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Show BOARD IS FIRM IN SCHOOL ROW ' FARMINGTON Taking on re- j newed impetus Tuesday after the school board voted to continue Its policy of sending seventh graders to Junior high at Bountiful. Davis county's school dispute remained unsettled. Horace Van Fleet of Farming-ton, Farming-ton, a board member, war the only . one to cast a dissenting vote. Parents showed no sign of weakening weak-ening in their avowal to keep the youngsters at Farmlngton. Barents Balk ' Arising several months ago after the school board adopted a policy ' of sending all seventh and eighth graders to Junior high, the controversy con-troversy took on a belligerent aspect as-pect when classes opened on September Sep-tember 11. Parents have Insisted they will keep their children at home rather than send them "to any Junior high outside Farming-ton." Farming-ton." UnMr. sine that time Dart of the seventh grade has gone to Bountiful and part has remained at Farmlngton. Transportation been furnished; by the school board. When classes opened Monday morning, 15 students attended school at Farmlngton and nine were reported enrolled at Bountiful. Boun-tiful. The board took no definite step Monday to enforce Its resolve to send the children to Bountiful, but Superintendent Hubert C. Burton was authorized to write letters to parents, .asking them to permit their youngsters to go to Bountiful Boun-tiful Hire No Teacher Thomas E. Williams, clerk of the board, said the vote implies that a teacher for the -seventh grade at Farmlngton eventually will not be provided. At present, G. Q. Knowlton, principal of the school, acts aa Instructor. Voting to continue the board's policy were E. U. Roberta, George K. Dibble, John R. Rampton and George Bennett Mr. Van Fleet has said he will support Farming-ton Farming-ton citizens In any decision they reach on the Issue. |