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Show Universal Kicrof lining l!il Picrpont - G i oV 1 v - Volume 30. Jfa. 23 Sugar HousUtah - " Thundw. June 19.' 1958 10 & S. H. Residents Welcome Simpson Ave. Extension glitter on each side for drainage. It is the plan to fence the right of way with a chainlink fence f-- both sides, to separate it from the railroad on the north and to protect visitors at Fairmont park on the south side. The road is being cut through just south of the Jrailroad track, and jotns Highland Drive just north of the Deseret Industries store. The present Simpson Avenue, which inter-sects Highland Drive just south of Deseret Industries, will be extended in a curve on the west to join the new road, Mr. Christensen said. Special ribbon-cuttin- g cere-monies will officially open the new road some time in July, and then the motoring public will have a valuable connecting link between 9th East and Highland Drive. At present there is no such link anywhere between. 21st and 27th South. A perseverence campaign that has extended nearly twelve years has paid off for the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce. During the past week or so the work of opening up an ex-tension of Simpson Avenue from Highland Drive through to Ninth East has been under way and the route will be opened for traffic by about July 1st, according to Holger M. Larson, executive-secretar-y of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce. The opening up of this thor-oughfor- e, a project urged by the area businessmen period-ically since 1946, will result in a 42 foot avenue, which is wide enough to carry two lanes of traffic in each direction. It will help considerably to relieve the traffic on 21st So. and Highland Drive, he said, and will put to valuable use land that has heretofore been of little value to anyone. Joe L. Christensen, Salt Lake lty streets commissioner, said some of the grading was done last fall so the fill could settle. Then the project resumed last week on a Jiill scale with-shapin- g the grade and hauling the gravel base. The work will be completed with a blacktop surface and shallow rolled h t v - 1 - ' - - - Li 1 s , rum;-- - "' K V ; ; t READY SOON This high angle view of the new Simpson Ave. extension shows the west half of the road and its junction with Ninth East. ' 1" i''- - : j t , . , S : '.. t , - - . r - ' . - - ' : f - - - - LJJ-- . " K-- ' w. ' mP' '. r "l ' V ' 5 HrJ' t , Til. :l tXVf. )' ' ill r'- -r - ' j . . , . - - v ' - - - ' - GRADE LEVEL-- A survey crew from Salt Lake City engineering department checks grade level on the new Simpson Ave., extension, between Highland Drive and Ninth East, while just be-hind' them the heavy roller is packing the grade-fo-r laying; of a gravel base. Granite School District Widens Curriculum " ...... .... . .. i. ' " ;-- ." A - ". v - - - ' - ' - " With Adoption of New Multiple Track Program The Granite School District is once again demonstrating its alertness and outstanding leadership among Utah secon-dary education districts by leading out in the new "mul-tiple track" curriculum pro-gram. Dr. Kenneth C. Farrer, assis-tant superintendent in charge of curriculum, explained that the new multiple track pro- - gram is designed to differen-tiate between the capabilities, interests and aptitudes of students by providing three separate curriculum programs for them to choose from. This does away with the traditional but inadequate concept of all going through school on a single track and coming out like rubber stamped prototypes, with identical diplomas but still with their individual dif-ferences. The new program is also patterned to help step up the quality of learning to upgrade American students to a point more nearly comparable to some of the better European educational programs. The three tracks are desig-nated respectively Academic studies, General Studies, and Specialized Studies, with a general core of three and a half units on the tenth grade level being the only segment of the curriculum common to all three. All three tracks will ful-fill requirements for gradua-tion under specifications of the State Board of Education and also for college entrance re-quirements to the major univer-sities of the state, Dr. Farrer said. The academic studies curri-culum consists of a more com-prehensive and broad track with nine and a half units of specified fundamentals: math-mati- cs 2, Science 2, English 11 and 12, foreign languages 2, social studies 1, and physical education This leaves a total of 8 elec-tive units to complete the full course of 21 units possible. Although only 18 are required for graduation under state specifications, the leeway per-- mits the student extra time for a third year seminary course, released time for work or for student activities, remedial or repeated classes, supervised study, or participa-tion in school service groups. The General Studies track leaves more leeway, specifying only five and a half units be-yond the common core of three and a half, leaving a total of 12 electives, one of which must be elected to comply with state requirements. This leeway gives the student freedom to follow special or new interests and aptitudes more easily, such as directing his efforts toward a more specialized career, diversifying his activi-ties more, or allowing for work release time for catching up class work which he may have fallen behind in or to do extra credit work, etc. The Specialized studies track is one in which the student is quite strictly regimented, but which he may wish to select to follow through toward a specialized career. In addition to the three and a half cor units and five and a half state required units he must take an additional specified 4 and a half units in his chosen field, leaving only 7 and a half as electives. The multiple track curricu-lum wiU necessitate a close guidance and supervision of the student's progress through . the three years of high school, Dr. Farrer said, but its advan-tages are many and it is hoped that students who graduate under the program will be better qualified to continue their college work or be better prepared to face competitive life after graduation. Exhibit of Color Photography Set The first Utah International Color Photography Exibition will be held in Salt Lake City this coming Monday through Saturday, June 23 to 28. The exibition is under the sponsorship of the Council of Utah Camera Clubs, and under the chairmanship of Mrs. Mattie j C. Sanford, executive secre- - j tary. Highlight of the exhibition I will be the opening of the event by Harold Lloyd, famed movie comedian of the silent film days, who will show his world famed collection of colored sterio pictures at 8 p.m. Mon-day at the state capitol. Mr. Lloyd will be given the keys to the city by Mayor Adiel F. Stewart, and Governor George r - D. Clyde will proclaim the week Jl as photography Week in honor of this first big event of its kind in Utah. The schedule through the , week after the Monday open-ing will include exhibitions in Room 104 in the Physical Science Building on the U of U Campus, all beginning at 8 p.m. On Tuesday night color slides will be featured. Wed-nesday night will be prize movies Thursday night sterios, Friday night, pictures and slides including some of the most beautiful in the world, and Sat- - , urday night will be movies again. The exhibition is free to the public. ship, Department of History, University of Nebraska; Ares Theodore, 1545 So. 5th East, Salt Lake City, teaching assis-tantshi- p, Department of Chem-istry, University of Utah; Dwight Morris Beattie, Sacra-mento, Calif., Danforth Fellow-ship (no teaching involved) to be used at Union Theologi-cal Seminary, New York-tuitio- n plus living expenses every year until docorate is earned; Leslie R. Tanner, son of Mrs. Ruby Louise Tanner, 1627 So. 16th East, Salt Lake City, teaching assistant, Department of Mathematics, Westminster College. Mr. Beattie leaves June 30 on a 40-da- y trip to Europe as one of nine American college students representing the Nat-ional Student Council of the YMCA - YWCA. Mr. Beattie is vice president of the national council. The group also will visit Paris, Warsaw and Prague. 4 : Westminster Grads Receive Fellowships Fellowships had been re-ceived by five graduates of this year's senior class at West-minster College prior to com-mencement exercises June 6. The recipients are: Bruce Mohr Bemis, San Francisco, teaching assistantship, Depart-ment of Mathematics, Univer-sity of Utah; Don Chin, San Francisco, teaching assistant- - |