NUMBER 16
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1965
VOLUME xvn
Total Jones School Enrollment Off
39 at Opening; 32 Negroes Attend
Five Previously All-White Schools
Jones County School Superin
tendent George Harriett report
ed an opening-day enrollment of
3192 students in the system’s
nine schools. This is 39 less
than the 3231 enrolled on open
ing day last year.
Tbis year’s enrollment for the
first time included colored chil
dren in previously all-white
schools.
Harriett reported Wednesday
that' 39 colored students had
been assigned prior to open
ing day but only 32 came to
the white schools on opening
day.
The assignment included 25
colored children to Jones Cen
Harriett Places
Emphasis Broad
School Program
George W. Harriett, superin
tendent of Jones County
schools, called for a “balanced
program of instruction for all
children” in a recent talk be
fore the Jones County chapter
of the NEA-NCEA. The session
was held in the library at Jones
Central High School.
Harriett was the main speak
er on the program at the open
ing meeting of the year for the
combined Jones County chapter
of the National Education As
sociation and the North Caro
lina Education Association.
The top-ranking county school
official cautioned against “fit
ting youngsters in a package by
using only one textbook,” and
encouraged both teachers and
administrators to experiment
with ability and interest group
ing of students.
Harriett alcn
team teaching and increased em
phasis on team planning of the
overall school program.
“A good school,” he said, “is
one in which every child is giv
en opportunities and encour
ment to develop at whatever lev
el his abilities will permit.”
Touching on the duties of
teachers in the Jones County
system, Harriett placed empha
sis on teaching “six hours a
day.”
A portion of the initial meet
ing of the year was devoted to
planning other professional ses
sions during the rest of the
1965-1966 school term.
Jones Home Agent
Gets Promotion
Mrs. Anne R. Huffman has
been promoted to the position
of Associate Home Economics
Agent in the North Carolina
Agricultural Extension Service.
Mrs. Huffman has been work
ing in the position of Assistant ]
Home Agent in Jones County ,
for three years. She is a 1962 ■
graduate of UNC at Greensboro ,
with a degree in home econo- ;
mics. /
A native of Yadkin County, :
Mrs. Huffman is the former 1
Anne Reece. She is married to i
Paul F. Huffman Jr. of Tren- <
ton. j
tral High School, nine to Tren
ton elementary school, one to
comfort, three to Alex H. White
School in Pollocksville and one
to the Maysville Elementary
School.
Harriett’s report showed a
total faculty in all schools of
99, with 66 colored teachers and
63 white teachers. Total regis
tration for all nine schools in
cluded 1743 colored children and
1462 white children.
In the elementary grades op
ening-day enrollment was 2187
and in the high schools 1005.
Tuckahoe Rumble Smoothed Over With
Refusal to Prosecute Four Charges
ociico ui liiuiuunenis Drougnt
two weekends ago, involving a
number of men from the West
ern end of Jones County has
been smoothed over, at least
temporarily, with the “nol press
ing” of four assault with dead
ly weapon charges in last Fri
day’s session of Jones County
Recorder’s Court.
The four against whom the
charges had been lodged are
Clifton Quinh, Ray Miller, Mack
Stroud Banks and Sutton Mills
— all of TVenton route 2. The
charges were brought by Alonza
Mills
Other cases cleared from the
docket either by trial before
■Judge Joe Becton or submission
to Clerk Walter Henderson in
cluded court costs levied against
Talbert King of Trenton route
2, Henry Moore of Pollocksville
James Godley, Chestine Godley
both of Maysville and Hubert
Lee Baysden of Columbia for
public drunkenness.
Jack Thomas White of Pol
locksville route 1 was fined
$100 and costs for drunken driv
ing, and Quitman Dudley of
Maysville paid the costs for as
sault with a deadly weapon.
Allen Wilder of Pollocksville
had to make good a bad check
and pay the costs in a worth
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RACIAL INTEGRATION CONFRONTS BOTH KINSTON HOSPITALS THIS MONTH
we win just have to play it
by ear.” '
That was the comment of Dr.
Glenn Tyndall, major stockhold
er of Parrott Memorial Hospit
al in Kinston, Tuesday as he
and his staff faced the ultimat
um of federal and state welfare
officials on September 1st.
Dr. Tyndall is one of many
doctors who believe that racial
mixing of people sick enough
to require hospitalization is not
in the medical best interest of
any persons involved.
But he has the responsibility
of this section’s oldest hospital
and its dedicated staff of vet
eran employees as well as the
medical welfare of people who
have never known hospital care
anywhere except at Parrott’s.
Tuesday Dr. Tyndall had just
returned from a New England
vacation but he knew a form
was waiting in his office. It was
the second such form and it
came from the state welfare de
partment. The first letter did
not fix a deadline for “compli
ance” but the last letter did.
One may wonder what the
state welfare department has to
do with a private hospital into
which np taxpayer’s dollar has
ever been invested.
The answer is simple. Many
people on welfare rolls prefer
the treatment they have known
all their lives at Parrott’s to
treatment in any other hospital.
Hospital bills of welfare recip
ients are paid by welfare de
partments so in blunt substance
Dr. Tyndall and every other op
erator of a private hospital in
the nation has to mix the races
or no longer be eligible to care
for patients who prefer to come
to their hospital.
The loss of welfare patients
gives Dr. Tyndall concern only
because he says there are hun
dreds of old people in this gen
eral area who have preferred
Parrott through the years, and
now if they receive welfare aid
they can no longer be treated
at Parrott’s.
Dr. Tyndall says he is not go
ing to sign any such compli
ance order. But he worries, un
derstandably how long Parrott’s
can survive with all the pres
sures that the federal govern
ment is capable of exerting.
Dr. Tyndall reminds that be
ginning July 1, 1966 every per
son over 65 will be eligible for
‘Medicare” help with their hos
pital bill, and under the same
rind of “Freedom of Choice”
plan conceived by the dictators
n Washington these people past
15 will have no freedom of
:hoice to attend the hospital of
heir preference unless that hos
rital is total integrated on a ra
:ial basis.
Patients age 65 and over
-epresent about 15 per cent of
he gross annual patient load
it Parrott’s. Dr. Tyndall won
lers if his hospital can still
toy in the “Black ink” if it
loses 15 per cent of its patients
Dr. Tyndall says he and his
Staff feel that there is a possi
bility that the increased patient
load Parrott’s may expect from
people under 65 who don't want
to be put in a room with a pa
tient of the opposite race may
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Private Hospital Refusing Racial Integration
This is Carrott Memorial Hospital, which is owned by individuals and its head L)r ,;!?r ' :
dall. has refused to bow to the orders of Gestapo agents in Washington and Raleigh, who \v:i i
treatment in this hospital of persons receiving welfare or “Medicare” treatment. This is another
instance of the federal government giving people the “Freedom of Choice” to do exactly what
the Gestapo agents in Washington decide for them to do.
County-Owned Hospital Being Totally Integrated
This is Lenoir Memorial Hospital, which is owned by the taxpayers of Lenoir County. Dur
ing the month of September every department of the hospital is being racially integrated under
orders from Gestapo agents in Washington, D. C. Because of this .a strict policy has been in
stituted to control the flow of visitors in every paret of the hospital to reduce as nearly as pos
sible the chances of incidents which have occurred in other hospitals in the area where white
uid colored patients have been put in the same rooms, and where visiting has created problems.