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HERE IS WHAT THE
LEGISLATURE MUST
CONSIDER NEXT WEEK
To Run the Schools, or Not Run
Them May Call For Vote
in September,
Governor Hodges made public
the steps he and his Advisory Com
mittee plan to recommend that the
Legislature and the people take it
order to “preserve public schools
and help preserve the public
peace." Representatives and Sen
ators from all counties will go tc
Raleigh next week to hold a spec
ial session of the Legislature.
The Governor and Tom Pearsall
Chairman of the N. C. Advisors
Committee on Education, helc
statewide news conferences simul
taneously here and in Asheville
There they and their associates
first presented copies of suggestec
bills to be submitted to the Legis
lature in special session July 23
Then they answered questions.
The gist of the school preserva
tion plan would simply provide at
tendance expense grants, formerlj
referred to as tuition grants, t<
citizens who do not want their chil
dren to go to school with a mem
ber of the opposite race, and allov
a local school unit to suspend oper
ation of its schools, upon majority
public vote, if the situation is con
sidered intolerable.
If the Legislature approves, the
people of North Carolina may vote
on these questions, probably ir
September. The State Supreme
Court has been asked whether i
general election in Septembei
would be lawful.
Holding of the big news confer
ence followed a second round oi
conferences with legislators. Ir
April, most of them visited th<
mansion for discussions. During
this week, the Governor, Pearsall
Attorney General William B. Rod
man, Dr. Charles Carroll, Stat<
Superintendent of Public Instruc
(ion, and their associates met wit!
legislators in four convenient
places in the State. These sessions
were harmonious and led to severa
changes in the proposed legisla
tion.
The Governor maintained the po
sition that after legislators hat
had opportunities to freely discus:
these bills, then the results shoult
immediately be made available tc
the public. Today he hurried bad
to Raleigh to preside over the news
conference. Pearsall outlined the
bills for members of the N. C
Press Association meeting ir
Asheville.
Five bills were released.
Here briefly is what the sug
gested bills would do:
1. Provide for a public vote on
the question of amending the
State Constitution to permit the
General Assembly to provide local
option and education expense
grants. A local option unit is de
fined as “Any county or city school
administrative units, or any con
venient and reasonable territorial
subdivision within an administra
tive unit which includes within its
boundaries one or more public
schools.” The statewide vote would
decide whether permission would
be given the General Assembly to
authorize upon majority vote of its
voters, to suspend or authorize the
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suspension of the operation of one
or more of the public schools in
? that particular unit. The education
’ expense grant, if such a plan is
, approved by the Legislature and
the people, would be available only
for education in a nonsectarian
’ school. Such a grant also would nol
, be available if the child can reas
' onably be assigned to a school not
( attended by a child of another race.
. Strict regulations are provided for
j the allotment of these expense
[ grants.
2. Provide for the setting up of
machinery for regulating the local
■ option plan, which, of course,
1 would depend upon the people’s ap
’ proval of the constitutional chang-
I es. In the preamble to this meas
’ ure, it is recommended that the
■ Legislature affirm “that schools
1 and the means of education ought
’ forever to be encouraged. The val-
■ ue and importance of our public
1 schools is “known and acknowledg
ed by all our people. It is further
recognized that our public schools
• are so intimately related to the
customs and feelings of the people
of each community that their ef
i fective operation is impossible ex
cept in conformity with communi
ty attitudes. Our people in each
community need to have a full and
meaningful choice as to whether a
public school, which may have
some enforced mixing of the races,
shall continue to be maintained
and supported in that community.”
Elections to decide whether a
school or schools in a local option
unit will be closed may be called
upon petition of at least 15 per
cent of the registered voters with
in that local option unit. A like
number of petitioners may call for
reopening the school or schools.
