The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 12, 1970, Image 8
PAGE 8—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, March 12, 1970
SCHOOL ASSIGNMENTS
(Continued from page 1)
Mrs. Margie Duffie, two vacan
cies; Grade 3: Miss Ruth Fea-
gle, Miss Martha Bouknight,
Mrs. Mary E. Holmes, Mrs. An
nie M. Brown; Grade 4: Mrs.
Annie M. Cromer, Mrs. Ruby
Abrams, Mrs. Grace Grant;
Grade 5: Miss Margaret Har
ris, Mrs. Daisy Fowler, Mrs.
Sonja Kinard, Mrs. Celeste Haw
kins. Librarian, Mrs. Julia Tin
dall.
Speers Street, Grades 1-5, R.
Ed. Beck, principal:
Grade 1, Mrs. Edna W. Ring
er, Mrs. Mabel Boozer, Mrs.
Dorothy Amick, Miss Arrie Mae
Dewalt, Mrs. Janie M. Schum-
pert, one vacancy;
Grade 2: Miss Katie Shealy,
Mrs. Leonide F. Reagin, Mrs.
Velma P. Turner, Mrs. Lillie
J. Farrow; Grade 3: Mrs.
Mary D. Dawkins, Miss Sarah
E. Boozer, Mrs. Harriett B. Bur
nette, Mrs. Eugenia Bennett;
Grade 4: Miss Carolyn Lane,
Mrs. Harriett Dickerson, Mrs.
Lillie Mae Dendy, one vacancy;
Grade 5: Mrs. Lou Frances
Lide, Mrs. Kathleen Wilson and
Mrs. Jessie M. Floyd, one va
cancy; librarian, Mrs. Mary C.
Smith. Music vacancy.
Mollohon School, special edu
cation, R. E. Beck, principal:
Mrs. Mary Nell Eargle, Mrs.
Ruth Pugh, Mrs. Evelyn N. San
ders, Mrs. Audrey Duffie, Mrs.
Pearlie Mayers; and Mrs. Ruth
Crapps, teacher’s aid.
RITZ
THEATRE
THURSDAY FRIDAY SAT
URDAY MONDAY & TUBS-
day
COMPUTER
WORE TENNIS
SHOES
Kurt Russell
Cesar Romero
Joe Flynn
Adult 75c All Children 50c
(G'
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
and FRIDAY
VIVA MAX
Jonathan Winters
Pamela Tiffin
(G)
CLOVER LEAF
DRIVE-IN
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
First Run
YOUNG
BIILY
YOUNG
Angie Dickinson
Robert Mitchum
SUNDAY
TAMMY AND
THE DOCTOR
Sandra Dee
Peter Fonda
Always A Color Cartoon
The Drive-In Will Re Closed
On Monday. Tuesday, Wed
nesday And Thursday For
The Winter Months.
Silverstreet, grades 5-8, M. R.
Huggins, principal and part-
time teacher: Mrs. Irene Tyler,
Mrs. Lourene Sapp, Miss lola
Clark, Miss Andrena Rutherford
and three or four possible va
cancies.
Reuben Elementary, grades
1-4, James Weaver, teaching
principal: Mrs. Irene Parnell,
Mrs. Channie Bobb, Miss Sara
Folk, Miss Willie Mangum, Mrs.
Carrie Minick, Mrs. Ruth Nich
ols, Mrs. Marguerite Havird,
Mrs. Elizabeth Reeder.
Bush River, grades 1-8: Chas.
Wise, Principal: Jessie M. Der
rick, Betty J. Epps, Helen Folk,
Bera Glenn, Rebecca Gowen,
Macie D. King, Edith Walker,
Mrs. Sara Ford, one vacancy.
Space prevents listing of re
maining faculties which will
be published next week. Grades
assigned to the remaining coun
ty schools are:
Whitmire High, 8-12; Park
Street, 1-2; Carver, 5-7; Pom-
aria, 1-3; Garmany, 4-8; Little
Mountain, 1-8; Mid-Carolina, 9-
12; Prosperity Elem. 1-4; Ri-
kard Elementary, 5-8.
Newberry Junior High School
will be closed.
ELECT OFFICERS
Sorority members of the Ep
silon Iota chapter of Alpha Xi
Delta at Newberry College have
elected their officers for the
1970-71 school year.
Elaine Smith, sophomore, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
Smith of 1508 Wheeler Street,
was named recording secretary.
WANT ADS
4 Electrolux vacum cleaners
and all attachments to be sold
for $39.95 or monthly payments
available. Unclaimed Freight,
1225 Broad River Rd (Hwy 176)
• Columbia.
