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Show School Board Plans Sept. 1 5 Bond Election September 15 this week was chosen as the date for a special school bond election. The Salt Lake City Board of Education agreed on the date to seek approval of spending five and one-half million dollars for a school modernization program. T. Quentin Cannon, board president, said there is need to complete the board's ten and one-half million dollar program as soon as possible. He said that two million, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars worth of the program already al-ready have been completed, leaving leav-ing eight million, two hundred and thirty thousand still to be done. Mr. Cannon noted that the board receives a 12 mill levy annually an-nually for buildings. "We have committed one million, three hundred thousand dollars for financing for bonds which will leave us one million, seven hundred hun-dred and fifty thousand dollars to supplement the present bonds. This allows us another three million mil-lion dollars, cutting the program to five and one half million dollars," dol-lars," he explained. The board N president said a citizens committee of 500 persons per-sons and 60 members of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce group had studied the entire en-tire modernization program involving in-volving 51 schools and favored the five and one-half million dollar dol-lar bonding program. |