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Show SUGAR HOUSE HIGH SCHOOL C of C Asks Larger Auditorium, but School Chiefs Deaf Anticipating that Sugar House win grow and that the new proposed pro-posed high school auditorium can be used for public meetings, a group of the chamber of comerce this week asked two things of the man and Horace Richards, all of Sugar Mouse and members of the school board; Earl Macer and other school officials connected with buildings, grounds, teaching staffs and school principals. Salt Lake school district board: 1. That the new school auditorium audi-torium be large enough to accommodate accom-modate large gatherings, and 2. That the new school be named officially the Sugar House high school. John C. Barnes, spokesman for the business group, with wit and caustic phrases, let it be known "that we don't think we'll get any place with you, because you most likely have made up your own minds on these matters." Dr. M. Lynn Bennion, superintendent superin-tendent of schools, presented Lorenzo Lor-enzo Young, architect, whose firm has already drawn up proposed plans for the $4,000,000 high school and which plans call for an auditorium with a seating capacity ca-pacity of only 2500, the maximum number anticipated to enroll in the new school which may be com. pleted in about four years. Pointing out that the auditorium projected before the citizens earlier had promise of sufficient space to take care of large public gatherings, Mr. Barnes declared in his opinion Sugar House would grow and that 2500 seats would be insufficient to accomodate some of the future assemblages. The spokesman demanded "a compromise of 1000 more seats" be added to the building. Dr. Bennion did not warm to the idea, and other spokesmen said they believed in the future some public auditorium not connected con-nected with the school should be built. However, Mr. Barnes adroitly pointed out that "one thousand seats more could be added to the 2500 more reasonable, economically economical-ly and easily than building another an-other public meeting house." The proposed auditorium with 2500 seats would be second only to the LDS Tabernacle for seating capacity, Mr. Young said. Howard Barker, school superintendent superin-tendent of buildings and grounds, said none of the other auditoriums with the exception- of East high school's is ever filled to overflowing overflow-ing for school purposes However, with a contimplated growth of thousands more anticipated antici-pated in the southeastern area of the city, it was felt an additional high school sometime might have to be added, the superintendent reported. re-ported. Mr. Barnes pointed out that the area considered to be Sugar House might well be taken as the same area as served by the US post office which serves everything south of Ninth South and East of Fifth East to the Mountains. Dr. Bennion said the school building system in Salt Lake was appalling, and that repair to old buildings, more additions and contemplated con-templated new buildings would make it financially unfeasable at this time tc- vary much from the plans drawn up by the engineers, Neisen Bank and James Cannon, chamber of commerce executives, along with a solid committee of businessmen supported Mr. Barnes in his arguments both for the larger auditorium and for the Suger House high school name for the new unit. Officials -attending the meeting which was called at the Irving junior high school included City Commissioner Grant Burbidg, Mrs. A. R. Curtis, Legrande P. Back- |