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Show The Same Song Another Verse This week some of the grocery merchants of Springville brought to our attention the fact that groceries were being delivered for our school lunch program from Spanish Fork. These grocery men went to the school office in Spanish Fork and demanded to see the records. They report that the purchases pur-chases in one Spanish Fork store alone for October, November Novem-ber and December were as follows: October, $1398.71; November, $979.41 ; December, $1816.67, or a total of $1,-194. $1,-194. 9. That from this Spanish Fork store there was delivered de-livered to the Springville lunch program in the month of October, Oc-tober, $345.42 worth of groceries; in November, $145.91; December, $336.63, or a total of $828.04. This amount of $828.04 is more than was purchased from all Springville stores during the same period. And similar purchases have been made during this month, only at a more accelerated rate. At the school office in Spanish Fork, Mr. Barnelt offered to the Springville grocery men many questionable excuses and reasons for this action, local grocery men reported. But it is a continuation of the same old song, as can be determined deter-mined by a careful study of the 1944-45 financial report, which is published elsewhere in today's issue. This report shows that Spanish Fork and Payson merchants and firms are highly favored over Springville businesses. A very minor item, but one which shows a similar policy followed by the superintendent, is in regard to the operation of the superintendent's car, which is furnished to him by tlie Nebo School District, and on which the district pays the operating cos ts. A study of the expenditures made on the operation of the superintendent's car for the years 1944-45, mostly through the use of credit cards, shows that he made approximately 50 percent of his purchases in Spanish Fork; about 25 percent in Payson; about 20 percent in Salt Lake City, and about 5 percent in Springville. While there is no law which demands an equal distribution distri-bution of district purchases, certainly there is a moral obligation, obliga-tion, and in fairness to the institutions and citizens which support the school district with their tax dollar, that school purchases be made in a more equitable manner in the Nebo School District. |