State Aid Urged as School Board Pushes Salary Increase
A special meeting of the State School Board Association urged a statewide program to boost school district funding. Iron County educators prepared a questionnaire for districts while Salt Lake hosts a follow up hearing. The group seeks raises up to 200 dollars to keep trained teachers amid defense industry pay competition and tax revenue shortfalls impacting Utah schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Good Board Association
Dagay Ath
Iron County of Education
Jah Board of Education
Salt Lake
Ass'n
Defense Industries
Utah
Irenty
Nis
School Board Association 15
Forest Ranger Reports Yankee Overflow Feeds Reservoir
Ranger Wilford Bentley of Cedar City reports Yankee reservoir runoff already overflowing with snow still reaching water’s edge on east and south shores. Water up to Moor of the Gun and Rod cabin. a sizeable stream flows from overflow and mud blocks the old mountain road. Bentley expects warm weather to ease conditions after a wet snowy sleet storm at Five Mile Friday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilford Bentley
Cedar City
Yankee Reservoir
Bentley
Graduation Exercises Please Large Audience at Parowan High
The Parowan High School commencement last Friday drew a large audience as the class, under supervisor Louis Bowen, presented a program including music, a senior address, diplomas, and a skit about student futures. After the ceremony, an industrial arts exhibit was shown and seniors gifted the school a flag set for inside use and band performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paro-wan High School
Louis Bowen
Florence Marsden
Arlene Stubbs
Ile
Bryce Melon
Leonard Rowley
Mr. Bowen
Budd Halterman
Industrial Arts
Exchange Club Plans City Clean-Up Day Efforts
Parowan Exchange Club at a luncheon voted to cooperate with Parowan City on a city-wide clean-up day set for the coming Saturday. Members formed a committee to ensure success, targeting yards, vacant lots, and street cleanup. Additional notes cover typhoid immunization inquiries, a possible full-time game warden at Yankee reservoir, and upcoming officer elections and a ladies night program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parowan Exchange Club
Fenton's
Parowan City
AD Club
John W. Bentley
State Fish and Game Department
Barden
Yankee Reservoir
Clair Hulet
Five Mile
Ray D. Garner
W. Clair Rowley
Marlo Topham
New Teachers Approved for County Schools
Two new teachers were approved to join Parowan High School replacing staff leaving this spring. Miss Losi Sargent from Summit County will teach speech and dramatic art, and Miss Lillian Lyman from Moab will teach social science. Both are graduates of Utah State Agricultural College. The district also added Monte O. Bailey of Nephi to Cedar City High replacing Fisyd Slater, Elvut Downs of Afton Wyoming will replace Horace Gunn in the Age Department, and Eardley Madsen moves to that school. Bailey coaches in Wyoming this year. Alen DeLong becomes Cedar High Librarian. Junior High sees Lamont Thornock promoted to replace Charles Griffin, with Miss Verla Jean Miller filling Thornock’s former grade position. Elizabeth Manning replaces Christenisen. Fern Holt replaces Cartwright. Estella Davis fills another Cedar City grade vacancy. Morris Rowley will be Paragonah principal next year. A telegram to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Orton reports birth of a baby boy on May 16 at Salt Lake City’s LDB hospital. LaMar plans a home visit before returning to Marysvale, California. Mrs. Toma Adams Snyder of Salt Lake City visits here this week with her parents and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parowan High School
Losi Sargent
Summit County
G. W. Elliott
Lillian Lyman
Moab
Louis Bowen
Utah State Agricultural College
Monte 0
Bailey
Nephi
Fisyd Slater
Cedar City High
Elvut Downs
Afton
Wyoming
Horace Gunn
Eardley Madsen
Mr. Bailey
Aileen DeLong
Cedar High
Lamont Thornock
Charles Griffin
Thornock
Verla
Jean Miller
Elizabeth Manning
Christenisen
Fern Holt
Miss Cartwright
Estella Davis
Cedar City
Morris Rowley
Ranatrra Ete
Paragonah
Fourteen Day Furloughs for Army Inductees Explained
The War Department and Selective Service National Headquarters announce a new policy allowing inducted men immediate fourteen day furloughs at government expense. Inductees may return home after induction, transferring to the Enlisted Reserve Corps, with transportation, meals, and lodging provided. The change, effective June 15 1942, aims to eliminate denial of furloughs and travel hardships, while offering farewell ceremonies for groups departing to reception centers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Selective Service
National Headquarters
Army
Stu. Ing
Caes
Kindergarten to Open Monday in Grade School
