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The Front of Belle's Department Store's New Main Street Building Reward Teachers By Promotion Rather Than Merit Increases, McSwain Says "I won't say it wouldn't work, but it's never worked," Macon County's school superintendent said this week of the proposed teacher merit pay increase. "Those that have it aren't find intt it very satisfactory," Holland ; McSwain said. 'Pay Enough' "The ideal system is to pay enough to take your choice. When you find a poor teacher the thing Here's An Important Message From: JACK PINSON Your KERN'S Salesman in FRANKLIN "Starting this week and for the next eight weeks, I am entered in a Kern's Sales Contest in which I can win a new 1957 Chevrolet. I need your help to win this Grand Prize. I assure you and all the grocery stores I serve that every loaf of Kern's Bread you buy will be the finest and freshest loaf of bread in town." JACK PINSON Take Home KERN'S BREAD and Help Me Win This 1957 CHEVROLET , to do is not cut her pay? as the j merit plan would in effect do ? i but to fire her. That's what busi ness does when it has a poor em- j ploye. "I would reward th? good ' teachers with promotions, not with merit increases." Mr. McSwain said there is "too much pressure put on the person making the decision about merit pay". \ He suggested, also, it would be "impossible" to judge all teachers effectively on their teach ing. "Some have special problems that others don't. It may be easier for one teacher to do a good job with her pupils than another." After Favors The superintendent also said "apple polishing" would come in under a merit plan, "By that, I Swaf ford's Sayin's I guess I'm the meanest grocery man some of you have ever seen. I hadn't thought so much about it until for the last few days ? But I'm bad ? real mean. The more I think about it ? the meaner I feel r- why? The other night I had to help Elizabeth wash the dishes (notice ? I said bad to) I thought we never would finish. I know there must have been somewhere be tween 100 and 10,000 pieces ? pots, pans, bowls, cups, saucers, glasses, knives, forks, spoons, buckets, milk jars, can lids ? and a few odds and ends. The stove was dirty. The tables, cabi nets, sink ? even the floor was dirty. I guess if there had been something else In the kitchen ? it would have been to wash. That's just one instance ? think of the dozens of other women (I hope not the men > who were doing the same thing ? ?washing multiplied thousands of dirty dishes and cleaning up in the kitchen. I'll take the blame. You can call me mean. I sold flour, potatoes, beans, meat, eggs and dozens of other things that start ed the whole mess. From now on. though, if you buy all this stuff that causes so much trouble ? you will be to blame. If you want to get out of so much work ? I'll sell you sliced meats and cheese ? mayonnaise, tomatoes, lettuce, bread, napkins, paper plates, paper cups, plastic spoons and forks ? you know ? things that won't mess up your house and dishes. Just fix and eat ? burn the remains and go visiting -T- Simple, isn't it? But? on second thought ? May be you don't think I'm mean. Maybe you like to wash dishes. PAUL 8W AFFORD Bryson City road. | 1 '/i miles from city limits mean that there always are some who will play up to the boss for favors." v The State Board of Education has proposed a pay increasa of just over 19 per cent, to be given to all teachers. This was sub mitted to the Governor's Advisory Budget Commission, who, instead recommended that an Increase of 9.1 per cent be voted the teachers. On Merit The budget commission, in lint: with Governor Hodges' thinking, suggested, however, that the 9.1 increase not be across the board, as has been the tradition. The commission suggested it be on a merit basis. Backs Down At his news conference last week, the Governor backed down on his insistence that merit fac tors be considered in pay raises for teachers. He says he still con siders his merit plan workable but will not push it at this time. Present teacher pay scales in Macon County are $2,430 for a beginning teacher, regardless of the number of academic degrees. If the teacher has, or acquires, graduate degrees, he or she can work up to a maxium salary of $3,807. With only the basic A. B. degree, the top salary she can eventually make is $3,420. Paid By State All teachers' salaries are paid by the state. Several county systems and many of the state's cities supplement the state pay, according to Mr. McSwain. Macon does not. Supplements vary from $100 to $1,000 over the pay year, he said. Teachers are paid their salaries in nine monthly checks. Mr. McSwain took issue with the Advisory Budget Commision's recommendation on the ground "they couldn't have given too much thought to what the State Board of Education suggested be cause they (the commission i did n't have that much time to study it". He said the board of education is composed of businessmen. "These are outstanding business men. Those weren't education people who made that budget and suggested a 19 per cent increase; they were business folks from our state." Talk Strikes Two teacher groups in Bun combe County have talked strikes for the larger pay raise. Of this, Macon's superintendent d i s a p proves. "I'm not in favor of a strike. "It has been suggested by some, however, that a strike already is in progress, going on slowly and quietly. By this 'striking' it is meant that teachers are protesting by resigning. We've had two good men teachers In Macon County to quit this school year because of money, and a third Is considering It Mr. McSwain urged those who favor pay Increase larger than 9.1 per cent to contact Rep. O. L. Houk and Sen. Kelly E Bennett.. AT YOUR NEW BELK'S Belte: ilMJJLIB.IJ. lAWWii ^ -r r* SHOP ON LAYAWAY - small deposif now holds your selection ' ? OUR DELUXE SEWING NiHCmt, QUEEN ANNE-STYLE CABINET v complete compare at $119.95 " ? ?'aranteed! Eve V # compv. . THE MACHINE: Precision -made, fully guaranteed! Ever/ up-to-the-minute feature you wont: adjustable stitch control, num bered tension regulator, presser foot glides over pins, thick or thin fabrics! Automatic darner, bobbin winder! Stitches forward, in ' reverse! Concealed light! Streamlined blue finish! ' t y. THE CABINET: Gracious Queen Anne-style console! Hand some addition to your living room! Choice of hand-rubbed mahogany or walnut veneers! Antiqued brass pulls! Gracefully curved legs. 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