West Craven Hiffhlighto June 28,1979 Pagre 2
25th REUNION-Members of the Farm Life High
School Class of 1954 held their twenty-fifth reunion
last Saturday night at the Holiday Inn in New Bern.
Recognized for having changed the least was Russell
Toler. Class members attending the reunion were as
follows from left to right:
(Kneeling) Russell Toler, Charles Spruill, Earl
Wright, Harvey Lee Harris, John W. Laughinghouse,
(Standing ieft to right) Donald Ray Arthur, Patricia
Laughinghouse Wright, Wiiton Wood (Bristol,
Tenn.), Virginia Pappas Tilghman, Sam Cutler,
Evelyn Nobles Evans, Clarence Powell (Charleston,
S.C.), Peggy Ballenger Mayeaux (New Orleans, La.), •
Joe W. Dudley, Doris Bryan Emerson, Richard
Giadson, Edna Gaskins Kite, Sandra Hicks
Laughinghouse, John Harvey Lilly, Lucille Franks
Adams, J. L. Peterson, Jr. (Atlanta, Ga.), Shirley
Wilson Jones, Ray Nobles, Ellen Faye Gaskins Garza
(Alexandria, Va.) [Photo by Rick Cannon]
[NOTE: Copies of this photo are available on request from
the Highlights. The copies are 8x10 and can be obtained by
sending your check or money order for $4.50 to The
Highlights, P. O. Box 404, Vanceboro, NC 28586. This price
includes return postage, packaging, and handling.]
Farm Life Honor
students named
TOBACCO SEASON BEGINS-Workers on Bill
Arrington’s 33-acre farm began the 1979 tobacco
harvest last week. He, along with Aiford Locklear
and Albert Morris, was one of the first in the area to
begin harvesting. (Photo by R. L. Cannon, Jr.)
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Letter to the Editor
News Travels Far
My husband, William R Dunn, and I, Betty Tripp
Dunn, are both from Vanceboro. My husband is now
stationed at Naval Station Pearl Harbor. Last week I
opened my mailbox, and there I found a copy of the West
Craven Highlights. What a surprise! We all read it with
excitement as we found pictures and names of relatives
and friends. It was truly a quick visit back home.
Aloha from Hawaii
Bill, Betty and Kids
Richard Bowers, princi
pal at Farm Life Elemen
tary School in Vanceboro,
announced the students
who made Honor Roll for
the sixth grading period,
Honor Roll for the year,
and Perfect Attendance for
the year.
Students who made
Honor Roll for the final six
weeks grading period are
as follows: Third Grade-
Jerry Campbell, Dwayne
Ellis, Virginia Gaskins,
Tammy Hughes, Vicki
Norman, Hilton Fillin-
game, Traci Fillingame,
Sharon Respess, Felicia
Williams, Jonathan
Taylor, Timothy Weast,
Catherine Hudson, Susan
Nobles, Sandra Fillingame,
and Chrishell Johnson;
Fourth Grade-Lanesia
Fonville, Marla Fonville,
Steve Watson, Cliff Toler,
Neal Russell; Fifth Grade-
Michael Jones, Michelle
Miller, Julia Moore, Keith
Morris, Mary Purifoy,
Travis Wetherington, Billy
Arrington, Denise Fillingame
Jessica Chesson, Clay
McOmber, Debbie Hodges,
Patricia Elks, Kelly
Evans, Troy Freeman and
Doug Lee; Sixth Grade-
Frankie Moore, Curtis
White, Angela Smith and
Wendy Toler.
Students named on the
Honor Roll for the Year are
as follows: Third Grade-
Tammy Hughes, Hilton
Fillingame, Sharon Res
pess, Felicia Williams,
Traci Fillingame, Jonathan
Taylor, Catherine Hudson,
.Susan Nobles, Sandra
Fillingame, Chrishell
Johnson, Bryan Yeager,
and Tracy Ipock; Fourth
Grade-Maria Morrow,
Cliff Toler,and Neal
Russell; Fifth Grade-
Michael Jones, Michelle
Miller, Travis Wethering
ton, Billy Arrington,
Denise Fillingame, Jessica
Chesson, Debbie Hodees.
Clif Holland, Clay McOmber,
Lana Maxey, Kelly Evans,
and Troy Freeman; Sixth
Grade-Patricia Dawson,
Frankie Moore, Dolores
Waters, Curtis White,
Jackie Mobley, Wendy
Toler, and Angela Smith.
Students having perfect
attendance for the year are
as follows: Third Grade-
Nathaniel Henderson,
Traci Fillingame, Michael
Lancaster, Isis Moore,
Anthony Becton, Danielle
Chapman, Jo-Lynn Craw
ford, Comasina Fonville,
Kendall Gaskins, Thoma-
sina Fonville, Brian
Whitford, and Chris
Garris; Fourth Grade-
Lanesia Fonville, Reginald
Jenkins, and Colette
Smith; Fifth Grade-Clay
McOmber, Sheila Hardy,
Denise Fillingame, Clif
Holland, Susan Smith,
Rhonda Dawson, Vicki
Moore, Kenneth Roundtree
and Marvin White; Sixth
Grade-Audrey Dawson,
Jimmy Haddock, alien
Dixon, Denise Holmes,
Lance Price Carl Toler,
Curtis White, Lisa Carol
Boyd, Gregory Lamont
Moore, Nichelle Roach,
Patrick Troutner.
Holiday Deadline
Due to the Fourth of July holiday, tl^
West Craven Highlights will go to preLs on
Tuesday, July 3, instead of Wednesday. All
news and ads must be in the Highlights
office by 12 Noon on Monday, July 2,1979,
in order to in the July 5th issue. All
standing columns should be mailed no later
than 5 p.m. on Friday, June 29, to insure
delivery.
Report to the People
By Senator Robert Morgan
The Senate has approved a bill that would create a
separate Department of Education. I opposed the whole
idea of setting up a new department and voted against it
at every opportunity.
During the time the bill was being debated and acted
upon in the Senate, an amendment was offered requiring
that school systems adopt right-to-work laws, in order to
be eligible for federal education funds. I opposed the
amendment, also, and my vote seems to have been
misunderstood by some people, who felt that because I
opposed the amendment that I was casting a vote against
a right-to-work law.
It has always been my belief that a man should be able
to get a job without having to join any organization and
that he should be able hold the job without any
interference from anyone.
But if the federal government can pass a law that
directs personnel policies be adopted by a school system,
then the principle of state and local control over educa
tion has been violated. And that is one reason many
Senators opposed this proposed separate department,
because they felt that control of the schools should remain
at the state and local level.
The Taft-Hartley Act says that each state shall decide
whether it shall have a right-to-work law. North
Carolina, along with many other states, has such a law
and it is a good law. But if the Congress can change Taft-
Hartley by an amendment to an Education Bill, then
labor unions could also override it if they could muster
sufficient votes in the House and Senate.
This amendment, even to those who support right-to
work laws in their states, was an example of what may be
the worst feature of the bill to form this new department,
and that is to put the federal government in charge of
children’s education.
It has been amply demonstrated by the Department of
Energy how a newly created department can grow and
spend a lot of tax money.
Many are fearful that this is exactly what will happen
to a separate Department of Education should the House
of Representatives follow the Senate’s lead and vote to
create it. And there are some of us in Congress who are
more interested in cutting back the federal government’s
powers than in adding to the bureaucracy.
So a vote against the bill was a vote to curtail the
activities of the federal government in local school
systems and a vote against the amendment was not a vote
against right-to-work laws but to keep the government
from setting policies that should be set closer to home.
The West Craven
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