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Show School Child Safety Program Temporarily Solved at Meeting Of Officials, Parents Sunday the parents involved, they were not notified of the change for this year until relatively few days ago, hence the parents' emergency mec-ting last Sunday night. In addition to the parents of elementary students in the area, the meeting was attended by Niels Fugal, local Alpine District School Board member, Principal Calvin Walker of Central School and City Councilman Lewis J. Harmer. All sides of the matter were fully discussed during the evening and the following committee was appointed ap-pointed to advise with school officials of-ficials in an effort to work out a solution satisfactory to all concerned. con-cerned. The following were designated desig-nated to serve on the committee: Don Crump, chairman; Professor Profes-sor Wall of the BYU; Bill Hoag-land, Hoag-land, Garth Bradford, Mrs. Dora Christiansen and Mrs. Benjamin Romm. During the course of the discussion, discus-sion, Principal Walker suggested that the problem might be solved by an interchange of Central and A hazardous school child safety problem was solved temporarily last Sunday night at a meeting held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Garth Christiansen, 40 Maple Lane, this city. The meeting was called to see what could be done to obviate ob-viate the necessity of elementary school children crossing busy Highway High-way 91, in order to get to Central School. According to parents of the Alpine Al-pine Builders subdivision area, the elementary students from this part of town attended the Grovecrest School last year, and as a consequence con-sequence were provided free bus transportation. This year, with the completion of the new Central School addition, addi-tion, the boys and girls were transferred trans-ferred to the Central with no transportation, since the distance was not such as to warrant conveying con-veying the children by bus at school district expense. The transfer trans-fer of the students to Central was necessary to balance pupil-teacher load, school officials said. For some reason, according to Grovecrest students, which would permit the Alpine Builders subdivision sub-division students to return to the Grovecrest school and thus be legally leg-ally provided with free transportation. transpor-tation. As of Tuesday morning this seems to be the best solution for this year at least; but the problem prob-lem is solved only temporarily. As population continues to expand ex-pand in the north-eastern part of the city, such a transfer of students stu-dents to Grovecrest School . may not be possible. Traffic on Highway High-way 91 will never be less than it is today, but will continue to increase in-crease as time goes on. Parents, city and school officials and others interested in child safety could do well to continue their efforts until a satisfactory solution is worked out. It is interesting to note that throughout the entire Pleasant Grove area there is not one full-stop full-stop semaphore by means of which motorists or pedestrians may cross Highway 91 in complete safety. |