Evening star., 1937-07-01
BOARD
TO ACT ON PERMITS
Will Pass Formally on Every
Liquor Plea Affecting
Schools.

The Board of Education today de.
cided to act formally upon every appli-
cation for liquor license which
affects the schools.
Action followed request for formal
action by the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board and the charge by Gratz E.
Dunkum. member of the School
Boards Liquor Llcensure Committee.
that committee members were supplied
with inadequate" information when
appearing before the A. B. C. Board.
A committee, composed of Henry I.
Quinn, Dunkum and John H Wilson,
was appointed to act for the board on
such matters during the Summer
recess.
In special session which saw the
reelection of Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle and Robert A. Maurer as presi-
dent and vice president, respectively,
Of the board and the swearing in Of
Mrs, Doyle, Charles D. Drayton and
Col. West A. Hamilton to three-year
terms, Duncan cited two cases in
which ne had appeared before the
%h"NNAAD4+N iDI Nt4d dEt A7OIIllcl bOd q
representative of the School Board.
In each case he said, he was given
insufficient information. He added,
however, that this was not intended to
reflect on the Administrative officers in
the schools.
BallOu in Accord.
DR., Frank w. Ballou. superintendent
OF schools, declared himself in entire
accord with the board action. He SAID
that the previous procedure by which
the opposition TO the application was
forwarded TO the A. B. c. Board with
out formal School Board action had
been intended simply to support CIVIC
groups protesting the licenses. School
officers, he said, had always regarded
the problem as "a neighborhood mat
ter which they supported rather than
prosecuted actively. He added that
the officers had seldom Investigated
the matters at first hand.
Dunkum told of q case in which
the transfer of a liquor license from
one part of a building to another
part of the same building was OBJ
Jected to on the grounds that the new
store would be opposite the Blake
School. He said inspection revealed
another liquor store in operation closer
to the place than the proposed trans
fer.
The board was also shown the effect
of falling birth rate in the school
system in figures presented by DR..
Ballou, giving the number of OUT
gong students in the various school
levels as compared with the incoming
pupils. This was particularly evi-
denced IN the white junic- high
schools. where the outgoing students
exceeded the incoming by II. The
superintendent declared that the gain
of 1868 of incoming over outgoing in
the senior high schools was much
lower than the usual increase.
DR., Ballou said he expected even
more marked effect in the senior nigh
schools next year
The board also supported the en-
aCtment Of the Flannery bill to
amend the teacher retirement act to
enable teacher to name her own
beneficiary.
The members decided to give I
hearing in the Fall to Dr.. W. L,
NeWsom president OF the Capital City
| College, who protested the action of
the board in denying the institution
a license to confer degrees in account
ancy.. In a letter to the board Dr..
NeWsom charged his faculty actually
is larger and more active than that
of a similar institution already IL
censed by the board and that while
the report adopted by the board crit
cized the school for having an in
adequate library the members had
previously licensed an institution
which had no library facilities 10
! confer accountancy degrees.