Show 1500 students transported each day to schools in 29 buses travel over 1425 miles I Transporting an average of pupils and students to Duchesne County Schools is transportation with a capital This bus transportation Is probably the biggest transportation business in the The county's 29 buses operate an average of miles daily on school days to make the round About two-thirds of the total enrollment in the district ride the school For this the school district outlays nearly a including cost of maintenance and Last cash outlay for bus transportation was The state's portion of this cost was from the uniform school reports Rowan C. Bus schedules are made on each Earliest pick-up of a pupil Is at an hour before the bus arrives at the The Fruitland is the longest of the 29 It is driven by Ray who at and picks up an average of 31 pupils and students in this West Duchesne County agricultural and transports them to the Duchesne Elementary and Duchesne High For maintenance of these the school district operates two repair shops and a maintenance Eldredge Buckalew and Delmore Ivie are the mechanics at the Duchesne school bus Byron Bow-den and Shirl Williams are employed in this capacity at the Roosevelt shop and I. R. is maintenance man at the center at where grease jobs are done and tires Stutz oldest bus is a 1950 and two new units are to be assigned to the routes this week to replace these older Tills is a practice the school board has carried out for several years buying two new units a year to keep from meeting a big obsolescence problem which would necessitate cash outlay for several new at a Buses owned by the district now include nine 16 of the 2 42 36 12 Fourteen of these school buses are housed In a district-made portable type placed at the home of the bus Housing of these buses facilitate getting them started in cold weather and it protects them for weather and vandal The garage built of lumber and sheet are transported on a flat bed Built at a cost averaging a unit by school district six more are to be built this to complete this bus-garage project started two years ago by the board of education Other buses are housed at the maintenance garages or These school buses are safety-checked by the Utah Highway Patrol annually at this time of the school district officials and workmen are safety Buses are kept in such good the safety rating is high after the safety But drivers meet chauffeur's licensing It has been years and years since buses of the Duchesne County School District were involved in a serious resulting in property damage or loss of Public property personal injury insurance is the chief Insurance coverage carried by the school district on this fleet of HIS BIG ONE Harold Duchesne City Is proud of his mid-September catch from Rock Creek a German Brown trout he caught Tho big fellow measured Inches and tipped the scales at 5 2 Sharkey says it's about tho biggest trout he's caught in all his years of The big one was hooked with a |