The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-11
OF SHORT LINE
TO BE- TRAINING SCHOOL
GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE
CONSIDERS ADOPTING sYs-
TEN AT PocATELLo.


Line at Pocatello are presently to be-
come-for all purposes of technical
education-one of Idaho's vocational
training schools. Ben w. Johnson,
federal agent for industrial education,
who came to Boise Wednesday from
Pocatello, made the announcement
says the Boise Statesman.
An order of the United States rail
road administration, requiring all the
railroads under federal control to give
all apprentices in their shops a mini
mum of four hours of technical in
struction each week of the year, or its
equivalent, is given credit for the pro-
posed step, The plan itself, If sue
~cessfully put into effect, will make
state school history.
Get Federal Funds.
The federal agent, Mr.. johnson,
who represents directly the federal
board for vocational education at
Washington and Is head of it's region
al office In San Francisco, visited the
'"t'Ao piitNS CT L o1etltllo III the
course of a visit to Idaho to check up
expenditures of federal Smith Hughes
funds in this state.
With the railroad heads there, he
went over a number OF possible plans
whereby the railroad, in carrying out
the order of the railroad administra-
ton, may avail itself of federal funds
and trained Idaho technical teachers.
Adopt One of Three Plans.
As a result of the discussion, the
following three plans are being given
consideration and one of them will be
adopted:
% A reciprocal arrangement with
the Pocatello high school whereby the
railroad apprentices will spend one
week In technical classes at the high
school and the next week in actual
work in the railroad shops.
(2) An arrangement with the state
department of vocational education
whereby state technical instructors
win go to the railroad shops and o n
duct classes there at regular hours.
G) Assumption Of the whole task
by the railroad, which will hire its
W instructors and run the school to
itself.
Not Definitely Settled.
OF these three plans, the first two
are most likely inasmuch as they will
make possible appropriation of federal
funds for the railroad school. The
board requires use of its own
methods and of teachers approved by
is officials before funds can he pro-
iided, Work with the Pocatello high
school or with state teachers would
with these restrictions. Work
With corporation teachers only would
lot SO comply.
The proposed railroad school would
several classes. filed with an
'rentices Of different trades, as, for
Instance. boilermakers, machinists and
ar builders. The whole plan, how
Yer, Is as vet unsettled and will be
public when 1t Is completed, (
one of the federal aid |
chemes is chosen,
onally examined the cuts and tunnels 4
n the Leroy group. He has had a
etter opportunity and Is probably ,
etter qualified to judge of the merits
T this controversy than any other G
illness who has testified. In his opin- t
N the indications of mineral on t
iese claims are similar to and as 4
bod as those on the Monitor claim at 4
lie same stage of development, and Il
le Monitor has since shipped a great n
eal of ore. Mr.. Gnaedinger thinks n
at valid discoveries have been made \
BON each of the claims. d
1t is our opinion that the contest h
It has failed to prove his charges. h
We, therefore. recommend that the II
be dismissed as to all Of the p
aims except the Pacific. and that the o.
try be cancelled as to the Pacific N
dc only. la,
at Occur d'Alene. Idaho, this O.
day Of November. 1919. In
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