The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-18
CHILDREN OF THREE
SCHOOLS NARROWED

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on a single session schedule anu
! will close early today.
Early reports this morning IN
Dictated that school children were
marooned in at least two OF inc
school buildings overnight. anu
other reports were that children
were taken from stranded buses
and put up for the night IN pri-
vate homes over the county.
At the Mills River school about
$50 school children and members
of the faculty were marOoncd Tor
/ the night. Food was gathered from
nearby homes and the report TINS
morning was that children and
teachers spent a comfortable
night The children were remov-
cd and taken to their homes tins
morning. g.,
The decision to keep the chill
dren at the Mills River school was
made by Principal Foster after a
bus had returned from one trip
and reported the roads blocked by
deep snowdrifts. =,
Sixty grade school children and
seven teachers were also maroon
ed at the Fletcher school. Blank
cts and food were provided by
residents at Fletcher and the chill
dren and teachers spent a COM
Portable night. 1t was reported
this morning that the children
would he taken to their homes to-
day. -.
Other reports this morning
were that several buses were
stranded as they attempted to
take children home yesterday af-
ternoon. Shipman's Garage re-
ported efforts made last night
to reach two stranded buses with
wreckers were futile, but it was
understood that school children
were removed from the buses and
taken care of in homes in the vi
entity. One bus was stranded IN
Che Tracy Grove section and an
other in the Clear Greek section.
Including the children who
were isolated over night in this
county, about three hundred spent
the night in schools in this coun-
ty, Buncombe and Madison,
while the Buncombe courthouse
was shelter for 48 rural school
children.
Almost 200 of the children
were of Buncombe' county. Forty
eight from West Buncombe school
were taken to the courthouse at
Asheville last night after sheriff's
deputies and rural police had
made heroic rescue trips in cars
through deep snowdrifts to bring
them from the school and from
Rhodes dairy farm on the County
Home road, where a group walk,
ed after one of the buses stalled
in a Waste deep drift a mile
away. &c.,. ..-.-,,.sl, :,
Seventy children with Principal
Ed Warrick and two teachers
were marooned in Valley Springs
school, and at Arden negro school
in the same district between so
and so negro children were COM
PEELED to remain. There were two
teachers with the Arden negro
children.
Arrangements to feed the chill
dren at these schools were made.
Today all schools in Ashcville
and Buncombe county. all schools
in Madison county and the schools
of the Beaverdam district of Hay
wood county, which includes Can
ton were kept closed because of
the heavy SHOWS and impossible
condition of the roads.
Four buses carrying children of
Marshall schools III Madison cpun-
ty to the outlying districts were
unable to get through the snow
piled roads, and when the buses
stalled, officers and citizens of
Marshall sent cars for the APP
proximatcly 100 children and
brought 20 of them back to Mar
shall, where last night they were
fed and quartered in hotels and
i'm the homes of kind-hearted Mar
shall folk. Thirty in the Laurel
Fork bus could not be brought TO
Marshall and were sheltered at
the home of Olin Jarrett on Iou-