NDTICE OF SPECIAL ELECtiON
FOR ISSUANCE 0F S 0OL BONDS
TO THE VOTERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT:
I, T. tL Lowery, Secretary, do hereby certify that at a regular meet-
ing of the Board of Education of the County of Jefferson of the
Jefferson County School District, held on January 11, 1966, at which
meeting a quorum was presented and acting throughout, an order was
made and entered of record in words and figures as follows:
AN ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE COUNTY
OF JEFFERSON DIRECTING AN ELECTION TO BE HELD FOR
THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING TO THE VOTERS OF JEFFER-
SON COUNTY ALL QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE CON-
TRACTING OF DEBT AND ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE PRIN-
CIPAL AMOUNT OF $1,710,000 FOR A SCHOOL BUILDING AND
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
Be it ordered by the Board of Education of the County of Jefferson:
That it appears to the Board of Education of the County of Jeff.
erson and the Board of Education of the County of Jefferson does
accordingly find ,that it is necessary that improvements be made in
Jefferson County School District as follows:
1. To construct, erect, purchase sites (where needed), furnish and
equip new buildings, in the following approximate amounts, as fol-
lows:
New high school for grades 10-12 for Harpers Ferry - Charles Town
areas, approximately $770,000.
New elementary building to be centrally located to serve the
Kabletown, Rlppon, Summit Point and Middleway areas
approximately $206,000.
New elementary building to serve Harpers Ferry, BaKerton and
Millville areas to be located in Harpers Ferry Magisterial District,
approximately $238,000.
New elementary school to be centrally located to serve the Lee-
town, Kearneysville and Shenandoah Junction areas,
approximately $206,00~).
Sub Total $1,420,000.
2. To make additions, to renovate, enlarge, reconstruct, improve
and provide additional or replacement furniture and equipment, in
the following approximate amounts, as follows:
To convert the present Charles Town Senior High to a junior high
and make additions thereto to service the present Charles Town
Junior High attendance area, approximately $148,000.
Additions to Ranson Elementary School, approximately $55,000.
Additions to Blue Ridge Elementary School, approximately $16,000.
Additions to Shepherdstown High School approximately $71,000.
Sub Total $290,000.
Total approximate cost $1,710,000
3. That the above amounts, for said improvements, include all
engineering and inspection costs, the cost of issuance and sale of
bonds, the cost of acquiring necessary lands, sites and rights-of-way
therefor, and such other costs as may be necessary or properly in-
curred in carrying out the foregoing purpose or purposes.
4. That the funds derived from current levies, applicable to mak,
ing said improvements, which this body is now authorized by law to
lay, after providing for the administration of the affairs of said
Board of Education of the County of Jefferson and meeting the cur.
rent expenses thereof, as required by law, are insufficient to make
said improvements, and that, therefore, bonds should be issued to
provide funds for such purposes.
5. That it appears to the Board of Education of the County of
Jefferson and the Board of Education of the County of Jefferson does
accordingly find, that the valuation of the taxable property in the
Jefferson County School District as shown by the last assessment
thereof for state and county taxation purposes is $44;065,655; and
that the valuation of each class of property therein is as follows:
CHARLES TOWN DISTRICT
Precinct No. 1 -Shenandoah Junction - Shenandoah Junction School
Commissioners. James Blue, Abner Hockensmith and Gladys Snyder
Clerks - Bertha Leith and Naomi Benner.
Precinct No. 2 - Charles Town - Court House
Commissioners. Nellie V. Clark, Mamie llann and Harriet Taylor
Clerks . Elizabeth Ingram and Betty Clopper.
Precinct No. 3 - Charles Town. Citizen's Fire Hall
Commissioners - F. B. Wysong, Bessie I. Bell and E. M. Dandridge
Clerks - Cora Foster and Addle Green.
Precinct No. 4. Charles Town - Wright Denny School
Commissioners - Edna Roper, Mary E. Grimes and Lucille Berry
Clerks - Anna J. Everhart and Henry W. Weller.
Precinct No. 5 - Charles Town - Junior High School
Commissioners . Delcia Swartz, Emma Bane and Virginia E. Metz
Clerks - Kathleen Riddleberger and Beulah Goode.
Precinct No. 6 - Mt. Mission. Blue Ridge School
Commissioners - Harold Fritts, Carl Wiley and Hazelteen Dailey
Clerks. Charlotte D. Ott and Gertude Heidrick.
Precinct No. 7. Ranson - New Elementary School
Commissioners - Mary M. Dunaway, Helen M. Slusher and Kathleen
Viands
Clerks - Elizabeth Hinton and June R. Willingham.
