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Show Board Chooses Alternate Name Chamber Aide Protests Choice "The Board of Education apparently ignored the desires of Sugar House residents" the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Kiuanis and Lions Clubs in deciding upon an alternate name for their High School." That was the comment Wednesday of D. James Cannon, executive secretary of Sugar House Chamber. Mr. Cannon led the fight to have the name changed from its original designation of "Southeast High School," but the delegate who attended the Kbard meeting was instructed to inform the Board that "Sugar House" was the name preferred. Highland High School that's the name of the new school under construction on the old prison site in Sugar House. Salt Lake Board of Education members renamed the new edifice edi-fice at their meeting Tuesday night. They re-opened the issue after businessmen and residents protested their original choice of South- east High School as name for the new building. Surveys both in Salt Lake Daily and the News Bulletin, as well as one conducted by the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce among area businessmen, had indicated in-dicated a preference for the name Sugar House High School. However, board officials pointed point-ed out that outside the immediate immedi-ate area, Sugar House is not known and understood to be of great historical (significance.. There was no opposition to the names Bonneville and Highland, and the board by vote chose the latter name. R. W. Brashear of the Bulletin represented the Sugar House Chamber, and Lavor Chaffin reported re-ported on the poll taken by the Deseret News-Salt Lake Telegram. Tele-gram. Mr. Chaffin said a great many (Continued on Page 2) I School Board Chooses Alternate Name I pected enrollment increase of 6,400 students. A 1-mill levy to be tacked onto the bond issue would bring in $350,000 for added operating costs. Boyd M. Pevton, 32-year-old arithimetic and physical education educa-tion instructor at Dilworth school, was named principal for one of the city's new elementary schools to be opened in the fall. - m BwiipHiiiMup mi " n I'm II' iHTi"n'w'"nr"iinTr I 1 v j i I , t I - . : S f m i 1. (Continued from Page 1) different names were submitted. , They ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime. Many persons chose the names of pioneer resi- i dents and some included the names i of President Eisenhower and ' David O. McKay, president of the LDS Church. The most ridiculous it brought a laugh from the board was Prison High. The school colors would be black and white stripes and the emblem a ball and chain. Board members voted only on the three highest voted names, giving their choice to Highland. In other business, the board agreed that a special election on the proposed 7 million dollar bond issue would have to be conducted. con-ducted. They also postponed setting set-ting the date for the election until March 27. The bond issue was proposed to provide funds for construction of classrooms to house an ex- Capt. F. Clark Sanford reported back to official duties at his post as head of the traffic division di-vision today. Sanford, former City Police Shief, and recent captain of the Sugar House division, has been hospitalized with pneumonia. |