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Show Know Your Schools .... Your Rural Education Conference -. . By Rowan C. Stutz Rural Education Conference Gives ; Direction To Educational Program The Duchesne County School probLems received a critical analysis an-alysis last Thursday and Friday when approximately ninety lay citizens and ninety educators met at Altamont in the Fourth Annual Rural Educational Conference. While the attendance of the people of the county was some what disappointing, dis-appointing, significant recommendations recommend-ations for the solution of our school problems were formulated. The' conference delt with six problem pro-blem areas. Each week this column will report the recommendments of the conference for the solutions to the problems in one' of these areas. Following in the footsteps of signing contracts for three more building projects, the participants considered the future of the building build-ing program in Duchesne' County. Here are some of the recommendations. recommend-ations. 1. In order to take care of the building needs of the Duchesne Elementary, Myton and Neola schools, it is recommended that after af-ter June 30, 1959, when the 5 year commitments of the' present building build-ing program are completed, we continue the present 10 mill levy for building purposes and vote another bond issue to raise sufficient suf-ficient money for these projects. 2. It is recommended that, in- eluded in the future building programs pro-grams be the progressive abandonment abandon-ment of the Roosevelt Jr. High, with plans to continue the' new Jr. High building. 3. It is recommended that we make necessary improvements to our school grounds by concerted community efforts involving the whole . community. The' first step in this endeavor, would be to have some community organization assume as-sume organization responsibility for this beautification project, making a survey of needs first of all. That definite arrangements be made to satisfactorily maintain the ground's and improvements in order to justify the effort of the community in securing them. |