i Gainesville Sun Thursday, November 26, 1964 .... - Why Are ..' ....; .. Tile Costliest Building in the Nation I I IBy ''I .'" '' ; GEOFFREY GOULD I The main entrance, pillaredand $95 million more than the estimate s x r w WASHINGTON (AP) What. Soon HouseCongressmen Romanesque, is flanked by I in 1962. The figure Includes - to TeachersRebelling may be the costliest building in; ,,two huge statues One, a seated land, foundations, furniture : the nation -the Rayburn House I gentleman with a sword, Is and the like. Office Building Is about to called "Majesty of be law:" I Associated with it Is a $7.7 By K. HODENFIELD open for business. The other, a mother figure with million subway train system to WASHINGTON" (AP)' Ediicatlon'g t _. 4.r child at her knee, is named the block I Although the cost Is estimatednow The Rayburn Building, named carry congressmen f problems were easy to x at $88.1 million, another for the late Speaker Sam Ray "spirIt' of Justice. from the building to the Capitol solve In Colonial America. If I needed teacher limply 135.7 million is being spent for burn, has a 80 by 20-foot swimming In the lobby Is a place for a $117 million for property acquisition , you a you related construction. This three sculptured plaque of Rayburn.: nearby, new underground pool, a gymnasium, went down to the docks and brings the total to more than levels of underground parkingand I Cost of the plaque, according to parking garages, and the remodeling I from bought Europe.one off an incoming ship : $122 million. handsome three-room office the architect of the Capitol: of the existing two buildings i :By comparison, the Pentagon, suites for 169 representatives. $35,000 . The of the Indentured ! day completed In 1943, cost $752 They will choose offices In Big as it Is, the Rayburn servant out a term of virtual slavery working in the New million. New York's Empire January on a seniority [basis Building Is shaded by the Pentagon New Clerk State Building cost $42 million, The other representatives across the Potomac as far World, are long gone. But manyof -j Chicago's Merchandise Mart will remain' In the two earlier as office space goes. .But the TALLAHASSEE (APJack) teachers believe their today's cost $32 million and the United buildings, which( are being remedied cost is another matter. 'Wheeler of Fort Lauderdalehas status has not improved much Nations buildings In New York to provide each member The Capitol Architect's Office talken over as new circuit over the centuries. cost $72 million. with a three-room suite he Is J. George Stewart a court clerk In Broward County, And this Is the basic cause of The last congressional office I The new" building covers a former congressman, and he Is succeeding Ola May Oldham, resigned the teacher rebellion sweeping building to. be completed, the two-block area across from the not an architect says the The appointment was the nation the growing conviction 1951 Senate Office Building, costa Capitol and sprawls down the present estimated cost of the made Tuesday by Gov. Farris of teachers that they will _Rayburn Office Building with Independence Avenue in foreground. mere $212 million.) I side of Capitol Hill. building HQ 4 million Is Bryant. be treated as second-! always ---- ----- -- ---- - class citizens unless they take matters into their own hands. Oklahoma Is a case in point. Poverty FundsTo Last Nov. :J, Oklahoma voters rejected four statewide propositions More Than Money People Are Our Business dealing with education Fla. :. I . One would have provided a Agencies I... teacher salary increase. I. . Oklahoma teachers reactedby I TAMPA AP) -Two agencies: 'tempting for students to abandon I taking a one-day "profes have a total of $880,000 federal I their education for the sake . sional holiday" and carrying funds to spend In Florida in the of getting on a payroll i their protest to the legislature. war on poverty program. I . Unless the state government Suncoast's project director, acts on their behalf they may I The Hillsborough County Thomas P. Hardeman, said the strike late this school year, or school department has received grant his nonprofit group re -4 boycott the classrooms next fall $825,000 for a program to keep celved was "the beginning of as The starting salary far a youngsters In school by providing many programs as our Imagination . teacher in Oklahoma Is $3,800 a parttlme jobs for them. Sun. and creativity will allowus. coast Progress Inc. of St.Petersburg ." year. The average salary is $5,- got 103,000 to draft a com 160 33rd in the 60 states. True this is for a nine-month I munity.action program. I Egg Market school year. But teachers point In Tampa and other Hills out that they are expected to go borough County schools, offl JACKSONVILLE (AP) The to college during he summer dais said 2,000 yungsters were Northeast Florida Egg Market months, and better pay