'fHE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
' Owner and Editor.
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Entered as second-class matter Au
gust 29th. 1923, at the postoffico at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
-‘March 3, 1879.
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Takotna, Alaska, December If*. 1928.1
1KH8S SQUIBS.
The throat specialists art said to
^oe strongly in favor of political cam
i pnigns.—• Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Very often the person who 'boasts
* of having no religious prejudices has
1 no religion either.—Mesa Journal
Tribune.
Writer says movie actors’ lives* in- i
‘elude too many risks—and sometimes,
3as narrated, too many asterisks.—
Wall Street Journal,,
Nowadays when the skirt reaches
4the ankle the deduction is that sonte
1 thing has Isipped.—Xorfolk Virginian
‘Pilot.
Family trees aren’t like others. In
' others, appearances of the sap is an
•indication of continued vigor.—Wash
1 ington Post.
A free Qount/y^is one that passes
laws to please^ttfronscionee and than
•breaks it to please its appetite.—
‘Brooklyn Times.
The peace treaties have held armed
- forces to a mere :!5 per cent increase
'over l!m. — Publishers’ Syndicate
* cate (Chicago).
You'll notice, however, there hasi
•been no marked-down sale of fighting'
‘materials since the Kellogg treaty
’was signed.—Duluth Herald.
What can the purist in the use of
'words do when he discovers that ap
! plesauce and boloney mean the same
•thing?—Shoe and Leather Reporter.
One of thelar rgest colleges is send
ing its football team 10,000 miles this
■ year. A football player has to get an
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Piedmont.
College boys are believed to be
! strongly in favor of the air mail,
having found out this year that it en
ables them to get money from home
just hour squicker.—New York
Evening Post.
We kid the women a lot about the
cost of their clothing, but they never
paid tens of thousands of dollars for
one toga.— Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
The remains of a lost civilization
are being searched for in Soviet terri
tory. They don’t say who lost the
civilization, but we can guess.—Punch.
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l “Scientist to Test Gravity at Seai
Down in New York a one-act play!
' has been seen and heard over the
| radio. Well, when we turn in on a
New York plat On our new television
radio set we’re going to have it zxed
j so that the air waves pass through
1 several inches of chlorate of lime,
charcoal, and formaldehyde. We don’t
want the people next door to us at
our hotel to think we are saying
those things.—Chicago Tribune.
ALASKA SCHOOLS CONTINUE
GROWTH; NEW REFl'M> ACT
REPORTED UNSATISFACTORY
JUNEAU.—Alaska schools experi
| enced a small growth during the
| school year 11)27-28, according to sta
■ tistics prepared by Lester D. Hender
son, Territorial commissioner of edu
cation. The erpansion which tooTc
| place in comparison with the school
j year 11)26-27 may be summarized as
' follows: In number of schools, 1); in
number of teachers employed, 19; in
total enrollment, 155; in elementary
schoool enrollment, 155; in high i
school enrollment, 44; in costs, 8102,-[
I 355.43.
Increased costs may appear to be
excessive in view of the growth along
' other lines. However, they are less
; real than appearances would indicat*.
| At least 850,090 of the increase may
I he charged to the construction of new
i school buildings. In schools outsid*
I incorporated cities alone th* cost of
school buildings erected during the
year was 829,993.50, ns compared
with 84,344 for the school year 2926
27.
The following table sets forth de
tails relative to tthe number of
schools maintained, their enrollment,
etc.:
; Number of schools . .90
| Number of teachers 235 ...
: Total pupils enrolled . 4828
Elementary school enroll
ment . 4115
j High school enrollment . 713
! Elementary school gradu
ates . 237 i
; High school graduates . 95 '
I Expenses and expendi- . '1
tures . $612,270.80 j
Of the ninety schools maintained,
l sixty-one were taught by one teacher!
j each, ten by two teachers each, and
j the balance by from three to twenty
teachers each. The enrollment varied
from two pupils at Woodrow to g53
at Ketchikan. Cost* Tanged from
8855.31 for the special school at
Moose creek to $49,908.30, the
amount expended at Jtmeau.
The per capita annuel- expense of
schools in incorporated cities (not in
cluding expenditures for capital out
lay) was 8125.85. Per capita annual
expense for individual schools ranged
from 8205.03 at Eagle, the most ex
pensive per pupil in average daily
attendance, to 894.12 at Petersburg,
the least expensive. In achools out
side incorporated cities the annual
expense per pupil in average daily
attendance was 8158.24.
Incorporated cities derived an av
erage of 65.3 per cent of their total
expenses and expenditures from the
Territorial treasury. The total
amount expended was 8375,709.47. Of
[this omount, $245,331.26 was received
from Territorial appropriations, and
. the balance, $130,326.01, from local
taxation. Uordoya-received the..hjgh- '
est per cent of Territorial support, I
84.9 per cent, And Hetersburg the
lowest, $44.92 per cent.
Th* new basis of Territorial sup
port cannot be considered as satisfac
tory, in the opinion of Mr. Hender
son. Under the law passed by the
Legislature, the Territorial refund to
each scbonol may not exceed a sum
equal to 85 per cent of expenses for
the school year 1926-27. So long as a
particular city school system re
mains static such an arrangement is
satisfactory. However, if expansion
is taki.ig place the burden falls more
heavily upon the community as its |
school system continues to grow. j-l
Cordova and Petersburg, referred j
to above, acord examples of the man- I
ner in which the new law works. I
Since the school year 1926-27 the |
Cordova school system has ex peri- I
enced no special growth necessitating |
the employment of additional teach- f
ers, or other marked increase in ex- j
penses., consequently this .city re- |
ceivcs approximately 85 per cent T
ritorial support. Petersburg, on the *!
other hand, has been ‘forcdb to ero
ploy two additional teachers in order .$
to keep pace with the increased en- j
rollment. This 'additional expense j
must be carried almost-antirely by i
the municipality, thus -.naetertaljy de- s
creasing the per certt of .Territorial
support and placing the city am' g
the group which is -per^dized on *ac- ^
count of thenaturill growth jand ex
pansion of its school system.
Seward aeortfs-still wnPtHer cate in
point. This city added one teacher to
the school faculty in 1327-28 and -a
second teacher at the opening of the
cucrant school year. This law penal- >
izes her for thus attempting to pro- !
vide better opportunities .'for the ohH- {
dren enrolled in-her schools. ;
Cordova Igloo No. 15,*Picm«rs of j
Abode*. Tots "started .the '’construction j
of a typical pioneer log enbin, to be
22x32 feet in dimensions,'on "a lot on
First street given to the igloo by Dr. •
W.' IT. Chase. The cabin will be
erected as© *as to eonmumdea good view t
of the bay ancl the town. A ’big'fire
place will be included. *It is 'expect
ed to "have'the cabin in'readiness‘for
the Grand Igloo convention, which
will m*«*t in •CtrrdoVa ne*t Marth.
NOTICE TO' CREDITORS.
All persbna ‘having claims against
the estate of Stewart McConnell, de
ceased, are hereby required to pre
sent the same, under oath, to the un
dersigned, administrator of the said
estate, at his residence at Flat,
Alaska, 'Or at the office of the Probate
Judge at Flat, Alaska, on or before
May 31, 1929.
Dated, Flat, Alaska, "October 15, *
1928.
HARRY DONNELLEY, -
Administrator of the estate of
StewaTt McConnell, deceased.
First pub. Nov. 24; last Dec. 22, RJ28
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