The resolution, which Barber tossed into the House hopper Friday, will be formally read Monday. It says that ``in the event Congress does provide this increase in federal funds,'' the State Board of Education should be directed to ``give priority'' to teacher pay raises.

After a long, hot controversy, Miller County has a new school superintendent, elected, as a policeman put it, in the ``coolest election I ever saw in this county.''

The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

Davis received 1119 votes in Saturday's election, and Bush got 402. Ordinary Carey Williams, armed with a pistol, stood by at the polls to insure order.

``This was the coolest, calmest election I ever saw,'' Colquitt Policeman Tom Williams said. ``Being at the polls was just like being at church. I didn't smell a drop of liquor, and we didn't have a bit of trouble.''

The campaign leading to the election was not so quiet, however. It was marked by controversy, anonymous midnight phone calls and veiled threats of violence.

The former county school superintendent, George P. Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board.

During the election campaign, both candidates, Davis and Bush, reportedly received anonymous telephone calls. Ordinary Williams said he, too, was subjected to anonymous calls soon after he scheduled the election.