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Meeting Slated Tuesday to Discuss Bond Issue, School Budget
Phoenix E. R. James, sup- cational research bureau ofition and gym facilities at the , classrooms would total about i 1. The assessed valuation , any, in the annual tax levy I ' 1 . ,
nntendent of the Phoenix- the University of Oregon was high school, which at present i $285,000, the board said. has increased 35 per cent in for building purposes, the
UN DAY, APRIL M, IMS
erintendent of the Phoenix
Talent school district, has re
minded district patrons that
a meeting will be held at the
Phoenix Grange hall at 8
p.m. Tuesday, April 30, to ex
plain a bond issue and
1963-64 school budget.
Patrons of district 4 will
vote on the bond issue and the
amount of the school budget
exceeding the 6 per cent lim
itation at the annual school
election May 6. Patrons also
will elect board members.
Polls will be open May 6
between 2 and 8 p.m. at the
Phoenix and Talent grade
school gyms.
Candidates Listed
Candidates for school board
directors are Allen Harris, in
cumbent, and Mrs. Leah Zun
del from the Phoenix area;
and Ed Heim, who is running
without opposition from the
Talent area. Heim is a candi
date for the position of Bruce
Cyphers, who is not seeking
reelection.
Patrons of the district will
vole on a serial school bond
Issue for new buildings and
additional educational facil
ities, James noted. Bonds will
not be sold at one time, but
in two different stages as
needed, thus effecting a sav
ings in interest charges and
bond election costs, he point
ed out.
The school board and ad
ministration has been study
ing building needs of the dis
trict for the past several years.
In the spring of 1962 the edu
employed to conduct a sur
vey of the building needs of
tne Phoenix district.
James noted that the cur
rent bonding plan is the re-
the suit of the findings of the re
search bureau and of confer
ences involving the school
board, the research bureau
personnel, and the school ad
ministration. Details of the overall long
range building program are
now being worked out by
school officials and the arch
itect. The first issue of bonds will
cover the remodeling of the
present high school shop and
vocational agriculture depart
ments into four or five urgent
ly needed high school class
rooms and a biology lecture
and laboratory area, the
board noted.
The first issue also will be
used to build a separate build
ing for vocational agriculture
and woodshop a short dis
tance from the present high
school building.
Provide for Gymnasium
It also would provide for a
gymnasium at the Talent Jun
ior High school, as well as a
multipurpose room which
would get full utilization as a
music room and school cafe
teria with complete kitchen
and dining area facilities, the
board noted.
The initial bond sale also
would provide for a cafeteria
at the high school, as well as
expansion of physical educa-
Petitions to Form
Water District in
West Side Signed
Petitions for formation of
a water district in the west
side area have been complet
ed, according to George A.
Cooksey, 2930 Oakridge ave.,
a member of the water dis
trict committee.
Cooksey said he was able
to get more than the 100 re
quired signatures. Ninety-five
per cent of the homeowners
visited signed the six peti
tions, he said.
A water district with future
water lines serving the area
were deemed necessary fol
lowing a public meeting of
affected property owners at
the West Side school last fall.
Earlier the Jackson county
public health department sani
tarians discovered a large per
centage of the water wells in
Recognition Dinner
Set at Crater High
Central Point - For the first
time this year, a banquet will
be held Thursday, May 2, hon
oring seniors at Crater High
school who are in the top 5
per cent of the class scholas
tically. Members of the baseball,
track, cross - country, wrest
ling and tennis teams also will
be recognized at the banquet.
Speaker for the event will
be John Dcllcnback. Jackson
county member in the House
of Representatives. More than
100 students are expected to
be recognized at the dinner.
The banquet will begin at
7 p.m. in Crater High school
gymnasium and will be open
to friends and relatives of the
students. Ellsworth Robinson,
past grand master of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fel
lows, will be master of cere
monies. Tle event is being spon
sored this year by the Central
Point and Gold Hill Lions
clubs. Present plans call for
the banquet to replace the
several smaller banquets held
now to honor individual team
members.
