Show school heads discuss youth problems The combined School Board of Duchesne and Uintah school administrators and Vernal and Roosevelt City Police forces met Friday at the Union High School to discuss youth problems that had occurred following the Wednesday basketball game between Union and Uintah High Schools VERNAL CITY Police had reported that considerable disturbance had been caused be-tween rival youth groups following the basketball gam which led to some fighting and name it didn't appear that it had stemmed directly from the basketball game but was a continuation of a long feud had erupted from time to time between the two Mayor Sullivan of Roosevelt reported that a gang fight had almost taken place between young people of the two communities at the Roosevelt airport during the U cole- j bration last He stated 64 car loads of young people t were Other were reported of a See POLICE DISCUSS Page 10 Police Discuss Continued from Page nature that had taken place during the past summer in both the Vernal and Roosevelt THE PROBLEMS following the ball game apparently was an aftermath of some Union High School students having had their hub caps stolen when they attended the Sweetheart Ball which was held the preceding Saturday at the Uintah High School for students of the basin area schools Students of the Union High School felt that someone in the Vernal area was responsible for the hub caps being The police reported that most of the trouble was caused by alumni students of the two schools and that actual students were involved mainly as spectators who followed each other from one center of disturbance to IT WAS determined by those present at the meeting that this problem went beyond the responsibility of the two schools and that city and county officials and particularly parents in both areas were more directly responsible to take some definite action to curb the reoccurrences of such The combined School Board members of the two counties passed a joint motion requesting the administrators of bot h Uintah and Union High Schools to take some immediate action which included appealing to their student bodies to refrain from such action in the future and to take special action with those students who were known instigators of such disturbances in the It was also agreed that if such problems continued that action may have to be taken to curb all direct competitive activities between the two It was also pointed out that the Utah Activities Association could rule both Uintah and Union teams ineligible for state participation if there were a of such Tire POLICE FORCE of both cities promised their full support and planned to take much stricter action against those young people participating in such disturbances in the An appeal was made to parents to show better sportsmanship themselves and to assume more responsibility for the action of their own young people in discouraging their participation In this type of mob action and article submitted by J C Haws of Uintah |