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school board, the supervisors’ slashed $89,100 to reach the current $2,189,486, reducing the bottom line instead of lopping off separate categories. Although the supervisors left the school board the option of how to absorb the reduction, they strongly suggested the difference be made up primarily by holding raises to ten percent and eliminating payment of hospitalization premiums. But the school board chose to keep the benefits and pay scale intact and take the loss in other areas.
According to chairman E. P. Luke, the supervisors wanted pay raises for teachers and other school employees held to ten percent to correspond with salary hikes for the rest of the countys employees. An
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