Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-06-10
0'REAR ANSWERS
ALL DIRECTORS
Shows There Was No Ground
For Big Sandy Towns To
Drop Normal Applications

Frankfort, Ky, June 10-Denia
that the possession Of building:
that could be used for opening O.
the two new state normal school,
this fall was a necessary corral
ary to a town or city being con-
I sidered as a location for one oi
the schools, was made i'll state
ment given out here late Friday
by Judge (. c. O'Rear, chairman
of the normal school committee
named by the general assembly
tocate the two institutions. He
also gave out correspondence be-
tween himself, George Colvin,
state superintendent OF public in
Struction, members OF the COM
mission and the secretaries of the
Ashland and Catlettsburg cham
bers of commerce.
The statement was prompted
by publication OF d letter from
q. a. Nash. secretary Of the Ash
land chamber of commerce, and
Lem Keller, secretary of the Cat
lettsburg chamber of commerce
withdrawing the site offered by
those two cities from the list OF
sites offered for the school to be
placed in eastern Kentucky. A
statement issued by the, state
board of education, composed Of
Superintendent Colvin, Attorney
General Dawson, and Secretary
Of State Fred A. Vaughn. also
was answered by Judge O'Rear.
Following issuance Of the state
ment, a member Of the commits
SIGN. who asked that his name be
withheld, said that he thought it
would probably be a good idea if
the commission did not try to,
hurry in the selection Of the site
and visited all Of the cities, al.
thought Judge O'Rcar in his state
rent, said that it had not been
determined whether or not the
commission would visit the cities.
This member said that. as the
commission is not limited as toI
time by the bill creating it. he
felt it might be we'll for the COM
mission not to select the sites for
a year or eighteen months and
then submit its final selection t0I
the next legislature for ratifica-I
ton, i'll spite of the fact that the
bill makes the commission the
final authority.
Judge ORear, in his statement
referring to the portion of the
Ashland and Catlettsburg letter
regarding buildings being a re
quirement, said:
''At the Louisville hearing in
behalf of the commission and as
its chairman, | publicly stated
precisely what was stated at theI
Lexington meeting the week fol-
lowing. viz:
That due to a shortage Of teach
ers the state board OF education
was anxious to open these twoi
schools this fall, if possible, about
the first of September. and thatI
the commission was holding itsI
meetings and hoped to be able t.
reach conclusion in time to ac-
commodate that purpose of the
state board. Nothing was sail
or intimated or thought that mol
1iace would be considered as al
location that had not buildings toI
offer in which to open the school
this fall"
The state board of education in
its statement given out Friday,
said that the members had lust
noticed statement to the effect
that the chairman Of the normal
school commission had stated
that the state board of education
had requested the commission to
act promptly in locating the
schools in order that the schools
may be started in September OF
this year.
IF the chairman of the COM
mission made such statement"
said the statement, che is evident
ly laboring under a wrong i'm
preston as to the attitude of the
state board of education. The
state board of education has
made no such request and has fix
ed no definite time at which it is
desired that the new schools be-
gin to function"