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Show SUMMIT SCHOOL CHILDREN TO RIDE IN GMC TRUCK j tendance is essential to good school work. As a result of their invostic::tions, they selected the GMC truek shown in the picture as the one bet suited to their needs. The truck was suld to them by the Kandail-Dodd Auto company. com-pany. It is fitted with a twenty-f i ve-passener ve-passener bus body, and is now expected ex-pected to do the work of the horse-drawn horse-drawn vehicle iu a much more satisfactory satisfac-tory way. the chores around t lie house. Another objection to horses has been the increased cost of transportation, due to the hijjli price of feed. The work of hauling a heavy bus, loaded down with a couple of dozen children, required re-quired that the horses be well fed. and feeding horses in these days costs a lot of money. An extra horse or two h.id to be kept, also, to alternate the work and to take the place of one disabled dis-abled for any reason. Taking these and other facts into consideration, the South Summit school ! board took up the matter of motor transportation. 1: went into the market mar-ket with the idea of finding a motor 1 rue!: that v.'ould fret the children to school in the shortot possible time ami at the lowest cost of running. At tiie same time, it demanded a car that eouid he depended upon to do the job every , day. because punctual and regular at- J ' "'" . i ' ' - " 1 - I j I -r , v ( - j GMC truck witb specially constructed body purchased by the Summit school district from the Randall-Dodd j Auto company, for hauling clii!r:-ii to aud from school durins the winter months. ' In order to bring school attendance up to the maximum this year and ob-vi-ite the necessity of the youngsters tramping or driving horses long distances dis-tances through the snow, the bunimit school district has just pu i v nused a GMC truck, equipped w-ith a specially constructed body, to haul tne cl.ihirou to and from school. he purchase was made from the Kandall-Fodd Auto company com-pany distributor for GMJ trucks and Buiek and Xational passenger ears, j The South Summit school board, like : many etiiers in the past, has used a i horse-drawn vehicle to bring in the i children from the outlying d'sirh-ts to j school. "While this means of transportation transpor-tation is an improvement over walking, it has not been without some drawbacks. draw-backs. In the firt place, on sharp w-inter mornings the children became chilled, I in spite of the eovercl vehicle, because of the time spent on tiie road. S. -onetimes a child would get cold while waiting wait-ing for tiie bus to come along, and then woulU have to ride a considerable d;s-tar.ee d;s-tar.ee without gc'.tiag warm.. 1 up. U. if it was in the spring or tail, the children chil-dren living at the end of liie routo left home so earlv and gor back so late that they didu't have any .vine to help with |