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
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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 .- !
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