The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-09-12
COUNTY RESCINDS
SCHOOL DISTRICT ORDER

<ACtiOn laken at the August
Meeting in Making Trans
fer Is Held to Be Illegal
The hearing of the petition of
Louis Stodieck, C. Henningsen and
other heads of families residing in
/ the Waterloo section, asking that
they be transferred from Consolidat-
ed A to Consolidated B school dis
trict, took place before the county
commissioners at Minden last Fri
day. The board, after due consider
alton, annulled it's action of August
5th at which time the petition was
granted.
Louis Stodieck, C. Henningsen and
other heads Of families of the Wa
terloo section, were represented by
Frank p. Langan, former Judge of
this judicial district, now a practic-
ing attorney of Yerington, while the
trustees of Consolidated district A,
opposing the transfer, were repre-
sented by William Kearney, a Reno
attorney.
Attorney Langan stated the desire
of his clients to the board of county
commissioners, and gave it as his
opinion that the action of the board
at their August meeting, at which
time the petition was granted, was
| final and that they could not legally
annul said action. Portions of the
school law were read by him.
Mr.. Kearney stated that due notice
had not been given in the matter and
for that reason the matter was not
legally acted upon. He also read
sections of the school law bearing on
the changing of school boundaries
and emphasized the fact that the law
in such cases stated that the sigma
lures Of at least three-fifths of the
property holders of heads of families
must be obtained before such change
could be made.
Here Attorney Langan contended
that he construed the wording of the
law to mean three fifths of those
who would be affected by the trans
fer.
L. p. Jacobsen and ID. Winkelman.
members of the board, stated that
they desired to proceed legally in the
matter, and if the action taken by
the board August 9Th, was contrary
to the school law, they desired to
clear the error and start off with a
clean slate. The board took shoit I
recess and after reconvening, Mr..
Winkelman made a motion that the
action taken by the board August
9th, be annulled and set aside. The
motion was seconded by Mr.. Jacobsen
and when it came to a vote Jacobsen
and Winkelman supported the mo-
ton, while David Jones, third mem
Der of the board voted to uphold the
record of the August meeting in re-
spect to Consolidated B district.
The trustees of Consolidated A dis
trict circulated a petition which was
signed by a majority of the property
holders and heads of families in this
district, asking the board of county
commissioners to take no action in
the matter of transfer of property
from this to the Minden district.
That the school districts of Doug
las county are due for a slashlng and
trimming is revealed by the fact that
Mrs. Anna Heise and Fred Heise of
Centerville district presented "A peti-
ton to the board a few moments
after the conclusion of the Consoli-
dated A matter was disposed of, ask
/ ing to be transferred to the Mlnden
district, the petition having as sign
ers all of the property holders of the
district excepting the heads of one
family. The petition was granted as
asked for.
Now comes petition from heads
of families and property holders in
the Genoa school district, setting
forth that now, and for some years
past, it has been possible to hold
school in the district for eight months
out of the year, and that any attempt
to transfer property from that to
other districts would seriously affect
the school.
Another petition signed by X. A.
Trimmer, Herman Muller, VIM. Mul-
ler, Will Lange, Ernest Bartels,
Frank Settelmeyer and Herman d.
Erbst, all resident of the Genoa dis
trict was presented to the board, and
due notice is being given that the
petition will come up for hearing on
October 9th.
The matter of division of school
districts in Carson valley has a
fairly good start and from present
indication the board of county com
missoners have a very unpleasant
task before them. To one side they
will be heroes, to the others, traitors
and in the meantime the division
fight goes merrily along and thus
far has created more interest thar
the presidential election.