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Show JORDAN REVISES SCHOOL PLANS Jordan School District Board of Education voted, Tuesday night of 'last week to close one school next year and to re vis? plans for the second stage of remodeling Jordan High School with the possibility of including a swimming pool in new construction, con-struction, it has beta announced. The school to 'be closed next year will be Upper Bingham in Copperfield which will have fewer few-er than 80 students. Board members were told that as mine operations in the area expand, more and more homes are evacuated and residents move out, leaving the school student stu-dent body depicted. The students from 'the community commu-nity who remain next year will be transported to Copperton Elementary School, it 'was reported. re-ported. The board tentatively rejected construction of a 'larger gymnasium gymna-sium as part of the second phase in remodeling at Jordan. Instead, In-stead, the architects will be asked to draw up plans for a girls' gym with attached swimming swim-ming pool. In addition, classrooms class-rooms in the building are to be remodeled. District administrators are to secure bids for purchase of four new 79 -passenger school buses to handle increased number of students stu-dents which will require transportation trans-portation next year. |