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Show Workers Rush Completion oi New Beryl School Peryl Crossroads Escalante Valley's first mu'tl-room school house is nearing completion at the Peryl Crossroads, 12 miles south of Beryl at the Junction of State highways 13 and 56. This building will be ready for the elementary students of the enure Escalante Valley to start school cn Sept. 11. This schoolhouse and two teacher dwellings were contracted contract-ed from the Ketchum Lumber and Wrecking companv of Salt Lake City for $22,000. Their con-tract con-tract Included moving the buildings build-ings from Klmbcrly, Nevada, where they had been used during the war years for school facilities facili-ties there. The building when completed will be 133 by 68 feet In size and Includes six classrooms, each with adequate storage space; a principal's room, teacher's room, small library, and lavatory facilities. fac-ilities. It Is of frame construction, covered on the outside with asbestos as-bestos Rhlngles. and the Inside walls are covered with plywood panels. The roof Is of copper material. The contract for construction oi the foundations for this building build-ing and the two dwellings was awarded to H. Stanton Jones, of Enterprise, for $22,917. Mr. Jones has been working since early In (Contioutd oa bock payt) BERYL SCHOOL (Continued from Page 1) June. The Salt Lake firm began moving the buildings from Nevada Ne-vada on July 15. The plumbing and heating work was done by DeMoine Jones of Cedar City. It is reported that two rooms of the building will be ready for school next Monday and the ethers will be completed later. The plan at the present time calls for the first, second and third grades to meet together, and the fourth, fifth and sixth giades to do likewise. The teachers teach-ers will be Mr. and Mrs. Levand Bauer, Cedar City. For the past two years, the entire valley's students, both the high school and elementary, have been transported by bus to Enterprise, and prior to that time, since 1939, a one room schoolhouse served the elementary elemen-tary grades while the high school students were transported to Cedar City. The high school students of the valley will continue to attend at-tend school at Enterprise for the coming year. The Iron County School Board reports that there has been an urgent need and demand for a school in this area since the rapid ra-pid farm development in the Es-calante Es-calante valley during the past years. Funds were voted in the bond election last year to provide pro-vide a school for the Beryl section. |