Show School hoard Board Sends I II I Letters Of Intent Ask If T Teachers Plan To Work In Davis When the Davis County 1 Board of Education approved the teachers salar salary schedule on May 7 they sent a letter of or intent to each of the nearly teachers in the Davis School District It listed the salary they would be getting for the 64 school year and asked them to indicate if iC the they intended teaching in Davis County next year Following is the complete form Corm sent out According to the salary schedule adopted by the Board of Education for 64 1963 your salary will be This action ac ac- ac tion lion is necessary as set forth in the School Laws of the State of Utah Section 53 20 2 Your contract will be sent at a later date Any claim for dependency or insurance benefits may be verified later Detach and Return by May Ia 20 Board of Education Davis County Schools Farmington Utah Gentlemen I This is to assure you that I I I desire to teach leach in the Davis i County Schools during 1963 1 Date Signed n J I I BUT TilE THE objected to both the Uie salary schedule and the he letter of intent They said the he salary schedule didn't present pro pre sent a true picture and the letter of or intent was too loo bind bind- ing ng So the sent out its own letter of or intent It follows Dear It is my desire to enter into an employment contract with the School District for forthe forthe the he ensuing g school year ear 1 if J terms term erms relative to la salaries or j other othel conditions of employment employment employ employ- ment acceptable to me or to tomy tomy tomy my agent are arc are offered I Signature WE FELT we had kept our letter much simpler and less binding than the one distributed ed by the Supt G. G liar liar- old Holt Bolt said It stated staled very simply what their expected salary would be according to the salary schedule adopted by the the- board and the portion portion portion por por- tion which th they were to return r to us by last Monday I certainly certain certain- ly wasn wasn't t binding Our attorney attorney attorney ney informs us that to be legally le Ie le- le gaIly gally binding tile the signature would have to be witnessed by two people U the superintendent superintendent explained He said the school board would probably discuss i it it soon either informally or at a regular meeting Normally the teacher contracts are arc all out and most of them re returned returned re- re turned by this time lime of year he said In fact the last da day of the school year is usually our deadline for Cor returning the contracts to lo the lire school board he added WITH TillS THIS years year's turn of l i events concerning the districts district's districts district's dis dis- districts district's teacher salaries he said it may be sev several ral weeks before before before be be- fore an agreement is reached and the contracts are dis dis- For a true picture of or the Uie controversial ersial salary schedule we offer after here the basic sch sched schedule d. d ule for lor the 63 1962 school year as compared with the Uie 64 1963 year IA j t jA tA A BEGINNING teacher with witha a bachelors bachelor's degree received in 1962 With a masters master's masters master's masters master's mas mas- ter's degree the beginning ng salary was set at Next year year the beginning teacher will wilt a bachelors bachelor's degre will receive what whal the one with a masters master's degree this year ear received re received received re re- A beginning teacher with a masters master's degree degree degree de de- de- de gree will be receiving With seven years' years the teacher with wilh a bachelors bachelor's bachelors bachelor's bach bach- elors elor's degree who earned in the 63 1962 school ye year r will earn during 64 1963 an increase of The teacher teach teach- er holding a masters master's degree will earn earn next year or more than he did this year earON ear ON TilE THE OTHER end of oC tile the scale the maximum salary for a teacher with 15 years year's experience and holding a bachelors bachelor's degree will be next year ear compared with wilh for 16 years years' experience See Sec LETTERS LEITERS on page 2 letters Letts Continued Iron from front page last year ear With a masters master's degree degree degree de de- gree the figures are next year compared with last year And it takes one year ear earless less experience to reach this max maximum mum figure than it did last year This maximum increase totaling totaling to to- an average of 1072 1012 includes includes includes in in- an average insurance increase of 80 and a in crement Till TilE schedules are arc based on nine months of service They also include the following follow follow- ing uig dependency allowance A teacher who is the head of u household may receive an allowance for Cor dependents as follo follows vs 1 00 00 for a living wife or husband whose income is less than during the period June 1 1963 through May Dray 31 31 1964 1961 and 2 30 for each unmarried child Maximum Maximum Maxi Maxi- mum is five children under 18 years ears of age on Dec 1 1963 whose individual income during the period mentioned above is less than A mother can qualify for minor child benefits only if she is the head of a household by virtue of her husband being in circumstances whereby his Ins income income income in in- come during the period involved in in- vowed vol will be less than bf hi BOY COY 11 SAVES BABY BAllY Bitburg Germany The United States Air Force credited credited credited cred cred- the quick thinking of 11 year old James Thomas with saving a serviceman's baby Young Thomas noticed the baby playing in the window of an apartment two floors up As the child fell Cell the tile boy leaned over the railing curled one foot fool under the lower bar barfor barfor barfor for support and snatched the baby as it plunged downward The bau baby suffered no apparent apparent apparent ent harm |