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Show Utah state press Assn. JJCm Fait Lake 467 East 3rd So City, Utah SdtHcH U411X $9.8 School District Bond Issue For New Construction To Be Voted On Tuesday , Sept. 25 d ' Sevier School District residents will vote Tuesday, Sept. 25, on whether to authorize issuing $9.8 million in bonds for new school construction. Polling places in Salina are the City Hall for precincts 14 and 25, and the American Legion Hall for Precinct 15. Aurora voters will cast ballots at the Aurora Town Room, and Redmond voters will vote at the Redmond Legion Hall. Polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. The bond issue is needed, school board members and district officials say, because enrollment is growing, and there is no room for growth in most schools. The bond issue, if approved, will assure that funds are available when needed to build new schools, including a new high school for North Sevier. By delaying the building program, construction costs would increase. If the bond issue fails, district students will face overcrowded classrooms and split (double) sessions . . . within two years, accroding to Supt. Darrell K. White. Listed as most pressing needs are the new NSHS, a South Sevier middle school, and addition to Pahvant Elementary School in Richfield. The present North Sevic r High School, constructed in 1929, is inadequate and expensive to maintain, and does not meet health and safety standards. Supt. White, at a meeting earlier this month, told North Sevier patrons that enrollment in Salina schools will Flu Clinic PREVENT VANDALISM-Breaki- ng streetlights with air rifles, pellet guns or wrist rockets is a major vandalism problem in Salina and other Utah cities. A concerned and alert citizenry is the best weapon a community can use against vandalism, burglary, assault, or any violent crime, and to bring crime prevention programs to public attention, Gov. Scott Matheson has declared this week Neighborhood Watch Week and urged citizens A flu clinic for senior citizens and persons with chronic diseases is to assist in halting the increase in burglary and other crimes. Any city, regardless of size, vandalism, scheduled from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, at the Salina Senior Citizens Center. It is sponsored by the local Senior Citizens group. can organize Neighborhood Watch programs through the local police department. Council Discusses Businesses , Cable TV Salina City Councilmen approved businesses licenses for a new store and a waterbed and sound equipment operation at their meeting Monday night. Bob Haycock, area representative 7-- for 7-- stores from Salt Lake City, requested a business license for groceries, a service station, and beer for a store to be opened in the old Phillips 66 station, 200 W. Main. The request was approved Adult And Community Education Classes Begin Adult and community education classes will be getting into full swing during the next week at North Sevier High School. All classes will begin the week of Sept. 24. Persons interested in signing up may register at the first meeting of each class, according to Sue Dailey. If you dont find the class you would like to take on the schedule, Additional contact me at classes can be offered if there is sufficient interest, she explained. This is the communitys education program, she continued. Let it serve your needs. New this year is On Stage With Amateurs, a class in theatre production to be taught by Susan White. It includes acting, directing, make-u- ' props, costume, and movements, with emphasis given to church and community production. Class time is 8, p.m. Wednesday at the high school. A ceramics class taught by Margaret Kiesel is being offered, but is full until January. Also scheduled for January are classes in yoga and possibly cake decorating and woodworking. 529-721- p, A complete schedule of classes, times, and instructors is included in this issue of the Salina Sun. Classes being offered include body conditioning,' art and oil painting, crafts (dip n drape), sewing, akido, math, history, science, English, shorthand and reading-literatur- e, typing. No. Sevier Adult & Community Education Schedule of Classes CLASS DAY TIME PLACE INSTRUCTOR unanimously. Brad Rasmussen requested a business license for B&K Waterbeds & Sound Equipment. Councilman Wes Cherry moved that the council grant the license with the stipulation that the business be operated in the Rasmussens home, 455 W. 4th N. in Salina. It was unanimously approved. A1 Higgs, Utah Highway Patrol radio technician, met with the council and reported the Salina City radio system is very good. He suggested e that the city consider making a telephone number for the Salina City Police available from 5 p.m. until 8 a.m. The calls would be received by the Utah Highway Patrol dispatch office and radio contact would be made with local police officers, thereby expediting emergency calls. The city council agreed to investigate the feasibility of establishing such a system. Lynn Reynolds, new president of the North Sevier EMTs, appeared to ask the city for financial aid for a new radio in the ambulance. Estimated cost of a new unit is about $1,100. The council will determine if there are sufficient funds in the budget to permit such an expenditure. Bids will be accepted until noon Monday, Oct. 15, for the supplying of coal for heating the city hall and the firehouse this winter. was Salina City Ordinance amended by deleting Justice of the Peace from the Eligibility of Officers ordinance. The ordinance now states that no person who is not a qualified elector of Salina is eligible to the office of Mayor, Councilman, Recorder, Treasurer, or Marshal. The change was made in order to conform with the Utah State Code which provides that when a vacancy occurs in the office of a municipal justice of the peace, the city may contract with the county or