OCR Text |
Show School Constructs Houses To Assure Getting Teachers CR AWFORDSVILLE, ARK. Plagued by a shortage of school teachers resulting from a lack of housing accommodations, Crawfords-ville's Crawfords-ville's school board finally solved tlie problem by building a seven-family seven-family apartment. The board received several "no housing-no job" responses to its offers of-fers of employment; other teachers resigned because they couldn't find a place to live. If housing was the trouble, board members decided, then they would build houses. Now, the seven-family apartment, conveniently located across the street from the school, has been opened for inspection of teachers. The apartments nre new nnd mod-cm mod-cm nnd, best of nil. rentals are as low ns $25 a month. The new apartment Is a school board Job from start to finish. When contractors refused to handle the project except on a cost-plus basis, the board hired its own building supervisor, su-pervisor, carpenters, bricklayers, masons and other laborers. The board bought all materials through the school. The finished building cost about $"i0,000, which board members figure is n saving of about $3.01X1 to $10,000 over a contractor's con-tractor's cost. The school board rejected barracks bar-racks nnd boarding-house type buildings build-ings "because congeniality docs not seem to exist where a large group of adults is forced to live together." Money for the project came partly part-ly from (lie revolving loan fund of the Arkansas department of education, educa-tion, partly from the school board cash. Kvon with low rentals, the board figures the building will pay for itself In 20 to 25 years. |