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Show $2,000 Voted To Remodel Shop Building At a special meeting of the Preston Pres-ton sclmol board on April 2S an appropriation of $2,000.00 was made for the purpose of remodeling the Science building Into a shop. Under Un-der the program adopted the State Department of Vocational Education Educa-tion will provide a building foreman fore-man through the use of defense money. The National Youth Administration Administra-tion will place ten or twelve young men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four on'iho 'jol'. These young men will be paid part time Irani N.Y.A. funds for their won; and receive instruction in the building trades. The N.Y.A. will also provide twenty to twenty-five per cent of the cost of materials for the job. Thus the entire appropriation ap-propriation made by the school board can go 'to purchase of materials. ma-terials. The lower floor of the Science building will be devoted to shop space. A one story addition thirty by sixty-two feet will be placed on the east side of the present bunding bund-ing and will also he shop space The two classrooms now on the second lioor of the Science building will b remodeled and used by the vocational vo-cational agriculture classes. A new concrete sJairway will be built t' these classrooms. The present Ihird story will he removec: ana a Hat roof placed over the second story of the present buihpng. It anticipated that work will begin 'be latter par: of May The now shop will serve :egular high school classes and defense courses which "ay be set up. |