Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-01
'AImondCa|ls Dalton
Enemy Of Schools
Also Cites Vote
Fuvoring Local
Fund Cutoff Plan
BY MARY LOU WERNER
Star stan Correspondent

]. Lindsay Almond. jr., last
night cast Republican Ted Dali
ton in the role of a fund cutoff,
school : closing fellow traveller.
and vowed to do everything in
his power to prevent the clos
ing of schools.
The Democratic candidate
for governor laid aside his GUS
tomary high flown phrases
about States rights and racial
amalgamation to give his
G. o. P. opponents a political
tongue-lashing before a de-
lighted audience Of 500 at
Woodrow Wilson High School
here.
"Mr. Dalton has conveyed
the impression to many people
that If one school closes tenn
porarily, funds will be cut on
from all the schools in vir-
ginia," declared Mr.. Almond.
MANY had succumbed to that
false propaganda. The truth is
Ted Dalton himself voted to
empower the local boards Of
supervisors and town councils
to retain in their hands the
control Of funds and cut them
of in the event of racial mix
ing in their schools. He has
never denied that"
The Republican candidate,
who is a member of the State
Senate from Radford, has
called for repeal of the State
fund cutoff and school clos
ing laws. The matter referred
to by Mr.. Almond is another
piece of legislation that allows
localities to put school budgets
on a 30-day basis and cancel
them at will.
DehOunces 'Claptrap'
HE knows. as you know, In
many areas the local governing
bodies will not appropriate
funds for mixed schools" Mr..
Almond continued. so why
is he hollering about cutting
on the funds and closing the
schools when he voted to EN-
power the localities to do Just
that"
| The Democratic candidate
said if any schools close IT
would not hesitate to use every
power at my command to re.
open them if an atmosphere,
conducive to learning. It's q;
lot of claptrap that I am
against schools"
The real enemies of public
free schools, Mr.. Almond said.
ARE not those who seek to pre-.
serve our segregated system,
but those who insist pell-mell
on the mixing of the races, and
those who propose a plan to
legaliZe and promote intepra.
ton"
Mr.. Dalton advocates a local
pupil assignment plan, which
he contends is the best way to
preserve separate schools. Mr..
Almond stands for massive
resistance" against indignation.
ExtOls Byrd
: Mr.. Almond also defended
Senator Byrd, who appeared on
the platform with him:
Last Saturday, Mr.. Dalton
made the most astounding
statement to fall from the lips
of Virginian in modern times.
He made the accusation pub.
licly that the great senior Sem
ator was peddling trash in
this campaign. OF all the men
in America who has burned his
life out in the service of his
country-of all the names to
go down in the annals of pub
lie service to Virginia and
America-none has held higher
the unquenchable torch of in.
tegrity, none carried the BAN
ner Of devotion to duty more
gracefully and magnificently
than has Harry Byrd, senior
Senator from Virginia.
Il speak with restraint when
I say he who traduces that
great record himself peddles
trash"
Referring to Mr.. Dalton as
the apostle of modern Repub-
licanism in Virginia, Mr.. Al
mond predicted that thou
sands Of Republicans in the
Shenandoah Valley are tired Of
modern Republicanism and will
vote Democratic in this cleo
ton"