The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-09
WILLARD HOUGHTON is FIRST
Five Topeka Schools Tied for
100 Per Cent Prize.
Students Give Many Interesting
Suggestions for City Plan.

Prize winners in the Topeka City
Planning Board essay contest in the
city schools were announced by the
planning board today that the
pupils in the various schools who won
prizes could receive them at the final
programs
More than 1000 essays were turned
IN 10 the planning board from the
schools. the contest being carried out
in every grade from the fifth 10 the
twelve inclusive. Five schools were
tied for the 100 per cent prize, that IS.
every pupil in Clay. Sumner. Wasnlng-
ton. I.ownan Hill and Assumption
high school in the grades arrecteo
wrote an essay on How City Framing
Can Help Topeka
ESSAYS turned in by FOUR scnools'
CLAW. Iowrnan Hill. Polk and wash
inEton. showed that the pupils IN those
schools were more familiar with the
true purpose and practical ann or cry
planning than were those OF otner
schools This was due to the fact that
greater effort was expended by the
teachers TO thoroly familiarize them
selves with city planning.
The Best Essay
The best essay on city planning from
all schools and from all grades, in
Guiding the high school. from the
standpoint OF being the most concise,
clear and pra crical comprehension OF
ten BY willard Houghton, grade ga
Of Lowman Hill school His essay,
which was very brief. told in less than
125 works every main object OF CITY
plan and showed that the boy in
stfuctfveIv sensed the basic practical
reason for each Of the five phases OF
city planning. traffic, transit. railroad
TRANSPORTATION, coming and recreations-
Willard is u years old and lives al
1Ie5 Washburn.
For illustration his one sentence on
railroad transportation covers the pa
sic reason why there should be any
railroad transportation in a city,
where it should be and the purpose
i solves in the community CONNER
cial life. The railroads should be
confined TO the manufacturing ana
wholesale district.
Tells OF Traffic Ways.
His reference to the traffic ways
covers not only the essential purpose
OF traffic ways, but where they should /
reasonably be located for the most /
part and what basic rule with regard |
to having should govern traffic ways, |
SPECIAL attention should be given 20
the streets in the business section and i
certain convenient streets should have
strong. heavy pavemeHts over Wnlch |
to carry heavy loads
His essay covers the zoning essen
tial by the sentence All business
houses. manufacturing concerns and
industrial shops should be confined 10
certain districts and should never be
allowed in the residence sections
But best OF all his essay is the only |
one from the schools which strikes
directly at the practical way to obtain
these essentials for the city in the one Il
sentence. The city should be supplied |
with laws and ordinances governing
all these things and these laws should
be strictly enforced"
The best ideas for city Improvement
were contained in essays from Quincy,
Washington and State street schools, l.
Quincy school in particular turned in
essays which were literally filled with
suggestions. mostly very practical. for
Improvements
Assumption High school and Low
man Hill school each won two prizes
The prizes for the best essays from
be a SO savings account from the Cap
itol Building & Loan. The essays
were turned in by divisions Of each
grade. however, A and B. and Mr.. c. s.
Elliott announced last night that he
would allow prizes Of a So savings
account for each best essay from each
grade division. making 81 for each
grade. This Is a total Of SIS in prizes
from the Capitol Building & Loan as
ISOLATION.
The prize Of s25 worth OF athletic
goods offered BY the Keller-Dustir
Sport Shop for the school which turned
in tho greatest percentage OF essays
according TO enrolment. was keenly
competed for and five schools are tied
for the prize. The planning board will
call a meeting OF the principles of
each OF the five schools and they will
decide a way to eliminate down to one
school. either by drawing lots or some
other scheme for elimination
The teachers vacation prize for the ,
best lesson course in city planning Will /
be announced by the planning board ,
later. as many fine courses were sub
mitted- Several schools turned IN es- ,
says so uniformly good that it was ;
difficult 10 Judge the prize winners
The Prize Winners.
The prize winners for the best es-
says from each grade were as follows:
Fourth year high schoOl-Isabel Nc
Ginnis. Assumption high school; third ]
year high school-Lois Bacon. Topeka
high school. second year high school
Connaughton. Assumption
high school. first year high school
Virginia Van Hook, Sumner Junior '
high school; s-A grade-Mildred :
Jackson. Washington school. S-B 4
grade-Helen Campbell. Polk school: 9
"A grade-kenneth Coleman, State i
Street school: T-B grade-Lawrence a
Frisbie. Quincy school: 6-A grade !
willard Houghton. Lowman Hill +
school; 6-B grade-Richard McEntire
Harrison school: 5-A grade-HazeI
Sullivan. Clay school; 5-B grade &
Richard Caossert. I.oWmau Hill school