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SECTION TWO f-. '. -li-if : -i- : ' , . H 3qMf j Ettobliihed1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY. MAY 12, 1949 I .i.i- 112-49 "vtfCxS r v v 'H J "' ' ' '"r - . .-V If: ' T ' S5 m M:!.: V.-,'-: i .f5. 1; y-y-'TJ; ONE-ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE Roseburg School District No. 4, with its modern buildings and extensive school construction program, still maintains a one-room school house. It is Sylmon Valley, pictured above, on the Melrose Road. The Sylmon Val ley district was combined with Roseburg two years ago and the school is used now only for first grade pupils. Croup picture shows the class and their teacher, Mrs. Edna Matthews. Pupils are, left to right, first row: Loren Olson, Suy Swarti, Donald Lar son, Herbert Linden, Frank Reed, Terry 'O'Kerr, Charlotte Temp- Early Career Of Old School In Sylmon Valley District Told In Retrieved Records In script that is still clear after half a century, the early his tory of the old Sylmon Valley School District No. Ill is recorded in 'a paper-backed school register found recently by W. J. Mess, maintenance supervisor for the Roseburg Schools. The Sylmon Valley School, then as now, was a one room, one-teacher school. Pupils then ranged in age from six to 15 and received instruction in all the grades. Now the old school, located west of here on the Mel rose Road, is part of the Rose burg system and it has a class of first graders. The register includes the rec ords of pupil attendance and in struction for the years 1899 and 1900, kept by three successive teachers, Lucy Byron, Myra E. Camp, and Grace Shupe, each of whom received a monthly salary of 525: Early-Day Names Recalled Each teacher "answered form questions on a page of "General Statistics." One teacher, stating the number of visits to her school by the school directors or county superintendent, wrote an em phatic, "None!" in the spaces pro vided. Her report was approved by T. F. Mabley, then chairman of the School Board. The school register contains class enrollment lists with names that are still familiar in this area such as Walter Cloaks, Mary Cloake, Eva Cloake, Alfred Cloake, Cora Cloake, Warren Cloake, and Francis Cloake and Eddie White and Gary Brown, Esther Bretzke and Jennie Stock well, Mollie O'Shaughhessy and the Mabley children, Ray, Clif ford, Lawrence, Warren, and Del la. Another record book that's not quite so old, which Mess also has, is the district clerk's record book dating from the years 1913 to 1917. The book contains the minutes of School Board meet ings, as recorded by Arthur Cloake, secretary. New Building Opposed Discussions were held by the School Board in 1913 concerning the construction of a new school- house. The minutes for one meet ing note, "It was voted not to build, but to vote a levy to ex ceed the teacher's salary and in cidentals, the surplus to be used for a future schoolhouse." In 1916, the School Board vot ed a levy of 3i mills to be used for school purposes and "owing to the time of year, it was thought best not to build this fall, but to repair the roof, etc." In 1917, the. board decided to build a new schoolhouse and sell the old school building to the highest bidder. Lawrence Good man, with a bid of $50, was the highest bidder and he agreed to remove the building in 30 day3. Whether a new schoolhouse actu ally was built is not told in these records. . The old Sylmon Valley District was consolidated with the Rose burg district two years ago and its pupils are transported to Roseburg schools. ron, Walter Landers, Teddy Carper, Eddy Marsh; second row: Melvin Saunders, Stephen Carlson, Bobby Erickson, Charles Mc Grady, Larry Bergstrom, Walter Lindner, Jeanne Leach; third row: Mary Lou Renner, Albert Parr, Weston Honn; fourth row: Lorna Stanfield, Cary Shinn, Yvonne Parkinson, Bonnie Sweem, Kay Hollyman, Neta Eversholt, Sandra Barton, ' Linda Bunnell, Richard Fout. One pupil, Michael Baylor, is absent from this class picture, (Pictures by Paul Jenkins) North Atlantic Treaty. Six Other Measures Slated For Congress OKs By August 1 By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, May 12. iW The Truman Administration's program is shaping up toward congressional passage of seven major measures by summer, with possible recall of the lawmakers next fan. Although Democratic leaders wouldn't fix any schedule, there was mounting evidence they hope to ratify the North Atlantic Security Alliance and write into law six top-tngnt Dills Deiore August 1. The six measures reported ready for preferential treatment include two passed already by the House. . One restores the original re ciprocal trade agreements pro gram without the restrictive amendments tacked on by the GOP'SOth Congress. Another gives the .President, suDject to congres sional veto, power to reshuffle government agencies. Senate-approved bills for a long range housing program and for $300,000,000 annual federal aid to education are on the House docket. The Administration has made North Bend Bond Issue Carries By One Majority NORTH BEND, May 12. UP) A $235,000 bond issue to com plete North Bend's sewage system and construct a dipsosal plant was approved by the margin of a single vote In a special election Tuesday. After one ballot had been dis qualified as improperly marked, the total vote was 217 yes, 216 no. The bond issue will finance a plant to meet the State Sanitary Authority's requirements. At pres ent sewage is dumped, untreated, into Coos Bay Harbor. it plain it hopes to obtain ap proval, before Congress quits this summer, of a substitute for the Taft-Hartley Labor Law and a measure raising the minimum wage level to 75 cents an hour. Sandwiched In between would be 14 regular money bills for op eratlon of government depart ments. Usually subject to little more than routine action, these measures have bumped up against an economy drive which is show ing a bit more persistence than these things usually do. With time growing shorter, Ad ministration leaders may have to pass up any final action on such Truman proposals as those to broaden social securtiy and to set up a new farm benefit program. 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