The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-18

. sDr. \. C. Tones, chairman of the high school plant extension committee said. The high school contains 2,7OO pupils on half time. Seven hundred more will enter in September. Tn F'eh- ruary 300 moro will come in over and above those who will graduate. There will then be, if there is no relief 3, 800 haif-time pupils.
 ITO correct this situation there must be seatings for at least 400 addition aI pupils. An eighteen room High School would provide room for no more than four or five hundred, and tho number on half-time would re- main substantially undiminished
 Ihe bond issue is useless. It can not be sold. because of it's illegal na- turc. The aldermen have not the DOW CT to issue bonds for school purposes, except for projects formulated and pre- sented by the Board of Education" Project Defeated
 The project of converting the Star Shirt factory into a high school was voted down at the common council meeting last night. Two resolutions were submitted for the emergency program of providing for the needs of the high school children. The ma- 1ority report submitted and advoca- ted by Aldermen Veness, Doherty and Kelly was for the adoption of the plans of the Board of Education which provided for the purchase of the Star Shirt factory, for the pur- chase Of a site for the erection of a
 
 for the additions necessary for the housing Of the children in Tesiny Ave and Sylvan Crest schools
 This was voted upon favorably by aldermen voted with the Republican aldermen, Hogan, Lavery, Richter and Costello of the sixth, ninth, tenth and eleventh districts respectively.
 VeBess Favored Plan.
 Alderman Alfred E. Veness, presi- nf fI7g. ,ciI a, oh the finance committee, introducing the Star Shirt program, said:
 '"Ths' administration is submitting this proposition as part fulfiIIment of it's prediction pledges to provide more school facilities. 1 feel safe in saying that of all the propositions and suggestions made towards pro- viding more school space to relieve the present over-crowding and part time, this proposition alone provides the facilities most readily available. In addition to taking care of about ], 400 high school students the second floor of the factory furnishes space which can be used as administrative offices of the Board of Education at a saving of rent that exceeds the in terest on the bonds issued to pur- chase the factory The school com naissioners have gone into the matter deeply, considering it in all angles, and I feel sure that our viewpoint in this, important matter should give
 Minority Report Adopted
 The minority resolution of the finance committee, which was pre- scented by Aldermen Sanford and Knapp, which called for the issuing of bonds, after May 10, for S330,0O0, for the erection of IS rooms on the ground owned by fhe city adjoining the present high school
 Forty-eight thousand for six room addition to the Tesiny avenue school; $32, 1000 for a four-room school in the Sylvan Crest district, and $5O,000 for the immediate purchase of site for a high school in East Bridgeport, was adopted by a vote of IT to '.
 Alderman Hogan, who voted nega- lively on both questions, had pre- viously stated to the council that he tn ought the rejection of the plan as by the Board of Education, did not mean that any other plan as adopted by the council would be car
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