Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-24
PINE COUNTY RURAL
SCHOOL NEWS
A. E. GUSTAFSON
County Superintendent

DISTRICT NO. 50, SIX miles east VI
Pine City, has remodeled, enlarged
and modernized their schOolhouse. 1t
is an excellent job. The Garden club
held a very nice exhibit, program
and community social there on Friday
evening, October Is. Neal Merritt is
the teacher and Otto Wiedemann, Nels
Trollen and Frank Tkach are mem
bers of the board.
The following schools have an
nounced school and community So
Gals, carnivals or parties for near
future dates: District No. 1O6, Mark
vile school, October 26; District No.
lib, Windemere school, October &c;
District No. 80. Miss Meyers school,
October 80; and District No. 1875, Ker-
rick school, November 1.
A state orthopedic clinic for Grip
pied children will be held at Aitkin
Saturday, October 26, in the senior
high school building from 9 a. m. to
4 p. m. A representative of the Divi-
sion of Vocational Rehabilitation will
be present to confer with persons in
terested in vocational training and
placement. All thus physically han
dicapped should by all means attend
this free clinic.
A federal project has been requested
and sent in for a countrywide rural
school standardized testing program.
This would be much more complete
than our preliminary testing work
done in 81 of our rural schools last
spring. Much more good remedial
work can and will be planned, based
on results of these tests. A project
has also been requested to mend rural
school library books. If this goes
through, the respective school dis
tricts interested will furnish only the
mending materials. Two emergency
transportation projects in Distl lets
No. 80 and 104, were turned down.
School districts interested in secur-
ing federal aid for necessary repair
work or a new building should see
the federal engineer, Mr.. Whitney, in
the relief office at Pine City, as soon
as possible. Note the following
points: Must first be checked by State
Department of Education; must have
available labor; must look ahead into
future; choose low cost material and
high cost of labor and government
thus will cover nearly all of costs;
native stone and also reinforced con-
crete provides lowest cost for ma
terial; must be a worthy project; ar
chitects will take job without pay, I'M
less project goes through, and applica-
tions now in order: Act within a
month if Interested.
The annual state meeting for Pine
County school board members is
scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, Oc-
tober 80, at Pine City.
Checks for, and lists of, the Pine
County fair rural schools exhibits
prize winners are being sent out to
the respective teachers for distribu-
ton. A total of nearly 5000 is thus
distributed. The state fair prizes
were sent out in September. The
Christensen family in District No.
1872 receives a total of $12 in county
fair money. Miss Van Der Vert is
the teacher there. The Sturgeon Lake
school pupils, District No. 40, received
total of over $44 of which over $12
goes to the Mohelski children. Miss
Eleanor Schaefer is the principal, and
Miss Edna Schaefer teaches the pri-
mary room.
The money awards and values of
various pupil activities contests such
as fair exhibits. All Club work. ETC.,
are the very least measure of the total
value and the success of these pro-
jects.
The American Red Cross is pro-
noting National Home Accident Pre-
vention Week, October 90 to Novem-
Der 2. Figures show that over 5,000,-
600 people were injured and over
$4,000 killed last year in reported
home accidents in the United States.
Check up your home. your yards and
your farm and make them more safe
for everyone.
The 1888 state Aid Laws.
The new state aid laws passed last
spring by the 1885 session OF the state
legislature are not going to function as
was intended to provide more equal OPP;
portunit' es for the rural pupils. and
will thus not provide educational adj
vantageS somewhat equal to that of
city pupils. In fact. the new state aid
laws will have the very opposite effect.
Pine county is one of the seventeen
northern Minnesota count es that will
suffer the most. The new law will re-
duce our rural school state aids over
$4,000 annually. If this law remains
in force as it is now. many of our
schools will not be able to operate an
other year U936-37). Instead of help
ing the depressed districts it will de
press" them still further.
A Pine county rural schools earned
a total of over $4,000 in supplemental
aids alone this past year under the old
law. This was prorated I5 per cent.
to a little less than $4,000.
Under the new law these same de-
pressed schools will receive a total OF
less than $500 in supplemental aids
even though they all do vote the newly
required 30 mill rate.
This is a net less OF about s17.500
In supplemental aids alone. Thirty-four
of these - rural schools will not he
able to qualify for n cent of supple
mental aid under the new law. although
their budgets in most cases will show
quite large deficits. due to delinquent
property on the tax lists.
classification aids about SOS per teacher.
over $1,000. Add to this a reduction of
over $500 in superior accredited aids and
you have a total loss OF over SIS 900 TO
the Pine county rural schools because
of this new law.
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