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Denison, Texas, Thursday Evening, November 16,1961
Bank, who favored consolidation «oing a better job for all.” as a natural step in the orderly by Denison and on the south by
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Scholastic Records Quoted As
Golden Rule Handicap Claimed
Figures on performance of Jun-
ior High students were submit-
ted at the Lions Club luncheon
Wednesday to support argument
that the necessarily limited facili-
ties of the smaller Golden Rule
district leave pupils at a disad-
vantage.
Earnest Couch, Golden Rule
area resident, quoted results of a
survey showing that a far high-
er per cent of Golden Rule grad-
uates failed ninth grade subjects
at Junior High that students who
had been in the Denison system
all along.
Couch, a veteran advocate of
consolidation, said he obtained
the figures personally from Junior
High records. Cotton Mill area
children remain in Golden Rule
.through the eighth grade before
going to the Denison Junior High.
Denison district pupils enter the
Junior High program in the sev-
enth grade.
Couch based his report on stu-
dent performance at Junior High
during the first six weeks of the
as a community-wide project.
Couch turned to a discussion
of Golden Rule district finances
with the charge that “only half-
truths have been told. “We are
not in a particularly bad condi-
tion now,” he added, “but we’re
fast getting into difficulty.”
He launched into a review of
the $125,000 bond program voted
early this year by Golden Rule.
‘We’re not fooling ourselves,
the speaker said, again on the
subject of cost. “We know what
it will cost if we consolidate.
What we don’t know is what it
will cost if we attempt scheduled
expansions on an independent ba-
sis.”
Couch quoted the Golden Rule
district as saying it would add
its own ninth grade but would
present semester. It covered 66 3.1 per cent from Denison and Of that amount the board sold continue to send its Senior High
children promoted from Golden
Rule’s eighth grade last term to
Junior High.
The speaker said that of the 66
Golden Rule pupils sent to Junior
High last September 19 failed
one subject, 14 failed two sub-
jects; eight failed three,
three failed four.
COMPARISON MADE
He pointed out that now in the
same classes with the Golden
Rule graduates are 347 Denison
district children who had covered
their seventh and eighth grade
w'ork in Junior high.
Couch said that of the 347 Deni-
son pupils, 49 failed one subject,
27 failed two, 11 failed three, and
10 failed four.
He reduced both figures to per-
centages for a comparison which
showed 11.2 per cent of the Deni-
son students and 28.8 per cent of
the Golden Rule students failing
per cent from Golden Rule
failing three subjects, and 2.8 per
cent from Denison and 4.5 per
cent from Golden Rule failing
four.
Couch did not charge this to
and inferiority of the students or to
low quality teaching, but primar-
ily to the advantage the Denison
students had in getting into the
larger and more diversified jun-
ior high program two years ear-
lier than the Golden Rule chil-
dren.
This was the first time that
actual figures had been quoted
by either side in the stubbornly
contested school consolidation
fight. Some Golden Rule foes of
consolidation have comtended
their educational program super-
ior to Denison’s.
FINANCES DISCUSSED
Couch, member of the Lions,
one subject; 7.8 per cent from spoke on a program that also
Denison and 21.2 per cent from included a talk by A. J. Martin,
Golden Rule failing two subjects; I president of the Citizens National
$45,290 for a school addition now
being built.
Couch charged that to main-
tain a currently favorable tax pic-
ture the burden of this debt had
been shifted far into the future.
COSTS CITED
Speaking of the $45,290 in bonds
alrady issued, the speaker said
“During the next 29 years only
$290 will be paid on principal
and $62,194 will be paid in in-
terest, and the district still will
owe $45,000.
During the 40-year life of the
bonds,” Couch continued, “the to-
tal cost of the $45,290 bond debt,
not including brokerage charges,
will be $116,319. That will amount
to our district paying $2.57 for
every 93 cents actually going in-
to the school improvements.
“We are not picturing ourselves
as a poor district that can’t do
its part under consolidation,
Couch said, “and I think we can
work with your larger district in
School students to Denison on a
tuition basis.
“Golden Rule has no assurance
that the Denison district will or
can obligate itself for a 30-year
bond debt to expand its facil-
ities to handle our tenth, eleventh,
and twelfth g * ie students, which
we could commit only on a year-
to-year basis.
MARTIN SPEAKS
Martin supported consolidation
growth of this community.
He recalled that “when I was a
youngster the Cotton Mill was an
entirely separate community,
w7ith its own business district,
post office and even hotel.
“Today the picture has chang-
ed. The Cotton Mill area is with-
in the corporate limits of Deni-
son, good streets lead to and
through the community, and it is
truly a part of Denison.
“Only a small per cent of its here
residents today are employed by
the Cotton Mill, which was once
the nucleus of the community
owning a bulk of the houses
which its employes occupied.”
Martin said that the last trace
of the old regime was in the
small (six square miles) school
district, bordered on three sides
the Sherman school district
Martin ventured that “This pro-
bably is a situation not duplicat-
ed elsewhere in the state, Golden
Rule being one of the smallest
districts in Texas
Good Samaritans
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churches in America have sent
more than two billion pounds of
foods, medicines, clothing and
The speaker stressed that “Ed-other supplies, valued at $224,-
ucation today has become com-
plicated and expensive to the
point that small districts can not
maintain the pace.”
Martin pointed to the economic
aspects of consolidation, citing
the report by real estate agents
that merger of the two
school systems would be a No.
factor in further development
of the area.
Martin said “I know one build-
er v'ho has said he would start
15 new houses if consolidation is
voted in the Saturday election.”
006,981, to needy peoples over-
seas since 1946, reports Church
World Service, relief arm of the
National Council of Churches.
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Easterly, Claud. The Denison Herald (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 96, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 1961, newspaper, November 16, 1961; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth847833/m1/4/?q=%22Rayburn%2C%20Sam%2C%201882-1961.%22: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site.