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EDITORIALS, FEATURE.. (Continued from Page One) community support for-tie-segregation in Chapel H*H. There can be no dispute that there’s been a vocal element favoring substantial desegregation in the Uni versity community. There’s been a fair share of opposi tion, too, to even the current “first grade plan.” If the federal court of this district follows last week’s precedent in the court at Philadelphia there is a de finite possibility not only that Chapel Hill’s permissive first grade plan will be held insufficient, but that the generaf gradual and “token” trend, of local school boards across the state will became invalid, too. Letters to the Editor • 'PROUD OF TERRY FOR JACK' To the Editor: I, for one, am proud of our next governor, Terry Sanford, for r. his support of Sea. John F. Ken ,v: medy for the Democratic nomina tion ter President. The ticfcat of - John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson is one that should ap ;• peal to all clear thinhiiig voters. - It Id a winning ticket. ' San. Kennedy is a young man ; -with an outstanding record of - honest and courageous public —aervied. He is a Democrat in the tradition of Franklin D. Roose velt. He it a devout |md convinc ed Christian. He is a man of courage and conviction. He is the type of leader that we need to lead the Democratic Party to *ic - tory in November And, more important, he is qualified to lead us oat of the chaos, both foreign aad domestic, of the present have Hill 1 tell people Chapel Hill ..zanoou-op ipirni-Aes,, I shall be proud to, along with Terry Sanford, cast my vote in November for the Kannedy-John son ticket. I would add that I will be no leas proud to east my vote- also for Tarry Sanford.- the t governor of North Carolina. Robert Pare Chapel HiM "THANKS FOR COV6SA To the Editor: -Twant to thank The News..for the good coverage on. the Lead ership Workshop held last week *( -UJS,C. and sponsored by the If. -C. Council of Women’s Organ *M * splendid work «>o. uuuiac niiihiuw, vut'ilUWli al Home Economics Teacher. Ay cock School, delegates of the J Economics A Sincerely, (Mrs.) Henrieua o. man. Vocational Home ~ 'cher School is a place well-known to stran gers wherever I go. Alntiwt-ev erybody had a good word for Chapel HH, the University, tht beauty of the town, and those who made it a good place in which to live. . " In the last year or two there seems to have been a radical Change taking place there. The town that I livad in and loved h dozen years ago.no longer exists, according to the stories X. hear about it. Now X see that the School Board has decreed that it is going to integrate children in the schools—and in the first grade, of all things. - When I hear people talking about Chapel HiU, and when my. friends 86k me where X lived be fore I came here-1 no longer feel proud to tell them about Chapel Hill. Before the place is ruined. I certainly- hope something w»W be done to halt this,trend! John K. Robinson Richmond. Va. SCHOOL BUS TROUBLE? To the Editor: The editorial in The News re cently commended the School Board on its policy that wiH bring about de-segregation in the -first grade of a Chapel Hilt school this year. ' You suggest that this it a prac tical solution to a difficult prob lem, but you ere forgetting .one thing in this matter. The three Negro children If they ride to school on a school bus with white children, are going to be in for a rough time. If they lived close enough to the .school to walk then these probahly wouldn’t be any trouble. Or if they could get a ride to school on their'own, the chances are that there woudn’t be any problems while they were in classes. But you can be sure that if there are three first grada Negro kids on a school bus loaded with 40 or 50 white school children of various ages, there is, likely to be some trouble. I know because I rode a school bus for quite a while myself, and a high school age driver |uat can’t keep every body in line and drive the hue. too. I don’t want any trouble to happen and I wonder if the Ne gro pupils couldn’t ride a Negro bus to Estes Hills School. You ought to suggest this in your pa \ i (name withheld) ‘ Chapel Hill . /. mr HEARING AUG. 9 A special meeting at (be Chap el mi aldermen was heM last Friday hr the parpsso of sot ting a special heariag Aug. 9 to consider Issuance of a special use permit for eoastraciioa of a fraternity emit an University property adjoining 9m^O§SL Golf Crane. Previously sdpt iried An* «, the hearing wm upwt-Sfce nanoot-nf the Why public officials turn gray .. . Here's the kind of problem the two school system pose; should the units be reunited? - , Here's why Chapel Hill School administrators turn gray-haired and county com missioners are especially on the spot r*t budget-making time each year. The separation of the to-school 3,500- pupil Chapel Hill School System and the 14-school- 4,500-pupil County ‘School System came about back in the depression When Chapel Hill folk voted upon themselves an extra tax levy of up to a a $.20 rate above the rest of the Cou&ty. These funds are earmarked for current operations of the school system—to im prove curriculum, pay teachers more, etc. Law requires 'per pupil' basis Except for this extra money that automatically goes to Chapel Hill each yean the commissioners by state law haueto dole out the same amount of currant operations money per pupil to the Coun ty and Chapel HiH units. So it turns out now that the County unit— 11 with many more pupils, doesn't want as much ! money per pupil—in fact doesn't even want as much money altogether for its current opera tions this fear as the smaller Chapel Hilt unit does. ? But even at that, the County unit is asking the County Commissioners to appropriate to them out of funds supplied by all taxpayers of the County enough current operations money to hire a dozen more teachers on local funds. Cost* more in Chapel Hill In the Chapel Hill unit, school administrators declare, and r. cite figures to bolster their state ments. it