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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1916)
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1916. V GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER1 PAGE TWO Coffee btilliitt'l Btil Mb.CJr.PHit 1 he. time to start a cheerful day is breakfast-time! There's Schilling's. Best to help you see the silver lining- in the cloud. Only such coffee justified protection uf airthrlit tins. . Schilling's Best PE D SCHOO ETON IN LF STAR-CHAMBER SESSION LOUD LY DENOUNCED School Patron Want Salaries Rained and Standard Recouped Pendleton, March 15. Confirming . the informal action they took on Mon , day afternoon, the members of the achool board last evening formally Toted for A. T. Park of Hermiston s superintendent of. the Pendleton schools for next year at a salary of 11800, The vote was unanimous. It ii understood however, no contract has ent without giving notice such action was intended and it is being freely suggested on all sides that before clos ing any contract with a new man the board should consider the matter more fully with a view to securing the very best man available. It is sug gested from a wide field and the sal ary raised so as to be on a par with the salaries paid by other eastern Oregon towns of Pendleton's duns. In this way it is believed a man can be secured who will (rive the schools vice in the schools and because of the secret methods employed in elect ing a successor. The meeting of the board was held yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the back room of the offices of Clerk Lot Livermore. No one was present but the members of the board and no record was kept of the meeting. The regular meeting of the board mil be held tonight. Chairman J. V. Tall man stated this morning that he was requested yesterday at 11 oclock to prestige and redeem the present un- call the special meeting by Judge G. favorable situation. W. Phelps, another member of the Since the action of the board re board. He stated that after a short moving Prof. Hampton was taken he discussion of the school situation, a is considered as eliminated from the motion' was made and carried that contest and no effort is being made Mr. Pork be chosen as superintendent with a view of having him retained, for next year. Personally, he said, he Mr. Hampton himself takes the view did not know much about Mr. Park he is entirely out of the race. nor his school record, but had been To sound sentiment as to what peo- assured by other members of the pie think of the board's action the board thut he was a good man. He East Oregonian questioned a number said he had nevor promised to eup of prominent local people today, port anyone for the position but that Some were opposed to Mr. Hampton Mr. Park had spoken to him last and some favorable to him. With a week as if he had received enough single exceptioon every man and worn- pledges to insure his electioon. an Questioned criticised the board for i Chairman Tallman had little criti- acting hastily and urging that further .cism to make of the present superin uttention be given the matter before tondent but stated that there was a a full decision is reached. feeling on the board that a new man should be secured. He said some op position has developed against Supt. Hampton and -that the board had been i I He ijuieuy consiuering i or some lime tne : qualifications of other applicants. He said it had not been the intention of Superintendent A. C. Hampton of the board at this time to mke any th Pendleton nublic schools who was ! announcement of the action tafcen names of candidates to the county clerks, and he bikes the position that silence by a candddate is tantamount to assent when a nominating petition is filed. Onr 'Want Ads bring results.. - HAMPTON TO LEAVE Pendleton Superintendent Will Succeeded By New Man one of the active participants in the recent superintendent's meeting in La Grande, has been supplanted at Pendleton and his place will be taken by A. T. Park of Hermiston. It is reported in the Pendleton papers that Mr. Hampton's removal was done at a secret session of the school board, and there is indignation expressed at this surreptitious action of the board. Pendleton, March 14. At a star- chamber session of the city school board yesterday afternoon m agree ment was reached by , the board whereby Supt. A. C. Hampton will be supplanted next fall as head of the city schools by A. T. Park, now principal of the school at Hermiston. The action of the board, news of Prof. Hampton was for eight years principal of the Pendleton high school and, when Supt. J. S. Landers was requested to resign last spring he was placed in the position of acting superintendent for the balance of the year. yet been made with the superintend-1 which leaked out lust evening, comes nt-clect. The matter was brought up at the conclusion of the routine business lost evening and occasioned more or less discussion between members of the board and Supt. A. C Hampton. There is decided resentment over the action of the school board in se lecting a new city school superintend- as a big surprise to the community, as no intimation had been given out that an election was to be held at this time, or any notice that the board was considering applications. Among the friends of Supt. Hampton the news was received with indignation, both because of the summary end the board's action brings to his long ser- Hughes' Name May Be On Ballot Salem, One., March 14. If the po- ltical supporters of Justice Hughes for president petition to - Wave his name put on the ballot, and he does not formally object in writing ty April 20, Secretary of State Olcott will certify his name to the county clerk, according ito an announcement mada by him last night. The Rose burg Hughes club has intimated its intention of petitioning to have Jus tice Hughes' name put on tlhle ballot, and it was this that prompted the secretary to make the announcement. Under the law passed by the last legislature the name of a candidate for president or vice president may be printed on the ballot upon his re quest or tbie petition of 1000 reg istered voters. .April 20 is the date when the secretary certifies the Good Table Potatoes $1.75 per hundred they last while Gold Coin "Seed" ...$2.00 per hundred Early Rose "Seed" $3.50 per hundred Land Plaster for Your Lawns Lime, Cement, Wall Plas ter, Hay Grain, Wood, Coal SAWYER & CLARK COMPANY, Phone Main 17. 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