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Circle City to Be Under Ban Is General Belief; Ramseyto Los AngelesLongerGoesIt is generally . understood the quarantine wi\l continue in Corona for - at least another week, perhaps longer. There will be another meeting of the health board the latter part of the week to determine this. There are many cases and the nurses and doctors are having all they can do to care for those now sick.' However, they seem hopeful and it would appear that as far as Corona is concerned this city has seen the worst of the epidemic.All public places where people are apt to gather in numbers including churches, schools, theaters, Rod Cross Shop are ordered closed for another week at least. There is a possibility that these places will he closed all next week as well. There appears to he no let-up in the spread of the Spanish influenza.Personal MentionRev. George H. Holt of the Baptist church will leave on Friday afternoon of this week for Camp Taylor, Kentucky, where lie will enter training with a view of becoming a chaplain in the United States army. Rev. IFo]t is of the ^opinion tliQ're will be 4^u* greater immi for chaplains the two years followingthe end of the war than at anv other time. Few people? realize, he said,that it will take our government* at*least two years to bring tlie boys home who are now over there, and during I tubs hm- period when most of those left will he doing , police dutyand while nnnv others are enjovingleaves of absence for (he purpose of sight-seeing and pleasure, is the ‘time when the best work of thechaplain will come in. Mrs. Holt:and their two children ...will spend the coming month with Mrs. MartinSiivdrup on which they where they parents,fkvlh Me.bi sire*!, nf'e*will move to ** Pasadena, will be with Mrs. ilolt'sJohn lb. Larrabee who is now serving in France writes his father Constable Charles F. Larva bee that he axrivcu-LsaXed-V-anci--i.s---vve4-l,— ----GET SAURIES.H6 OF CREECounty Superintendent Believes This Is the Law;Closing of Schools Up toTrustees; Should Be Guided by Experts, HoweverThat all teachers in Riverside county shall be paid full salary during the time they are idle because of the schools being closed on account of the influenza epidemic was the ruling sent to trustees Throughout the county yesterday by County Superintendent Raymond Cree.“My opinion is, and I think the courts have so decided,” he stated, “that when school is closed because of sickness, the salary of teachers shall continue until the teacher is willing to waive her claim to pay for the time, or a part of the time,, lost.” ’As the result of many inquiries, Mr. Cree also informed school trustees that they have absolute authority to say when school shall close or open, except in the case of certain holidays.*‘I have observed, however,” said the. superintendent, “that school hoards generally are guided in. their deci ions by the advice of health authorities, and, in war time, by councils of defense, thus placing the responsibility on w^u ought tohe experts amU-w/lI able to give a wise decision. Where the experts have conflicting views, it follows that trustees have no choice but to exercise- their best judgment in the matter.”For the last two weeks move than half the schools of the county have been closed because of the influenzapidjemic.Miss Olive E. Clark, a teacher in one of the Colton schools and formerly* a teacher here, is now in Corona and is doing special nurse duty at the emergency hospital at the Crowp City rooming house, where the patients afflicted with Spanish -infTunxa—are—eared—fu.r.-------—
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Fri, Nov 08, 1918
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