Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
S5,OOo,000 IS
ASKED FOR new
SCHOOL NEEDS
Superintendent Beverage Out
lines Building Program to-
Last Five to Eight
Years.

J. H. Beverage, superintendent OF
public schools, submitted to the
Board of Education last night rec
concentrations covering an esti-
mated building program of $5,000,-
600, which he believes would meet
the school needs for a period Of
five to eight years. This is in ad-
dition to the new High School OF
Commerce, for which plans are be-
ing drawn.
The superintendent program
calls for the following:
Four-room addition to Mason
school, $4,000; four-roon1 addition
to Lake school, S45,0O0; new Sara
toga school, 10 rooms and auditor
ium, 100000; new Walnut Hill
school, 10 rooms and, auditorium,
100000; new broom building for
Benson Central, $l35,00O; new
eight-room Sherman school, 100000;
new six-room Belvidere school,
$4,000; new six-room Mime Lusa
school, 10000; auditoriums for
Park (and Clifton Hill schools,
$4,000.
Four Junior Schools.
Junior high schools as follows:
34-room building at Twer ty-second
and Chicago streets, $550,000; 81
room building at Twenty-fourth and
Corby streets, 100000; broom
building west of the stock yards.
100000; Broom addition to South
High, $350,00O.
A North High school No accom-
inodate 1900 pupils is proposed at
a cost of $l,OOO,0OO. 1t is also pro-
posed to add 100000 to 100000 al
ready available for the new High
School of Commerce. New sites and
additional ground are estimated at
100000.
This program has been prepased
for the guidance of the board mem
bers in their future construction de-
liberations. The superintendent ex-
planned that the proposed junior
high schools at Twenty-second and
Chicago streets and Twenty-fourth
and Corby streets would relieve the
congestion at Central High and
High School of Commerce.
More Money For Tech"
1t is proposed to submit at the
fall election in connection with a
school bond proposition an item of
100000 to enable the board to carry
out its larger building program for
the new High School of Commerce,
which probably will be known as
Technical High" on account of the
new building to be equipped for
te clinical as we'll as commercial
education. "a
In connection with his building
program summary, Superintendent
Beverage submitted a detailed re-
port showing the condition of all
schools during the last school year
in the matter of capacity, and he also
indicated the growth of the school
during recent years, on
which information he based his ex-
pectancy for the next five years.
Increases in Salaries.
The board last night authorized
an increase of salary from $1,000 to
$1,000 year for Miss A. M. Ryan,
assistant superintendent of instruc-
ton. The following members of
Central high school faculty were
each allowed an increase of $l00
wear: Adelia Kiewit, J. F. Wool
cry, e. E. Mcmillan, Jessie Towne
and Fora Shields. School nurses
will be paid $l,l00 for first year,
$1,000 for second, and $1,000 for
third and subsequent years of serv-
ice, this being $500 a year increase
for the schedule.
DR.. E. T. Manning was elected for
another year as public school health
director at a salary of $4,000. Ira
A. Jones was appointed supervisor
of physical education, to succeed R.
L. earns, resigned. Miss Myrtle
DeGraff was appointed assistant
supervisory of art
The following High School Of
Commerce appointments were an
nounced: Mary Buell., cook fg; C.
O. Gottschalk, automobile me chan-
les; Nellie Noble, sewing; Mabel
Shaw. hygiene. Delbert Meyers
was appointed teacher Of mechani-
cal drawing at Central high, and
Albert Spellman teacher of mechan-
ical drawing and manual training
at South high.