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VOL. XXXVI HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1925 ------ --d 1 j THE VICTROLA IS NEW WITH EACH NEW VICTOR RECORD A VICTROLA will make the World’s Most Famous Artists worst thief In the world Is misplacement, more to be feared than the most cunning criminal Guard a&ilnst misplacement and loss of any kind by rent- a Safe Deposit Box here for your valuables. Anywhere - Anytime « SAFE UNK j |K UmhMCM pi MriGmiHinT ?fcr With CMBty Cwrt To find the attitude of the several board member* affected by the peti tion* to form a union high Hchool dis trict of Frankton, Hood River, Bar rett. l'ine Grove, Vieuto, Oak Grove and Wyeth C. A.- Reed, chairman of the board in District No. 3, «-ailed a meeting at the high school Monday evening. All districts were represent ed but one. After a two-hour discus slon a resolution was passed unani mously approving the union high school idea and pledging the individ ual support of the board members present. A committee oh public edu cation was named to give the facte and figures to the public for their in- I formation. County Hup't Crites was named chairman and the other mem bers are Dr. C. H. Jenkins and Hup’t Cannon. The county boundary board granted the petition yesterday. The petitioning districts follow with their assessed valuation; . ¡list. No. “ Frankton Dlst. No. Dlst. No. Dlst. No. ____ _______ ______ IHst. No. 10, Viepto.-,__________ 205,120 Dlst. No. 11, Oak Grove___ 507480 Dlst. No. 15. Wyeth__________ 397,000 Total assessed valuation.$7,100,900 A union high school so formed would have a bonding capacity of $355,000. It is estimated that half of this would be sufficient to build and equip a modem high acbool building of sufficient capacity to take care of all present needs and future require ments for several years. The high school enrollment is now 375. At the normal lncreaae it will have over 400 next year. In flve years it will probably exceed 500. Should we not build now to accommo date at least that number of pupils? The estimated coat, as just given, in cludes all the departments now In the high school, aomewhat enlarged, a gymnasium, a separate auditorium with m<*dern aeatlng facilities for from 800 to 1,000 people, a cafeteria, «■lass rooms, school board rooms, of- flees, heating plant, and at least two school busses with a capacity of 40 each. Thia new high acbool district would start with a clean slate, aeauinimr no debts or obligations or any separate district. It also start* with *n er- cellent location of nearly nine acres, centrally located, having a beautiful view to the north, well sloped for drainage and ample space for outside school sports for both girls snd boys. Much equipment from the old high school would probably be given direct ly to the new with little or no cost to the new district. A mill tax upon an assess«*«! valuation of $7,000,009 would bring in ample revenue to operate and main tain this union high school, Including the cost of Insurance and the interest on the bonded Indebtedness, and an additional mill would provide a sink ing fund to meet the bonds when they become due. Here are some figures from the 1924-25 official directory, issued by the superintendent of public instructioii, J. A. Churchill, at Salem, showing other union high schools in the state, their assessed Valuation and their tax levy : Redmond, assessed valuation, $2,- 500,000; tax. 12.7 mills; 150 pupils. Gresham, assessed valuation, $3,200,- 000; tax. 8.7 mills; 207 pupils. Madras, asseas<-d valuation, $2,000,- 000; tax. 7.0 mills; 50 pupils. Milton-Freewater, assessed valua tion. $7,200,000; tax, 0.3 mills; 270 pupils. Odell, assessed valuation, $1,000,- 000; tax, 7.1 mills; 60 pupils. Half-way, assessed valuation, $1,- 750.000; tax, 4.0 mills; 90 pupils. Westlinn. assessed valuation, $3,200,- 000; tax. fl. 7 mills; 222 pupils. Seaside, assessed valuation, $4,000,- 000; tax, 7.9 mills; 150 pupils. The following are some reasons why a new union high school Is desirable for the lower Hood Rjver valley: 1. Since the building of the andl- torium annex on the present Hood River high school in 1910, the enroll ment has increased from 150 pupils to 375 pupils, or over 150 per cent. 2. The normal capacity of the pres ent Hood River high school is 300 pupils. It is now 25 per cent over crowded. 3. The present Hood River high school Is inadequate for present and future needs In both class room and departmental instruction. The audi torium gymnasium is neither one. The conflicting interests of music, public speaking, boys’ physical education, girls' physical education, boys’ basket ball, girls' basketball, and assemblies show how totally inadequate it ia. 4. We now have 150 pupils attend ing Hood River high school who come from outside districts. The parents of these pupils have no voice in the American Legion day waa observed selection of a school board and teach ers, or fixing ths administration pol Tuesday by the Lunch club. With Van W. GURlden, commander of the icies. 5. It is both Just and equitable that local port as chairman, State Com the capital investment of a high mander George Griffith and Adjutant schoo] building should be borne by a Carl Moser were Introduced to the large assessed valuation including all bualneM and professional men. Com school districts which send pupils mander Griffith, who addressed the meeting, won applause when he de to IL fl. The present old high school clared that the legionnaires of Amer building is not only inadequate for ica will not cease to strive for a the present needs, and wholly so for universal draft bUi until it becomes future needs, but it is also inade a law. "No one ahould know better the quate in appointments, arrangements and equipment. Its halls are nar horrors of war than the Legion mem row and dark, its lighting, both from bers." Mid Commander Griffith, “and within and without, in not standard, yet we want such preparedness on It was an architectural blunder to the part of our government that the b«>gin with, and the auditorium an- boys of the future wlU be protected nex was a make-ahlft expedient at in case of an emergency. We do not see the Justice of one msn receiving most. 7. The conflicting interests for the $15 per dsy for making a rifle, while auditorium-gymnasium result in loss another gets $1 for facing the enemy of time, waste of effort, and abuse of in front line trenches. We wish it property. possible for the President, in case of 8. The old high school building an emergency, to draft capital and lacks space for girls' activities, which labor as well as men.” need to be given almost, if not quite, as much attention as boys' affairs. IRVING E. 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