1; 31jp JBari Published Ei Th? Rftcnrri Pnhlkhir II W IIW ?? WWIIWHIK B1GNALL JONES Member North Care Entered as second-class matte: North Carolina, under the laws c SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One FRIDAY. J! Warren Coi The breakdown of census figures by tDivnohinq iiru? rnpo whirh ramp to this office through the courtesy of Congressman L. H. Fountain and which is published in this newspaper this week holds few surprises for those familiar with population trends in the county. Perhaps the slight difference in the ratio of white to colored may surprise some who have noticed many vacant houses formerly occupied by colored tenants over the county without realizing that white citizens too have left the county also. They expected a considerable loss of Negroes over whites. Mainly, such is not the case. However, the figures may be slightly misleading in that a large number of Negro adults ... who have left the county have left their children here where they were properly counted in the census. Thia conclusion is borne out by the fact that the drop in Negro school enrollment has in no way kept pace with the drop in the Negro population of the county. Another surprise is the drop in the number of persons, particularly in Fishing Creek Township, who were listed as Indians in the 1950 census. No doubt many of these citizens have left the county, but since the Negro population fell in all other townships, the conclusion is practically inescapable that many persons who were listed in 1950 as Indians were listed as Negroes in 1960. We call attention to this change without any effort to interpret It. Most of those interested in the development of Warren County were somewhat downhearted when the 1960 census showed a drop of nearly 4,000 in population, although it had been predicted that most Eastern North Carolina counties would lose population. That Warren's nonulatinn lruts moo on large can be attributed in large part to the drop in the farm population, which followed a national trend of years, and the fact that there were no towns or cities in the county to absorb the farm loss. We believe that a study of the census reports of 1960 and 1960 would show that there is not a county in Eastern Caroline that did not show a drop in rural population, perhaps many as large as Warren County. One will find, we believe, that the only Eastern Carolina counties that did not register a population loss were those counties with large towns and cities. The farm population, now down to around 7%, may go as low as 5%. How much further the rural nonnlatinn uHll drop in Warren County is anybody's guess, and with it perhaps further drop in the population of small towns. But In the course of time, with rapid population growth over the nation, Warren "Resignation Of Hockaday 'Not only faculty members and students of John Graham High School, but jgftizens of the entire John Graham High School district will learn with regret of the resignation of J. F. Hockaday as principal of the John Graham High ' School, He will be hard to replace. Under the principalship of Mr. Hockaday, who came here from New Bern two years ago, the school has made a great deal of progress and school administration officials and patrons of the jpchool were looking forward to continuflfcl progress undo- Mr. Hockaday's di 4; Mr. Hockaday leaves Warren ton to ^Heept the principalship of a school in a much larger town, which has |> healthy school supplement, and the ill!? iS? | their opw Jocmho, jy , y-? Warrcnton, Nwtk CinBu rnt fir rnrii rery Friday By ig And Supply Company , Owner and Editor ilina Press Association r at the post office in Warrenton, if Congress. year, $3:00; Six Months, $1.50 UNE 23, 1961 unty Census County's population will grow. How fast this will happen will depend on how fast the towns will became industralized. Opposes Federal ocnooi mil TO The Editor: Educationists now say that Federal Control is the only way to save education from the inability of locals boards of education; that the Soviet Union is ahead of us in science; that the USSR is outstripping us in economic growth; that dangers are increasing all over the world; that we must be far better prepared; that we are not graduating enough science majors, enough language majors; that we are not training our bright young students to the limit of their abilities; and so on adinfinitum. Further they suggest that the only control for raising standards of education is by Federal financing. Congress will be told of all the ways in which Federal money could be most wisely spent, but how will it be spent and who will be the schools' masters? This of course necessitates setting up a bureaucracy so that Congress can turn its powers over to experts to lead to freedom for teachers who do not understand academic freedom any how. Americans who object are still shackled by 'the Jeffersonian untruth that the best government governs least." This is what happened in tile Weimar gov eitllllCiil tv uitii wm mm THE WAf billion school subsidy bill. K R. 7300 is convincing that this bill is unsound and undesirable. The bill aims at no emergency, provides no specific remedies and makes no attempt to define particular needs. Its aid is in a form which would result in an unwarranted intrusion into matters properly of local and state concern. To discharge its responsibility of subsidizing the Nation's teachers would require billions of dollars yearly. This massive financial support would certainly lead to Federal supervision over the adequacy of those subsidized and what the teachers teach. Some of the consequences are: 1. Loweiing academic standards. 2. Stagnation of curriculum and administration. 3 Interference in administration of local schools. 