The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1952 Page: 2 of 32
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SENIOR EDITION STAFF
SAP AH WIT LIS
Editor-in-chief
N/NCY CARTER
Assistant Editor
^ JANELLE PURNETT
Copy Editor
JEANETTE HALL ' .
Copy Editor
1 HELEN HUSE
Society Editor
TWYLA HERRING
Feature Editor
BILLY MUkPHREE
Claas Historian
ROMONA (’HANEY
(lass Historian
RETA JO ARMS
Class Prophesy
MARY LYNN WILLIS
Class Will
JACK VAUGhT
Business Manager
JIMMY LOCKRIDGE
Si»rts Editor
KENNAKU TUPIN
Sports Editor
MRS. J. E. LIGHTFOOT
Class Sponsor
| The state apportionment may
be laner next year, as the schools
i of Texas as a whole are badly In
need of more money according to
the following release from the
8tate Department of Education.
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Tex^hs must spend more of
| lorvof their tax dollar on public
I schools or see their children hand*
(capped by receiving an inferior
education
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• That blunt warning was issued
here today by Miss Ruth Htllyer.
president of the Texas State
Teachers Association who urgeed
Texans to realise the seriousness
of the situation
Exchange Column
teachers to keep them from leav-
ing the profession an dto attract
bel^Tthe £££? 1 'eiSS mSftt* a^hablf roUectoJ
persons in the United Slates and various articles from other school
there is already a heavy exodus of papers, and in this column we
Instructors should like to pass them on to you.
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" Retirements death and the lure
of more pay in other professions
takes 3.500 teachers annually out
of our schools. In addition, we an-
nually need those 1,000 additional
teachers ”
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Texas soon must build more
then a half billion dollars worth of i
with U
Heavy annual Increased enrol-
lment In elementary and high
schools, which Is expected to con-
tinue at least through 1050-00,
WORTH REMEMBERING
“1 am a little thing with a
big meaning.
I help everybody.
I open doors, open heart.
dispel prejudice.
I create fellowship and good
will.
I Inspire respect and
admiration.
Everybody loves me.
I bore nobody; I violate no
law
I cost nothing.
Many have praised me; none
First Methodist
Sunday School 0:45 a m. Irving
Palmer, Superintendent; Morning
Worship. 10:50 a. m. Baccalaureate
High High School W 8 C. 8. Monday
3 :00 p. m. Methodist Men Monday |
;7.15 p„m.
S’SSTrt aPSSiJ'££ fSciU” a.S.3jrr3£:
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The •chotaMlc enumeration last ( The |ncreased attendance makes
System
inass ’ Institutions In the county
with att annual expenditure of
approximately $250,000. of this yeur was 1170 There was a de-
amount approximately $174,000 Is crease nf approximately 40 this
for salaries. Interest, and sinking vear
application
necessary a minimum of 1.000
more teachers each year, and the
classrooms to keep pace with the
increased enrollment. Miss Hillyer,
stated.
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"Unless we do so. huge numbers
of our children will be attending
school half time. In double shifts,1 ~---------**------—
•Miss Hillyer said. "More than good education to the Individual
17.500 are doing so this year and and to the state. I believe If the
that number will triple next year, people are acquainted with the
1 1 seriousness of the problem, they
have condemned me
I am pleasing to thhose of
high and low degree
I am useful every moment of
the day
I am Courtesy
The Technician Tech
School—San Antonio.
DAFFINITIONS ----- (
Bathing Beauty: A girl worth ' Next Sunday will be observed as I
wading for. . rural life Sunday throughout!
Teacher: One who is emploed to Methodism. More and more we am I
tease brains, but often ends up! all recognising that them Is a
braining teasers. I direct relationship between the
Pool: A man who tries to get a use of our soli and the saving of
haircut for 50c. souls. Our rural people am still
-The Pilot—Port Arthur High backbone of our nation and
oehnoi I anything we can do to strengthen
__ ' . . . ... I rural life will strenghten the
George: I used to sleep with that Church and Natlon
girl over there. 1
.Timmy Shocking! Where? • Remember that we will not|
George rngu«h jv 1 worship in-our usual evening hour.
-The Dally Texan-The Uni- , *ut w‘u «*“*}£** *j* 1
versity of exas.
Pop. did Edison Invent the first ^h00' at 8 00 p m
talking machine? | -
No. Son, God made the fIbst one. -
All Edison did was Invent one Wedding rings symbolise tho|
I same number of additional class-
portatlon and athletics. ^ the decreased number of schol- i
Miss Hillyer explains the need of will insist that proper support is ! you could shut off. —The Mes- shackles wives were forced te wear
more of the tax dollar for schools provided ” Isenger—West Coulmbla High. In olden times
by quoting a recent survey mad* ______________________
n. It
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That, plus the need
astics Is believed to be temporary attractive
T^e Athletic Department how- on account of the drouth,
e is self supporting, and all ex- t 1
f. js except the regular sched- This year approximately 450
\ a salary of the coaches comes pupils rode the 13 school buses
from the gate receipts and other each day to Comanche schools
athletic promotions. from the rural district
The Comanche school finances j j
are in good financial shape and no improvements planned this
Increase ‘ »-
keep them from going to better
paying positions, makes It Impera-
tive that the next legislature pro-
vide additional funds. Miss Hillyer
declared
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Local school districts cannot
raise even half of the millions of
In taxes are anticipated summer before the next session dollars needed, she said.
I * of school Include the renovation, t 1
Th« Comanche district Is now of ^ Hlgh School Auditorium, The Increase in the number of
approximately 238 square miles In and a new st-age curtain. Anyone scholastic-age children In Texas
area and has a property valu- who has attended a public gather- 18 increasing by 50.000 annually
atton of $3,600,000. , tng there this year will agree that and It Is expected to continue to
l t this Is badly needed do 80 to* several years. Of that
The runn™ «*K»1 tolrtct „ui mm urn "TT. «
rtr a«atsrs ssssstar
tween the Home Economic Cottage
not maintained a school for two
years and was automatically an-
nexed to Comanche under the
state law at the last meeting of
the County Board.
An election will be held this
summer to pass on the bond as-
sumption and tax adjustment of
the new territory added to the
district.
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The school this year has 68
paid employees including 48 tea-
*"« th' B“a H*U f’nSTSEfSZ with teachers
* 1 having classes of 30 pupils (the
The state school apportionment ideal proportion Is 24 to one tea-
ls now 10 times as much now as It cher), that an average of 1,000
was 50 years ago In 1002 when additional teachers, and of course.
$5.00 for each child enumerated that many new classrooms, must
was appropriated. Today the be added each year.” Miss Hillyer
amount is $62 50 for each schol- pointy out
by the Teachers Assoclotlon
disclosed that even If local dist-
ricts Increased assessed valuations
and bonded themselves to the
limit that they could raise only
$259,383,880.
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That is less than half enough
to provide adequate classrooms,
let alone aid In Increasing teacher
renumeration. Miss Hillyer de-
clared
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Miss Hillyer pointed out that
schools now cost less than 2 cents!
more of every tax dollar than they 1
did In 1939-40, the last year before
World War II dissipated usual
conditions.
Out of each tax dollar, 32.15
goes for public education now,
whereas 30.31 cents was spent for
this purpose In 1939-40
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“When we consider the enorm-
ous Increase in attendance and
the additional teachers required
for this Increase, the cost of pub-
lic school education has not kept
pace with other governmental
costs.” Miss Hilley asserted
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1952, newspaper, May 16, 1952; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth888845/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.