The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-06-28
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money.
Gammons suggested to Shafer, then
attorney general, that a proper book
keeping method be set up. Shafer at
that time had bright prospects of be-
coming the next governor, the attor-
ney said. GammonS suggested that
Mrs. Gammons be employed to do the
work, declaring that she was compe-
tent for such a task. He could have
hired her without consulting the COM
mission, Sullivan said, but he talked it
over with the commission because he
did not want the administration to be
criticized on a charge of nepotiSm.
He also talked the proposition over
with Kitchen. They agreed that Mrs.
Gammons should be employed at SITS
month, Shafer declaring that any
one informed on the matter could not
challenge successfully Mrs. Gammons'
competency.
Though the law of 1927 setting aside
the military history fund made no
provision for putting the fund on c.
d., Gammons suggested that work OF
compiling the history would take
probably four years, making it possible
tor the industrial commission to put
the money on c. d. to draw interest,
from which pay for Mrs. Gammons
could be taken The industrial COM
mission Appropriation made no pro-
vision for such salary, Sullivan said.
Conferred With Fraser
| Gammons also talked the proposal
over with G. Angus Fraser, then adju
tant general, who was to have charge
of compiling the history under the
supervision of the industrial commits
sion. He also was in favor of the plan
Gammons conferred with the late
C. r. Green, then manager OF the
Bank of North Dakota, and learned
that the bank would accept $4,000 on
c. d. at per cent interest per annum
which would provide 5000 a year.
Three of these annual interest pay
ments were drawn, Sullivan said, but
the fourth did not materialize because
the history was completed before the
fourth year expired.
| Approached on the proposal, Mrs
Gammons said she would not accept
the position unless the industrial COM
mission adopted a formal resolution
favoring the plan. Her idea, Sullivan
said, was to prevent the possibility Of
nepotism charges.
Gammons then dictated such 6
resolution, setting out her salary a:
SITS a month (Which was approx.
n.ately the same as she had been re-
ceiving as an employe of the state mo-
tor vehicle REGISTRAR to Mrs. Carrie
lE.) McGuiness, his stenographer. Thi!
resolution was submitted to the com
mission at a meeting late in June
1928, and was signed by Shafer ant
Kitchen, as we'll as Gammons as sec
Rotary. Mrs. Gammons counter
lsigned it. A few days later Mrs. Gam
mons began on the work.
, Situation Is Reviewed
, Called to the stand, GammonS CAV
5 brief resume of the soldiers bonu
t plan and military history fund. II
1919, he said, the state legislator
passed bill providing for one-mil
levy, which would produce about 81,
! 600 900 annually, for the soldier:
bonus fund. Under the law, ex-serv
e icemen were allowed SOS per mont
8 for service in the World War.
r To speed up payment OF thes
d claims, the commission borrowe
: $4OO, 900 from the Bank of North Da
It kota and in 1924 started discountin
e soldier bonus claims The commits
}, sion received 10000 claims involvin
h $4,50O,OOO, he said.
d The discount amounted to six pr