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Show Page Two Utah School Enrollment Declines For First Time in States History According to statistics just released by the Utah State Board of Education's Division of Auxiliary Services, school enrollment in Utahs public schools has declined for' the first time since records of enrollment have been kept by the state school office. The figures indicate that student enrollment in Utahs elementary and secondary schools on October 1 of this year stood at 305,800, down 116 from last years enrollment of 305,916. This represents a .04 per cent decrease. School enrollments have shown a steady increase during the last several years. Utahs student population grew rapidly during the 50s and 60s and reached 286,395 in 1965. It has been climbing above the 300,000 mark since 1968. The 1972 mark was only 176 students above the fall enrollment of 305,740 for 1971, however. The report also suggests that future years might see even more decreases in Utahs student population. While this years decrease is the first overall decline in Utahs history, enrollments from lower grades, particularly have shown a steady decline in recent years. , Taken as a whole, the elementary population has levelel off since 1965. One phase of student population, however, has shown an increase since 1965. Enrollment in special education classes for the handicapped has more than doubled in recent years from 2,444 in 1965 to this years 4,918. As far as individual districts are concerned, Salt Lake City schools showed the greatest decrease in enrollment with a 6.4 percent loss. The student population decreased from last years count of 31,134 to this years 1-- 3, - 29,154. School District, with offices in Saint George, has showed the largest percentage gain with more than a ten per cent increase in the number of students. Jordan School District gained the greatest number of students with a 2,034 or 7.3 per cent increase. According to statistics, Granite is the largest district in the state 9. with a total enrollment of is Davis second The largest Washington 62,-31- with 34,643. Daggett is still the smallest district in the state with a stu-- . dent population of 180, down 10 from last year. The Great Dinosaur Discovery Aired Over KBYU-TV The television premiere of a new documentary motion picture The Great Dinosaur Discovery will be broadcast over BYU-TChannel 11 on Monday, Dec. 17, at 9 p.m. and again on Friday, Dec. 21 at 7 p.m. on the same channel. The hour long color film centers around the discovery of the worlds largest dinosaur by Dr. James Jensen, curator of the BYU Earth Sciences Museum. was proThe documentary duced by KBYU-Tduring the Dr. Jensen and four months that a V V his crew worked in the Dry Mesa Quarry in west central Colorado about 40 miles west of Delta. . Following the two showings in Utah the movie will be sent to Washintgon, D. C., where the Public Broadcasting Service will air it on some 225 public television station in the nation. After the PBS showings, the movie will be trimmed to 36 minues for educational use and other TV showings in the U.S. and foreign countries. Under a community services grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the BYU film crew was able to capture some of the greatest dinosaur discoveries in history during some of the drama and toils of the actual recovery of the bones. The movie was shot on location and is 100 per cent true, says John Linton, producer and director. The movie centers on the discovery of Dr. Jensen or Dinosaur Jim who relates the story on his visiting rockhound friends Eddie and Vivian Jones in Delta, Colo., who have been working with Dr. Jensen for 11 years exploring the plateau for FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1973 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Winter Quarter Starts Dec. 18 at Utah Tech Utah Power & Light Plans to Continue Emery County Building New and returning full time day student winter quarter registration at Utah Technical College at Salt Lake is Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 18 and 19. An open registration period runs Winfrom Dec. 1 and ter quarter classwork at Utah Tech starts Jan. 3. . Courses with openings are accounting, architectural drafting technology, commercial art and design technology, electricity, electronics, general education, general office clerk and clerk-typis- t, hospital nurse aide, hospital ward clerk, hotel, management, machine shop, marketing, printing, small engine repair, steno Other courses with limited openings are auto body repair, auto mechanics, auto paint, data processing, fashion merchandising, heavy duty mechanics, real estate and transportation management. There also is continuous registration open for barbering, cosmetology, power sewing, and classes, with new classes starting each week. Registration is being accepted 19-2- and-welding- 26-2- 8. . pre-technic- al at the College main campus Ad- ministration building, 4600 So. Redwood Road. Safety Rule Postponed On Federal Jobs A federal job safety require- ment that electrical outlets on construction sites have ground-fau- lt circuit interrupter devices effective Jan. 1, 1974, has been indefinitely deferred, the U.S. Department of Labor said. John H. Stender of OSHA has said that he had signed an order to delay the effective date on recommendatoins by the Labor Departments construction advisory committee. The committee is seeking further data before recommending that the requirement be imposed. Curtis A. Foster of OSHA explained that the rule, from the 1971 National Electrical Code, was