Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-08-08
OkAY SALARIES
OF EDUCATORS

bers at Montana State university as
recommended by the new budget and
policy committee of the institution
were approved by the state board Of
education.
Several differences were noted In the
salary list as approved and in the list
as presented at the April meeting by
DR.. George Finlay Simmons prior to
his resignation as president.
Notable in the list was the salary
for J. P. Rowe, professor of geology,
where the board approved an increase
TO $500 from $780, DR.. Simmons
had recommended DR.. Rowe be placed
on a half-time basis with a salary of
5000 a year.
The board voted to pay c. w. Leap
hart $3.50 a year with residence as
long as he serves as acting president
or president and S4,230 II he returns
to his status as dean Of the law school.
Special committees named to dis
cuss the appointment Of a president
for the Missoula institution and an
executive secretary Of the Greater
university system will report to the
session. However, board members in
dicated unofficially. the committees
were expected to ask for more time
for consideration.
The board gave its approval, by a
to 4 vote, of an application by the
State university to the WPA for a
grant of 100000 for construction of
an armory building.
On recommendation Of Leaphart ap-
proval was given to naming the forest
tract given the university by the Ana
conda Copper Mining Co. and others
in honor Of E. G.. Lubrecht of Bonner
whom Leaphart said had a large part
in obtaining the area.
designations of State university fac
ulty members accepted as Of Sept.
included Caroline E. Griffith, Edward
NJ. Little and Ellen Jane Potter.
Salaries and appointments in the
extension service, including county
agents, also were approved along with
several new faculty appointments for
the State college at Bozeman.
These appointments included Law
renee o. Binder Jr., instructor in
chemistry; W. E. Booth, assistant pro-
fessor of botany; Charles N. Caugh-
Ian, instructor in chemistry; Russell
E. Gibbs, head of the department Of
mechanical engineering.
designations from the State college
faculty, effective Sept. l, included
Edith Airport. Harold G. Halcrow and
Harry c. Kelly.
Approval was given the nomination
by Gov. Sam c. Ford of Tom j. Davis
of Butte as a member Of the local
executive board for the School of
Mines in Butte for term ending
April 10, 1915. He succeeds W. E.
Mitchell.
Approval also was given to the
placing of the statue Of the late Mar
Gus DAILY on the School Of Mines
campus.
Foreign scholarships at the School
Of Mines will be limited to students
from the Latin-American republics
and Canada under another board
action.
Renato Bianchi, assistant professor
Of mathematics at the School Of Mines,
Was granted q leave Of absence to
serve q . member Of a special con-
fidential research committee ON de-
tense devices.
The board also accepted the res;g-
nation Of Charles W. Dougan ~
ceramics Instructor at the School Of
Mines. He WIN enter industrial en-
pigment.
Charles W. Henshaw was approved
q instructor in engineering and math-
emAtics q North Montana college,
succeeding Maurice =. Johnson whose
feG3gnat1oo vas accepted.