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Show Kiwanis Plans Mu-: Mu-: seum for School In the last meetnlg of the Bingham Bing-ham Kiwanis Club, January 22nd, tentative plans were made for a museum to be located in the new high school bulding at Copperton. where suitable space for such an undertaking will be reserved. It is contemplated that in this museum the story of Bingham from 4 Pioneer days up to the present will be depicted in various forms; by re lies, photographs, documents, etc., and also the story of the mining Industry here will be shown in a ( similar manner: that models will te constructed showing various phases of development In the Industry In-dustry and that one of the principal exhibits will be a large topographic topograph-ic model of the district. This project Is undertaken with the idea that it will prove to be something of general interest to the people of the community, that it will tell a complete story of the camp to the visitor and that It will he of great educational Value to the' students of the school. To carry a venture of such mag- nitude through to a successful finish fin-ish Kiwanis invites the cooperation of all organizations, the school faculty fac-ulty and student body, the board of education, and the town board of trustees s well as the various mining min-ing companies and all Individuals, iwho are Interested. - Dr. Paul Richards, representative froaj Bingham on the Jordan district dis-trict Hoard of Education, who is responsible re-sponsible for this splendid idea, was In charge of the program. The guest speaker was Dr. Edgar M. Ledyard of the United States Mining Oompany organization, who told of many interesting points In . the history of Utah and Bingham and gave many helpful suggestions with reference to this project. He also promised his help and the sup-. sup-. port of his company. ' 'Mr. Thomas McMullln, Principal spoke on behalf of the school facul-' facul-' " ; ty. In Mr. McMullln's opinion, a , , . uuiwttuin such -u-Uki offered exceptional excep-tional educational opportunities for the students especially to those who would participate in Its continuation, continua-tion, In history, literature, art and scientific research. Mr. Walter Bolic, President of w tlie Btudent Body, spoke briefly, ex-pressing ex-pressing the appreciation of the students. On behalf of Mr. W, W Wilson, President of the Board of Education, Educa-tion, Dr.' Richards promised all possible cooperation from the Board and stated that the largest plans should be made as soon as possible, within the next two weeks, so that e the school building could be ar ranged accordingly. President Norden changed the Public Affairs Committee," Louis , Buchman, chairman, Russell Frazler, Fra-zler, Wayne Shelley, Geo. Earl, C. L. Countryman, leland Walker, H. B. Aven, with this Job and it Is expected ex-pected thnt by the time the new High School Is ready for occupancy this work will be well under way. Rev. D. A. McCleneghan reported for the committee on employment and stated that It was the concensus concen-sus of opinion of this body that the County Commission should again be urged to lend some aid in this critical situation, and moved that a letter le presented to the commission com-mission which met with the unanimous unani-mous approval of the club. In the letter which was sent to the County Commlsisoners it was pointed out that the , Relief Committee Com-mittee has raised about $2,000 dollars dol-lars for local relief which sum is practically exhausted and .that un-ier un-ier these circumstances the Com- aj mission should appropriate an amount from the improvement fund to be expended in public improvement improve-ment and maintenance and at the same time give work to the unemployed unem-ployed of the Bingham district. |