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Show SCHOOLS OF STATE 4 NEED $5,360,000 FOR CONSTRUCTION Utah must spend an estimated ?5, 360,000 in immediate postwar years for new school buildings and for repairs to present structures struc-tures to adapt its school system to anticipated heavier enrollments and to educational changes, according ac-cording to a survey just released by the American Association of School Administrators. This figure is conservative since no complete estimate for Salt Lake City was available at the time of the survey. sur-vey. The report bears out U. S. Bureau of Census figures, which show that wartime births in Utah are running 29 per cent above peace years. Larger enrollments, as well as wartime developments, will greatly great-ly influence future school design, it is predicted by Reginald E. Marsh, nationally known school architect and member of the postwar post-war planning committee of the American Institute of Architects, New York chapter. "Such facilities as cafeterias ! and lunchrooms will be designed for general educational purposes and installed in many more schools,' Marsh says. "Floors and wainscoting of tile will make them attractive and easily cleaned for use before and after lunch as study halls, music rooms and club meeting meet-ing places." Marsh also foresees increased accent on physical education and vocational training as a result of Selective Service findings. Athletic Athlet-ic facilities, he believes, will be increased in-creased and where joint community commun-ity and school needs can be served tile swimming pools may be installed, in-stalled, i Nursery schools will probably be made part of the school system, according to Marsh. "Set up near war plants, they have relieved mothers for work and at the same time proved of educational benefit to children," he says. Census figures highlight Utah's coming school problems. They show 64,431 births in the 1941-44 period, 29 per cent more than in 1933-36, when 49,792 infants were born. Population shifts, easing the pressure on some schools, will intensify in-tensify it for others in 1947, as childrtn of 1933-36 start leaving elementary grades and the bumper bump-er 1941-44 crop begins knocking at school doors for admission. |