Show Log Gymnasium Being Constructed For Neola School Sawed logs from Pole creek one skilled carpenter and seven assistants assistants assistants as as- a progressive school board and a Works Progress Administration Administration Administration Ad Ad- ministration are e. responsible for far fara at a a a. new gymnasium for children Neola in Duchesne county Work Vork on the gymnasium is interrupted interrupted interrupted in in- in- in before school during the noon hour and after school by byI I children who demand to know the I exact minute when the new structure structure structure ture will be finished and ready for use The youngsters have never I before had access to gymnasium facilities Addition to School The sawed log gymnasium is being constructed as an addition to the Neola school It is forty feet wide and seventy feet foot long Logs used in the structure were cut at Pole creek about 25 miles from the school and reduced at ata ata a sawn sawmill ll to a four Inch thickness thick thick- ness They average a foot in width and are 17 one-half one feet feel long Construction procedure is simple simple simple sim sim- but effective The base of the logs are fastened with nails to the Ule foundation and the top to a across across across cross piece as though the workers work work- ers rs were building a high bO board fence A second lay layer r of lighter lumber nailed diagonally the upright ri t logs lop will S serve to brace and strengthen the ture Plaster and Stucco Plaster will be applied on the inside iMide of the building while the outside will be coated with stucco A hardwood hM foor fool will b be laid inside in- in inside inside in in- side the building Trusses of eight by eight lumber lumber lumber lum lum- ber also hewn at the Pole creek sawmill will support the roof The Duchesne County board coard of education sponsored the building will wil have which when completed cost approximately In- In Eluding luding labor and materials The task of felling and sawing timber together with actual construction construction construction con con- of the building provided provid provid- ed d work for fifteen men |