The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-09-04
economic
FOR PUBLIC
School Directors Save Money for
Taxpayers at Expense of
District Stenographer
CUT OUT HIS VACATION
AFTER A YEAR OF WORK
Portables Arouse Some Discussion
and Mrs. Wilson Tells of One
Which Her Neighbors Think
Ought to Be Burned

Perhaps the most interesting peco
of business Transacted by the No~sl
Yakima school board last night was
When the members declined to grant
salary for two weeks to the steno-
grapher. though vacation salary as
II Is called is paid to every other en-
pioye Of the district. teachers, juni-
tors, Officials and others who are on
the. regular list. The stenographer IS
regularly engaged. had worked for i
fun year when laid of by order OF
the board for period of six weeks
and IL he returns to work will be
compelled to make up the arrearages
Of work which have accumulated.
Despite all these facts and the addl-
tional fact that Secretary Kumler
called the attention of the board to
the idea that the senographer, as i
matter Of Justice, was entitled to at
least two weeks pay. as any emplpye
OF a regular kind would receive, the
board. on. the motion of Director
FIGHTER DECLINED to grant any remu-
nerafion for any or all OF the time.
Mrs FephtAr said that his motion was
based ON a. desire to save money for
the district.
I'll appropriations Made
Money IN sums greater than the
stenosraplier had already earned was
then yoLed right ana left Medicine
fer external use was authorized for
cabinets For each of the eight school
buildings, chains for swings were pur-
chased, the high school principal was
given some kind OF a patent flooring
Tor his office instead OF carpet.
WHICH II ,unsanitary, the Republic, for
$t6T was awarded the school print
Ing contract for the next year, $50
were voted for a Fence for tennis
court al. the high school, the assist
ant. engineer, at the high school was
given an, increase of salary Of ten
dollars perairlonth. ii was decided 70
remove the portable from the MclSln-
ley, school. building to the school
grounds on Capitol hill and various
other minor expenditures were made.
Talk About Portables
In conneetion with, the portables
there promised for a. time quite. a
breezy discussion. Mrs. Wilson OBJ
jected TO the use of the portable at
the MCKINLEY building and said that
the people in that section Thought 1t
ought to- be burned. Her objection
was based on. the fact that' tllat sec
ltion of the city has no sidewalks and
that In the winter the children get
wet feet in. their way to school. They
are entitled, she said, to be seated in
a steamp heated building, more spec
tally as thereis sufficient steam heat
ed accomn odation for all the children
offthe districtn There has been trout
bile in the past, she said, because OF
poor distribution of the pupils some
rooms having. an insufficient number
and some being overcrowded. The
older pupils she thought, might rea-
ssonably be- expected to travel great
Ter distance to school than the little
sones eand the rooms at the near-by
buildings preserved for the younger
scholars She made it plain that the
Eresitierfsi ofithe district in the neigh
borhood OF the Mckinley school did
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