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Show Education Board Members Hold Busy Meet Day Farms of Tarowan submitted submit-ted the low bid for furnishing potatoes po-tatoes for the Iron County School Lunch program during the current cur-rent school year and was awarded award-ed the contract. The contract was approved at the regular meeting of the school board Monday. Un-: der the contract the company wi,M j deliver ,'!0 bags each month to the Cedar City schools and 10 bags each month to the Farowan! schools, No. 2 potatoes, at a cost of $1.80 to the Cedar City schools' and $1.70 to the Farowan schools. The successful bidder submitted submit-ted a bid of $2.80 and $2.70 for No. 1 potatoes. Oilier bids were submitted by S. A. Halterman of Farowan and Sherman Beacham of Newcastle. Hnlterman's bid was for No. 2 potatoes at $2.25 for both places, while P.eacham's hid was $3.00 for No. Is, $2.25 for No. 2s, and $1.80 for field run. with no differential between Cedar Ce-dar and Farowan. Mrs. Leone Lyman, Iron Coun ty school lunch supervisor, met with the board to give a report on the School Lunch Supervisors' convention held in Denver ,'ast week, which she attended. Property Sought Approval was given at the meeting for an exchange of property prop-erty to acquire needed addition.",' playground area at the North Elementary School. A lot on 450 West Street owned by the school district was exchanged for one owned by Bryant Fetty adjacent to the North Elementary School. borne time was also spent in discussing ways and means of obtaining a right-of-way over property west of the North Elementary Ele-mentary to make it possible for children to reach the school more easily. The school board is coop-! erating with the city in an at- j tempt to open up rights-of-way, in the area to facilitate travel to the school. At the present time no streets running east and west have been opened In the vicinity of the school. A gift of a set of World Book Encylopedia to the Farowan Elementary Ele-mentary School from the Ameri can Mining Association was accepted ac-cepted by the board at the meeting. meet-ing. The association presents the gift to one school In each district dis-trict with the board designating which school should receive the valued gift. The State Department of Education Edu-cation submitted a request to the board that Clemont Adams, sixth grade teacher in West Elementary, Elemen-tary, and Mrs. Zoe Falmer, social science instructor in the Cedar City High School, be permitted i to work on the state committee on mathematics and social science, sci-ence, respectively. The request, of course, was approved. The resignation of Mrs. Kay Wilkinson, teacher in the East Elementary School, was accepted and Mrs. Royden Braithwaite was approved as a teacher to fill the vacancy. Mrs. Wilkinson, who Is resigning because of health conditions, con-ditions, will continue until school adjourns for the Thanksgiving holiday. |