Desert Sentinel (Newspaper) - February 11, 1965, Desert Hot Springs, California School Bond Vote Set For District Tuesday School Here To Share in Bond Issue A survey of city voters dis closed promised passage or school bonds election day when everyone is asked to back the bonds for the Palm Springs Unified School providing more than for Improvements at the school in Desert Hot Seven classrooms will be re each classroom set of lights to cost making a to tal of in much needed new Six classrooms will have sinks Installed at n cost of Opening of school site to north including grad Installation of baseball diamonds and drinking fountains will cost Automatic sprinklers and turfing in the area presently bounded by fencing mately three acres will cost Local residents asking how much Desert Hot Springs will receive from the school dist bonds when they pass Tuesday wore told a total of will be allocated to Des ert Hot Springs Margaret prin said today the school is In dire need of these Ci voting yes on school Continued on Page 6 Voters in Desert Hot as well as other areas making up the fastgrowing Palm Springs Uni fied School District go to the polls to decide the fate of a million school The bonds are felt to be necessary by the school administration and voters throughout the dist rict to provide funds for the future growth of the school population in all parts of the For this there will be only two voting precincts as Is usually the case in special Precinct 1 will Include all voters in Desert Hot Springs precincts 3 and 5 and all in Garnet 1 and Vot ing here will be in the book room at Desert Hot Springs Ele Precinct 2 will include all voters In Desert Hot Springs precincts 4 and 0 and all in Garnet 4 and Vot ing in this precinct will be at the Betty Lukomski 6G12 6th Desert Hot THE NEED for classrooms is considered of tho greatest With four of the elemen tary schools having classrooms fully and tlie others facing the same condition in the the educational program of the children is beginning to suffer as class sizes go well be yond the state recommended size of 25 with many classes at 39 and 40 The junior high school is now overcrowded to the danger At this school 815 stu dents occupy a school designed to accommodate 600 One year of normal growth Is left at the high and it must be able to turn the ninth grade over to the Junior high school by September 1907 or ly modify its Instructional prc Continued oh Page 12 Community Center Mayor Howard and thanked cal County Park aM W creation board on plans for In of a new stage at the 8th Street Community Including a riser on stage much larger and more adequate for city council seating behind new ly designed combi nation desk sets and conference tables suitably arranged and In stalled to accommodate five city manager and city Secretary and treasurer will be seated at desks at floor The new and larger riser will provide for tho councils voice projection over the heads of the large audiences attending meetings on the first and third Wednesdays of each Much of the difficulty of hearing councilmen speak In the past was due to the fiHer Ing effect of thoir voices through rows of people seated at the front of the Robert acting city man said tlie cost tho new installation is assumed by the park Investigation of and most efficient public address possibly six iri placed in men and others at the rostrum as well as at the speakers stand provided for speeches from the is being con Cost of quality micro phones and installation services are currently being Gold reported to the Sentinel to 7 SCHOOL BOARD AGENDA LISTS VARIED ITEMS In addition to hearing finan cial and other reports and act Ing on personnel the board of education of Palm Springs Unified High School will discuss a number of matters tonight The as is scheduled for the Administra 333 Farroll Palm Listed as topics under dis cussion tonight will he Consideration of the use of Palm Springs High School au for a lecture by the John Birch Society Hear a report on the lang approach to reading Consider a program on civil defense Discuss formation of a Junior high school science club Hear a review of the Arthur Little Bonds to Provide Facilities With allocated to Des ert Hot Springs tlie suc cess of a yes vote on school bonds 1C will fi nance a five year school build ing program in the Palm Springs Unified Amount of bonds Is set at nnd will provide fa in other areas where 70 local children in the 7th nnd 8th grades nt Nellie Coffman Jun ior High School in Palm Springs are presently receiving their More than 120 high school stu formerly graduated from the local having gone through junior are now In tho Oth to 12th grades In the Palm Springs High These students are picked up and returned to Desert Hot Springs every school day by spe cial The part of which goes to the local will fi nance five new school Bites in Continued 12 Committee Soys Recall Election to Continue A determined group of anti Mayor Howard Carr campaign ers Intent on unseating the mayor announced yesterday will not halt the circula tion petitions by 12 members in GAoting The for a Better Desert Hot meeting Monday at the residence of Jack informed Al and Herb Lopez they had pated In a collective bargaining meeting held recently in coun cil chambers at city hall and had met with two Carr representa Carr himself and Brown in the presence of River side County District Attorney William called here at the suggestion of the Senti Hard Way to the Top Getting to the mountaintop station of the ban Aerial Tramway the hard way last Thurs day was the objective of two local residents and one Palm Springs and made exactly 11 hours and 58 minutes n Earl and Louis Desert Hot Springs and Joe Palm home on foot the Using their the trio soon began the steep ascent and in the higher were forced to pick their way carefully by roundabout snow trek took them to the north side of the from where they made wisely their way to the mountain station j rode the tramway car on the return nels Mark The forces decided they would not go along with any compromise but would de mand their proposals be carried out to the letter and If the petitions would roll toward a special recall Cost is estimated at approximate were a a bargaining meet Five were agreed to by but the sixth he said he could not grant as he would no resign and could not speak for councilman