Show WHY NOT IN RICHFIELD our incoming legislature will in all probability have to consider the question of the location of junior colleges and our good neighbors to the north in sanpete county and more especially in ephraim have already started a campaign to keep that sort of school in ephraim where the snow college up to the 1932 1933 term a church school now operates as a state institution ution far be it from us to blame our ephraim friends for their efforts to the contrary we consider their early attempts commendable from the standpoint of local patriotism however from the standpoint of general utility we of sevier county and with us all of the counties south of san pete are not only guessing but firmly believing that the logical location for a junior college is richfield our city is the largest in size and population of all the cities in sanpete San pete wayne garfield kane 33 beaver eaver millard and sevier coun ties that part of the state from which most students are sent to the junior college professor john C swenson a member of the state board of education has strongly maintained that richfield would bould be if the legislature can take the establishing establish in of junior colleges into consideration at all the logical location adam S Ec bennion former commissioner of church schools and therefore well acquainted with conditions at ephraim where snow college a former church school is located Is of the same opinion and gave it expression with a somewhat uncomplimentary remark about the present location students of cities larger than ephraim when beginning their college career do not like to go from the larger to the smaller town and for the sake of widening their horizon should not be compelled to do so for all these reasons more especially for size and central location richfield ought to be first and perhaps the only choice for the establishment of a junior college to serve the southern part of the state tha ah main claim Ephr ephraim alra can make of an advantage over richfield is that the buildings of snow college would be given by the church authorities to the state for use at a so nominal price that the expense would be next to nothing it must not be overlooked however that several people who know the two above quoted authorities ties among them and in all probability the members of the snow college faculty themselves will wih frankly admit that these buildings are obsolete and for a real junior college not just a teacher training school entirely inadequate in richfield we expect and must have as soon as the board of education is over its momentarily depressed financial rondi condition a new building to ac coa con the seventh eighth and ninth grades and then the present junior hig high gh building would be splendidly appropriate for housing the junior college it might be added in this connection that the snow college buildings could be utilized to best advantage for the ephraim high school which now has to hold forth in the grade school building it is doubtful that the legislature in view of the expense connected therewith will in this session consider the matter of junior colleges and there even is a danger that on account of lack of funds snow college now to a certain degree at least functioning as a junior college might bo be discontinued entirely in the next school term at any rate richfield sevier county and all those interested in having the junior college located in a larger and centrally situated city ought to follow the good example set by the city of ephraim and boost richfield as the seat of a future junior college |