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Tamms TacklesTown’s High School GuttedBy Fire Last ThanksgivingBv Tonv StevensOf The Southern IllinoisanAn efficiently working answer tothe problem of what to do with 200school pupils and a schooljbuilding completely gutted by lire has been lound by school officials in Tamms, a railroad communitvdeep in Southern Illinois, andthey didr. t have to go far for thesolutionThe problem was thrust on theschool officials and townspeoplewith lightning suddenness early inthe morning following last I hanks-• •Janitors Henry Bulford and Clarence Gammon were working onthe top floor of the deserted schoolaboutfast spreading fire of undeterminedorigin swept up through the structure and gutted the interior beioreeven token resistance could be of-artmcnt1Qnd the townspeople.The fire spread so rapidly that Bufford fnd Gammon were almosttrappedonthe upper story, and Gammon ‘‘pent a week in a hospi tal with burns suffered as he foughtfSolves Burned-Out School ProblemPROBLEM AND ANSWERA burned out three storv bricka Southern Illinois railroad town, gym with only a short 6-day in-isSa problem and an answer. terruption after a fire destroyedbuilding, its blackened walls out- The burned school was the prob- the brick school Nov. 27 of lastlined against the skv, stands be- lem, and the new gym was theyearside a bt^nd new gym at Tamms, anwver Classes continued in the{Southern Illinoisan Photo)to reach an outside fire escape.The problem was enormous. The to do to continue the education of brick school had been built in\\ hat the situation might have neen w it bout the students at homeioss in building and equipment was a major financial setback to thithe school s 200 students withninimum ol interruption and delay, modeled in the past two or1924, and had been extensively re-threelor Thanksgiving vacation is some lire insurancedistrici e'en counting $100,000 in It was a relatively new problem vearsgood‘hing the town prefers to forget.itor tile moderngenerationolBut the big problem was what lamms people. The 10-classrooiif| I urn to page 8—‘ School(
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Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale, Illinois, US
Tue, Mar 16, 1954
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