Show league basketball play out for duration at the w meeting mg of all ja school principals in and superintendents of re gion six which was held here orl on wednesday those in attendance atten went on record card as not net favoring the holding of a state basketball tournament this year and voted unanimously to discontinue league basketball competition this year in this region which includes millard bev beaver iron iran washington and kane kam counties tm this de delon decision lon was made because of f the tire and parts scarcity caused by the war effort and the gasoline rationing program which is being inaugurated december also the state school board recommended that all intense niter school hool contests be discontinued as they pert pertain ain to high schools and junior colle colleges g es they ey had already ordered the discon discontinuance of the use of district 0 owned anoe school busses for that purpose ther therefore re instead of a regular league basketball schedules schedule being played this year those at the meet ing 9 here on wednesday favored ayah favored leaving it up to the a schools rh to a arrange games with neighbor schools which are near with transportation being arranged in private cars for instance exchange games can fer b be arranged with the cedar or ar beaver high schools with only a fraction of the mileage necessary to go to kanab and Or derville something of this nature may be worked out in a short time basketball the only school activity to be affected by uns this decision as a ruling was made recently cancelling all trips to music speech and debate tournaments comm commercial emad and F F A trips by groups and the order by the state school board even prohibited the school bus bm to make extra trips to bring students to school for school fu functions alom such as dances dames plays operas eras eti thu this mean that such activity will be cut out or even curtailed as an effort will be made to have sufficient entertainment features for the students needs in the place of the league basketball keib a 11 and track schedules which aich will be discontinued a definite attempt wit wil be made to arrange a physical fitness program to be carried on for far all students to prepare them for whatever duties they will have to a per perform foral to help out in the war effort in this connection the high school victory corps is being studied this year and will probably be incorporated into the school pm program next year this includes so much physical fitness training each day for every student and may include some military drills the principals and superintendents of this region felt that the schools should lead the way in making sacrifices to further the war effort and take the lead in making the people of the nation realize that such sacrifices have to be made A meeting of local teachers was held the night before with david grulloy gounley Gou iley lloy assistant superintendent of public instruction and a mr samuelson U 0 of the vocational rehabilitation program of the state school board present |