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fRE^nrON, N. C, THyRSDAY, JUNE 19, 1960 VOLUME XII Lake and Simpkins Expected To Carry Jones County Vote »*aui uu iwui xwau juunu)' contests to create a feverish in terest in the June 25th voting for governor and congressman Jones Countians ate largely sitting back and listening . to “campaign ora tory”. No where near the 2300 votes cast in the first primary are ex pected for the tom amt at die end Of fhte mnirfh — Considerable and powerful in fluences are supporting Terry Sanford, who ran second to John Larkina in the first primary’s gov ernor race, but the consensus seems to be that insofar as Jones County is concerned Sanford is still going to run second in the second primary, well behind Bev erly Lake, .who ran third in that first primary. In the first primary Larkins led by a margin of more than .1400 votes over Sanford, who jgot 414 Jones County votes while Lake was only getting Zt3 votes in the county. It is expected that Lake will lead Sanford on June 25th by a wide margin—how wide nobody is say ing. More .steam is being generated in Jones County over the congres sional fight btween James Simp kins of New Bern and David Hen derson of Wallace. Henderson led in the first pri mary by a thin margin over Simp kins, but .in that first round.Sfcnp kins was top man by a wide mar gin in Jones County. This week a long-range debat ing contest between the two would be congressmen has stemmed from the open endorsement of Henderson by Retiring Congress man Graham Barden. Simpkins has charged Barden with .not only running in the dis trict for 26 years as its congress man but with now trying to hand pick lus successor. Barden has admitted that he is for Henderson but has denied “pouring outside money” as Simp kins has alleged he has into-the race. Henderson has welcomed the endorsement of Barden—which came as no surprsie to him. Those who have watched the pot boil in the thiTd congressional district for many years seem to agree that the open and very strong -aapmsH taap 04 uopjeg jo stM«99» son are likely to backfire. Simp kins, a vfery clever and a- very energetic worker, is expected to capitalize to the fullest extent on the Barden interference angle. Simpkins is expected' to again carry Jones County and by $ good ly margin. : Another Auto Death Th* fourth auto death in lha La Grango area in lest than. 10'days cam* Sunday afternoon on a rural pav*d road four mil** west of La Grans* in th* edge of Wayne Coun ty. Four monfti-otd Wendy New Codric Earl Newcomb, was in stantly killed when a car driven by her grandmother, Mrs. Tesai* Thompson Gray, wont out of con trol and hit a tree by th* sido of th. rut Mr. firtv wn Jones TB Association Maps ’60-’61 Program The Jones County Tuberculosis Committee met at the court house June (to plan its program for 1960 61. The budget was adopted which provided for continued work in case findings through free X-ray for indigents. Mrs.x Alma Vassey wili head the health education commit tee and will release her program later. Arrangements were completed for the Christmas Seal Sale with volunteers doing the secretarial work. The Jones County organiza tion is on' a completely volunteer basis. The committee is composed of representatives from the various sections of the county but the com mittee hopes to double its mem bership. The officers for 1960-fit are Myr tle Brock, chairman, Mrs. Wilson Harriett, vice-chairman, and Mrs. B. H. George, secretary-treasurer. Legion Auxiliary Plans Junior Group The American Legion Auxiliary met Monday night with Mrs. W. W. Lowery presiding. "Miss Macy Mallard reported on the program for the month, ‘’Junior Activities”. Then Mrs. Faytie Gray reported on the convention in Asheville. The group voted to have a junior group in the auxiliary, and Mrs. Hilda Flowers was appointed lead er of the group. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Norma Cox. Multiple Charges in Tourist Home Fracas Delayed Until July12 Tuesday an attempt to hold pre liminary hearing in charges a gainst Mrs. Eunice Rhodes Mc lawhorn before Magistrate J. J. Lyon flopped when Solicitor Wal ter Britt asked permission to a mend the several warrants against the defendant. On April 26, Mrs. McLawhorn was charged with simple assault, running a house of prostitution, at tempted bribery of two deputy sheriffs, George Hill and William Stroud. Tuesday Solicitor Britt said he would seek to amend the warrants to charge the defendant with a felony in the’assault charge. To this the defense attorneys objected strenuously and at length and final ly agreed to set the hearing for July 12th at which time they will have been fully informed of what charges' they are to defend Mrs. MeLawhom against. Alarm System for Maysville Studied The Maysville Fire Department met last Monday at the community building. Rudolph Pelletier’pre sided over the meeting during which the group discussed the possibility of installing a fire a larrn system. A report was given on the recent meeting with board of commission ers at Trenton concerning funds i for the Maysville department. Legal Whisky Business Climhs With Addition of Fourth Store illegal wiustcy sales in jones County during May of I860 were almost $2,000 greater than in May of .1068 and ABC- officials credit the opening of the system’s fourth store on Highway US 17 between Mayeville and PolloeksviUe with the increase. v The gross sales in May of this year were $23,951.30, compared to $21,973.95—an increase of $1,977.35. The opening'of the newest store in the most populous' end of the county sharply reduced sales at Store No. 1 in Trenton, which ranked at the bottom in sales dur ing May with gross receipts of only $3,988.10. < Store No. 2 at Hargett Cross roads—close to legally dry Duplin County—still ranked first in the sales department with gross re ceipts for May of $7,973.60. Store No. 3 at Wyse Forks rank ed in second place sales-wise with Miay receipts of $6,379.35. The newly opened US 17 store had May sales of $5,550.25. jroscue Outlines ! Convention Plans For Home Chib The MaysviHe Rotary Club met last Tuesday at the community building with E. H. Bryant, pre siding. For the program governor Tom Foscue gave the mechanics of the operations of the Rotary Conven tion which he recently attended at Miami Fla. A routine business discussion followed and the evening meal was served. Marriage License During the past week Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce issued two marriage l'.censes to the following couples: Tommy Meadows, 41, and Sadie Mae Meadows, 39, both of Mays ville. John Hughes Embanks, 19, and Ann Marie Heath, 17, both of Trenton. Senator Sam Ervin Says... WASHINGTON—Last week the Armed Services Subcommittee of which I am chairman heard testi mony on the operation of the NATO Status of Forces Treaty for the 