The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-02-11
Attempt Being Made to Form
Super County Government

traffic officers on highway No. g.
between st. Cloud and Sank Cen
tire, whose salaries are about ST.
600 a year. The state patrol men,
he said, get $3.50 per month. The
engineer at the court house. Miller
said, gets $500 a year. He referred
to Sank Centre saying in the school
there the head janitor gets $500
and the second man gets sos per
month. Mr.. Thomey said the court
house engineer hires his own fire.
man at sos a month, and does lot
of repair work in the court house.
eff we can't get anything here.
we're going back home and start
something" Mr.. Free said. "Our
time is as valuable as yours. This
is a period of reconstruction, not
depression. We've got to step back
to 1913. We can't pay 1929 taxes
under conditions worse than those
of 1913. We must fix a system un-
der which we can exist" Mr.. Free
said. 1--WE are here to ask you to
cut the budget. We don't care how
or where you cut it. But we de-
mand a cut"
Members of the board again re-
minded them of the cut of $1,000
already made in the budget, but
that did not seem to satisfy. Cheap
err ianitor help and reductions in
salaries of clerical help can be
made, one of the association offic-
ers suggested. you've got to quit
pulling the wool over our eye," Mr..
Free said.
A discussion followed regarding
the method of building bridges. M.
]. Cleveland, county highway en-
gineer, explained they were being
built on a cost plus system and Mr..
Free believed they were costing the
county too much. Odell protested
that $500 bridge had been built
near Brooten which was not neces-
sary, but Cleveland maintained the
bridge was necessary and it was
built that replacement will not be
necessary very soon. Building
bridges under this system has been
found cheaper than building by
contract, Mr.. Cleveland declared.
Free questioned that.
Miller produced a letter from
Earle Brown, head of the state
highway patrol. in which Mr..
Brown stated his department is
short of men but will patrol No. 8
from Sank Centre to st. Cloud If
the county will not. The service,
Mr.. Brown said in his letter, will
not be as efficient as the service
now being given.
Sheriff B. e. Schooner was called
into the meeting. Chairman Weber
assured the association the county
is willing to take these men off If
the state will take over the task.
Sheriff Schooner told the associa-
ton Mr.. Brown had said his men
would not patrol there so long as
the county men stayed on. The
sheriff said he had asked Mr..
Brown to place Charles Saunders,
one of the deputies, on the state
patrol, but Brown declined to do So
There was considerable discussion
and the association leaders insisted
the two deputies, Saunders and Ed
Steege, be taken off. =. Sheriff
Schooner said he was not willing
to take them off and put them out
of employment and suggested the
tax association make an attempt to
have them appointed to the state
patrol.
A long discussion followed that
suggestion with the final decision
that Sheriff Schooner and Mr.. Quig.
ley see Mr.. Brown about appoint
ments for the two men. III
Brown does not take them, what
will you do?" Free said
$50 far as I am concerned" Sher.
iff Schooner said, "they will stay
on, but it's up to the county board. y
We've got to have safety on that
highway" Mr.. Bergman said. The
questions of fines was discussed
Much Of the salary Of these depu.