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o o T&u&aY, September 1, 1953 MEDFORD (0REO01T) MAIL TRIBUWE IflKB Dixie Classrooms Show Wide Contrasts On Segregation as School Term Starts Rditor't note: This If the second In a three-part series on the South i re action to a Supreme Court decision ordering Integration in public schools. TBI Atlanta, Ga. (U.PJ Travel the South-looking for facts about school segregation as classes open for the fall term and you. would find Dixie a land of contrasts. It all depends on where you look. You would find Negro and white children sitting side by side in Wilmington, Del., San Antonio and St. Louis. ' In Georgia you would discover that some Negro schools are the last word in modern, fireproof construction while many white children still get education in one-room buildings with outside toilets. You--could find it the other way around without dif ficulty. You would find people on edge about the segregation question everywhere, even in the so-called liberal states. North Carolina is such a state.. At Old Fort, N.C., five Negro children accompanied by a Negro adult appeared for admission last week to the white school. They had been attending a modern, well-equipped Negro school, but X was 15 miles away. G The incident attracted to the school yard a crowd of some 500 white persons, a squad of state troopers, sheriffs deputies and deputized volunteer firemen. The Negoes were turned down. There were no incidents. They are ex pected to appeal first to the local board of education and then to the courts. , The Did Fort scene undoubt edly will be reenacted many imes in the long process toward the integration of public schools ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court. As the school bells start ring ing, the nation's segregation stronghold is concentrated in nine states Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi,0 North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Take a look at Mississippi, per haps the most vehement state in the nation about preserving seg regation everywhere. ' The state is 45 per cent Negro populated. Between ages 6 to 21 it has 431,857 Negroes and,p7, 764 whites. Enrollment figures for last year show that 87 per cent of the white schoo? age children were inclass; 80 per cent of the Negroes. That's the highest Negro attendance yet. Mississippi will fight to the last to keep segregation. But it equalized and that just as much money is spent per pupil for both races. is willing to pay for it. J. M. Tubb, Mississippi super intendent of education, said the state is winding up a $65,000,000 school building program and is about to start $60,000,000 worth of new construction. More than 50 per cent is for Negroes. Tubb claimed that classroom and teaching facilities have been Some officials estimate the "equalization" program will cost the South a billion dollars. Schools have been going up so fast that floodlights were erected at some spots so the work could go on at night. Ask the school superintendent at Macon, Ga., to escort you to the best school in town and you'll Kissing Seen Here To Stay As Result of Howl Set Up Following Ban in Jersey Stockton, N.J. (U.R) In- drcatibns are that kissing is here to stay health danger or no in this small,- flood-stricken town. The mayor, who insists he never imposed an actual "un necessary kissing" ban, is all for kissing. A top state health official is for it. And a couple honeymooning here are most emphatically for it. The whole affair of the sani tarv hazards of lio-to-lio relat tions was touched off by a well-'l meaning disinfectant firm, May or Chester Erico said Wednes1 day night. Safeguard Against Disease One of the "rules" said "un necessary kissing" should be av oided, Errico said, as a safe guard against' the spreading of disease. When resultant cries of pro test arose from old and young alike the flustered mayor back ed up outraged partners in ro mance. "It they want to kiss, it's up to them," he said. Dr. Carl Weigele, assistant commissioner of the state health department, agreed. "I am very much in favor of kissing," he said. "Somebody even suggested that I go up to Stockton to prove that there is nothing unhealthy about giving somebody a good, substantial kiss. Of course, my wife might not like that too much." Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stephens, of . Center Bridge, Pa., honey mooning at a local inn here, were particularly chagrined. He's 27, she's 22 Pursuit of Happiness They protested it violated their constitutional right to the pur suit of happiness and said "stif ling of this impulse would not improve marital relations." Errico said the matter had not been brought before the health board, and he doubted if it would be. The man-on-the-street was not pleased with the prospects of non-kissing, either. One married being unidentified, said such a ban would only take osculation underground. "It's like liquor," he said, Alert, the Canadian - U. S. weather station on northern Ellesmere Island, possesses dry land's most northernmost air field. A mere 518 miles from the North Pole, Alert houses the most northerly post office on earth and the northernmost land- local merchant, who insisted on based radio and weather station. 'Prohibit it, and you'll soon get bootlegging and speakeasies. Can't you imagine what might come from kiss' speakeasies?" wind up in an all-Negro institu tion with broad corridors, a com plete scientific lab, a fine library, excellent woodwork shop and sparkling washrooms. A Negro school leader in Geor gia, which is spending $200,000, 000 for new schools, acknowl edged that the improvements were causing some Negroes to soft-pedal integration talk. 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