12 month period ending last Novem ber. GENERALLY GOOD—The report indicates that in virtually every country the quality of justice given to our service personnel charged with law violations is good. In fact, the general rule is that the punish ment adjudged is more light than would be given in this country for like violations. Although the quality of justice is generally good, there has been a complaint about the slowness of trial procedures in Turkey. The authorities reported to us that steps are being taken to try to alleviate this problem. DILIGENCE NECESSARY— One of the things we constantly stress to the United States officials charged with responsibility in this matter is that great diligence must be exercised to see that each per son gets justice. We can ask no more of the host government; we can expect no less. While I was not a member of the Senate of the United State when these agreements were ratified which marked a radical departure from previous policy, I am con strained to say that the agreements have worked very well up to this time. FEDERAL JUDGE—As a mem ber of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, I have been in the thick of the movement to secure another Federal Judge for North Carolina, i There seems to be increasing in ' terest on the part of Congress to act. I am hopeful that the matter will not be delayed much longer inasmuch as the need is obvious and justice is being delayed. To me this is not a partisan matter. Since | being in the Senate I have helped ! confirm two Federal Judges in North Carolina who were not of my 1 Continued on page 8 Quality Education First Concern o£ Schools; But Cost to Taxpayers Should he Second Concern The public generally is not much concerned with the specific costs of the various services it demands from the government. This applies to schools as well as to highways. The current effort by people in every part of Lenoir county to im prove the white high schools in the county system is not hedged in or centered around worry over money. Lenoir Countians have gener ously supported their schools with bond issues whenever requests have been made for capital im provements. ■ ' The Lenoir County Board of Commissioners through the years has kept in step on the school prob lem by stretching every possible way to provide the money that city and county school officials have felt necessary for the operation of quality schools. Lenoir, County has schools in great quantity; 19 schools in all to serve 14,087 pupils, an average of 741 pupils per school, which is a good average size for schools to have: (But a breakdown of this total figure points directly at the basis for both concern over academic quality and economic soundness in tile Lenoir County school set up. In the school year just ended the rural.schools of Lenoir County had a total enrollment of 9,176 for the 11 schools of that system, 1qnavorage ” ‘ white pupils and 4,380 were negro pupils. Further broken down there were 3,631 white elementally pu pils and 1,165 white high school students. The negro division was 3,486 elementary pupils and 884 high school pupils. Those 1,165 white high school students were split into seven high schools—or an average high school Student body of 166. Those 894 negro high school stu dents were split among three high schools—or an average of 298 pu pils per* school. The dbvious deduction from this is that the negro pupils in the rural schools of Lenoir County are in larger high schools, with broader faculties and a chance for a bet ter education than the white child ren. Accenting even more the spread between rural and Kinston high schools is the enrollment this year for that school system. In Kinston schools there were 2,788 white elementary pupils, 796 white high school students, 2,080 negro elementary pupils and 564 negro high school students. Of course, all of those Kinston white high school students attend a single school and the same is true of all the* Kinston negro high school students. - * Consider in ' the rural white schools: 1,165 students scattered between seven high schools, while in Kinston there are 796 white high school students in a single school. This emphasize the poor academic quality of rural white high schools and explains very simply the high per capita cost of running the rural schools. This is a situation that cannot be federated indefinitely because it is too gross a waste ai the talents oi our rural youths and the taxpayers’ dollars. No educator worth his salt would declare that size is the absolute yardstick for judging the scholastic quality of a school. But every pro fessional educator does declare that there is a basic minimum size below which a high school cannot go without serious damage to the quality of training available there. Of course, student body is not the key to the problem but faculty and facilities are. Theoretically a high school could be maintained for as few as four students—one for each of the four grades. But under public school standards teachers are allocated on the basis of enrollment rather than academic standards. If a high school with 166 pupils had an adequate faculty the teach er-pupil ratio would be about one teacher to eight pupils, but the state allocation is one teacher for each 35 pupils; or not more than six teachers for a 166-pupil high school. Those six teachers are changed with the impossible duty of teaching mathematics, general science, biology, chemistry, phy sics, history, civics, grammar, lit erature, commercial course, phy sical education, home economics, vocational arts and somebody has to hit a lick at music, coaching the various athletic teams and directing dramatics and choral music. It is laboring the obvious to ad mit that no six teachers on the face of the earth can adequately cope with such diverse duties. While academic standards are obviously suffering because of the splintered condition of the white rural high schools of Lenoir Coun ty; consider the poor taxpayer. Last year it cost $214.66 per pu pil to school the pupils in the Kin ston School District. The cost per pupil in the county system was $252.97. School officials find themselves trying to cope with a contradictory set of rules. A state law says that county allocations for current ex penses of schools must be divided 'between the city and county sys tems on a pro-rata basis. But while insisting upon strict enforcement of this rule for county treasuries the state school board allocates far more for the rural schools than for city schools—and this is a situation that exsits in every county in the state that has two school systems: In 1958-59 the State allocation to Kinston schools with 5,683 pupils was $824,442.22, and the allocation to the Lenoir County rural schools with 8,404 pu pils was $1,780,245.89.
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