Arizona republican., 1919-05-21
VOTE TODAY IN
 BONDSFORNEW
 H. 5. ADDITION
Settle $7OO,O0O Bond Issue at Polls-to Improve High School Facilities With Eye to the Future

An election on proposition for the issuance of S7OOOoO in bonds for the purchase of a site and for the erection of a group of high school buildings will be held today, the polling place for the Union district to be at the high school buildings, beginning at nine o'clock this morning. and closing at ?. m.
 This matter was first brought 10 the attention of the public some months ago when the board laid 1t before the members of various civic bodies, the Rotary club, the Kiwanis club, and the Chamber of Commerce, and the Mer- chants and Manufacturers association. The board showed that the splendid high school group, though constructed only a half dozen years ago and then Supposed to suffice for a generation, had become inadequate. Much more room was already needed.
 At that time the board contemplated an issue of S250000, but it was advised by some of the members of these bod ies that a larger sum be asked for; that a larger site be purchased and that building for the future be undertaken This advice was acted upon by the board and it was decided 10 acquire sufficient ground that an agricultural annex might become part of the work of the school.
 Some opposition to the bond Issue had arisen lately because or a rumoI that the board had already arranged in the event of the approval of the bond issue to take a tract of Iorty acres, a part of the Story tract, at the corner o1 Seventh Avenue and Roosevelt street
 Rumor Aided Opposition
 So widespread was this rumor that members of the board avaiied them selves yesterday of an opportunity tC make a statement of it's purposes to the ? Merchants and Manufacturers associ- ation. It was denied that, though the board had been given an option on this piece of property, it was bound by it; the option had cost nothing Nor hat option secured further consideration o1 this tract than was being given to sev- eral other tracts There was one 1T University addition, to which there Was only the objection that 1t contained only ten acres Still another trac which had been given consideration was on the Brill car line just beyond the Mcdowell road. Otner sites haC heen suggested, among them a very sood one north of Wentworth addition
 In the selection of sites, the board was restricted by the requirement tha the high school must be located with. in District No. l. But that requirement could be easily met, the mempers of tn, board explained by an extension Of tht boundaries of the district so as to talk, in site that might be selected. The! . had no doubt that such an extension would be readily made.
 one of the suggestions offered at tn, meeting yesterday that the bonds i voted should not be issued except a. they might be required, covering a Ions period; that the new high school grouI should be developed only as rapidly al might be necessary to meet the grow ing needs of the high school district using the present group. The member of the board believed that the sugges ion was a good one.
 The high school board last night is sued the following statement:
 To the Voters of the Phoenix UnioI High School District:
 It has come to our attention that cer tain parties propose to fight the, bon issue which we are voting upon toda, because of allegation that the boar, 1as taken an option on a cretaln trac If land which these parties do not be ieve is worth the amount Of none