THURSDAY, JULY 19. 195S
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Page FIVE
League of Women Voters Trace
History of Education Proposals
The League of Women Voters
has, as a service to citizens of
North Carolina, compiled a history
of events leading up to the pro
posals made by Governor Hodges
and members of the Pearsall Ad
visory Committee on Education at
press meetings Saturday.
The League, a non-partisan
group which has a vital interest
in seeing citizens exercise their
rights at the poll, has a chapter
in Southern Pines.
The Pilot is reprinting the
League’s release so that readers
may have full knowledge of the
events that lead up to the Satur
day proposals, which, if adopted
by the special session of the Leg
islature meeting next week, will
be submitted to the voters as
amendments to the State Constitu
tion in an election this September.
ConuniUee Created
The 1955 session of the General
Assembly, in Resolution 29, cre
ated the North Carolina Advisory
Committee on Education to study
the school situation in North Car
olina.
This same session passed sever
al statutory laws relating to edu
cation. Among them is Chapter
366 authorizing county and city
boards of education to assign pu
pils to public schools. Prior to the
passing of this statute such au
thority had rested in the State
Department of Education. In ad
dition, the statutory laws regard
ing supervision of nonrpublic
schools by the State Department
of Education were widened and
Strengthened.
The Report
After studying the North Caro
lina school situation this Commit-,
tee presented its findings over a
state-wide television and radio
program on April 5, 1956. The
Committee made the following
recommendations:
“We recommend that *a special
session of the General Assembly
of North Carolina be called this
summer to consider submitting to
the people the question of
changes in our State Constitution.
“We recommend that this Leg
islature cause to be submitted to
a vote of the people of North Car
olina constitutional amendments,
or a single amendment to achieve
these desirable and, we think,
necessary results:
•'T. Authority for the General
Assembly to provide from public
funds financial grants to be paid
toward the education of any
child assigned against the wishes
lof his parents to a school in
which the races are mixed—^such
grants to be available for educa
tion only in non-sectarian schools
and only when such child cannot
be conveniently assigned to a
non-mixed public school.
“2. Authority for dny local unit
ms AND OUTS
Mrs. W. E. Saunders has re
turned to her home in San An
tonio, Texas after a month’s visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Paul Kin-
nison and family at their home
Ion Valley Road. Other recent
guests of the Kinnisons were Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Hobbs of Win
ston-Salem with their two chil
dren, Janie and David and Mike
Dunn of Ft. Leavenworth, who
visited ^!Paul and Karen for ten
days. Col. and Mrs. Kinnison and
their family spent last week in
Virginia Beach, guests of General
and Mrs. J. Walter Squire.
The Robert Ewing family left
last week for Lewes Beach, Dela
ware for several weeks of vaca
tioning.
While many of our townspeople
are vacationing at the beaches
these hot, summer days, others
are heading for the North Caro
lina mountains. Last wjeek, Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Reams and son.
Tommy, decided they would take
a trip up to Linville to check on
their second son, George, who is
spending th,e summer there work
ing with the John Pottles at the
Esseola Lodge. Needless to say,
they found him having a wonder
ful time—^working in the hotel
with a fine bunch of boys and
girls—and playing a good bit of
golf on the side. Accompanying
the Reams were Mrs. Katherine
McColl and Miss Birdilia Bair.
Miss Bair remained for a visit
with the Pottles this week.
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Davis
and family have returned home
after passing two weeks at the
Murphy cottage in Myrtle Beach.
Their daughter, Kay, who is help
ing with the suummer recreation
program, joined^ them for the
weekends. Also at the Murphys’
for a week were Dr. and Mrs. J.
I. Neal who had with them their
daughter, Becky and her hus
band, the William Tackaberys
of Bethesda, Md., with their
young son and daughter, Neal
and Patti.
■Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Farrior and
daughters, Pat and Alice have re
turned home after a week’s trip
to Nag’s Head where they attend
ed a showing of “The Lost Col
ony.” They spent the past week
end with Mrs. Farrior’s mother,
Mrs. A. W. Rouse in Kinston.
created pursuant to law and un
der conditions to be prescribed
by the General Assembly, to sus
pend by majority vote the opera
tion of the public schools in that
unit, notwithstanding present
constitutional provisions for pub
lic schools.”
Special Session
Last month Governor Hodges
called for a special session of the
General Assembly to convene
July 23, 1956 to consider the Ad
visory Committee’s Report.
If this special session accepts
the Advisory Committee’s report
it will need to amend certain pro
visions of the North Carolina
Constitution to permit applica
tion of the Committee’s recom
mendations to our public schools.
