The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1953 Page: 3 of 8
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Gov. Shivers Urges Increase In Salaries
For School Teachers of Texas
(Note: The Governor of Texas
says our school teachers must
«r'have a cost-of-living increase in
pay. The problem' is finding the
, money. His plan, as presented to
the Legislature recently, will be1
outlined in a series of articles of
which this is the first.)
By ALLAN SHIVERS
Governor of Texas
The public school system is a
subject close to the hearts of all
of us.
We want to see oui- schools/rank
among the Tiest in the nation. To
have good/schools, we must have
good teachers.
And to keep good teachers we
must pay them decent salaries.
The lot of Texas teachers has
improved considerably since 1949,
when the Legislature installed a
new system popularly known as
the “Gilmer-Aikin program.” But
inflation has wiped out some of
their financial gains.
Texas teachers must have cost-
of-living salary raises. There is i
’^tiardly anyone who disagrees. 1
have listed this as one of the
necessities faced by the 53rd Leg-
islature now in session at Austin.
.As Governor, I have to ask a
4j,couple of questions—and you, as
citizens and taxpayers, need to
do the same:
How much?
Who pays it?
There isn’t enough money in
sight for next year to cover salary
increases for our 55,000 teachers.
Thus we’ will either have to raise
more money, or redistribute what i
we have or do both.
The plan ZI suggested for the
Legislature’s consideration had
something of both factors in it.
It would mean, in effect, that (1)
some state funds now going to
make rich school districts richer
would be spread among the less
fortunate schools of the state,
and (2) the local district^ would
be asked to pay the same propor-
tion of the total Gilmer-Aikin pro-
gram expense as they did when
the program was started in 1949.
Before I explain this plan in j
more detail, a couple of terms need
to be defined.
The “available school fund” con-
sists of money dedicated by the
constitution and statutes to the
public schools and distributed by
the State on the basis of scholas-
tic-age population. This is the
familian “per capita apportion-
ment.” At present this payment
is $68 a year per student.
1
The “minimum foundation fund” i
was set up by the Gilmer-Aikin
program in 1949 to equalize edu-
cational opportunities throughout
the State. This Gilmer-Aikin plan,
a great milestone of progress, pro-
vides money for school districts
on a basis of need. The more pros-
perous districts get no Gilmer-
Aikin assistance at all. Poor dis-
tricts receive sufficient amounts
from this fund to maintain a
“minimum standard” program.
These two funds represent en-
tirely different kinds of aid. The <
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The Leonard Graphic—Friday, Jan. 30, 1953’
a
Tops for Taste!
sug-
Starting ’53 Off
This recipe makes 6 servings.
With A Bang
• You can depend upon th’e high
quality of the prescriptions in your1 medi-
the spot to start
Yes, here’s
ycur savings
cine chest when they are filled here.
through our store
big bang! All
my
both your
week, next week, every week of
the year you’ll find fine foods
priced right at our store.
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SURE TO SEE THE BEAUTIFUL 1953
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A GENERAL MOTORS MASTERPIECE
THE GREATEST PONTIAC EVER BUILT!
Bigger and Better in Every Way and NO INCREASE IN PRICE!
COMPLETELY NEW DUAL-STREAK STYLING
NEW LONGER WHEELBASE
the con-
of public
SCRIBE FEARS
NO PLATOONS
believes
be main-
some
going
active
under
I’m
and 1
METHOD: In a shallow baking
dish thoroughly mix the rice,
celery soup, cheese, salt and
water. Cut the luncheon meat
into thin slices and arrange on
top of the rice. Bake in a 350° F.
oven until the liquid has been
absorbed by the rice (about 45
minutes). Halfway through the
baking n?ake sure the meat slices
are on top of the rice so they
will brown nicely. Serve hot
from the some dish in which the
rice and meat were baked.
1*4 cups grated sharp cheese
1 teaspoon salt
3*4 cups water
1, 12-ounce can pork
luncheon meat
Football players
prime targets,
entire teams have been ex-
as were the North Carolina
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup uncooked rice
1, 1014-ounce can condensed
cream of celery soup
First in flavor . .. the tantalizing
taste of this Rice and Luncheon
Meat baked dish is satisfying,
mouth watering, just “out of
this world”! Here is sumptuous
eating mixed together? in min-
utes and made temptingly de-
licious by the magic of the oven.
