| Show THE OGDEN SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 19 1937 -- b PWA Makes Possible PRESIDENT STANDARD-EXAMINE- 5-- B R STRUCTURE MONUMENT TO DESIGNERS- FORESIGHT IS Porcupine-Lio- n Battle Ends In Death of Both - Not ‘Just Another School But Edifice Marked By Individuality Facilities In Ogden O - r- - I’ - V - Leslie S Hodgson and Myrl A McClenahan are the men behind the blueprints of the new high school The edifice stands to them as a monument of architectural excellence It represents their creative New School Is Result ofLocal and Federal Original amount Increased As Requirements Made More Elaborate Co-operati- on partnership the new Ogden was made possible The new school represents the largest PWA project in the state of ' Utah THROUGH PWA local-feder- al 0 evi- dences of a federal-locpartnermost the on under carried ship auspicious and advantageous circumstances The adoption on August 1 1933 by the city school board of a resolution requesting the federal emergency administration for a loan and grant to erect a senior high school at an estimated cost of $700000 marked the initial step in the construction of the school al AMOUNT RAISED o The original contract with the government called for a contribution of $246000 under the PWA act 0 of 1933 which called for a Notice that cent agreement per the loan and grant had been approved in Washington D C in the raised amount of $884700 was received August 17 1934 and accepted by the board February 8 1935 V The agreement was later amended to a grant only Ground was broken on October 1 1936 Since that time construc- - Prison Purge To Reform Guards APPRECIATIVE HOUSTON Tex —(UP) — The Texas prison system harassed in the past several years by convict mutilations and charges of brutalities against guards will make radical changes in the manner of employing guards within the next two months Applicants for positions as prison guards will be given examinations patterned after civil service tests The policy has been adopted by the state prison board Several members of the board it was learned complained that an undue percentage of the system's 400 guards were unable to read or tion work has continued unbroken with total costs increased to due to increase in require ments The building in its present form including equipment already ordered represents an investment of $1080000 An additional PWA grant of $167000 for complete fur- - write $1-200- Q I - i t I I Notes Facilities Gives Promise Youth Will Justify Them Stewart By Ray Stewart' Student Body President Ogden High School In behalf of the students of Ogden High school I wish to thank the people in the city of Ogden for the new “million dollar school” You have made it possible for the youth of this city to attend a school that not only has the best of teachers but the best facilities DIFFICULTIES PAST Never again will the students of Ogden High suffer the inconveniences of outmoded small classrooms It will be a luxury indeed to have a seat during the assembly hours not to mention the elaborate provisions for motion pictures and special entertainments during school hours We of the senior class remember well the improvisions which last year were necessary to darken the high assembly room in the old school We are glad our lower class-me- n will not have to go through this To our fathers and mothers and to other taxpayers who may never send their children to this truly marvelous building we he'artily extend our appreciation We are not unmindful of the sacrifice it has cost all of you I PROMISES IMPROVEMENT f And in return we shall repay you by becoming better citizens better sons and daughters and better students Lastly we pledge ourselves to the protection of the school We will keep it clean and unmarred as we have received it We are proud of our new high school and we want our parents and friends to visit it and us often ! O -- 44- Cave Dwellers Live In Britain LONDON (UP) — There are still rs in Great Britain and strangely they are to be found in the busy Midlands At Kinver Staffs within a few minutes of Birmingham live men women and children who have plunged thousands of years back in caves hewn out of solid rock by early Britons The caves are seen on the cliff-sid- e and all lead into a giant cave known as ' the “ballroom” cave-dwelle- o AIRY STORAGE PLACES Proper ventilation seems to have become a fetish in the construction of the Ogden high school building Here Is a section of ventilated lockers in the girls locker room (Staff photo) : © V4 - vf V 4- NS f' V V ' - V- - 44- LONDON (UP)— Dr - : :?Ki 1 i - xTif v 4- v X s f h i f Granby-StrePersecution Dept Lougborough” Dr Park quoted Shakespeare’s phrase “The bloody dog ia dead” and added : “The income tax people are bloody dogs They persecute people until the poor people takes their lives” et MEMPHIS 44- Our Gang's Goat Tries Comeback V of the MEW- - - lnlDdlHl 1009 West 2nd South Tenn— (UP)— Ralph vice-preside- nt of Amer- Salt Lake City ican Airlines and former president of Curtis-WrigAircraft Corp beht lieves that commercial flying speed has reached its maximum We AreVery'Pleased OTfY LESLIE S HODGSON (top) a McClenahan myrl They Designed Building Visitors Set New Record At Capital WASHINGTON (UP) —Washington’s record of 2864605 visitors during the past fiscal year sets a new mark for the capital as a national