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Show Little Chats on Public Notice Selling an Old School School Site. Building To Be Sold At Public Auction Such was the heading on a 6-paragraph 6-paragraph "legal" advertisement in a midwestcrn newspajxT. Actually Ac-tually this was a common form of public notice to the effect that the local school board proposed to sell an outmoded school building, build-ing, with Its site at public auction auc-tion at the school administration building. The notice gave the technical description of the real estate, the dimension of the building, the time and place of the sale, the authority for the sale and the fact that the successful bidder I must pay down 10 per cent of his bid with the balance to be paid when the final papers were de-l'vered. de-l'vered. The notice was to run three times a week apart, as the law prescribed. Such a notice is not only a lawful record of a school board action, but it serves other purposes. pur-poses. It informs the public of an impending action involving public pub-lic property and the public interest. inter-est. It affords interested parties an opportunity to enter bids. In 1 some circumstances it even makes it possible to take legal steps to block the proposed sale, if this seems necessary. The newspaper Is the principal medium used for the dissemination dissemina-tion of s'ich Information. This is no accident. It is not only provided pro-vided for by law, but it insures a wide readership repetition and semi-permanence. The newspaper newspap-er of paid general circulation has a regular following and the strong habit of newspaper reading read-ing is Important. This is true of such iewspapers all over America Ameri-ca and virtually all of them print public notices of one kind or another. |