Would hike standards, offer adult education . . .
Central High principal seeks
4-pt. improvement program
Principal A..L. Stanback oft
- Hillsboro’s Central High School
' has presented a four-paint instruc
ttrrtal enrichmeril program request
to the County Board of Educa
tion.
Basically die requests ask that
(1) the pupil study unit require
ments .for graduation be raised
from 16 to IS; <2) that general
science be made a required sib
ject for all pupifcr <S) that a re
gular projpam of adult education
v be approved under school spon
sorship; and that (4) the summer
echoed program be continued and
expanded.
Take effect aext year
. In asking that the minimuni of
K units required for graAration
be raised to 18 units, the principal
noted that pupils finishing with
16-units have come to fed they’re;
“just as prepared for any future
endeavor” as those who finish
with IS, 20, or even 24 such cred
its.
' Central currently offers 30 or
more study units each year, de
pending ou pupil needs, he said.
The new ,requirement, if ap
proved, would take effect next
year with the beginning ninth
graders and apply to them and
all future ninth graders.
Mr. Stanback noted that while
two units of science are required
by the state for a pupil to grad
uate, many are not taking gere
era] science. Central offers this
and biology—which is required for
all pupils—and chemistry and
j*yscs.
“It is felt that all students are
not prepared to take these two
advanced courses in science
(chemistry and physics) unless
they have had a good foundation
in general science ...” the prin
cipal stated.
Had experimental adult school
Last spring the school conducted
an experimental aduk education
program in March, April, and
May. offering reading ar.d writ
ing. algebra, typing, driving, and
general high school subjects in
history, English aod mathematics.
Forty-two adults were enrolled,
all for personal benefit cn’y a d
with no high school credit be.ug
offered '
With the approval of the
Beard 4 Education the School
would like to sc. up a regular
adult education program next
spring, on the basis $36 tai
on that it would be helpful to
use these sessions to prepare some
eighih graders for entering high
school.
“It has been found.” be stated,
“that students In summer school
get more individual attention that
those in regular school. Some
eighth grade students need tins
attention on fundamentals.”
Enrollment over 1,000
said among largest
of N.C. Negro schools
The principal noted in making
these requests that Central High,
with a total enrollment last year
of 1,096 pupils, now ranked
among the largest Negro union
schools in the state.
It had 37 full-time teachers
and 12 school busses in opera
tion. There were 55 graduates
in the class of ’60.
Mr. Stanback cited these facts
noting “There is stiH room for
improvement," as a preface to
requesting a full-time secretary
treasurer to replace the part
time office clerk that handled
over $40,000 m school funds
turned over last-year.
Registration
Saturday
in Carrboro
Voter registration tor the
the Aug. 9 anexation referen
dum will open .this Saturday
for all eligible residents of a
300-acre Carrboro suburban
area.
This second vote on the is
sue was called by the Town
Board last spring on petition
from 172 residents of the area.
They asked for the new vote
shortly after a similar annex
ation election was defeated
132 to 125 on March 22.
All who plan to vote in the
new election must re-register,
since the area under consid
eration is slightly different
from that in which the vote
, was held last time.
The voting books will be
ooen in the furniture shop of
Registrar Calvin Borch on t*'*
old Hillsboro Road from 9 a.m.
i until sunset daily except Sun
\ day from this Saturday
I through July 30.
Poll in county Negro schools
runs 8 to one for school tax
f A raoiom poll cf 400 parent*
the three Negro schools of.
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the County System has brought
a propcrtionate eight-to-cne en
dorsers Tit of a supplementary
school tax ia the System.
The opinion poll was taken un
der the STjpervis::n of A .L
Stan back. H. H. Webb and J. W
Joyner, principals of the Cen
tral, Cedar Grove, and Eflsnd
Chseks Schools. Partnts wee
asked whether they would vo e
for a supplementary tax for
schools in the near future. There
were 246 who said “yes” as
compared to 36 who said “to."
Of those in faver of *he supple
meet 226 said they were regis
tered voters in the Cecity. Oul
of the 460 questknaares se.it out
293 were returned.
The principals took the pol
after earrjrrg out a program a
explaining its purpese to teach
era aad the PTAs erf thear school
tion far two subjects. Four
teachers would be employed to
teach classes on a one-hour-a
nifht four-nigbts-a-week basis for
a total of 36 hours a subject.
Instruction would be offered in
English, mathematics, history,
and typing.
Prepare eighth graders
Ashing that the summer school
classes be continued for make-up
work, the principal noted in addi
BOLANIS AT LEJEUNE
Annual rifle marksmanship
training was completed June 10,
when the M-l rifle was fired for
record reqoalificatktn at Camp
Lejeune, N. C„ by Marine Lance
Cpl. Matthew J. Bolands, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Bolands of
Chapel Hill.
5 Negroes' appeals
to be heard July 22
Five Negro pupils denied reas
signment to the white junior high
school m Chapel Hill will appeal
their cases to the local school
board at a legal hearing to te
held Friday, July 22.
The formal proceedings, open
to the public, are scheduled for
7:30 p.m. in, the Chapel Hill High
School auditorium.
At that time, Board Chairman
Dr. J. Kemptcn Jones said, the
appeals will be heard from Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Vickers of Carr
boro for their son Stanley Vickers,
11; from Mrs. Percy Tuck for
Percy Junior Tuck, 12; from Mrs.
Barbara Bynum for Sheila Pearl
Bynum, 13, and Charles Lee By
num, 14; and from Mr. and Mrs.
T. Roosevelt Stone, for Ted Stone.
11. -
All of these pupils were as
signed to the seventh grade at
Lincoln Junior High except far
the Bynum boy who was assigned
to the eighth there.
Their applications for transfer ^
to the downtown white school,
generally on the grounds that it
was closer to their homes, were
denied by the Board last month at
the same time that granted de
segregating, re-assignment to three
prospective Negro first graders. A
All members of the seven-mem
ber school board are expected to
be in town for the hearing next
week, the Chairman said, with the
exception of Prof. R. E. Jamer
son who is teaching out of the
state for the summer taro.
ANNE CARTER TO
MAKE DEBUT
Ante Royal Carter, daughter of
Prof, and Mrs. Clyde Carter of
Chapel Hill, is among these who
will make their debut at* the Terp
siehcream Club’s 1360 Depubante
Ball in Raleigh an Sept. 9 and 10.
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