Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1928 — Page 14

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SHORTRIDGE IS BUILT, EQUIPPED IN RECORD TIME Erection of School and Furnishing Completed in 20 Months. Construction of the new Shortridge high school buildings, including complete equipment and furnishing of all departments, within twenty months, is an accomplishment causing considerable favorable commendation today among builders and educators. At the time bids were being submitted by contractors for erection of the school, the opinion was expressed in building circles in Indianapolis that the structure could not be completed within two years, under most favorable conditions. After the substantial completion of a high school of the size of the new Shortridge it has been customary in the past to allot a period of from sixty to ninety days for installation of furniture and equipment. This special work is a very extensive operation in the high school educational plant of today. Time Limit Set School commissioners and the architects for the building, J. Edwin Kopf and Beery, however, realized that it was desirable to vacate the old buildings by Jan. 1, 1929, if possible, and before the contracts for the construction proper were awarded, a time limit for the completion of this work was set at Dec. 1, 1928, and the succeeding thirty-day period was allowed for placing of equipment and furnishings. Construction work on the new high school buildings was advanced steadily during the summer and fall of 1927, and despite severe weather conditions during the following winter and the early spring of the present year, the unceasing efforts of school officials, architects and builders gave promise of a record being established for projects Os this size. Therefore, the school commissioners began optimistically to plan on opening the doors of anew Shortridge for the winter semester, beginning immediately after the Thanksgiving vacation. Contracts Are Let During summer and early fall, plans were perfected and contracts awarded for work still to be done. All equipment for laboratories, session rooms, cafeteria and kitchen, library,. Aftditorium and gymnasium, beside* numerous other furnishings, lighting. fixtures, auditorium curtains, shades, etc., were contracted

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for and a time limit for complete installation, with severe penalties for non-accomplishment, set for Dec. 1. The ground improvements, including all grading and sodding, cement walks and drives, the Meridian street “sunken esplanade” and the raised “sculpture court” before the main entrance, were advertised for and let. As soon as the contractors could commence this work, the high board fence that had enclosed the biulding for almost eighteen months was torn away and fleets of motor trucks, concrete mixers, a steam shovel and gangs of workmen set to work to clean up and beautify the premises. The result was manifest to the public on Dec. 3, when this complete new plant opened its doors to the boys and girls of Shortridge high school and every department began functioning in a lew structure fully equipped in every detail. “The splendid spirit of co-opera-tion displayed by everyone engaged in this project,” said J. Edwin Kopf, of the firm of J. Edwin Kopf and Deery, the architects, has made possible completion of the building

in record time and I am expressing the sentiments of school commissioners, officials, the Shortridge faculty and other interested persons, when I commend everyone who has been engaged with us in the last twenty months on this work.

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FIGHTS AGAINST WOMEN’S BLOC Work as Officeholder, Says Mrs. McCormick. Oil United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—There will be no women’s bloc of the eight feminine members in the new congress if Mrs. Ruth H&nna McCormick, new congresswoman-at-large from Illinois, daughter of Mark Hanna, and herself a schooled politician, has anything to do with it. Mrs. McCormick would have women treated as officeholders, not

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as women, and in an exclusive interview with the United Press today she counseled women’s organizations against working to get a woman appointed in the Hoover cabinet. “If Hoover decides a woman is best qualified for any of the cabinet posts, all well and good,” she said. “But no woman should be selected because she is a woman. “I did not run as a woman, but as a candidate with qualifications for office. I did not ask any one to vote for me because I was a woman. I submitted my qualifications and I recited that my training and education justified my election.” Russian eggs can be preserved for twelve months, owing, it is said, tc the way the hens are allowed to run wild foraging for themselves.

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WE EXTEND our congratulations to the New Shortridge and cordially invite all students and faculty members to visit us. ) BARNHART’S PHARMACY} STUDENT HEADQUARTERS

DEC. 12, 1928