Ted Spellaza and Charles Horton and Lopez at the meeting had requested cither Spellaza or Minor to re sign from tho All re fused to do At the Monday com officials and petition agents refused to have any part of the attempted compro on Page 7 Crash Here on Sunday The California Highway Pa trol reports a collision here last Sunday resulted in In juries to two The accident happened on Dillon Road and Palm Just outside city whore one auto rammed at tempting to make loft Molly 6G33S West Ca one of the was treated and released at Des ert She was a passen ger in a car driven by Hilda Continued on Page 12 Single Copy eser 26 Serving Desert Hot The Nations Health Center Hot FEBRUARY 1966 THREE LOCAL ENTRIES SET FOR PARADE Springs will by entries In tlin 22 an nun Festival parade to br hold in Founders Auxiliary of An Rf local of Commerce anil SpaTel will In par it was nmm The of Commerce will also be manning a booth nt the Onto passing out In re nnd information Desert Hot Springs to all planting one of the first three trees in the Park picnic area are left to right Vernon supervisor of parka Ed Hus member of board of DHS Recreation and Park District and Mar guerite chairman of the Sentinel PICNIC GROVE A REALITY School Holidays Are Announced Classes will be dismissed in Desert Hot Springs as well as other schools In the Palm Springs Unified School District i on Lincolns The district schools will al so observe Washingtons as a le gal 21 Trees Planted in Park Here A picnic grove in Wardman Park is now a Twentyone goodsized trees to shade and beautify the area have been planted in the were pur money donated by organizations and interested in In Desert Hot Springs and other communities during the past Included in the trees plante are evergreen carobs olive trees and Aleppo pines These with the plantings o Peruvian palm trees and olean durs in other parts of Park provide a variety of tree and shrubs characteristic of thl area and were recommended u most likely to survive the hea and wind of the V The original plan of labeling each tree with the name of donor has been found to bo im practical because donation range all the way from to Marguerite Burmesch chairman of the Park ex To match the cost o the tree to tho size of the dona tion would result in trees of al For this reason plans are being made to place all tho don Quarterly Room Tax Fees City room tax income was nn this week as amount ing to for the quarter of its operation Mayor Howard he ind the council wore pleased at the amount Tho council anticipated an an Income from this source to exceed previous estimates of Of has boon ear marked by the council to go to the Chamber of Commerce for a public relations program to the chamber will add ad money for expanded chamber Appeal Made for More Teen Angel Entrants Following what she said was a rather disappointing turn out Florence cochairman of the re vived Toon Angel contest has announced a second meeting of girls Interested in the contest will be held at 2 Satur 13 at Desert Hot Springs Trailer Park on 5th The first mooting was attend ed only by out of town girls and Newton has appealed for local girls to attend and The Toon Angel contest was a major source of funds for View Crippled Childrens Foun dation In former i board is cochairman with New Girls from 13 through 19 are eligible to enter the Contestants will bo accepted from Palm tho Desert as well as Desert Hot The contestant who raises the most money for the foundation during the contest Is Judged the In previous years the winner has received a trip to Some major award will he Newton but has not yot been de ore names on one The board of the Recreation and Park District is most grate ful to the organizations and pub lic spirited citizens whose dona tions made Impossible pur chade beautiful The total sum donated was said the Wo feel it is a real stop forward in the of our Weather In 4 5 7 8 9 10 HI Low 1961 80 71 7S 42 70 HS in M 45 fin 70 77 70 37 Bl 70 33 80 4f5 4fi 40 47 48 48 Inch The complete list of donors to the Wardman Park tree fund follows Desert Hot Springs or View Board 6f Cham ber of Friendship Grandmothers Im provement Jewish Com munity Center Masonic Methodist Community Owners Pied Rebekah Senior Citizens Shuffle board Spatel Elizabeth Catholic Womens World War Veterans World War 1 Desert Hot Springs residents Alan and Esther Hans Marguerite nnd Continued on Page 121 200 Businesses Said Delinquent On City Fees According to todays report from rity hall there are 200 businesses In the city whose owners have not made applica tion for city delinquent as nf There Is being charged a 10 per cent delin quent fee on every business license on a delin fee is an additional On a delinquent fee is Motels vary according to their The business license fee sets a minimum of and an additional for each Delinquent charge or fine will be 10 per cent of the amount of the license fee for Starting March delinquent fine will jump per increasing an 10 per cent for each City hall warned that rj Zoning Hearing Set for 17 17 at has boon set as the date and time for a public hearing by the city council on a tion from the mission that four lots on the south side of 1st and be rezon oci from multiple residential to Alan owner of the says he has plans to de a shopping center on the FIRST CAND first candidates in the revived Teen Angel con test by Angel View Crippled Childrens Foundation turned out last Saturday at a at Desert Hot Springs Trailer Meeting with Mrs Florence Newton and A the girls listened to the of the con left to are Pam Sue Linda Jones Mrs New Judy Quintana and Pamela Sentinel photo INDIO FAIRGROUNDS Dote Festival Opens Run 12 The gates will open 12 for the 1Hh annual ndio National on tho It runs 1222 on tho 100 cre This is always one of the op events of the desert win attended by many thous nda of residents nnd many of whom stay in Desert Hot Springs motels and hotels and drive dally to the festival THK nl In dlo be reached in n short overgood high M any times accom are lacking in during the but con usually bo hud here at the fine hotels and motels found adver tized In the There arc elephant and cam el camel and ostrich a spectacular Arabian Nights and a huge Na tional Horse Mascot camels and He ha and a old baby camel will for attention with Queen Scheherazade has an Arabian I ly In celebration of Continued on
