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Show Editorial i Iage Thursday, July 3, 1IM5W UINTAH BASIN STANDARD A consolidation of the Roosevelt standard and Uintah Batin Record Association Second Class Postal aM at Rmimvlt, Utah PUBLISHED THURSDAY AT ROOSEVELT, UTAH - Founded 1985 84068 P. O. BOX 188 - 84068 School administrator foresees innovations Dean D. Roberts, principal at Altamont high school, and president during the past year of the Uintah Basin Administrators Association, represented this area on a recent tour of educational facHites in southern Utah and Nevada. The group, under the direction of Keith Rogers of Heber, formerly of Duchesne, traveled In two 6 passenger airplanes, leaving from He- ber April 30. They first touMillard red high school at Fillmore, with prime Interest in their video tape recording In program speech, drama and social studies. Mr. Ro- Dont let carelessness mar your fun! Putting aside all tre platstateitudes and too damn ments, many people are drowning or being injured on the water and we need your high-soundi- ng help. Such was the statement of Leonard B. Gross, district staff officer of the U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, in seeking our support in publicizing National Safe Boating Week, which began on June 29. June also marks the 30th anniversary of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, which is a volunteer arm of the Coast Guard, created by Congress in 1939 to promote safety and efficiency in the operation of boats, and to foster a wider knowledge of the laws and regulations governing the operation of motorboats and yachts. According to a report by Captain David Oliver of the Coast Guard, as printed in an article in Time Magazine, at least 75 ' of the accidents could have been easily avoided by foresight. Mostly it's just plain stupidiy." he stated. Take for instance the reason given by one boater for not having any life jackets in his cabin cruiser: They don't match the color of my boat, that's all." The article in Time Magazine points out that every boater should become acquainted with the boat he is piloting. It asserts that no one in his right mind would climb into an airplane for the first time and try to solo. Hardly anyone over the age of 16 would expect to hop in a car and go off without knowing how to drive. But put a man in a power boat and he becomes the instant mariner. He requires neither operator's license nor the barest acquaintance with navigation or mechanics. All he has to do is punch the starter OaEBBBCBBB it tdli'lS Q Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Merkley received word last week that their son, Errol Merkley had been made bishop in American Samoa. Elder Milton R. Hunter and Henry Taylor recently visited In Samoa and made a new stake in Pago Pago. Mr. and Mrs. People with DISTINCTIVE tastes buy their insurance from Central Utah Insurance Agency! Central Utah Insurance Agency 17 SOUTH MAIN STREET ROOSEVELT, UTAH Office 722-2S2- 2 Res. 722-338- 4 Dean 1). Roberta reports that they are studying the possibility of installing this type equipment at Altamont berts button and take off, trusting to God and the Coast Guard. Of course the water is more forgiving than the thin air or a concrete abutment, but even so, the Coast Guard was asked to respond to 43,000 Mayday calls last year, with the accidents resulting in 1,312 deaths. Boaters on small inland waters feel that they face little danger from rough water, and blindly ignor all safety precautions. They overload the boat, do not have adequate power or equipment for existing conditions, and are oblivious to the weather conditions. Yet, each year, a number of boaters and passengers die in Utah as boats are swamped or capsized in high waves. No body of water is so small that boaters are immune from waves if sudden gusts of wind hit the surface of the lake. Each trip to the lake should include a safety check, much the same as a ground check each time a pilot takes a plane into the air. Boaters should see that they have an adequate supply of fuel, have at least one life jacket for every person on board, have an oar on board, as well as a fire extinguisher. It is also well to visually check the boat each time for signs of cracking or weathering that might weaken the structure. During boating safety week, take time out to assess your boating habits. Are they as safe as they should be? If you water ski, do you maintain adequate lookouts in the boat, and provide the skier with adequate safety information? With the big July 4th weekend coming up. boaters by the thousands will be on Utah's lakes and reservoirs. Extreme care should be taken to assure your safety. Don't let a moment of carelessness destroy your holiday. Errol Merkley left last August for Samoa where Mr. Merkley Is teaching at the church school. -Allen and Larren Ross, Sparks, Nev. were visitors at the Laren Ross home Friday night and Saturday morning. Allen and Larren are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Garth Ross. The Relief Society enjoyed a spring social Thursday night in the Relief SoGames were played and ciety room. refreshments enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. George Bartlett were in Salt Lake Monday and Tuesday. They visited at the Maurice Bartlett home. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Goodrich were visitors In Salt Lake last week. Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace are the parents of a baby girl born June 27 at Vernal. