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Show Students From Beryl District May Attend Enterprise Schools As a result of a combined meeting meet-ing of the Boards of Education of .the Iron and Washington county School Districts, with delegations of Enterprise and Beryl residents, held in Cedar City Monday, it Is expected that the Beryl chila.en from the elementary grades through high school will be transported to Enterprise to attend school during me coming winter, rather than coming to Cedar City. The Enterprise and Beryl delegation, delega-tion, composed of Ivor Clove, president presi-dent of ttie Enterprise Chamber of Commerce; Wm. Barlocker, Enterprise Enter-prise Lions club president; Mrs. Ila Terry, PTA president; Murlbah Hult and Vema B. Holt of Enterprise, Mrs. Jean Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Parley Moyle, Ray Hunt, and Mrs. Mary Moyle of Beryl, requested that the children, be baWen to Enterprise, and the Boards agreed to the suggestion sug-gestion with certain reservations. The Iron County Board la willing that the change be made, and Washington Wash-ington county will accept the students, stu-dents, providing additional state funds can be obtained to meet the cost of transportation and Instruction. Instruc-tion. There are now 105 families residing resid-ing In the Beryl area, thirty of them having moved in this summer. In this population are at least 100 children, fifty of them now of school age, and their parents object to them traveling the long distance to Cedar City each day to attend school, and have asked that they be taken to Enterprise instead. The Enterprise residents feel that the addition of these students to their school will result in the development develop-ment of a better school, and are supporting the move for this reason. The Enterprise leaders feel certain that a tremendous growth in the area Is assured through the development devel-opment of pump well farming, and are anxious to take steps now to prepare for the Influx of population. popula-tion. Development of better schools Is of major Importance, they feel. If the Washnigton County School Board cannot work out a satlsfac-toy satlsfac-toy financial solution to the problem prob-lem and refuses to accept the students. stu-dents. It Is expected that Iron county coun-ty will be forced to establish an elementary school at Newcastle and transport the high school students to Cedar City. |