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Show School Bonding Issues to Be Aired Jit Special Public Meeting Tuesday A special meeting to consider bonding for the new-proposed new-proposed Cedar City High School and other possible expansion ex-pansion program will be held Tuesday evening at the North Elementary School in Cedar City at 8 p. m. it was announced by Superintendent Ianthus Wright. In attendance at Ihe meeting will be a representative From First Security, who has been selected as the bonding agent for the school district, and two representatives from the department de-partment of economics at the University of Utah. Head of various organizations from throughout the county will be extended an invitation to attend at-tend the special meeting. Purpose of the meeting is to discuss the bonding proposals, and to assist In determining when and for how much the school district should be bonded for at this time. L. Robert Gardner, architect for the new high- school met with the school board in their regular session Monday to study more fully the building plns and to show figures assisting in the estimation es-timation of footage and other problems concerning cost of the new structure. Request from Parowan Board also received letters from the Parowan Coordinating Coun-cM Coun-cM and the Paragonah PTA requesting re-questing that the board consider Improvements at Parowan High School .specifically for the departments de-partments housed in the old building, when the matter of bonding is finally decided by the board. A $200 a year across the board salary Increase for all teachers in the Iron County School District was approved at the meeting. This, according to Howard Dal-ley, Dal-ley, clerk, will raise the starting salary for instructors with mach-elor mach-elor degrees and a teaching certificate, cer-tificate, to $4050. Maximum salary, accumulatew after 14 years of experience, will likewise be raised accordingly, to $6250. Instructors holding master's mas-ter's degrees will be graduated on the same scale, only $200 more each year according to the number num-ber of years cf experience. In other action of the board, the purchase of one share of water wa-ter from Chick Little for the property at the South Elementary, Elemen-tary, was approved and authorization author-ization for a call bor bids for a school bus was given. The bus, a part of the replacement program pro-gram of the district, will be a lender unit ul To passenger capacity. ca-pacity. To Attend Conference Board authorized three industrial, indus-trial, arts instructors from the district to attnd the National Industrial Arts Conference In Long Beach, Calif, April 22 through 25. Dee Wilcken, Cedar High School, Clifford Chatterley, Cedar Junior High School and Duane Van Ausdal, Parowan High School, will attend the conference. con-ference. Dates for the 1959-60 school year were also approved. Teacher Teach-er introduction and training will begin Aug. 24 and continue through Aug. 28. Opening day of school hat been set for Monday,! Aug. 31. First vacation of the year will be Labor Day, Opt 7, followed by the UEA conference on Oct. 1, 2 and 3; Thanksgiving holiday, Nov. 26 and 27 and the Christmas holidays which will begin at noon, Dec. 23. School will resume re-sume on Jan. 4, 1960. Spring vacation" will be on Mar. 10 and 11 and the school year will close on May 26. |