Media Contact: Tozier - Int. 4306 | Information Service
For Immediate Release: April 17, 1957

Award of a $96,262 contract for remodeling the Bullhead Day School on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation approximately 16 miles west of McLaughlin, South Dakota, to Sogge Construction Company, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was announced by the Department of the Interior today.

The Sogge bid was the lowest of seven received. Other bids for the work ranged from $99,790 to $129,400.

Primary purpose of the remodeling is to relieve serious overcrowding in the existing two-classroom school which now accommodates an average of 75 students. The contract provides for an additional classroom, a kitchen and dining hall wing, a sanitary sewer system, and a new steam heating system.