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Show Southeast County School Facilities Inadequate, Citizens Say i Southeast Citizens Protest Inadequate School Fund Use Olympus Jr. High Labeled "Fire Trap'' As Citizens Urge New Modern School A feeling among southeast County residents that school funds for that area are inadequate, came to a head Tuesday evening when eight citizens visited the meeting of the Granite School district board of education at 3212 South State St. Norman G. Berndt, citizens' spokesman, pointed out that more funds should be allocated allo-cated to the southeast area because it is the center of greatest population growth, and therefore has the most acute needs. New Building Proposed The Olympus Junior High School, which takes students from Holladay, East Mill Creek, Highland Center, and as far away as Emigration Canyon, was termed indequate and a "fire trap" by the citizens. Chief reason for the visit of the citizens to the meeting meet-ing was to protest the remodeling of the Olympus School with a $300,000 fund which has been set aside for that school. Instead, the people contended, the money should be spent for construction of a new. modern school building build-ing which can be added to later, when more funds are available. Original plan of the Granite School District for the Olympus School, according to Norman G. Berndt, representative of the citizens' committee, was to ( build a boys' gym and classrooms class-rooms on the west side of the present building, and on the east side the plans called for an auditorium which would have additional space for classes. The board of education had to trim its budget, which required dropping drop-ping plans for the auditorium. The board had proposed that available funds should go towards to-wards remodeling and replaster-ing replaster-ing the present school building. Plan to Be Considered Following Tuesday's meeting however the board approved a plan wherein a citizen's committee, commit-tee, the architect, and board members would meet to study the citizens' -request for a new building. Present from the Holladay Hol-laday Lions were Mr. Berndt, Webster Richards, Joseph Bent-ley Bent-ley and Nate Wagstaff. Other representatives from Holladay were Mrs. Fabian Hickman of the P.-T. A., and Worley Pack, an L. D. S. Big Cottonwood stake high councilman. F. LeRoy Anderson represented the East Mill Creek Lions club, and George Z. Aposhian represented the people of Highland Center. School Facilities Inadequate The Olympus school is dangerously dan-gerously overcrowded, according to Mr. Berndt, especially in view of the present limited facilities. In many classrooms the students have to double up in the seats and others sit on the floor, he said. Water supply and pressure are inadequate to take care of present maximum max-imum daily needs, without considering what would happen if a fire should break out in the school, Mr. Berndt pointed out. He also said that there was insufficient space and facilities to properly take care of the children chil-dren during the lunch hour. |