4. Fear of a never ending chain of events that power leads to more power. Let there be no misunderstanding about the drastic import of this bill. Ostensibly some $2.5 billion is to be provided for a 3-year period. Administration spokesman have frankly admitted that this is to be a permanent program. While this hill provides aid on the basis of $12 per school age child, earlier bills of the same character envisaged annual expenditures of $100 per child. In general it can be stated that States and localities have mounted the construction effort necessary to meet the classroom needs any program of general Federal Aid. According to the Administrations , own testamony, total construction needs for the 10 year period 1959-60 through 1968 69, amount to 600,000 classrooms. AoDarentlv the 70. 000 classroom construction rate of the past five years is not enough. Actually, as most of the children who will count for the enrollment in this decade are already born, it can he determined that a dramatic decline in annual enrollment increase begins for the school 1 vear 1965-66 This means a < drop from 1.100.000 increase i per year to 600,000 increase | per year. Translating this to i classroom needs means 36,700 new classrooms annually for 1 1960-64 and 20,000 new class- i rooms for 1965-69 Additional teacher require- | ment should average 55,000 for i the next five years and less , than 30,000 between 1965-69. j College graduate teachers! t ,nna Yes, h Long Distance < You're never re ones ... not wit and so reasonal you call station Call that someo fan?and ao mi worrying or wo tREN RECORD [MOSTLY n rM-in/^vAT 4 t runauiNAL By BIGNALL JONES Strangely enough, when I lived in Washington as a young man, my thoughts of home always seemed to center on summer events, mostly along stream banks and through the swamps which I frequented as a child, and in the distance, I could, it seemed, hear the faint tinkling of a cowbell. This was recalled on Sunday morning as 1 walked along the banks of the Roanoke River, although no cowbell was to be heard, but there were present the stinging cow flies and an occasional horse fly. It was sufficient to recall my halfdreams in the nation's capital. Daughter Ann and I missed church for a trip to the bridge site near Eaton's Ferry on the Roanoke River, where considerable progress had been made rtn hnth a hiohurav t n t Vi r? bridge and on the bridge foundation. Near the river, the road bed had been built up 25 or 30 feet. I would guess. Two piers of the bridge had been built up to their final height, and a number of the should increase annually to 594,000 in 1965-69 possibly supplying more teachers than could be employed. The department of Health, Education and Welfare has suggested a 'caeher salary increase of 50", between 1959 and 1964 Since 1900. on the average, teacher salaries have risen 26", in dollars of constant value every decade, and over the past thirty years (1929-1959) teachers salaries have improved 106", whereas the earnings of all wage and salary workers has been 9lr/r. It is my opinion that the true question involved in Federal grants for education is do we wish to establish a Federal Trojan horse bestriding the world of education: one that moves as toe bureaucrats and [>ower seekers wish. Or do we want education controlled by parents, teachers, lovers of learning and lovers of our country. Those who fit the latter category, I implore to write your July elected district representative and express your wishes. LEMUEL W. KORNEGAY Warrenton. N. C. DISTA e's here jjj^^ :an locate 'most anyone ?a ally away from friends, fa th Long Distance so handy, Me in cost. (Rates are eve -to-station.) nc you're thinking of today uch better than missing. naenng! *?f ?4hjfe? -S'i SBS&^SiiS "*&" Mw7< '1: ~\'f.? . toy*? other concrete piers were rlaing In that half of the river contained in a coffer dam. Afterward we drove to Eaton's Ferry and then continued down the river for about iwu nines wocic mruicr gress in a car was blocked by the condition of the road. Then we walked down the road for about three quarters of a mile to a point I Judged was not a great distance from Curl's Hill which at one time was considered as a site for the bridge across the Roanoke. As I walked. I noticed the cattle sheds, acre after acre oi pasture, upon which once hundreds of cattle grazed, and 1 could not help but think what a shame that such a fine cattle farm had to be covered by a lake. It hurts to see it happen, but long ago I have learned that there is practically never any gain without some loss. For hundreds of years, since man first began to turn the I Piedmont soil with a turning I piow. until ine construction 01 | the Kerr Dam, the Roanoke | had left its banks and depositI ed millions of tons of top soil I in the river's lowgrounds. | Acre after acre of this tops o il has been scraped I up to build the coffer dam and the roadbed as it crosses the lowgrounds about the level of the water in the proposed Gaston reservoir. I know that tt is not practical to do otherwise but. it seems a pity with as much subsoil as is exposed in Warren County that some of it could not have been covered with this soil going into a road and a nnffot1 dom Dn4 it is. I suppose, apiece with the laps from timber that for years rotted in the cut-over forest-allowed to rot because it was so much cheaper to skim the forest. One thinks of a lot of things as one slowly drives or walks along a river bank. One hears and sees much too in a relaxing way. the whistle of a quail, the flight of a dove, the ripj pie of water across rocks, the I berries, still red, but turning I black, bringing thoughts of red bugs and the thought that the [ few berries now ripe were ' hardly worth the scratching they would probably bring on. Way down the river bank, we sighted a tent, chairs, gasoline tanks, and one of those enjoying the quiet and peace of a camping trip along the river. 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