The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 1, 1953, Page 3

SCHOOL BOARD PAYS $3,000 EXTRA FOR LAWYER, MARCH SAYS Hearing On His Mandamus Suit Set For June The Monroe County School Board is paying $3,000 for additional legal help to battle General Supervisor of Instruction Leland March in his fight to compel the Board to give him a continuing contract, said March today. March makes his accusation in @ letter to the President of the Monroe County Classroom Teach- ers Association released today. He said: “\ have not asked the Class- room Teachers Association, nor anyone else, for help of any kind even tho | have been informed that, at the Superintendent’s re- quest, the School Board is setting aside $500 for each Board mem- ber and Mr. O’Bryant, totalling $3,000 of the taxpayers’ money to hire an extra lawyer and pay the expenses of defeating my elaim. This is in addition to the regular School Board attorney in the pay of the Board, My ex- pense is coming entirely from my own pocket.” The general supervisor is on Yeave with pay from the school system, following his discharge from his position last month, He and his attorney J. Y. Porter have sued for a writ of mandamus to compel the Board to issue him the continuing contract which he states is required by Florida law. March’s letter to the Classroom Teachers Assocation reads in Full: Miss Pauline Nihoul, Preident Executive Board Monroe County Classroom Tea- chers Association Truman Elementary School Key West, Flurida Dear Pauline: “It was quite a surprise to read your recent statement in the May 22nd issue of the Key West Citizen in which you disclaimed any ‘in- terest on the part of teachers in whether or not the continuing con- tract laws for teachers operate in Monroe County. If you will re-read my May 18 statement you will dis- cover I made no attempt to speak for the teachers, but merely brought out the fact that the out- come of my case in a successful manner would benefit them. I have not asked the Classroom Teachers | Association, nor anyone else, for help of any kind even tho I have been informed that, at the Super- intendent’s request, the School Board is setting aside $500 for each Board member and Mr. O’Bry&nt, totaling $3,000 of. the taxpayer's money to hire an exffa lawyer and pay the expenses of defeating my claim. This is in addition to the regular School Board attorney in| the pay of the Board. My expense | is coming entirely from my own| pocket. “Lam endeavoring to set a legal precedent that the continuing con- tract laws, as passed by the legis- latufe, are actually in effect in Monroe County and can not be ig- nored to the detriment of the tea- ching personnel because some school official wishes to be able to fire anyone without the need of real cause. The law must be ob- served here to be of any benefit to teachers. That is the exact thing 1 am standing up for, altho others will probably receive more benefit from the result than I will, “It is my understanding that a year or two ago the Classroom Teachers Association appointed a committee to inquire of the Super- intendent why teachers who were eligible to receive continuing con- tracts were not getting them, It is also my understanding that the committee did not perform its function ‘Excess Profits Tax Extension To Committee By CHARLES F. BARRETT WASHINGTN (® — Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey goes to bat today for extension of the excess profits tax, with a dubious questions. Humphrey’s performance could hold the key to success or failure for President Eisenhower's first major tax proposal to Congress. Veteran Republicans and Demo- crats on the ways and means com- mittee, in opposing an extension of the tax, said today they have prepared some rough questioning for Humphrey. Eisenhower and Humphrey have denounced the ex- cess profits tax as an unfair and stifling burden on business, but say the government needs the revenue its produces. Democrats said they would take the line that if the tax is so bad, it is the administration’s respon- sibility to come out for an equi- table way to raise needed revenue. Republicans had marshaled page after page of data showing specific cases of what they consider undue hardship as a result of the tax. Eisenhower, in a broadcast to the nation and a special message to Congress, asked two weeks ago that the special business profits levy be continued six months to raise 800 million dollars and ease an expected federal deficit next year. The tax expires automatically on June 30 unless Congress extends it. It amounts to an extra 30 per cent tax on corporation profits found to be excessive as compared with a past period, an industry average, or some other base, Republicans on the ways and means committee, in two private sessions before Eisenhower’s re- quest, had lined up unanimously against an extension of the tax. The committee is the major hur- die for the program because it must start all tax bills through Congress. GOP leaders are con- vinced the proposal will pass if it gets out of the ways and means group. . In the two weeks since Eisen- hower outlined his program of con- tinued high taxes, his leaders have made some progress within the committee, But separate interviews with each of the 15 committee Repub- |licans and 10 Democrats showed over the week end that the ad- ministration can’t be sure of suc cess yet. The _ Republicans lined up: 8 definitely against extension now, 1 for it, 4 probably for it and 2 noncommittal. The 10 Democrats: jit and 4 probably for it. Their views could change later. | SHIP-BOARD FIRE BATTLED IN LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL, England w—Sixty | fireman won a five-hour battle to- |day with a fire aboard the 1,320- |ton freighter Kilkenny in the heart |of Liverpool’s dock area, } The blaze roared through two | holds packed with timber and ma- jchinery, but soon after daylight it j}was out. No casualties were re- ported, “If the Classroom Teachers As- sociation is unwilling or unable to fight for the rights of its members “and prefers to d idly by and wateh helpless viduals picked off ene by o ical and personal rea Heaven's sake, pleas: row bricks who ts will- t for the rights rson- is not «¢ Class school t pers: repre ‘act when e eligi- unt ever receiv SATSN PARRY DALES 1 opposed, 3 inclined against, 2 for | Reports Of His Death Really Were Exaggerated By ALEX H. SINGLETON BELGRADE (®—Pity the plight of Ceda Pavlovic, who -awoke the other night in a cemetery fully dressed for his own formal funeral. Poor Pavlovic had taken a hot House committee serving up the; bath earlier in the day. Forgetting his schoolday physics lessons, he reached up a dripping arm to snap on a light. Water serves as a con- ductor for electricity. His wife found him unconscious. A hurridly summoned physician Pronounced him dead. His’ body was carted off for burial next day under government health regula- tions, It was loged in an. ice-chill- ed vault beneath the cemetery chapel. Pavlovic awoke to find himself in a coffin. A bit perplexed, he briefly debated whether he was in heaven, then nudged the lid of the coffin. The lid moved upwards. He climbed out, only to find the vault door bolted. He cried for help. Frightened, a cemetery guard above fled. A 60-year-old retired jurist, Pav- lovic pleaded his predicament with Passion—at the top of his lungs— “I am here by mistake,” he shouted. “Let me out.” The guard finally crept back and released him, Pavlovic hurried off to the near- est phone to report to his wife he was coming home, hungry. He was in for another shock. Under the strain of the day, she shrieked. Then she hung up. Then she fainted. Pavlovic tried next to re-establish himself with his neigh- bors. Answering his knocks, they looked quickly, shuddered and slammed the doors, Finally, he found an acquaint- ance who had not heard of his “déath.” This one served as a go- between. Poor Pavlovic soon was home again. But the last shock was still to come. His family had inserted a death notice in the morning papers —too late to be withdrawn. Pav- loviec still is answering messages of condolence. Vast Sum Spent By Ford For Human Welfare NEW YORK (#—The Ford Foun- dation says it spent $37,865 235 last year in its program to advance human welfare. The half billion dollar foundation published its annual report yester- , Saying its grants were dis- tributed in this manner among the organization’s five areas of en- deavor: Advancement of education in America, $22,065,232; improving the conditions of world peace, $11,- 537,361; advancing knowledge of human behavior, $2,094,800; strengthening free institutions, $1,289,000; and strengthening the nation’s economy, $627,463, ATTENTION PLEASE! 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