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Show Schools to Remain Open at Provo PROVO Following the advice of local physlciawsi school board members Wednesday had voted not to close school, despite an apparent appar-ent increase in the number of children' chil-dren' absent from city schools due to colds and influenza. In a report made to the board meeting Tuesday night, Superintendent Superin-tendent J. C. Moffit declared that local physicians believe that It is better to keep the children In school, where they are supervised and watched, than to cancel school for the present. Children out of school totaled exactly 1000 on Tuesday, or approximately ap-proximately one-fourth of the school population. This is an increase in-crease of approximately 100 over the number absent Monday. At the Brlgham Young university univer-sity and high school and elementary elemen-tary training schools there are also a large number of students out with colds, although no official figures fig-ures are available, school officials said. i |