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REGISTER-GUARD WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
Bond Election Due;
Negro Teacher Fired
Genealogists Searching for Oregon Man
. t,.. c v, would be about BOltered in Oregon because
BREMERTON, Wash. (Id The
Kitsap County School Board has
fired a Negro school teacher be
fore he put in a day's work with
one member expaining:
"There's our school bond issue
election to think of."
The dismissed teacher, Ester
Wilfong, 22, of La Grande, Ore.,
was not present at the meeting
which reversed a week old de
cision to hire him. He was to
teach the 6th grade in the Central
Kitsap Junior High School at Sil
verdale near this Navy Yard city.
INTENDS TO TEACH
He says he still intends to teach
there, too, and wiil show up at
the appoinlcd time because "I
have a valid contract and I in
tend to hold the school board to
It."
The board wrangled eve-ral
hours Tuesday night before vot
ing unanimously to rescind the
contract despite the protests of
the county school superintendent,
Carl F. Jenne.
The closed board session fol
lowed a meeting with 37 persons
who had been invited by tele
phone to attend. Mrs. Inez Solie,
a junior high school teacher,
spoke . in behalf of Wilfong. She
said only seven of the 37 present
spoke against the hiring.
"When the meeting adjourned,"
she said, "I thought the board had
decided to retain Mr. Wilfong, but
I learned Wednesday they made
their decision after everyone else
was gone."
Ole Svenson, a board member,
said a majority of those attending
the meeting seemed to favor the
dismissal,
"We want to have as much har
mony as possible because we have
a bond issue coming up," he said.
Superintendent Jenne said he
recommended "that the board
stick to its original decision to
hire the man on the basis of his
credentials and qualifications. The
fact that he is colored should not
enter the picture."
CONTRACT QUESTION
Wilfong said at La Grande that
he "didn't know there was any
opposition. I thought when I re
ceived my contract and signed it
and mailed it back that every
thing was all right."
Frank C. Whitaker, president of
the school board, said that since
Wilfong doesn't now have the
contract in his possession "he
can't consider himself hired."
The contract was mailed in by
Wilfong with his signature, as is
the practice when teachers are
hired.
ONLY HALF SHAVED
EAST HAMPTON, Conn. U.R
This is the case of the half-shaved
customer. Paul P. O'Connell,
barber, had the man partially
shaved when a brush fire broke
out. O'Connell, the local fire mar
shal, left hurriedly for the fire.
rntrir.n What hannened
to Heinrlch (or Henri) Baumert?
It's a $13,000 question and Wal
ter C. Cox, probate genealogist,
208 South LaSalle Street, Chica
go, is searching Oregon for the
answer.
Years ago Baumert left $13,000
in the custody of others who have
not heard from him since.
years old in the event he is still
living. If he is not, then his heirs
would be entitled to claim the
monev if they can bo located.
"Tho little that is known about
Baumert," Mr. Cox said, "indicates
that he was of German origin,
probably born in Alsace-Lorraine.
"Search for him is being cen-
in Oregon becai IKP Via I.
known to have lived and worked
at an unidentified localitv In n,
' bhoula he be dead, his child
ren or flranrlchlldren. if
would have first claim to the
money, with brothers and sisters
or nieces or nephews next in
lino."
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