White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-07-23
SCHOOL FINANCES
GROW STEADILY BETTER

signed contracts from all of the teach
ers who will teach in White Bluffs
next year. The corps of teachers in
the high school will be Mr.. and Mrs.
w. M. Underhill. who taught last year
at Roslyn, Wash. and Miss Faye
Withrow. E. E. Kirkpatrick will
again be principal at the grade school
and the other members of the grade
school staff will be Miss Frances Sailor,
Spokane, fifth end sixth grades Miss
Mildred Boudin, Tacoma, third and
fourth grades; Miss Helen Budden-
hagen, Walla Walla, first and second
grades.
This is the second consecutive year
that all of the eighth grade pupils in
the White Bluffs school have passed
without failure Those who will en-
ter high school as freshmen next year
are Joseph Wagner, Dudley Wilkin-
son, Donald Heath, Clifford Mcintyre,
Robert Nitzsche, Jack O'Larey, Wal
ter Schirm, Flora Montgomery, Vio-
let Swanson, Ruth Edwards, Virginia
Kincaid, Frances Blair, Tom Clarke
and Merle Leslie.
j
1924, the district valuation was $780,
44S, with bonded Indebtedness OF
$21 900 and warrent Indebtedness of
$13,33065. This indebtedness exceed
ed the legal allowance and the finan-
ces of the district were in such shape
that the state school authorities said
that unless there was a promise of a
substantial reduction in the operating
expenses, the high school would have
to be discontinued AS a guarantee
that a promise to this effect would
be kept, bond was signed by forty of
the taxpayers in the district.
The school board then initiated a
stringent economy program to which
they have since rigidly adhered That
this has brought about a substantial
reduction in both the bonded and war
rant indebtedness is shown by fl
nancial statement issued by County
Auditor E.. o. Keene for the school
year ending June 80, 1926, in which
the district valuation is shown to be
$60C,626. with bonded indebtedness
of $4,000 and warrent indebtedness
of $4,eS1. This shows a reduction il
the two years of $1,000 in the bonded
indebtedness and reduction in the
warrant indebtedness of $8,64e.66.
While this is fine showing and the
school board is entitled to a lot of
credit fer the business like way in
which it has handled the affairs of the
district, the board feels that the econ
omy program must be continued to
further reduce the indebtedness ard
cover the additional improvements in
the school facilities that must be made
to take care of the constantly growing
number of pupils, III. ...-..s, .,......, !.
In returning the bond signed two
years ago, County Auditor Keene, in
a recent letter to the editor of the
Spokesman, said:
II am returning today the bond
which some forty of you White Bluffs
people signed up something over two
years ago in order to secure the con-
tinuat:on of your school for the re-
mainder Of that year. The warrants
issued for the balance of that year have
been all retired and the necessity for
the bond no longer exists.
II feel that the personal interest
which you have all taken in the school
condition there since becoming obi
gated as you were, has had very
wholesome effect in school matters and
/ know that your district is in much
better condition financially than for a
long time back.
"Your present board is entitled to
much commentator for it's business
like administration of school affairs
which has resulted in very marked
Improvement of the financial affairs of
the district and this, l believe, without
lesscning the efficiency OF your
schools"