Press Comments On Hoke Schools
Editor'* Note - Following Hoke School Superintendent
Donald Abernethy's appearance before the United States Senate
"Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity" on
Wednesday of last week at least two of the State's major
newspapers have used the occasion for editorial comment. The
6Little' Hoke's Example
In School Integration
This region and the whole
state for that matter can take a
measure of pride in the
appearance of Hoke County
School Superintendent Donald
D. Abernethy before the
Senate's Select Committee on
Equal Educational
Opportunity in Washington
Wednesday.
Superintendent Abernethy
described how Hoke County
achieved complete integration
of its school system in a few
brief years with a minimum of
difficulty and an absence of
racial distrubances. And he
testified that Hoke's schools
"are better than ever" for it.
Abernethy's appearance
before the Senate group
provides eloquent testimony to
what also can be accomplished
elsewhere if reason and justice,
not emotion and prejudice, are
made to prevail in the handling
of school integration matters.
A great measure of the
credit for the success of the
program should go to members
of the county school board
"who, once the decision was
made, never reneged, even
privately, on their
commitment," Abernethy said.
This forthright and honest
leadership, he added,
engendered a determination on
the part of principals, teachers,
staff and students to make the
integration program work and
helped create a climate of
cooperation in the community.
"1 think it is significant that
the board stated in a public
hearing that the decision to
integrate the schools was made
not because of pressure from
Washington, but because the
board felt it was the right thing
for our schools." the Hoke
superintendent said. Certainly
that is a refreshingly candid
and honest position to take at
a time when too many school
officials still do have to be
prodded into doing what is
right by making racial equality
a reality in the schools.
In the beginning, when the
children of black, white and
Indian parents were brought
together in the classroom, it
was found, not surprisingly,
that non - white children from
inferior schools and
disadvantaged homes had not
reached levels of academic
achievement comparable with
their white classmates. But
instead of throwing up their
hands, Hoke school leaders
tackled this problem.
With the aid of a federal
grant and the cooperation of
Duke University, a study was
made of students by race to
determine their progress in
language, reading and math. It
showed, Abcrnethy testified,
that black students performed
better after integration and
that the achievement levels of
white and Indian pupils did not
suffer. "The fact that the black
students tended to gain in
achievement causes the board
to believe that within a few
years the average level of
achievement of the races will
be nearly the same," he said.
What Hoke County lias
proved once again is that where
there's a will, there's a way.
Racially integrated public
schools can indeed overcome
such problems as different
achievement levels by pupils if
they make the effort they
should and get the public
support they deserve. In this
matter, "little" Hoke County
emerges as pretty big after all
because of the example it set.
Hoke County Under
The Metric System
(Special to The News Journal)
NEW YORK, June 20 ? If
the United States should
switch to the metric system of
weights and measures ?? using
meters, liters and kilograms
instead of yards, quarts and
pounds - what would be some
of the changes in Hoke County?
The question is not just an
academic one. Congress has
authorized the Commerce
Department to conduct a
three-year study on the
advisability of converting.
Over 90 percent of the
world population now utilizes
the metric system. The United
States is the only large country
Library Draws
Fewer Readers
Although one young reader
has already zipped through the
list of 20 required books in the
first two weeks of the library's
summer reading program, the
program is off to a slow start
with fewer readers this year.
Beth Cameron is the first
reader to complete the reading
list and has been awarded a pin
by the library staff.
A total of 61 children from
the first to fifth grades have
registered this summer and 37
have begun the reading list.
The first library hour, held
last Thursday, drew only 34
children, Mrs. Lee Cameron,
librarian, said. Stories and films
are presented each Thursday at
the library from 10 to 11 a.m.
"We are hoping the
attendance will be better this
week since swimming lessons
are over now," Mrs. Cameron
said.
More than 2,000 men formed
the crew of the Battleship USS
North Carolina during her active
duty daya In World War II.
that docs not.
As a result, it is contended,
" our international trade is at a
distinct disadvantage.
The switchover would
require many adjustments on
the part of Hoke County
residents. The local automobile
driver would pull into a gas
station and ask for 25 liters.
That would be equivalent to
6.6 gallons.
It would be good for 150
kilometers because he gets
about 6 kilometers to the liter,
otherwise known as 14 miles to
the gallon.
During the course of a year,
he and the other 3,930 local
car owners consume 2,720
liters, on average.
Leaving the gas station he
would pass a road sign reading
80 km. maximum, meaning
that he may not drive faster
than 48 miles per hour, old
style.
