Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1960)
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. .. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1S60 Inkster, Mich. - OIPD - All the clocks are working, tick ing away the school year. Lathes, grinders and drill : presses stand ready in the classroom shops. Most of the classroom desks are in place. The gym floor gleams with varnish and the swimming pool needs only to be filled with water. The spanking new $3 mil lion Hamilton J. Robichaud High school here has Just about everything - except stu dents and teachers., Residents of Dearborn Township School District No. 8 s approved spending the money for the . new high school which was to open this fall. But then they balked and , twice turned down referen i dums to raise taxes to provide money for operating expenses end teachers for the", new : school. "Too many frills,"' the tax payers complained, "We can't afford this kind of thing." . On Double Shifts . So the new high school, which was going to be the pride of this community west of Detroit, stands Idle while S3 Million School Ready To Go But Teachers, Students Lacking Residents Twice Refuse to Raise Expense Taxes junior high and high school students attend classes on split shifts in the old Roose velt School building about a block away. The new school is named for the district's present su perintendent who has been on the Job since 1942.. Robichaud finds this embarrassing and insists he did not want the school named for him. Robichaud and high school principal Ben J. Karwoskl don't, however, think the new school is filled with frills. High school juniors and seniors attending classes on split shifts at Roosevelt now get, for the most part, only four' courses a semester - the bare minimum for graduating or being admitted to a col lege. . .. , . .,. . , : If the new school had been opened, all students would have been able to take six courses. ; ' 1 , Better Equipped - More Important, according to Robichaud and Karwoski, the new school building has the equipment and .room to provide "vocational" type courses that cannot be offered in the old building - courses such as salesmanship, indus trial mechanics, electronics and home economics which re quire . well -equipped labora tories and shops, ' While old, red-brick Roose velt school is Jammed with students on double shifts, just a block away stands the beau-1 titul new school,- tan brick with blue trimming on the outside. The school is built in three wings with a circular library at the end of the "academic wing." Glass - enclosed corri dors with tile floors connect the wings. . ' . Another wing holds "shop" and home economics class rooms and science laboratories filled with brand new lathes and sewing machines and other equipment. There is also a 75-foot long i I is . - 'J I.' I' YOUNG PRINCE GREETED Princess Michlko lifts hpr eight-month-old son, Prince Hiro, in her arms while Crown Prince Akihlto looks on.. The. young Japanese Imperial cou ple had Just returned from--a- 16-day visit' to the United States. The infant prince was awaiting his parents at Togu Palace at Tokyo. At right background is an unidentified nurse. (UPI TeleDhoto) swimming pool, a huge gym nasium and an auditorium that seats 60p In soft, theater- HKe cnairs. - ; What is the financial prob lem that keeps the new school empty of students? Lacks Industry Robichaud says the district's territory is a typical "bed room suburb," mostly resi dential property with little in dustry to help bear the tax load. ' The neighboring city of Dearborn, for example, has a property tax base of about $29,000 per student, thanks to industry like the Ford Motor Co. But District No. 8 has a tax base of only about $6,170 per student, the ninth lowest among Wayne county's 43 school districts. This means a tax Increase lands hard on homeowners, The school tax rate is now $23.95 per $1,000 assessed property valuation. Its low tax base makes Dis trict No. 8 a "distressed" dis trict under state law and it gels extra money from the state-but not enough to solve the problems. Robichaud and other school officials talk hopefully of get ting the school open before this school year ends, perhaps even before the second semes ter begins in February. A citizens advisory council is at work on plans to get the new building in use. But the taxpayers still must be con vinced, i .- ! , r -' ' - "i t 1 ' , "t t jf ( V , testes' i u turn iimmmtvmim. )u.w mi tfmwvf w ww.wwyim w (GH) ' . ' i V sugar 1 PURE CANE Si Pepeekeo School on the hit of Hawaii OOO granulated . n i-i ...... (Grown-ups make it into C and H) You are looking at two of the sweetest products of Hawaii: sugar cane ... and little sugar cane eaters. Here on the Islands, Bugar cene grows so pure, sweet And clean, little Hawaiian cat it raw. While we grown-ups make it into sugar,., ton you. C and H Sugar. World's finest, we believe. For nature has given Hawaii everything sugar cane needs to grow its sweetest. Our sun shines brightly. Our rains fall gently. And in , this earth, even orchids grow wild. This must be where sugar utat ' meant to grow. , ' So many of our friends on the mainland use C and H Sugar... we hope you are one of them. WW mi mmm ours mi D D . . . when we say that FLUHRER'S HOLSUM BREAD is a PREMIUM loaf of bread. Fluhrer's has always been noted for the QUALITY of their-products, but this new loaf' is BETTER THAN EVER! It has more FLAVOR yes, you can TASTE THE DIFFERENCE, and with the New Miracle Wrap, it has KEEPING QUALI TIES surpassing any other bread. TRY , IT- . 1 and see for yourself! !-. Still Only 33c for the Large Family Loaf at your Favorite Food Store! NV'-' ' ' and 'i-$nfl - " y1 D6C3US6 I 7 x- xl ' " only I , 1 s v s I ,' v . V i Holsum THE PREMIUM QUALITY BREAD is daybreak fresh, you get to eat all the bread you buy. Try a loaf today... tomorrow sure fc (oiGi mm Qflpr 'pm Kl woo ...Ameeca's 50 State