adopted as part of federal construction safety and health standards issued by OSHA. He added that it would have affected fossilized bones. all 15 and 20 ampere receptacle While visiting the Joneses, Dr. outlets on single phase electrical Jensen noticed one of their re- circuits, the type commonly used cent finds and recognized it as for electrical hand tools at cona toe bone of a meat eating struction sites. An official notice will be pubdinosaur, twice as large as any other ever ' before found of a lished soon in the Federal carnivore of that period of time. Utah Power & Light Co. said this week that its application to build a coal fired power station in southwestern Wyoming does not preclude the building of a new generating station in Emery County, Utah. The Salt Lake City based utility said it must build plants at. both sites operable in the late seventies. Each plant ultimately could be comprised of two units of 430,000 kilowatts perm unit. Utah Power & Light said the construction of the , generating units at both sites is contingent on: approval of the plant and related transmission lines by state governments and environmental and other federal agencies; whether or not current load growth projections are modified by current conservation practices. The utility also said its gene- ration construction plans would be subject to its ability to get a compensatory rate structure. The company said the new unit would burn low sulphur coal from the respective areas and would be equipped to meet pollution control standards. Last month, the companys directors authorized the purchase of two turbine generators for units to be in operation by 1978 and 1979. At that time, sites had not been chosen for the units, but they would be located where there is ample coal and water, the utility said. The southwesern Wyoming site is near the firms Naughton steam electric plant, just southwest of Kemmerer. The Emery County site is on the al- - CHEESE kali flats not too distant from the firms Huntington Plant now under construction. Vets Pension Act Signed by President In formal ceremonies last week, President Nixon affixed his signature to HR 7474, the Veterans Pension Act of 1973. This Act amends the U. S. Code to increase pension benefits payable to totally disabled veterans their widows and to certain dependent parents. The average amount of increase is 10 percent and will be effective Jan. 1. According to DAV National Service Officer George Carey of Utah a strong attempt to have permissible income limitations increased was beaten down by the U.S. House of Representatives. This means VA beneficiaries previously deleted from the pension rolls because of excessive income will not find the status changed by this new legislation. Veterans and dependents are reminded no application should be made for this increase as all payments will be handled by a computer. Checks reflecting the added benefits will not be in the mail prior to the end of January or February. Said DAV National Commanded John T. Soave, The DAVs next goal is a 15 per cent increase in the compensation payable for service connected disabilities. Compensation, like the pensions, has lagged far behind the ever rising cost of living, and we need some help! HISTORY The history of cheese goes back the secrets alive and developed it that many varieties of cheese that still cheese actually was discovered are made today. several thousand years before Localities contributed, too, to Christ by an Arabian traveler varieties of cheese. . Techniques who placed milk in a pouch made employed varied geographically from a sheeps stomach. During and tiie milk available in one his journey that day the com- place and the techniques used bined action of the suns heat produced cheeses of certain charand enzymes in the lining of the acteristics not obtained elsestomach changed the milk into where. These differences resulted curds of cheese and the thin in the many varieties of cheese liquid now called whey. that are obtainable today. Since that legendary discovCheesemaking remained a farm ery, says a National Dairy Coun- or home operation until the midcil publication, Newer Knowledge dle of the nineteenth century. of Cheese, countless experi- Cheesemaking as a great industry ments have produced varieties of in the United States with began cheese that range in texture from the first small cheese in soft to hard and in flavor from Rome, N.Y., in 1851. factory mild to pungent and sharp. Yet All Kinds Available the initial, basic process remains the same. Through controlled, scientific Over the many centuries dur- methods American cheescmakers ing which cheese has been made, have successfully manufactured it has played a distinctive role in virtually all the foreign cheeses r, the economy of peoples and of such as Swiss, Camembert, Blue and Parmesan. And nations. It was vital to the early nomadic tribes and became one Americans have originated such of the prized mediums of ex- varieties as Brick, Colby, Monchange because it provided milk terey or Jack cheese and others. in a solid and less perishable The beauty of cheese is that it form. converts milk to a concentrated form of nourishment suitable for Brought To Europe Checsemaking began in Europe immediate use or storage for fuwhen the Crusaders brought back ture use. And cheese is not only the secrets of the art. After the nutritious. It is festive and worfall of the Roman Empire and thy of celebration. Thats why its during the Dark Ages, Trappist so popular always, and especially Monks in the monasteries kept at this holiday time of year. a long time. Legend has Lim-burge- |