Singer Touch & Sew sewing ma
chines (7 of them) all are slant
needle models and are fully
equipped to zigzag, make but
tonholes, and fancy stitches.
These machines carry full guar
antees and will be sold on a
“first come-first served” basis,
only $39.95 each. Monthly pay
ments available. They may be
inspected and tested at Un
claimed Freight, 1225 Broad
River Rd (Hwy 176) Columbia.
9 A.M.—6 P.M. Mon.—Sat.
FOR SALE
Two (2) 4 door used auto
mobiles. Sealed bids by 10:00
o’clock March 26, 1970. Cars
may be seen by contacting the
Newberry County Board of
Commissioners Office. Reserve
the right to reject any and all
bids.
Itc
5 delux solid state fully trans
istorized stereophonic High Fi
delity consoles in beautiful hand
rubbed finish. Delux BSR speed
record changer and 4 speaker
audio system. To be sold for
$88 each. Monthly payments
available. May be inspected at
Unclaimed Freight 1225 Broad
River, Rd (Hwy 176) Columbia.
9 A.M.—6 P.M. Mon.—Sat.
1970 stereo component sets
(only 3) complete with speak
ers, $49.95 each. Unclaimed
Freight, 1225 Broad River Rd
(Hwy 176) Columbia.
INCOME TAX RETURNS
State and Federal
J. ED. McCONNELI
1324 Washington St.
Phone 276-2755
FOR COMPLETE
Termite & Pest
Control
—Call—
Lonnie Gilliam
Telephone 276-5113
Newberry, S. C.
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we are to understand all else.
For what is wrong about forced
integration in the schools is not
its impracticality, which we all
now see, but its immorality,
which is not yet fully grasped.
Let us consider.
Imagine, now, a neighborhood
in which 95 per cent of the peo
ple are white, 5 per cent of
them black. It is self-evident
that we have here a de facto
imbalance. We do not have leg
al segregation, but we do not
have integration either, at least
not anything more than “token
ism”.
Let us Suppose also that for
some reason—any reason, econ
omics, white hostilities, or per
haps black prejudice against
living next door to whites—the
proportion does not change. The
only way then to change it is
for some of the whites to move
away and, concurrently for some
blacks who live elsewhere to
move into this neighborhood.
One is not enough. Both things
must happen.
Creating an Imbalance
Or let us suppose the propor
tion does change.Let us sup
pose that for some reason—any
reason, including prejudice-
large numbers of white fami
lies move out of the neighbor
hood, making room for black
people to move in, so that after
a few years we have entirely
reversed the proportions. The
neighborhood becomes 95 per
cent black, 5 per cent white.
Again we have an imbalance.
Again we do not truly have se
gregation but call it that if you
wish; de facto segregation. In
any event we do not have inte
gration in the sense that there
is a general mixing together of
the blacks and whites.
Now suppose that we act from
the assumption that this is
wrong. That it is wrong to have
the neighborhood either 95 per
cent white or 95 per cent black.
That the mix, to be “right’,,
must be some particular pro
portion.
What action is to be taken?
In the first instance, do we by
law forcefully remove some of
the white families from the
POLITICAL
Announcements
COUNTY COUNCIL, DIST. 1
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for the office of Coun
ty Council, District 1 in the June
9 Democratic Primary, and I
pledge myself to abide by the
results of the Primary.
CARMAN BOUKNIGHT
COUNTY COUNCIL, DIST. 2
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for the office of Coun
ty Council, District 2 in the June
9 Democratic Primary, and I
pledge myself to abide by the
results of the Primary.
EARL H. GILLIAM
COUNTY COUNCIL, DIST. 2
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for the office of Coun
ty Council, District 2 in the June
9 Democratic Primary, and I
pledge myself to abide by the
results of the Primary.
JOHN H. SCHUMPERT
PROBATE JUDGE
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for re-election to the
office of Probate Judge for New
berry County in the June 9
Democratic Primary, and I
pledge myself to abide by the
results of the Primary.
FRANK H. WARD
neighborhood so that we can
force in the “proper” number
of black families? Or, in the
second instance, do we by law
prohibit some of the white fam
ilies from moving out of the
neighborhood? If we do either,
who decides who moves, who
stays?
The example, of course, is
fanciful. We do none of this. No
one has had the political tem
erity to propose a law that
would send soldiers to pick peo
ple up and move them, or to
block the way and prevent
them from moving. No one
stands up and says this is the
moral thing to do.
