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Show MAY ATTEMPT TO OUST SCHOOL BOARD Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Juno 1. To decide whether legal proceedings shall be instituted to oust the city school board wall be the object ob-ject of a mass meeting to be held under the auspices of the various parent-teacher associations of Ogden sumo time in the near future. Decision to call the mass meeting was reached at a meeting of- representatives of the various parent-teacher associations in the Central Junior high school tonight A. committee to arrange for the meeting place and the date was appointed. Mrs. Chris Klygare was designated as chairman chair-man and Miss Jeanette Stephens, teacher of physical culture in the Ogden high school, a member. The authority to name others to assist in making the arrangements arrange-ments was delegated to the chairman. Judge J. A. Howell presided over the session tonight, and a report of the committee com-mittee appointed to determine what action ac-tion could be taken to retain John M. Mills as superintendent and J. E. Beeson ' as principal of the high school was read. The committee, composed of Mrs. E. M. Quinn, Parley Wright and Asael Enrr, reported that while as a body no conference confer-ence had been held with the city school board In regular session, the members had been given to understand that under no conditions would the board rescind its action and re-employ either the superintendent super-intendent or the principal. An opinion by John a. Willis, an Ogden a ttornoy, that, the board had not only violated staie . laws against diverting i iinos i iom one uepart ment to pay t he indebtedness incurred in another, but had violated their ofliclal oaths as well, was written into the report. The opinion also recited t hat --money raised bv taxation since .luly 1, i:H5, for payment of Indebtedness In-debtedness incurred before that time was not permissible under the statutes and that, the board had engaged In that practice. prac-tice. To permit a larger representation or the citizens of Ogden to have a voice in the action to be takyi. a motion hv Miss Jean.ettc Stephens to raise a fund by subscription, (o be used in instit ui tn'g ouster proceedings against the board, was tabled. j When the decision to call a mass meeting meet-ing was leached, Judge Howell announced th;tt he would be compelled to part company com-pany with the associations, because, is a judtcia ! officer, he was not permitted to lake part, except as a jurist v in nnv legal proecdwre that might be instituted. |