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Show ?????? DEFER ACTION ON TEACHERS Notification Will be Made April 16 at the Next Board Meeting BOARD LOOKING FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT TO SUCCEED SUC-CEED MR. WHITE County school plans for the coming year are being held up for a time until a successor to Edgar H. White as county sup- erintendent is elected. Mr. White and members of the state board went to Salt Lake City Wednesday night to con- fer with the state superintend- ent about this and other school matters At the meeting last -week some teachers were re-elected and it was decided to let others go, but subsequent events and discussion caused the members of the school board to consider further and to suspend notification to any teachers of what final action will be- taken until Monday, April 16th. It seems that an agreement had been reached among the superintendents of the various counties that April 15th would be. the date for definite notification noti-fication of teachers, but that day falling on Sunday the board will not meet until Monday the 16th. In the meantime, friends of the individual teachers are working for their re-election and there is considerable con-siderable partisanship in evidence. ' It is sincerely hoped that the only consideration will be to do what is the best thing for the, schools of the entire county. Personal friendships, relationship, politics and religious denominationalism should have no place in determining the matter of employment of teachers or school plans. When this is done and announced an-nounced by the board we believe the members have the backbone to stand by their decision and all patrons of the schools should unite to make the best results possible for the school year 1917-1918. Though the News has some lnfor- mation as to action which will surely be taken by the board on April 16, announcement at this time would be premature owing to the later decision de-cision of the board to defer any public announcement. It will be interesting to the patrons pat-rons of the county schools to know of the discovery of Prof. Mosial Hall of the State University in connection con-nection with certain schools in this county. Upon his return to Salt Lake City 'last week after several 1 days spent here inspecting the schools Dr. Hall says: "The Belknap school of Beaver City has the high- est percentage in punctuality and also in attendance in the state per cent for the former and 98 plus for attendance." Mr. Hall added, "and Minersville junior school Is making an admirable re- cord." |