San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-07
PRU|TT AVENUE
JUNIOR HIGH To
Be BUILT soon
viii Accept Low Bid at Ad-
journed Meeting
Wednesday.
WANT TAX RATE FIXED
May Include Landscape
Gardening in High
School Courses.

At cost of approximately S150,000
the Pruitt Avenue Junior high school,
| with capacity of more than 600 pupils.
will be erected according to the total
of low bids on general construction
work, plumbing, heating and wiring,
opened at a regular meeting of the
school board, Tuesday afternoon. The
number of bids and the complications
resulting from the submission of alter
nate bids on different forms of cOnstruc-
ton will require some time for tabula-
ton. The architects. however, assured
the board that the tabulatiOns will be
complete at o'clock Wednesday after
noon, when an adjourned meeting OF
the board will be held to maize its final
decision.
The lowest bids on the general con-
tract work were those of $130.J7J.52
and of S130.990 submitted by ]. c. Diel-
man and the Mckenzie Construction
company, respectively.
Landscape gardening may be offered
as course in one of the high schools
with the school grounds as laboratory.
it developed at the meeting. Tuesday.
Pursuant to a request made by Calvin
GOOdlOw that the board appropriate
sufficient money to purchase, trees TO
replace those that had died. the board
referred the matter to DIR. Rhodes with
power to act. DIR. Rhodes will make a
survey of the school grounds in com
pany with a tree-surgeOn who was en-
ployed by the board some time ago to
devote his entire time to taking care of
trees and strawberries.
Want Tax Rate Fixed.
A course in landscape gardening
would be highly desirable. DR.. Rhodes
said. when he was asked by the board
as 10 what his opinion was in regard
to request made by an A. & NJ. graduate
who had offered TO do both class room
and practical work at a nominal sum
per month. Before the proposition will
be further considered, the board agreed.
the definite proposal must be put into
writing.
Although there are no funds in the
budget allowed for repair and improve
ment work and will not be until the
end of the fiscal year. the urgent need
of ventilation system for the Main
avenue high school prompted the school
board TO authorize the architects, Phelps
Devices, TO advertise for bids for the
installation of an air fan and washer
pump at cost Of approximately $4,000.
The crowded condition of Main avenue
high school necessitateS the continuous
use of the auditorium. During warm
weather, the condition in the auditor
ium has been described as insufferable,
Commissioner of Taxation Pfeiffer re-
.qpested the school board to fix the
school tax rate as soon as possible on
the new assessed valuations, S1S0Of9.-
ITO. Due 10 the absence of Guy s. Nc
FarlaRd, chairman of the finance COM
mittee. no action will be taken until
Mr.. Netherlands return to the city,
Thursday.
Praise Building Program.
DIR. Jeremiah Rhodes was authorized
10 attend the superintendent section
of the National Educational assOcia-
| ton that meets during he week of
| February %, at Cleveland, Ohio. DR.
Rhodes is Il member, of the several i'm
portant committees of the convention
and has been selected TO take an i'm
| portant part on the main program.
\ letter Of cOmmendation from the
Beacon Hill Improvement League high
y praising the actions Of the school
| board in the Judgment displayed in de-
| veloping the 100000 building nro-
gram. was read at the board meeting.
Herbert Peairs was singled out for spe-
cial thanks for the decision of the school
board to place an elementary school on
Beacon Hill.