DELIGHTFUL is the fact that
the mixing, baking and serving
are all done in one and same
dish. No extra pots and pans —
one dish does the whole job! The
oven does the work while the
table is set, and the family is
rewarded with the exciting
goodness of this bubbly rice cas-
serole.
auto-
from
if we
inter-
loan to
largest
borrow
every three State dollars
be reinstituted.
connection, et me quote
annual report ,.of the
NEW ONE-PIECE PANORAMIC WINDSHIELD
AND REAR WINDOW
be permitted to re-
under the
to a strict
State Constitution.
discharged,
whether 1 can con-
studies under that
the public school pro-
help insure
local control
has surg-
in recent
have be-
As Texans
for 1953 with
PONTIAC’S WONDERFUL NEW POWER STEERING*
« ^Optional at extra cott.
after your discharge. Also,
conduct and progress must
been satisfactory while you
in,> school before, and you
have GI entitlement remain-
Then we would not be con-
to enrich a few districts
one State pocket while we
millions of dollars from
keep needy
up to decent standards
’SiesertCH
WwiHHINO
“So, you sports, before we rnr.-.
head on into a no-platoon crisis-^
let’s dig deep for the 1953 March;.
of Dimes. Run this paralyzitaE-
deadhead clear off the field zjSl
play.”
the long lost txwo-platoon system
might yield t6 some haranguing
about the grim spectre of the no-
platoon system.
“While the two-platoon propon-
ents point to the surplus of burly
boys somebody ought to speak p
for the deadly trend in manpower
loss because of polio.
“This sinister disease
ed into the adult ranks
years,
come
know,
posed,
Tarheels the week after they play-
ed the Longhorns last fall.
“If the 1952 penetration should
spread, the blow to athletics could
be calamitous. We do know that
the strong are vulnerable to this
crippling
that the
into cure
“These
sums of
not been available
which for years has exhausted all
available funds for polio patients
care alone.
Q—I’m planning
and also take a ba
under the Korean
do I put down on
form?
A—You should
objectives—wh i c h
Bachelor of Laws
bar review course. You must list
both in order to get both.
Q—I want to get a GI
buy a house. What is the
amount of money I may
from my bank?
A—The size of the loan depends
entirely on the amount of money
your bank or any other lender is
willing to lend. The only limit is
to study law.
,r review course.
Bill. What
application
/ LONGER, LOVELIER, ROOMIER RODIES
SPECTACULAR NEW OVER-ALL PERFORMANCE
on the amount of guaranty that
VA can issue on the loan. That
limit is 60 percent of the loan up
to a maximum of $7,500.
Q—I am getting retirement pay
from the armed forces. Is it pos-
sible to pay premiums on my Na-
tional Service Life Insurance po-
licy by allotment?
A—Yes, provided proper arrange-
ments are made with the service
department from which yoi^ are
receiving your retirement pay.
Q—Before I went back on
duty, I was going to college
the World War II GI Bill,
about to be
want to know
tinue with my
law.
A—You will
sume your * training
World War II GI Bill, provided
you begin within a reasonable per-
iod
your
have
■were
must
Ing.
One of the Best! Casserole of Rice and
Luncheon Meat is
vje’ve good buys galore . .. this
list
probably will be
Degree—and the
State’s school finance pants have
two pockets.
What can we do now to raise
the teachers and yet avoid an
increase in State taxes?
Obviously, it would help if
of the excess payments now
to certain districts by “per capita”
allocation could be given instead
to districts that really need the
money,
tinuing
out of
■spend
another pocket to
schools
Some of the money from the lux
ury pocket belongs in the necessity
pocket.
The per capita payment
matically would be lowered
$68 to about $58 per student
would go back
pretation of the
Actually, about $15 million is go-
ing into the “available school
fund” now from taxes not so ear-
marked by the Constitution. That
is a generous situation except, as
I indicated before, the extra money
goes into the wrong pocket. 1
think this $15 million ought to be
reallocated to. the Gilmer - Aikin
pocket.
What
restore
balance
support
gram. That one-to-three ratio
considered fair in 1949 when
program went into operation. At
that time $45 million represented
a fourth of the Gilmer-Aikin cost.
But the school districts are still
paying “the same $45 million an-
nually—while the cost of the pro-
gram has risen steadily. The State
has been making up the difference.
I think the old r^tio of one local
dollar to
ought to
In this
from the
State Board of Education:
“It is highly important that an
appropriate balance be maintain-
ed between local and State sup-
port of the public school system.
The maintenance of a proper bal-
ance between State and local fi-
nancing of
gram will
tinuation of
schools.”
The Board evidently
that local control cannot
tained unless, proper local support
is maintained. We face the same
problem at the State level when
we accept too much “easy” money
from Washington. We find that
Washington wants to tell us how
to spend the money.
I don’t want to see any weak-
ening of local control of our pub-
lic schools. The school is too close
ailment. We also know
only hope is research
andzprevention.
studies require great
money. This money has
from Texas
else can we do? We can
the former one-to-three
between local and state
of the Gilmer-Aikin pro-
was
the
Vet’s Questions
and Answers
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ENTER GM’S $194,000 BETTER HIGHWAYS AWARDS CONTEST ?
An Austin sports writer
gested a new angle to the furore
over recent football rule changes
voted by the NCAA.
In his sports page column, Bus-
ter Haas wrote in the ' Austin
American under the heading: “NO
PLATOON SYSTEM?”:
“The prolonged hubbub about
the
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