Precinct No. 8. Charles Town -Senior High School
Commissioners - Doris M. Cline, Ruth Morison and Mabel Cain
Clerks - Elizabeth Brenneman and Marguerite S. Beeg.
Precinct No. 9 - Charles Town. Independent Fire Hall
Commissioners - Kenna Knott Traveli, Lacey Bailey and Nellie
Riley
Clerks. Elizabeth Riddleberger and Ruth Shaffer.
Precinct No. 10 - Ranson. Old Elementary School - 5th Avenue
Commissioners - Katie Jenkins, Elizabeth Jenkins and Pauline
Robinson
Clerks. Lillian Hough and Elva Lancaster.
HARPERS FERRY DISTRICT
Precinct No. 12 - Bakerton. Bakerton School
Commissioners - Juanita Horn, Anna M. Hetzel and Ethel Watson
Clerks - Julia Rowland and Isabel K. Flanagan.
Precinct No. 13 - Halltown - Basement, Halltown Presbyterian
Church
Commissioners • Roxie Watson, Virginia M. Gray an dClifton E.
Haines
Clerks - Elizabeth Love and Cora Ott.
Precinct No. 14 . Harpers Ferry - Harpers Ferry Graded School
Commissioners - Alley G. Rissler, Eleanor J. White and Dorothy
Reed.
Clerks - Virginia Moler and B. M. Dennis.
Precinct No. 15 - Bolivar - High School
Commissioners . C. M. Trundle, Hazel F. Eggborn and Annie U
Mauzy
Clerks. Margery Wilt and Geraldine Willis.
Precinct No. 16. Millville - Millville School
Commissioners - B. W. Hoffman. T. E. Lake and Maude Milton
Clerks . Geraldine Rice and Mamie Wiltshire.
KABLETOWN DISTRICT
Precinct No. 20. Kabletown - Kabletown School
Commissioners - Kathleen C. Hughes, Howard O. Bush and Mar-
lann Smailwood
Clerks - Mary F. Hough and Virginia H. Clipp.
Precinct No. 21. Rippon - Rippon School
Commissioners - Caleb F. Burns, Mary R. Wilt and Mary R. Smith
Clerks. Helen R. Coulter and Ethel H. Chapman.
Precinct No. 22 - Summit Point - Summit Point School
Commissioners • Mary W. Hinton, Frances Hott and Elizabeth Crlm
Clerks. Shirley Macoughtry and Betty Crane.
Class I $ 4,756,475
Class II $15,848,865
Class III $15,67Q255
Class IV $ 7,784,060
TOTAL $44,065,655
6. That the bonded indebtedness of said Jefferson County School
District is $491,000 outstanding for School Improvements Bonds
issued July 1, 1955 and that therefore, bonds in the sum of $1,710,000
may be issued without exceeding any constitutional or statutory
limitations and the only other indebtedness, of said School District,
is for current expenses, which can be paid from current levy funds.
7. That bonds Nos., 1 to 342, inclusive, for $5,000 each, aggregat-
ing $1,710,000 be issued and sold, the proceeds of which shall be used
only for the improvements hereinabove set forth; provided, however,
that the Board in its discretion may allocate to and expend for any
one or more of said projects any sums remaining unused upon com-
pletion of any of such projects; and provided further that in the event
that any part of the bond proceeds should not be needed for corn-
pletion of all such projects as hereinabove and hereinafter ProVided,
such unneeded part shall be deposited with the Sinking Fu~ Corn-
mission of West Virginia to be used for purchase of any bonds out-
standing issued hereunder at not more than the par value thereof
plus accrued interest or for the payment of such bonds and the
interest thereon at the maturities thereof. The proceeds of sale of
bonds will not be used except as herein specified and provided.
8. That said bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exeeeding four
per centum per annum, payable semiannually and be payable from
one to twenty years from their date; and that the maturities of each
series of said bonds shall be as follows:
Bonds in the amount of $55,000, due and payable one year after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $60,000, due and payable two years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $65,000, due and payable three years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $85,000, due and payable four years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $70,000, due and~payabi_e five years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $70,000, due and payable six years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $75,000, due and payable seven years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $75,000, due and payable eight years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $80,000, due and payable nine years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $80,000, due and payable ten years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $85,000, due and payable eleven years after
date.
.. Bonds in the amount of $85,000, due and payable twelve years after
date.
Bonds in the amount of $95,000, due and payable thirteen years
after date
Bonds in the amount of $95,000, due and payable fourteen years
after date.
