The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06
FIVE SCHOOL BUILDING BIDS
TO BE OPENED AT NEXT BOARD
MEETING, WEDNESDAY, JULY Is
Board Supports ROdanthe Delegations Pro-
test Against Closing of School Asks Also
to Keep Stumpy Point School.

Mrs. Mary Langston Evans took
over the office of Superintendent
of the Dare County Schools on
Monday, July 2. Before her first day
in Office was completed, she had
to deal with most of the thorpy
problems chat have been occupy
ing the Dare Board of Education
tor a long time past.
Revised Building Program
The Board of Education met in
the superintendent office be-
tween 1890 am. and about 8 pm.
Meeting with the Board were B. II.
Stephens, architect, and J. J..
Cameron of the State Boards
Building Committee. At the con-
clusion of the state mems confer
ence with the Board, the following
tentative revised building program
was adopted.
For Kitty Hawk school -in-
I stalIatiOn of a central heating
plant and an adequate, modern
system of lighting. Manns Har-
Dor School - central heat and
lighting system. Wanch csc
School - central heating plant.
Manteo School and anoke
CoIOred SchOOl-plans previously
! adopted to remain unchanged.
Advertisements for bids are to
be printed Immediately under the
supervision Of Mr.. Cameron. The
Baard will meet on July % to open
bids preliminary to the awarding
of contracts.
Revision Of the building program
was agreed upon by the Board in
the interest of speeding up the
long-delayed building program.
Referendum ON the Banks
The Board directed letter to DIR.
Clyde Erwin, State Superintend-
ent, about two months ago, ask
ing whether the State Board would
abide by the results of referen-
dunn to be held on the Lower
Banks to. determine the location
of the new consolidated school
building, No reply has as yet boen
received. Mr.. Cameron said that
he would bring the matter to the
attention of the state school Of
ficials and have definite answer
by the. date of the next meeting,
July 25
Successful Delegation
A large delegation of men and
women from the villages of Ro-
danthe, Waves and Salvo came
before the Board Monday to pro-
test the action of the state Board
in failing to authorize the return
of two elementary and one high
school teacher to the Rodanthe
School for the coming school year.
Failure to allot teachers to the
school means, of course, that the
school must be closed; it means,
also, that the approximately so
school children in the three VIII
lagos must be transported to the
Buxton school, a daily round-trip
of fOrty-odd miles.
1t was the contention of the del
egatiOn that the Buxton school is
already crowded beyond its proper
capacity, and that the consOlida-
ton proposed by the state is inn
practicable at the present time.
Until the new school is built,
with suitable facilities, we will not
approve sending our children out
of the community to school, to
Buxton OF anywhere else" one
member of the delegation said be-
fore the group met with the board
to state its case.
The Board considered the ap-
peal of the delegation to keep the
Rodanthe School open until such
time as an adequate building to
house the Banks students can be
built; it also considered the case
of the Stumpy Point School, for
which no teachers were named in
the State Boards ALLEGATION, and
whose pupils were assigned to the
EngelhaTd School in Hyde county.
Upon the unanimous vote of the
Board, the following two requests,
proposed in both cases by Board
member H. e. Best and seconded,
See BOARD, Page Eight