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Show COUNTY SCHOOLS WILL BE CLOSED More than 15,000 school children in Utah will be compelled to stop school between now and April 1 as the dis trlct are short of funds. This an nouncement was made yesterdav by Dr. E G. Gowanp after he returned from a trip through I'tah county and read letters from several counties in which it was staled that owing to the lack of funds it would be impossible to continue the school to the full legal limit of nine months. The northern part of the state is not the only part affected by the shortness of school funds, as Mosiah hall, state hlRh school inspector, returned from Carbon and Kmery counties yesterday and declared that in both counties it was necessary to curtail the school term one month. The schools of Millard county have already closed 2,600 children of that county being without instruction The high schools in larger towns continue. Box Elder county schools will close March 31, and Dr. Gowans is to make a trip to Brigham City and to other points In the county today to determine de-termine whether or not aid can be given the schools and to see whether or not the school districts cannot issue is-sue bonds to keep the schools going for the full nine months Practically all the counties in the southern pari of the state will be forced to close their schools on ac count of the shortness of funds. Dr. Gowans announced yesterday that he would figure out the per capita amount j due the different counties which aro 'to participate in the $20. ono appropria. tion which was made by ihe legislature legisla-ture in order that the schools of the smaller counties might keep going through the legal school year ' The school problem is one for which there does not appear to be a solution at this time." said Or fiflwa.ni "The school year is nine months in this state, but the necessary funds are nev. er at hand to supply the schools with I the cash they need It is a shame the Sash they need, it is a sham1 that 15,000 or more school children of the State should be subjected to lay oft from school but It is necessary in I view f the facts as they exist." |