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Show Grown-Up Lunch Program How Feeds 1,600 Students, Employs 35 The - school lunch program, which started in 1926 as a local project of the Roosevelt elementary elemen-tary school, now serves about . 1,800 students in Duchesne county, coun-ty, 650 in' Roosevelt alone, and employs a staff of 35, working in 11 lunchrooms scattered throughout the county. Mrs. Rella Fieldsted, present- i ly head cook at RHS, was one of the pioneers -in the move--ment. She invites the public to visit any of the county lunch rooms. In the beginning Mrs. Horace Allred, Mrs. Fieldsted, and elementary ele-mentary school faculty members, mem-bers, Mrs. Nora Mathews, the late Mrs. Eva Lewis, Principal Iverson, and Alvin Coombs, assisted as-sisted by townspeople, went around collecting vegetables and meat from local merchants for the soup, the total fare offered in those days. Later the P T A assumed charge of the program: Mrs. Harry Sprouse, Mrs. Fred Fer-ron, Fer-ron, Mrs. Hazel Frizell, Mrs. Mathews, and Mrs. Allred. The federal government, state and school district started jointly joint-ly financing the venture about 15 years ago. In 1935 teachers at the elementary school started carting food for consumption over to the high school. A year later the WPA entered the picture pic-ture with surplus commodities. A better meal was served then for 5c, although the kids still had to bring a sandwich along with them. In 1940 prices were raised to 10c, and in 1945 to 12c. Adults are now charged 25c. |