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Consolidated with Alba and Purcell in 1930 to form District No. 46.
Voting 237 to 218, residents of the Alba-Purcell-Neck City school districts, at a special election yesterday, approved the
consolidation of the three districts under the state laws which make additional state school money available for such districts.
The district, to be known as Consolidated District No. 46, will receive approximately $5,000 in additional state aid.
The patrons of the three districts, at an election April 1, will vote upon a general school levy of $1, which will replace the levies
formerly made in the various districts. Alba has had a levy of $2.25, maintaining the only high school in the district. Purcell
has paid $1.20 school tax, and Neck City a levy of .65 cents.
Directors for the new district were elected yesterday. P. Kirk and John Burnsides of Alba, J. A. Jarmin and Erwin Andrews,
of Purcell and Charles Scafe and William Cathers of Neck City, were named.
The board organized by electing Mr. Jarmin as president, Bailey Hubbard, of Alba, was elected secretary. Terms of two of
the directors expier April 1, two others are elected to serve until April 1931, and the other two to serve until 1932.
The consolidation gives the pupils of the three towns high school facilities without paying tuition. Many of the students from
Purcell and Neck City heretofore have attended the Alba high school, paying tuition.
The Carthage Evening Press, Tuesday, March 18, 1930, page 5.
Neck City School closed between 1946-1948.
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