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Voters of four cities in north Utah County – American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Alpine, and Lehi v took a large step for progress when they’ voted approval of the $4.3 million bonding plan for a sewage disposal system in last week’s election. With existing sewage treatment plants of American Fork, Lehi and Pleasant Grove about… Continue reading 4-City Sewage Disposal Plan

Citizens of Utah County have a special responsibility in the November election, This unusual assignment is to decide whether to keep the commission system of county government or switch to a proposed system called the “Separation of Powers Plan.” We hope the people are taking the task seriously and that they will be informed and… Continue reading Special Voter Responsibility:
Choice of Government Plans

Provoans will vote tomorrow on a School District proposal to increase the present voted leeway tax from 2.9 to 6 mills. If approved, the new arrangement will increase leeway tax revenues by about $375,000 based on a 50 per cent boost in assessed valuation under the current property reappraisal. School officials say the money is… Continue reading School Leewuy Election

With all its wealth and natural resources, the United States is on a red ink spending course that can only lead to financial disaster. In only two of the past 17 years has the government taken in more money than it has spent. Among the issues for sober contemplation as you plan your “‘uesday vote… Continue reading Economic Stability: A Major
Issue in Tuesclayls Election

Utah lawmakers, when the legislature meets early next year, should take a hard look at a section in the statutes which consistently results in waste of the taxpayers’ money. The rule in question is 20-7-6 which provides that the clerk responsible for the election print 50 per cent more ballots than the total number of… Continue reading Waste of Tax Dollars

When the Utah Board of Vocational Education meets in Salt Lake City Dec. 16 it plans to consider a modified policy on general education for technical colleges. The proposed policy -. presented by State Superintendent Walter D. Talbot to the state board in September – appears to have some good points. But the Herald joins… Continue reading The General Education Issue

Utah’s State Board of Regents for Higher Education seems to have scored something of coup in hiring Dr. Terrell H. Bell as this state’s commissioner of higher education. Dr. Bell is United States Commissioner of Education, having held the nation’s top school post since June 1974. Before that, from September 1971, was superintendent of the… Continue reading Higher Education Leader

Dr. Dean A. Peterson, a high level administrator at Brigham Young University whose funeral services will be held Thursday, was a modest, humble man; yet with leadership abilities that carried him to the top in many endeavors in which he became engaged, Prior of his 34-year career at BYU he taught at North Sanpete High… Continue reading ‘Y’ Loses cz Friend, Leader

Two groups of school teachers in Utah Valley recently have protested, in letters to the editor, the National Education Associations endorsement of a presidential candidate. “We feel this to be an unprofessional act by a professional organization,” said one group. “As educators we retain the right to endorse whomever we will and choose not to… Continue reading Protests on NEAtPoIicy

Amid feasts and family gatherings. Americans across the . world pause today to give thanks for life’s goodness that embodies . many. many blessings. Thanksgiving, one of America’s favorite holidays, had its origin in the cradle years of civilization in this country, as we know it today. In those first years, the Pilgrims especially expressed… Continue reading Thcmksgix/ing Day, 1976