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Show School Costs Are Discussed By Lion Taking as his subject the per capita costs of education in Beaver Bea-ver county and illustrating his talk with graphs and charts prepared pre-pared under the direction of the county superintendent of schools, Lion Paul E. Beecher, principal of the Milford high school, gave a very fine talk at Wednesdays regular reg-ular luncheon meeting of the Mil-ford Mil-ford Lions cluW, what he said serving serv-ing to enlighten those present on the economies effected in the Beaver Bea-ver county district ' to meet the greatly increased enrollment and attendance, especially in the high schools of the county. The various phases of school consolidation were also briefly discussed and it was made plain that, though all-state consolidation might offer some advantages, sectional sec-tional consolidation, whereby only groups of counties would be joined together, would be decidedly inimical in-imical to the interests of Beaver county. One prominent Lion made the statement that, though he had at one time been a believer in consolidation, con-solidation, he had never seen a consolidation proposed or effected that was not detrimental to Mil-ford. Mil-ford. Present at the meeting were Lions President Koch, Hanks, Jefferson, Jef-ferson, Beecher, J. C. Root, Out-zen, Out-zen, Murdock, Hughes, Altman, Palmer, Pool and Williams. |