another municipality to share the services of a toll-fre- ' ' justice. Sevier Justice North Thad Wasden, of the Peace from Aurora, has been serving as Salina J.P. due to the ill 1 f health and resignation of E. Smith Peterson. A grant of $49,000 has been awarded to Salina by the Four Corners Commission for flood control study, planning, and engineering. Flooding was a problem on the east side of the city several years ago, when a number of basements were flooded. double within the next 10 years. The elementary school, which adreceived the latest dition this summer, has 483 students. Its capacity is i500 students. There is no room to expand the present school. Proposed is to construct a new middle school for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders on the old high school site, and make the new high school a four-yea- r facility, thus alleviating the crowding at the elementary. Some portions of the old high school could be rennovated to provide elementary classrooms temporarily, the superintendent said. The new high school, for which a site is being selected, would be designed for 500 - 600 students, m adequate for growth for the next 20 years. Approval of the bond issue is very important to the North Sevier area, the superintendent emphasized, and added that only a simple majority, one vote, is needed for approval. I would hope, he said, that the frustration of individuals with the federal tax system and government doesnt create a backlash which would cause local residents to vote against this bond issue. Such a backlash, he maintained, "... would only hurt the children. Final informational meeting on the bond issue will be held tonight (Thursday, Sept. 20) at Richfield High School at 7 :30 p.m. Bond Issue Receives Good Support At Local Meetings . There appears to be considerable support for the school bond election, Supt. Darrell K. White told members of the Sevier School District Board of Education at the Sept. 13 meeting. Some of the public meetings have been completed and meetings have been held with numerous service clubs and most of the school faculties in the district, the superintendent reported The bond election seeking authorization to issue $9.8 million in bonds is scheduled Tuesday, Sept. 25. The superintendent also reported that program funds are available for the possible purchase of two new automobiles to be used by the school nurse, speech and hearing specialist, district psychologist, and others in- volved in the district special educational services. Dr. Kenneth Glover moved, seconded by George Young, authorizing the administration to proceed with advertisements for bids on two new was motion The vehicles. unanimously approved. Among the items of interest discussed were: Governors budget cut request. Supt. Whites reply to State Supt. Walter Talbot concerning the Sevier School District proposed plan stated that if a cut is necessary, adjustment should be made in next years budget. Highway signs at bus stops. The Utah State Department of Transportation has agreed to place some signs in dangerous zones. Insurance premium savings. It was reported that there has been approximately $5,000 savings because of improved bidding procedures. Report on opening of school. Enrollment has increased by more than 160 students this year. Maintenance agreement for South Sevier High School heating system. The maintenance agreement with Johnson Controls has expired and will not be renewed. Parking lot maintenance. A progress report was given concerning maintenance of parking lots and playground areas. Reservations will be made for board members to attend the Utah School Boards Assn, state convention, scheduled Nov. 29 - 30 in Salt Lake City. The Oct. 11 board meeting, in conflict with the Utah Education meeting, was rescheduled to 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, at Monroe Elemen- tary School. Next meeting of the board will be at a.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Koosharem Elementary School. 8 Groundwork for a cable television system in the city is being done by Intermountain Cablevision, Inc., under authorization granted last month by the council, which gave them a nonexclusive franchise to build and operate a cable television distribution system. Salt Lake City channels 2, 4, 5, 7 and 11 will be carried on the system. A schedule of the fees to be charged for its services in the next following 12 months is to be presented at the regular January meeting of the council. The company, in lieu of occupation and license taxes, agreed to pay the city three percent of its gross revenues from operation of the system. The agreement calls for the system to be . . . sufficiently complete to provide service and to begin the connecting of subscribers to the system within one year, and to have the system 90 percent complete within two years. The company presently is investigating extending its cable operations into Aurora and other surrounding communities. The council cancelled the franchise given to another cable television firm, which failed to do anything within the years time allotted them. Mass meetings of the Republican and Democratic parties to select candidates for three city council seats are scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27. The Republican meeting will be held at the American Legion Hall, and the Democratic meeting will be held at the Salina City Library. of the five new teachers at Salina Elementary School NEW TEACHERS-Thr- ee third and fourth grades, who came here from Kent Jacobsen, are, from left, 4ho transferred from sixth grade at Peoria, Ariz.; Madolyn Bills, first grade, Bradford and Whittaker, sixth grade ho came in Richfield; Ashman Elementary kinfrom Roosevelt (Duchesne School District). Not pictured are Genie Nielsen, Analee and Albrecht, Ashman from transferred Elementary, dergarten, who special education. (School District photo by Pam Williams) |