OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM
—THE TEACHERS
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Senator A. J. Dimond’s bill to
provide pensions to teachers af
ter twenty years’ service in
Alaska will show what is wrong
with the Alaska school system
—tourist teachers.
With very few exceptions, the
really good teachers do not stay
in Alaska. These teachers can
get better pay under more
pleasant conditions in the States
than in Alaska.
If this pension bill will induce
our teachers to remain with us
for twenty years, more power to
it. m.
The thing that will keep our
teachers here however is not the
hope of a pension twenty years
from now, but good pay, as good
or better than the States NOW.
production of more fry.
tion of more hatcheries and the
THIRD WITCH KILLER
CONVICTED AT YORK
o.—
Wilbert G. Hess, 18 years old,
who in the belief that his whole
family was bewitched, went with
John Blymer, “pow-wow doctor,”
and John Curry, 14, to tii3 lone
ly home of Nelson D. Rehmeyer,
alleged sorcerer, on the night
of November 27, and participat
ed in Rehmeyer’s slaying, was
found guilty of second degree
murder here tonight.
The jury returned the verdict
after hearing the impassioned
plea of Harvey A. Gross, form
er District Attorney, for the
youth’s acquittal. It was con
sidered extraordinary because
two other juries within the week
had found botii Blymer and Cur
ry guilty of murder in the first
degree, punishable by life im
prisonment.
A second degree verdict in
Pennsylvania carries with it a
penalty of from ten to twenty
years’ imprisonment.
JUDGE WOULDN’T LET MAN
GO TO ALASKA
Pat Thornton, 55, wellknown
in the vicinity of Jackson and
King Streets, was given 60 days *
in jail recently by Judge John
Gordon. Pat asked the judge '
for a chance to get out of town.
“Where would you go?” asked
Gordon.
“I’d go to Alaska,” Pat said.
“That isn’t far enough. 60 days.
Two members of a club were
discussing the table manners of
a new member.
“Well, what do you think of
him?” asked one.
“Really dreadful,” replied the
other. “I’ve heard soup gargled,
and I’ve il^ard it syphoned, but,
upon my soul, its the first time
I’ve ever known it to be. yodel
led.” • -
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