| Show north carolina arolin ll to vote p 50 million for schools the long delay r in the supreme courts ruling on the ted issue it t appears that north carolan will hold old a 50 bond election this M fall to help counties build d new schools said the christian science monitor the legislature authorized gov william B umstead to call the election elec this calendar year subsequently the united states supreme court made known its decision calling for reargument of the segregation cases in october this caused some of the backers of the north Caroli carolina fia school bond issue to feel feet that the chances of voters approving the school building fund had been endangered their only wily alternative apparently would have been to have governor Un umstead istead call the legislature back into special session and ask for a postpone moti so what ahat the election could be held otter the supreme courts attitude on segregation had been made kanom oct 3 recommended however it Is reported that governor umstead feel feels that he the bond election should be held before the supreme court hem new arguments on the con of racial degreg segregation in public school schools and the devuon is expected to be set get before wore mhd october governor Urn umstead stead asked the stat state board bowa of education tor for its suggestions and arid the board has recommended that the statewide vot be held on oct 3 it Is considered likely that a vo vote on a bond issue for the states mental hospitals will be held on the same day as the school bond bono election Cro governor vernor umstead is represented as feeling feeding that while the bond vote tw be held before the supreme court hears hean new the bulk of the motley i if the bond issue Is approved by the voters should not be spent t until after the supreme court decision which may my not be handed down until next year the view expressed by many Is that regardless of what the decision of the court may be the states with the best bw school for both races will have less im difficulty in making to comply with the decision they reason that even if the separate parate sef but equal ann cdale is upheld there them will be a heavy accent on the equal north callina voters to 1949 a similar bond issue tor for new school I 1 buildings in proportion to population ula tion 0 he the greater ovater percentage I 1 of thia conwy has been spent on negro schools local school districts addled added about to the school building fund under the formula worked out by the legislature for al locating the now dochod bond besue would be divided equally angrig the counties that Is badh county would get got another would be divwer on the basis of od average dally daily attendance UT in each county the remaining would be allocated to the counties on the basis of need with the state board of education authorized to work out a a pr formula for muli rural majorities some of ithe the laber counties have expressed dissatisfaction with the method of allo allocation caWn specified by the legislature since they a say they p pay a most of the t taxes a okd and have b borrowed heavily hi in the postwar period th property tax rc re founces to build their own EC Lm bools hence it Is felt that for the issue to carry it will have to 0 o pile up heavy majorities in the gnau rural tural counties while no one we to in north carolina pretends that school bacill ties throughout the state mate are equal for bath the races rams the state is 13 gene generally rany considered to have made sit yides fawad equalization in Y ceaine m i north carolina was t the he nral southern state to acqua schoolteacher salaria sa lark ia which ch was without a court suit alt of the threat of one and in recent years negro school teachers have actually averaged more in pay than white teachers due to the greater proportion aion of higher bra ratings among the negro teach ch erv the most dangerous age tor for a boy Is when a girl first notices lito LHomer phillips |
