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Show Work Progresses On Major Building Projects Rapid progress is now being made on the construction of four major buildings in Cedar City, a church, a school, an anditor-ium anditor-ium and library, and a business block. With good building weather wea-ther anticipated during the next several months progress is expected ex-pected to be substantial on each building before winter weather interferes. The most advanced of the four structures is the North Elementary Elemen-tary school building, vhich incidentally, in-cidentally, is the highest priced structure of the four. The footings foot-ings and basement concrete work has been completed for some time, and during the past two weeks more than half of the steel wall structure has been placed. At fhe present time the steel roof frames are being installed in-stalled and preparations are being be-ing made for the pouring of a portion of the concrete floors. The boiler for the heating unit has been put in place, and considerable consid-erable work on the laying of steam lines has been completed. The building is scheduled for completion in July, 1954, and should be ready for use on the opening of school in September, 1954. Work has also moved along on the new library and auditorium building at the College of Southern South-ern Utah, after a series of delays of one kind and another has held up progress on the building for some time. Excavation is nearing completion and the work of laying of forms for the basement base-ment and footings should be started soon. The contractor obtained ob-tained a building permit on the structure this week, at a base cost of approximately $455,000.00. The church building, a Cedar Stake and Sixth ward chapel building is also showing progress, pro-gress, with footings now being poured. This building, it is estimated, es-timated, will cost about $200,000. Much of the work is to be done with donation labor and conse- |