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Show BOARD OF EDUCATION PLANS START OF LONG RANGE BUILDING PROGRAM The Beaver County Board of' Education, at their regular August meeting, laid plans for a building program for the district, dis-trict, designed to take care of immediate needs as rapidly as possible, and keep pace with need lor new buildings as the school population increases or present buildings become inadequate. in-adequate. First move was levying of a special 10 mill building 'fund 1;x. which will be collected for the next five years on all Beaver Beav-er County property, and which is expected to raise about $35,000 a year. This levy complies with regulations reg-ulations of the state emergency assistance act, and makes Beaver Beav-er County eligible for financial assistance from this fund, when additional appropriations are made by the state legislature. The Beaver County building needs at present are estimated at about 1 V4 million dollars, Superintendent D. A. Pearce 6aid, with No. 1 priority on the building list being a new Mil-ford Mil-ford Elementary school. In the No. 2 spot is a new cottage-type cottage-type school building at Minersville, Miners-ville, estimated to cost about $175,000, and an expenditure of about $300,000 at Beaver for a new wing at the Belknap school, abandoning the old por-i por-i tion of the present building, and ' remodeling and modernizing of the Beaver High School. This year's remodeling and repair program is about complete, com-plete, Mr. Pearce said. The buildings are in good shape for the coming school year, and will all be ready for the opening of school on Sept.4J;h. . Registration of students has been set for August 30 and 31. Announcement of schedules sched-ules will be made next week. The teacher list is not yet complete, with a music teacher and combination girls' physical education and commercial subjects sub-jects teacher needed at both high schools. |