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Show School Board Hangs Fire on Bids; Six Teachers Needed i Bids for providing insurance on school buildings and school buses and for furnishing coal for the school buildings of the county were considered by the Board of Education; however, none of the bids were accepted at the meeting held on that day. Satisfactory bids were received on all three of the calls but action ac-tion on each was held up pending pend-ing study of details of each bid. Additional information will be gathered on the various bids with final action probably to be taken at the next regular meeting meet-ing of the board. At the meeting the board approved ap-proved the purchase of a cyclora-ma cyclora-ma for the Parowan School auditorium. audi-torium. Bids will be called for this in the near future. Teaching Vacanices Superintendent Ianthus Wright reported that six vacancies remain re-main to be filled in the county teaching staff, one vacancy having hav-ing been created this week by the resignation of Mrs. David Melville, Mel-ville, who had been employed as a teacher in the first grade in Cedar City. Replacements for Mont Bennett and Don Ford in the Cedar City Junior High School have not yet been found the superintendent reported. Bennett resigned to accept ac-cept the position of principal of Millard High School at Fillmore, and Ford was killed in an airplane air-plane accident recently. Bennett taught mathematics in the Cedar City school and Ford was In charge of student guidance. Three vacancies remain in the schools at Parowan, a third grade teacher, and a commercial and girls' physical education j instructor in the high school. |