New Britain herald., 1930-02-26
ELECTORS REJECT
 PROPOSED SCHOOL Vote Negatively on All Five
 Questions Before Them EAST BERLIN LANDSLIDES
Kcnsincton Alone Tayors Any of Items On BallOt-NOtC is Heavy. TotalinC 1,O11-,John Hutchinson Dies-BaskctbalI Team Busy.

posal to build | new junior high school, Berlin's many and varied factions settled back today 10 watch the next attempt of the school board m the latirr's fight to relieve the congestion %t the kcnsineton Cram mar school. Though Konsington voted in favor Of the appropriation Of s97.&59 by majority of 40 votes, the tremendous landslide in East Berlin against the erection of a new school in kcnsing.nn, togethc' with slight unfaVor4ll2 majority in Berlin. nullficd tho v~ljng in tn" second district and hurlol the new school proposal undcr iii avalanche Of negative ballots.
 The results of the vo'n@ showed, for the first time in the history O. inc present school ter', }ttt hoy each section of the town stood. Ken sinGton was the most equally dlNid- cd. and the vote there favored the construction of tho junior high school. the appropriation of money for the proposed filtration plant and the nO,nination of a building committee The proposal 10 pur- chase the 'Emcrson site" for the purpose of building q junior high school on it was defeated in the second district, but by only Ii votes. In the first and the third districts, Berlin and East Berlin, greater op- position was shown. all of the ques- lions listed on the ballots being de- trated, in East Berlin. by a majority of about 140 and in Berlin by about 4o ballots. The tremendous land slide iu the East Berlin section, where only about 20 voted in favor of the school boards plans, upset all calculations. IL was thought that when F. o. Clark decided in favor Of the new school plans his opinion would swing that section Of the town, but such was not the case.
 Voting Heavy
 The total number of votes cast, 1.017, was greater than that at the annual election last October, when only S59 ballots were made out. All during the day straggiers appeared and voted. Early in the morning The voting was heavier than ordinarily but this died down somewhat dur ing the day. Late in the afternoon and early evening, when the fac tories closed, the influx of voters tc all voting booths was extremely heavy, the workers in all districts ma-,inC additional efforts to meet the demand for ballots before thu polls closed at ' o'clock. Final re- suits were not obtained until o'clock, Kcnsineton, with it's un' usually heavy vote, being the last to como in with the results. During the hour following the closing of tho polls. the town clerks office in tho Town hall was the scene of grca excitement as the results of the frs district were announced. Many waited outside the office until the results of the second and third dis tricts were announced, finally dis ncrsing after it had been mad' known that no town meeting would be held
 Consider Two Session Plan
 "I'm through. Working night an' day for the past six months with n' result is discouraging, said Nlc' .'hairman l.. Q. Shjcrden of tn school board last night after it ha' hcon found that the voters had re iected the boards plans, and toda, the next move of the school depart mcnt appeared uncertain. A meet ing will be held soon,
 That it is not altogether impos sible that the two session plan WiI he placed in effect in the near futur was made known by several mem bcrs Of the board, who agreed tha something would have to be done q once. This, according to their cN planation, would make it nccCSsar to have an additional force o teachers Students would attcn school in two bodies one going i the afternoon and the other in tn morning.
 This matter has been discussed be fore but no action has ever bee taken on it. The conditions in tn portable school and the basement C the grammar school arc such tha they can no longer be tolerated, ac cording to Miss Mary GrisWold, su pcrintcndcnt of schools, and tn fight for better accommodation started several years ago by tn school board Twill still be contil ued,' she added.
 Argument Over Voter
 int vcloped yesterday as part of th balloting. One worker for the oI position, whose car had been in us all day, brought in a load of voter only to have Philip Pagan model ator of the second district, reject or of them. According to him, he w. not a town resident, having move out three months ago. The energet worker, undaunted, journeyed New Britain to confer on the lega ity of the moderator's action wit Judge Bernard F. Gaffney. She r. turned a few minutes later Wl' verbal announcement from u office of the judge that an out-o town voter was entitled to a Yot Still Moderator Pagan refused u privilege. Again the worker went New Britain. returning with Alto ney Leo Gaffney. After a discussio Prosecutor Charles F. Lewis of Be lin backed up Fagans action al pointed out that a law passed
 1925 took away the privilege of Vo ing to person who had moved 0 of town. That settled the argumcl and the New Britainitc did not vol
 Mud Hampers Voters
 The mud and the mire of { hack roads, where tractors we used to haul out autos, proved to
 a source of trouble to many z tempting to vote on the questic The back roads have been made il passablc and mail must be SC