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Slave Remembers
MAYSVILLE, Ky. A one-time
slave, "Aunt Oma Kirk, left lier es
tate estimated at $1,700 to tiit?
Gotham May Lose
Shoeshine Boys
NEW YOHK . A Pi The
At The Strand Sun., Mon., and Tues.
At The Park Sun., Mon., and Tues.
Loch Lomana is me largest andi Door j
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is 23 miles long and five miles at thall a fo) J 1
its greatest width. J half thai - -
shuehine bey of New York streets,
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stories, wiil he a character of the
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was 95 when she died, said in her
will that she wis haunt; the
money to Joe Williams, r.iamiMin
of the late Mrs. Dan Dales, be
cause Mrs. Daley was "so Rnnd and
kind to me."
past if the wishes jf various mer
chants' and pinperty owners' as
sociations he.'c are followed They
have asked the city magistrates tc
(id the streets of peddlers and
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Report Shows IJ.C. Schools
Need Larger Funds For
Operating Next 2 Years
The public school line can not
be held during the 1951-53 bien
nium with the appropriations .rec
ommended by the Director of the
Budget and the Advisory Budget
Commission. Unless the suggested
budget is substantially increased
by the General Assembly, it will
be utterly impossible to operate
the schools on their present levels.
It may even he impossible to avert
a disastrous deterioration in the
state school system.
It is not intended In this rela
tively brief statement to detail nil
of the grave even tragic Inade
quacies of the recommended ap
propriations. Only a few are cited
in order that the people may un
derstand the truljf critical situa
tion with which the public school
system will be confronted if the
appropriations recommended by
the Director of the Budget and
the Advisory Budget Cimnilssion
are not materially enlarged.
I. The $220()-$3100 teacher sal
ary schedule which the 1949 Gen
eral Assembly authorized conting
ently and which is actually in ef-1
feet this biennium can not be con-!
tinned during the 1951-53 bien
nium. The most the State Board
' of Education can hope to do w,Uh
the recommended instructional
salary appropriations will be to
maintain the present basic salary
schedule. Even this salary sched
ule can be insured only by in
creasing the pupil load of each
teacher. The cuts in compensation
which the teachers must bear at a
time of inflated living costs and of
increased pupil burdens will In
evitably have a harmful effect on
their morale and will tend to dim-
required by this seriously needed
I expansion in the school bus fleet.
The appropriations recommended
by the Budget. Director and the
Commission provide 207 less bus
drivers than will be required next
year and 279 less than will be re
quired in 1952-53. Assuredly the
situation should not be met by re
ducing the meagre salary of $20
a month which the drivers present
ly draw. Yet it would be indefens
ible if children continued to ride
In dangerously overloaded buses
or lacked transportation altogeth-
; Aiiifc Murphy and ftriaa Donltvy art lurretindei ty priFu
toaal iMa la (his scene from the ttchnicstor Iriisa "Kansas
Ratfm," wfcicli also stars Marjueri: Chapman and Stt Brady.
Betty Grable Decides To
'Rest' After Current Film
By Gene Handsaker
HOLLYWOOD "I'm tired,"
said Betty Grable. "I've got to have
S rest after this" she Indicated the
glittering movie set outside her
dressing room "or I'll collapse."
The blonde beauty looked the
picture of freshness in a gold gown
that fit the Grable curves to dazz
ling perfection. But, said Betty:
"I'm losing Interest In what I'm do
ing. I'm getting stale."
"Meet Me After the Show," andi
any man would love to, is her 40th
picture in 11 years. She used to do
three a vear Now her contract
calls for two annually. Recently,
Betty said, the studio has been
spending five or six months on
each "I don't know why." This
leaves her little time off.
"We'll have to work something
out," she declared. "Either a time
limit on the two a year or one
picture a year."
school buses is rejected outright.
During the current year the
state is soendine an estimated
$89,249,059 on the schools exclu
sive of the contingency salary in
crease that accrued last year and
was paid this year. The Director
of the Budget and the Advisory
fir cnliJv lipf.'ili.:ii Hit) ulnlit ffillurt'
drivers for buses actu-1 Budget Commission recommend an
to provide
ally available.
IV. When the Stale Board pre
pared its budget requests for gas
oline, anti-lreeze, oils and greases
last fall ,it estimated that the
market prices of these Indispens
able items would increase an
average of 10 during the next
biennium'. The Director and the
Commission slashed the Board's re
quests for 1951-52 by $151,265 and
the requests for 1952-53 by $196,
715. In the interval since the fil
ing of these requests, the 10
average increase anticipated for
the biennium has come about and
the State Board is advised to ex
pect further increases. On the
basis of present prices, the appro
priations recommended by the
Director and Commission will
operate the school buses only 157
of the total 180 school days next
session and only 152 of the total
school days in 1952-53. In the light
of present prices and price trends,
the appropriations originally
appropriation of $91,922,298 for
next year exclusive of the conting
ency salary increase that accrues
this year and that will be paid af
ter July 1. This amounts to an in
crease Of 2.9). For 1952-53, the
Director and the Commission rec
ommend an appropriation of $93,
078,418 or an increase of 4.2).
The state school system faces a
truly critical biennium. It must
educate more children. It must
heat more buildings with increas
ingly costly coal. It must operate
more buses. It must pay indeterm
inately increased prices for all of
its supplies, equipment and serv
ices. In maintaining a competent
personnel, it must meet the com
petition of unprecedentedly high
wages of private industry with
salaries frozen at the levels of
two and even four years ago. The
urgent needs and the unpredictable
condtiions of the next two years
can not be met with an average in
crease of only 3.6 in available
Frank Ross and his bride, Joan
Caulfield, are collaborating on
"The Lady Says No," he as director
and she as star. Each told me sep
arated that neither thinks of the
other as spouse while on the set.
