The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-03-06
Elected Unanimously Last
Night by Board
Local Men Were Not Mentioned and
Only One Name Was Placed i'm
Nomination.
MAKING RULES FOR SCHOOLS


was elected superintendent of the Pa
ducah public schools at the meetins
of the school board last night. HI
leaves a position paying 81 400 I
year for SALARY of 1000 paid here
land schools with an enrolment o.
1875, for the schools here, with an
Ienrollment of 1900. MIR. Carnagey
has had rs years experience as su.
lperintendent, IL years in Noblesville
and seven years in Columbus, Ind
Personally he is over six feet tall and
lis affable in his manners.
No other candidate was placed in
nomination. Just before the cleo
ton, the board went into executive
session to discuss nominations and a
agreement to elect Mr..
Carnagey was reached. Mr.. Becken-
bach made the nomination. No date
was set for the inception of the con-
tract, and as Superintendent Lieb's
contract does not expire until Sep
TENDER 4, II is presumed that the com
mittee that will draw up the contract
with Mr.. Carnagey, will date it from
September /.
Visitors were offered the opportun-
ity to address the board before the
and John Morris, of Coving-
ton, made personal application for
the position. He stated his quaQifi-
cations and experience, but the mind
of the. board already had been made
up. If any Paducah' man was ser-
ously considered for the position, 1t
was not indicated last night. Several
weeks ago the position OF superin-
tendent was offered to Prof. e. G.
Payne, principal OF the High school,
but he declined the offer. Forty-seyen
were received.
Shorter Hours.
Two schedules for shorter hours in
the schools were offered by Trustee
The first one suggests
opening the schools at $3.50 O'Clock
IN the morning and closing at 1880
o'clock in the afternoon with a twenty
or thirty minute intermission for
lunch. The second one suggests
opening at S:45 o'clock letting out
ut III: O'Clock for lunch; opening
at 1:15 O'Clock in the afternoon and
letting out at 3:15 o'clock For the
primary grades in the second schedule
the closing time at noon and in the
afternoon would be 15 minutes short
err. No action was taken, it being
The plan as suggested by MIR. Eecken-
bach to have the members of the
board feel the public pulse on the
question to find what schedule will be
preferable.
Another change In the schools
Il is probable the board will make,
will be the return to the old plan of
having an eighth grade in every
building and not have all eighth
grades converging in the Washington
as at present. Such a
would necessdtate more teach
srs, and consequently greater expense.
and expense is something the board
will have to consider before the
years end. Money is being expend-
cd now at the rate Of IS. 900 month
and the treasury is getting low. With
put financing for a new building. the
board will be fortunate to close the
year without deficit. The finance
report viii show something over
SIP. GOO in the treasury after Febru-
AIRY bills and salaries are paid.
Trustee Beckenbach laid another
change before the board for a months
In suggesting that the
of the High school should
be elected to devote his whole time
to the affairs around the building.
and not do anJ teaching now done by
the principal. He did not think that
under the present arrangement, the
does or could give enough
time to his dudes as such.
School EDumerators.
Enumerators were elected to take
the school census in April as follows:
G. w. Brown, First and Second
wards; J. Nj. Gilbert, Third and
Fourth wards; John Tielman. Fifth
and sixth wards. They will be re-
CURED TO give bonds.
superintendent Lieb In his month
ly report asked to have specified the
extent to which he should enforce
the boards regulations in regard to
children who have had scarlet fever
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