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Reed McKee and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Wallace. Michael Evalson and John Bartlett returned home Wednesday after visiting a week In Salt Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Reid Goodrich were visitors In Salt Lake Thursday and Friday. Arriving at the Ernest A hiborn home Sunday were Ernest's sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Wales Klbbey, Fresno, Calif. The Klbby's visited a week before returning to their home. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith from England and Peggy Ahlborn returned to Tridell Friday after visiting Grand, Bryce and Zion's Canyon and the 4 corner area. .They left on their trip last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Loren McKee were visitors In Salt Lake Thursday. Mr. McKee went to Salt Lake to attend a Dairy meeting. Here to attend the John Merkley family reunion held at Whiterocks Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. Gene Merkley, Moses Lake Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Mike Leavitt and Mr. and Mrs. Golden Merkley, Salt Lake; and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Merkley, Logan. They all visited at the Clyde Merkley home. Hl-La- nd high. From Fillmore, the group traveled to Cedar City, witnessing the extensive team- teaching program at North elementary school, where some classes Include 250 students, with computerized checking and grading. Other innovations were studied at Cedar City high school and junior high. At The next stop was Las Vegas. Roy Martin junior high school, a unique system of libraries was studied here.' The school had a library and study hall for all basic subjects, such as English, history, math, etc. They also visited the Ruby S. Thomas elementary, which is a school employing successfully many new Innovations and experimentations. The school Is team teaching in every subject, and offers great latitude for the children and teachers in freedom from the routine. From Las Vegas, the group traveled to Blandlng, Utah, for a tour of San Juan . This was followed by a high school flying tour of many of the scenic attractions of southern Utah, on the return trip to Heber, In commenting on the tour, Mr. Roberts stated, "I have seen the strengths of the traditional classroom situation and the strengths of the varied modern approaches, and I like them both. After this tour of schools, I would like to maintain the good we have and add more We have already Innew approaches. corporated a phased English program, outdoor science study, modern math and other programs at Altamont high. I believe that a small secondary school such as Altamont, can Initiate Innovations with little difficulty, if the funds are available." As a result of the tour, Mr. Roberts also expressed the feeling that one of the ways to bring the schools out of the rut, If they happen to be In one, Is to encourage administrators ana scnooi ooara members to visit as many schools as possible to gain new ideas. It Is also recommended that school teachers should be provided with the opportunity of visiting at least one or two other schools each lst year. Arthur C. Wiscombe is SLC superintendent Dr. Arthur C. Wiscombe, I35G South Oakrldge Lane, Bountiful, has been appointed Superintendent of Schools in the Salt Lake City School District, his term effective July 1. Dr. Wiscombe has served as Deputy Superintendent In the Salt Lake Schools for the past six years. He has also been a professor at the University of Utah for two years; as lecturer and consultant to Los Angeles State College and County Schools for four years; as assistant superintendent and high school principal in Uintah school district for a total of three years; and, as a staff member at Brigham Young University, Boston schools and Piute Junior and Senior high school. A native of Roosevelt. Utah, he received his elementary and secondary education In Uintah County at Ballard Elementary and Alterra (Union) high school. He is married to the former Joy Meyers. The couple has a son serving a mission for the LDS Church In Japan, and four daughters residing In Bountiful. GEBQflGDCQxB t iStQBEl (23322 were their daughter Charlotte and family, while there Charlottes baby became 111 and had to be When Mr. and Mrs, Boyd Winn In Salt lake Friday they called on hospitalized. The Winns brought the other two children home to stay with them until the baby Is better. Visiting at the Earl Gardner home Is Mrs. Dan Gardner and two sons. Her husband Dan, works for the Forest Service and at the present Is In Alaska fighting forest fires. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hatch spent Sunday In Heber where they went to help celebrate their son Richard's birthday. There were forty one In attendence. They brought their great grandson Brent Malr, back to stay a week with them. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sorensen, Las Vegas, spent the weekend at the Delbert 8TANDARD - Roosevelt Utah Thursday, Dear Editor; What marvelous mutations are these worthies who call themselves the John Birch Socletyl Apostles of confusion and discord, how much noise and dust they can stir upl Quite honestly they regard themselves as the only true believers, the only receivers of the vision, holders of the patents to patriotism, freedom, and human rights. Fuji of righteous If misguided zeal and armed with the simplistic theories of a world that never was, and than heaven, never will be, they tilt nearsightedly at whatever and whomever their prophet, Mr. Welch, points out as the enemy of the Republic. The Blrc-he- rs remind me of the man Stephen Leacock wrote about, the man "who flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions." Ostensibly, they are es the of communism. Yet, their tactics often resemble