Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-05-06
70 Open Essex School, Falls Addition Bid.

Bids will be opened May "a for
the new Essex school and May 81
for the seven-room addition to
Columbia Falls grade school.
The one-story Essex school will
contain 1895 square feet and
measure 43 by Is feet with a 10
by 19-foot addition for entryway
and lavatories.
The Seven-room addition to Col
umbia Falls grade school will be
built on the north end and match
the new building erected two years
ago. A federal grant of $130,207
has been made TO district 6 to pay
for the construction. This is the
final grant for school buildings as
result of the population influx
created by Hungry Horse Dam
construction.
Plans for the Essex school and
the Columbia Falls addition may
be obtained from Genres Weed,
Kalispell architect. An architect
sketch of the addition was used in
the Feb. IL issue of the Hungry
Horse News.
i The May 81 bid opening date
for the addition was set Thurs
! day following word from Seattle
! Bid opening date for the Essex
school was established at the May
meeting of the school board.
]. ENDORSE DRIVER TRAINING
Other action taken by the school
board included strong recon-
J mendation that a drivers training
program be taught next year
Teacher would be Spencer Kop-
pang, basketball coach. Further in
vestigation of costs is being made
, Also to be opened May "a ar,
bids for the 20-mile round triI
: west of Essex to Essex bus route
. now held by Mrs. Mary Ambro
q gini, and the ten-mile round tri]
North Half Moon to Columbi
Falls run driven by Henry Larkh
n in a school district-owned bus.
4 Bids will also be opened Ma
, "a for sale of a 1941 model 38 pass
. enger school bus owned by tn
= district
~ Other May "a bid openings in
4 clude supplying No. and 5 fut
~ oil, contract for a new roof on tn
% industrial arts building behind tn
Il high school, and janitorial SUP
N plies specifically furnishing ligl
bulbs.
Dates of the annual inspectio
= by the school board will be Me
20 10 and 20.
r. TUITION CHARGE
e. The district 6 board re-affirn
ed its decision of last fall that tt
= ition for all nonresident graz
school children attending school,
the district, but not living witt
b in its boundaries, would be 81
W a year. In the case of district
where the high school bus was 9
n ready running, there would n
"a be an additional charge for tran
- portation providing that there W
~ room on the bus. The route wou
M not be changed for grade sche
a students. Last year the tuiti
al rate was $45 for district 10 chill
"a rem, in most cases paid by t
I board.
N This action by district 6 folio
|EH that of the Whitefish school boa
81 which increased its charge frt
d. $65 to $500 plus transportation
1s the basis that school taxes VIZ
81 higher in Whitefish than in OF
lying districts whose child1
M were attending Whitefish scho1
The district 6 board voted
"a increase monthly payment to M
~ Joe Hamilton from SIS to $40
H the extra four miles a day .
- drives in the Valentine DIST
lad beyond what the 1913 MOI
zen contract calls for.
at Advice of the county attOrr
ew and attorney general are be
aIls asked on procedure to dispose
it's Bad Rock school and Essex sch
ar. please turn to pace ~