FRIDAY. AUGUST 30. 1957
HYDE EDUCATION
BOARD REFUSES
POSTPONEMENT
County Superintendent Issues
Statement Relative to School
Controversy
The date for opening of schools
in Hyde County having been set,
the Board of Education saw noth
ing to be gained by granting a re
quest of Engelhard school patrons
to postpone the opening, until aft
er Sept 9, Supt. Tommy Gaylord
said Tuesday.
In a lengthy statement issued
for publication, Mr. Gaylord said
“It may be that the people in the
Engelhard area intend to defy the
action taken by the Hyde County
Board of Education and the school
laws of North Carolina authorizing
such action, and thus confuse and
frustrate the entire school system
of Hyde County.”
Mr. Gaylord also indicates he
thinks the special term of court
called is a needless expense and
inconvenience to the county, and
will only result in a verdict for
the Board of Education.
His statement is printed here
with:
“The next regular term of Hyde
Superior Court will convene on
Monday, October 7, less than a
month after the date set for the
special term on Sept. 9. Another
term of Hyde County Superior
Court is scheduled to convene on
Monday, October 28. It now ap
pears that Hyde County will have
three terms of Superior Court
within less than two months.
“The special term has been call
ed for the purpose of trying sev
eral appeals for high school pupits
formerly attending East Hyde or
Engelhard High School and as
signed by the Hyde County Board
of Education to West Hyde or
Swan Quarter High School as
Authorized under the provisions of
General Statutes of North Caro
lina, Sections 115-176 to 179 of the
school law.
“The Hyde County Board of
Education first considered the sug
gestion of consolidating the East
Hyde High School and the West
Hyde High School, but before tak
ing the necessary action to perfect
the consolidation, beginning with
the school year 1957-1958, decided
to assign the high school pupils
from East Hyde High School to
West Hyde High School as author
ized by sub-section 4, Section 115-
76, General Statutes of North
Carolina, which provides that “The
provisions of this Section (G. S.
115-76) shall not deprive any city
or county Board of Education of
the authority to assign or enroll
any and all pupils in schools in
accordance with the provisions of
General Statutes 115-176 to 115-
179”. This statute defines the in
tent and purpose of the assign
ment of pupils for the more order
ly and efficient administration of
the schools involved and for the
further promotion of the pupils’
interests.
“An Aug. 9, the Hyde County
Board of Education heard the final
requests of the pupils for reas
signment to the East Hyde High
School and on August 20, notified
by registered mail, the parents or
persons in loco parentis of the
action of the Board denying such
applications for reassignment. It
has been suggested that an appeal
may be taken from the action of
the Board to the Superior Court.
These appeals if taken, to be heard
at the special term Hyde Superior
Court called for September 9.
“All Hyde County Schools will
open on September 3. It may be
that the people in the Engelhard
area intend to defy the action
taken by the Hyde County Board
of Education and the Schools laws
of North Carolina, authorizing
such action, and thus confuse and
frustrate the entire school system
of the County.”
KITTY HAWK PERSONALS
Mrs. Rosa Baum is in Albemarle
Hospital, Elizabeth City and ex
pected home this week. Mrs. Mary
Dowdy, Mrs. Irene Midgett and
her grandson Eddie visited her.
Marjorie Parker is still in
Elisabeth City hospital being
treated for a broken leg.
A bazaar and bake sale will be
gin-at Perry’s Drive Inn Saturday
at 10 a.m. for the M. E. Church
building fund. Sale will end when
pies and cakes are all sold.
Tommy Sanderlin of the Air
Force is visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Sanderlin. Oscar
Sanderlin iS home on leave from
his pilot boat job.
Gaston has returned to Cali
fornia after a month's visit with
his sister, Mrs. Eli Bowen, Miss
Maude Baum and others.
Mrs. Jennie Beasley and Mrs.
Will Tillett and Mrs. Laura Dick
have returned from a trip to Roa
noke, Va. to visit Will Tillett, who
is sick in the hospital.
Gilbert Henley of the Coast
Guard in Baltimore spent the
week end with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Henley.
J
A study by the vehicles agency
reveals that last year 76 fatal
crack-ups occurred during the eve
ning hour from 7 to 8 pan., while
the safest hour apparently was
from 4 to 5 a.m. when only 12
‘fatal accidents occurred.
LEADING FIGHTING MEN INTO COMBAT
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FOLLOW ME—Key man in the Army’s pentomie infantry
division rifle platoons is the “follow me" guy the fire team or
squad leader Whether he heads the eleven-man squad or the
five-man fire team it’s his job te lead his fighting men into
close combat with any enemv under any battle conditions.
SPECIAL HEARING
ON SEPT. 9th FOR
ENGELHARD FOLK
Chief Justice Assigns Judge Burg
wyn to Hear Case at
Swan Quarter
Patrons of the Engelhard school,
who oppose consolidation of its
High school with Swan Quarter
will get another day in court on
September 9th. Judge W. H. S.
