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Show Board of Education Plans Bond Election in First Yeek of December The Board of Education of the Iron County School District decided de-cided at its meeting Monday to call for a bond election in connection con-nection with th regular School Board election efc'ly in December, thus avoiding the necessity of conducting two elections in most of the district A bond election must be conducted con-ducted in connection with the proposed building program In the district, and since the regular Board member election this year Is in District No. 1, which includes in-cludes all towns of the county except Parowan and Cedar City, it was thought advisable to conduct con-duct the two elections simultaneously. simultan-eously. The Board has not yet reached a decision as to the amount of bonds to be approved, but detailed de-tailed announcements should be forthcoming in the near future. The Board spent much of its time at the Monday meeting in discussing the building program, some attention being given to plans for the buildings. Robert Gardner, local architect, met with the board to advise with them on various phases of construction. Other matters discussed at the meeting included milk contracts for school lunch rooms, the Newcastle New-castle transportation problem, and a number of other minor details. The Board decided to continue its' contract with the Southern Utah Dairy Company at Parowan for the furnishing of milk for all school lunch rooms in the district. dis-trict. ; Some change in the transportation transpor-tation set-up for students of Newcastle New-castle is necessary because of the fact than only ten high school students are being transported to Cedar City to school, and the only bus available to transport them is of 48-passenger capacity. Superintendent Sup-erintendent Ianthus Wright was Instructed to meet with the people peo-ple of Newcastle in an attempt to work out a satisfactory solution. solu-tion. The Board approved cutting classes short on Friday October 15 so that school could be closed at noon on that day allowing the students to leave for the mountains moun-tains to participate in the deer hunt Saturday. Thales Brown, Agricultural In-structor In-structor at the Parowan high school, was authorized to attend the National FFA convention In Kansas City the second week in November. |