IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
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VOLUME XI «•» HI MKm SUNDAY * THURSDAY
Griffin Explains School System
Young Tar Heels Would
Take Compulsory Course
More Than 2,000 CCC Jobs
Allotted To State Under
New Program.
Washington, June 25 —North
Carolina has been allotted 2,-
405 oiut of a nation-wide 100.000
positions in the new Civilian Con -
servation Corps program to be
gin July 1, CCC Director James
JMcEntee reported today.
These new men will be enroll
ed as replacements for men who
have left the Corps to accept em
ployment or who will leave prior
to June 30 as their enlistments
expire.
At least 90 percent of the North
Carolinians who will be enrolled
—or about 2,l64—are expected to
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all others and bids you to have
a big time while in ’’The Cour
teous City”. Everything has
been prepared for your enjoy
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joy the occasion to the fullest
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be juniors between the ages of
17 and 23.
These also are the men who
will have the first taste of the
new national policy of giving
non-combatant training relating
to military science and tactics to
members of the CCC.
“Young men entering the CCC
in July will have excellent op
portunities for training in auto
mechanics, truck and tractor
driving, automobile operation,
maintenance and repair, the
handling of power machinery,
bridge building, the contribution
of trails and minor roads, the
laying of telephone lines, erosion
control, first aid and many oth
er types of work and skills,” Me-
Entee said.
“This training will be given
while the men are at work in
fields, in repair ships and in the
educational and training build
ings maintained at each camp to
give enrollees education in aca
demic subjects and training in
vocational work.”
The North Carolina CCC direc
tors of selection and their assis
tants now are at work examin
ing applicants for enrollment in
the corps. Those selected, said Mc-
Entee, will be enrolled by July 1
after War Department physical
examinations are completed and
men outfitted.
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LARD
The outlook for lard appears
to have some hopeful spots be
cause of the large buying program
planned by the Federal Surplus
Commodities corporation.
Coastal Defense
Is Strengthened ,
Along Atlantic
Washington'— The United Sta
tes defense policy in the Atlantic
and Caribbean aims at eventual
but complete independence of the
British fleet.
At present plans do not call
for the massing of a large fleet in
Atlantic waters. The bulk of new
fighting ships, building and plan
ning, probably will be' based in
the Pacific in keeping with tra
ditional naval policy.
Despite desires of naval strat
egists and considerable affirma
tive sentiment in Congress, the
day of the full-fledged “two-ocean,
navy” is still far off, barring, of
course, unforeseen developments. l
Second only to the first line of^
! resistance which the fleet would
I offer in the Atlantic, is the de fen
, se base construction by the army
and navy along the Atlantic coast
line and in Puerto Rico and the
Canal Zone itself.
Preliminary work on a power
ful Army air base at Chicopee,
Mass., has begun. At Quenset, R.
1., the Navy has been authorized
to purchase $1,000,000 worth of
land for another air station.
Naval shore establishments,
bases and stations already exist
at various points along the New
England coast, including Ports
mouth, N. H., Boston, Newport,
R. 1., and the large submarine
base at New London, Conn.
From New York City south to
Pensacola, Fla., various naval
1 establishments dot the east coast.
| At Norfolk, the navy has author
ization to buy an additional $501,-
000 of land.
On the Florida peninsula, an
ambitious naval undertaking, in
volving new expenditures of $22,-
850,000, is being launched. Os the
total sum, $17,000,000 has been al
located for consturction of a giant
air station at Jacksonville, while
the remainder, $5,850,000, is auth
orized for improvements at Pen
sacola.
In Puerto Rico there is a vital
beehive of activity as an estimat
ed $1,000,000,000 is being spent to
convert the island possession into
a Caribbean “Gibraltar” com
manding the Atlantic approach to
the Panama Canal.
To coordinate the army’s part
in the huge job, Puerto Rico has
been designated as a separate ar
my department. Transfer of troops
to the new department has been
going on steadily for some time |
as barracks, fortifications and air
fields come into existence.
