An example of the nationwide teacher shortage was seen last week in the school system of Laurens (rhymes with The Wrens), Iowa. This prairie town of 1,400 in the northwest grain area of the Hawkeye state has a consolidated school with about 460 kindergarten-through-high school pupils. Although the teachers' salary budget was boosted 10% for 1943 there have been months of lively candidate-hunting by School Superintendent W. C. Hilburn. These measures have not done much against wartime's many wage lures:
> Of last year's 18 teachers, eleven did not come back. One grade-school...
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