Any teacher, principal or super
visor under contract with a school
closed under such a plan will be
entitled to all salaries and bene
fits during the life of the contract
provided a similar job cannot be
found elsewhere. Nor would the
closing of a school affect the cur
rent contract of the superintendent
of the city or county administra-
I tive unit.
| 3. Set up machinery for educa
tion expense grants, if the people
approve the idea. These grants
would amount to the proportionate
expense of state funds needed to
educate the child. That is current
ly figured at about $135 a year
out of State funds. Local units
might award more if they choose.
An applicant denied what he terms
proper relief by his local board
may appeal. Private schools must
be approved to make grants avail
able. Rigid control is set up over
the expenditure of these funds, an
applicant who commits fraud
would be treated as a felon with
imprisonment of not more than five
years and/or a -fine of not more
than $5,000. Funds from which to
pay these grants will come from a
special appropriation or from the
State’s Emergency and Contingen
cy Fund. Money earmarked for the
school year would be exempted.
4. Amend the Compulsory
School Attendance law to care for
children who don’t want to go to
school with members of another
race and who cannot find a proper
private nonsectarian school. Other
wise, the present law would hold.
That law directs that children be
tween seven and sixteen years of
age shall go to school.
5. Set the date for the Septem
ber general election. This purely is
a matter for legislative determi
nation if the State Supreme Court
finds such an election is all right.
The Court is expected to render its
opinion before the July 23 session.
Those five steps constitute part
of the administration’s answer to
the May 17, 1954, decision. The
1955 Legislature revised many
school laws, including those on as
signment of pupils, and bespoke
its vigorous protest to the decision.
It asked the Advisory Committee
to continue its study, one that even
then had been going on for several
months under Pearsall, himself a
NEW DIRECTORY LISTS
N.C. GUEST FACILITIES
The new North Carolina Travel
book for 1956-57, listing tourist
accommodations from the beaches
to the Great Smoky and Blue
Ridge Mountains, is just off the
press and available free on re
quest from the State Advertising
Division, Department of Conserva
tion and Development, Raleigh.
Rates and descriptions of over
1,000 hotels, inns, motor courts,
guest homes, dude ranches and
lodges are included in the 104-page
book. The new directory list 34,-
145 rooms for visitors. Room rates
per person range from $2 per day
double occtlpancy to S2O per day
double occupancy, the higher, prices
applying at luxury resorts where
rates include both rooms and
meals.
State and National Parks, scen
ic attractions, outdoor dramas,
summer camps and religious as
sembly grounds are also descibed
in the Travelbook.
A State map opens out of the
center of the directory, which is
pocketbook size for convenient
carrying on trips.
Population and altitude are list
ed for each city or town offering
guest accommodations.
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Water Heaters Water Pumps Easy Washers c ~ . □z- _ •
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BRIDGE SERVICE STATION Beer. Gas. Oil, Accessories.
Fishing Supplies
FREE ICE WATER COLUMBIA. N. C. 8 MILEg east OF COLUMBIA ON U. S. 64
SPENCER’S ESSO MAYFLOWER
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Specializing In
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COLUMBIA GARAGE CARLEY’S CAFE
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H. R. CRADDOCK’S a grade a establishment
MODERN SERVICE STATION
m c l , COLUMBIA HOTEL
Near Ferry Dock—2 Miles from Junction of ,
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distributor Convenient and Comfortable
AMOCO OIL PRODUCTS
NETS, ROPE, FISHING SUPPLIES FOR SPORTSMEN AND TOURISTS
EXPERT GUIDE SERVICE FOR
HUNTING AND FISHING PARTIES MRS. -RUTH EVERTON. Prop.
Clean Rest Rooms for Men and Women
SPENCER’S CAFE FOR YOUR CARS RE<?U|REMENTS—
MANNS HARBOR, N .C. STOP AT
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FRESH SHRIMP BAIT FOR FISHERMEN COHOON OIL CO.
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CHICKEN, STEAKS ~ TEXACO PRODUCTS
MR. AND MRS. IRA SPENCER FIRESTONE TIRES FRIENDLY SERVICE
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