Burgwyn of Woodland has been
assigned by the thief Justice of
the N. C. Supreme Court to hear
the complaint which affects 54
high school students.
Schools in Hyde are set to open
on September 3, but Engelhard
patrons say they will not send
their children to Swan Quarter,
but to the Engelhard school as
usual. The Hyde County Board
of Education has assigned the
teachers to the Swan Quarter
school, but Engelhard patrons say
sufficient qualified teachers have
volunteered for service in the En
gelhard school. No teachers are
being paid, they say.
The Hyde County school dispute
has precipitated one of the worst
situations ever known in the coun
ty, creating strife between com
munities, and arousing ill will be
tween citizens and county officials
that many people say will never
be lived down.
Fifty four individual suits are
being brought. On August 10 the
case was heard by Judge Malcolm
Paul in Washington, whose ruling
in effect endorsed the action of
the Hyde County Board of Educa
tion. The Engelhard patrons, it
appears were ruled out on a point
of law. They are contending in
their pleadings that the Board of
Education, in assigning the Engel
hard pupils to the Swan Quarter
School “acted without authority
and in violation of the law and
without any consideration of the
merits of the individual case of
the said (students);” they further
contend that the Board did not
use sufficient time to give proper
consideration to these assign
ments, that the whole thing was
“nothing but a scheme concocted
by members of the Board to . . .
use the pupil assignment statutes
to consolidate the schools” where
by the one at Engelhard would be
closed and discontinued.
They contend that the action of
the Board was not in good faith,
they score Supt. of Schools Tommy
Gaylord for aiding and abetting
two members of the Board in the
scheme to prevent any considera
tion of the merits of the case of
the Engelhard people, and there
are other allegations, among the
strongest being no 3.
Here they say “the assignment
is a travesty on school administra
tion and was made with no regard
for the welfare or interest of (the
pupil) but in complete disregard
of the same; . . . that the long
bus trip proposed, the longer hours
and absence from home works an
unjustifiable hardship upon the
pupil and tends to be injurious to
his health, progress in school, and 1
opportunity to lead normal schooll
life, including proper participation
in school activities outside the j
class room. They also contend that
the facilities at Swan Quarter are
grossly inadequate, and they be
lieve the building may actually be
unsafe, especially for the addition
al pupils sought to be crowded
into it.”
One of the most serious charges
is against the good faith of the
Board of Education, which they
contend has not acted in good
faith, but rather has been moti
vated by a desire to destroy the
Engelhard school and has merely
used (these pupils) as a pawn in
the game they are attempting to
play.
They are asking the court, “in
the interests of the health, wel
fare, proper educational opportun
ities and the general welfare of
of the child, to set aside this pur
ported assignment of the child to
the Swan Quaretr school, and the
application for reassignment to
the Engelhard school be upheld
and allowed.
For the trial of this case,
jurors will be brought to Hyde
from seme other county.
NEW KNOWLEDGE ARMS
WEATHERMEN FOR WAR
AGAINST HURRICANES
Washington.—Weather experts
greet the 1957 crop of hurricanes,
not with cheers, exactly, but with
increasing knowledge.
Researchers have learned to
whip up pint-size hurricanes in
laboratory dishpans. Heated at the
pan’s center, water rises and
whirls like air in a tropical storm,
allowing scientists to study cy
clonic behavior on a miniature
scale.
The United States Weather Bu
reau is even venturing to predict
storm activity 30 days before it
takes place.
Though mature hurricanes ex
pend as much energy as several
thousand atomic bombs exploding
every second, they start life in
nocuously, the National Geograph
ic Society says. ,
Thundershowers, spattering
calm, tropical reaches of the At
lantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of
Mexico, often hint at low atmos
pheric pressure—ideal for the hur
ricane’s birth. Cool outer air flows
toward the hot low-pressure re
gion. Earth’s rotation gives these
breezes a gentle, counter-clock
wise spin, and trouble is on the
way.
Soon growing to awesome adult
hood, the hurricane begins to wan
der at the whim of existing weath
er conditions. Usually it starts
drifting west and north, pushed by
tropical easterlies. Speed: gener
ally not more than 14 miles per
hour.
The storm signals its approach
with high, feathery clouds that
seem to radiate from a distant
point. Dwellers along tropical
coasts may take warning from
lazy ocean swells with long gaps
between crests.
As the hurricane gradually pen
etrates higher latitudes, its direc
tion to apt to change, its forward
speed to increase. When prevail
ing westerlies shove against it, it
veers to a northeastward course.
It may accelerate to 50 miles per
hour.
Variations in this behavior are
frequent. Many full-grown hurri
canes simply sit in their tracks
and snarl for a day or two. Others
meander aimlessly, sometimes cir
cling as outside wind directions
change.
