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Show Dixie College Hews M. M. Bentley, president of the Rocky Mountain Junior College Athletic Conference, and Coach Walter Brooks are attending a meeting of the conference in Provo this week end. The basketball basket-ball schedule will be checked, and sport schedules for the rest of the year will be made out. President Glenn E. Snow and Earl J. Bleak represented Dixie at Milford Wednesday in a rneeting to arrange for the regional music festival, which will be held in St George April 20. More than $10,000 worth of surplus military equipment has been alotted by the US government govern-ment for Washington county and the Dixie College. Earl Cottam and Jesse Gibbons have already transported part of the equipment to the college. Many valuable items- are included. Two of the most importaot of these are a Hardinge lathe and a new milling mil-ling machine. Mr. Cottam and Mr. Gibbons are also arranging for the transporting trans-porting of the trailer houses for the college. Last week end they were at the Garfield Smelter plant folding the trailers, and Mr. Gibbons has gone north again to bring in the first load. The turkey blood testing program; pro-gram; which was scheduled to have been completed by Dec. 1, is still going strong and will continue con-tinue indefinitely. President Glenn E. Snow brings word from Calvin Smith of the Veterans Administration in Salt Lake City that by the spring quartetr every college in Utah will be taxed to its capacity to care for the returned veterans. This will mean that a large number of men from northern Utah points will -be transferred to Dixie, according to President Snow. Mr. Smith states that the return re-turn of veterans to school has far exceeded all expectations, making transfer from one locality to another necessary. Already 25 veterans have enrolled at Dixie for the winter quarter. Wallace Macfarlane, former Dixie resident, who last year awarded a $200 agriculture scholarship schol-arship to Dixie college, has announced an-nounced that he will repeat the scholarship for the year 1945-4G. Mr. Macfarlane is also making a gift of $100 to the college library. President Glenn E. Snow returned re-turned last Sunday from Washington Wash-ington D. C, where he attended meetings of tho NEA executive council. Educational legislation was the major matter considered. On his way home President Snow I attended a meeting of the state board of education in Salt Lake. |