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Show School Board Hears Reports On State And District Matters ! A number of reports on important school acuities were given at the meeting of the Board of Education Monday, and discussed thoroughly by the Board' members. With nearly 100 educational bills before the state legislature, scliool officials are holding weekly meetings meet-ings In Salt. Lake City to attempt to evaluate each, and the effect the legilation would have on the school system. The local Board decided de-cided that the local district should be reprecnted at each of these meetings. Supt. N. J. Barlow and Board Member Wilson Lunt, who had previously attended such meetings meet-ings gave reports on them at the Monday meeting of the Iron County I Board. Supt. Barlow reported that the District had sent a committee to t music curriculum conference at the BYU last summer, with the result that a music guide for elementary schools has been published 'and pluc-j pluc-j cd In the hands of Superintendents. !On Saturday elementary teachers of Iron county will meet In Cedar City to study In the guide. Committee Com-mittee momlbers who attended the Conference will discuss vailous phases of It. i Mr. Barlow also reported that State Superintendent E. Allen Bateman has called for a meeting of Superintendents and Elementary Supervisors to be held In Cedar City Sunday for the purpose of discussing dis-cussing methods of conducting a upervlsory program from the Strte Department, and other school problems. pro-blems. The Board at its meeting Monday, Mon-day, approved the issuing of Sulfa-dlorine Sulfa-dlorine tablets to the children of the Parowan and Paragonah Fchools as a means of combating the spread if scarlet fever. Tt had been noted by nurses and physicians that use of the tablets in the Cedar schools has done much to curb the spread of the disease here. |