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Show Minersville Delegation Meets With Milford Business Men To Discuss School Change 4 That the Milford Lions club or the business men of Milford had no fore-knowledge of the action of the county board of education in voting to dispense with the three upper grades of the Minersville high school and transporting the 40 to 50 students thereof to Mil-j ford, was emphasized Friday afternoon af-ternoon at a hurriedly called I meeting of Milford business men and a Minersville delegation, held in the town office. The meeting was called by La Mar Outzen, president of the Milford Lions club, at the request of the Minersville committee, who were desirous of making a plea to local business men to' use their influence in-fluence with Milford members of jthe school board in an effort to have the board rescind their action. ac-tion. The Minersville delegation consisted con-sisted of George Marshall, C. K. Jameson, Frank D. Williams, J. S. Murdock, D. R. McKnight and Truman Rollins with Mr. Marshall as chairman and principal spokesman. spokes-man. They were ' unanimous in asking for reconsideration and for continuation of the grades for this year at least, pending further consideration con-sideration and study. J. C. Smith of Milford, president presi-dent of the school board, was called in and very ably stated his position and that of the board. With the assessed valuation of the county dropping approximately a third from what it was a few years ago and school revenue cut accordingly, it is not possible to build up the senior high schools as the board is anxious to do so long as the reduced revenue resources re-sources are divided between three schools. At the present time the Beaver hig'h school is lacking one selective course and the Milford school two while at Minersville there are lacking four such courses. cours-es. Under such conditions, Mr. Smith was emphatic in saying, Beaver county students are not getting a break with other schools of the state and continuing to work under such a handicap endangers en-dangers participation in state funds by the county schools as a whole.' While remaining neutral as to how consolidations shall be effected, state school authorities are unanimous, Mr. Smith said, in favor of larger school units in the interest of better education, Utah being looked to as a leader along these lines. Former Senator George Jefferson Jeffer-son stated that Milford's stand in regard to education was well known that elections for bond issues is-sues for building purposes and levies for special purposes have been carried in every instance by the favorable votes of Milford people while some other parts of the county were voting to defeat these same measures, all the while the west end of the county was furnishing the larger share of school revenue. The matter of Minersville having hav-ing a choice of schools to be attended at-tended with the board standing on their decision, having been mentioned men-tioned by some of the Minersville representatives, Mr. Jefferson made a motion that, so far as the business men of Milford are concerned, con-cerned, the Minersville students should go to Beaver, if they so wished that, while Minersville students would be received with "open arms" by the Milford school and people if they should come in the right frame of mind, they were not wanted so long as they or their parents "carried a chip on their shoulders." The motion was seconded and carried enthusiastically enthusiasti-cally by the business men present. In conclusion the members of the visiting delegation thanked the Milford people for the hearing hear-ing and expressed the hope that ! they would try to see the matter as it appears to them. |