The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-08


rounding community, this high school
was included along with the Sunburst
high school and merged into the
Northern Toole County High School
District. The forced merger put the
town of Sunburst in control of fl
nances, because the number of vot-
ers in the town of Sunburst exceeds
the number of voters that reside in
the remainder of Northern Toole
High School District. No pains were
taken to achieve compromise and
agreement.
A community cleavage has resulted
which runs right up to the Sunburst
rest of Northern Toole county stand
apart in spirit from the town of Sun
burst. One commendable effort to
heal this cleavage should be mention
ed. Sunburst's school buses are pick
ing up children for the Oilmont high
school, and giving them ride to Four
Corners, where they get off and take
the Oilmont bus.
Sunburst high school has it's diff
ficulties met and standards upheld
through the continued effort of Supt.
Duane Taft and staff. There is not
room to carry on as one would like.
Whether the new building that is
in the course of erection will be COM
pleted and equipped by next Septem-
Der is uncertain. But more uncer-
toI &c 40 o11nctin,, 10 rrrI af ha, 4he
new building after it's completion, will
meet the needs of high school educa-
ton. One appraisal is that the new
building is not high school at all, |
but merely a center for recreation |
and amusement, with some shop work
and other vocational instruction ap-
pended.
Sunburst itself is a small town,
with total population slightly in ex-
cess of one thousand. The entire
area around Sunburst has a very {
sparse population. There are 1000 s
seats in the gymnasium of the new
building, and four hundred additional |
seats in its auditorium. Because the
voters in Sunburst outnumber all the S
,ther voters of Northern Toole Coun- I
" High School District, they have
oeen able to bond the entire district t
o the limit of five per cent of it's ]
axable valuation, and thus to expend T.
more than a half million dollars in e
he erection of their entertainment a
enter, which they call high school. v
SMALL HIGH SCHOOLS OF :
HILL COUNTY :,
The tour included a visit to the t
of Inverness, Rudyard, 0
bingham, Clifford and Kremlin, and il
lso to Box Elder, south of Havre.
Pressure is being exerted to compel f,
of high school districts for 81
ne entire area of Hill county. If tt
e-districting is unwisely carried out, il
ne result can be as unhappy, as in d
apable of successful operation, and fl
; disastrous financially, as what has a:
lken place in Northern Toole coun- sc
7. a,
Rudyard's high school, with forty
lpils, meets all requirements for a y;
BOD school. Supt. Robert Jay and in
S very efficient staff are, from the SC
andpoint of pupil education and well tn
re, making this one of the best tn
hools in Montana. bingham, Gid ed
I'd and Kremlin, and also Box Ell to
r, probably will not be able to have TO
oh a daily average attendance of or
'enty-five in high school, until their
elementary school enroll ex
emit brings their high school enroll lin
emit to an adequate level three years his
nee. to
Inverness, Rudyard, bingham and on
ldford are located consecutively, tn,
miles apart on Highway No. 2, sh
d Kremlin lies on the highway ten mi
les east of Clifford. These twenty
hit miles of highway are in storm co.
ga, and often in winter are made blu
ngerous or impossible by billiards., DR.
drifting snow. Bus routes from ex