Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-02-27
PINE COUNTY RURAL
SCHOOL NEWS
A. e. GUSTAFSON
County Superintendent

In spite of the severe cold weather,
IS rural teachers attended the insti-
tute at Hinckley February II. The
students and instructors from all
three of our normal training depart
ments were also present.
Attendance awards are being Civ
en- to pupils who have five or more
months of perfect attendance. The
number of gold stars will correspond
to the number of perfect months.
These months do not need to be con-
secutive. These awards are one OF
the many incentives to encourage bet
ter attendance. Increased apportion-
ment aids under the new law is only
one of the many reasons for better
attendance. One extra day of atten-
dance will cover cost of each award.
All rural sectional contests were
postponed two weeks. These contests
will now be held as follows: section
s. Rock Creek, Thursday, March 5;
section 7. Pine City, Monday. March 8;
section 6, Beroun, Wednesday, March
IL; section 5, Pine Lake, Friday, Mar.
10; section 4, Glover, Monday, March
16: section 3, Markville, Wednes day
March is; section Q, Kerrick, Friday,
March 20 and section 1, Sturgeon
Lake, Monday. March q. The coun-
Friday, March q.
Fred Grafelman, former school SUI
perintendent at Ashov and Remcr
who has charge of the adult educa-
tion clubs in twelve counties, has in
formed us that there is a scarcity
of qualified and eligible teachers for
this work. We have clubs or classes
lined up in domestic arts and in other
fields that cannot be taken care Of
At present there are four leaders APP
pointed in Pine county with organized
groups at Brook Park, Henriette, Pine
City, Dell Grove, AskOv, Markville,
Bruno, Willow River. Windemere,
Denham and Birch Greek.
NYA Work Begins in County.
The National Youth Administration
(NYA) has dual purpose: To
aid high school and college students
SO they may continue their educa-
ton and not be thrown at this time
into the industrial fields or unem-
ployment; to give part time useful
public work with federal pay to those
between the ages 16 and "a, inclu-
sive, who are not in school.
DR.. George Selke and Mr.. Lund of
Saint Cloud Teachers college have
charge of the NYA work in Mime
sofa. They have asked us to cooper
ate in this NYA program in Pine
county. This we have done in every
possible way.
The Brainerd NYA office recent
ly sent us names of 10 registered
available and eligible young people
for part time useful work for schools.
They cut this list to II before we
could contact these young people,
With the splendid cooperation from
school districts No. 46, "a, 35, 81, 60,
116 and 81, and also Sandstone vii
lage, we have placed most of these
young people. Thus Pine county
youth will get at least a part of
their federal allotment for this por-
ton of the NYA program.
There are dozens of other young
people in Pine county that should al
SC be given a chance, but the NYA
program is only in its infancy, and
does not seem to reach very far, but
is better than nothing.
We also have had approved. two
very valuable and practical WPA
projects for our Pine county schools
that will provide useful work for five
full time young people. Three for
book mending and two for our test
ing survey. We are waiting for eli
gible workers. AS soon as workers
are assigned to these projects, the
work will be started.