The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-23
Plans for the New
$50, 900 Grammar
School Completed

Mr. Kirby, principal of the Gram
mar School informs us that the
ground has been purchased from
Mr.. R. ]. Jones for $4,000 and that
the project has been approved by
the w. P. A. in Phoenix. This is
tantamount to approval by the head
office in Washington, D. c., and
work should get underway in a
month or six weeks.
The project calls for a 100000
structure. 1t is to be poured, re-
enforced concrete, built in an l.
shape. The long part will face to
north to obtain the best lighting
facilities and the short side will
face west toward the highway.
The heating and cooling system
will be something new. 1t is
cheaper than installing furnace
and after investigating has proven
to be better. Each room will have
its own heating arrangement, op-
Grated by a thermostat. Behind the
heater is a blower type fan. When
the heater is turned on low it will
heat the room. Vents are so con-
structed that they will pass under
meath the building to the outside
air which, when the fan is turned,
on, high, will be used as cooling
system when the warm weather ar
rives This arrangement has proven
very satisfactory in several other
schools and is more economical
than one big central unit.
The class rooms will be lighted
by the new electric eye. This is
an automatic device which operates
in the dark sides Of the room. 1t
is a three-way switch which auto
matically turns on the light when
the room reaches certain dark
ness thus assuring proper light
for the pupils to study at all times.
The floors are to be of the newest
type. First there will be a four
inch slab of concrete, on top Of the
concrete will be covering of hot
pitch coal tar, and then on the coal
tar will be laid a covering of Oregon
pine. The floor will be finished in
Battleship linoleum which is the
only floor that is able to stand the
hard ware that a school floor Is
too. The coal tar under
laying will make the floor termlte
proof. and will eliminate that ex-
pense later n.The present grammar
school will have to have its floors
replaced because of these detruct'
i've insets.
The $4,000 voted by the people
will be expended in the following
manner. $4,000 for land, $500 for
architect, $1,000 for furniture and
equipment, and the balance for
identifying and landscaping the
grounds. $4,000 will be furnished
by the w. P. A.
There will be ten class rooms,
principals room, and a nurses or
flee. The nurses office will have
everything it needs in the way OF
equipment, and will be divided OF
so that there will be reception
room. nurses office, and rest
rooms, for both boys and girls.
The old building will be used
principally for intermediate and
primary grades and cafeteria.
When the school building is
finished we will be able to boast
of one of the best school systems
in the state. 1t will fill long felt
need and eliminate the necessity
of renting other quarters to &C
commodiate our ever increasing en-
rollment, as is now the case, and
though it is the best that can be
done at present it is a very un-
satisfactory arrangement and is I'M
fair to the children that have to go
to school under such a make shift
arrangement. 1t Is hoped that the
school will be ready for next
September. Mr.. Kirby deserves a
great deal of credit in bringing this
all about and if the new school
grounds will look anything like
the patio of the present Grammar
school, which is a gorgeous spot
of beauty, he will have the graft
tude of every one in Coolidge.