New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
STAFFORD DISTRICT WANTS NEW SCHOOL
Voters Spend 45 Minutes Work.
 ing on Check List
REV. (. A. GRADER RESIGNS
Pastor of swedish Baptist Church VIII Return to Brcokiyn-Wa1cr Board Calls For Bids Tor Laying GOO Feet Of Mains.

After spending f. mIng'es pre1ar- jUs q check list of the voters at
 meeting of the Stafford school dis trlct last night. those rcsponsihl, for is preparation apparently forgot all about it in the heat Of the nu- m"rous debates between various parties in ;h" hall. Alfred Tallis, who circulated the petition for the first meeting held two weeks ago. became impatient with the delay "ocessitated ny tho compiling Of the
 list and wanted fo know when .he meeting ~Is going to star. Ashley
 NlShop. chairman of the district committee, replied that he was chair man of n" mc'tins until one was appointed for in" evenings festlvi- ties, 70 which Ta,lis promptly re- 'or'ad; You're a hell of a chair man
 While making up the list Of voters r was discovered that the name of District Chairman Eishop dil not appear on the printed list for the second voting district, although he Insisted that it should be there TO straighten our this angie. it was necessary 10 call Charles Anserhow- CT registrar of voters in the second precinct, and he informed ,ho meet ing that Bishops nama should have appeared. Tho name of William
 paTy was also challenged but he was also permitted 10 vote after it was found that his name appeared on in" lists Of the third taxing district.
 The meeting was formally called 70 order at ? o'clock by thairman Bishop. Joseph Pratt was then elect ed chairman by 2 to 1 5 vote over Ashley Bishop. his only opponent.
 The report ot the building com mtttee was read by A. R. Alderman. chairman Of that committee. The views of each member were ex- pressed in the brief presented by MT. Alderman as Were also those Of Judg" Newell Jennings. chairman of the board Of education. It was shown that there were 3l pupils en- rolled at the Federal Hill school. '' 4l' A'N4'i'' III lA'' Si'l tlbll klIb" Y tLS Tom Martins Hill. IL was possible. the report indicated, that these might be turned ovnr the Staffor,! district in tho event the voters of that district G,ciled to erect q school house west of Mine Brook. However, with the school in its present location, such action would scarcely be deemed feasible.
 Any increase in the present facili- 'iHs Of the district was bitterly op- posed by II. I.autenbach, who point cd out that there Were 6 children the Stafford school. five of whom in reality belonged 10 town 1! Of Pennington. He stated that fig ures in his possession showed that i from 1921 to 1926. with the eXcep- 1 tlon of one year. there were more ], children accommodated in the pres ! ent school than were enrolled this . year One year ther" were % ! pupils enrolled. according to Mir ! 
 Ashley Bishop. Kenneth Johnson | md Howard Dutton, the last named ! being clerk of the district. advocated | | additional school facilities William J. Phelan. r"aitor of Bristol. who las Sub-divided into building lots '"v.ral large tracts in tn" district. vas called upon for his views and !Npressei the belief that the time vas not far distant when land. for many years used for farming pur- Doses only, would be built up to a argc extent This would mean con- id"rahiy more children. particular y in th" section west of Mine Brook md these would have 10 b" taken ar" of by either the Federal Hill or il" stafford Districts
 Arthur <, Barnes. q member of he rural committee Of the board ot ,ducation. expressed his views of the situation but inimut.i that the natter was entirely ill the hands Of h" district for such action as they night sec fit to take
 Superintendent of Schools Karl A. Neiche explained tn" situation from 1T educational standpoint. He pre- s"Utad figures to show how pupils attending the Stafford school were in comparison with thoS" attending schools in th. larger districts. For instance, pupils in the stafford school are receiving 75 min- Itrs of instruction a week on Ian guas" and arithmetic while in the larger districts pupils were recciv- ing ijo minutes a week or just louhie. II" advocated Dn additional room, which h. felt would react '"Norahly to q great degree, par .irular}y on children in the seventh md eighth grades.
 motion was then presented 10 h" voters by NIT. Davy that con-