HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.P. American 05/19/1949 (2)v I
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Hp im innocent 8pefander
A public meeting of much 'vn•
porlance to the people o[ this section
of Jackson county is to be held 'n~-
the high sehpoL gymnasium . ne a
Thdisday evening. .It is being head
[or the purpose of talking over the
proposed consolidation of the Cen-
tral Point, Willow Springs,' Tolo,
God Hill, Sama Valley end Table
Rock school districts. An election ,
on the question has been called for ,
June 1 in the various districts.
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These six districfs are facing ti! ~
serious condition at fhe present
lime. The plain fact is chat there I .
are mm~e school children in these ~
districts than there are facilities tof
take care of Them. At the present'
lime only Centro] Point and Goi:i I
Hill opeYate high schools, already
overcrowded. Coming along In the
Grade school's of all the districts arc
more children than ever before in i t
the history of the county, and they
will,j~e soon entering these high ,
schools. In other words, the child-
ren are coming into the country
[aster than the sehoots can process
them. r
C. P. American
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Under the present law limiting
the amount of bonds a district may '
issue in proportion to the assessc<l
value of the district, there isn't one 1
of the six districts which could t
,possibly bond •. itself for enough 1
money to build a new high school
big enough to care .tor the certai^ `
increase. But if the districts conso- t
lidato the combined'_assessed value L
(about $x
000,000) will allow the t
,
issuance of enough bonds to build 1
such a school. The grade schools
would continue to, operate in their t
present location and in the two `-
high school districts the grades r
could occupy the present high '
school buildings. 1
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The whole proposition has much I
merit: It seems a common sense •`-
solutiun of the problem. And we L
believe thak such a district as the t
consolidated one would be can be c
operated cheaper then the separate t
districts possible can he and we can r
see nothing in the proposed idea -
which will injure any one. A check t
,~f some six other com6~ined districts E
in the state having
a comparable
.
assessed value and about the same t
number of school children in each, t
shows that the average tax last year s
was about '32 mills. Tire avera;r. c
lax for the six local districts 1\a I
Y~•ar was A7.1 ~ mills. So- it would
appear that such a Nonsolidation `
•x~nuLi be amoney-saving- proposi- ~ t
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