VOLUME I,..-- ,a School Expects Largest Enrollment In Its History The Farmville school is slated to open the 1950-51 term on Tuesday, August 29, at 9 o’clock, with an anti cipated enrollment of 775 of which about' 500 will be elementary pupils and-276 high school pupils. Principal Sam Bundy states that this will constitute the largest stu dent body in the history of the school. The employed personnel of the school will total 47; 32 of whom will be regular and special teachers, 6 lunch room workers, 6 bus drivers, 2 jani tors and 1 maid. Principal Bundy states that in the past three years the enrollment of the school has increased about 125 pupils or approximately 20 per cent The faculty has increased from 24 to 32 in the past three years with four teachers being gained by the increas ed enrollment and the others being added on a local basis with the addi tion of public school music, band, and a full time librarian. Some of these additions were necessary to keep the school on the accredited list of the Southern Association of Secondary Schools, a rating the school has held continuously since 1940. The school faculty is not onl/ the largest in the history of the school but techntfe»lly is the best trained. Beginning this year, all teachers will have A certificates and four of the high school teachers have Master’s degrees, and two other high school , all toilets will greatly add to the comfort of the pupils and the sanitation of the will be Rural schols will be opening in a couple of weeks, and the state bad made big plans to provide around 1,000 new school buses. Most of them will be ready. But a lot of school kids will ride to school in oM buses because one firm—Hack ney Brothers of Wilson—has jniled to live up to their contract. Their failure may cost them as much as |150,000, but it wont help get the several hundred school buses out where they’re badly needed. April 7 the State Division of Pur* chase and Contract signed a contract with Hackney Brothers (T. J .Hack ney of Wilson is the firm’s president) to build 450 school bub bodies. The: state was to prpvide the chassis—de livery of which began to Hackney on May 10. Hackney Brothers, under the contract, were to have delivered buses beginning 30 days after that date at the rate of 7% a week until all were finished—which would have given the state the last of the buses by Sept 1.- - p ; , ' ... l Thirty-two buses were dud by June 9. But none were delivered. By duly 13, 157 buses went due. But Hackney had delivered none. On July 18, Charley Williams, di rector of the Division of Purchase * freight." , Williams-said the onlir' umDinr that had even “nibbled" on the Mea of building the 300 buses wanted $600 more for each bus than Hackney's contracted price. This would mean that Hackney Brothers would have to pay the $600-each difference—which would amount to $160,000—plus any He will be lb charge of sales the season starting Monday, also serves aa secretary < Chamber of Commerce and Me; Association. 'V Mrs. Lo til's Harris hat returned i from a few tfays visit. to Mr. and J Mrs, Edward Repper(. of Portsmouth, Va., returned Sunday from ton days at Morehead Jity. ■ g ' ' Maynard Thorne, student at State Soilege, spent last week at home. Miss Seleta Tucker spent the week nd in Saratoga with Miss Janet Ty on and attended the wedding of Jean ilneh and Willaid Tyson. Dr. James Jf. Darks and daughters, Virginia Ann and Becky -Lewis, of tone .Cave, Ky., were guests Taes *y of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gibbs, he Burks were en route to their \oma after visiting at Myrtle Beach, «n I ivill be mnnmrcf day, Ml fche whole ball k ok IHJMHpPWMPMPa