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Show BEET VACATION EXTENDED FOR CACHE SCHOOLS Logan Schools to Reopen Monday Morning Cache Distict Sets New Time Schedule. Cache county school students stu-dents will continue "beet vacation" va-cation" another week, but Logan student will return to classes Monday, it was ruled Thursday by meetings of the two boards. Logan students who are employed in the beet fields, however, will be granted additional ad-ditional leave, providing the; are employed and make arrangements ar-rangements with their school superintendent,' Dr. E. Allen Bateman, Logan school superintendent su-perintendent announced. County school buses will continue to transport Logan student crews to the beet fields under the present ar-' rangement. The two weeks harvest vacation in both county and city schools was slated to end Monday. However, How-ever, agricultural leaders estimate that the county sugar beet crop is only from 35 to 40 percent harvested, har-vested, so county' school board members decided to extend th vacation. Class time lost in county schools next week will be made up in five Saturday sessions staggered through out the year, Superintendent Kirkbride of the Cache school district dis-trict announced, but these Saturday Sat-urday classes will not be allowed to interefere with students making week end labor trips to move congested con-gested freight at the Utah quartermaster quar-termaster depot, Ogden. NEW TIME SCHEDULE When county schools reopen on Novembef 2, classwork will begin at 10 a.m. instead of 9 a.m., Superintendent Super-intendent Kirkbride revealed. Beginning at this later hour will necessitate use of school buses to transport students from the south end of the county who have been commuting on the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad corporation lines. "We have had numerous complaints com-plaints that students must leave home too early in order to reach 9 a.m. classes," he explained, "and this condition would become greatly great-ly aggravated during the short winter days." The later opening hour is designed design-ed to enable older boys to help with farm work before leaving for school, avoid dangers of driving in early-morning fogs, and reduce lighting expenses in schools. Many schools would require additional ad-ditional wiring, especially in basement base-ment classrooms if the early opening open-ing hours were continued throughout through-out the winter, Cerk Lloyd M. Theurer, explained. County school officials were advised ad-vised Thursday by the railroad officials of-ficials that they would be unable to change schedules to fit the new opening time. They pointed out that the move would require a (Continued on Page Eight) operating a private auto in transportation trans-portation service from Petersboro will expand his route, and another an-other driver to be selected will cover the route starting from Providence. Pro-vidence. Other minor adjustments will be made to accommodate all county students. BEET VACATIION EXTENDED FOR CACHE SCHOOLS (Continued from page One) change in time for a regular train, additional hours for train crews and would curtail movements of beef. WILL RIDE BUSSES "We have adequate buses to transport all students," Mr. Kirkbride Kirk-bride said, "and we can move them by bus at a substantial saving." sav-ing." Students in the north end of the district previousy have traveled- by bus. The new schedule will affect high school student in Providence, Wellsville, Millville, Mendon and Petersboro; ninth grade students in Mendon and some elementary students in Petersboro. About 230 more students will travel by bus starting with the reopening of schools. Bus schedules will be shuffled, eUrmnating the bus starting at Newton and opening another bus route starting from Providence, Superintendent Kirkbride explained. explain-ed. Zeno Anderson, who has been |