The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-12-20
APPROVAL OF $4,000
ISSUE ASKED BY BOARD
Purpose is to Erect Additional Building and
Bring High School Up to Required Stan
dard; Taxpayers Go on Record
In Favor of 1t

be a slight increase in the matter O
taxes, it is true, but this increase viii
be a mere bagatele when compare
with the great good to be derived
We cannot afford to lose our standing
with the higher schools and univer
stiles. We cannot afford to loose ou
standing with the University of Okla
homa, which we surely will do if W.
do not provide the required additiona
facilities. Our school population hal
increased to that extent where We
have to have the added facilities, tbs
additional school building. In my
opinien a man would be standing il
his own ultimate light who will not
support this measure.
J. w. Williamson, carpenter at RocH
Island shops: TAX paying isn't easy
for me, but I'm for the best schools
and shall vote for the bonds"
Mrs. Martin Coryell 81 do not see
how anyone interested in the good
OF chickasha's schools can gain his
own consent to vote against the meas
ure. Letters have been received by
members of the school board, am
told. from the proper authorities at
the state university, following the
visit of the high school inspector to
Chickasha this fall, which state posi-
lively that unless we add laboratories
and other essentials we will certainly
lose our standing not alone in the
state university OF Oklahoma, but with
the Chicago, the ST. Louis and other
universities in this circuit. AS mat,
ters now stand graduates Of the Chick
asha high schools may enter those
universities without examination
their diplomas being proof of the ex-
cellence of the training which they
have had. Take this away from the
chickasha schools and the entire city
will lose cast as an educational CEN
ter"
Harry Hayes: Il feel that the vot-
ing of the school improvement bonds
viii prove to be for the ultimate in
terest of the entire city of Chickasha,
for the general interest of every cit
izen of the city. We cannot afford
to lose our standing with the state
university. We cannot afford to de-
prive the children of Chickasha of the
advantages lost with the losing of
that standing. A great many people
are urging that the cost of the pres
ent buildings we're great deal lower
than the proposed cost of the addi-
tional building now contemplated. To
those who take this view of the mat
ter, | would call attention to that adj
vance in realty prices in Chickasha-
an advance which has come as nat
ural sequence to the advance along
all lines of the city. | should think
from $4,000 to $4,000 would be a
conservative estimate of the cost of
the ground alone upon which the ju-
nior high school building win be erect
ed. This school will accommodate all
pupils of the sixth, seventh, eighth
and ninth grades. This means it must
be centrally located and in convenient
touch with the car lines and also
means the block Of ground cannot be
bought for song"
NJ S. Cralle: 81 am member of
the present school board and wish TO
state that favor the bonds for no
selfish reasons, but because | feel that
the improvement sought is for the
good of all in Chickasha who are in
terested in better education. As a
member of the school board. ] can say
that all members of that board have
investigated conditions most thor
oughly and have found our educational
equipment and our buildings most in
adequate. Chickasha's population has
not been on the decline for the past
several years--never has. 1t has been
on the increase and the increase in
school attendance has been most
marked. ] will state that should the
increase In school enrolment continue
proportionately as it has been for the
past few years, it is simply a question
Of finding ourselves out of doors
within a short time. Yes, we will lose
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