dependson expected to be working by Jan. prices to retailers: advanced preparation 1 at such tasks as teachers' assistant . Extra large 42V48, mostly "How about a young man maintenance aide, libar 47; large 39ta-46, mostly 42-44 starting out?" asks Oliver Ian and mechanic at 75 cents to Medium 32-3C, mostly 34-36;; Hodge, state superintendent of $1.25 an hour. small 28.34, mostly 30-34. schools in Oklahoma. The Idea Is to make it less Poultry at farms fryers 14. _ "How does he pay his rent ;- and his grocery bill on $3,800 al j year before deductions I just don't see how he can do It I "I'm afraid we're In for plenty Heash . of trouble if something substantial r Isn't done for our teach ers." I casuals r Oklahoma also points up the 4 tit any ; fact that there Is a teacher atxkingN shortage In a nation with an ,4 { abundant supply of teachers. ' "Last year, Oklahoma institutions N awarded teaching certiflcates . .to 6.008 young men and women," Hodge said in an in I I II FInns tervlew ; "But at most boo of these young people became teachers , In Oklahoma. The others went:I to other states to teach, or entered llll some other field" i + IlI /, tI 1w Salaries are the major factorIn I the teacher rebellion, but there are many others: I The struggle between the American Federation of Labor,' .: . AFL-CIO, and the Natlonaal Education I d I11 +1t;'+'. uu"nuuiai111 (1"1lL'CJ1iliLilGlGfliC"it'w . Association. The NEA, a ... .,' : which . organization professional I 1 i !! abhors teacher unions, has be-i i ' I z militant in .. . come increasingly .; "" " recent years to combat the appeal ., 'f' .j'7rwYrr: ? of the AFL. . -The "new breed" of teachers - better prepared, younger, and Including a larger a ad ': tion of men Oklahoma propor-I The warmth of family and friends the spiritual highest level of professional preparation in the nation; even 1 '. . in rural areas virtually every : of house of the of living'in teacher has a college degree I guidance our worship security, -A changing society with a for brains. It used new to be respect that if a teacher didn't' a fine community. the abundance and richnessof want to teach, he probably took a a blue-collar job; today his college - degree Is much in demandIn where live and and other fields our great country, we may worship NEXT Politics. I Local Citizens vote as we please. for all this and much more we offer In Meet On 'thanks. From all of us at the Florida National to'our Judicial System I I Relax. and with. t Frank TALLAHASSEE Green, Howard- Hall Alonzo, and your shoes on/ l loyal friends and customers a happy and .healthy Jhanksv \I John Paul Jones, Gainesville, v K: * Newbern SummerUn, Newberry, fnrym, kites, a tonforlible shoe. Hurt 1ush : :' :: :N : 3 o; , PuPIl,,* citiuli |o OM step Art .r. Steel ., .. I, and Judge Theron A. Yawn, shame an eirstul ly hmjfWtij to yaw par d giving. > '., , Starke, will participate In a Mush ruppits MUM Pw way Jail fit .... .. fJ extra meal comfort wittioiitucnfkmi ..d.?.!If' .. i fI and . support awa..Iw r " three lay conference of lead- important loot support M that s 'Ne '*a e.ue"ea tuwe 'I."i '.JII Ill... ).;.> '.' J' : ing Florida citizens In Jacksonville inly hut (IK story I ..:;;,., ...,. .: . December ).S, 1964, to OJ'rM-_-." 0 wllli we ItO IMit ..:.< ,r. : rJffr : ': study and make recommendations CJm wrt ln<........,0 ,ol-uHtl* *M> '1\r. ..''ff''> \Ir *.-'. '" '1Iv1ll& r'iJ"tJ I INt'//,!n".'" : ..;" '" '' . the selection ' .. . for Improving \ ; .. . ' discipline, removal and retirement No "break In""Just ww 'tmlHUSH .i: " of Judges in Florida. ; ; 'It The Citizens' Conference onFlorida' PUPPIES) from Yotrg.Wf r " '' SEE OUR hIG : Sml'i about $7$9to > Judicial System is being Loci,,, 11 Cr W."'i 5os'l to AD IN THIS FLORIDA fLr' ) sponsored by The FloridaBar 14 (about $9$Ill SUNDAY'S , statewide organization of I lawyers and Judges, In cooperation MEN'S 0 WOMEN t with the Florida Council of GOLF SHOES .. I I 100, American Judicature Society I and the Joint Committee for About $12 to $14 ' the Effective Administration of S B.L SHOE DEPT. e I: NATIONAL Justice. r Conferees will probe the In r:: : : \ . adequacies of Florida's present ar.s. t judicial system and offer solutions ' ., for improvement. Lawyersand ... judges from Florida and : BANK AT GAINESVILLE Do c. otter states will participate as f .: moderators and speakers to provide ft 1 u .. Information on Florida's .... and the 'DeS STatg wrni Aga[ ry..e rl MEMBER FLORIDA. NATIONAL OUPq 31. BANKS .. ' judicial machinery In tse dais aasrr.4 ceeu .b 1 ,) ** .l, v. progress of judicial reform : tsoa woofs. wsae .snort '. % a. other states but conference deliberations d PENSACOLA TO KEY WEST MEMBER F.D.I.CIDA Cn. and recommendations I . will be reserved to the CENTRAL CHAtGl 8-L CHARGI-LAYAWAY i n.h -HUI GIFT WRAff ING- ' ton lawyer citizens participation ::. I ... , I Ii