| Show I RESIST SCHOOL CENSUS GRAB ORAB I Ogden and Weber County Oppose Salt Lakes Lake's Action Legal step steps riel'S are ar under way tsay to en- en en join enjoin the th Suit Salt Lake lle board bord of or education from r ln cel Ing out of the th tato school fund money which vM Ill sili mean a loss lose of bet between een and to the other othel school chool of or the state This announcement nt was waa made mado mad this morning n by Superintendent B A Fowler of the th Weber county board of education He and Superintendent V Hart Hopkins of the Ogden city board if t on have hate been empowered to proceed In the matter It Is I under Under- understood stood that the he t two tao 0 superintendents have the th backing b of school chool dis- dis districts dis districts of the state u n 0 ov s 's Tho The appropriation received by any school chool district I li is based upon the cen- cen cen census sus su report r port which the 11 law IV requires require r to he made between October 16 15 1 and 31 Tho law lan also elso al o requires the clerk of a aboard aboard board of ot education to make makr up his hi le- le leport port le-port 01 port of or the th numb number r of students student In th tbS tb'S district by the tho following November embEr 10 and Immediately to file It It 11 the tato superintendent of public 1 The law was wae wa complied with by the Ogden city board of 01 education the Wisher county board of education and practically all other school districts district In Inthe inthe Inthe the state tate George Geor e King clerk of the Salt La Lako ko hoard of education however It Is un- un Understood un understood on or about November 10 telephoned the state stat superintendent s B Boffice office to the effect that the Salt Bait Lake census enus had not been completed and Paid ald that he would tile file It as S soon BOOn as possible SHORTAGE SUO X N It In Is alleged that before he h tIIe tiled flied l the th report It had been discovered that the report would show how a shortage of about 1200 students and that thIs thia thi shortage wal w va made up before the report via sta filed tiled on December 26 According to school officials con con con- the It Is 1 I alleged that prior to filing the tho r report port George King sought the tho adIce ad Ice of lIart Haney ey H Cluff attorney general who Is alleged Ito to hate ic told him that It would not be bo al illegal to hold back tho the filing tiling of the th report Superintendent Fowler said ld this forenoon that no effort sas as being Tade to pre present ent the Salt Lake board of education from receiving Its just amount of the school fund Ho to added ho however tr e that both he and Superintendent Hopkins as well las 88 the th two boards of education hit felt that the necessary steps ps should be betaken taken to safeguard the funds of the of the th school districts In Inthe inthe the state 00 |
