Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
WORMLEYSBURG
FOR CENTRAL HIGH
School Board of West Shore
Borough Issues Strong State
ment to, Voters

Wormleysburg, Pa, Oct. %. - The
Wormleysburg School Board has taken
the first step in advertising the pro-
pcsed West Shore Central High
School by Issuing statement
TO their voters. explaining clearly
what Wormleysburg must do to Sc
slre the Improvement The board
also plans TO hold n mass meeting in
the town hall next Thursday evening.
The statement issued to-day by the
board follows:
Our present High school is n high
school OF the third class. with two
year course. The terms are of s
months duration. Last year it cost
the school district Sits to maintain
1t. This sum includes the tuition of
two pupils who attended the Harris
burg High school. (Pupils who
graduate from school of the second
or third class, have the privilege,
under existing laws to complete their
education at a first-class high school,
at tie expense of their school district
This right and this expense cannot be
evaded by the directors of the district
The tuition in Harrisburg is SLIPS per
term, for each scholar from an out
side district.
The 1917 graduating class of the
Wormleysburg High school includes
nine scholars. If these scholars take
advantage allowed them by the law,
and complete their education in the
Harrisburg High school, il will in
crease the expense S641.25, which
Will bring the cost of maintaining our
High school up to over s1,S00 a year,
which will require an additional tax
of three mills to meet the increased
expense. This would make the school
tax fourteen mills. The school direc-
tors are powerless to prevent this in
crease. The law prescribes their
duties and they are lawfully bound to
perform them. This expense will
probably become higher the following
year.
ITO participate in the new joint
High school of the first-class it is pro-
posed to issue bonds TO the amount of
$1,000 bearing five per cent. interest,
redeemable in thirty years. The eX-
pense each year would be: Interest on
bonds. $3.50; sinking fund to redeem
bonds, S2SS; estimated cost to main
tain twenty-five pupils (present num-
ber) in joint High school, S1,O56;
total, s1.639.
According to the above estimate,
which we consider conservative. it
would cost the school district about
one mill less than to continue under
our present system. However, the
cost might possibly be about the
same.
The new school would enable the
pupils TO complete their High school
course within four years in our own
schools. As it is they must attend
the Wormleysburg High school two
years and then so to Harrisburg
where they have to drop back year
on account of our term being shorter.
In this way they must attend the
Wormleysburg High school two years
and the Harrisburg High school for
three years to get q first-class High
school education. under present con-
ditions, and il costs the district to keep
the pupil in school five years, where
it would only cost for four years, if
We had a joint High school"
Other West Shore school boards are
expected to follow the Wormleysburg
body. A mass meeting will be held in
the Methodist Church at West Fair
view next Tuesday evening at 7:S0
o'clock. Prof. J. Kelso Green, super
intendent of the public schools of
Cumberland county and William NJ
Denison of the State Educational De-
partment will speak.