Page l-Tht Perquimans Weekly. Hertford, N C Thurtday, January a, 1977
ForeignTours
Are Arranged
Seven Martin County
educators have joined
forces to produce a
program of student tours to
ten foreign countries during
the Easter holidays and
summer vacation.
The program is coor
dinated through the
American Institute of
Foreign Studies which is
headquartered in Green
wich, Connecticut.
Two of the tours will
occur between April 8 and
17, and the remaining four
are scattered throughout
June and July.
Although emphasis will
be placed on student par
ticipation, college students
and adults are invited to
join any of the tours.
Officials noted that high
school students must have
the endorsement of their
local principal in order to
apply.
The spring tours each
include a week in France
and Switzerland or a week
in Italy. The groups will
depart from New York prior
to Easter Sunday and
return the following
weekend. Costs for either
tour will be approximately
$750 plus personal spending
money. The fee covers all
expenses except lunches.
The summer tours offer
visits to Germany and
Austria, Paris and London,
London Theater, and the
Orient. The London Theater
tour will cost ap
proximately $650; the
Oriental Tour lasts 26 days
and costs $2250 ap
proximately. The others
cost the same as the spring
tours and each lasts slightly
more than a week.
N.C. Schools
Compared
Nationally
North Carolina ranks
eleventh in the nation in
public school enrollment,
with over 1.1 million
elementary and secondary
children. Wyoming has the
smallest school enrollment,
88,184, and California has
the largest, 4,403,000.
These and other facts
about how North Carolina
compares to other states
are included in the 1976
edition of "How North
Carolina Ranks
Educationally Among the
Fifty States," published
recently by the Department
of Public Instruction's
Division of Research. The
publication includes
comparisons of population,
school enrollment and at
tendance, educational at
tainment, financial
resources, school ex
penditures, and others.
With State support to
North Carolina's public
schools totaling over $1
billion a year, some 68 per
cent of all school support,
the State ranks third in the
nation in percentage of
State funding for schools.
Hawaii ranks highest, with
85.1 percent State support,
and New Hampshire ranks
lowest, with 9.4 percent.
The national average
percentage of State support
for schools is 44 per cent.
In terms of per capita
personal income, North
Carolina 'ranks thirty
seventh, with an estimated
average of $4,665 in 1974, the
latest figure available. The
Seminar
The Perquimans Weekly
seminar date has tentative
ly ' been set for Tuesday
night, January 25, 1977 from
7 to 9 o'clock. The place will
be announced after registra
tion has been completed.
Club representatives,
publicity chairmen, colum
nists, and others con
tributing news items to the
Newspaper are invited to at
tend this seminar, the first
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t'AIL TO: P.O. BOX 287. HERTFORD, N.C. 27944
'. Wanda Caldwell, local
coordinator of the tour
project, participated in a
London Tour last spring.
She noted that the goals of
the trips include increased
student awareness of other
cultures and an opportunity
for some students to ob
serve languages they may
have studied in high school.
In a statement endorsing
the project, Superintendent
Eugene Rogers noted that
the N.C. School Boards
Association encourages
foreign study programs and
the local system is en
thusiastic about the op
portunity eastern North
Carolina students have to
join in the tours. Rogers
further stated that he is
pleased with the selection of
local educators who have
been chosen to lead the
tours.
Caldwell stated that the
following lists of leaders
and tours is available and
invited interested persons
in any Eastern North
Carolina county to call the
group leader whose tour
interests them.
Cultures of the orient, Ms.
Flo Sthusbly, 792-2514;
Austria-Germany, Ms.
Johnsie Perkins, 792-2658;
Paris and the Riviera, Mrs.
Wanda Caldwell and Ms.
Fernade Dansereau, 792
2907, 792-1251; Showtime in
London, Ms. Elizabeth
Roberson, 792-2339; Tale of
two Cities, Mr. Alan Suggs,
792-3428; and Wonders of
the Renaissance, Alton
Hopewell, 792-4361. (Please
call the above numbers
after 5 p.m.)
national average is only
$5,448, according to the
publication.
North Carolina ranks
nineteenth in the nation in
percentage of federal
money received for schools.
Approximately 9.8 per cent
of the money spent for
schools during the 1975-76
school year was from
federal revenue. THe
national average for federal
support is 7.8 per cent.
Mississippi spends the
highest percentage of
federal money, 21.5 per
cent. Connecticut spends
only 3 per cent federal
money, the lowest in the
nation.
Local tax support in
North Carolina is very low
compared to other states.
The State ranks forty
seventh, I. with local con
tributions of only 21.4 per
cent as compared with a
national average of 48.2 per
cent.
