The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 02, 1955, Image 2
P»jre Two
Presbyterian Men
Name New Officers
The Men-of-the-Church of the
First Presbyterian church have
elected the following new officers
to serve for the coming year:
Marion Milam, president; Har-
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, JgBe 2, 1955
old Coleman and B. F. Wingard,
vice ^presidents; Len Ledford, sec
retary-treasurer; Eugene Johnson,
assistant secretary-treasurer.
Ed ^Campbell is the retiring
president. Regular monthly meet
ings will be resumed in Septem
ber, it is announced.
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SEGREGATION END LEFT TO
LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN DECREE
Washington, Ma y31—The Su
preme Court Tuesday handed
state and local officials first re
sponsibility for finding ways to
end all racial segregation in pub
lic schools “as soon as possible.”
The court fixed no deadline
and ordered no specific national
procedure for the historic and
delicate task.
But it directed federal district
courts to see that the process
starts promptly and continues
with reasonable speed, giving
! full weight to varying local con
ditions and obstacles.
Reaction to the unanimous rul
ing was almost startlingly di-
, verse.
I Southern foes of racially mix-
| ed schools said the decision
meant an almost indefinite delay
in integration. Negro leaders
said the decision paves the way
for largely wiping out segrega
tion by 1956.
So both sides generally found
satisfaction in the ruling — be
cause of miles-apart interpreta
tions of its effect.
One result could be a multi
tude of new court tests on
whether local officials are carry
ing out the general principles
laid down by the high tribunal.
Both Negro leaders and some
Southern officials spoke of coun
ty-by-county legal action in
some states.
The long - awaited decision
dealt with how best to imple
ment the high court’s unani
mous ruling of almost exactly
one year ago that racial segre
gation in public schools is un
constitutional.
Local Emphasis
It put all the emphasis on local
action to meet local problems, re
fusing requests by Negro attor
neys for a clear-cut decree to end
all school segregation by Sep
tember, 1956, at the latest. The
Eisenhower administration had
suggested that local school
boards be given 90 days to sub
mit plans for ending segregation.
Chief Justice Warren read the
| five-page decision to a hushed
cout chamber. A complete end to
segregation, he said, presents
“varied local school problems.”
Local school authorities, he con
tinued, thus have “the primary
responsibility” for solving the
problems.
The role of the courts, he went
on, is to decide whether local au
thorities are proceeding to end
segregation “in good faith.” Fed
eral district courts, “because of
their proximity to local condit
ions, and the possible need for
further hearings . . . can best per
form this judicial appraisal.”
Southerners stressed the em
phasis on “practicable” local ac
tion. Former Gov. Herman Tal-
madge of Georgia, said it would
not be practicable to end segre
gation in Georgia “for a long,
long time." State Sen. Roland
Cooper of Alabama’s Wilcox
county said it wouldn’t be feas
ible to end segregation there
“within the next 100 years.”
Officials of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People 'emphasized the
court’s call for “prompt” and “ef
fective” action, and “full com
pliance” in “good faith.”
The Supreme Court, however,
vague in specifying procedures,
was strong in declaring what the
ultimate result should be.
“It should go without saying
that the vitality of these consti
tutional principles (outlawing
segregation) cannot be allowed
to yield simply because of disa
greement with them,” the court
sadi.
At another point the decision
declared;
“All provisions of federal, state
or local law requiring or per
mitting such discrimination (seg
regation in schools) must yield
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The high tribunal said in the
five cases directly before it, local
courts will “require” that school
authorities “make a prompt and
reasonable start toward full com
pliance. . .”
The decision directly involved
segregation cases from Claren
don County, S. C., Prince Ed
ward County, Va., Topeka, Kan
sas, Claymont and Hockessin i
school district in Delaware, and
the District of Columbia. Its
principles could apply with
equal force to all areas with
segregated schools.
The court said once a start to
ward compliance has been made,
“the courts may find that addi
tional time is necessary in the
public interest and is consistent
with good faith compliance at
the earliest practicable date.”
May Submit Plant
The court obliquely suggested
that school boards may submit
plans to the local court for car
rying out integration. It said the
Icoal tribunal “will also consid
er the adequacy of any plans the
defendants may propose to meet
these problems and to effectuate
a transition to a racially non-
discriminatory school system."
The local courts were directed
“to take such proceedings and
enter such orders and decrees
consistent with this opinion as
are necessary and proper” to in
tegrate schools “with all delib
erate speed.” ,
“Traditionally, equity has been
characterized by a practical flex
ibility in shaping its remedies
and by a facility for adjusting
and reconciling-public and pri
vate needs. These cases call for
the exercise of these traditional
attributes of equity power.
