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The Fairfield Manufacturers Association today publicly en dorses plans for a new junior high school building program recently proposed by the di rectors of the Fairfield Com munity school district. The plan, which will be sub mitted to voters at a special selection in May, calls for a new building for 7th, 8th and 9th grade students and conversion of the present junior high-grade building to a three-unit element ary center. The Manufacturers also an nounced their support for a 24- mill schoolhouse fund levy pro posed by the board for the next 10 years to meet long-range dis trict building needs At the same time, the Associa tion also announced plans to sponsor a series of editorial cartoons giving facts and infor mation about the new school proposals. The cartoons will be drawn by Richard Madsen, Fairfield attorney, and will be published in the Daily Ledger beginning later this week. The Manufac turers will sponsor the cartoons as a public service. The Citi zens for Better Schools, which is now conducting a district wide campaign in support of the new building, will be wholly re sponsible for the contents of the cartoons. In announcing support for the building program, the Manufac turers group issued the follow ing statement: “Our biggest bargain is the amount of our taxes that go to educate the children of our workers. We hope that someday these children will take their parents’ places in our factories 'a view of the sweeping chang es being made by automation, t he premium wages being paid to skilled labor, the scarcity of jobs using only common labor, we feel it is just good, com mon sense to want the best ed ucation possible for our pros pective employer. “Good schools build good com munities. Good communities build good industry. Everybody prospers when things are good. Richard Madsen
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Tue, Mar 24, 1964
Page 8
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