A kindergarten class taught by Fae N. Benson will start Monday in the grade school building. Principal L. B. Bennett announced the plan. Children entering first grade next winter must be five by October 31, 1942 and bring birth certificates on starting day June 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fae N. Benson
L. B. Bennett
Music teacher to arrive at Parowan High next week
KEW Music teacher Mr Newell Weight and his family will arrive Monday or Tuesday to assume duties as music director at Parowan High. A Brother of Ormon Weight he will move into the house vacated by Ormon this week. Weight is a Brigham Young University graduate with a year of graduate study and experience teaching harmony. Previously in Snowflake Arizona he directed music for three years. Also noted is head of science, Mr Eardley Madzen, leaving Parowan High to teach at Cedar City’s new Cedar High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newell Weight
Parowan High School
Ormon Weight
Ormon
Newell
Brigham Young University
Price
Salt Lake City
Snow Make
Arizona
Eardley Madzen
Cedar City
New Cedar High School
District Court Holds Long Session In Iron County
The Iron County Bay term opened with Judge Will L. Hoyt presiding and jurors selected for the trial of State of Utah versus LeRoy Wilson and Leland Rasmussen. The defendants were found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to do bodily harm. Sentence not yet pronounced. Also heard were citizenship granted to Susan Greenwood Beeson and two divorce cases under advisement. A civil case Clifford P. Prowett versus Wilson Lunt and Lanel Lunt Motor Co. set for trial today, with jurors being selected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Iron County
Will L. Hoyt
State of
Utah
LeRoy Wilson
Leland Rasmussen
H. J. Holt
Washington County
A. B. Pace
J.M. Foster
Susan Greenwood Beeson
Beaver
Cleone Worthen Bueter
Wm. H. Bueter
Nola Hall Adam
Myles Adams
Clifford P. Prowett
Wilson Lunt
Nell Lunt
Lunt Motor Co
Aviation Officers to Hold a Meeting Here Monday
Major Backus of the Salt Lake Recruiting Office announces a 10 30 am Monday meeting in the High School auditorium. Lt Young and 2nd Sgt Swift of the Army Aviation Cadet Examiners' Board will give an illustrated lecture on the government program allowing 28 year olds to enlist in aviation while continuing shell schooling. Parents and interested boys urged to attend. Homer Whitney returns from East Lake City after winter study and plans to seek work in Seattle soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Backus
Salt Lake
Army Aviation Cadet Examiners' Hoard
Young
Swift
Shell
Local Deer Problem Reaches Serious Stage
Local Game and Forest officials warn of a serious deer problem around Parowan and Paragonah after a March survey by Forest Ranger Wilford Bentley and Game Warden Claude Macfar lane shows rising deer numbers but inadequate hunting removal. Winter losses total sixty to seventy deer with more killed on highways, and forage along foothills nearly exhausted. A plan for a post-season special hunt in October is discussed, with permits allocated to license holders. final decisions await recommendations from sportsmen groups, ranchers, and livestock interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summit
Littlecreek
Mme
Parowan
Little Creek
Albert Albertson
BR. L. Fenton
Big Game Control Board
Wilford Bentley
Claude Macfarlane
Claude Orton
Iceal Can
Red Club
Rogal
Val~ue
County to furnish thirteen men for next draft
The county will supply thirteen men for the Allied forces draft in June. They will depart from Cedar City for the reception center in Salt Lake City on Monday morning June 6. Names from Cedar City include Keith Lambeth Garth Nelson Alton Reese Ford and George Armstrong who will be called then. Deferments have ended for several and nine will come from the first and second groups while four come from the February 16 1942 third group. Future quotas will draw from all three groups on a percent basis. Jasper Cartwright spent last weekend in Salt Lake and Ogden visiting his son Donald and handling private business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
From
Allied Fortes
Salt Lake City
Selective Service Board
E. B. Dalley
Cedar City
Keith Lambeth
Garth Nelson
Cedar
Alton Reese Ford
Kanarra
George Armstrong
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School Board
Ass'assis
Sprinaville
Jalsebeen
Forest Ranger
Pinal Assembly
WN. J. Barlow
Ray Dalley
Panaca
Jcedar
Ellis Orton
le Mar Orton
L, Db, & Hospital
LaMar
Marysvale
California
Toma Adams Snyder
Jas. L. Adams
Marion Halterman
Sainily
San Juan County
Joi
Bureau of Public Roads
Meg
Imnhere Man
J. W. Moore
I Monticello
KEW
Homer Whitney
East Lake City
L.D.5. Business College
Seattle
Washington
Jasper Cartwright
Ogden
Line
Donald
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