By w TERESA CREAGH We’d like to ' start with a happy thought this week. THERE WILL BE NO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY, OCT. 29. Our teachers will be at tending an NCEA meeting. There fore they will be getting a rest from us, and we will be getting a rest from then&MMj The Kappa, Gammas traveled Thursday night to Greenville to seje the production “Anthony and Cleo' patra” at East Carolina College. The play was presented by the college players and was viewed in ordei that new ideas and techniques might be obtained for the benefit of our group. Kappa Gammas who attended this performance were': Betty Jean Sumrell, Brenda Smith, Brenda Parker, Jackie Potter, Har ry Mallard, Lib .McDaniel, Danny Koonce, Glen HttSSSif, Billy Har rison, Joyce Dillahunt, and Teresa Creagh. Sponsors attending i were Mr. John H. Pollock and Miss Amy Charlotte White. OPEN JLETTER TO A CER TAIN SOPHOMORE — Please don’t do it!!! rfxav;, Last Friday night Brenda Hill gave a slumber for ^Mary Dixon’s fifteenth (fii}e%). Those who stayed overnight were Donna Parker, JK^y Dixon, Brenda Hill (of course® Jean Sum rell, Kathy RopCT," and Teresa Creagh. Those who dropped in dur ing the evening were Rodney Col ' tins, Freddie Costello, David Cox, Barry Henderson, Charles Parker, Jack Parser, and Jimmy Pollock. Everyone had a good time including the football game on the front lawn. NOTE TO A CERTAIN EIGHTH GRADER — Please don’t be so up set! Wonder. What Doug Mattocks was doing on the Activity Bus last Friday night ? Why Jane Buck is interested in Swansboro ? Whose ring Lib McDaniel is wearing ? Why Ann Mallard was supposed to be a "witness” for Dianne Jar man and Ben Greene? Who visited Mary Dixon and Kathy Roper Sunday ? Could it have been Greg Hood and Danny Terry ? If Polly McDaniel has been chased lately ? When Donna Parker and Kathy Roper will learn to say “woman” ? FISH FRY SUNDAY The Fellowship Class of the Tren ton- Methodist Church wfll haye A fish fry , at the home of Mr. ind Mrs. Thomas Johnson Sunday af ternoon, October 27, at 6 p. in. All members and their families are in vited. Everyone is asked to bring as much slaw and hush puppies as their family can eat. Use Ready-Mixed fOHClitTE 1 No Mess — No Wasting — Our Ready-Mixed Concrete Is on the Job When You Need It. Also Sand, Gravel and Crushed Stone. Ba Ready Mixed Crete Company Free Estimate* — New Bern Highway, Kinston, N. C. The Senate recently voted upon amendments which 1 offered to pro visions in the Higher Education Bill which provide authority for the Federal Commissioner of Education to make grants and loans to col leges and universities owned or con trolled or operated by religious de nominations. The bill authorizes the appropria tion of $900 million for grants and an additional $600 million for loans to public, private, and church-owned or church-controlled or operated colleges or universities for academic'; facilities. In separate votes the Senate voted to accept my amendment to provide: for a court test of the constitution ality of Federal grants and loans to colleges and universities conducted by religious denominations, and it rejected my amendment to declare such colleges and universities in eligible for such loans and grants under the bill. I am personally convinced that grants and loans of this nature vio late the First Amendment. Four times in the past seventeen years, namely, in the EvCrson Case, the McCollum Case, the McGowan of the States has expressly de clared that the First Amendment means at least these things: 1. That neither a State nor the Federal Government "can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all re ligions, or prefer one religion over another.” 2. That “no tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to sup _-JEW, «... adopt to teach or practice tehgion.” 3. That neither a State nor the Federal Government "can openly or secretly participate in the affairs of any religions organizations or group* and vice versa.” It is obvious that the Federal Govermnent would be aiding re ligious educational institutions and using tax money for their support and participating in their affairs if jt makes grants or loans to them under the provisions of Hit 6143. 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