those of the I guess they feel they are Communists. fighting Are with fire, they probably believe the ends justify the means. The pity Is that they are not effective even as because they divide men, they repel men, they constantly confuse fact and fantasy, they are utterly Intolerant of any views other than their own. They leave me colder than a clam when they wrap the mantle of revelation about their shoulders. They read the message of the living prophet, President McKay and of the Savior In for different fashion than I do. I would be far more Impressed by their words if their actions conveyed more of the spirit of the Master. General Elsenhower, shortly before his death, left all Americans some good words of advice: "I picture the road ahead at us as a broad one-whighway of progress. Its width Is great enought to accommodate all reasonable citizens, from the moderate conservative to the moderate liberal. They are the people who get things done. Off on the shoulders of the road, sometimes spilling down into the gutters, are the extremists of the for left and the far right. They are the people who cause most of the troubles In this world." These words are quite relevant today. If there was ever time when this nation needed temperance, reason,' to and convic-nouthe honest lerance, charity, ox ine individual, not the parroting: of party lines, it Is the time In which we arch-enemi- ay s now live. Sincerely yours, Dear Editor; We need your help! for the past while the American Legion post 64 has been . dying, and without the support of Its members It will die. I have been a member of this post now for better than two months and in that time we have never had more than nine members at a meeting. For a post with almost 150 members our turn out is very very poor. The American Legion is too fine an organization to be let down like this. This Thursday night (July 3) at 8:30 p.m. there will lie an emergency meeting at the Post 64 barracks to try and get our post back In shape. AH members and their wives are encouraged to attend. Don't let your post down, please be there. Slncerly 1st vice commander Mark Jenson 34 Utes graduate from high school this year Sortie 34 members of the Ute Indian Tribe have graduated from high school this year. "These students are to be congratulated for their achievement. Many opportunities for continued education and training await them. High school graduation is simply the first step on the road to successful participation In the adult world. Orvil Lee, Marjorie Ankerpont, Larry. Cesspooch, Ruby Cuch, Michael Jack, Ronald Navanlck. Joseph Plnnecoose, Carlos Reed, Louise Ridley, Ina Santio and Vivian Slreech graduated from Union high school. Eph Pawwlnnee, Arthur Mt. lion and Ernest Gardner graduated from Sherman Institute; Marion Theda Cuch and Janet Ridley from Phoenix Indian school; Alice Nez, Paulette Wlsslup, Julia Wissiup, SherAnn Checora and Charles Reed from Stewart Indian school. Kathleen Che gup and Leo Ray Cesspooch from the Institute of American Indian Arts and Forrest Cuch from Wasatch Academy. Graduating from various schools In other areas were Eleanors loupe, LeRoy Topenotes, Michael Ice, Leslie Wyasket, Roger Dean Tom, Jarvis Begay, Linda May. JoAnn Garcia, Shiela Harvey and Charlene Pawwlnnee. Tom Williams. ARTHUR C. WISCOMBE Mierintcndrnt of Suit Luke Ho r locks named school. home. Ray llolman, Ogden president of the Farmers Union , was a visitor at the Karl Shlsler home recently. Karl use to be president of the Farmers Union. Visitors at Sunday school were Mrs. Iva Moore and son Neldon, Granger. Iva Is Oliver Jorgenson's daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Bird and family, Granger, were visitors at the Zane Asay home. Mrs. Bird was the former Josephine Asay. Judy and Jeffery Allred, children of Gorden and Maxine Allred, Pleasant Grove, are staying with their grandparents, the Kenneth Allreds until the fourth of July. Recently Velma Winn and her daughter Charlotte Winward, Salt Lake, drove to Rexburg, Ida. and spent a week visiting with Velmas mother, Mrs. Eulalia Kllng-le- r. Page family are leaving for Hobbs, N.M. to see their son Glen married. There will be an open house at the Page residence July 12, honoring Glen and his bride. Mrs. Della Da hi berg and five children of Los Angeles are visiting with her mother, Hilda Arnold, and her mother In The John -Tommy Jenkins was advanced Priesthood as a priest. Ranee Kettle, in the Alice Page, and Lyle Parrish went to Salt Lake and participated Festival. Christine Brlsbln returned to Canada with her sister and brother In law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bartlett, who have been vacationing here. She plans on spending about a month In CaIn the All Church Dance Legh-brld- ge, nada. Friday June 27, Mr. Brlsbln were married and Mrs. William In the Salt Lake Those of the family that acTemple. companied them were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Neilsen, and Christine, others from the ward that went with them were Mr. and Mrs. Allierl Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Winn, Bishop and Mrs. Max Todd and Bishop and Mrs. Lee Angus. June McEnroe, Las Vegas, a friend of the Delbert Horrocks, spent ten days with the Horrocks, while here she took Mrs. Horrocks to Salt Lake to see her Wednesday doctor. law, Bonnie Dahlberg. Word was received from Elder Ralph Ercanbrack's mission president that he was being released, and that Ralph would be getting a new mission president, and that It would be Ralph's duty and responsibility to Introduce him to the mission area, being an assistant to the president. 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