by the state to be spent in the area of media. As you can see, the LM.C. serves the children of our district with thousands of the most material available. As was mentioned in an earlier article, we plan to open the I.M.C. and all of its services to the public. My next article will describe in detail our plans for the community LM.C. concept. LM.C. ate erally rose throughout the State from March 1969 to March 1970 as a result of the net annual increase in precipitation. Pending publication by the Utah Department of Natural Resources, the report, Ground-WatConditions in Utah, Spring of 1970, by C. T. Sumsion and others, can be examined at the offices of the UJS. Geological Survey, 8002 Federal Building, and the Utah Division of Water Resources, 435 State CapitoL Salt Lake City, utaa TROL er sm D MART Payson and Spanish Fork U L I |