Bonds in the amount of $100,000, due and payable fifteen years
after date.
Bonds in the amount of $105,000, due and payable sixteen years
after date.
Bonds in the amount of $110,000, due and payable seventeen years
after date.
MIDDLEWAY DISTRICT
Precinct No. 25 - Middleway - Middleway School
Commissioners - Holmes D. White, Reva J. Smith and Mary M.
Hardesty
Clerks - Roy J. Lambert and Mabel Durst.
No. 2e ,l aown - Leetow School •
Cbmmlssioilers . Taylor Winkler, Mary B. Furr and Margaret B.
Gardiner
Clerks - Ruth B. Locke and Emily M. Bell.
Precinct No. 27. Kearneysville. Kearneysville School
Commissioners . H. H. Benner, Norval Johnston, Sr. and Elmer
Vickers
Clerks. Kathleen Miller and Fannie C. Boyd.
SHEPHERDSTOWN DISTRICT
Precinct No. 31 - Dufflelds - Elk Branch Church Academy
Commissioners . Adam Link, Jr., Evelyn Hendricks and Lula V.
Catrow
Clerks. Jane J. Jones and Mary F. Hockman.
Precinct No. 32 - Molers Cross Roads - F. M. Donley Residence
Commissioners . Charlotte Koontz, Vernice H. Morgan and Lillian
Staley
Clerks - Lillian Moler and Richard S. Renaud.
Precinct No. 33 - Shepherdstown - War Memorial Building
Commissioners- Mildred S. Rhodes, Yolande Gehri and Reva White
Clerks - Zula Knode and John W. Harris.
Precinct No. 34 - Shepherdstown - Old Grade School. Front Door
Commissioners - Laird Marshall. Alice B. Strider and Sarah Tennant
Clerks - Louise T. Rentch and Jean V. Ambrose.
Precinct No. 35 - Shepherdstown. Old Grade School, Back Door
Commissioners - Clara D. Banks, Russell White and Newt Wash.
ington
Clerks - Sarah Snyder and Elizabeth V. Parkinson.
9. That the registration of voters and the use of the registration
books shall be governed by the permanent registration law of the
state and the Board of Education of the County of Jefferson hereby
adopts the registration list of Jefferson County as amended and
corrected according to law as the official registration list of said
Jefferson County School District for this election. .................
10. The form of ballot for such election shah be as follows:
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON
OFFICIAL BOND BALLOT
MARCH 9, 1966
Shall the Boar~l of Education of the County of Jefferson incur debt
and issue bonds in the amount of $1,710,000, to run not more than
20 years from the date thereof, with interest not exceeding the rate
of four per centum per annum, for the purpose of -
1. To construct, erect, iaurchase sites (where needed), furnish
and equip new buildings, in the following approximate amounts, as
follows:
New high school for grades 10-12 for Harpers Ferry - Charles Town
areas, approximately $770,000
New elementary building to be centrally located to serve Kable-
town, Rippon, Summit Point and Middleway areas,
approximately $206,000
New elementary building to serve the Harpers Ferry, Bakerton and
Millvllle areas to be located in Harpers Ferry Magisterial District,
approximately $238,000
New elementary school to be centrally located to serve the Lee.
town, Kearneysville and Shenandoah Junction areas,
approximately $206,000
Sub Total $1,420,000
2. To make additions, to renovate, enlarge, reconstruct, improve
Bonds in the amount of JU0,000, due and payable eighteen years and provide additional or replace furniture and equipment, ill the
after date.
Bonds in the amount of $115,000, due and payable nineteen years
after date.
Bonds In the amount of $115,000, due and payable twenty years
after date.
It is further ordered that a Special Election be held in Jefferson
County School District on the 8th day of March, 1966, for the purpose
of voting upon the question of incurring the debt and issuing said
bonds, and all other questions properly connected therewith; and
that commissioners and clerks for each of the legally established
voting precincts of Jefferson County for holding satfl election be and
are appointed a~ foUow~, namely:
following approximate amounts, as follows:
To convert the present Charles Town Senior High t9 a junior high
and make additions thereto to service the present Charles Town
Junior High attendance area. approximately $1~8,000
Additions to Ranson Elementary School, approximately $ 55,000
Additions to Blue Ridge Elementary School,
approximately $ 16,000
Additions to Shepherdstown lligh School, approximately $ 71,000
Sub Total $290,000
Total approximate cost $1,710,000
and levy taxes sufficient to pay interest on, and the principal of such
bond .
