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Show Millard's School Problem You remenibr a bond issue was turned down last spring with the argument. "Why pay interest? Twenty years at 6 is 120'! Just think of what we pay! Instead we will p;iy it all in one or two years' taxes and be done with it. No sir, no bond issue for us," and the voters overwhelmingly swept it side. Now comes the answer: . ''The proposed levy of 10 mills Tor the Millard County School District would not be legal, the State Board of Equalization wrote on July 23 to W. D. Melville, County Clerk. The State Board directs the at tention to the fact that such counties 8s Millard, which have p valuation of between $4,000 and $5,000 for each child of school age, must not have a levy for maintenance of schools AND FOR BUILDINGGS AND GROUNDS in excess of 7.5 mills." Tribune, issue of July 24, 1924. So the line of thought that was advanced and followed In voting clown a bond Issue can not be followed. The Board of Education studied and planned; they delberated on and weighed procedure after procedure; finally they settled on the long term bondiasue as the most feasible plan for our needs And in due time they laid that matured plan before the people for a vote. But a half thought out popular fallacy took the voters by storm, which like so many other- things illy thought out, proves now not to be tenable. In the opinion of The Chronicle the Board pf Education did the best It could and certainly much better than its op ponetits accomplished. The situation now ia that the Boarc finds it may be able to rebuild the A. C. Nelson; but how it can build, beside that, an addition to Delta, how it can improve the Hinckley school, how a building at Sutherland, by whal means it can meet the demands of Scipio, of Fillmore, and oi every other district in the County which they really need anc do all these thing all at once well, let the voters tell them They told them they wouldn't bond, But what is their othei solution? s s ss |