Transportation Is Provided Children
Gastonia, Sept. 6—In the future Gaston County rural school children will not only have modern schools to go to but will be provided with free motor transportation to and from school. The county has just bought three motor trucks which will be used in carrying the children to the recently consolidated rural schools.
The consolidation of schools that has recently been made together with the added improvement of transportation service will afford educational advantages that are hardly surpassed in the municipalities of the county. This is merely another step toward the realization of Superintendent Hall’s plans for establishing in this county the most efficient school system in this section.
One of these trucks is a large two-ton Federal, which was sent to Conover Saturday afternoon to have a suitable body built on it. The other trucks are a Republic and a Ford. The ford has also been sent to be equipped with a suitable body and the Republic will follow in a few days. It is planned to have a body placed on the Federal and Republic trucks that will accommodate about 30 children each, and a bus body on the Ford that will seat about 20.
One of the largest of these trucks will be used in the New Hope section to serve the recently consolidated school there. It will carry the children who formerly attended the Piney Grove, Hand’s and McLean’s Chapel schools to the new buildings at New Hope.
The other two trucks will be used in the Cherryville section to carry high school boys and girls from the elementary school districts to the central high school, and will incidentally carry smaller children from the vicinity of the high school to the elementary schools.
From The Charlotte News, Sept. 6, 1921
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