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Show Snow, Todd Turn Over First Soil Work on the Union high school got off to a ceremonial start Saturday Sat-urday morning, as a bulldozer driven by Louis Snow, of Maple-ton, Maple-ton, turned over the first soil. Actual construction of the building build-ing began Tuesday, with the Ralph Childs Construction Co., Springville, handling the work. Among the approximately 100 spectators at the ground breaking break-ing ceremony were most of the members of the Duchesne and Uintah county school boards. Ray E. Dillman, Roosevelt attorney at-torney and former president of the Roosevelt LDS stake, sounded sound-ed a x theme stressed by other speakers at the ground-breaking ceremony when he called for continued unity in the region. He listed road improvement as a future possibility if the people will work together as they did on the school issue. "The destiny of this section is wrapped up as a unit," he said. Forrest R.' Stone, superintend- ' ent of the Uintah-Ouray agency, told spectators that the new school will help the Indians to properly readjust, themselves, and that the extension of higher educational facilities to the younger generation of Indians would promote a better understanding under-standing between whites and Indians. In-dians. The school is further necessary, ne-cessary, he said, since high school facilities here are inadequate; ; and the people can't afford to send their children away to ,scho?L. . -v Edgar Holder, .-?airman- of tha Duchesne county school board, called the young- people the greatest resource of the region and said they deserved adequate training. Mrs. Samuel A. Haslam, former form-er Uintah school board member from Jensen, said the reason she never lost faith in the project was because it was "so right." Once the school is up. she believes be-lieves no one will doubt whether the project was worthwhile. Harold M. Lundell, superintendent superin-tendent of the Uintah county school district, said that two years ago the project seemed a dream to him, but the money from the government and Indian In-dian department came through sooner than expected. He said the school was needed because of inadequate secondary school facilities. Other speakers called upon to say a few words by Russel Todd, program chairman, were Floyd Holm, Superintendent Duchesne county school board; C. C. Mick-elsen, Mick-elsen, clerk, Duchesne county school board; Ernest Johnson, clerk, Uintah county school ' board; Roy Adams, superintendent superintend-ent of the Whiterocks school; Lorin Ross, Uintah county school board member from Tridell; Ralph Childs, contractor; and Le-land Le-land Stevenson, plumbing and heating contractor. Henry Fetzer, architect, said the new building will be 426 ft. long, and the front corner will be built so it can grow in any direction. The building will contain con-tain a visual-audio department, where motion pictures can be shown. The gym will seat 1450, and a football field and stadium are planned for the future. .Russel Todd turned the first ground with a hand-shovel before be-fore the bulldozer started to work. Snow stated that driving the bulldozer was quite a thrill. He admits never having taken part in such a ceremony before, and says when the work begins on the school, he'll be there. Several of the speakers acknowledged ack-nowledged the work of Senator Arthur V. Watkins in making the high school dream a reality. |