In Tales and Trails of Bailey County:

1921 Muleshoe voted bonds for $16,000 for a brick school building

Ward School was built on the East end of the block that now houses DeShazo.

High School was later built on the West end of the two blocks in 1925.

BOARD MINUTES

2-15-22

$10,000 Bond to build road (don’t know if MISD or city or county)

3/14/1932

This Board Meeting referred to “Original Bonds of $16,000.00 dated June 12, 1922”

2/13/1925 – First recorded minutes:

Proposed to call for Bond Election

Discussed plans for High School Building and hired W.R. Kaufman as architect to prepare plans and supervise construction.

3/6/1925

Called Bond Election for $60,000 @ 6% not to exceed 40 years

4/16/1925

Bond Election :

78 – For

22 – Against

Total Property value = $417,376.00 (Real Estate and Personal Property)

10/30/1925

Hired Mary DeShazo @ $100.00 per month “to teach in the school when we move into the new building”

11/23/1925

Board accepted new High School building and “pay architect and contractors, less $203.80 to be turned over to contractor when urinal is installed.”

8/30/1926

Borrowed $10,000 from Blackwater Valley State Bank of Muleshoe to run the school until 1926 taxes are collected.

4/22/1929

Contract with Barry Hardware Company of Clovis for Heating Plant for $2000.00

4/14/1930

Closed School for on 4/25/1930 for the rest of the school year “on account of lack of funds”

10/12/1931

School Closed for 2 weeks after Friday, October 16, to allow pupils to help gather the crops.

11/9/1931

Pay local bills:

Muleshoe Motor Co. - $7.55

Muleshoe Journal - $9.75

2/9/1932

“All employees of school be paid with two vouchers monthly…None of the vouchers in each series will be paid until there is sufficient funds to cash all vouchers of that series”.

7/30/1934

Accepted “entire Pleasant Valley School for lump sum of $1500.00”

9/22/1934

Accept contract with Muleshoe State Bank

1/8/1935

Apply for PWA project for Auditorium and Gym

8/16/1936

Transfer Mrs. Gallman from 1^st grade to Music in the grades and High School.

4/12/1937

Mr. Flaudie Gallman elected teacher

4/12/1937

Bond Election for $12,000 for remodeling High School and building Auditorium and Gym

64 – For

14 - Against

8/12/1937

Build auditorium and Gymnasium combination with PWA project funds – Haynes and Strange, Architects

5/15/1939

Hired Mary DeShazo for 1939-40

6/12/1939

Hired Jack Williams as Coach for 1939-40 year @ $110. per month on a 9 month basis

12/11/1939

PTA sponsored Donkey basketball game

2/10/1941

Hired Jack Williams as High School Principal for 1941-42

10/15/1945

Call Bond Election for $150.000.00

5/10/1948

Sold Bond Issue for $110,000.00

7/21/1948

Contract to “G&G Construction Co.” for construction of one story masonry school building for $327,324.00

8/28/1948

Outstanding Bonds Election

Maintenance Tax

18 - For

5 – Against

Assumption of outstanding indebtedness

17 – For

6 – Against

2/8/1949

Boxing Tournament approved and wrestling matches discussed.

4/25/1949

E.W. Locker, Board Member

7/9/1949

Bond Assumption Election to assume bonds from pleasant Valley District Consolidation

4 – For

0 – Against

8/8//1949

Bring Progress School to Muleshoe this year.

10/10/1949

Discussion of some property of the MISD, when is successor to what was formerly:

MISD, Firview ISD, Longview ISD, Baileyboro ISD, Liberty ISD, Progress ISD, part of West Camp ISD, and Pleasant Valley ISD in Lamb County.

1/30/1950

Sold land to city to erect a swimming pool and city Auditorium 150’ x 500’ $10.00

4/25/1950

Called Bond Election for $100,000

3/18/1950

Board did not accept new High School building did not “come up to specifications” and invoked the arbitration clause in the contract.

5/13/1950

$100,000 Bond Election

110 – For

224 – Against

11/20/1950

Asked Bonding Company to arrange to have Terrazzo floor in new High School building, put in first class condition.

7/10/1950

Martin Sheet Metal Works – Heating System for Jr, High - $3835.00

4/9/1951

J.V. Peeler elected to Board

4/26/1951

Renovate High School, Build tennis courts, volleyball courts, etc.

