DB ee Schools Will Close gy Over 30,000 Ogden City andjthe All-state Band appearing at) S | Z |Weber County school children|a general session Friday night. |) = -|will enjoy a two-day recess/This band is composed of supe-// from classrooms Thursday andirior band students from many| Friday as teachers attend ses-|secondary schools in the state.|) = sions of the 67th annual con-| A team of science teachers) = ference of the Utah Education|from Wahlquist Junior High) ~ +} Association in Salt Lake City. (School in Farr West will demon-|# ~ School Board Will Request Ruling From Attorney ‘gether and solved the transpor- tation problem General with car His suggestion was with “stony” silence. Several teachers in both dis-|Strate > pools. received About 100 angry parents, pro- nights trying to solve it; there’ A former Californian now liv" |testing cutbacks in schoolbus is ‘just so much money,” and ing in Utah tried to tell the ~ |service by the Weber School it must be remembered that parents that in the past children "District, demanded "| portation. They : : tration authorized the adminis-| to request | interpretations: —Definition the One of followingiplaints the recurring concerned com- half-filled buses which could easily pick of the wordjup other children on the way "| “transportation.” _|to school, parents said. —The responsibility of the} Dr. Boren told them if drivers - school board for the safety of|/picked up a child in one area _~ children walking to and fromjout of legal bus range, they school on city, county, state and} would have to do it for taxpayers throughout the district. And federal roads. —A ruling concerning the pos-| that ‘‘just isn’t economically sibility of reimbursement to the |feasible,” he said. Weber School District if bus} Some parenis offered to pay service were to be provided for|driver’s wages and have the "_|the safety of school children. district furnish a bus. However, DESCRIBED CONDITIONS |Clair Folkman, board president tives of fi ? : said such action would be fer. | He was »|Roy = Junior, Roy in panel|the Elementary,|ang shouted down woman who told the Board ings Thursday. Daniel Martino, music Christofferson 7 Shaw, iiskills buses in Roy were one and one-half miles and Norman); team teaching They will illustrate their dem-|- = ‘jing class = ,|school. : Scott sessions Wilson, at their” me superintendent ‘|of buildings and grounds for the |) as Ogden district, president of the}; ||Utah School Employes Associa-|— . ' meetings for the non-teaching | |school personnel. ART DEMONSTRATIONS oS Three art teachers in the Og-|— |den District will demonstrate one | tclassroom teaching skills. ; Dell Taylor of Ben Lomond) High School will show methods of mask making; Robert? | more from the school or to sec- Mrs. from the school. Gladys Hayes of the® Impassioned pleas '_- impassioned set some of the state laws tion—Key a panel Thursday) to discuss “Educa-F to Democracy.” § brought/the district “thas been good to! | responses|you in the past.” His remark); : NEW BISHOP of the Plain City Ward is Wayne. C A. Lew : Grant School faculty will partic- © ipate on scheduled | Valley View and Wahlquist heat- chanced one parent suggest- |. \edly described conditions ONjeq His comment was received | (ame roads where their children have|,,i4, applause. equally = Fletcher of Ogden High School) will demonstrate sculpturing, =~ and water coloring teaching#= techniques will be covered by =| oe Ronald Bergen of Highland Jun-| ior High School. con- ondary students living two miles -. from board members. M. J..was met with exaggerated) ~~ Deamer of North Ogden, re-|groans and some boos. aes. * plied that they had held ‘‘meet-| A former resident of Minne-|) = ing upon meeting on this prob-|sota told the assembly that, inj= = ~~ lem”; that they had lain awake|his state, parents had gotten to-|) Jenkins )~ i |tion, will preside over section) GROANS AND BOOS | Parents’ complaints ran the : | gamut from being “‘leery of chil-| Parents who wanted to know|| ~ ae ae dren catching cold” to prophe- why it was possible to furnish| | ~ cies that ‘‘our children will be|buses last year and not this, were told by Mr. Folkman that . splattered in the streets.” ~ | tech-|7 to walk as far as two miles. soo 3 ae My onstration with films taken dur- — run-— or a will show some unique|#= implemented at Wahl- Piities into niques. ning partly filled. State law regarding transportation was read. The code states in part that school districts are required to furnish transporta-.. tion to elementary students who live at the'= quist, adapting classroom facili-|7 bus service is necessary because of the increased hazards today. “Old timers. who complain or | brag of the distances they walked don’t tell how many children froze to death, got pneumonia or frozen ears and toes from walking miles to school in freezing weather,” she said. The Board authorized district transporation experts to check out thoroughly reports that school techniques Teachers, an arm of the UEA. con-|_ The teachers, Therald Quayle, by that teaching afternoon session of ‘sultant in the Ogden schools, David Lundstrom, LeOra Bus-| [= _ ‘will be guest conductor before|ker, David VandenBosch, Dale angry men and women. On the other hand, considerable applause was given a Representatives of five groups trary to state law. : of parents from South Junior, “Maybe we ought to organize or more j — |tricts will participate \idiscussions and demonstrate|Rocky Mountain Regional Conteaching skills in section meet-|ference of National Science _reinstate- “furnishing good education t0| wajked to school and didn’t suf- 2fe \ment of the service for their the children is the pHMArY! ~ ‘\children in a three-hour meet-|goal.”’ mod ing with the Board of Educa-| “Don’t you think we have _|tion Thursday night. considered thoroughly the chilThe Board, during the protest gon’, safety? We have our : a meeting in which demands and|)., youngsters who have to accusations flew thick and fast,| oi, jike the others if they are took action to obtain informa; ae ; tion from the state attorney Sa i a oo and they're general concerning school trans-|* — nie BED pubbes |= | for UEA Sessions ngry County Parents (center) and second le (left). First counselor is counselor ts “Delmer Lamont Tanner. Har- old Hadley was retained as ward clerk. Released as bishop was Lyman Cook.