School district faces herf fill iV I IU w I I 1 1 I a good thing school let out for the said L. Wayne Uintah School District we would have had to close some of the schools at least four of the eight in the district due to the lack of coal for heating and possible flu Superintendent Reid said the school load of coal a day and that is not enough for the four has been three years since we have had a coal explained Coal has been delivering one truck load a day but they d to honor prior contracts and haven t been able to send a truck for the past several Our coal supply was depleted when the gas was t and Todd and we had to 5 L f ST a Mt hS 21 which will haul one load a he stockpile and have been trying to use saving measures but because of a possible flu epidemic in the district we did not resort to turning down the he concluded High has plagued the district for the past two weeks with the peak reached Thursday and Friday of last week when some schools had only 50 per cent Vernal Junior High school had an absentee list of Wednesday and Maeser had other schools hard hit were Ashley and Uintah High far Wet has not been said have had a large number of the children absent with the flu and there is some chickenpox in the lower Reid In talking with the Uintah County S X Board of Health has requested blood tests and throat cultures be taken of the flu victims to determine what type is invading the At the present time the flu has been confirmed as the recommend that the persons remain in take aspirin and drink lots of said Lulu public health nurse of Uintah County Health about 50 r cent of the eases they have treated in the past and a half have been flu