Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holdover board members are Utah's ex-Senator Abe Murdock, Democrat, and Ivar Peterson, Independent.) Farmer, now the board's chairman, chalked up a sizable record of dissents while Democrats were still in the majority, though he occasionally sided with them. Said he: "When you reach this place, your job is to submerge your ideology in favor of the law as it's written...
...mind. Among other things, he wanted the legislature to provide uniform textbooks for the state, to forbid teachers to engage in politics while under contract, and to put their salary rais.es on a merit basis, rather than on a basis of degrees and seniority. He accused the Utah Education Association of being nothing but a pressure group, said that the state P.T.A. was nothing but its "echo." Finally, just for the sake of economy, Lee made another recommendation: that the state close Carbon Junior College in the town of Price, and that it transfer three other state-supported junior colleges...
...funds at $4,600 as Lee wanted, the legislators slapped on an additional $200. Over the governor's veto, they also passed a 2? addition to the cigarette tax, to be turned over to the schools. They postponed Lee's program for merit raises, in effect put Utah's teachers in line for a blanket salary increase of $200. About the only victory Lee won, in fact, was on his recommendation for the four junior colleges. But last week, still singed by the frying pan, Lee found himself in the fire...
...Utah's Republican Congressman Douglas R. Stringfellow, 31, paralyzed as the result of a World War II wound, who was elected a year...