White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-03-08
School Teachers
Cut From CWS
MISS MARGARET RICE OUT WITH
900 OTHER TEACHERS IN
WASHINGTON

Hope that Miss Margaret Rlce InlBiAI
be retained on the teaching stan OF
the White Bluffs high school has been
virtually abandoned. Several surveys OF
this school district have been mace
to prove to the state department that
more teachers are necessary and OLAF
Strandwold, county superintendent,
was expected here on Monday to make
still another to be sent the state de-
partment. He phoned, however, that
the department had written him that
all CWS teachers should be dismissed,
so it is considered quite unlikely that
there is any probability of retaining
her services. Her work as CWS en-
ployee ended officially on last Thurs
day, March 1. The school board paid
her substitute wages so that she might
finish the week, and this week, so as
not to interrupt the school work IN
case she should be re-employed, Miss
Rice has continued at wage barely
sufficient to pay her living expenses.
With her dismissal it will be necessary
to completely reorganize the school
schedule along lines similar to those
followed last fall. Superintendent Q.
| Maury Nelson will take over the classes
in sociology, making it impossible for
him to give the grade school the close
supervision it has received during the
past few months. Miss Lois Duvall will
add the public speaking class to her
schedule and Miss Mildred Anderson
| will carry the three English classes
Miss Rice has been teaching. The
shorthand course offered from four
until five o'clock each afternoon will
be dropped so far as the official school
v scKff0 u Is concerned. IG~Miss
Anderson feels that she is able to carry
that much outside work in addition to
a fairly heavy regular schedule, it is
quite permissible that the school build
ing be used for such purpose. No
definite decision has as yet been
reached regarding it.
In response to telegram from Mr.
Nelson, Congressman Knute Hill took
up the matter of employing additional
teachers in the schools with the Fed
eral Emergency Relief Administration
|
from Mr. Hill in which was enclosed
letter from l.. r. Alderman director
; of the emergency educational pro-
grams.
; Mr.. Alderman, in outlining the facts
, of the case, states that last Angus
Mr.. Hopkins issued authorizations per-
; hitting the use of relief funds in GER
tain educational projects: Cd exten
sion of rural elementary schools II
communities under $500 population tt
normal length school term; (2) In
structing adults in reading and WRITING
f English; 90 giving vocational train
2 ing to unemployed adults; CD reha
r Utilization training for physically dis
4 abled adults; go general education
i for unemployed and other adults; an
g CO. nursery schools for pre-schoc
e children from the homes of needy an
n unemployed adults.
e A plan was prepared by the stat
s superintendent of instruction for tn
e state and approved by the state relic
S administrator and the federal relic
It administrator Sometime after tn
y CWA and CWS projects started, M
Alderman says, someone in the stat
d organization of this state drew up
: project whereby 900 unemployed teacf
! ers were assigned to the regular pun
IL lie schools to act as assistants, thl
d relieving over crowded conditions. SIM
'e characteristic Of the CWA and CIV
: projects is that they are approve
within the state, the project was NJ
l. referred to the federal officials for az
n prevail Had an inquiry been made
Us the time they would have been advise