If he were to cover every
part of the local area he would
encompass sonie 844 square
kilometers, since the land area
is approximately 326 square
miles, current scale.
His daughter, at the doctor's
office, has her measurements
checked. She weighs 57
kilograms (formerly 126
pounds) and is 1.68 meters tall
(5 feet 6 inches).
If she is like Miss America,
her other measurments, in
centimeters, arc 93-58-91.
The Hoke County
housewife, when she goes to
the marker for supplies, would
be buying 500 grams of butter,
a kilo of meat for hanburgers
(2.2 pounds) and 4 meters (3.6
yards) of material for a dress.
Those in favor of the change
to the metric system argue that
we cannot stand alone
indefinitely in a world that has
almost entirely gone metric.
Opposing the changeover are
those who point to the billions
of dollars that it would cost
industry to adjust to the metric
system.
Raleigh News and Observer's editorial, "Hoke County's
Achievement," appeared in the issue of Saturday, June 20. and
The Fayetteville Observer's "Little Hoke's Example in School
Integration" appeared in the issue of Sunday, June 21. Both are
reprinted below.
I
Hoke County's Achievement
Hoke County's achievement
in school desegregation
deserves all the national
attention it got Wednesday at a
hearing before a special Senate
committee. It is a genuine
success story. More
communities ought to be
duplicating it.
There are many school
districts in North Carolina and
elsewhere throughout the
nation with far fewer
desegregation problems than
Hoke County voluntarily
confronted. Hoke had to
convert not two, but three
separate school systems -
white, Negro and Indian ? into
a unitary system. This mixture
of races meant a mixture of old
animosities to overcome in the
desegregation effort.
(Obviously, they were overcome
successfully. The payoffs to
Hoke County are varied and
proven, and include the fact
that white and Indian students
are learning as much in
integrated schools as they had
in desegregated ones, while
many blacks are learning more.
When he related Hoke's
story to the Senate committee,
School Superintendent Donald
Abernethy made clear what it
takes to produce this sort of
success: local leadership. The
county school board members
undertook desegregation
because they "felt it was the
right thing to do," not because
a fund cutoff was threatened
or a court suit was filed. Once
the decision to desegregate was
made, they stuck by it,
apparently with a minimum of
community criticism. In fact,
these people who oversaw
complete integration of Hoke
County schools in less than
two years' time were all
renominated to the school
board in the recent primary
election.
Undoubtedly, Hoke's
compliance with desegregation
laws was much less
troublesome as a product of
local initiative than it would
have been as the result of
federal prodding. The Hoke
district could have done what
many others are doing - as
little as possible, as late as
possible, blaming the U.S.
government every reluctant
step of the way. But Hoke
school officials acted on their
own. They won community
confidence for doing so, and
they already can point with
pride to the positive results of
integration showing up in their
school system.
There are several lessons out
of Hoke County for other
school districts. Perhaps the
greatest is that local leaders can
save themselves and their
communities much difficulty
by doing "the right thing" on
their own initiative rather than
someone else's.
Chorus Members
Attend Workshoo
Students from the Hoke
High School chorus were
among the 400 participants in
the University of North
Carolina's 18th annual Summer
Choral Workshop for high
school and college students and
teachers.
The workshop is designed to
provide participation and
instruction in choral art and
techniques of conducting and
teaching. Dr. Lara Hoggard,
UNC's William Rand Kenan
professor of music, is the
director.
The participants are highly
select students representing
high school and colleges from
all over North Carolina. About
50 choral arts teachers working
through the State Department
of Public Instruction for
renewal credit also attended.
Mrs. Mary Archie McNeill,
music director of the Hoke
chorus and chorale, attended
the workshop.
Also attending were
Kenneth Edward
Hollingsworth, James
Lawrence McFadyen, Kenneth
Alan Koonce, Donna Lynn
Jackson, Beth Jordan, Missy
Upchurch, Martin Best, Fonda
Eileen Blue, Michael Niven
Wood, Thomas Parsons Howell,
Evcrettc William McNeill.
Rebecca Ann Howell, Kathy
Diane Currie. Julia Anne
Gibson. Katherme M Keaton.
Sharon Lynn Currie, Jerry
Stephen Cnbbs. Lynn Currie,
Anna Jordan, Evelyn M.
Brown, Kathy Davis, Susan
Kennedy, Joanne Majic Battel.
Mark Gillis, Sallie Mac
Johnson. Jimmy Womble.
