Evening star., 1952-05-25

Issue tuesday
$S,2So.0oo is Sought
For RemodeIing and I
New Construction
Arlington citizens will vote
Tuesday on a proposed $3.50. 900
school construction bond issue.
Polls at 20 precincts will be
open from 6 am. to 6 pm. Voting
machines will be used.
Two new precincts have been
created since the last election.
They are Claremont, formerly
part OF Harrington and Arlington
and Dominion Hills. formerly
part Of Westover precinct,
Claremont voters will ballot at
2635 South Walter Reed drive. In
Dominion Hills. the polling place
will be Mckinley School. Thrifton
precinct voting place, formerly
Cherrydale Garden Market, will
be Stratford Junior High School.
A total of $1,000 voters. a new
record, is registered in the county.
Persons who have registered since
November 6 must have paid poll
taxes by December 10 and must
present poll tax receipts at the
polls.
Alternative is Curtailment.
The School Board has proposed
the bond issue to finance. ele-
|mentary school needs in the next
two years and junior senior high
school needs in the next three
years. @
IF we do not approve this bond
ISSUE" the School Board said.
there will be no alternative other
than halliday sessions, crowded
and makeshift clasSroomS, and
greatly decreased educational op-
lportunity for our Arlington boys
and girls"
The bond funds would build two
new elementary schools. They
would be Tuckahoe. at North
Twenty-fourth and Underwood
streets, and Taylor, west of Mill
| tary road near North Twenty.
sixth road.
Additions would be built at Bar
croft. Henry, Langston, Madison
and Page schools.
Would Remodel Old Schools.
Fourteen classrooms would be
built to relieve crowding in the
lGlencarlyn jackson Mckinley
area.
Old elementary schools would
be remodeled.
| The bond issue also would pro-
vide money to build the final unit
Of Wakefield Junior Senior High
School. This would bring the
! schools capacity to 1000 students.
The construction contract for the
. first unit calls for a capacity Of
|. 400.
When the first unit Is completed
in the fall of next year. the board
predicted, Wakefield will not near.
ly meet classroom needs.
. Stratford Junior High School
lalready is inadequate to care for
Jail the students in its area, so the
board proposes new junior high
school, Williamsburg. This school
would be built in the area between
Madison and Marshall schools.
Question on Voting Machines.
Bond funds also would be used
to remodel Washington-Lee. and
Hoffman-Boston High Schools and
Jefferson and Swanson Junior
, High Schools.
{ This is the 125-word question on
the voting machine: "Shall the
| County School Board Of Arlington
, County. Virginia, contract a loan
+ and issue bonds of Arlington
County, Virginia, in the amount Of
e So. .280, 900 for the purpose Of pro-
viding funds for improvements to
, the public schools of said county,
! including the purchase of sites for
school buildings or additions to
d school buildings, the construction
. of school buildings or additions to.
or alterations of existing school
buildings, or the erection and
equipping of buildings for the
r storage, care and repair of school
S buses. and including but not lin
tied to the purchase, construction,
a Iequipping and furnishing Of sites.
e buildings, or additions thereto as
t will result in physical accomoda-
o tions necessary or desirable to
e make possible the expansion of
n elementary school facilities and
the expansion Of secondary school
S facilities?"