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MAIL TRIBUNE, MadforJ, Or. C
Thursday, April 7, 1960
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TEACHER CHANGES JOBS Edward
Hough, former Trenton, N.J. school teacher
quit his job six years ago, is now a sales
representative for a firm making sanitation.
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chemicals. Hough, shown outside his home
by his company-paid station wagon, expects
to earn $11,000 this year, twice as much as
he could in teaching. (UPI Telephoto)
Former Teacher Points to Need For Higher Pay in Profession
Trenton, N.J.-flJPD - School
teachers Walter Almond and
Edward Hough quit their jobs
six years ago and started run
ning a gas station. They said
they couldn't support their
families on teachers' pay.
Today, both men are out of
the gasoline business.
Almond Is teaching again,
at Steinert High School in
nearby Hamilton Township.
He says he went back to edu
cation because Steinert gave
him a chance to teach subjects
he was interested In auto
mechanics and electric shop.
Also. Almond said in an in-
terview, teachers' salaries
rose slightly in the five years
he was pumping gas and
greasing cars. "Salaries are
still low, but they're on the
right road," Almond said.
Sales Representative
Hough, on the other hand,
Is a sales representative for a
firm making sanitation chem
icals. He expects to earn more
than $11,000 this year twice
the salary he could expect in
teaching.
Next year. Hough said, he
may earn three times what
he could make in school. I
would never consider going
back to teaching," Hough said.
Almond was 29 years old
and Hough was 28 when they
broke with teaching in 1954.
Each held a master's degree.
Each was earning $3,700 per
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year, Almond as a junior high
instructor in handicrafts and
Hough as a fourth and fifth
grade teacher. Each was mar
ried and the father of three
children.
By 1955, each was makinh
$6,000 a year from the gas
station. Both were working
five to 14 hours a day.
Liked Worked with Boys
Hough quit the station the
next year, when he was oiler-
ed his present job. Almond
stayed another two. years:
then decided to go back to
teaching.
"I always liked working
with boys," Almond said.
Almond said his experience
at the gas station has proved
Invaiubale In his new teach
ing post.
"When the boys start ask
ing questions on a particular
car-what kind of brakes does
it have, can you put multiple
carbs on lt-I've got the an
swer right In my head, and
don't have to consult a book,"
Almond said.
Almond conceded that his
salary of about $5,500 a year
was not as high as he could
wish. "But I have a livable
wage," he said.
Hough took a different
view. He said teachers pay
still was "entirely inadequ
ate."
"In our field, men are De
ing hired without any ex
perience in selling starting
at $6,000 per year, plus ex
penses, plus a new car,"
Hough said. Also, Hough in
dicated, there was no reason
to suppose a salesman in his
field was not contributing as
much to society as a teacher.
Hough added:
"Forty - five hundred to
$5,000 might be an adequate
starting salary lor a teacner,
but its takes a teacher 10
years to get up to the max
imum earning level of the
profession. In Industry,
aKmit five vears."
Hough and Aimona un
live In the Levittown. fa.,
area. Hough said he was
"really hurt" recently to see
a teacher working part time
at the checkout counter of a
local supermarket, stowing
food in grocery bags.
um u- cVinnlH not be
ICdliiiria J" '
subject to that sort of thing,
Hougn saia. - iuu tci ....
don't see a dentist, or a doc
tor or a lawyer doing it. Their
professions pay adequate salaries."
"We've got to pun up our
it's i boots and get after the teach.
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