5/17/1951

Bond Election $75,000

112 – For

66 – Against

Renovate Jr. High and Grammar School

9/13/1951

Call Bond Election for $12,000

Julian Lenau, Harvey Bass, Ann Harrell, James Cox, Clyde Hold, H.E. Schuster, Cecil Buhrman, W.D. Dement, & others (87 names total)

9/22/1951

Bond Election for $12,000

92 – For

42 – Against

134 - total votes

10/22/1951

Issued $12,000 Bonds

3-30-53 Call Bond Election for $80,000 Election 4-18-53

113 – For bonds and the levying of the tax in payment thereof

87 – Against the bonds and the levying of the tax in payment thereof

6-9-52

Discussed building showers and rest rooms at the gymnasium.

8-18-52

Buy metal building from Conrad Williams for $13,000 plus $4,668 for Doc Wilhite to move it, less $240.00 if school winch truck is furnished by the school.

8-25-52

Decided to place the Bus Barn at the present location of the G.I, Barracks Buildings, lengthwise East to West.

10/7/1954

Raymond Fran + 56 others with petition to call a bond election for $225,000 for Jr. High Building and extension of High School Lunchroom.

161 – For

53 – Against

Bond – D. S. Anderson, James A. Cox, D. Warner, B.H. Hunt, Verney Tourrs, M.H. Otwell, John Sowder

12/21/1956

Bond Election for $500,000 for Elementary building (Richland Hills) $293,798.00,

addition to the high school, grade school cafeteria, Administration building $21,900.

195 – For Bonds

81 – Against Bonds

194 – For Maint. Tax

77 – Against Maint Tax

9/9/1957

Renamed Muleshoe School Building as Mary DeShazo Elementary School

1958

First Business Manager hired

4/7/1958

“Stiles, Roberts, Gee, & Messersmith presented school with a South Bend, automatic, 50 cup coffee urn for which the Board is very grateful, and invite these gentlemen to come up anytime, bring a pound or two of coffee, and we will se that they get refreshments, Thanks again gentlemen.”

5/29/1958

Hired George Washington as Coach from Lazbuddie, for $850.00 above state base

6/9/1958

Hired Norma Jo Prather as 2^nd grade teacher

9/8/1958

Raised substitute teacher pay from $7.50 to $10.00 per day

2/2/1959

Bus Shop $8407.00

7/13/1959

Tax rate: $1.15 M&O + .45 I&S = $1.60

1960

Discontinued Senior Trips

7/11/1960

Hired Kerry Moore as speech teacher

1962

Metal Field House west of High School Gym $42,230.00

1963

Offered 1000’ X 150’ strip across south side of High School for $15,500.

1963

Integrated the High School

9/25/1963

--Discussed 24-unit class room at DeShazo (Tear down existing Elementary except Gym and Cafeteria and connect with walkways - $419,750 ($342,400 actual)

--8 classrooms at Jr, High - $102,000 ($111,280 actual)

--Jr. High Gym $139,500 ($189,300) 800 seats on home side and 750 on visitor side

--Cafeteria at High School - $106,000. ($131,745 actual) accommodate 600 persons banquet style

--Vocational Building at High School – $75,000 ($79,155) shop addition

--Remodel High School lunchroom for classrooms (Home Economics and Art) - $16,800

--Convert Home Economics into 3 classrooms - $5,000

Total Estimate - $956,450.00

Actual Cost - $853,880.00 ($10.81 per sq. ft.)

10/7/1963

Enrollment – 2039

11/11/1963

Enrollment 2098

Latin Americans enrolled:

DeShazo – 31.4%

Richland Hills – 17.8%

5^th grade:

Total of 200 students with 6 teachers

106 at Richland Hills

94 at DeShazo

1964

Dismissed school for 3 days for death of John Kennedy

3/2/1964

Called for a Bond Election of $900,000

Petitioners: George Washington, George Hicks, Mrs. Hector Leal, L.F. Bruns, Mrs. Jim Jennings, Mrs. Robert Hooten, Melvin Griffin, Eugene Black, C.V. Riley, W.E. Meyers, and others.

Vote:

729 – For

356 – Against

4/26/1963

1948 - $193,000

5/13/1963

Recall $180,000 of the 1948 Issue Bonds

Recall additional $3,000 of 1948 Issue Bonds to bring balance in mult of 5’s

9/9/1963

2044 students enrolled

10/7/1963

Estimate for air-conditioning building was $12 per sq. ft.

8/10/1964

Integrated 8^th grade in 1964-65

10-29-81

Call Bond Election for $2 million

376 – For issuance of Bonds and the levying of the tax in payment thereof

463 – Against the issuance of Bonds and the levying of the tax in payment thereof

839 – total votes