Mrs. Bernard Ott
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ott, and
children, Sharon, Michael, Larry
and Stephen, spent Tuesday even
ing with Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Will-
iams, Sr., of Ranson, Mr. Will-
iams, has been on the sick list but
is some what improved at this
writing.
Mrs. Marshall McAboy, and son
Marshall, Jr., spent Tuesday even
ing in Ranson with her son in law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
McKee, and children, Karla Kaye
and John.
Mrs. Bernard Ott, spent Wed-
nesday with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Anders, and children, Terry, Jeff
rey, Scott and Timothy of Ranson
Mrs. William Hoak and Miss
Dohothy Bowers, visited, Mrs.
Hoak's daughter, Mrs. Frank Sim
ons and son, Michael and Mark,
of Ranson on Wednesday.
Mrs. Mary Wysong of Charles
Town visited with Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace Ott, and children, Shar-
on, Michael, Larry and Stephen
on Wednesday.
Miss Sharon Ott and brothers
spent the week end in Ranson
with their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ellis Williams, Sr. and uncle
Mr. Donald Williams.
Mrs. Bernard Ott, spent Satur-
day in Ranson, with her son-in-
iaw, Mr. Kenneth Anders and
children, Terry, Jeffrey, Scotty,
and Timothy, also in the after-
noon she visited her daughter, v
Mrs. Kenneth Anders who is a
surgical patient in the Charles
Town General Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ott att- boro, Md., High Schooland Hager
ended the yearly dance in honor stown School of Beauty Culture,
of the employees of Shenandoah is owner and operator of the
Downs, dancing was from nine to Bonnie Dee Beauty Salon.
one.
Miss Kaye Davy, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Davy of
Summit Point and Mr. David
Paul McAboy son of Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall McAboy of Halltown,
were married in Sharpsburg, Md.
on Wednesday, January 26, 1966.
The ceremony was performed
by the Reverend Harold Beck.
Mrs. McAboy was a graduate of
the Charles Town High School
she also attended Shepherd Col-
lege and is employed at Double
Day in Berryville, Va. Mr. Mc-
Aboy attended Harpers Ferry
High School, he served six years
in the United States Navy and
he is employed at the Halltown
Paperboard, Co. at Halltown.
They are residing at the Henesy
Apartments on West Washington
Street in Charles Town.
Thomas Palamar To Wed
Keedysvifle, Md. Girl
Announcement has been made
of the engagement of Miss Bon-
nie Dee Line, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Line, Keedys-
ville, Md., and Thomas Michael
Palamar, son of Mrs. Martin Pal-
amar, Rahway, N. J., and the late
Mr. Palamar.
Miss Line, a graduate of Boons-
I YES
t I NO
NOTICE TO VOTERS: To vote in favor of the proposition sub-
mitted on this ballot place an X mark in the square before the word
"Yes." To vote against it, place a similar mark before the word "No."
11. That the Board of Education of the County of Jefferson be,
and is hereby authorized to lay annually upon the assessed valuation
of all taxable property within said Jefferson County, a levy sufficient
to provide funds for the payment of the annual interest upon said
bonds, as it accrues semiannually, and the principal thereof at matur-
ity; for which purpose a levy upon each hundred dollars valuation,
based upon the last assessments of said property for state and county
purposes, will be required as follows:
Upon Class I property, approximately 10 cents
Upon Class II property, approximately 20 cents
Upon Class III property, approximately 40 cents
Upon Class IV property, approximately 40 cents
In the laying of said levy, the assessment levy authorized to be laid
by the Board of Education of the County of Jefferson by the Consti-
tution of West Virginia and the statutes enacted pursuant thereto
shall not be exceeded: Provided, however, that said rates hereinabove
set forth may whenever necessary be exceeded in making the annual
levy for interest and principal of said bonds within statutory and
constitutional limitations; and that in the levy, collection and dis.
bursements of taxes within constitutional and statutory limitations
this levy for interest and principal shall have preference over all
other taxes coUeeted by said Board of ~Edueation of the County of
Jefferson for any purpose whatever, except the payment of interest
and sinking fund requirements on bond issue or issues which here-
tofore have lawfully been authorized or which hereafter may be
lawfully authorized.
