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Show FOR CLOSER CONTACT Board of Education Members Take Teacher Assn. Committee Posts Closer contact between the members of the Iron County Board of Education and the Iron County Teachers Association was approved at the meeting of the school board Monday when members mem-bers of the board were appointed appoint-ed to serve as a member of each of the acting committees of the teacher group. The appointments were made on the invitation of Don Knight, president of the Teachers Association, who met with the board on Monday. As a result of the action El-loyd El-loyd Marchant will work with the Public Relations committee; Herman E. Bayles with the Teacher Tea-cher Education and Professional Standards committee; Leo Larson Lar-son with the Professional Relations Rela-tions groups, and Dr. J. S. Frest-wich Frest-wich and Samuel Abbott with the finance committe. Review Findings The board members also spent some time discussing the findings find-ings of various groups in the recent re-cent education conference, and voted to ask the Coordinating Council, under which the conference confer-ence was hejd, to make this a continuing activity as a means of providing closer contact between be-tween the public and the schools. An agreement was reached with Clifton L. Chaterley to remove re-move the old Hopkins home on the corner of Second East and Center streets, adjacent to the East Elementary School. Mr. Chatterley will remove the building build-ing for the salvage material that may be obtained from it. The property, needed for additional campus space at the school was recentjy purchased by the school district. A tin shed on the property prop-erty will be repaired and relocated relo-cated for use as a storage garage gar-age for a school owned panel truck. Mrs. Leone Lyman, county school lunch supervisor, was granted permission to attend the anuual American Food Service convention in Denver, Oct. 31 to Nov. 3. Office Expansion Expansion of the board clerk's office was agreed upon at the meeting, and the superintendent and clerk Instructed to arrange for extending the office by petitioning peti-tioning a portion of the hall in the north end of the administration adminis-tration building, to provide space for the office machines used by the clerk. The present office space is entirely inadequate for the activities ac-tivities and machines of the clerk's office. A request by the cub scout organization or-ganization of Cedar City to use rooms in the schocj buildings for meeting purposes was granted. The request was for use of the nil-purpose room in the North Elementary building. The board agreed that this room could be used until the weather is such that heating will be needed, and that after that rooms in the high school or junior high school buildings where other activities require heating of the buildings will be made available to the or-ganlzation. or-ganlzation. Instajlatlon of a telephone In the Escalante Valley School building was approved by the ooard. |