Amendments to the Constitu
tion must be agreed to by 315 of
each House of the General As
sembly, and require a majority
vote of the people at the ne^t
general or special election. The
tentative date for a special elec
tion is now September 8.
So that you may follow the de
liberations of the General As
sembly with greater understand
ing we are listing below some of
the provisions of the North Caro
lina Constitution that may be
considered by our representa
tives:
“Article 1. Declaration of
Rights. Section 27. Education.
“The people have a right to the
privilge of education, and it is the
duty of the State to guard and
maintain that right.”
“Article V. Revenue and Taxa
tion. Sfection 3. State Taxation.
“The power of taxation shall be
exercised in a just and equitable
manner, and shall never be sur
rendered suspended, or contract
ed away. Taxes on property shall
be uniform as to each class of
property taxed. Taxes shall be
levied only for public purposes,
and every act levying a tax shall
state the object to which it is to
be applied. . .”
“Article IX. Education. Section
1. Education shall be encouraged.
“Religion, morality, and know
ledge being necessary to good
government and the happiness of
mankind, schools and the means
of education shall forever be en
couraged.”
“Section 2. General Assembly
shall provide for schools: separa
tion of the races.
“The General Assembly, at its
first session under this Constitu
tion, shall provide by taxation
and otherwise for a general and
uniform system of public schools,
wherein tuition shall be free of
charge to all the children of the
State between the ages of six and
twenty-one years. And the chil
dren of the white race and the
children of the colored race shall
be taught in separate public
schools; but there shall be no dis
crimination in favor of, or to the
prejudice of, either race.”
“Section 3. Counties to be di
vided into districts.
“Each county of the State shall
be divided into a convenient
number of districts, in which one
or more public schools shall be
maintained at least six months in
every year; and if the commis
sioners of any county shall fail to
comply with the aforesaid re
quirements of this section, they
shall be liable to indictment.”
J. B. Boyle Dies
At Home Tuesday
James B. Boyle, 66, who with
his wife moved to Southern Pines
from Weatherly, Pa., last year,
died at his home Tuesday morn
ing.
Funeral services and burial
will be held Friday at 10 a. m.
at Weatherly.
IVIr. Boyle moved to Southern
Pines following his retirement
from the Jones-Laughlin Steel
Company.
Mrs. Boyle is the only immed
iate survivor.
Southern Pines,
Pinehurst Little
League Share Lead
With the end of the season fast
closing in, the Southern Pines
Little Leaguers dropped a crucial
game Wednesday, losing to Car
thage 4-2.
The locals now have a record
of eight wins and five losses and
are tied with' Pinehurst for top
spot. Pinehurst, with a similar
record, defeated Robbins yester
day 7-5 to move into the tie with
Southern Pines.
Roger Ballard hit a grand-slam
homer for Pinehurst in the game.
Robbins now has a six won,
seven lost record, and Carthage
has won four while losing nine.
FOR RESTTLTS USB THB Fh
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Installation of new officers of the Southern Pines Lions Club
was held at the Country Club last Friday night and was conduct
ed by Coy Dawkins of Rockingham, district governor. Pictured
here, front row, left to right, are Bill Benson, outgoing president;
Dawkins; and Don Traylor, new president. Second row, left to
right, R. Marvin Carter, Rockingham, district cabinet secretary;
Murray Clark, director; Bill Spence, director; Delamar Mann, Lion
tamer; Sam Richardson, second vice-president; gnd Charles
Patch, Jr., first vice-president. Back row, same order, Willis
Rush, assistant secretary; Joe Mar ley, director; Joe Carter, tail
twister; Randall Thompson, treasurer; and Broadus Caudle, sec
retary. Another director, Russell Mills, was absent when photo
was made. (Photo by Harvey Horne)
ADULT SOFTBALL
LEAGUE RESULTS
- RESULTS JULY 17
Lions—17 Catholics—14.
USAFAGOS Officers—16, Nat
Guard—7. '
Standings W L
USAFAGOS Airmen 5 0
Car. Power & Light 5 0
So. Pines Lions 3 2
Ch. of Wide Fellowship 2 3
USAFAGOS Officers 2 4
Catholic Laymen 1 4
Natl. Guard Tankers 0 5
GAMES JULY 19
7:15 Church of Wide Fellow
ship vs. Southern Pines Lions.
9:00 Carolina Power and Light
vs. USAFAGOS Airmen.
GOVERNOR REVEALS
(Continued from page 1)
one or more of the public schools
in that particular unit.
The education expense grant, if
such a plan is approved by the
Legislature and the people, would
be available only for education in
a nonsectarian school. Such a
grant also would not be available
if the child can reasonably be as
signed to a school not attended by
a child of another race.
