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Show TO 'APPORTION SCHOOL FUNDS Senator Stookey to Introduce Measure Providing for Certain Per Cent of Funds for State Schools. It Is roported hero that a bill will be Introduced shortly In the legislature providing for a distribution of school funds to tho stata Institutions along the lines suggested by Governor Spry In his message to the legislature. Senator Sen-ator Stookey is to be the author of the hill, It Is said. The bill will provides pro-vides for an, apportionment of 18 per cent ot the school fundB to the various schools of the state. The distribution will be as follows: University of .Utah, 11.6 per cent; Agricultural College, Col-lege, 6.1 per cent; Branch Normal, 1-3 per cent Such a bill Is designed to do avay with all future appropriations for maintenance. It docs not, however, Include In-clude appropriations for gymnasiums, school buildings, etc. Instead ot tho lobbying and wire-pulling of the present pres-ent system, this bill will substitute a permanent fund which will grow with (he expansion ot tho Btnto tax, but will always remain at a definite ratio to tho state funds for schools, |