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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.
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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.
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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.
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