Strict regulations are provided
for the allotment of these expense
grants.
Local Option
2. Provide for the setting up of
machinery for regulating the local
option plan, whicli> of course,
would depend upon the people’s
approval of the constitutional
changes. In the preamble to this
measure, which appears in full on
today’s editorial page, it is recom
mended that the Legislature af
firm “that schools and the means
of education ought forever to be
encouraged.”
Elections to decide whether a
school or schools in a local option
unit will be closed may be called
upon petition of at least 15 per
cent of the registered voters with
in that local option unit. A like
number of petitioners may call for
reopening the school or schools.
Any teacher, principal or super
visor under contract with a school
closed under such a plan will be
entitled to all salaries and benefits
during the life of the contract pro
vided a similar job cannot be
found elsewhere. Nor would the
closing of a school affect the cur
rent contract of the superintend
ent of the (iity or county adminis
trative unit.
Expense Grants
3. Set up machinery for educa
tion expense grants, if the people
approve the idea. These grants
would amount to the proportion
ate expense of state funds needed
to educate the child. That is cur
rently figured at about $135 a year
out of state funds. Local units
might award more if they choose.
An applicant denied what he
terms proper relief by his local
board may appeal. Private schools
ipust be approved to make grants
available.
Rigid control is set up over the
expenditure of these funds, an ap
plicant who commits fraud would
be treated as a felon with impris
onment of not more than five
years and lor a fine of not more
than $5,000.
Funds from which to pay these
grants would come from a special
appropriation or from the State’s
Emergency and Contingency
Fund. Money earmarked for the
school year would be exempted.
Attendance Law
4. Amend the Compulsory
School Attendance law to care for
children who' don’t want to go to
school with members of another
race and who cannot find a proper
private nonsectarian school. Oth
erwise, the present law would
hold. That law directs that chil
dren between seven and sixteen
yedrs of age shall go to school.
5. Set the date for the Septem-
jber general election. This purely
is a matter for legislative deter
mination if the State Supreme
Court finds such an election is all
right. The Court is expected to
render its opinion before the July
23 session.
'Part of Answer'
Those five steps constitute part
of the administration’s answer to
the May 17, 1954, decision. The
1955 Legislature revised many
school laws, including those on as
signment of pupils, and bespoke
its vigorous protest to the deci
sion. It asked the Advisory Com
mittee to continue its study, one
that even then had been going on
for several months under Pearsall,
himself a former speaker and
prominent member of the General
Assembly .
Governor Hodges, always in
close communication with the
Committee, has repeatedly insist
ed that the 1954 decision did not
direct that the states must mix
persons of different races in the
schools, or require them to attend
schools. Hodges, backed by Fed
eral Court of Appeals’ rulings,
maintained that the decision
merely meant that a state may ndt
deny to any person on account of
race the right to attend any school
that it operates. In short, integra
tion of the races in public schools
is not required.
COMMISSIONERS
(Continued from Page 1)
the Board of Commissioners told
the group that the budget for the
1956-57 fiscal years had already
been set up and that it would be
difficult to tear it up and fpd the
funds for purchasing new fire
equipment for rural areas.
It was estimated at the meet
ing that some $40,000 would be
needed to purchase three trucks.
Last April a delegation from
the Moore County Farm Bureau,
which has some 400-500 farm
families as members, went before
the commissioners and requested
that funds for fire protection in
rural areas be included in the
new budget, then being formula
ted.
The budget, which was tenta
tively adopted July 5, made no
provisions for the protection.
Chairman Cameron pointed out
that three weeks must lapse be
tween the time the budget was
tentatively adopted and the time
it was officially adopted and,
though he discouraged any such
action, said it was possible for a
new appropriation to be placed
in it before final adoption.
He pointed out the difficulties
of tearing up the budget at this
late date and said he had no idea
where any additional funds
would come from. “The various
departments in the county have
been told what they’re getting
this year' and they’ve already
made their plans,” he said, add
ing that it would not be in the
public interest to take already-
appropriated money from a de
partment’s budget.
Bond Issue?
He said that maybe a bond issue
would be the answer.
Such bonds, he said, if voted
would make it possible to secure
all the needed equipment at one
time and would do away with the
difficult decision of where to place
just three trucks in an area as big.
as Moore County.
Such a bond issue, if called,
would, he pointed out, make it
necessary to revise the tax sched
ule. He and other members of the
board would not comment
on what such an issue might cost
in the present $1.35 tax rate.
Cameron pointed out that the
danger of the proposal presented
by the group would be “double
taxation” for town residents who
already pay for fire protection.