At the Panama Canal, the nar
row transcontinental U. S. land
strip on either side of the water
way is bristling with new anti
aircraft guns and batteries, with
more to come. As in Puerto Rico,
the land forces are being aug
mented.
Elaborate anti-espionage and
anti-sabotage measures have been
evolved and papper plans have
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LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING I
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1940
State Pays For Operation
For Eight School Months
Steel Chairman
wmr/ wT
Irving S. Olds, elected chairman
of the board of the U. S. Steel corpo
ration, to succeed Edward R. Stet
tinius Jr., who resigned to serve
ivith national defense commission.
been drafted to construct “by
pass” locks which would be used
to transit ships in the event the
regular locks were destroyed by
enemies.
Another point of defense in the
Caribbean scheme is the navy’s
base at Guantanamo, Cuba, which
provides a northern listening post.
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AMERICANS IN BRITAIN
APPEAL FOR EARLY AID
Washington Senator McNary,
Republican, Aregon, received an
appeal this week from mere than
100 Americans residing in Great
Britain urging that the United
States give the allies “planes ami
more planes, guns and more guns,
and if necessary, what is harder
still, our men.”
The list of signers, which in
cluded the name of Mrs. .Peter
Arno, urged help for .the .Red
Cross and similar relief organiza
tions operating atp'oad and sug
gested that “we Americans should
also throw open our shores to the
old and young of all the countries
stricken by aggression .for .the
duration of the war.”
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER THIRTY-SIX
Person county is a’ part of
North Carolina’s State School
system. Under this system, which
has gained nation-wide recogni
tion, the state pays for the opera
tion of the schools for eight
months in all counties and for
both the white and colored. The
funds provided from Raleigh and
which come from tax sources
other than ad valorem pay all
personnel salaries of superinten
dents, office, teachers, mechanics,
truck drivers and janitors. Trans
portation costs are also paid from
state funds.
The county’s tax money is
used for the erection of new
buildings and the upkeep of the
old ones. Insurance on the school
building is also a county obli
gation and a rather large one for
each year. When additional bus
ses are added to the county’s to
tal this is from county funds. As
busses wear out these are replac
ed by the state. The largest item
of Person County’s expense for
schools is school bond principal
| and interest, which amounts to
' about $30,000 annually. The total
appropriate cost of schools for
1939-1940 is $254,000 of which
$169,000 are state funds, and
$58,000 are county funds.
The curriculum is fixed and set
up in a State Course of Study.
Variations are permitted in the
counties and cities as conditions
vary. Usually the larger schools
can give a broader selection of
subjects. The Schools of Person
county teach the usual academic
subjects plus a liberal number of
vocational subjects such as Home
Economics, Industrial Arts, Ag
riculture, Business Training, and
Public School Music. This num
ber does not include several teach
ers of piano. There is still, how
ever, a much greater demand for
vocational subjects and teachers
than we have.
Forty-two busses are operated
in the (county. Thirty-five for the
white and seven for the colored.
Transportation for the negro
schools is confined to the high
school students. A large number
of one and two-teacher negro
schools should be consolidated in
the interest of better teaching.
The original cost of this would
be heavy on the county but more
economical over a period of
years.
Four years ago the state began
to furnish free textbooks to all
children in the elementary grad
es. Two years ago a rental plan
for high school students was pro
vided. High school students may
now rent all books for the year
for about $2.20. Supplementary
readers may be rented in the el
ementary grades for a nominal
sum. Person county uses all these
methods of handling books and
generally this system is very sat
isfactory. This requires a county
bookroom as there are slightly
over forty thousand books to be
accounted for each year.
The total enrollment for the
county is 7,370. Os this number
4,240 are white and 3,060 are ne
groes with 70 Indians. There are
123 teaichers in the white schools
and 79 in the negro schools, with
three in the Indian school or a
tital of 205 teachers and princi
pals.
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