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Show Indian School At IVhiferocks How A Public School The school building and equipment that for many years has housed only Indian children at Whiterocks is now under the supervision of the Uintah School District, having been turned over to the county by the Indian In-dian Department. Beginning this fall the school will be used as a public institution and will house both white and Indian children, is an announcement made by Harold M. Lundell, superintendent. Members of the school board, State School Superintendent E. Allen Bateman, and Assistant State Superintendent William P. Miller met recently to discuss the re-districting of the White-rocks White-rocks school in order than' an equal number of Indians and white children will be attending the school. A committee was appointed, Russell Todd, Laren Ross and Mrs. Jack Turner, to meet with representatives of the Indian De. partment, and people from Bennett Ben-nett and Tridell in an effort to outline a suitable district.- 1 Also, at the meeting, Mr. Bateman Bate-man and Mark Nichols, director I of vocational education of the State Department of Education, discussed the value of vocational training, especially for those who have graduated from hign school. Students from the Uintah Uin-tah district can be sent to any of the six vocational schools in Utah, and should be allowed their tuition and additional expenses ex-penses towards the training by Uintah School District, they said. It is particularly important import-ant that those who don't do so well in high school have the op-portunity op-portunity to attend these schools. The six schools are located lo-cated in Provo, Salt Lake City, Price, Ogden, Logan and St George. High school vocational training train-ing should stress the industrial arts, and exploratory vocational courses, they said. |