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Husbands may be the solution to the teacher-shortage problem. It began to seem so last week to School Superintendent Charles H. Tye of Sioux County, Iowa, as he added up the responses to his offer of husbands "within a year" to women who would become Sioux County schoolmarms (TIME, Sept. 25). Long before the bulk of his replies rolled in, his ten original openings had been filled. For next year's vacancies he kept on file the letters of such applicants as these...
...Montana, three out of ten country schools failed to open on S-day. Oregon and other states were offering pay increases up to 50%, rushing through emergency teaching certificates. In Sioux County, Iowa, School Superintendent Charles H. Tye thought up an original solution for the teacher shortage. Announced...
...teachers find it hard to get dates or land a man, and they have what it takes-personality and brains-just come to Sioux County and I will get them a good job and a man within a year if they are in that big a hurry. We need both teachers and wives up here. We have the jobs and we have...
...winter who saved a seven-year-old girl when gas gangrene had forced repeated amputations of her left arm up to the shoulder: "As a last resort, penicillin was given after all hope had been abandoned for a recovery, which came like a miracle." There was a doctor in Sioux Falls, S.D., who was astonished to save a man moribund with osteomyelitis and septicemia after sulfadiazine had failed: "This being the first case in which I have employed penicillin therapy, I feel that the results obtained, to say the least, were miraculous...
Cavalryman. Pershing was graduated in '86. The hoofbeats of the cavalry were in his ears. He galloped across South Dakota over the graves of the Sioux. He taught military science at the University of Nebraska and studied law, got a degree, thought of quitting the service...