's House of Representatives r first official glimpse of the new hillside campus and buildings this and local ives, accompanied by several state officials, are here to see classrooms, laboratories, students and teachers in action. Since they were here last two years ago, four new classroom buildings have been finished and are now occupied. Also completed are the new heating plant and a stadium with a view. Here One Hour Lawmakers will be here from 9:30 to 10:30. After a guided tour of all facilities they will be welcomed and briefed on some of the school’s most pressing problems by President William P. Miller. These will doubtless include mention of We- ber’s three bills now in legislative hoppers at the State Capitol for about 25 more acres of land south of here, two years and operating expenses new buildings. for the next The President will explain that urgently needDoW are a new vocational building and a new gymnasium to further centralize activities on the upper campus site. | idential It has already been pointed out often that this would bring about considerable savings to the state: (1) The Vocational Building and the Cen- tral Building could then be used to house various state functions for which the state is now paying ‘rent; (2) the annexes and the West Central] Building could be closed and sold: (3) opera- tional and maintenance expenses for the Moench and those Gymnasium structures Church. Valued Now buildings would at $400,000 would revert cease to since the L.D.S. : of all or part of this would assist materially in construction on the upper ~ PPS must | their duties, the solons were planning to visit other state institutions in this area, probably including the Utah State Industrial School, the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, and the Utah Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Local offiicals accompanying the group during their Weber visit include members of the Ogden ings, has been estimated at about $400,000. Sale President Miller is also expected to tell legislators that on the basis of children now born, enrollments here will have risen by 1975 to a point requiring at least 25 more acres for buildings and other facilities. The present rate of res- “we Before returning to Salt Lake City to resume ; cluding, of course, the Moench and Gym buildnew means Other Stops Planned 2 Value of lower campus buildings and land, ex- financing needed campus. building in this area buy it now or never,” according to Dr. Miller, After the upper campus visit, members of Utah’s 60-man House will be taken by bus to the lower campus where they will be shown at — first hand the state’s investment in buildings and lands there. Incidentally, today is a homecoming for at least one member of the lawmaking delegation. He is Speaker of the House Charles E. Peterson, former Weber student. . | Chamber of Commerce, the Weber College Ad- visory Board, and also city and county officials. Several wives and husbands of legisJators and staff members teeta nid Paid ee oe —— | are also here.