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Vv.o T !{ K V {) I > I r? THE I> 0 I N T E R Iliffh COUNTY WIDE SCHOOL PLAN (Continued From Page H Point •'31,00(y,000.00 725,000.00 Ratio of Indebtedness to Taxable Property 2.5^0 P iMisht-d Evej’y Monday hy lilGU POINT HIGH SCHOOL Claire Oouglas — Editor Sommie Herman Associate Editor William Lewis ! Sports Editor Ward Packer Sports Editor Ruth Clinard Business Manager Lawrence White Advertisine Manager Parker Waynick Asst. Advertising Mgl. Samuel Hyman Asst. Advertising Manager Clarence Gro\dSon....Asst. Advertising Manager Ted Thompson Shop Manager Gladys Hoimann School News Editor Paul Ruth School News Editor Pauline Hicks School News Editor Joe Smoak State Athletic News Olin Matthews State Athletic News Eleanor' Cook Z.— Joke Editor Gladys Ellington Humorous Editor Gwyn Jarvis E.xchange Editor Garland McPherson Circulation Manager Robert Bain _...Asst. Circulation Mgr. Ruth Ruascdl Mailing Circulation Manager Mr. H. G. Owens Faculty Director Mr. M. L. Patrick-..,. Faculty Advieer SUBSCRIPTION PRICE JTembers of City School $ Others - - EOO Whole County—1.7% High Point—2.3% MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1925 THE COUNTY-WIDE PLAN The school bond election is to oc cur May 26. The amount to be voted on is $750,000.00'. Every cent of this amount will be needed for carrying out our present school building pro gram. The city school system is re stricted now from the lack of ade- qu:ue space and facilities. There are not enough grammar schools in the city properly to take care of 'the number of children. The high school is crowded at present, and will be much more so within the next two years. Even if a new high school was under construction now, during the time before it would be ready for occupancy, there would likely have to be temporary buildings con- •structed to meet the demand for more space. Under the county wide system the county will assume a debt of $7,260,- 000.00, which ts the approximate in debtedness of High Point on build ings now standing. Of this amount only $510,000 is bonded. If the county wide plan fails to pass, $216,000.00, the indebtedness that is not bonded, will have to be taken care of out of the $725,000 bonds voted. But every cent of the $725,000 is needed for additional school facilities, as has been previously showm. AI.lJiVlNI BANQUET HEI.U The third annual banquet of the High Point High School alumni as sociation was. held in the Friends Cliurch Annex Tuesday evening. April 14. There were about 140 -pmhprs present. The purpose of the banquet was to welcome the new members from the Senior class. IVnltcr Crissman, president of the .VysfroriHon was in charge of the vio rrav.i. Invocation v/as given by The purpose of the county-wide eight-months school plan is to put all the property of the County back of all the present school indebtedness of the County. At present the county schools have • a special tax for the county school indebtedness, and the cities have special taxes for their school indebtedness. Under the proposed plan the County will take over all the above indebtedness and levy a county-wide tax to take care of the interest and create a sinking fund. Present Plan: Annual Interest on $725,000.00 at 5% $36,250.00 Annual City Tax on $31,000.00 at 12c 37,200.00 Proposed Plan: Annual Interest on $2,656,000.00 at 5% $132,800.00 Annual County-Wide Tax on $158,000,000.00 at 9c-.. 142,200.00 A glance at the above figures will indicate that the county wide plan of carrying the present school indebtedness will be to the financial advantage of the Cit.v of High Point. Under the present system it costs the citizens of High Point a tax of approximately 12c on each $100.00 valuation of prop- ei’ty to pay the interest on its school indebtedness for perma nent im[irovements. Under the proposed system the Count.v could meet the same interest requirements by levying’ a tax of only 9c on each $100.00 Rev. T. A. Sykes after which the following program was g-ven in the course of the dinner: . A song by Helen Reich followed by a 'welcome to the class of ’25 by fhos. Turner. Later Aline Kaneer responded for the Senior class. Mar garet Gurley and Dorothy Hoskins sang a duet and were encored Daniel L. Grant of the University e" North Carolina gave a speech on Alumni work. Short talks- were given by Principal L. R. Johnston and Supt. T. Wingate Andrews. H. G. Owens gave a humorous reading which was very enjoyable. Mrs. W. K. Dickens and Miss Pauline Aus- band were elected President and sec retary of the hssociation respective ly. Those rocei^^ng awards are .Joe Smoak,- Semmie Herman and Claire Dugla", seniors; Henry Gurley and Garland McPherson, juniors. Rob- bert Overman anl Minnie Herman, sophomoros, John Clinard and Edith Milikan, Fre.shmen. BLUE TRIANGLE CABINET MEETS DEBATING AWARDS ARRIVE The cahin'^t members of the Blue Triangle had a luncheon at the Y. W. C. A. last Tuesday at noon. Tlie main purpose of .the meeting was to decide on a scheme to get new members so that the next year’s clubs will be larger, and to get more girls enthuised with this organiza tion. It was decided to ha-ve a sun rise hike Saturday morning. It was left to the social committee to de cide on the place to go. The rewards for the Jiard work of lire debators have arrived. Tliey are in the form of attractive little pins and will be awarded in the near fu ture. The “Pointer” is donor ^f the gifts and is pround to say it will confer honors on twelve debaters. The pin is in circular form with High Point High School’s colors in it in the blue and the purpose in kthc wliite. The name of the school it represeuls is in the center in at- tracli'.T le'.ters. Jack—“What do you think of that geometry te.st' we’re going to have this morning?” Pa’d— “Wei!—'>r rir— I havent thought mueh of it." Jack (Turning the leaves of his' geometry book) “I’ll be glad when the next period is over. Paul—“I hope it’ll never come.” Tt is understo''-! that “.Sis” W’"- dou has received n numb''r of r-- onest': fr V em'e •inlors to he his cort to the iunior-senior recinetieu.
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