Show KING ii ANSWERS OGDEN ANSWERS I OGDEN CHARGE Salt Lake School Board Clerk Declares Require Require- Requirements Requirements ments Met With SALT LAKE Jan Relative 18 Relative to action bel being nil taken by the eber count countI board o of education and the Ogden board beard of education to the Salt Sail Lake Lako board Loard of at education from I Ing out of at the state fund money which will III mean a lose Iou of at between and to other districts of the state tate George King Kins clerk ot of f the Salt Lake board of at education made the follow follow- followIng tollow Ing statement last night The Silt Salt Lake City ed ed those children of school age vho eho were actual residents of tho dis Wa district dining the lie time specified In the state law The The office of at o the state superintendent superintendent superintendent of public Instruction was as as con con- consulted con consulted suIted before bet ore It II I was nag as decided to take the additional time required to re- re recheck check re-check check this lears lear's i ears ear's census figures re-I re After Atter the tho totals were wore ed at atthe the repot repot t was as as taken to the state Sll 1 so- so su superintendent s a office and carefully e eI cx- cx ex explained I The state authorities took the necessary time to go Into Int the mat mat- matter tel ter carefully and after consulting with the attorney general decided to oc accept the census report as aa tiled filed I are aro we ha baSe hae e complied with all the requirements of at atthe othe the la law and the Salt Lake Lale City will Ill finally receive reecho distribution I tion lion of at state mone s on the basis o othe of the census report as a filed tiled Our opinion Is that the law JoeR JoeRnot not require that census reports shall he be filed flied by November No oember 10 with the state superintendent of at public Instruction lion tion but that it es the thes shall shaH be lIed fled as soon as possible thereafter thereafter thereafter ter The Ogden board of education and the Weber 1 county board of education represented respectively el In the legal proceedings by Superintendents W Karl Hopkins and B A Fowler maintain main main- tain that the law requires the con con- census cen census sus of at a 0 school district to be flied filed b November No 10 It Is alleged ed that Mr King of at the Salt Lake board did not tile file his report until December 26 and that before filing tiling It a shortage ot of approximately 1200 students had been noted In the Salt Lake schools which shortage had hod been boon mad made up before boore tho report a was finally IY fil d |