The times-news., 1937-03-10
CAMPAIGN TO
CARRY SCHOOL
VOTE OPENED
$50 Parents and Teachers
Hear Reports on Elec-
tion Prospects
WARN FRIENDS TO
VOTE IF REGISTERED

A vigorous campaign in support
of the proposal to extend the city
school term from eight to nine
months and to provide additional
facilities for pupils was launched
last night at q meeting of the
Parcnt-Teachers association at the
Rosa Edwards school building.
The meeting was attended by
about $50 patrons and teachers,
including q large number of fa-
theirs who had been especially in
vited.
The proposal will be voted on
at n special election set for Tues
day. April 6 by the board of coun-
ty commissioners at the request
Of the city school board. Regis
tration books were opened last
Saturday, with l20 persons living
west of Main street qualifying At
the courthouse and 20 living east
of Main street registering Mt the
city hall.
Reports reached the meeting
last night that a door-to-door can
vass east of Main street had been
started for the purpose of defeat
ing the proposal, but no formal
action was taken with respect to
this activity other than to warn
"all friends of public education
not to register for the election
unless you fully intend to vote"
II was explained that anyone who
qualities to vote and then fails to
go to the polls actually votes
against the proposal. In the door
to-door canvass, the reports said,
opponents hope to secure the reg
istrations of a sufficient number
of people whose absence from the
voting places on April 6 would de-
feat the movement to have Hen
Jacksonville fall in line with about
80 cities in North Carolina which
have already voted to supplement
school funds supplied by the state
and thus keep their schools on the
accredited list.
In the course Of the discussions
last night, Supt. F. NJ. Waters was
asked to clarity reports that II the
election carries tax of 25 cents
on each 500 valuation will be
added to the county levy next
year.
"To begin with" Mr.. Waters re-
piled, "any levy would apply only
TO property located within the
boundaries of the city school dis
trict. The proposal to be voted on
provides that taxing authorities
might in future years levy up to
25 cents on each 500 Of vaiua-
ton, but your school board has no
intention of asking for more than
one-half that amount. The board
in reality anticipates a levy Of
about l2 cents, which would mean
that a taxpayer whose property IS
valued at $4,000 would pay only
Sc to help provide an additional
month Of school and to improve
Institutional and other service to
children. The question of salaries
for teachers does not enter INTO
the problem except that they
would, of course, be paid for the
extra month of school under the
state salary schedule now IN ef-
feet. Just what a 12-cent levy
would mean to the school, in ad-
dition to providing as extra
month, will be made clear to the
public within the next few days.
Mrs. A. S. Browning, Jr., vice
president of the association, who
presided in the absence Of Mrs.
Fred Justus, president, said the
campaign in support of the school
proposal will in itself be educa-
tional in nature.
"Even now," she said, 1--WE be-
lieve a majority of voters are con.
vinced that our children can not
be properly prepared for life with
inadequate school facilities, ana
that Hendersonville cannot nope
to attract new residents in compe-
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