Show THISTLE SCHOOL RULE EXPLAINED By Telegram Leased Wire Why PROVO PROVO Why the T Thistle h his i s t l e school was recommended as a teacher one-teacher school instead of a two-teacher two unit as in former years was told to District Judge Dallas H H. Young here Friday morning as Thistle residents continued continued continued con con- their c court urt action seeking to have the Nebo school district board reopen and maintain the Thistle school as a two-teacher two unit Placed on the witness stand bythe by bythe bythe the defendants David Gourley assistant state stafe superintendent of schools told the court he had recommended reduction of the school to a a teacher one-teacher unit under under under un un- der qualifications of the he state stat equalization program He also testified his recommendation recommendation recommendation dation was purely that and was was was' not an order to the Nebo s school hool board which has the right under the law to determine what and how many teachers are are placed at any school in the district Plaintiffs were scheduled to continue their case in the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon session Witnesses in the plaintiffs' plaintiffs case Thursday included Chris Nelson a coal trucker who testified to the h hazardous conditions of travel in the Spanish Fork canyon down which Thistle students have to travel to go to school in Spanish Fork Claude J. J Hill E. E T T Jones and Vilate Jones parents of f pupils inv involved ived told of injury to health of heir children resulting from being away from home during daylight hours |