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Show I THE CITIZEN THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1975 ff Arts The "Festival Of Lewiston Students Celebrate How can 450 students cele- Festival of the Arts? This was the question proposed to the Lewiston Elementary faculty. They planned an action packed week with Kaye Evans chairman. The kick-of- f was a half-hoof entertainment performed by a quartet from the Sounds of Zion." They delighted their young audience with such songs as The Orchestra Song, a song from Dr. Doolittle, Blue Moon, Simple Mela song from Tom ody, Sawyer, I Am a Child of God, and ending with Candy Man" throwing capdy to the attentive audience. Mini art workshops were held Wednesday. Students were registered for two workshops in the areas of their choice. They encom- brate the $y-- fei tel ' Physical arts, karate; Musical arts, square dancing, passed : tumbling, tinik-lin- g, singing, band formations; Asthetic arts, water-colo- r, crayon, drawing, tex- -' tiles, and stitchery; Dramatic arts, theater, storytelling, reader's theater. The three most popular were karate, tumbling, and watercolor. Guest artists were asked to instruct the .workshops made the activity extra special. The atmosphere was electrifying with enthuriasm as the students tried their, skill. This brought a variety of experiences. ' Throughout the week individual classes held talent contests. Two numbers were presented at the all school Talent Show which climaxed the week. The children recited poems, played the piano, danced, pantomimed, dramatized comedy acts, baton twirling, tumbling, and singing. Seven year old Richy which Chadwick pantomiming Puppy Love" was one of the highlights. A fifth grade group presented an original musical skit of How the West was Won. Krista Martin, a sixth ' grader, gave a character sketch similar to Ruth Buzzy which kept the audience in stitches. Our Master of Ceremonies, 'Alan Grunig, a fifth grade teacher, kept the aud- ience participating viva- ciously as each student A thorgroup performed. oughly delightful week was experienced by both students and teachers, stated Mr. Timmins, principal. Joseph from the Edith Bowea school demonstrated tumbling. Afterward the kindergarten class also participated. DURING TIIE WEEKS festivities the third grade class . Utah School Operating Costs, Climb 138 Total Maintenance and Operating costs of Utah schools increased from $101,194,353 to $240,530,407, or 138 per cent in the 10 years since 1974, the Utah Tax- payers Association said to- The costs do not day. include funds spent for Capital Outlay and Debt Service, the UTA News noted. Per capita operating costs in Cache District were $782.15 compared with the state average of $840.64. said the Tax Research or- ganization. Alpine School district had the states lowest per pupil costs with $754.14. Grand District was next with District had $762.46. Daggett Curtain Going Up On 'Mary Sunshine In Ten Years the highest costs $1,866.81. UTA claims that the teacher-pupil ratio is the most important item iri determining school operating costs.' When the ratio drops just one point, it costs the taxpayers an additional $5.5 million. According to die Association, in the past 10 years the ratio has dropped 11 per cent, from 25.9 to 22.9. This cut in the teacher-pup- il ratio means that 1,421 more teachers are now being used to teach a similar number of pupils than ten . years ago. The teacher-pup- il ratio in Cache District was 25.2 compared to the state average of . 22.9. iV .. ' . . - is MARLENE GODFREY, a teachers aid at Lewiston elementary school takes time but to focus her attention on one child needing help. Doing textile painting, the children drew ' bookworm on a piece of pellon. Little Mary Sunshine, tied to a tree and about to be sacrificed by a ferocious Indian brave, in desperation sings out, The Colorado 25.6. Love Call, hoping that her THE UTA NEWS further dashing forest ranger, Capt. Big Jim Warington, will noted that the 1973-7- 4 average contract salaries of hear her and save her from classroom teachers in Utah her cruel fate. This is a typical scene were $9,146, or $1,016 per month for time actually from Little Mary Sunshine, worked. The 1974 average loudly acclaimed as one of teacher salary is $643 over the most delightful spoofs in the history of the American the $8,503 paid in 1973. Cache District average salary was musical theatre. The Satirical musical comedy situa$9,326. run , Association analysts said . tions and, characters from the days of the Viennise retirethat fringe benefits ment, social security, and Waltz down to our own era. The hike loving Viennese cost taxpayers insurance an additional $32.3 million. opera singer, the flirtatious This is equivalent to about retired general, the nearsighted Indian guide, heroes $1,462 for every school emand heroines all form to this ployee per year. Adding to the $1,016 . per month thicken the plot and spread the laughter. salary would .put monthly But aside from making average teacher salaries at fun, Little Mary Sunshine near $1,179. makes excellent entertainBy districts, average salaries range from a low of ment as well, with songs that will be humming and $7,630 in Daggett to a high of you situations you will be chuckl-- . $9,810 in Tooele. ing about for a long time to come. This delightful musical is being presented by North Monday night. May 7, at Cache Junior High students 7:30 p.m. the Sky View High under the direction of Robert School Choir will present a Christenson. It will be preprogram under the direction sented Thursday and Friday; Loosle. of Stratford