NEWLY 2H.800 STUOENTS IN NORIK
CAROLINA’S PUBLIC HKH SCHOOLS
Gradual Increase Noted Since 12-Year Program
Was Inaugurated; Official Figures State
193,878 Were Enrolled In 1951-52
Based on, increasing trends since the
twelve-year program was inaugurated,
there were for the school year 1952-53
close to 200,000 boys and girls enrolled
in North Carolina’s public high
schools.
For 1951-52, latest year for which
official figures are available, there
were 193,878 enrolled in the public
5ch0015—144,404 in white and Indian
schools and 49,474 in Negro schools.
Since 1944-45, total enrollment in
the State’s public schools, white, In
dian, Negro, has increased 12.5 per
cent. According to race this increase
was 13.9 per cent in the case of white
and Indian pupils and 9.2 per cent
for Negroes.
The greater portion of the increase
in total enrollment has been in the
high schools. There were 34,994
more white elementary pupils in 1951-
52 than in 1944-45, but 43,466 more
high school students. By percent
ages, elementary enrollment in white
schools increased 7.6 per cent, where
as high school enrollment increased
43.1 per cent.
Among the Negro schools, these
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differences in increeses are even
greater—a total increase of 22,983, of
which only 1,651 were elementary and
21,332 were high school; or by per
centages .7 of one per cent and 76.8
per cent, respectively.
Os the total increase of 78,460 in
the case of white schools, 55.4 per
cent occurred in the high schools, 66.4
per cent occurred in the high schools.
In the case of Negro school enroll
ment increase, 92.8 per cent occurred
in the high schools.
In the case of white schools high
school enrollment during this period
jumped from a percentage of 17.9 to
22.5, an increase of 4.6 per cent. For
Negroes the proportion of high school
students to the total rose from 11.2
per cent in 1944-45 to 18.1 per cent in
1951-52 or 6.9 per cent greater.
Range in percentage of total white
enrollment in high schools in county
units is from five per cent in Chero
kee to 28.3 per cent in eßaufort. This
low in Cherokee is no doubt due to
the fact that students attending ele
mentary schools of the county trans
fer to Murphy, a city unit, when they
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON. N. a, THTTR3DAT AUGUST 13, 1953.
enroll in high school. The percentage
is relatively high in that unit. Next
lowest percentage to Cherokee is 11.5
in Camden.
Among Negro schools in county
units the range in percentage of. high
school students of the total is from
8.4 per cent- in Richmond to 41.5 per
cent in Jackson in units that have high
schools. There are no high schools
for Negroes in some units, due to
scarcity of Negro population.
In the case of city units the range
in per cent enrollment in white high
schools is from 17.1 in Andrews to
42.4 in Lincolnton. In the case of
Negro schools the percentage range is
from 9.6 in Murphy to 43.1 in Canton
among the 66 units which provide high
schools.
Among county units the average
percentage in high school is 21.4 per
cent for whites and 15.8 per cent for
Negroes. Among city units, these av
erages are 25.4 per cent and 23.5 per
cent, respectively.
In the Chowan County unit the total
enrollment in the white schools is 497,
of which 379 are in the elementary
grades and 118 in high school or an
average of 23.7 per cent in high
school.
In the Edenton city unit there are
917 enrolled, of whom 681 are in the
elementary school and 236 in high
school or an average of 25.7. In the
Negro schools 1,047 are enrolled with
762 in the elementary school and 285
in high school or an average of 27.2.
Cleanliness Urged
At Roadside Tables
Graham Asks Motorists
To Gean Up Before
Leaving
Highway Chairman A. H-. Graham
makes a plea for motorists who rest
or picnic at one of the State’s 15 road
side parks or 300-odd roadside tables
which are located along the State’s
primary routes to be more cooperative
about cleaning up afterwards. Gra
ham said the Commission had had sev
eral complaints from travelers about
the cleanliness of the parks and ta
bles. He urged motorists who stop
at the parks or tables to leave the
place as clean as possible so that the
next group of picnickers could enjoy
them. He said that covered garbage
cons are provided at each site for the
disposal of paper and refuse.
These parks have proved a great
boon to the out-of-State tourist as
well as to the Tar Heel traveler. The
parks and tables have proved very
ponular with travelers.
The current roadside park and table
program was started in the spring of
1952. It is the outgrowth of a study
made by a joint committee of the De
partment of Conservation and Devel
opment and the State Highway Com
mission. Frank H. Brant, Landscape
Engineer for the State Highway Com
mission, is in charge of carrying out
the program.
Besides the roadside parks, the
Commission has placed about 300 in
dividual roadside tables at turn-outs
along the primary highways for the
convenience of travelers.
