Show Schools Will Open Sept 8 Uintah schools will wUl open Monday September 8 This date was set by the district school board at their regular meeting Monday The schools will close two days for Thanksgiving and will wUl dismiss at noon December 24 for a ten-day ten Christmas vaca vaca- vacation vaca- vaca vacation tion A two-day two spring holiday will be granted sometime dur dur- during durIng ing next April The school term will close May 21 The Board studied a ruling from the state attorney general to the effect et t that school dis dis- districts districts are we without power to re re- require require quire subjects which are in ad ad- dillon to those required by the State Board of Education Sub Sub- Subjects sects not required by the State Board can be offered students on an optional basis only Board members considered the problem of caring for the Indian children who are now attending the Whiterocks Reser Reser- Reservation School The Indian Ser Set vice has ordered this school closed and the pupils will be be- be become become come charges of Uintah Uintah County Action on thIs thI matter was defer defer- deferred deferred red until a later meeting of the Board The Board ruled that if the Indian Service makes available again for use of the school build build- building ing lag at Fort Duchesne school will willbe be continued at that location another year Superintendent Superintend nt H Grant Vest was authorized by the Board to tomake tomake make a study of the possibility of providing a central kitchen to cook hot lunch meals for the schools in Ashley Valley r in in- in eluding Jensen Naples Maples Maeser Meser and Ind nd Central elementary schools I Superintendent the Uintah high s school hool Super Super- Vest reported that several district In state are ae e faras as teenS teen'S teen flea and nd ands w a result nl h find zinst J fe M arate r Doyle Y annery su au reported to ta the Board that instruction in food processing processing sing will be ho provided at the school cannery during the sum suns summer mer months All persons he de de- de declared dared are eligible to use the cannery The agricultural and home economics teachers will willbe willbe be available to provide instruction Instruction tion The Board authorized the manufacture of a placard de de- de depicting the area traversed by bythe bythe the Mormon Battalion This placard will be used in the Cen Cen- Centennial Cen- Cen Centennial tennial celebration and pageant to be staged July 12 10 Purchase of two new school buses was postponed by the Board The members tentatively agreed that the district would try to operate another another year with the present equipment The Board authorized Super Super- SuperIntendent Superintendent Vest to offer for sale miscellaneous material at the Uintah high school Auto Me Me- Mei Mechanics Mechanics i shop and the Tridell school I Outlined at the meeting was wasa a tentative program for main main- maintenance maintenance of school buildings The work to be included are a new water system at the school installation of a central heating plant and remodeling of laboratories at the Uintah high school shingling of the Jensen school installation of electrical outlets at Lapoint and furnish furnish- furnishing furnishing ing of sewage facilities at Maeser |