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Show ! School Lights Own ! Fisld, Saves $15,000 i Vocational Students Provide Labor for Project. BARBERTO?i", OHIO. At a saving sav-ing .of $15,000, Barberton high school's football stadium now is lighted by a home-made lighting j plant built by high school pupils I during the vacation period. Walter Crewson, Barberton school superintendent, who made the announcement, an-nouncement, said that it was the finest lighting system of its kind ill Ohio. An innovation in stadium lighting, the system was designed by Arthur O. Austin, Barberton electrical and radio engineer. Manual labor on the project was provided by 12 high school vocational vocation-al students working under C. C. Adams, welding instructor, and Robert Indorf, machine shop teacher. teach-er. Main feature of the system is a double row of radio-type towers 100 feet high. "With a high tower, the lights shoot straight down on the playing field, giving better vision to the spectators," Austin said. "The old type tended to send the light straight across the field into the eyes of the fans on the opposite side." Work on the six steel towers began be-gan in June and ended in time for the beginning of the football season. Each tower mounts 24 lights. I Crewson said that the lowest private pri-vate construction bid had been $20,-000. $20,-000. "By using our own labor, paying pay-ing high school workers 50 cents an hour, we cut the cost to $5,000 for a saving of $15,000," he said. "The project cost Barberton taxpayers nothing. The entire bill was paid from proceeds of football games." |