The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-22
Mass Meeting Held
To Consider
School Program

About 100 citizens of Coolidge
attended meeting held Monday
evening at the High School audi
torium for the purpose of discuss
ing what could or should be done
in regard to providing more school
facilities. Mr.. Preston Suit acted
as chairman, and declared the meet
ing open for airing of views, con-
tllcting or otherwise. Mr.. c.. Harve
Kester Of P h o n x, in charge
of P w A works in A i zona A
was introduced and explained that
there may yet be time to secure
the needed funds, and urged prompt
action on the part of the school
boards to call for bond election.
He stated that Coolidge High
School as well as the Coolidge
! Grammar school both have appli-
cations for loans and grants on
flea statement that came as a
complete surprize to most of those
present-and urged that bond ell
ections be called at once and a re-
quest made to the Regional Direct
or to ear mark the required funds
for Coolidge until bonds have been
voted on.
Due to the probability that this
is the last chance Coolidge may
ever have to provide adequate
school facilities with an outright
grant of As per cent of the cost,
the High school and Grammar
School Boards had submitted their
applications for loans and grants,
and both Boards are publishing
Notices of Bond Election in this
issue, such elections to be held on
Saturday, October 18th.
The Grammar School Board pro-
poses to build a 100000 building,
the site to be determined upon
later, and submits a proposition to
bond the district for $4,000, which,
if approved by the qualified elect
ors, will carry with it an outright
grant of $4,000. 1t is understood
that block 13 and black 26 in North
Coolidge have been offered to the
Board as prospective sites for the
new school building, and other To-
cations may be available.
The High School Board applied
for loan and grant from the PWA,
early in July, in the amount of
$60, 100000, $33,00000 of this to be
provided by a bond issue and $27,-
100000 to be an outright gift. The
application provides that 100000
of this amount to be spent for a
swimming pool, $5,00Q.00 for a well
and pumping plant to supply water
for the swimming pool and high
school buildings, 100000 for ten
mis- courts, and 45,000.00 to be
used in building a twelve room
Junior High School building. The
nominal cost of the building is due
to the fact that it will not be nee
! essary to construct heating plant
and sewerage disposal system since
the ones now in use are adequate
to take care of both buildings.
1t is proposed to build the new
building on the block just north of
the present high school building,
this land being part of the present
high school grounds. The nearness
of the two buildings to each other
will make the use of the gym and
auditorium available to both groups
of students.
The style of architecture for the
proposed building is Spanish Modi-
fication of Georgia Colonial. Since
this is the same as the present
buildings it will make a harmonl-
Gus group in appearance.
The present high school building
was erected two years ago and has
facilities for two hundred and fifty
students The present enrolment of
the High School is 1913. The Gram
mar school built eight years ago to
accomodbte 300 students now has
an enrolment of $40.
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