Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-12 | Page 8 | 3 Counties Hit in School Levy

13 COUNTIES HIT 4 Ifi-SCHOOUEVT f ! Three county commissions that 1 had refused to fix school levies in I accordance with requests of boards of education Thursday stood "spanked" by an opinion from the attorney general's office. j The county commissions were those of Sanpete, which fixed a school levy below that asked by the board of education, and Wasatch and Rich, which set no school levies. The opinion, prepared at the request re-quest of Dr. Charles H. Skidmore, state superintendent of public Instruction, In-struction, cited a supreme court decision in which school boards were held to be Independent of county commissions, which act ' merely In a ministerial capacity In these matters. I Zelph 8. Calder. deputy attor- : Bey general who wrote the opinion, held that allowing the county commissions com-missions to run the schools would ' be contrary to public policy.