Billings Gazette Lockwood votes 175-0

Description: Newspaper article about $172,000 bond issue for construction of new elementary school and Junior High School addition.

Lockwood Votes by 175 - 0 count [Date noted on photo Sept. 20, 1954]

Lockwood community taxpayers, by a vote of 175 to 0. Friday authorized a $172,500 bond issue for construction of a new elementary school and a junior high school addition in School District 26 (Lockwood).

On a separate ballot, voters also approved a proposal to permit trustees to assess a special Levy up to four mills in the 1955-1956 school year, as a reserve fund for the junior high school. The vote on this measure was 165 in favor and 9 against.

A total of 53.8% of the eligible voters cast ballots, 13.8% more than the minimum required by law to validate the bond election.

Tentative plans for the new construction already have been drawn. The elementary school, expected to cost between $120,000 and $130,000, will house six classrooms accommodating 150 to 170 students. It is to be constructed about 100 yards south of the present Lockwood Elementary School building.

Lockwood School estimate the addition to Lockwood Junior High School will cost between $30,000 and $40,000. It will provide three additional classrooms. Marvin N. Klampe Lockwood, Superintendent of schools said bonds authorized in Friday's election should enable the district to keep pace with the areas growing school population for at least 2 years. Klampe said the district’s Board of Trustees would meet early next week to decide on a date for the sale of the bonds. He guess the bonds could be sold about the middle of March... [unreadable]