pilgrimage poiift The Smithsonian Institution HONOLULU (UP) — Poo-Po- o which out receives four once the famous goat of the “Our of every Gang” film comedies of years ago five visitors to Washington re will try the luck of every movie corded 2291685 visitors last year star 'eventually and endeavor to 1291685 in with the compared pre stage a comeback here Aside from having been sup- ceding year and 1841306 for planted in the minds of the Amer- 1933-3- 4 ican movie loving public by other On the Fourth of July this year goats Poo Poo has somewhat aged Washington monument ascensions in acquiring the reputation of beall-tihigh of 10914 for ing the greatest ocean going goat ahit an single day in the world Along with its ownCurtis Hodges director of the er Hats McKay he has staged National Capital commit exhibitions during the past 12 Greater tee estimated that visitors spent years in nearly all of the coun- more than $35000000 here last tries of the Orient including AusHe fiscal that the year figured New tralia and Zealand tourist stays in the capital Poo-Po- o has returned to Hono- average lulu where McKay will endeavor two days and spends $12 to stage a comeback for his pro tege According to McKay the goat will be seen in the role of “Buttin’ Buttin Who Wants a Buttin’” -- ciiATrniM© THOMAS TAYLOR Christoper Bloodhound (Bloody Hound) Income Tax Racket Blackmail and 7 Airliners At Top Speed Says Head Stanley Parker of Coleorton who pleaded that he ‘had simply used Shakespearean language as a protest against “persecution” by the income tax authorities was fined $25 and cost? at Coalville Leicestershire on each of two charges of sending “grossly offensive postal packets” It was alleged that on the packets were the words “the chief -- Done By : S Damon Uv - 3 4 ts - t C ft Old English Gets Doctor Info Trouble ic 4 ' i -- trans-Atlant- man-eatin- - : i LOCKED TIGHT— BUT OPEN i RAY STEWART Never Again the Troubles 30-7- -- b nishing of the school is pending FILED APPLICATION Members of the school board filing the application for the original PWA grant and loan were Fred Williams president M S Stone vice president A B Foul-ge- r Fred M Nye and James H Riley members said in a speech here “However” Damon explained The veteran aviator predicted “there1 are many mechniacal probpassenger lems that have to be worked out regular is practical” flights would be established with- - before str&to-flyin- g - Vibrant non-feder- al Its history is replete with ability and tests their foresight GREAT INDIVIDUALITY No one who inspects the structure can lament that it is conventional or just another school with individuality the palatial building boldly even daringly steps out in new and arresting design Hodgson and McClenahan have for the past 25 years been associated with schools They know through constant relations with teachers themselves what should be done to make' the building fit the student and the curriculum STAY IN BACKGROUND The new Ogden High school stands in the front rank of all intermountain education institutions in beauty of design teaching entertainment and recreational facilities In these accomplishments the architects have lent prominent influence Hodgson as the architect and as the draftsman McClenahan have remained quietly and modestly in the background during the school’s construction NAIROBI India— (UP)— A grim battle between a lion and a porcupine which ended in the death of both is described In the annual report of the game warden at Tanganyika g lion While hunting a a game ranger - was told by natives that they had found a porcupine which had fought a lion Nearby was a dead porcupine and 100 yards away a dead lion with five quills In its chest Two of them had pierced the heart The natives said that the lion which shot attacked the porcupine his quills but was ' killed by the lion before the beast succumbed The same report records the fate of a lion which attacked a native woman The woman’s mother ran to her daughter’s assistance and jumped on the lion’s back While she was being dagged to the jungle her son arrived and struck the lion between the eyes with an axe killing it The mother and daughter Were so severely injured that both died “It will not be practical to go In a year and that stratosphere faster than i our present average flying will be a "common thing” speed of 200 miles ah hour” Damon within the next decade To Have Had the Privilege of Furnishing All Lumber Roofing Material and Insulation Hardwood Flooring American Keener Cement and Plaster used in the Mew 0deon- High - This Building Is a Credit to America BURTON -- WALKER LUMBER CO E 2427 LINCOLN AVE L BURTON PRES ' OGDEN UTAH dares “They’re reattycozy— Cool waVrtT in summer and in winter and dry all the year round Life here is much the same as outside Landlords are the National Trust really for’" we have water and gas “The caves make a great home” laid on and we pay rates and H M Gibbs chief caveman de- - taxes like other folk” ’ A WHIITM o Iwe's GOOD Hardware- ' Utah 'inpu'sCHO°lj Mluipl’ed New varE HGSSW1N H£ bUNDS NATIONAL YEJB® new home or © AU S When y°u remodel be to specify K ' W OF DlSTlNtHWN workmanship at moderate © - finest and deslgn Modernize an aows wUh BUNDS I lasting HABDWARE satisfaction Estimates cheerfully C ® on r si ii-- o) fr ® o § ai ou dl bj n ii ©I © r s Given coo Q ©C5PIIC1 UTA1H1 |
