Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-20

SCHOOLS. LitlyutioH iHSote"Su
they ore turned down.
intendent, presented the appli-
cations to the school board last
Thursday, and they were for
warded to the State Pupil
Placement Board. The school
board recommended that the
placement board reject all the
applications, commenting that
the transfer requests would
not be in the best interest of
the Negro children "or in the
interest of other children in the
county or of the people of the
county"
White Schools Crowded
The school board also noted
that county white schools are
so overcrowded it would seri-
ously tax their capacity and
lower their efficiency to enroll
additional pupils.
Twenty-Five of the appli-
cants seek to enter Warren
County High School at Front
Royal, where 1862 white stu
dents were enrolled last year.
1t is the county's only high
school.
At the high school level, the
county is apt to have a hard
time defending segregation.
Last year, the county sent SO
of its Negro high school chill
dren SIS miles to Manassas Re-
gional High School, where they
were boarded at the county's
expense and given transporta-
ton home on week ends.
Mr.. Gasque said the cost
per student at Manassas last
year was $591.64. This was
nearly three times the $206
cost for white students in the
county.
Another 81 Negro high
school students were transport
ed "a miles daily to johnson
Williams High School at Ber-
ryville. One went to Winches-
ter.
201 in Negro School
Besides the high school appli-
cants, there are five Negro ele-
mentary students seeking to
enter the white Front Royal
Elementary School. They for
merly went to the ResSie JET
fries Elementary School for
Negroes at the edge of Front
Royal-the county's only Me-
gro school-where 201 students
were enrolled last year.
The Front Royal Elementary
School is the largest Of the
county'S 10 white elementary
schools. Eight of them have
four rooms or less, including
two with only one room. The
total enrolment in the 10
schools last year was 2,242.
If Negroes eventually are as.
signed to white schools, War
rem County would have a diff.
; cult time financing a public
! school system without State
help. The massive resistance
laws provides for the withhold
ing of State school funds from
any locality that reopens q
school closed because of in.
, tegration and attempts to oper.
ate it with mixed classes.
Budget is $767,7O4
OF the school budget of $751;
704, the State contribute:
$685., $40 and the locality puts
up 1898. The rest comes
j from the Federal Government
and miscellaneous sources.
The legal situation in Warren
County differs from mos
other communities where seq
regation is under attack. Nc
desegregation litigation, sucl
! as there has been in Arlington
Charlottesville, Norfolk, New.
port News and Prince Edward
. has preceded the Negro applica.
tionS here.
For this reason, Warner
! County believes it may get BY
, this fall without indignation
, while the applications are de.
bated in court.
, Warren County'S calm atti.
, tude should not be mistaken
: as a sign the people here arr
ready to rebel against Vir'
> ginia'S charted course of resist
> ance to indignation, nor tina
| they would welcome mixeC
classes.
, Conservative County
1t does not mean that Ar.
lington County has a new riva
r as the capital of liberalism il
; Virginia. To the contrary
T Warren is a conservative Demo,
! cratic county. which no doub
J will let the State carry on TIT
segregation fight here out O
2 sincere loyalty to the Ok
Dominion.
More likely, the citizens
statements reflect the sobe
= thinking of practical peopl
r who are yet to be stirred b,
highly organized local clique
o and political opportunists Of
C both sides of the race contro
q versy.
n And historically, the Shen
andoah Valley has character
istics that distinguish it fror
the rest of Virginia. Sturd
= German and Scotch Iris
t pioneers settled the VALLEY
: They worked small farm.
G Some had slaves, but never i
o Quantities like the hio olapta