May 1 and 2 in the school The program will be held auditorium at 8 p.m. Tickets in the high school auditorium be purchased, from may and is free to the public. members of the Best of family night Enjoy Friends vocal group or at Monday evening and support the door for 50 cents for the Sky View High School children and junior high age choir, suggests Director students and $1 for adults. Loosle. See you there! Daggett District had the lowest ratio, with 12.6 and Washington the highest, with 25.7, followed by Nebo with - Concert Slated Sales Tax Hike Would THE SUMMIT elementary students enjoy watching Green Canyon employes sort and grade Citizen Photo STATE FORESTER Dave Schen shows Tammy Nielson, Lisa Pitcher and Stephanie Taylor how to properly care for a seedling pine. In conjunction with the bicentennial program Summit School will past out 1,000 trees to each student today contributed by the Green Canyon Slate Nursery. This morning, Schen lectured on the growth, care and planting of these trees that will be planted in each child's own yard. Sponsored by the PTA the project was spearheaded by Julie Pitcher. Cache Citizen Photo Produce $306,497 A .25 per cent increase in the local option sales tax would produce $306,497 in added revenue for local units of government in Cache County. This was pointed out by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization, in their analysis of the local sales tax increase enacted by the 1975 Utah Legislature. Under the new legislation, local units must adopt the new 4 per cent sales tax or have no tax at all. Counties and municipalities will have to enact new ordinances calling foU- a per cent sales tax rate by July l,or lose not only the per cent increase provided by the new law, but also the Mi per cent tax which they have been receiving. At the present time, all 29 counties in Utah are imposing the Vi per cent local sales tax. In addition, the tax is also levied in 175 cities and towns throughout the state. The tax imposed by the county, however, does not apply within any city and town which levies the tax According to the Foundation analysis, the present & per cent local sales tax produced $6,575,403 for counties and $13,914,143 for cities and towns throughout Utah during the twelve-mont- h period ended February 28, 1975. These amounts are equal to about 18 per cent of the property tax imposed by counties and 56 per cent of the property tax levied by cities and towns in Utah during 1974. If all local units decide to adopt the new higher sales tax rate, it would Foundation analysis point out that the V4 per cent sales would increase Cache County revenue jay $31,897 and Smithfield City receipts by $18,141. Thesea amounts are equivalent to property tax levy of .51 mills for the county and 4.47 mills for the city. By way of comparison, the actual levy for Cache County was 12.00 mills last year and 16.00 il- - JOLENE ASHCROFT savs farewell to Ron Hyer. during a rehearsal for the production. Little Mary Sunshine. The North Cache Junior High School students will present th musical May 1 and May 2. ' Sky View RodeoPlanne i This Friday and Saturday the second annual Sky View High School rodeo will be held at the Cache County fair grounds. It will be a qualifying competition for the high school rodeo state Finals and will have contestants competing from all areas of the state. The events start at All of the high school rodeo participants must follow the standards and rules as set by the Utah High School Athletic Association in order to compete. Friday will presents 7:30 in the evening and Saturday at 2:30 in the afternoon. There dance scheduled Friday evening to the pavillion at grounds. PANORAMA OF THE PAST is also a for 9:30 be held in the fair- The event is a Utah high school approved rodeo featuring in the boys events: bareback bronc riding,- - saddle bronc riding, bull riding, steer wrestling, and calf' roping. The girls events include: the quben contest, breakaway calf roping, barrel racing, pole bending, and goat tying; with team roping and cow cutting as events for both boys and girls. (Smithfield in Review) Featuring: Movie Music, on Smithfield, Beauty Queens, and people, people, people Game Mjoy pictwis Smithfield announcement and If the new local sales tax is adopted and the rate is increased from Vi per cent to a4 per cent, it would mean about a $15 tax hike for an average family of four persons having a gross income' of $15,000 per year. On the other hand if part of the added revenue was used to reduce the local property tax levy by 3 mills, the savings to a typical homeowner with a $30,000 home assessed at $4,500 would be $13.50. The rodeo is being sponsored by the Sky View High School rodeo team wiihU of the livestock being supplied by the Broken Diamond Rodeo Company. SMITHFIELD CITY HEALTH DAY increase local revenues by $10V4 million per year. While there is nothing in the new law requiring it, the 1975 Legislature implied that part of revenue from the V per cent sales tax increase could be used to reduce local property tax levies. In fact, one legislator inserted in the Senate Journal the statement: It was the understanding that if the V cent sales tax passed, Salt Lake City would decrease its property tax by 3 mills." tax increase 4$f. is Mtiitalnisi and paisantry, review wifi if pupil and and story, and events, maat Gtj Quail Royalty, this year's liana Club if Gtina al tha Yaar, put Health Day Qut?nj, many other iaitarasting people anociatad with Smithfisld. EVERYONE IS INVITED (Free of Charge) Friday May 9, 1975 7:30 p.m. -- SKY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM . |