o o PAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. KlamaTli Falls. Ore Fridav. Nov 13r 105!) 3 to r 3 Lnrij 3 I I c 1 Many Spare Hours Given By Members Of Average School Board By NOIt.M CARDOZA The lot of the average school board member is a sorry one in Klamath County and elsewhere. Knorinous are his burdens and few the satisfactions. School board meetings rarely arc entertaining, so the boards hold session in halls empty except for the usual small contingent that comes to hit board members in the teeth never to pat them; on the back. So the work they do! goes largely unrecognized. WHEN MEETINGS are enter taining, spectators come, vocifer ous and in legions. That occurs when the board has mied adverse to public sentiment. Suddenly ev erybody his paternal great un cle and h:s best friend. Bill ijets interested in schools. Board members are grossly un derpaid They don't make anything at ail. But many spend airr.ost as much ti.'v.e. all considered, as they do in rrdiifijc a 1: :r;. In :hr vj&i of tie Klamath Vn en H Sc-roci board, spare time iwurf spent at reiilar board pe'-rus er-.-.T jecod ar.d fourth Monday of each month is only the beginning. These alone seldom re cess in fewer than three hours. Special meetings, called to take care of matters requiring addi tional study, average up to lour a week during budgeting time over two months each spring. The thorny annual hiring time during summer requires an average of two or three extra meetings a week. Many last as long as regular meetings, liven that accounts only for about half the time the Kl'HS board spends doing business. SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION i: complicated business. . Men earn university degrees just to learn its iriricacies. Board members, near ly always laymen when elected. have to get a quick basic knowl edge of how to run schools. So they read manuals, books, magazines by the dozen. John Yoth. who manages the Oregon Water Corporation office in town, says he spends easily three hours a week just reading about school business. In addition, he and others have plenty of leg work to do. Voth, appointed by Chairman Mrs. Mar garet Sheridan to the board's committee to study traffic regula tions at KUUS, says he recently spent five hours coordinating the committee's efforts with those of high school student body and city council committees which also were studying traffic. Other members are Conrad Bor sting, a Weyerhaeuser Company forester; Dr. James Noel, a local dentist, and George Flitcraft, a free-lance businessman and car salesman. Mrs. Sheridan is sec retary for the pastor of Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church. Board members have to make I big decisions frequently, and all ! agree these weigh heavily on their I peace of mind. They must make final allocation of budgets often running well over a half million dollars annually. "I don't lose sleep over these decisions," says Dr. Noel, "but of course we all worry a lot about 'them." Not all involve money. The board has to weigh whether to retain or dismiss personnel from the top of the scale to' the bottom to n'aintain what they consider the best possible faculty and ad ministration. THE LONG-AWAITED parking restrictions on the KL'HS campus are about to take effect. They were passed finally by a weary board which toiled, wrangled, re I fined and re-refined plans since February during literally dozens ;of special meetings. The plan ad jmittedly is imperfect and the 'board anticipates plenty of further consideration all that simply to reduce traffic on campus and i to exclude unwelcome loitering, j More perplexing, though, are the : small problems, because they are I so numerous. The mulligan of rel ative trivia that board members imust debate is sometimes fantas tic or even humorous in insignif icance compared to the big issues. But each item must be treated with deep consideration. For that reason sessions sometimes drag Tots' Deaths Said Accident SALEM, Ore. 'AP-. Salem; housewife, ho had twen unhjoovt since her divorce, tucked her. three children into bed and then' committed suicide. She accidental-1 ly killed the three children too That's how Coroner Charles Ed-i wards explained the deaths of' Mrs. Frank B. Nicholls. 3-1, and 1 her children. Gregory, 12, Julie 10, and Melissa. 8. Edwards said the attractive blonde divorcee parked her sta tion wagon in her closed garage and used a hose to pipe poisonous carbon monoxide fumes from the exhaust to the inside of the ve hicle. The fumes killed her and were sucked by an air condition ing system into the upstairs, where the children were sleeping. All four had been dead for sev eral days when friends of the fam ily discovered the tragedy last night. TV Court Records KLAMATH COI NTT IHMItll 1 COIRT Wayne WrMey Major, violation bas ic rule, (10 forfeited. Emerson Edwmd Bennett, no PUC permit, W5 forfeited Alvm Hum. tail dim hcfldhfthU. S3. Albert Stephen Walton, truck ipeed inc, $7 50 forfeited. I Emanuel Kaet, violation b 1 1 c rule, I2.50. Myron Hearing Andrews, violation dnmc rule. no. O. T Anderson Jr., no clearance I lisliu, $10. i Chr)e Gerald Duncan, violation ba nc rule, 7.fl. rtuly Kliznheih Hale, violation basic rule. $io forfeited. William C'harlen Tlermnn, fail slop a I st tip sign. $r forfeited. D.irlrne Hnrkley Sanchez, violation bi'ic rule, $10. Raymond Ironard Wolff, violation battle rule, $10. William Francis Fomter, fail ttop lit Htnp hi an, W Madelme Louise Hutchinson, Im proper muffler, $7.30. Stuarl Lee Hencel, fail ttop at stop siftn. $.V Francisco Pa I inn Meraz, petit lar cenv, 0 dayi suspended; released. Merle Etmene Halaat, fail stop at StO StRtl, $.V Winston Fulton Lumpkin, fail stop at Hi op mn, .V Edith Juanila Mii.com, violation ba sic rule, $10. Jamea Ieroy Howerton, no oper ator'!! license. 57 30 Oulry ftoherts, fail stop at stop iign. dismissed. Harry Albert Spoon, no operator's li cence. $7 M Charles Cyril Klavda, hunting pro hihited hour. $18 Junior Lmder, combination overload. $.U forfeited Samuel Kugenc Flint, fail stop at it op jtign, $Y Dnrrtti Ben Clifford, fail identify equipment, riumirr. Kny Shelton Gentry Jr , violation basic rule, $13. riiiRna Warren Johnson, improper mulfler, VV Jimmy Dean MiVay, patting insuffi cient cleatance. $7.30. KI.AM.MII FA1.L4 Ml Ml ll'AI, MM R Ralph Morruon, diunk, $J3 or five Withe Shoals, drunk, $23 or five ua Martin Johnnie, vngramy, $100 and .hi days. Neva Mof.es, drunk, $23 or five daa. William Steel, drunk, $33 or five dav Robert Lei Smith, drunk, $13 or me daw. Rudolph Gent Naih, drunk, $23 or live riivi Hugh Allen Marshal, drunk, $23 or me das. Edward Wolfee, drunk, $23 or five da n Hugh Allen Marshall, drunk and dis orderly conduct. $-"0, Two juveniles were arrested for po. session of stolen properij, and one for petty Iarcen. ! - WW I 1 i I WA TLt -J 13 . '--V, V-y- V. BUSINESS BETWEEN BITES is transacted by the KUHi bchool Board in typical special luncheon session in the school cafeteria. Just visible at left is George Flitcraft. Superin tendent Arnold Gralapp faces the panel. From left, are attorney George Proctor, Con rad Borstinq, KUHS Principal Willard McKinny and Mrs. Margaret Sheridan, chairman. Clerk Harold Ashley, standing, is taking notes. past midnight. The board, for in stance, recently got an offer from a local company to purchase and install a scoreboard to replace the relic of ancient history now adorning the east end of Modoc Field. The new scoreboard would be worth J2.000. The company asked to be able to advertise on its face. The matter popped up several times in board sessions. .Members, after hours of consideration, de cided such advertising might be considered unfair. They want a new scoreboard desperately. But the question had to be scrutinized thoroughly. They decided, for the time being, against accepting the offer. Certainly men do not run for office on a school board for pres tige. That's explained by reasons already mentioned. They might do so for power, since school boards wield a lot of it. They are considered in state law "quasi - municipal corpora tions" with power to draw and en force certain laws affecting schools. Their action affects hun dreds of teachers, thousands of students and parents and taxpay ers. ONLY BOARD members them selves can give the answers. They vary. The most frequently quoted is the chance to do something for the community. Some say residents asked them to take the job. Mrs. Sheridan, with one boy a college graduate and another a freshman at KUHS, says she became inter ested in school problems from long PTA membership. Others say school problems have to be worked out, and "somebody has to do it." Once into the work, board mem bers at least seem to get unani mous deep satisfaction from do ing it. Said Voth, "My proudest mo ment came the other day when KtHS youngsters (members of the student council Traffic Con trol Committee), obviously not coached, came up with a work able traffic plan and expressed themselves so well." The pros and cons of the job, though, were expressed eloquent ly by one member when queried if he will run again when his five-year term is up. "Are you kidding?" said he. A further chapter in a series outlining the machinery of educa tion in Klamath County will be featured in Monday's Herald and News. 'DENNIS THE MENACE" j 'I JUST WANTED TO SOU I'M SORf? I GOT SO mao. An' i Goo bussed iA after ah.' 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