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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1945)
Page Four Section D THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Monday, October lk 1945 School Board Views Plans for La Grande Building Expansion By FRED J. PATTON Superintendent of Lb Grande School! The board of education of the La Grande public schools is now pondering on the educational philosophy best suited for the citizens of tomorrow. Important changes are now upon us which have a definite and clear cut bear ing on the educational planning fur I.a Grande public school stu dents. On April 21, 1944, the legal voters of Lu Grande voted to au thorize the La Grande school board to make a levy of 5 mills annually for five years, begin ning July, 11144. The purpose of this fund is "to provide a fund for post war con struction, r e c o n s t ruction, im provement, betterment, repair or rehabilitation of schools, school gymnasiums, school plants and school premises, and further au thorized to use state or federal matching funds should they be come available, which levy shall be outside the limitation impos ed by article XI, section 11, of this Oregon constitution." You can't afford to gamble on the Safety of Your Home. Make Sure of Adequate Fire Protec tion. Guarantee Mutual Life Co. General Agent Specializing in All Forma of LIFE INSURANCE We have a policy which will suite your needs for complete protection and geared to your fin ancial plans with emphasis on your retirement at oT, (50 or 05 years. Juvenile Insurance from Birth Through Childhood. Automobile Insurance Protect yourself from financial loss and for feit of your driver's license with the purchase of bodily injury liability and property damage insurance. See Your Insurance Man Horace J. Nelson 702 K Ave. Lu Grande Phone :i.ril-W $105,000 Fund This fund, which Is placed in a special account, will be used .as indicated in the program of expansion authorized by the le gal voters. Based on current val uations the income to the fund will amount to approximately $21,000 a year or $105,000 over the entire period. The La Grande board has se cured an advisory committee of some 50 local citizens to help plan expansion and development. This committee together with the board has determined that the first work that will be done un der the building program is the construction of gymnasium - au ditorium facilities at the Green wood, Riveria, and Willow schools. These buildings schould be built adjacent to or adjoining the present buildings and should be constructed so a to be of value not only as gymnasiums but as places where school pro grams, parent - Teacher meet ings, and public or community gatherings could be held. The buildings can also serve as com munity recreation centers. In addition to these buildings much needed repair to all build ings both externally and inter nally must be done. Riveria is in urgent need of a new lighting system. Greenwood and Willow must be redecorated. Questions Shall we raze the old Central building and provide room in the present high school plant for the Central school children as well us a true junior high school for grades 7, 8, 0 or, shall we return the eighth grade pupils to the elementary buildings and discard Ihe junior high school plan? Whatever is finally determin ed as the best policy will def initely affect our building pro gram, especially as it applies to the replacing of Central or the construction of a new high school plant. To properly house and carry out the educational needs of our boys and girls a new high school should be provided with careful thought and planning given to the educational needs of the day. Ample room must be secured for the vocational subjects, exten sion of study must be provided in general shop, auto mechanics, radio, sheet metal, Smith-Hughes agriculture and woodshop. At present it is impossible to pro vide much training in these fields because space is not available to house this type of vocational work except in a very limited way. J if 'h SHORT CHANGE Discovered in 1930, and now ninth among the planets in dis tance from the sun, the planet Pluto is so eccentric in its orbit that, in 1989, it will swerve in nearor than Neptune, thus be coming the . eighth most distant world of the solar system. International Association of Chiefs of Police conducted tests in 41 states to find that only one car in six has saisfaetory brakes. MOTOR CORPS OF THE Union county chapter of the Red Cross members are, left to right: Mrs, W. C. Perkins, chairman. Mrs. B. W. Tillolson. Mrs. Charles Reynolds, Mrs. Fred Lanzer. vice chairman, and Mrs. Isaac Shafer. Not in the picture is the other member. Mrs. Marvin Blake. The motor corps is organized to furnish transportation needed in Red Cross work. First responsibility of the motor corps is to the chapter services. Some of the chapter activities are: transportation of public health nurses and supplies; transportation for home service workers: assistance in pro duction activities: assistance at parades and pu blic gatherings; outings for convalescents and chronic invalids at the request of hospitals; transportation of children and other patients to hos pitals, clinics, and doctors' offices; disaster serv ices: and civilian defense assistance. Our present agriculture pro gram is seriously handicapped because it is necessary for tile ag riculture classes to share their space with all vocational classes offered other than woodworking. Vocational courses are essential and we must provide for them in the future. We mu.sl also provide equip ment in our elementary build ings to make available the teach ing (if some basic science, wood work and home economics. Adult education has been of fered in a very limited way to the people of our community through tile agriculture depart ment. We must plan to make available other departments of our high school to better serve the needs of the adults in many fields, both cultural and voca tional. Extension of our school pro gram to include kindergarten would provide immeasurable ben efit to the children of the com munity and be of great value to the educational program general- La Grande has started on its program of meeting the needs of its children in the plan to pro vide gymnasium-auditorium fa cilities, we must now take stock of our program and give serious consideration to ttie provision of adequate facilities on t h e high school a n d junior high school level. 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