Tickets are available at Cra
ter High school or from mem
bers of the Gold Hill or Cen
tra! Point Lions club.
the area were contaminated
from septic tanks.
The proposed water district
would extend along the Old
Miliary rd. area, along Beall
lane to Elk Lumber company,
along Ross lane to KMED ra
dio and television studios,
would include the Grant
Acres area near Central Point
and the land between Ross
lane and Beall lane, Includ
ing the West Side school,
Cooksey said.
The petitions will be pre
sented to the county court in
the near future. After signa
tures are verified, a public
hearing will be called. Any
person affected may ask to
be excluded or included, ac
cording to Ervin Hogan, Mod
ford attorney and committee
member.
The court may then make
any boundary changes it
deems reasonable, then call
for an election for formation
of the district and a board of
directors.
If and when the district is
formed the board will seek
federal funds for an engineer
ing study.
If the engineering study
determines a water system is
feasible then a bond election
will be called. The district
would not have to pay for
the engineering study unless
the water system is installed.
Cooksey said the proposed
district would include 400
homes and possibly one farm.
Illinois Valley High
Students Campaigning
Cave Junction Students of
the Illinois Valley High
school are campaigning for
the student body primary
election with various phases
of electioneering being con
ducted. Candidates running for
president are Darryl Gellert
and Rodger Martin; vice
president, Ron K e n t f 1 e 1 d,
Doug Robinson and Danny
Kihs; secretary, Toni Whitley,
Donna Mills and Karen El
more; treasurer, Linda Ver
steeg, Rae Thrasher, Mary
Anne Lewis, and Diania Wil
liams; sergeant at arms, Walt
Zieshe. Terry McNaught and
Don Wilson.
LOANS UP TO $1500
Here it is-a HANDY
HUNDRED or Mere!
Call Crater Finance
"Money From Crater Financa
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CRATER FINANCE
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are handling almost double
the number of physical educa
tion students for which they
were designed.
Bonds for these projects
would amount to about
$600,000, the board said.
The second sale of bonds,
which would be issued a year
to two years later, would be
sold to construct a new six or
eight room elementary school
within the district to handle
the increased elementary en
rollment which at present is
reaching its capacity at both
the Phoenix and Talent ele
mentary schools. It also would
provide for eight more class
rooms as needed in the high
school and junior high school,
the board said.
Total About $285,000
Bonds for the additional
FOR
The
Increased enrollment and
the expansion of the instruc
tional program are two rea
sons for the urgent need for
additional building facilities,
district officiili pointed out.
In its report, the bureau of
research survey team said
that "during the 1956 to 1981
period the Phoenix schools
grew 13.5 per cent." They
went on to point out that on
the basis of the data presented
it is their conclusion that en
rollment in the Phoenix
schools will continue to in
crease at the same or at a
greater ratio.
District officials pointed
out that the Phoenix district
has several advantages in re
gard to financing such a bond
ing program at this time.
Among them are:
has increased 35 per cent in
the past five years.
Legal Bonding Limit
2. The legal bonding limit
of the Phoenix school district
from 1957 to 1961 has in
creased from $1,228,218 to
$2,394,956.
3. The remaining bonding
capacity of the district is
more than adequate to cover
building needs in the forsee
able future. Only about 10
per cent of the bonding capac
ity is now being used. With
the sale of the proposed
bonds, this would not reach a
point above 40 per cent of the
bonding capacity at any time,
4. The present Phoenix
High school bonds will be re
tired next year, thus the first
issue of bonds for the pro
posed building program will
mean but a slight increase, if
building purposes, th
board noted.
Low Millaga Rate
5. The present millage rate
in the Phoenix school district
is the lowest In the county,
with the exception of one
small district.
The board said the choice of
a serial bond levy will enable
the district to vote bonds
necessary to provide for class
rooms and other facilities
needed immediately and in
the forseeable future.
However, since the bonds
do not have to be sold until
the need is imminent, consid
erable savings in intprest pay
ments, election costs, printing
and bond attorney fees would
be effected by having the en
tire bond issue voted at one
time, but the bonds sold as
needed.
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