“At stake is .the personal in
teract of the plaintiffs (Negro
students) in admission to public
schools as soon as practicable on
April Traffic
Deaths Lower
Than Last Year
South Carolina had 52 traffic
deaths during April, two less than
the same month in 1954, the State
Highway department has announc
ed. April’s decrease reverses the
trend of the first three months of
1966 when traffic fatalities were
considerably higher than in 1964.
This year’s total number of deaths
is still 19 above last year’s toll.
There were 864 persons injured
in 2,354 traffi<T accidents during
April.
The state’s death rate per one
hundred million miles of travel
dropped to 8.3 which is 0.2 per
cent lower than the previous
month’s rate but was still consid
erably higher than last year’s 7.7
percentage. The rate had consis
tently increased durir^ the first
three months of 1955, reaching
8.7 in March. During most of this
period the point system was not in.
operation. The new law became
effective April 14, 1956.
a non-discrkninatory basis. To
effectuate this interest may call
for elimination of a variety of
obstacles in making the transit
ion to school systems operated in
accordance with the constitution
al principles set forth in our May
17, 1954, decision.
“Courts of equity may proper
ly take into account the public
interest in the elimination of
such obstacles in a systematic
and effective manner.”
The Supreme Court suggested
that the local federal courts may
want to hold hearings on inte
gration. In suggesting the role
of local officials and the local
courts.
Meeting Executive
Board W. S. C S.
During the May meeting of the
executive board of the Woman’s
Society of Christian Service of
Broad Street Methodist church,
several changes were made in the
lane of meeting of the society, the
circles and the executive board.
The executive meeting wHl be
held the first Monday of each
month at 3:30 p. m. in homes of
different members. The Woman’s
Society of Christian Service will
meet the second Monday of each
month in the church at 4 p. m.
Mrs. Ray Thomas, spiritual life
leader, will arrange soft music
and an altar for prayer and medi
tation before the meeting. This
period will last about fifteen min
utes. The circles will meet in dif
ferent homes on the third Mon
day of each month at 3:30 p. m.
Each circle will select for special
attentions a student, a service
man and a missionary.
There are two new circles or
ganized this year, the Morning cir
cle, Mrs. Howard Smith, chair
man. The Home Bound circle,
Mrs. C. T. Thompson, chairman.
A banquet was held recently at
Presbyterian college in the dining
nail for Methodist students at the
college by the board of education
of the Methodrst church.
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Now that spring is here, the
nation’s youngsters are planning
all-day hikes through the hills
and woods. The nation’s moth
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Collisions with other vehicles
and running off roadways caused
12 fatal accidents each during
April. Pedestrians made up the
third largest class of fatal acci
dents: 8. These three types also
ranked at the top in the number
of non-fatal accidents.
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Mrs. Sarah Horton ‘Johnson, 76,
widow of J. B. Johnson, Sr., died
at (|n early hour yesterday morn
ing at Blalock clinic after several
years of declining health and a
bri£f critical illness of only a few
hours.
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon (Thursday) at 5
o’clock at the First Baptist church
conducted by Rev. J. H. Darr and
Dr. W. R. Turner. Interment will
follow in Rosemont cemetery. The
body will remain at Gray Funeral
home until 4 o’clock this after
noon at which time it will be
placed in the church to await the
hour of the services.
Pallbearers will be Earl John
son, Sr., Carroll and Luther John
son, Earl and Horace Horton and
L. S. Holland.
Mrs. Johnson was a native of
this county where her entire life
was spent. She was a daughter of
the late Pinkney and Martha Hol
lingsworth Horton, and a devoted
member of the First Baptist church
here.
Mrs. Johnson possessed many
admirable traits of character and
a strong Christian faith that en
deared her to all who knew her
during her long and useful and
beuatiful life. Kind, interested in
others, faithful in all obligations
of life, devoted to her family,
friends and church, she leaves an
influence that has touched and'
blessed many lives. Those who
knew her will receive the an
nouncement of her passing with
genuine regret.
She is survived by seven sons
and one daughter, Albert S., Rob
ert E., Olin C. f and J. William
Johnson, all of this city; Raymond
H. Johnson, of Chicago, 111.; J. B.
Johnson, Jr., of Joanna, and Jared
L. Johnson, of Union, and Mrs.
Irby Ferguson, of this city. Twelve
grandchildren, two sisters and two
brothers, Mrs. L. S. Holland, of
Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. E. L. Sharpe,
of Port Neches, Texas; J. Wash
Horton and Robert S. Horton, both
of near here.
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will be $1.00.
The program is being given to
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