The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-04
EXTRA TEACHER AUTHORIZED BY
 CITY COUNCIL
CITY SCHOOLS WILL HAVE ONE MORE TEACHER THIS
 WINTER.

At the meeting of the city council of Fairbanks held last Monday evening. the council voted to grant the petition of the school board fol one more teacher in the city schools Mrs. Mary II. Zimmerman, clerk of the school board, who also repre- sents the absent members of the board. Director P H. knowton and Treasurer J. E. Moody, appeared be fore the council and explained the necessity for the new appointment. stating that because of lack of teachers last year 62 pupils of the schools were behind in their require ments for advancement. The new teacher will be an added expen Sc to the city of approximately $500 per year.
 l As was explained at the counci! meeting by Councilman Dan Callar ham, the school board raised the salary of Superintendent Karrer at the. close of the last school term unbeknownst to the city council or the residents of Fairbanks He ad- vanced that fact as an argument l for the itemizing of all school eX- pense accounts. He said that ha did not know about the raise in the salary of the superintendent until he saw it in Nome paper, further stating that he had to look in Nome publications to see what was going on in Fairbanks.
 MT. Callahan had a copy of the Nome Industrial Worker of May If, the following being read from it: Fairbanks, March ?, 1915. Prof. F. X. Karrer, City.
 Dear Sir: Approaching the char acter of your work as high school principal and superintendent of the Fairbanks. schools, we feel it incum bent upon us as a board to ascer- tain whether We shall be able to retain you for the ensuing year. Your work here has fully veri- fled the unusual recommendations contained in the testimonials SUD- mitted to Us previous to your en- gagement
 By reason of your original and systematic supervision and your pa tient, ceaselcss activity, you have raised the schools from a state of disorganization resulting from lack of effective management to a state of progression insuring ultimate ef. ficiency.
 AS an inducement for you to re- main with us in order that we may reap the full benefit of your efforts for our schools, which we believe that you alone can enable us to do at this time, we offer to increase your salary from s2,500 to s2,75o per annum.
 An immediate approval and ac~ ceptance of our offer is desired.
 MARY H. ZIMMERMAN,
 "W. H. ADAMS, Director,
 a. E. MOODY, Treasurer.
 Fairbanks School Board"
 Mrs. Zimmerman in explaining why the salary of the superintendent. had been raised, stated that he spent all of his vacations in school work. She also stated that the board could not have kept MT. Kar Ter without raising his salary.
 Very little opposition to the ap- pointment of a new teacher was manifested at the council meeting. Councilman Lorentzen did object to the raising of salaries without the knowledge of the council or the taxpayers of the city. Like the others, he did not know that the salary of the superintendent of schools had been raised until he heard the item read from the Nome paper.
 The measure for the appointment of new teacher passed without dissenting vote. The latest ap- propriation brings the total for the school year m to S25 ROO