Stated thus baldly, the im
morality of doing such things is
perfectly clear. No one thinks
it moral to send policemen, or
the National Guard, bayonets
in hand, to corral people and
force them into a swimming
pool, or a public park, or a
cocktail party when they do not
wish to go.
No one pretends this is mor
al—for all that anyone may de
plore people’s prejudice—be
cause everyone can see that to
do this is to make of our soc
iety a police state. The meth
ods, whatever the differences in
intent, would be no different
from the tramping boots of the
Communist, Nazi or Fascistic
police states.
All this being fanciful, no one
proposing such things, it may
seem we have strayed far from
the school integration program.
But have we?
The essence of that program
is that we have tried to apply
to our schools the methods we
would not dream of applying to
other parts of society. We have
forced the children to move.
There are many things wrong
with the forcible transfer of
children from school to school
to obtain the “proper” racial
mix. It is, for one thing, waste
ful of time, energy, and money
that could better be applied to
making all schools better.
To this practical objection
there is also the fact that in
concept it is arrogant. The un
spoken idea it rests upon is that
black children will somehow
gain from putting their black
skins near to white skins. This
is the reverse coin of the worst
segregationists’s idea that some
how the white children will suf
fer from putting their white
skins near to black skins.
Both are insolent assertions
of white superiority. Both spring
from the same bitter seed.
Still, the practical difficulties
might be surmounted. The im
plied arrogance might be over
looked, on the grounds that the
alleged superiority is not racial
but cultural; or that, further,
both whites and blacks will
gain from mutual association.
That still leaves the moral ques
tion.
Perhaps it should be restated.
Is it moral for society to apply
to children the force that, if it
were applied to adults, men
would know immoral? What
charity, what compassion, what
morality is there in forcing a
child as we would not force his
father?
It is a terrible thing to see,
as we have seen, soldiers stand
ing guard so that a black child
may enter a white school. You
cannot help but cringe in shame
that only this way is it done.
But at least then the soldiers
are standing for a moral prin
ciple—that no one child or adult,
shall be barred by the color of
his skin from access to what be
longs to us all, white or black.
But it would have been ter
rifying if those same soldiers
had been going about the town
rounding up the black children
and marching them from their
accustomed school to another.
FOR COUNCII
Earl H. Gilliam of Whitmire,
owner of Whitmire Insurance
Agency, announces his candi
dacy this week for Newberry
County Council for District 2 in
the forthcoming Democratic pri
mary.
Mr. Gilliam was born on Oct.
13, 1916 and reared in Whit
mire where he attended the
public schools.
He is a Veteran of World War
II where he served in the Air
Force for three and one-half
years.
He is a member of the First
Baptist Church of Whitmire,
where he has served as trustee,
deacon, Sunday School Teacher
and at present serves as Train
ing Union Director and Secre
tary of the Adult Department
of the Sunday School.
Gilliam was the president of
the Newberry County Develop
ment Board which he served for
two years. He is a member of
the Masonic Lodge 195, Whit
mire; American Legion and is
serving as President of the
Whitmire Boosters Club.
He has been a leader and in
strumental in promoting acti
vities for youth in the commun
ity and is vitally interested in
good sound county government.
He is married to the former
Hazel H. Jackson of Whitmire
and they have three children,
Kathy, a school teacher in At
lanta, Ga.; Nancy G. Hutson,
a public school teacher at Whit
ten Village and Jack, a junior
at Whitmire High School.
while they went fearfully and
their parents wept. On that, I
verily believe, morality .will
brook no challenge.
Thus, then, the abyss. It open
ed because in fleeing from one
moral wrong of the past, for
which we felt guilty, we fled
all unaware to another immor
ality. The failure is tragic be
cause in so doing we heaped
the burdens upon our children,
who are helpless.
Must We Turn Back?
Does this mean, as many
men of good will fear, that to
recognize as much, to acknowl
edge the failure of forced inte
gration in the schools, is to sur
render, to turn backward to
what we have fled from?
Surely not. There remains,
and we as a people must insist
upon it, the moral imperative
that no one should be denied his
place in society, his dignity as
a human being, because of his
color. Not in the schools only,
but in his livelihood and his
life. No custom, no tradition, no
trickery should be allowed to
evade that imperative.
That we can insist upon with
out violating the other moral
imperative. So long as he does
not encroach upon others, no
man should be compelled to
walk where he would not walk,
live where he would not live,
share what company he would
shun, think what he would not
think, believe what he believes
not.
If we grasp the distinction,
we will follow a tragic failure
with a giant step. And, God
willing, not just in the schools.