Such protection, he said, is
available already for almost half
the county’s $43 million taxable
property valuation.
Several of the delegation point
ed out that police protection was
double taxation” also, but that
town residents had never kicked
about it because they deemed it
necessary.
Mayor Archie Barnes of Car
thage, in attendance at the meet
ing. with several members of the
Carthage fire department, s;aid it
was a matter of “neighborliness”
to help put out rural fires.
“What if Carthage decided to
night that from now on we will
not go outside the town limits to
fight fire?” Hb asked. “I’m afrdid
to guess the opinions that our
rural neighbors would have of us.
Yet they don’t pay for such pro
tection.”
Kennedy said that the Robbins
fire department had never failed
to answer a rural alarm and would
continue to answer them. “But we
need help in order to do this and
I, and most others here, think it
is a matter of the public’s welfare
that the county start providing
some sort of protection.”
The commissioners adopted a
motion, 'made by Commissioner
John M. Currie, to take the matter
under consideration and see what,
if anything, could be done prior to
the formal adoption of the budget.
Towns represented at the meet
ing included Southern Pines,
Pinebluff, Robbins, Aberdeen,
Carthage, Highfalls, Cameron,
Vass, Eagle Springs, West End,
and Parkwood.
MORE LIQUOR
(Continuea from Page 1)
Pines, two counts, 60 days in jail,
suspended for three years on pay
ment of $25 fine and costs.
Willie Waddell, 30 days in jail
(unable to work on roads because
of injured foot), suspended two
years on payment of $25 fine and
costs.
Bessie Prescott, Aberdeen, sev
en counts, 18 months in Women’s
Division of Central Prison, and
eight months previous suspended
sentence ordered to issue at ex
piration.
Richard Hickman, alias Rich
ard Hicks, Carthage, five counts,
eight months on roads, susupend-
ed five years on payment of fine
of $200 and costs .
Sarah 'Taylor, two counts, six
months in jail, suspended two
years on payment of $25 fine and
costs. 1 I I I
Walter Reeves, alias Buddy
^eves, Aberdeen, five counts,
eight months on roads,'suspended
fine and costs.
SaUy (Pat) Lawhorn, Southern
Pines, two counts, 60 days in jail,
suspended two years on payment
of $25 fine and costs.
Jake Lawhorn, Aberdeen and
Southern Pines, two counts, three
months on roads, suspended on
payment of $100 fine and costs.
John Jeter, Cameron, posses
sion and selling, 30 days on
roads, suspended 12 months on
payment of $25 fine and costs.
Letha Rowan Harris, possession
and selling, six months in Wom
en’s Division of Central Prison,
appealed to Superior Court, bond
set at $350.
Myrtle Cole, Aberden, three
counts, six months in Women’s
Division of Central Prison, vrith
three month previous suspended
sentence ordered to be served
concurrently, appealed to Superi
or Court, bond set at $350.
Addor Davis, and wife CaRie
Mae, Aberdeen, possession and
selling, 60 days on roads as to
Addor Davis and 60 days in jail
as to wife, both suspended on
payment of joint fine of $50 and
costs.
Frank Goines, Southern Pines,
possession and sale, 30 days on
roads, suspended on payment of
$25 fine and costs.
Thomas Lowe, Jr., Carthage,
violation prohibition laws, called
and failed, instanter capias issu
ed, sci fa on bondsman.
Bernice McCall, Aberdeen, vio
lation prohibition laws, contin
ued to August 6, (defendant in
hospital).
Sam Taylor, Carthage, posses
sion and sale, on conclusion of
state’s evidence, defense entered
plea of guilty of possession of
non-tax paid whiskey, eights
months on roads, suspended for
three years on payment of fine of
$100 and costs.
Ruth R. (Mrs. Tonzle) Akins,
possession for sale and selling,
state took nol pros because of
question of identity.
Henry Threadgill, Southern
Pines, selling beer after hours,
state recommended case be han
dled by the state Malt Beverage
Control Board.
Mrs. Henry Threadgill, selling
beer after hours, state took nol
pros with leave while above case
being investigated by state Malt
Beverage Control Board.
Latest estimates place the
green pepper acreage in North
Carolina for 1956, at 5,100 acres,
a reduction of 12 per cent from
three years on payment of $25 195.
SAFETY HINTS
from the Red Cross
You’re asking for aches ah-'
(lominal (and abominable) if'
you imbibe heavily of iced,
drinks while overheated. Give'
(yourself a chance to cool off
i before taking that tall drink.
Pre-Inventory Sale
Continues
Through This Week
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Reductions
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