CATHOLIC SERVICES SATURDAY
FEAST OF MARY’S ASSUMPTION
Saturday, August 15, Festival of
The Assumption of the Blessed Vir
gin Mary into Heaven, a holyday of
obligation, the most holy sacrifice of
the mass will be offered at 7 and 11
A. M., EST., in St. Ann’s Catholic
Church, Edenton, and at 6:45 A. M.,
EDT., in USMC Auxiliary Landing
Field, near Edenton, chapel, each in
cluding sermon on “The Assumption,”
Holy Communion, with confessions for
half hour before each mass, stated
Father Francis J. McCourt, rector of
St. Ann’s Missionarv Parish and Au
xiliary Chaplain to USMCALF.
Drive To Wipe Out
Livestock Diseases
Urged Dy A.V.M.A.
Citing disease control in the Scan
dinavian countries as an outstanding
example, the American Veterinary
Medical Association has called for a
new, concerted campaign to eradicate
livestock diseases in the United
States.
“Scandinavia has either eradicated
or kept out a whole parade of con
tagious diseases which now run ram
pant through the herds and flocks of
our nation,” the AVMA said. “Such
diseases as hog cholera, trichinosis,
rhinitis and vesicular exanthema in
swine; Newcastle disease and fowl
cholera in poultry; rabies in dogs; and
brucellosis, tuberculosis and anthrax
are under strict control.”
The AVMA said quarantines,
slaughter-indemnity programs, and
constant veterinary supervision of di
sease control programs have been the
major weapons of the northern Euro
pean countries in the battle against
disease.
“Vaccination and effective medica
tion should be used as tools to exter
minate disease,” the AVMA said, “not
as a means of living with it.”
The association recommended more
research, co-ordinated disease pro
grams between states, and more freer
dom in moving against any disease as
soon as it appears.
Notice To Voters
NOTICE OF SPECIAL BOND ELECTION TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 3, 1953.
ON THE QUESTION OF THE ISSUANCE OF FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS STATE
i SCHOOL PLANT CONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT BONDS AND FOR THE
ISSUANCE OF TWENTY-TWO MILLION DOLLARS STATE MENTAL INSTITU
' TIONS BONDS.
; The people of Chowan County shall take notice that Governor Umstead has called a
special bond election to be held on October 3rd, 1953, on the two questions of whether the
! State of North Carolina shall issue fifty million dollars State of North Carolina School Plant
s Construction and Improvement Bonds and twenty-two million dollars State of North Caro
lina Mental Institutions Bonds. Under instructions from the State Board of Elections the
, registration books for this special election will open on Saturday. September sth, 1953, at
nine o’clock at the polling places, and remain open until sunset on Saturday, September 19th.
The various registrars in the county will be at their polling places for registering voters on
’ the three Saturdays of September sth, September 12th and September 19th.
Please take notice that this is not a special registration. Therefore, all persons who
s are now registered on the general election registration books WILL NOT have to register
; again to vote in this special election. If you are not registered on the general registration
books in your resident precinct, you will have to register to vote in this special bond elec
tion. However, if you are properly registered you will not have to re-register to vote in this
| election. If you are not certain that you are properly registered now. you had better check
with your precinct registrar on one of the three Saturdays mentioned above.
The Chowan County Board of Elections has appointed the fol
; lowing- as Registrars and Judges of Election for the Election:
EAST EDENTON PRECINCT—(Court House)
Miss Sarah Jones: _ .Registrar
r Mr. Walter Wilkins Judge
, Mr. R. W. Carden Judge
; WEST EDENTON PREClNCT—(Municipal Building)
Mrs. George C, Hoskins Registrar
. Mr. George S. Twiddy Judge
• Mr. J. L. Chestnutt Judge
ROCKY HOCK—Henry Bunch’s Store)
r Mr. W. H. Pearce Registrar
| Mr. W. H. Saunders Judge
Mr. E. C. Bunch Judge
CENTER HlLL—Elliott Belch’s Office)
Mrs. Ralph Goodwin Registrar
Mr. R. H. Hollowell Judge
Mr. E. D. Byrum - - - Judge
WARDVILLE PRECINCT—(H. R. Peele’s Store)
Mr. Carey Hollowell __ ..Registrar
Mr. H. L. Peele Judge
Mr. Melvin Copeland Judge
YEOPIM PRECINCT—(Harry Perry’s Store)
Mr. T. J. Hoskins, Sr Registrar
Mr. T. J. Hoskins, Jr Judge
Mr. J. A. Webb, Jr Judge
Registrars will sit at Precinct poding places:
Saturdays, September 5,12 and 19 from 9:00 A. M., until sunset to
register voters.
Registrars will sit at Precinct poding places:
Saturday, September 26, from 9:00 A. M., to 3:00 P. M., for chal
lenge of any elector.
SPECIAL ELECTION —OCTOBER 3, 1953.
Polls Open at 6:30 A. M., and Gose at 6:30 P. M.
Chowan County Board of Elections
E. S. BYRUM, Chairman
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