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Show ROLLO-glyphics:uo push of a button, but the trend away from personal 1-dentity 1-dentity . . . would be accelerated." acceler-ated." If we are to submit to such , a philosophy of people watching, watch-ing, we may one day see government gov-ernment following a practice similar to the calf branding , used by western cattlemen. For example, a law could require re-quire that each child's number num-ber be tattooed on its right shoulder at birth or left if the bureaucrats so desired. Such a law would probably end freedom, but it sure would solve all Identity problems and virtually guarantee that government handouts would go to the right people. The Utah Taxpayers Association Associ-ation has ame out with a rather strong report on the benefits of the Utah Education Educa-tion Association enacted by the state legislature in the 1972 Budget Session. The report deals principally with the money allocated for the purpose of fully funding the teachers' retirement, and money to fund local increment increases. Allocated was $G.6 million to cover full funding of the teachers' retirement program. Previously the state and the teacher shared equally both must be assigned Social Security Sec-urity numbers. The purpose oi the proposal sounds plausible, It is to prevent Social Security swindlers from applying under un-der more than one name foi welfare checks. An old-fashioned editor comments that, ". . . designating designat-ing an individual, from childhood child-hood to death, by a single 1-dentification 1-dentification number has connotations con-notations alien to traditional American liberty. Not only could a computer spew out a person's life history at the 9 ff $ contributing 4 Ms percent. Under Un-der the new program the taxpayer tax-payer now picks up the total of 9, percent and that funding has been incorporated into the teachers salary program in the Iron County School district. dis-trict. Dispite this, some school districts in the state are already al-ready experiencing problems over salary negotlationsynTe UTA reports. The report goes on to point out that the legislature gave local school districts no addi- tional money other than that earmarked for funding the retirement program and for increment increases. Thus school districts, including Iron County, will find it difficult to come up with additional increase in-crease in salaries this year. Negotiations in the Iron County School district have already gotten underway. At this juncture no problems have arisen. However, further contract talks will be undertaken under-taken after the completion of the budget for the next year. Hopefully Iron County can avoid the pitfalls that are already al-ready plaguing other districts in the state. The Senate Finance Committee Com-mittee has proposed that all I children entering the first I grade after January 1, 1974, |