Historical school bus information from Lucille Goodrich's book:
Transportation The Illinois School Code required that students living more than l.5 miles from school in a Few accidents have happened in the school transportation system in In 1954, Richard Yeager of Streator, a teacher at the high school, and the Long Point-Reading Unit School District were named co-defendants in a damage suit filed in Circuit Court by Henry Franzen. The suit asked $10,000 on the basis of an accident in which a truck driven by Franzen and a school bus collided. Seven children and three men were injured, but none seriously. School bus drivers are required to have a Red Cross First Aid Certi-ficate. The first First Aid classes for school bus drivers were set up in The law also requires a school bus driver to pass a physical examination and have a chauffeur's license. Not much of a humorous nature happens in transportation but in 1965, a parent "commandeered" a Fairbury-Cropsey school bus in order to go after his daughter who had been kept after school. The school board after the story of Harold Turnipseed, a former substitute driver, moved to table the matter for further investigation. When his daughter did not return home on the bus, Mr. Trnipseed had taken the keys from Rev. Robert Fitts, a substitute driver, driven to Fairbury, picked up his daughter and, in addition picked up four other Cropsey children and taken them home. Fairbury Artist Mrs. Ralph (Kathy) Romig must have had a sense of humor as well as a streak of practicality when, in 1972, she designed and painted animal bus symbols for ten Fairbury-Cropsey school busses. A horse, a unicorn, roadrunner, duck, deer, robin, skunk, butterfly, zebra and cow help children identify their own busses more easily. All schools receiving reimbursement from the state for part of the cost of transportation are required to have busses and automobiles inspected twice a year, once prior to the opening of school in September and again before the opening of the second semester. Approved inspection stations are available in the county. Conferences for school bus drivers are held on a regular basis by the From Lucille Goodrich's book on =====================
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