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Show County Schools to Open September 7; Board Meets to Settle Many Issues The schools of Iron County will open on Monday. Sept. 7, in spite of the fact that the teachers' con-, tracts will not be issued or sign-ed sign-ed before that date. A decision to j open school without issuing con-! tracts to the teachers was reach-! ed at the regular meeting of the Board of Education Monday,1 when many items of business! were considered. i An agreement had been reached reach-ed between the teachers and the Board of Education on the salary sal-ary schedule for the coming year. The fact that contracts have not been issued is not expected to have any effect whatsoever on the orderly opening of schools the second week in September. All positions in the county have been filled except two, an English teached for the Parowan high school and a teacher for the Escalante Valley school. With school scheduled to open on Monday, Sept. 7, teachers of the county will open a teachers' institute on Aug. 1 in preparation prepara-tion for the opening of school. New teachers in the county will meet with the superintendent and prinicpals of the various schools during the forenoon on Aug. 1 to discuss policy and problems of the district. General faculty meetings will occupy the afternoon. On Wednesday Aug. 2, the teachers will tra.cl to the Duck Creek recreation camp on Cedar (Continued on Back Page) SCHOOLS (Continued from Pcrga Ont) Mountain to begin a three-day outing, during which discussion sessions will be held and getac-quainted getac-quainted recreation activities will take place. The theme of the Institute will be Language Arts, it Is understood. The board at its meeting on Monday, in addition to arranging for the opening of school, approved ap-proved an Increase In pay for substitute teachers during the coming year. An increase from 57.50 to $10.00 per day for sub-dilute sub-dilute teachers was approved. The board members spent some time in discussing a problem prob-lem of enrollment in the first grade- at the Parowan elementary elemen-tary school. It was found that 41 students will enter the first grade this year, a rather heavy teaching load for one teacher, but not enough to warrant establishing estab-lishing two first grade classes. Superintendent Ianthus Wright wag instructed to confer with the primary supervisor and the Parowan Paro-wan first grade teacher, in an attempt at-tempt to find a solution to the problem. It was reported at the meeting that Miss Mary McMillan, who was granted a leave of absence from the district last year, will return to her position as primary supervisor at the opening of school on Sept. 7. Miss McMillan has been studying at the University Uni-versity of Utah during the past winter, where she received her doctor's degree. Mrs. Daryl Chase served as primary supervisor last school year during Miss McMillan's McMil-lan's absence. The board members spent some time discussing the state school financing program formulated by school leaders recently, under which Iron County would be taxed to raise more than $53,000 to add to the state school equalization equali-zation fund. The board members approved generally the details of the proposed financing pro-frram, pro-frram, but no official action was taken at the meeting. A contract was let to J. W. Moore of Parowan for the replacement re-placement of worn out stairs In the Parowan elementary building. build-ing. Work is now under way, it Is understood, and while the job cannot be completed before the school opens, work will be done on one stairway at a time so as rot to Interfere too seriously with the use of the building. It was also reported that the remodeling of the Parowan high school gymnasium building will not be entirely completed In time for the opening of school, particularly parti-cularly since the building Is to t)e used as a display place for the Iron County Fair on the week end of Sept. 3, 4 and 5. It will not take more than two weeks after school opens to complete the work, It was reported, and the delay will not interfere with the use of the building. The board approved a new public school health program submitted by LaRue Ford and Alice Barton, school nurses. The new program provides specific Instructions to teachers and pupils pu-pils in the case of sickness o' accident. The program also gives instructions on the common communicable com-municable diseases, what action should be taken to combat the spread of them in the school, and how long students with these diseases di-seases should remain out of school. Copies of the program will be distributed to all teachers teach-ers and other school personnel before the opening of school. Superintendent Wright reported report-ed that purchase of land for a new elementary school in the southwest portion of Cedar City is progressing satisfactorily with abptracts on the land now being wquired. Al Jarrett, who has been janitor at the Cedar City Junior high school, was transferred to the Kail elementary school to succeed suc-ceed Myles Walker, who has moved to California. A number of applications have been filed for the position vacated by Mr. Jarrett and the superintendent was instructed to select one of the applicants to fill the position. Bids were received for supplying supply-ing milk for the school lunch program in the county, but no action' was taken on them pending pend-ing further study of the bids. General Acceptance Corp. of Cedar City was given the contract con-tract for insurance on the school district school buss and trucks. James A. Anderson was employed em-ployed as custodian of the Para-conah Para-conah school and as driver of the school bus carrying students from that area to the Parowan school. The board authorized the superintendent sup-erintendent to call for bids for the sale of the old school building build-ing at Wells. The district has no further use for the building and ft Is to be offered for sale to the highest bidder. |