From the Cherokee Scout
Andrews -- Superintendent of Schools, C. O. Frazier announced this morning that grading has begun on the new Andrews High School building. Final approval by the State Board of Education awarded contracts as follows:
General contractor: Smith and Jones of Atlanta for $169,000 with 240 days time limit.
Rogers Plumbing and Heating Company of Asheville for $16,750 plumbing and $21,682 heating.
Electrical: Hughes Electrical Shop of Murphy for $15,490.
The one floor building will be constructed of utility brick with classroom walls of surfaced brick and floors of vinyl asphalt tile on concrete. Floors of entry and halls will be of integral terazzo.
The building will contain 13 classrooms, a library, administrative offices, a teachers' lounge and storage rooms. There will be two science rooms with laboratory equipment, one home economics lab, 2 business classrooms with a business machine lab and one foreign language lab. One large classroom is fitted for visual education.
The new building will contain 25,150 sq. feet. of floor space.
The new building site is a 15 acre tract located one block from the present campus, and will replace the old high school building, which was destroyed by fire last February.
Proposed plans call for a second wing to the building which is to be constructed during this building program. Contracts for it will be let at a later date. It will contain a gymnasium - auditorium, a cafeteria and a vocational agriculture department.
C. G. Harill of Asheville is the architect.
Until the new building is completed high school classes will meet in an emergency plant using educational classrooms of the First Baptist and First Methodist Churches and temporary classrooms set up on the old school campus.
At the completion of the building program all high school activities will be housed in facilities entirely separate from the primary and elementary schools.