mn OGDEN, nt mpemannp UTAH, ‘MONDAY. EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1959 Election Tomorrow Will Settle Fate of Proposed Schoolrooms — County taxpayers will go to the polls tomorrow to decide whether to borrow 142-million dollars to build new classrooms. If the bond issue is approved, the Weber Board of Education plans to launch immediately a $600,000 program to build up to 38 new ele- mentary classrcoms in South Ogden, Roy and Pleasant View-North Ogden area. Disapproval of the bond issue will, according to Supt. T. H. Bell, mean double sessions next year in Roy and an increase in the number of students already on double session in South Ogden and North Ogden. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Any registered voter who. paid a property tax in the county: —Extension of present double ses- to prevent double sessions at South sions in North Ogden next year to next year. include third and fourth grades.| Because of bona limits set by the Utah Legislature, the board First and second grades are on would be able to sell only about double session there this year. $600,000 worth of bonds by the end —Double session for all South of next year. Supt. Bell said this amount of Ogden. elementary students except sixth graders next year. This would construction could be started ammeinclude Park View, Burch Creek diately because all of the money and Club Heights schools. First and would not be needed until about second grades at Park View and then. © Remainder of the bond issue ‘seventh graders at South Junior High School are in double session funds would be spent over the next three years as repayment of curthis year. _ —Double sessions next year A rent bonds permit. The board has Roy’s Lakeview and Municipal not determined where these funds would be spent. schools. ~The last county school bond issue |” MUST MOVE STUDENTS was for 2%2-million dollars apSupt. Bell said the board of edu- proved by a five to one margin cation would have to transfer South Sept. 24, 1957. The lion’s share of Junior High School ninth graders this issue is financing construction to the new Bonneville High School of the new Bonneville High School as well as build the new classrooms south of Washington Terrace. — school district last year is eligible| “” ' to vote in the special election. The county school district includes all of Weber County outside Ogden _city limits. | Previous actions of the board of , education 'room indicates elementary that a new school will 12- be built in South Ogden, 18 classreoms| added to two Roy schools, six rooms | ‘to the Lomond View school in Pleas- | ant View and the North Ogden. ‘school remodeled .to provide two | | mor e rooms there. . pe AUTHORIZED PLANS The board earlier this year Pe epeetart el tog penne a a au-. thorized . its architect to prepare plans to add 10 rooms to the circular North Park school and eight rooms to the Lakeview school in Roy and to prepare plans for 12-' room elementary schools in South ‘Ogden and Roy. Supt. Bell said bids for the North’ Park and Lakeview additions could be let within a month if the bond issue is approved tomorrow. “The architect is working on the six-room Lomond View addition which would be bid in late November or early December,’ Supt. Bell said. The board is still debating wheth‘er South Ogden’s 12 new classrooms will be a new school or are to be , additions to Park View and Club Heights. If the South Ogden building additions, constitutes then a new 12-room school will be built in Roy instead of the North Park and Lakeview additions. | ._ The board appears to be leaning toward anew school in South Ogden because of difficulties and’ dis| advantages of building additions to existing “schools in that area. ~ Supt. Bell said bids for a new | 12-room school in South Ogden could| be let after Jan. 1. “Tf taxpayers authorize the bond issue and the board acts immediate- ‘ly to get the new classrooms under construction, they should be com i pleted in time to eliminate all | ‘double sessions for at least one “more year,’ Supt. Bell said. - He said disapproval of the bond. issue would present this picture: Owe eer ©