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Show Flu Epidemic Pills Hospital Cancels Out Sports, Forces Schools To Close Panguitch is one of the hardest hit towns in Utah in the nation-wide epidemic of a variety of influenza. With forty per cent of tho pupils, as well as several teachers, absent the schools of Panguitch were ordered closed by the County Board of Health. Closing of the schools was ordered on Tuesday. They will be closed for the remainder of this week at least. The Board of Health also requested that public meetings bo eliminated whenever possible.. . The Panguitch Bryce Valley basketball game scheduled for this Friday has been postponed to next Wednesday and the wrestling matches scheduled here with Beaver have been postponed until next Monday. Bantam basketball games scheduled to have been played in Panguitch have been postponed with their play-off dates to be set in the future. Panguitch Hospital is jammed with fiu sufferers. Nurses and doctors are working overtime on the influx of stay-over patients and those who receive treatment and return home. |