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Show SOUTH WASHINGTON SCHOOL The city board of education has decided de-cided to go ahead with plans for the construction of a new South Washington Wash-ington school building. This seems to be the proper step to take. When the 'board first received an estimate of the cost the members were staggered by i lb figures. It was decided to wait for lower prices. The belief was expressed express-ed that the peak had been reached. This was about a year ago. Now the board finds it costs several Miousand dollars more to put up the building hnn it would have cost had the con-' con-' tract been let a year ago. Plans for the structure call for what might be termed a two-unit school. , One section Is to include an auditor-i auditor-i ium and a gymnasium and the other I section the class rooms. Tho board has ?250,000 for tho structure. It proposes pro-poses to spend this amount for the ! cla3S-room section of the building and I construct the gymnasium-auditorium section when conditions are more fav- orable. j The board is doing the right thing 1 in taking steps to meet the demands of the growing school children. It is ; better that the necessary expenditure i be made now than that school children j should be overcrowded and otherwise 1 handicapped for months while a hoped-. hoped-. for decrease in the price of building j material arrives, especially when no-i no-i body has been able to hold out en-j en-j couraglng news as to thie possible decrease. |