tricts with 14 diflferent road commission- 

 ers and 14 road clerks who must be paid 

 before one dollar can go on the roads. 

 The committee maintained that the sys- 

 tem was expensive, inefficient and obso- 

 lete. 



The first recommendation of the 

 Pulaski County School Survey Committee 

 was that the local districts be abolished 

 and a countywide road district be formed 

 under the county highway engineer to 

 have charge of all the county roads except 



31 per cent of the registrants of Pulaski 

 county were rejected for physical or men- 

 tal defects that rendered them unfit for 

 military service. The committee felt that 

 the best way to remedy this situation was 

 to establish a county health department 

 through which there would be trained 

 personnel whose business it would be to 

 look after the public health. So the peo- 

 ple of Pulaski county by a vote of 5 to 1 

 in the November election established a 



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city streets and state highways. 



The committee maintains that any road 

 district to be efficient must have three 

 characteristics: 



(a) It must be in charge of a trained 



highway engineer. 



(b) It must have a reasonably com- 

 plete set of road building and 

 maintaining equipment. 



(c) It must have year around paid 



personnel. 



None of these conditions can be met 

 by the small local districts. All of them 

 can be met by the county-wide district. 



This county-wide road system requires 

 enabling action by the state legislature 

 and Pulaski county respectfully requests 

 the legislature to give us consideration. 

 We would be very grateful for any aid 

 from our sister counties in stressing this 

 matter to the legislature. 



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health department. It is not felt that 

 the health department will automatically 

 eliminate all poor health but it is felt 

 that it will provide the machinery through 

 which the vicious circle of being sick 

 because we are poor and of being poor 

 because we are sick can be gradually 

 broken. 



The school lunch is a recent innovation 

 in education that has had immense popu- 

 larity where tried. Performance has been 

 improved, absenteeism reduced, better 

 eating habits have been formed, the cost 

 of meals has been reduced and busy 

 mothers have been relieved of the neces- 

 sity of preparing bucket lunches. The 

 committee has recommended that school 

 lunches be made available to all school 

 children. 



We realize that the teacher is the heart 

 of the school and that teachers are work- 

 ing for a living as well as trying to edu- 

 cate children. Therefore the committee 

 has recommended that the teacher be paid 

 a salary commensurate with the impor- 

 tance of his job and comparing favorably 

 with workers of like training in other 

 fields. 



The committee recommends that the 

 school curriculum be reorganized in the 

 light of modern improvements in educa- 

 tion. Most girl students will become 

 housewives. It would seem elemental 

 that they should receive some training in 



domestic science. Pulaski county is largely 

 agricultural and such training should be 

 available to those boys who want to en- 

 gage in fanning. Manual skills should 

 be taught since many will make their 

 livelihood through such efforts. 



As a means of securing these improved 

 schools advocated by the committee it has 

 been recommended that all of Pulaski 

 county be formed into one unit school 

 district maintaining grades one to twelve 

 and having one board of education. This 

 board of education to be elected county- 

 wide but no more than three to come 

 from any one township. 



This county unit type of school district 

 makes for more efficient administration. 

 By eliminating district lines within the 

 county more efficient transp)ortation can 

 be arranged. And transportation is the 

 key to school improvement. Taxes can 

 be equalized. The rate will be the same 

 county-wide. Teachers can be sent to the 

 various buildings as they are needed. 



Economies may be affected in purchases 

 when supplies are bought in large quan- 

 tities. Handicapped children may be 

 given sisecial training since there will be 

 more of them in a county than in a small 

 district. These handicapped children arc 

 going to have to make a living and if they 

 cannot be trained to be self supporting 

 they will be a burden on the community. 



The Pulaski County School Survey 

 Committee feels that with the organiza- 

 tion of the county unit system it will have 

 provided the machinery for breaking the 

 vicious circle of being poor because we 

 have poor schools and having poor 

 schools because we are poor. 



We feel that better administration is 

 the answer to the problem. We maintain 

 that it is the duty of the school to furnish 

 such training to all of the children that 

 their talents, great or small, will be devel- 

 oped to such an extent that they can be 

 useful, self supporting citizens capable 

 of contributing to the common welfare. 

 We think that the Pulaski County School 

 Plan will help to attain these ends. 



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