The School Superintendent

He also took the family to Oklahoma for awhile and somehow became the superintendent of the school system (which was probably a one room schoolhouse). As I remember hearing it the teacher was having trouble with one of the kids and give him a whipping. The kid's father came up to the school and gave the teacher a whipping. So Tompa, being the superintendent, went to see the father, and gave HIM a whipping. In retaliation, the father burned the school house down. After that Tompa and family left and went back to Texas. 
Nancy