"Oh, once In a while I may sit in
his laD a bit." said Joan. "Just for
fun, to shock the bit players and
extras who don't know we're mar
ried." Ross said: "It's a funny
thing, but I'm objective toward her
all day." Doesn't think he slights
David Niven or the other players
with the camera In favor of his
beautiful blonde wife.
This is Ross' first experience In
direction, something he has long
wanted to do. He wrote "The More
the Merrier" and produced "The
Lady Takes a Chance," both of
which starred his ex-wife, Jean
Arthur. He stage-directed Joan last
year in "Dream Gill" at Phoenix
and "Claudia'! at La Jolla.
Joan said she trusts her hus
band's direction because "he has
authority and decisiveness. The
worst thing In this business Is peo
ple who say 'maybe.' " Their dif
ferences over scene-interpretations
have been minor. It took Miss Caul-
field a week to bring her husband
around to her view of how she
should do a little dance step.
sought by the State Board are not 1 funds. Unless the General Assem-
sulTicienl to insure the school bus
, , nun nil III U) Ml.lllV lilt" UI!IMII UUS
Inish, if not dry uo altogether, the system aRilinst virtually complete
available supply of properly train
ed teachers. The progress painful
ly achieved the past few years in
reducing the number of non
standard teachers In classroom
service will he largely lost.
II. Although the pupil load
resting on the individual teacher
in North Carolina is next to the
highest in the nation only Mis
sissippi being higher the State
Board of Educaton did not seek
further relief durng the next bien
nium. It requested only such teach
ers as would enable It to take care
on the present allotment basis of
the increased number of pupils
that can be reasonably anticipated.
The recommended appropriations
will provide only 30 of the 169 ad
ditional teachers requested for
1951- 52 and only 77 of the 730 ad
ditional teachers requested for
1952- 53 (exclusixe of additional
principals). On the basis of recent
attendance figures, it is found that
instead of the 169 and 730 addi
tional teachers requested, 558 for
1951-52 and 1684 for 1952-53 will
be needed in excess of the number
In the budget for the current year.
During current year the number
of pupils in average daily attend
ance has Increased 28,220 over the
last session. During the past five
years the number of school chil
dren in average dally attendance
has increased 115,000. The situa
tion in 1952-53 will be particular
ly acute due to the fact that the
heavy birth rate in ifl4fi nnuiuio
an Increase of 12,000 in the num-
oer of children entering the first
grade. Thi heavy enrollment' must
be instructed by 1607 less teach
ers than the present allotment
basis would provide. The situation
created by the erievnuslv inniTi
cient appropriation for additional
icacners can be met onlv hv in.
l-creasing the pupil load. This will
result inevitably In a deteriora
tion In the quality of the Instruc
tion which the indivdual rhild re
ceives.
III. Accordine to tho informa
tion available to the StflU RnorM
465 school buses will be added by
the local units next year and 350
will be added tn 1952-53 to relieve
overcrowding of buses and to take
care of the new and enlarged
transportation needs created by
consolidations. The State Board r.
quested funds to meet the modest
paralysis during the next bien
nium. These requests should be in
creased a full ten per cent.
V. The appropriations recom
mended for repair and replacement
parts, tires and tubes are danger
ously inadequate. The State Board
of Education based its requests
upon an anticipated increase of
10 in the costs of these items.
The Director and Commission cut
these requests substantially. The
prices of tires, tubes and parts
have already increased an average
of fully 10 since the Board's
requests were submitted. There is
the likelihood of further increases.
Even the Board's original requests
should be boosted another ten per
cent. The appropriations recom
mended by the Director and Com
mission are not sufficient to in
sure that the lives of children will
not be heedlessly endangered by
worn-out tires and mechanically
faulty vehicles.
VI. The State Board requested
$2,010,000 for fuel during the
next biennium. The Director and
commission cut this to $1,730,000.
Coal prices will he innmarl
shortly to take care of Increased
wages negotiated for tho minorc
and Increased freicht eharene n
nations unhappy experience with
jonn u. Lewis justifies the Board
in Bllticipatinc still further In.
creases in coa' prices during the
nexi two years. There will be more
school buildings than ever to be
heated. It is most unlikely ih-t h,
State Board can meet the mini
mum fuel needs of the. schools
with the appropriations recom
mended by the Budget Director
and Commission. Many schools
may be forced by the exhaustion of
their fuel supplies to close down
before the end of the heating sea
son of the next school year.
VII. The appropriations recom
mended for janitors' salaries and
supplies, for water, light and pow
er and for telephones are not suf
ficient to meet the urgent needs
of the schools and to Insure the
best sanitation and
fiwfu House
keeping and maintenance.
VIII. No provision is made In
the recommendations f th ni-
tor and Commission for attendance
officers and for desperately need
ed clerical assistance for princi
pals. The State Board's request
that the state assume the respon-
bly substantially increases the an-
propriations recommended by the
Director and the Advisory Budget
Commission, the consequences will
be a serious impairment in the
educational opportunities of the
state's children. The public school
line can not be held. It will cer
tainly buckle. We can only hope
that through some miracle it will
not buckle disastrously.
Farm Boy's Industry
Sets Shining Example
ST. ANTHONY, Ida. Fifteen-
year-old Lynn Cruser maintains a
pretty ruggged schedule, winnine
straight A's in his studies at school
and performing routine chores on
his father s farm.
In addition he has a flock of 900
chickens which he tends as his pet
project, piecing it into a tleht
routine of assistance to his father
on the family's potato farm.
The blond farm lad doesn't think
he is doing anything unusual but
his neighbors will tell you he puts
many of them to shame. For Lynn
is Diina.
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