Show local board of I 1 education trenches retrenches Re the board 0 of education n of the park city schools Is this year faced with the necessity of making drastic retrench ments in order to balance 1 its budget the normal valuation atio 1 of the park city school district Is a about bou t ten million dollars because cau se of deficits in mining during the pas post y year ear assessed valuations for 1932 will probably not exceed two million dollars this Is a shrinkage to one fifth of normal to meet this situation the board Is leven compelled to cut every budget item even the instruction and salary item has suffered the pruning knife last year os as an economy measure the board closed the washington elementary school and absorbed the pupils in lincoln and jefferson grades this a eliminated three teachers a janitor and the operating costs ot of one building further curtail ments ot of personnel in the grades tor for next year Is impossible unless there Is a decided drop in enrollment however the board saw an opportunity to suspend some departments in the high school pending better times and made a few temporary suspensions tor for the coming year departments ol of foreign languages athletic coaching military science clence r and the high school were the ones finally decided upon lor for I 1 suspension classes except foreign I 1 languages an now being conducted by teachers a affected will be given to remaining teachers thereby increasing the average teaching load the high school principal S hip and the will be combined as has been the case in park city in past years for many years teacher contracts have been issued on a basis ot of forty consecutive weeks including all authorized vacations ca eions teachers have been paid for ten school months originally payments were made in ten equal school monthly I 1 installments for the past two years at request ot of teachers themselves the annual hasl salary tor for ten school months has been paid in twelve equal calendar mon monthly athly installments i for the coming year the board has contracted to pay a given school monthly sa salary lary lor for no specified number of 0 months the exact language Is that the monthly salary will be paid as long as funds will justify the given amount was determined by taking one tenth of each teachers present annual salary and reducing th this is traction fraction 15 per cent although no definite number of months are stipulated tor for next year it Is hoped by school officers that the schools may remain open at least ei eight months ship for which the temple was established v but what became of its people you ask why did they desert their cities and their temples to the malicious ravages of the jungle you answer it we cannot all we can say Is it seemed to us that it if we would tarry until the moon were lull full those cratty crafty people would return and again do things there now that the jungle has been pulled butof the carved galleries now that the causeways have been rebuilt and now that tha t the massive gates have been restored now let me say something that may seem strange to you I 1 so often say such things dont I 1 even my closer view of wat has tailed failed to give it a real existence it still seems as if dr hall and I 1 must have dreamed the same dream and I 1 lor for one wonder it if Is real or it if it Is the lingering memory ot of a fairy tale read as a child and whose imagery has now been resurrected how can one account lor for a w whole h Is race out of its own land its c cities ties so and nd conceive of that race wandering into the perilous unknown it t makes 0 one ne ask many questions it lo 10 loath a th t to 0 leave it even tor for an hour still the call to dinner at the hotel des bulnes took us back to our rooms for a wash and then to dinner but in the evening we went back over the causeway across the wide moat and up the long avenue that led us to the temple proper the little folks of stem siem reap vied with each other tor for the privilege to light our way little did they realize that their resinous fl ickers really detracted from the wonderful sight belots us i 1 what took place before the wat that night led us to believe the kamers had bad returned for the night at least and that our calendar had suddenly been turned back a thousand years while we were eating our dinner item from the night somewhere in the old temple came the chanting of priests in a ritual whose hypnotic tone and rhythm must have seemed familiar to those surrounding jungles I 1 the chant had an aery sound nothing really seemed real that night at we wondered if it ever could seem rea real who shall say that at the voices of those bonzes were not the echoes lost loft in those very temples and jungles huni hun nun I 1 deeds of years ago just finding their way back there that night it all seemed such a treat and such a great mystery to us that night I 1 A friend from saigon introduced us to a real figure a starved looking mani with hallow eyes a man dressed in thel the garments Ear ments of a king with a high terraced I 1 I 1 crown on his head and a scepter in one hand this Is the king of said our friend with a smile there were ali ali i ready enough mysteries there without adding another that of this unexplained king to the list that introduction cost us each a tip I 1 think the regular revenue of the realm must have been very low for all the king had to exist upon I 1 apparently were the tha dimes given him by tourists soon he will ill need an annual house leaning cleaning C of the regalia he is adorned w with ith and when he comes to that he will be e in line for new lest vestments ments I 1 am sure tor for these present ones are preserved i in their present state as much by their layers of filth as by the warp and the woof of the textiles or by tho the other decors decora eions alons end and appendages themselves we hope generous subjects will bo be present when that time cornea comes so our man wont lose his modesty or kingly prestige this figure then was one more of those un uni I 1 canny things that were at an unexplained king who wanders about the temple 61 sleeping ping among its shrines find and offering his own insane prayers to tho the departed gods of while the doctor and I 1 idere were meeting the king the little folks of the village formed a s square quare and made a low hedge of flame about this with their torches some borne sig continued on page four |