David Matherly, Kenny Davis.
David Joseph Dombkowski,
Linda Joyce Barficld. Mary
Annette Blackburn. Kenneth
Earl Hendrix, Barbaia Ann
Plummer, Ginger Davis,
Lorraine Belinda Walters, and
Sylvia Sellars.
Future In Farms
For Southeast
"There is a growing future
for agriculture in the Southeast
in spite of the cost - price
squee/c, high interest rates and
mounting labor problems
facing farmers," according to
Edward C. Sumner, Manager of
the Federal Land Bank
Association of Lumberton,
who has just returned from the
annual conference for directors
and managers of Federal Land
Bank Associations held at the
Marriott Motor Hotel, Atlanta,
Georgia.
"As southeastern farms grow
larger, there is an increasing
demand for larger amounts of
credit, as far me rs are
substituting capital for labor,"
Sumner explained. "However,
our Associations have the
people and tools to meet the
increasing needs of farmers for
credit on a sound, productive
and constructive basis."
The Lumberton Association
is one of the 46 farmer - owned
Land Bank Associations which
make and service long ? term
loans for tire Federal Land
Bank of Columbia, S.C. The
Bank now has over 42,000
loans outstanding in the
amount of S671 million with
farmers, growers and ranchers
in Florida, Georgia and the
Carolinas -- the four states
served by the Bank.
Other officials of the
Lumberton Association
attending the conference were
D.G. Malloy of Lumber Bridge.
President; Thomas M.
McRimmon of Rowland. Vice
President; Kugenc M. Smith of
Bladenboro. Director; Ralph
M. Jolly of Tabor City,
Director; Wilbur C. Ward of
Clarkton, Director; and Carey
V. Downing of Fayctteville,
Director.
The Lumberton Association
handles the making and
servicing of loans for the Land
Bank in Robeson. Columbus,
Bladen, Cumberland. Hoke and
Scotland counties out of the
Association office in
Lumberton and branch office
in Whitevillc.
The Battleship USS North
Carolina's fuel tanks are now
filled with water to steady her in
her permanent berth at Wilming
ton, N. C.
THE NEWS JOURNAL RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, JUNE 25. 1970 SECTION I. PAGE 3
I TOBACCO (BARXl ROAD ?? The barn was being moved from the McGougan farm in the Sandy Grove section to the Joe Scott
farm in the Gold Hill section when the foundation gave way on one side causing it to slide partly off the truck less than 100 vards
from its destination. The mishap occurred Saturday morning.
Farm Items
By
W. S. Young & T. S. Baker,
County Agricultural Agents
All swine arc extremely
sensitive to their surroundings
and can be easily upset by
temperature changes and
impmpcr ventilation. This is
why you should pas particular
attention to environmental
factors as you strive to improve
efficiency and profitability in
your hog operation.
Baby pigs need warmth and
need a temperature of 80
degrees to 9 5 degrees
environment to ensure high
survival rates. Over one million
newborn pigs die from chilling
each year. Warm concrete
floors keep pigs warm with
minimum bedding, While pigs
like it hot. sows need to be
kept cool. Best solution during
farrowing time is to keep the
farrowing house at cool
tempo at hi cs I'm sows, while
adding local lie at lot baby pigs.
Growing and finishing iiog*
suffer in hot weather anJ
benefit from a modified
environment, feed efficiency is
best 50 degiees to ~5 degices.
I stng Spuiiklcis added 0.3
pounds daily in Georgia and
I'llrdeic tests, also Cooled
concrete slabs mcicuscd gains
0.3 to 0.4 pounds.
While a piofitable svvme
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CARD OF THANKS
The family of K. O. Cothran
wishes to express their
gratitude and appreciation to
the people of tins community
for the many acts of kindness
shown to them during the
recent loss of their loved one
7C
confinement system requires
si/able inputs, a University of
Illinois studs shows returns to
t a r nt o v e r li e a d and
management to be (1) on
pastine SI.103 (2) in solid
floor confinement SI,424 (3)
in slotted floor confinement
S4.088.
From these figures it shows
that there is good returns by
keeping the animals at the
proper temperature.
Protect your family from
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of all eases of accidental
poisoning by household
chemicals involve children
under five years of age.
Medicines, household
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case of accidental poisonings.
Sate use. safe storage and
safe disposal of old containers
can eliminate all these
problems. In case anything
happens, a physician should be
called immediately The
container with the poison
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help to know what antidote to
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