El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-20
SCHOOL BOARD
To SELL BOOKS
Students to Get Them at
Cost at the High School;
Cleaning Up Southside.

A resolution was adopted By the
city school board Tuesday night that
authorized the finance committee TO
arrange for the opening Of a coopera-
tive book store in the high school
next term The books needed by the
students viii be bought by the board
and sold to the students at cost. It
was believed by the board that this
method Of handling the school books
win be more efficient and more
economical than the method now in
use.
Upon recommendation Of A II.
Hughey, principal Of the high school.
two new books, Junior Arithmetic.
and Business Forms" were approved
by the board. These books are TO be
used in the commercial classes by the
students who need some preliminary
instructions before taking up book
Dudley Gives a Playground.
The board authorized r. r Jones,
principal of the Franklin school TO
clean up a lot, half block from the
school to be used as a playground by
the students The lot is the property
Of r N. Dudley, who has granted the
students the use of the lot A resolu-
ton was adopted By the board thank
ing Mr. Dudley for the use OF his
property and the secretary Of the
board was instructed to write him
Scholastic census must be taken
soon and president Z. N. Whitaker
was authorized to make arrange
ments for It and hire the necessary
help. The secretary was instructed TO
secure judges to preside over the
school election that is to be held Sat
urday. April 6.
Sawyer Asks For More Salary.
An application Of F. z. Sawyer,
rauditor, for a raise in salary was re-
ferred TO the finance committee OF
the board with instructions to report
to the board at its next meeting. Miss
Corrinne NJ Clark, clerk in the aud
TORS office was granted raise IN
salary.
Empio- Woman To Cleanse Children.
C. E. S-ylor, of the city health de-
partment made a report regarding the
sanitary conditions at the schools in
South FL Paso. The health depart
last November. Mr. Taylor said, and
the recent work he has done IN some
Of the schools was a folloWup on the
work done A large number Of the
students who attend the schools in
this district M TAYLOR said. we're
infested with head and body yermin-
He said he found $50 children in the
Beau school with vermin in their
heads and on their bodies. He recon-
mended that Mrs. Mary Diamond, an
employe Of the city health department,
be employed by the school board to
Keep the school children clean, cut
their hair and see they are bathed
regularly. This recommendation was
approved of, and Mrs. Diamond
ordered employed after the first Of
March.
Intend To F'umigate Homes.
The plan OF the health department |
is to have Mrs. Diamond examine the /
children at regular intervals and /
when a child IS found infected II is
to be shorn Of hair. bathed and fumi- !
gated The parents OF the children /
VIII be taken TO the immigration sta
ton at the Santa Fe bridge and
bathed fumigated and the city will
fumigate the residence. It was be-
ueyed in this way that a thorough
cleanup will be made.
Bills Ordered Paid.
Bills amounting to $4995.32 were
and ordered paid by the
board The statement Of auditor
Sawyer shows that the total expen- |
ditures for the month Of January
amounted to SIS. 41O.51, as compared !
with S2s,7sL4S for the corresponding !