12. If the debt represented by this bond any issue shall be ap-
proved by the voters, such bonds together with all existing bonded
Indebtedness heretofore incurred by Section I, Article X of the Cons.
titution, will not exceed in the aggregate five per centum of ,the
taxable property in the Jefferson County School District ascertained
in accordance with Sections 8 and 10, Article X of the Constitution
of this State, and will be payable from a direct annual tax levied and
collected in each year on all taxable property in said Jefferson
County School District, sufficient to pay the principal and interest
maturing on said bonds in each year, together with any deficiencies
for prior years, within, and not exceeding thirty-f0ur years which
tax levies will be laid separate and apart from and in addition to the
maximum rates provided for tax levies for school districts on the
several classes of property in Section I, Article X of the Constitution,
but in the same proportions as such maximum rates are levied on
the several classes of property; and said tax will be levied outside
the limits fixed by Section I, Article X of the Constitution.
13. That if the debt and bonds submitted to the voters shall be
approved by virtue of Section 8, Article X of the Constitution, known
as the "School Bond Amendment," and Section 10, Article X of the
Constitution, known as the "Better Schools Amendment," and the
enabling legislation enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia,
Regular Session, 1951, amending and reenacting Sections 3 and 4,
Article 1, Chapter 13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, and the
enabling Legislation enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia,
Regular Session, 1959, amending and reenacting Section 4 and adding
Section 34, Article 1, Chapter 13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931,
the levies hereinafter provided will not violate any constitutional
or statuto provisions of this State establishing maximum levies;
that said levies herein provided shall be levied and allocated each
year for the purpose of discharging the interest and principal of the
bonds to be authorized, and for such purposes shall be laid separate
and apart from all other levies made for all other purposes of the
Jefferson County School District, and that the Board of Education
of the County of Jefferson does further find that after laying and
allocating said special levies for payment of bond principal and inter.
est requirements of said bonds, there will be out of the levies author.
ized by law and apportioned for current expenses a sufficient levy
authorized by law. which when added to other income, will be suffic.
lent to carry on the proper requisite functions of said Board and of
said Jefferson County School District.
14. The Secretary of the Board of Education of the County of
Jefferson Is hereby authorized and directed to procure and furnish
to the election commissioners at each voting precinct, insofar as
practical, the ballots, poll books, tally sheets and other things necess-
ary for conducting the election as provided by Sectiou 11, Article 1,
Chapter 13 of the Official Code of West Virginia, and perform all
duties imposed by law upon clerks of the Circuit Courts in relation
to general elections, insofar as practical, and, in accordance with
Section 13. Article 1, of said Chapter 13, the Board of Education of
the County of Jefferson shall canvass the election returns.
15. It is further ordered that notice calling such election shall be
given by the publication of this order at least once each week for
four successive weeks prior to the date of the election in the Spirit
of Jefferson - Advocate and The Independent. two newspapers of
different politics published in the Jefferson County School District;
and further that notice shall also be given by posting printed copies
of this order at the front door of the meeting place of the Board of
Education of the County of Jefferson, and at each voting precinct
at which the election is to be held at least ten days before the
election.
Given under my hand this 3rd day of February, 1966.
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON FARMER'S ADVOCATE
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966
Mr. Palamar, graduate of Rah-
way High School and Shepherd
College, serves as athletic instruc
tor of South Potomac Junior
High School. He is a former
coach at Shepherdstown High
School and is well known in this
community.
Attend Church Sunday
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In Charles Town, l anson, Jefferson
County And Surrounding Areas:
CHARLES TOWN
COLONIAL NEWS-STAND
MOFFETT'S PHARMACY
PAUL'S SUPER MARKET
MILLER'S MEAT MARKET
WHITE'S SUPER MARKET
PEOPLES DRUG STORE
ACME MARKET
CONKLYN'S STORE
MARKET MANOR
RANSON
RANSON GROCERY CO.
JOHN'S RESTAURANT
SANITARY GROCERY
SHEPHERI)STOWN
SHEPHERDSTOWNNEWS AGENCY
HARPEl{S FERRY
REED'S GROCERY STORE
RINALDrS GROCERY
SEXTON'S STORE. R.F.D., Harpers Ferry
MARTINSBURG
BERKELEY NEWS-STAND
NEWTON D. BAKER HOSPITAL
BUNKER HILL GROCERY
BERRYVILLE, VA.
BERRYVILLE NEWS-STAND
JEFFERSON COUNTY
WELSH'S STORE - Bakerton
STOKES' STORE - Bloomery
FRITTS' STORE - Mechanicstown
JOHNSON'S STORE - Kabletown
LEETOWN MARKET - Leetown
LOCKE S STORE - Leetown
KEARNEYSVILLE ESSO . Kearneysville
The Board of Education of the County of Jefferson
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Attest: T. A. LOWERY, Secretary Feb. 3-5t-
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