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Show 2300 Students Return To School Tuesday. Sept. 2 Approximately twenty-three hun. dred Iron county students, from beginners be-ginners to fourth year high school, will return to their class rooms next Tuesday, September 2, when all schools of the Iron County School District open for the 1947-48 school year. Nearly sixteen hundred of these will enter the schools In Cedar City, with an estimated enrollement In the elmentary school, first to sixth grades, Inclusive, of 850; an estimated estim-ated 350 In the Junior high, and at least an equal number In the high school. Parowan will have more than 400, with about 190 In the elementary grades and about 220 In the high school division, wlilch Includes In-cludes all students from the seventh to twelfth grades. Paragonah will have about 75 students, and Kanar-ra Kanar-ra about 50. Moden is expected to have 23 students and Lund 15. In order to avoid the transportation transporta-tion of students such long distances students from the Beryl area, both elementary and high school win be transported to Enterprise thla year. The student from Newcastle will again be transported to Cedar City. New Harmony high school students will also be transported to Cedar City. Mrs. Edna A. Thorley will be the teachers at the Modena school thla year, with Mrs. Elene Allen Cuff teaching at Lund. A staff of about eighty teachers will be assigned to te various schools and to administrative positions to Instruct the 2300 students of the county. Besides the two teachers at Lund and Modena, there will two at Kanarra, three at Paragonah, eighteen at Parowan, 12 In the high school and six In the elemetary school; while the Cedar City elementary ele-mentary will have twenty-two, the Junior high twelve and the high school, aecenteen. , Supertrttenldent Ianthus Wright announces that the school lunch program will not be started until Monday, September 8, and states that regulations will be liberalized as much as possible. In Parowan the lunch will be available to any student stu-dent who wishes to take advantage of It. but in Cedar this will not be possible. The lunch will be available to all students transported to the Cedar City school, and to all children child-ren living eight blocks or more from the school. With the opening of school only a few days away, Superintendent Wright announces that there are 5 vacancies In the teaching staff, three in the Parjwan high school,' one in the Ceda City high school and one In the Cedar City elementary element-ary school. It is expected that all these vacancies will be filled before next Tuesday, although one or two of them may only be on a temporary tempor-ary basis. Pour of the vacancies were caused by recent resignations and the fifth (Continued on Back Pare) School Opening (Continued from Front Page) had not been filled since the close of school last spring. The latter position posi-tion Is that of commercial Instructor Instruct-or In the Parowan high school. Vacancies in the Cedar City high and the Elementary school were caused when Byrne Fernellus, head of the high school physical education educa-tion department, resigned to accept a position as head of the physical education department of the Idaho State College at Pocatello. Mrs. Fernellus, who taught In the elementary ele-mentary school last year and had planned to do so this year, resigned to accompany her husband to Idaho. Ida-ho. Orland Ward, instructor In physical phy-sical education and biological science at the Parowan high school, resigned resign-ed to accept a position In the physical phy-sical eduactlon department at the University of Wyoming. Miss Marian Mulr of New Jersey who had signed to head the Parowan Paro-wan music department, was forced to resign because of sickness In her family. She has returned to New Jersey because of the serious Illness of her young brother, for whom she Is guardian. The vacancy caused by the recent resignation of J. C. Haws Cedar Junior high school Instructor, has' been filled by a re-arranglng of schedules and by the return of Mrs. Elaine Southwlck to full time duty, after having been teaching only for half day. |