The total money spent on
each Tarheel school child is
very low compared to other
states, according to figures
released in the publication.
Although the average
estimated per pupil ex
penditure for the 1975-76
school year was $1,051.00,
North Carolina ranks forty
sixth in the amount ' of
money spent on each child.
The average for the United
States is $1,390.00. Ten
nessee spends the least, $969
per pupil, and New York
spends the most, $2,179 per
pupil.
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COLONEL RAYMOND SCHRUMP
Former Vietnam
POW To Speak At
Academy Dinner
Colonel Raymond
Schrump, a prisoner of war
in Vietnam for nearly five
years who has received
fame for his television ap
pearances in which he
discussed patriotic topics,
will be the featured speaker
at the 12th Annual
Albemarle Academy Ap
preciation Dinner to be held
at the academy on Satur
day, Jan. 15th.
The theme for the dinner,
the proceeds of which go to
the support of the school,
will be a reunion of all the
graduating classes, parents
and patrons of the school
with a Bicentennial em
phasis on patriotism and
celebration of the 12th an
niversary of the founding of
Albemarle Academy,
Colonel Schrump joined
the U.S. Army at age 17 and
came up through the ranks
spending nine years as an
enlisted man and then
attending Officers Can
didates School graduating
with distinction. He served
as Commander and Staff Of-
Flooded Wildlife :
Nowhere To Go
By JIM DEAN
When a huge bottomland
is flooded by a new lake,
where do the deer and
turkeys that live there go?
When fields are paved to
make parking lots for a new
shopping center, what
happens to the quail and
rabbits that lived there?
The common belief is that
these and other wildlife
species simply spread out
into surrounding coun
tryside. But unfortunately,
that's not generally true
even when there are plenty
of woods and fields nearby.
Several years ago, a
segment of the TV show
"Wild Kingdom" may have
added fuel to this
misconception by showing
men in boats rescuing
animals stranded on islands
and trees in a reservoir that
was filling up. The im
pression, possibly ac
cidental, was that the in
trepid boatmen had saved ,;
the animals from certain
death. Undoubtedly, the
animals were saved from
immediate drowning, but
they may have perished
anyway. There is strong
, biological evidence
suggesting , that such
rescues have little or no
beneficial effect on the total
' wildlife populations. . s
- When wildlife habitat is
lost, the species that lived ,
there do not simply move
over to a nearby woodland
area. They can't. If that
nearby area could support a
larger wildlife population, it
would probably already
have one.
For example, if you lived
. in an apartment complex
and it suddenly burned to
the ground, .would you and
all your neighbors be able to
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ficer for eight years with
U.S. Special Forces. He also
served in Japan, Korea,
Okinawa, Ethiopia, Taiwan
and Vietnam.
Colonel Schrump was
taken prisoner of war in Tay
Ninh Providence, Vietnam
where he was held in the
jungles of South Vietnam
and Cambodia until he was
finally released in 1973.
He was severely wounded
during the Korean War.
Among his awards and
decorations are two Silver
Stars, two Legions of Merit,
two Commendation Rib
bons, three Purple Hearts,
two Combat Infantry
Badges. Colonel Schrump
retired from the U.S. Army
in December of 1973. - "
After he returned from
communist prisons he
became involved in the na
tionwide efforts to bring at
tention to the plight of the
MIAPOW's.
Tickets for the dinner can
be obtained by contacting
the office at Albemarle
Academy.
move into the apartment
buildings across the street?
Only if they weren't already
full.
The same thing applies to
rabbits, quail, squirrels,
deer and other ; wildlife
species. A particular piece
of land can support only so
many squirrels, for
example. When additional
squirrels are thrust onto an
already stable population,
the surplus will in all
probability die. Death may '
be by starvation, disease or
predation, but it's as.
dependable as taxes.
This is also why it is not'
always beneficial to stock
fish or game species. A
survey may show that an
area has very few rabbits, "
but it is necessary to find
out why before more are
stocked. The natural
carrying capacity ' of the
land may be low, and if the
rabbit population is already
stable, it would be a waste
of time to stock more. It's
like trying to put an extra
handful of marbles in a full
box. If the box is full no
matter what size it to you
can't get any more marbles
in. there, vC;,c3,.;
Loss of suitable habitat is '
by far the most significant
factor affecting wildlife
populations. North
Carolina's wildlife
populations - "are in
reasonably good shape for
the most part Indeed, those
species for which we hunt
and fish are more numerous
than ever before (the black
bear may be the only ex-,
ception). , . : :
Butthepltofthetcx
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