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I ( " "" CLASS IN LIBRARY Students at Hoover for elementary students now attending class school, Medford, are shown above attend- es at Hedrick Junior High school. School ing a class in the library. Four additional officials noted, however, that elementary classrooms are planned at Hoover school to school students at Hedrick may not neces help relieve the crowded conditions with sarily be assigned to Hoover school. The money from a proposed bond issue on which students may be absorbed in elementary district patrons will vote Thursday. The schools by some grade school boundary classrooms also will make available, space shifting, they said. Money from Bonds Would Build Classrooms Needed for 2 Years (Editor's note: This Is the first in a series of articles in which the proposed $750,. 000 bond issue to finance a two-year construction pro gram in the Medford school district is discussed. District patrons will vote on the is sue Thursday.) Patrons of School District 549C will vote next Thursday en a proposed $750,000 bond issue to finance a two-year construction program in the district. Bonds sold from the issue, if approved, will finance esti mated building needs for the next school year and for the 1961-62 school year. Building needs are based on a study of the census and school age population. Included for next school year will be 11 classrooms in the district's secondary schools and 9 in the elemen tary schools plus one addition and ona major renovation. Planned for the 1961-62 school year are eight elemen tary school classrooms, major renovations and additions and capital outlays improvements at Washington, Howard, Lone Pise, Roosevelt, Lincoln and Jackson schools. High School Addition If the boys physical educa tion, health and class addition at Medford High school is complete for next school year, it will add six teacher sta tions, school board and budg et committee members noted. This probably will handle , high school enrollments in the existing and added facilities for three years, they added. -This year, the district changed from a six to seven period day which has helped relieve the classroom problem at Medford High school. Completion of the old dis trict shop into a boys' manual arts department with a wood shop and drawing room is also planned for next school year. The shop and drawing room will be downstairs, with two classrooms upstairs for art and crafts or assigned as de termined by need. Two classrooms are planned at Hedrick Junior High school for the 1960-61 school year. They are one vocal and one dual purpose classroom for both vocal and regular class work. The nine classrooms plan ned in elementary schools in clude four at Hoover school, three at Oalc Orove and two af TOT Act Cilia iitka,. QImitltG. I trative offices and storage space also is scheduled. Renovation work is plan ned in the multipurpose room at Jacksonville, along with re pairing and painting the ex terior of the main building. The multipurpose room is the gymnasium which was used by Jacksonville High school be fore consolidation. A stage, which also will be used as a multipurpose room, and acoustic tile for the gym nasium ceiling is planned at Ruch school. The stage may be used as a band room, ad ministrators noted. Planned for construction for use in the 1961-62 school year are three additional class rooms at Hedrick Junior High school, two at Jefferson, one at Griffin Creek and West Side and two at .Wilson and Hoover schools. To Build As Needed The two-year program is de signed to construct those class room and other facilities" as needed. If additions planned for the 1961-62 school year are not needed because oi some unforeseen reason, bonds would not be sold. Members of the school board, budget committee and school consultants believe that school construction planning should be limited to five years ahead based on children cur rently residing in the district. And then, facilities should be constructed only as they are needed in areas where the fa cilities will best serve the children, the board and budg et committee believes. With plans and financial needs arranged on a basis of only two or three years ahead, construction plans can be stopped at any point if there proves to be no need for addi tional facilities, school offi cials have indicated. The board and budget com mittee members also believe that continued studies on school needs on a long-range basis are needed, including purchase of future - needed building sites. Long range classroom and building needs of district 549C depend on several factors, school officials said. Factors involved in determining long- range building needs will be discussed in a later article. - Traffic Volume Increases at Two County Locations Traffic volume at two loca tions in Jackson county show ed increases last month over February, 1959, the state high way department announced. A 3.4 per cent increase was noted on Highway 99 two miles south of Talent, where 6,664 vehicles were recorded on the permanent automatic traffic counter. In February, 1959, 6,446 vehicles were re corded. The volume at that location, however, was a de crease of .03 per cent in the last two months, the depart ment said. An increase of 1.2 per cent, from 1,234 in February, 1959, to 1,249 last month', was noted at the traffic counter on High way 62 four miles south of Shady Cove. The volume there was down 2.8 per cent over the two-month period just ending. Other Locations Traffic volume at other per manent recorders in the coun ty showed substantial de creases last month from Feb ruary, 1959, the department said. On Highway 238 one mile west of Ruch, the volume was 462 last month, a 10.6 per cent decrease from the 517 re corded in February, 1959, and on Highway 66 five miles east of Ashland the volume drop ped from 764 in 1959 to 691 last month, a decrease of 9.6 per cent. During the past two months, traffic volume on Highway 238 decreased 18 per cent and on Highway 66, it decreased 19.9 per cent, the department said. Highway traffic statewide, however, showed an increase of 6.8 per cent last month compared to February, 1959. Substantial increases were noted on Highway 101 ' and Highway 99 at Oakland south of Eugene. AEC Lists Uranium Reserves of U.S. Washington - (CPD - The Atomic Energy commission es timated Friday the United States had 86,100,000 tons of uranium ore reserves at the start of 1960. 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