Show School Officials Attend to Much Routine Business The Iron county Beard Board of tion held Its regular monthly meeting Saturday and spent a busy day attending attending at attending at- at tending to many matters of business and discussing the general school situation sit sit- Superintendent Barlow presented a tentative budget to the Board which after considerable study and discussion was approved by the Board as its tentative tentative ten ten- budget budget without any changes A public hearing must be held before it itis itis itis is finally adopted of course Mr Barlow was also reappointed as Superintendent of Iron county schools for a two year term His present term expires on June of this year He was reappointed on a salary of 5 percent percent per percent cent less than what he is dr drawing at present which reduction Is commended in the new budget for all salaries Teachers contracts which were to have been sent out on April first were ordered held until May first to comply with a request from the state board of education The request was made because many districts are facing dlf- dlf in school problems that must be cleared up before contracts can be mailed and it was deemed best to have all contracts go out at the same time Two new clauses have been added to the teacher contract for this county this year ear one that reads as follows That you If a woman may be dismissed dismissed dismissed dis dis- missed at the of the Board cf of Education if you marry during the life of this contract The other provides provides provides pro pro- vides that the Board of Education may cancel the contract at ot any time when in Us opinion its available funds are not sufficient through tax ces res or other unavoidable events to meet the obligations of the District forthe for forthe the remainder of the school year Permission was WIlS granted to the Parowan Parowan Parowan Par- Par owan high school band to attend the state band contest to be held at Logan April to The band members will go at their own expense and no request for financial aid was made In discussing the use of water th thatIs that thatis t is available for the Paragonah and school lots Superintendent Continued on page 5 SCHOOL OFFICIALS ATTEND TEND TO MUCH l ROUTINE BUSINESS Continued from Page rage 1 N. N J. J Barlow recommended that enough of the water should be kept to Irrigate Irrigate irrigate gate trees that should br planted and was authorized to get trees for the schools Since the meeting Mr Barlow Barlow Barlow Bar Bar- low has conferred with L. L 1 E. E county agent and about fifty trees for etch each school have been applied for from the Extension Service at Logan and it Is planned to have hae the planting done Saturday The trees which willbe will willbe willbe be planted as windbreaks will consist of honey locust Siberian elm green ash and black walnut The county agent and superintendent are planning planning planning plan plan- I ning to have gave a demonstration at each place hoping that it will encourage people in those communities and in In the county to obtain trees from this I source and plant them on their farms etc The proposed program of readJustment readjustment readjustment readjust readJust- ment of school costs sent out by the Utah Taxpayers was read at the meeting and compared with the activities of the Iron county school board which showed that practically all the recommendations of the association association association asso asso- had already been put into ef effect effect effect ef- ef In this county Supt Barlow presented statistics taken from a circular from the Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of the Interior at Washington D. D C. C which gave a study of the ef effects effects effects ef- ef of the depression on rural schools of American The circular showed that the school term tenn In the United States for the year 32 1931 had decreased an of 6 of 1 per cent while the average in Utah was a decrease of 71 per cent Iron county has increased its school term by two weeks However the theIron theIron theIron Iron county term was not originally up to the average in the state or nation The report showed that in the nation 24 per cent ent of the schools reporting will close early this year and per of the schools in Utah will close at an early date Iron county is continuIng continuing continuing ing an extra two weeks Celts In the reduction of teaching staff during the past two years the national nation nation- al average of reduction Is 1 per cent the state reduced by 93 per cent and andIron andIron andIron Iron county by per cent At the beginning of this period the load in Iron county was well up to the average average average aver aver- age an and the big reduction in the staff makes the teaching load in this county county county coun coun- ty very heavy The decrease in salary in the United States was per cent in Utah per cent an and in this county per cent And in addition to this the ne new w budget contemplates an additional salary salary salary sal sal- ary reduction of 5 g per cent |