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Show School board considers bids, routine business Nebo School District Board of Education met in regular session Dec. 18 with all members mem-bers present and also Supt. Russell Stansfield and Clerk C. J. Wendel. Claims amounting amount-ing to $127,557 were approved to be paid. Budget to Nov. 30 showed $1,656,026 expended expend-ed and $2,754,029 or 62 unexpended. un-expended. Financial report on new Spanish Fork high building showed contracts of $1,305,988 with $614,484 unpaid balance. Bids accepted Bids to construct awings at the Brookside, Grant and Westside schools were let to Alumishade Co. in the amount of $7,035 subject to the architect's archi-tect's approval of material and type of construction. Pick-up truck bid went to Pages, Inc. of Spanish Fork for an International pick-up for bid price of $1,898. Fire insurance coverage on all buildings and contents by the district on bid basis went to Kenneth England to write the coverage for a 5 year period per-iod on a total amount of $7,221,960 bid subject to certain cer-tain specifications outlined by the Board. Call for bids on meat to be used during the balance of the school year will be considered at the Jan. 8 meeting. J. Dean Jones reported on his trip to Chicago to attend a national convention of the American Speech and Hearing Assn. Hearing tests which his department has conducted in the District have found 606 chldren with impaired hearing, he reported. A total of 144 new cases has been fount this year and of this number, 140 medicals have been made, he said. Supt. Stansfield reported Juab School District was interested inter-ested in purchasing the large stoker taken from the Springville Spring-ville Junior high. The Board authorized him to try to work out a fair and resonable arrangement ar-rangement for the sale of the stoker. The Supt. also reported that a request from Max Packard of Springville for the board to consider the possibility possibil-ity of purchasing a piece of property near the high school for parking. After some consideration, con-sideration, the board decided there was no need for acquisition acquisi-tion of the property. Superintendent Stansfield reported re-ported that reservations had been made for the board members mem-bers who would be attending the National School Boards convention in St. Louis. The Superintendent reported report-ed that he had hired three new teachers to replace three teachers who will be discon-(Continued discon-(Continued on Page 7, Col. 6) Nebo school board considers business (Continued from Page One.) tinuing their services at Christmas time and in the near future. The Superintendent reported report-ed that Principal J. Angus Christensen had requested permission per-mission for the Spanish Fork high school to participate in a "Student Exchange Program". The criteria governing such a program was presented by Supt Stansfield for the Board's discussion and acceptance. Placement program The Supt reported on the Advanced Placement Program and how it would apply to Nebo School District. He stated that the size of our high schools makes the pro- proposed system consisted of a switchboard, two outside central office lines, and twenty seven telephone s located throughout the school. The Board suggested that the Superintendent and Principal J. Angus Christensen work out a minimum telephone service ser-vice system and present it to the Board at a later date. Supt. Stansfield presented a request from County Agent, Clair R. Acord, that he be allowed al-lowed to take four Spanish Fork high school boys with him to attend the 4-H convention conven-tion being held in Denver, Colo., on Jan. 9 and 10. All expenses will be paid by the State and Mr. Acord will supervise su-pervise them. Motion by Alfonzo Kester, seconded by Roland Lindsay, that the boys be excused from school in order to attend the convention. Motion unanimous. gram unrealistic for our district dis-trict insofar as costs and special personnel are concerned. concern-ed. Supt. Stansfield felt that it might be better for us to continue with our present program pro-gram of offering English and mathmatics to the advanced students. He pointed out the possibility of teaching beginning begin-ning Algebra (from 4 to 6 chapters) to an advanced group in the last few weeks of the seventh grade and continuing with the same group and text through the eighth grade. This would make it possible for the group to take geometry in the ninth grade. Such a program followed through high school would make it possible for the students to go into chemistry, physics, analytical geometry, trigonometry; or other advanced advanc-ed work in the physical sciences. scienc-es. Supt. Stansfield presented a letter from the Sales Engineer, Richard E. Drury, of the Mountain States Telephone Co. making a proposal for telephone tele-phone service in the new Spanish Fork high school. The |