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Show Court Orders Mo Dist. To Publish Annual Statement Board Asked To Publish Report In Conformity With Law Or Show Cause Before Court, January 18, Why It Should Not Do So The Nebo school district board of education was ordered by the district court today to "publish an annual statement in conformity with law, or show cause before the court on Jan. 18 why it should not do so." The order was given in an alternative al-ternative writ of mandate signed by District Judge Joseph E. Nel- to whom paid. The report in question deals with the year ending end-ing June 30, 1945. The complaint further asserts that on Dec. 10, 1945, Mr. Con-over Con-over served notice on the board in writing to publish a report complying with the state statute on the matter, and that the board has not done so. The suit names the board and members, including James P. Christenson, George A. Cheever, David S. Powelson, Paul A. Thorn, and LeGrand F. Smith, and B. L. Isaac, clerk. son, after a suit seeking such a writ was fijed against the board by Harrison Conover'of this city. Mr. Conover, who publishes the Springville Herald, asserted the matter was of public nature and he was filing on behalf of himself him-self as a taxpayer and others in the district. The complaint asserted that on Dec. 27, 1945, the board published in the Spanish Fork Press a "purported "pur-ported annual statement," but that the "purported" statement did not conform to law in that it ellegedly failed to disclose the amount of money on hand at the time of the last report of the board of education of the Nebo district, and that it also asserted-ly asserted-ly failed to set forth the moneys paid out and for what paid and |