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- 1 V '7 /. V [ l*a|fe Fourteen THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, October 11, 1956 THE WORLDS MOST WIDELY USED DEVOTIONAL GUIDE Say not ya. Thera are yet four months, and then com- _ ©th harvest? behold, I say unto you. Lift up four eyas, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest (John 4:35.) Solomon* an Indian Christian, was an exhorter in his church. He was quiet and unassuming. He wanted to farm, tut there was no land for rent and he was not able to buy. Then he heard that twenty miles away in the jungle was a for est village where he could get a piece of land by being watchman'tor the village. ' / Solomon was the first Christian to go to live in that villag/& For a whole year we did not see him. He was almost forgotten. Finally, in need of supplies, he came again to the mission station, and Ahen returned to his village. He had not talked much. Several more years passed and Solomon was seldom seen Then one day he came to the mission and said he had a group ready to be come Christians. He requested us to send a minister to baptize them This we did That group of young converts became the nucleus of a thriving church reaching out in Christian love after people and en couraging them to accept Christ. PRAYER Our Father, we need men and women in all lands to go into the fields to win souls for our Lord. Help us in our church to appeal to our young people in such ways that they will desire to enter Christian service. In Jesus' name. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY 1 will dedicate myself anew to be used in a greater way in the ser vice of our Lord. ’ “ ^ Orval M. Auner (India) ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS By G. N. FOY\ Asst. Supt. School in District 56 Some General Information About I^urens County School District No. 56 Laurens County Sfchool District No. 56 has a Board of Trustees consisting of seven members. According to a special act passed at the last session of the General Assembly, 6 members are elected while the chairman is appointed by the County Board of Educa tion. ’This special act designates the communities from which the *six members are to be elected, but provides that all of the electors in the district vote for each trus tee. The present Board of Trus tees is composed of the following men who are from the communi ties mentioned: H. L. Eichelber- ^.ger, Chairman, Clinton; J. J. Cornwall, Vice-Chairman, Clin ton; Jake Rasor, Secretary, Cross Hill; J T. Addison, Joanfta; George Huguley, Clinton^ _ Col. John B. Cooley, Mountville; D. T. Roberts. Lydia Mill. These men serve as trustees without pay. They render a valuable public si rvice in the spending of their time, thought and energy while attending to the many details of school business. The average citi zen doe.' not realize 'the iniporf- ance of a trustee's position”. * . The general duties and powers of the Board of Trustees were dis cussed in a previous article. The general information which fol lows will give some idea of the scope of the situation over which the Board of Trustees has juris diction. . Laurens County School District No. 56 embraces the lower part of Laurems County and centers in Clinton. Besides Clinton, it in cludes the following towns and communities; Joanna, Cross Hill, Mountville, Renrio. Long Branch, and Musgrove The District is bounded principally by Enoree River. Newberry County, Saluda River, and Laurens County School District No. 55, which em braces the upper portion of Lau rens County. The District came into exist ence on January 1, 1952, after the County Board of Education . of Laurens County, under authority vested in it by law, separated the above described past of Laurens County from Laurens County School District No. 55, which had for a short time prior *to that in cluded the entire county. At the time the District was formed there were 20 school buildings oc cupied, 9 White, and 11 Negro. With the progress of the building program made possible by the 3 per cent sales tax, there has been effected some consolidation of the smaller schools where both pupils and teachers were handicapped by the necessity of a teacher hav ing two or more different grade levels in the same room. Now, there are in the District only 12 schools, 8 White and -1 Negro. These schools, their location, and the number of personnel employ ed, including janitors and lunch room workers are listed below. Clinton High School. Clinton, 33 employed. Clinton Junior High School. Canton. 1.9 employed. ^ , Academy Street Elementary School, Clinton. 21 employed. Florida Street Elementary School, Clinton, 21 employed. .Providence Elementary School, Lydia Mill. 12 employed. Joanna Elementary School. Jo anna, 21 employed. Cross Hill Elementary School, Cross Hill. 7 employed. Mountville Elementary School, Mountville, 7 employed. Bell Street High School, Clin ton, 17 employed. Bell Street Elementary School, Clinton, 15 employed. Midway Elementary School, 2 •‘miles'south of Mountville. 13 em ployed. ' Woodson Elementary School, Joanna. 9 employed. Four people constitute the ad ministrative staff of the District, one district-wide maintenance man, and one lunch room super visor, are employed. This adds up to 201 employed personnel in the District. -This employed per sonnel serves a school population of somewhat more than four thousand boys and girls. Forty-four percent of the pu pils of Laurens County School District No. 56 are transported to and from school in 29 school bus es, which in the aggregate travel about 1.375 miles per day at a cost of about 9 cents per mile. These buses are operated by high school boys and girls who have taken the required bus driver training courses, and who have passed rigid tests conducted by representatives fo the State High way Department. These 29 buses tricts, were bought from proceeds used in our djftrict, as in all dis- of the 3 per cent sales tax, from which the drivers’ salaries and other costs of operation are also paid. The bus transportation sys tem within the District is quite an operation on its own account, and it may be that a later discus sion will be devoted entriely to school transportation. The scope of the District, in addition to the area, number of schools, number of persons em ployed. number of pupils served, number of buses, etc., naturally raises the question as to the over all cost of operation. All trans portation costs, as stated above, are paid from proceeds of the 3 per cent sales tax by the State Educational Finance Commission. But all employed personnel and all operation expenses of every kind except transportation ex penses, are paid from funds de rived from three sources, special school taxes, state aid, and Fed eral aid, the last mentioned being relatively small, and usually on a matching basis with special state aid for vocational instruction. So the principal sources of revenue for school operation are special school, taxes and state aid for .maintenance,‘state aid for teach ers’ salaries, and state aid for su pervision. Space will not allow a detailed discussion of these things here, but we may say that the trend in recent years has been toward an increase of aid to edu cation at the state level. To give a general idea of the over-all ope- ratioqgl cost of the District, the actual cost of school operation an nually is more than one-half mil lion dollars. From above it may be seen very easily that the ope rational budget of the Dstrict, that part of school finances which has to do with tax money, local, state, or federal, runs into a size able amount. But in addition to the opera tional budget, the rriodern school system has various other activi ties invok’ing the handling and accounting of funds. The lunch program involves the handling of about $75,000.00 per year,'the sale of milk at recess to pupils for 3 cents per half-pint adds up, the rental book account runs well into five figures, then there are the finances connected with ath letics, and all student activities. The building program in which four new school buildings have Been constructed! and which in volves the construction of one more building and one more ad dition has been, is, and will be quite an item of planning and re sponsibility. The building of ade quate schools for the rapidly in creasing school population of our nation has now come to be a critical need. 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