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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.
Also left out of present calcula
tions is the proposal for a $1,450,
000,000 foreign arms program.
Proposals of lesser importance,
like the House-approved oleo tax
repealer, also may be caught in
the time squeeze.
Tax On Television
According to the Municipal Fi
nance Officers Association in Chi
cago, night spot patrons soon
may have to pay an admission
tax to watch television programs.
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