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Show SCHOOL PROPERTY PROTECTION SOUGHT BY MILFORD LIONS Would Form S'mvijr Co:muUee to Work with School tot on J uvcr.il e Vroblc. ) WANT TRUANT OFFICER Taking truancies, vandalism and the juvenile- problem in general, as the crux of the report on the local schools, submitted to the Lions Club last week, members of that civic organization or-ganization devoted their meeting this week largely to discussions of remedial re-medial measures. A letter from the county superintendent super-intendent was read by the education committeee of the club, in which was expressed the desire of the school authorities to co-operate with the club in promoting the best welfare wel-fare of the schools, approving some of the recommendation-; made, and also taking exception to some of the descriptions of conditions of school fixtures which the superintendent described as too sweeping. J. M. Andrews, principal of the high school, was presfnt at the meeting meet-ing as a new club raenber. He expressed ex-pressed himself a:- anxious to further furth-er steps which would eliminate further depredations on school property, which have been occurring . almost nightly for some time. Ha saind that ho was glad to have the committee visit the schools, and that while discipline at present was as rood as in the average school, such reports would put him on guard to better present standards. He stated that the front doors of the school building were being' repaired this week, and that the materials had to be sent from Salt Lake and their arrival ar-rival had been delayed. He said that he felt no resentment to constructive criticism, feeling that good would come of it. Discussions worked around to a point where a motion was made that the .Lions committee of three be augmented by a representative of the Parent-Teachers Association, and by one from the town board, the latter being suggested as necessary in devising ways to curb vandalism occurring after school hours. On motion cf J. R. Murdock, the club voted to ask the town board to name Sam Cline as its representative on the permanent educational committee. commit-tee. Mr. Cline gave it as his opinion that school property would be best protected if a truancy officer be appointed ap-pointed who did not have janitorial duties also, as he felt that school children would otherwise not show the respect for the officer that they should. Ife declared that he did not blame Marshal Coleman nor Deputy Sheriff Kronholm, a bit if they refused re-fused to dive into the juvenile delinquency de-linquency problem inasmuch as their duties were elsewhere and their pay was for other work than that. General Gen-eral discussion brought out the opinion opin-ion that a member of the faculty as truancy officer could best control the students and that it would be well to recommend to the school board that it pay one of the male members of the faculty for devoting part time to juvenile delinquency work. As soon as the increased Educational Educa-tional Committee is formed, it was decided to ask the school heads to meet periodically with the members for the purpose of smoothing out such problems as may arise in the Milford schools. n |