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Show Vast Development Projects Loom For Southeast Salt Lake needed improvements are expected ex-pected from the 1 1-2 mill building build-ing fund levy adopted by the board of education following legislative action at the last session which permitted an increase in-crease in the levy. The new levy is expected to add S219.000 yearly to the board's building fund. Actual work on the contemplated con-templated school structures will start as soon as labor and materials ma-terials are available. But spring is still a long way off, and youngsters in the area can look forward to at least one more year of badly cramped quarters. Again next fall, as was the case last year, extra classroom space will 'have to be obtained, and probably more-of it, as the school population is growing by leaps and bounds. Last year classes were held in the Parley's, Sugar House 'and Edgehill ward chapels. Impetus to the vast projected improvement program for Sugar House and the enlire southeast area was received Tuesday when first steps were taken toward the organization of a permanent planning board. Meeting at the Sprague library under the leadership of John C. Barnes, president of the Sugar Su-gar House Chamber, representatives represen-tatives of various civic groups named Horace B. Richards chairman of the board, with Sidney M. Harmon as vice chairman, and Mrs. Lucille B. Crowther as secretary. The nucleus of the permanent perma-nent board which will finally have Representatives from all civic groups and agencies also includes Willard B. Richards of the Rotary Club and Carl Brown of the American Legion. The board's chairman is also chairman of the public affairs committee of the chamber which has taken the initiative in developing the idea of a permanent per-manent planning board. Big changes and improve-ments improve-ments for the area are in store as the board develops the numerous nu-merous expansive postwar projects pro-jects already under serious consideration. Among the first .big improvements is the proposed pro-posed widening of Twenty-first South Street through the business busi-ness district into a six-lane highway. Removal of the prison pris-on and development of the pres-. ent prison property also includes in-cludes a variety of projects. Among these are the building build-ing of a new high school, a city park and a veterans' memorial me-morial in the form of a civic auditorium. A winter sports palace is another possibility. possi-bility. Already the school board,- faced- with a critical shortage of facilities for the ever expanding residential area in this district, is contemplat ing two new elementary school buildings. It is expected work will be started next-spring on a 13-room structure, to cost $160,000 on a 10-acre plot at Twenty-first East and Twentieth South Streets, and a S50.000 addition to the Highland Park School. Funds for these last two much- |