Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-13
'TWO-MILL INCREASE
IS FAVORED BY BOARD
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600 of the money which is needed
now will be used to pay the deficit.
President Enders intimated that
there will be no further action on
the high school building program
this year, except the selection and
purchase OF a site for a school.
This may be delayed for some time,
however, as the board has not de-
ments of the high school program
since the recent survey report o.
Drs. VanSickle and Snyder, who
recommended the erection of large
coeducational school for boys and
girls in grades ten and twelve, and
the conversion of the Technical
High school into a Junior high
school for the central district.
May Act Friday
Final action on the school budget
may be taken at the regular meeting
of the board on Friday afternoon.
According to officials of the board
| the tax rate question will be consid-
cred at that time it is understood
and in the event that it cannot be
agreed upon another special meeting
must be called.
The directors yesterday afternoon
decided as soon as the session open
ed that they would only read over
the budget, deferring any action on
it or. the mill rate until they nave
given to the public an itemized ac-
count of the proposed expenditures
This will be done by advertisement
II was pointed out by one Of the
directors that for each mill lncrease s
in the tax rate an additional $62,2tO
4. nrnSnnt
get Is adopted as whole a deficit OF
s115,767 will exist next year at this
time if the mill rate is not changed
If the rate is increased from
I111-2 mills, the present tax, to
121-2 mills. the deficit will be re-
duced to s53,497; If it is raised to IL
mills, the deficit will only be $Z2,-
s62: and if the rate is increased TWO
mills to 1S 1-2, the deficit can De
wiped out and a surplus OF appu'
sS.773 will be provided, unless IL Is
used for minor expenditures durins
the year not included in the budge'
or under estimated.
Institutes Costly
DIR. +. f. Downes, city superh-
tendent. told the directors that
bill is pending now which II hnaiiy
approved will give school districts
such as Harrisburg, the right TO ue-
eide whether institutes should De
held during the year. In the budge'
ss OOO has been included TO pay
teachers salaries while attending IN
stitute. a legal requirement Ut
Downes said, il the act now unoe,
consideration becomes law ne VIII
recommend disseminating the IN
stitutes. as he is confident the teach.
ers receive sufficient addltionai
training and instruction at the grade
teacher meetings held during the
year. ,,,rooso
in the appropriation for textbooks
for the Technical High school is due
Ia arcely to the plans to reorganize the
English department there, which al
present is one of the weakest IN the
school. About $1,000 will be used
for books for this purpose, he said.
AS members of the 1921 class al
Tech have the right to select ousi-
ness training course for the next two
years at the school, it will be neces-
sary to provide typewriters, desks
an adding machine and other equip
ment for the commercial work, DR..
Downes explained. This will cost
d.
cial department at Central High
school will be continued.
Secretary d. d. Hammelbaugh
told the directors that under the
contract proposed for next year, the
district will get coal about IS cents
ton cheaper than the retail market
price. He said that apparently the
cost to the district per ton is higher
but the retailer is furnished ton ol
1000 pounds, while the district pur.
chases direct from the mines the
same as the dealer and gets 2.24C
pounds per ton.
With the opening Of the Junior
High schools new method of his
| tory study will be started, DIR
Downes said at the meeting yester
day. There will be practically M
home study except reference work
all of the instruction being given IL
classrooms. A number of books OIL
American history will be used, bu
these will be kept in the room ant
will be in use only during the reci
tation.
DR.. Downes also pointed to tn,
lack of instruction in history in th
elementary grades from the first t,
the sixth year inclusive. 1t is plan
med to have the teachers in the frs
three grades teach the subject b,
reading historical stories and bio
graphies of men prominent in ma
tional and International affairs
while in the grades from the fourtl
to the sixth year inclusive, the pupil
will study from books. At presen
there is no history taught in tn
lower grades, DR.. Downes said.
Because of inequalities in salarie
to teachers when a double increas
under the salary scale was granite,
last year, the board unanimously de
cided to amend the rules to settl
this question. About $3.50 will b
needed in order to have all tn,
teachers in certain classes reach tn
maximum allowed by the salar,
scale, but which they would not hav,
reached under existing rules. TIL