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Show Utah to Receive Cash Bonus on Federal Grants ' Son. Wallace F. Bennett, R Utah, announced this week fhat Utah will receive a $1, 224,693 cash bonus under an authorization to a recently en acted Federal law which pro vides special incentive grant? for excellence in public school financing. Bennett said the Elementary and Secondary Education Act amendments include a provision pro-vision for the special incentive incen-tive grants to states providing a high standard of education and financial assistance to schools in relation to per capita cap-ita income. Tlie Republican lawmaker reported the new provision ' sets aside $50 million for distribution dis-tribution in fiscal year 1969 to states exceeding the national na-tional effort index, a formula used by the U. S. Office of I Education to administer feeler-! feeler-! al education funds. The appropriation ap-propriation is likely to be ap-' proved sometime in the second sec-ond session of the 90th Congress Con-gress which opened last week. |