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Show COUNTY SCHOOL STUDENTS TO BE ! ALLOWED TRANSPORTATION MONEY; ACTION TAKEN BY SCHOOL BOARD . At a regular nn-'-tinn of the ebt-r ! county board of education held In Hi First National Bank bultfllng yeStor-1 yeStor-1 day many important Issues were taken l 1 1 1 for discussion. It was voted to take steps to Install a more adequate and irm:-' lnvi ll hi' ill water supply in the Rlvordali school. 'Chairman f w Stratfoi I and Superintendent Super-intendent B A Fowler were appointed to take core of this matter A new policy adopted alter due consideration con-sideration provides for aid in transporting trans-porting pupils to school up to the age : of eighteen years. The conveyances uy'd in the past will he continued j for elementary grades in towns where there are no ninth grades, pupils pu-pils will remain and do the work I there. No transportation' money will I be paid any student who goes away ' from home to do work offered In his ! own home town school. When stu- dents reach the age of eighteen, thev ' must meet their own expense- tVw high I school education. But all ninth, tenth I eleventh and twelfth grade students ! under eighteen, who must come to Og-I Og-I den or elsewhere In Weber county to j do their high school work, will be j allowed transportation money in proportion pro-portion to the distance they live away from the high school, taking into consideration con-sideration also the ease of access to I the school In question. REfrlSE ZONE SYSTEM Thh in necessary been use some I towns further away are connected bV electric car line, anil consequently students may reach the city more qulcklv and at less expense than some towns nearer by mileage Superin-i Superin-i tendent Fowler was appointed to revise ilho zone system and secure best rate?, ' from all car lines so that the amounts1 to be paid to pupils in each town may be fairly proportioned. The pupils, will be triMisp"rii-d lo i igden and may attend any of lhe regular high schools, there. Money will be paid for daysi actually in attendance, and if the pu-l pil finds 11 necessary to come to Ogden I to live tho same amount will be al-; lowed him to apply on board and ' room. NINTH GRIF. Fl TILS I Ogden High school nnd Weber Nor- ' ma I col leg! will accept high school students aboye the ninth grades, ondj .will do what they can to bundle ninth j grade pupils from towns where there 'are no ninth grades maintained lo-1 I dally Weber Normal college Is ar-i I ranging to hold classes for about 100 , pupils of ninth grade standing if th j come from towns with no ninth grade. Superintendent w. Karl Hopkins of . the )gden cltj schools assures t he i I county students they win bo welcome as far as space vvlll permit He thinks j they can take care of all who apply, as baSed upon estimates of thosr who; have registered from the county other ! years. It was voted to purchase phono-, graphs for use In each school, if re-i quests come in from tho local school' accompanied by 525 for half the pur-chase pur-chase price. The local school will raise money for their hnlf of the cost I by giving muslcalea or entertainments I of educational value to the com-I com-I munitv. In th.w way ihey secure funds1 'for records, and have the pupils take i '.active interest in the ownership and! care of such instruments |