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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1965 Page Eight Education: A Growing Need Coupled With Great Challenges Education beyond high school for Utah's citizens should be unified for more effective adminisimultanestration and yet diversified to allow ously more specialized opportunities for persons from their teens to postretirement years. These are some conclusions of witnesses who appeared before a committee studying educational goals for Utah. The committee report notes several alternatives of organization and emphasis. Education is the vehicle which transports the individuals toward greater independence, the report states. And education may be applied through community junior colleges, institutes and adult groups, as well as in the colleges and universities. Utahns must decide what kinds of educational opportunshould be provided, and how ity much public money can be used to support them. The decisions are complicated by increased mobility, increasing technology, the need for retraining, national emergency possibilities, and the expositions in population and available knowledge. There is a basic conflict between those who consider federal financing and administration the most realistic solution to providing equal educational opportunity and those who believe that the federal interest in education is eroding the initiative of state and local authority. Hie roles of research, cultural activities and extension services trade-technic- al in serving the citizens of Utah must be considered in programming educational objectives, the report urges. There is a consensus that closer cooperation and coordination of personnel and services are essential to the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of our expanding program for higher education, the report adds. Concurrently, there are pressures for expansion of school services through enlarging existing plants, and also through education, including and taking roving faculties, theater, art and musical groups on tour. What of those students who cannot qualify for university performance? Should community junior colleges be established with parallel terminal off-camp- us trade-technic- al and academic preparatory programs? In either case, how should such junior colleges be administered, and where should the support money come from? Should high schools be extended to include 13th and 14th grades? These are a few of the questions raised for the consideration of citizens in formulating an educational policy aimed at providing opportunity for education and training beyond high school for those who can benefit therefrom. Guard Dog Firm Offers Protection For Area Firms R. R. LeFevre and Bill Neves have been training dogs for a long, long time. Now that vast experience is paying off for a number of Salt Lake area businessmen and the Salt Lake City Police Dept. Mr. LeFevre and Mr. Neves operate K-- 9 Security, a firm which provides training guard dogs for hire. Dogs are provided for individ- uals and for industry. The firm hopes to have 100 of the German Shepherds in the area soon. The firm has been in operation eight months. ; i i i i l J to live in a cellar of despair. The course of history has been; changed many times by hunger and disease. Today we are protected against these two scourges by many tools of our civilization, not the least of which are modern pesticides. These guardians of our health and food supply, properly used, contributed substan-tially to this years abundant tial to an efficient agriculture, they are essential from a health standpoint, the Senate Minority Leader continued. Since the dawn of time, hunger and pestilence have been Thankgiving dinner. man's most savage enemies. They Few of us who are under 35 have caused unrest, revolution, years of age have ever seen ap- war, and have forced humanity pies with worms inside or lettuce with bugs crawling over the leaves. Yet 30 years ago, before scientific tools like todays pesticide chemicals were available,-thhousewife and her family resigned themselves to such food. Senator Dirksen said, Hie damage done annually in this by destructive insects diture is governed only by the country is at around $4 billion estimated revenue from the earmarked tax which in the last analysis, sum, which may bear little relation- must be paid by the consumers.? ship to the legitimate needs for Scientists estimate that about' the service provided by the d of our people would agency. have no food at all to eat if all The report concludes by not- chemicals were eliminated from ing that a funds consolidation food production practices. And ' act, passed by the 1965 Utah 80 percent of our most common Legislature, together with a re- food crops could not even be vision of the state accounting produced without the help of V system now under study by the pesticides. state finance department, may Tomatoes and potatoes would ultimately reduce the amount be impossible to finely ; of earmarking in Utah. In addi- in virtually stores if pesticides ' grocery tion to simplifying state finances protect them front insects and providing for the eventual and blight. :f :l reduction of earmarking in Utah, hisof course V of the Speaking these revisions should improve tory being altered, imagine what the cash positions of many