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Contract For South Dakota Dormitory Awarded McCook, Nebraska Firm

Media Contact: Fast - Int. 4306 | Information Service
For Immediate Release: May 9, 1958
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The Department of the Interior announced today award of a contract by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for $324,650 to build a 200-pupil dormitory at Oglala Community School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

The successful bidder was D. L. Moffitt Company of McCook, Nebraska. Thirteen higher bids, ranging in price from $328, 401 to $397,450, were received.

Oglala Community School, operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is a reservation boarding and day school, with a present enrollment of 457 boarding and 349 day school pupils in grades 1 through 12.

The new structure will replace an old dormitory which has become unsafe, and which is not occupied this school year.

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