A big hurricane may have 9
diameter of 500 miles; a small one
may stretch barely 25 miles from
one side to the other. In either
case, the rotating wind may have
gusts of more than 150 miles per
hour and a sustained velocity of
100 miles per hour. Wind increases
in force toward the eye of the
storm—the hole in the" meteorolog
ical doughnut.
Barometric pressure within this
wierdly still storm center usually
reads about 28 and a fraction inch
es, compared with the subtropical
'normal of about 30 inches. Some-
I times pressure may sag below 27
I inches.
| Wind force is always stronger to
the right of the hurricane’s eye
since its counterclockwise velocity
is increased by the storm’s for
ward speed. Thus if a northbound
hurricane slams across the coast,
towns east of the eye will be hit
harder than those west of it
But the greatest destruction is
caused by flooding. Extreme low
pressure of the storm center lifts
the ocean level some two to three
feet. As the storms howls shore
ward its rotating wind builds up
more water ahead of it. If these
storm surges sweep ashore during
high tide, salt water devastation
will multiply the effect of the
storm's torrential rainfall.
Your face may rebel at a diet
of fried, fatty and starchy foods.
Such foods as fruits, green vege
tables, broiled lean meats,, celtery
and earrots are better for your
face and your figure.
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
[ T-V MANIA ON
THE OUTER BANKS
By BASIL HOOPER
Avon, N. C.
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This tv mania
Is sweeping the land,
It’s such a big thing
It’s got out of hand.
I’ll have to admit
Sometimes it’s alright,
But brother just watch it
Night after night.
People who watch it
Completely ignore,
The people next to them
They think he’s a bore.
The weather man says
Tonight a south-wester,
TV’s a goner ,
Like a boil, it will fester.
Something else is happening
The snow’s a foot deep,
If it doesn’t clear up
I’m going asleep.
The man of the house
He likes a good fight,
The woman soap operas,
They’re crossed up all night.
He goes to the TV *
He then turns a dial,
His wife follows him up
There’s never a smile.
The kids who are sitting
Have taken this in,
They jump up and switch to
Their faorite, RIN TIN;
But to finish this story
I’ll have to admit,
To look at that snow
I’d rather just knit.
Don’t tell me your story
I have a set too,
I’m thoroughly disgusted
I wish it were you.
The use of •yellow-enameled
bulbs in the lighting fixtures on
the porch can reduce the attrac
tion for insects of the light.
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ST. GEO.’S CHURCH
SUNDAY TO OBSERVE
83 rd ANNIVERSARY
Homecoming And Picnic Dinner
Are Planned at Lake Landing
Church Sunday
Homecoming Sunday at St.
George’s Episcopal Church at
Lake Landing this Sunday, Sep
tember 1, will commemorate the
eighty-third anniversary of the
church, it has been announced -by
the Rev. George H. Harris, rector.
Following the regular 11 a.m.
service, a picnic dinner will be
spread on the grounds; the public
is cordially invited to attend. At
the dinner, the Rev. A. C. D. Noe,
former rector, is expected to pre
sent a history of the church which
he has been compiling from old
records, mostly two old church
registers.
Few records of St. George’s
church have been kept other than
the two registers, but some infor
mation about the church is in
them. It is known that the first
service of what is now St.
George’s Episcopal Church was
held in the old Amity Academy.
This first service was held on the
third Sunday in March 1866. These
services continued once a month
until the Pamlico Convention met.
When this convention met, a par
ish was organized. The parish was
received into the union with the
Convention in May 1869. St.
George’s Episcopal Church was
built in 1874 and is located about
three miles west of Engelhard on
Highway 264 and about two miles
east of Lake Landing.
There have been many rectors
for St. George’s Episcopal Church.
The first rector was Rev. Samuel
S. Barber. Other rectors were:
Rev. Henry W.Ticknro; Rev. J. W.
Hayes, who served from April 23
1924, until December 27, 1926;
Rev. A. C. D. Noe; Rev. Sidney
Matthews; Rev. Worth Wicker;
Rev. Arthur H. Marshall; Rev.
Fred A. Turner, who served from
November 22, 1937, until February
30, 1940; Rev. Burgess Wood
Gaither, who served from June 5,
1940, until June 7, 1952; Rev. C.
Edward Sharp, who served from
July 10, 1952, until July 20, 1954;
and Rev. Eric D. Collie, who serv
ed from August 1, 1954, until Au
gust 2, 1956.
In St. George’s Episcopal
Church cemetery is found one
grave with the person buried
standing up. The man had asthma
in his later years, and the only
way he could get rest was by
standing up, so his request was
that he be buried standing up. In
another place in the cemetery are
five graves which are unusual;
these adjoining lots were the lots
of Dr. Gibbs and B. Weston. Dr. I
Gibbs’ second wife became B. Wes
ton’s second wife; Dr. Gibbs is
buried between his two wives, and
B. Weston is buried between his
two wives, and the second wife of
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these two men is buried between
her two husbands.
Original home of the grapefruit
is thought to be the West Indies.
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