de- this country would be like with- partments and agencies, reduce out our large the overall size of required total population. Their ancestors cash operating funds, and facili- America because of the famine tate legislative budgetary con- in Ireland caused by blight- at- - '' trol over state finances. tacking the Irish potato crops. Along these lines, hundreds of thousands of Italians migrated to the United States before Kid Capitalists World War I because the land On the Increase couldnt support them. Today to a survey conduct Italy is one of the leading agri-- '; ' According ed by the New York Stock Ex- cultural producers in Europe,, change, more than a million of thanks to scientific farming the country's' 20 million indi- methods including the use of vidual shareholders are minors. pesticides. Protecting our health today, This is an increase of 540 per cent in the past ten years. Kid pesticides have eliminated ma- - . the United States and capitalists are taking an active laria from us against such other interest in what happens to their safeguard d diseases as typhus, companies, says G. Keith Funs-toI president of the New York sleeping sickness, plague (which has killed millions throughout Stock Exchange. The time is rapidly approach- history), and yellow fever. ing when your Americans will turn to the financial section instead of the comics when they grab the evening paper, con tinues the article. This newly i awakened interest springs mostmore from the that fact and ly more youngsters are becoming shareholders in the nations cor& porations. Since some of the red tape involved in giving stocks or bonds to minors has been cut by legislation, an increasing numOne Long Distance ber of parents, relatives, and close friends are giving gifts of call can bring them stock to youngsters on Christhome again. And mas, birthdays, and other occasions. But interest in the investafter you've heard ment process is not confined to their voices you'll these younger citizens who hap know why you'll pen to own stock themselves. In thousands of high schools, stu want to call again dents are learning to distinguish the bulls from the bears as part soon! of their classroom routine. Mountain Mr. Funston feels that this in of kid the number growth States capitalists is a healthy trend, for Telephone it develops in them a first hand knowledge of our free enterprise economy and sends them out into the business world with a better understanding of some of its complexities. . , ; i Legislative Control Over Funds Stymied by Earmarked Money the nation earmarked a greater proportion of their revenue for special purposes than did Utah. A major step toward reducing earmarking in Utah was taken in 1955, according to the Foundation, when the sales tax receipts were placed in the general fund. Prior to that time, more than 90 percent of all state revenue was earmarked for special I (Continued from page 1) pesticides are some of the tools which enable farmers to be the most efficient producers the world has ever seen. Not only are pesticides essen- . Legislative control over the public purse has been undermined in many instances by the practice of earmarking receipts from a specific revenue source for a particular function or activity of government. This charge was made in a research study just completed by Utah Foundation, the private governmental research organization. The Foundations report shows that last year only about 23 percent of total state revenue found its way into general fund free The first Thanksgiving Day revenue, with 77 percent being in the U.S. was proclaimed by earmarked for special purposes. President Lincoln and Andrew According to a recent national Jackson continued the custom. study only nine other states in SsSr Thanksgiving Day Should Recall Nation's Role in World Supply purposes. Among the principal objections to earmarking advanced by tax authorities cited in the Foundation report are the following: (1) earmarking fre quently leads to extravagance and waste, (2) it makes budgeting more difficult, (3) it creates troublesome in flexibility in the state revenue system, (4) it may result in over financing of some activities and under financing of others, and (5) it may lead to unnecessary expansion of programs when earmarked revenues exceed original estimates. Although earmarking is condemned by most tax authorities and many official bodies, Foundation analysts note that the practice is prevalent in most states. Among the major justifications for earmarking are (1) taxpayers know the purpose for which the tax is spent, (2) diversion for other purposes is prevented, (3) it assures continuity for important programs, and (4) the public can be induced to accept new taxes when such increases are associated' with desired governmental services. The Foundation study points out that Utah follows a policy of modified or controlled earmarking in that many of the activities financed from earmarked taxes are still subject to regular budgetary review by the legislature and the state administration. Earmarking is considered most objectionable when the proceeds of a particular tax go automatically to a spending agency for expenditure purposes without budgetary control. In such cases, the amount of expen . one-thir- . ; . Irish-Americ- an' : - ? . , ; . n, insect-carrie- if MOSS THE kids? |