Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-02-09
Active Campaign Will
Be Waged to Inform
Voters
ELECTION WEDNESDAY
Some Opposition Devel-
oped Through Igno-
rance of Subject

Best methods of imparting correct
information about the school time
warrants on which vote will be TAX
en- next Wednesday, were discussed
yesterday afternoon at meeting of
committees from the Chamber of
Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis and
Woman's clubs, evidences of opposi-
tion to the issue having come to the
attention of the school board and
those interested in / seeing proper
provisions made fort taking care of
the greatly increased attendance.
Chairman ]. H. Haughton, of the
county school boards emphasized the
necessity for the construction of a
county high school building, pointing
out the overcrowded condition of the
new building here. He said that
there is a generally false impression
prevalent throughout the county that
pupils from all sections have access
to the school here. Those attending
from other districts are taken into
the Palatka school because there is
nowhere else to give them tuition,
and with the conditions here becom-
ing daily more congested necessity
for laying plans for the future dec:d-
ed the board to ask the taxpayers to
authorize the issuance of time war
rants with which to construct the
new high school building, or build
ings' in the two most populous sec
toins in the county, Palatka and
Crescent City.
Caring for Interest and Sinking
Fund. -
1t was pointed out that some op-
position to the issue was based on
the impression that the board would
not be able to pay the interest and
sinking fund on the warrants. Super
intendent Price said that these de-
tails had been carefully considered,
and that while right at the present
time the board cannot pay interest
or deduct any revenue to the sinking
fund at the present time, but that
when the warrants are sold, if they
are authorized, the board will be in
position to take care of them.
Mr.. Price pointed out that within
the last five years the board has
purchased more than $4,000 worth
of school furniture and has put more
than $4,000 into new school build
ings, all of this money coming out of
current funds. With sufficient
amount of furniture on hand to fur
nish new high school building the
board feels that it will be able to
provide, within another year, a suf-
ficient amount of revenue for meet
ing all interest charges and for di-
verting a sufficient sum into the
sinking fund to retire the warrants
at the end of thirty years. 1t was
explained by Mr.. Haughton that the
voting of the warrants next Wednes-
day does not necessarily mean that
they will be issued Immediately, but
that the board desires the authority
so that at the proper time and at as
early a date as possible the warrants
can be issued.
Supervising Principal Cassells, of
the Palatka schools, said that he had
heard some opposition from smaller
communities because they believed
that the construction of a high
school at Palatka would destroy
chances of those communities hav-
ing a high school. Mr.. Cassells call
ed attention to the law regulating
high schools, requiring that there be
a minimum matriculation much larg-
er than could be afforded in any
other communities in Putnam county
than Palatka and Crescent City. He
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