Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-02
SCHOOL BOARD
WILL CONSIDER
PROPOSED SITE
Ground Is Needed For Con-
stantly Growing Needs
of City

City school directors postponed
until the special meeting next Mon
day action of the proposed plan to
| purchase about forty acres of
ground owned by the Mckee -Gra-
ham estates from Third to Sixth,
Division to Katherine streets, known
! as Hoffman's Woods.
Director George A Werner sub
mitted the motion that the board
should make the purchase and Di-
rector John f. Dapp seconded it.
The move to postpone action came
when Director A. Carson Stamm
said he desired more time to con-
slider the plan and that he thought
the public should be given an op-
portunity to express its opinion.
The School Board members earlier
in the afternoon had attended the
luncheon at which the City Planning
Commission explained to them and
to City Councilmen the plans for
developing the site for school and
park purposes.
hcCn EayOrS IlOt
AS a special meeting of the board
must be held next Monday, accord
ing to the rules, to elect the admin
istration force in the offices for an
other year, the directors all agreed
to let the motion to purchase the
ground undisposed of until that
meeting. 1t was evident that prac-
tically~ every member of the board
favored the plan, and it was pre-
dicted by officials that there is little
possibility of the board refusing
to make the purchase
Director c. f. L. Keen declared
that he knew of no other site so
well adapted for school extension
purposes He told the other direc-
tors that he had made n study of
tracts in the Allison H'll district
| and could name none that would be
as suitable as the one which has
been proposed He also warned the
board members that they must soon
| take action toward the purchase OF
| additional ground for school faclll-
ties in the Thirteenth ward.
| New Development
This district is rapidly develop
| ing toward PaXtang and now is the
! time to act" DR.. Keen said,
Scores of new houses are being
| built or have been completed re-
| Gently and they are selling as taSt
as they are going up. The popuia-
ton in the ward as result IS m
! creasing with the erection OF tIit
! new dwellings. bringing more people
| n that section to reside. Then, too
| Paxtang is getting closer to the CITY
and we must look to the near future
when it is almost a certainty that
| this borough will become part OF
! the city"
/ Similar remarks were made by
| other directors about the EXPANSION
| of tho city in Riverside and the need
for ground in the Fourteenth ward
Secretary D. D. Hammeloaugh eN-
planned to the board that 1t VIII cost
the CITY district about $S,5OO more
than had been anticipated in the
usual increases of teachers salaries
because of the approval of the Wood
riff salary bill. When the 1919
1920 budget was made up and ap-
proved about $4,000 was allowed
for the increase under the city sal
ary schedule.
Salary Increases
According to the new law IN
creases totaling s74.5S5 will be paid
to city teachers, of which the state
will pay $63,412.50 and the city
must make up the balance, $ll,-
ll22.5O. In addition to this amount
the new law repeals the refund pro-
vision of the former school code,
adding an additional loss of SILL
45225 to the city. This makes the
total amount to be met S22, .,
of which about S19, 900 had been in
cluded in the new budget.
Four teachers were appointed by
the board upon the recommenda-
( II A~ir
tendent.
Charles W. Thomas, for a number
of years employed in the composing
room of the Harrisburg Telegraph,
and first lieutenant, Company |, One
Hundred and Twelfth Infantry, in
service overseas with the Twenty
eighth Division, was named as a
teacher of printing at salary OF
$1,000.
John w Snyder at present in the
employ of the Elliott-Fisher Com
pany, was elected teacher in cleo
trio shop work. Miss Miriam A.
Boyer, Gratz, was named a teacher
10. lrawing. and Miss Helen J. My
ers, Pittsburgh, was named teach
er in commercial work. Other
teachers may be needed, DR.. Downes
] reported and they will be named
for the approval of the board at
| later meeting.
/ Purchasing Agent Frank c. Foose
i and a committee including President
/ Robert 4. EnderS. Secretary Ham
/ melbaugh and Director w. Frank
I Whitman were given authority to
4 contract for school supplies, bids
] having been received a day or two
4 ago. but too late to tabulate to be
4 presented to the board yesterday.
i The purchase of a Ford truck and
proved.
/ That the tuition charges are too
low in the school district for non
I resident pupils was pointed out by
| President Enders, and Secretary
/ Hammelbaugh was instructed to
make an investigation and report
i to the board.