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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.
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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.
This resistance of Negroes
themselves to integration has
turned out, as expected, to be a
thorn in the side of the National
Association for Advancement of
Colored People which Is leading
the fight to implement the Su
preme Court decision.
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