iust costs more to educate pupils in the manner thrv consider necessary to a good educa tion. This is why the Chapel Hill citizens voted for and continue to support the supplementary tax, with which their school unit pays for extra teach-i ,prs with local funds, Yd Ahe'County School Suafem, if the county commissioners grant its request, will be setting 'Vt-cV' ooti'of public funds without the payment 40 a *rhoet,.t>Y. e««enti*llv the semo benefits that cost Chanel Mill School Dis trict taxpayers the extra $100,000 a year they pay through their $.20 suoolementary tax rate. Unfair? The Chanel Hill School Board said it wag unfair by this same reasoning for pupils from the Carr boro and White Cros areas -outside the Chanel Hill District to attend Chapel Hill, schools unh*«« they were compensated for educating these pupils for whom no supplementary school tax wa« being received. Chanel Hill made its point and this practice was halted. By the same token . . . But is it now unfair for the county commission tem for the same purpose that in the Chapel Hill District is costing the taxpayers an additional $.20 rate? ' ers to appropriate public funds to the Count? -sys Wall, you might say that it is. But under state law, if the commisieners don’t at least grant the County School System request for this, the Chap el Hill School System, which is asking for even more money, will suffer doubly. Here's why: Grant the Chapel Hill Board’s current oper ations request and the County Systerf! would be swimming in money it hadn’t sought. Grant only as much as the County Board asks and Chapel Hill, its school administrators say, Will suffer. Grant the County System’s request and it will get at no extra cost.to its resident taxpayers .services that are costing extra in Chapel Hill. Cttt:this part of the County Board’s request out and theC%apel Hill Board, by the resultant across-the-board per pupH appropriation decrease, will suffer-more yet. Time to ro-oxamino? • It is at this point that we wonder if it isn’t time to re-examine in light of I960 problems the entire structure and theory of the two separate school systems of Orange County that were set up almost 30 years ago. This kind of problem isn't unique to Orange. There are ovfer 170 school systems in the 100 counties of -North Carolina. Originally there were only single Boards for each county. The ad ditional school systems came into being by vote of the citizen*, fust as the Chapel HiN Board did. And in several of these counties in recent years the school administrators^ have come to realize that the two-headed school onerations. for ail the benefits they’ve accomplished, had outlived their effectual operative life. 'Anybody can see' Anybody can see the perplexing fiscal problem that’s confronting Orange County because of its tw;n-svstem school set-up. Because of this the county commissioners should, 3s soon, as they finish wrestling with the- aehool Hideets for the coming vear, investigate thorough ly cont’nuing feasibility of the current admin istrative set-un of their schools, and consider whether the two systems should now he reunited. —ROkANO-GmuZ Notepad (Continued from ftage one) County. That's like writing d.d. eisenhower! The rule under “of orange county” is too fussy. The slogan line under the flag has dubious readership-f-in this form, at least. Maybe it could be worked into the flag. The head on Orange dealings (a swell name, by the way) is en graved on plastic and the white isn't. It’s a very dirty gray. An other run through the engraver would have batted down some of the highlight dots. It’s always better to say “Page 2” than to spell it out; we read numbers faster than words. T%i«e are, all little things, of course, but worth notice. IN A NUT SHELL: Any reader would be glad to pick u^ the tab.” SHU FORD GETS FULBRXCflT GRANT - A Ful bright Fellowship has been granted to William H. Shuford of Hickory, N. C., for study in Gran ada, Spain, during die academic year 1960-61 Mr. Shuford. who is at present taking his Ph D at the University of J'fcrth Carolina in Romance languages? will study the work of Angel Gan ivet as a liter ary critic^ Ganivet was a Spanish novelist and essayist of die late nineteenth century and lived in Granada as a young, jnan^: Precinct Circuit (... Strictly unofficial—County political trends and gossip . . .) While the political limelight is on the national scene this week, we’ll indulge in Shatters afield from the 21 precincts around home. ^ Last week GOP gubernatorial aspirant Bob Gavin of Sanford served notice that he expects to be a serious con tender against Terry Sanford in the general elections. On Sunday his supporters in mighty Mecklenburg County backed up Gavin's claim in an ad appeal for money. The Republican attorney, you may remember, stated flatly on several occasions that he didn't intend to ex ploit the race issue in seeking the governorship. But a shrewdly and effectively worded half-page two color ad in last Sunday’s Charlotte Observer makes a good pitch to the anti-Sanford Democrats. It also puts in a fimely plug for the elements that are dissatisfied with San ford’s “moderate” stand on race relations. Gavin is plugged in the ad as the “conservative” can didate for governor—and this of course is an appropriate tag for a Republican. Th*n in a box of copy boosting this candidal* of "in tegrity . . . honesty .. and principle," is the statement that "Robert Gavin knows well the role which Wth Carolina must play in the South and the nation, but HE WILL NOT SACRIFICE OUR STAtE'S HERITAGE FOR NATIONAL GAIN." -f Now anybody who reads the headlines or even listens to the 8 a.m. TV news can see in this (1) the appeal to those who have it “in” for Sanford because of his support of Kennedy; (2) a pitch for those growingly concerned about de-segregation as the onening of the fall term of public schools draws near: and (3) a fine “out” tor Bemo q»to who supported Beverly Lake and want an excuse #■ to have to bade the ticket this fall s
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