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BLAST RIPS OIL TANK: Wilmington, Calif.—.Firemen battle
flames for three hours when an explosion shattered an oil storage
tank at Union Oil Co. here. Fire shot 300 feet high following the
blast, and damage was estimated at $40,000.
Lonnie Clark Of Cairo Leads
Way At Queensland School
Cairo Negro Makes Own Minimum
Foundation In Ben Hill County
The following article is
printed from the Fitzgerald
Leader, Ben Hill County, and
tells a story of rapid progress
which the Queensland School has
shown under the leadership of a
Cairo native, Lonnie Clark, who
only last year earned his Mast
er’s degree from Columbia Uni
versity:
“While most of Georgia’s schools
are asking the State for a multi
million dollar outlay (the “Mini
mum Foundation Program for
Education”) for needed improve
ments, expansions, etc., Queens
land H gh School for Negroes here
in Bell Hill County is quietly do
ing its own job.
Under leadership of Principal
Lonnie M. Clark and Vocational
Director David Spearman,
Queensland is saying nothing and
sawing wood—and the results .are
the approximately 375 pupils at
tending the school are finding in
creasingly better conditions under
which to try to learn their ABC’s.
Clark is perhaps the 'best-quali
fied young Negro educator in
South Georgia, holding a master’s
degree in education from Colum
bia University. He got it by a
monumental struggle — going to
college under the GI Bill and
working at two-pant-time jobs
simultaneously to make ends meet
for him, and wife, and two young
girls.
When Clark came to Queens
land last September, he found the
situation in general pretty bad.
Particularly imperative, from the
standpoint of student welfare,
were the needs for an adequate
water supply, classroom lighting
and better toilet facilities.
None of the school’s 10 class
rooms were lighted; the single
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er seed were bought and sowed.
All .this ihas been done through
careful management and close
planning in use of profits from a
concession set-up at the school.
The kids can buy ice cream, can
dy, cookies, drinks, etc., at regu
lar retail prices—a nickel bar of
candy for a nickel, and so on.
Teachers are appointed by
Clark and alternate in handling
sales operating the thriving lit
tle business—so there is no heavy
overhead.
Not all the things Queensland
has bought are paid for, but the
school now owes only a small
percentage of the total cost and
ls ou * debt on schedule
What has been done at Queens
land is regarded by Supt. Hunter
as a remarkable achievement. He
is proud of Principal Clark, and
hopes he can keep him but fears
that he can t.
Because the 35-year-old
has turned down, already, t rC ree
offers from colleges. One CTJ a
deanship.
Clark, however, says he is go
ing to stay at Queensland as long
as they let him. He is a native
of Cairo and came up the
way just 'as most of the kids he
is teaching—and he feels .that he
c “ more “* p ' op1 ' ri ‘ ht
h
He is quick to declare that “the
faucet for pupils drinking use
would “dry up” long before every
kid’s (thirst was quenched; and the
ild outdoor “priwies were fall
ing apart.
County School Supt. J. C. Hun
ter and the school board were
aware of the situation and anxi
ous to correct it, but funds for do
ing the necessary work were not
immediately available.
Clark and Spearman under
stood the situation, and decided \
that instead of waiting and plod
ding along until the county could
do something for Queensland, it
would be better to roll up their
sleeves and do what they could
on their own.
Here is what they have accom
plished, without financial assis
tance except for a scattered few t
small contributions from white
friends:
Dug a new well at <a cost of $70
and installed a new pump at a j
cost of $151, assuring the school |
an adequate water supply.
iBuilt new toilets out of clean 1
white lumber, making them as,
safe and sanitary as possible j
without (having sewage disposal \
facilities or running water. Cost!
$117.
Wired six of the classrooms, at
a cost of $87.
Bought a $52.50 filing cabinet,
so that records could be kept
straight.
Lighted the outdoor basketball
court for night games, .and put
down a clay base on the court.
This cost approximately $50.
Purchased 50 new chairs at a
round $1:50 each, so that, even
though the school is overcrowded,
every child could ‘at least have a
place to sit down.
Spent an average of $10 on
each of the classrooms for clean
up and beautification purposes.
Built and painted an attractive
paling fence partially around the
school.
Painted the inside and part of
the outside of the ancient and
weatherbeaten teacherage. The
sides of the huge two-story frame
building, never having tasted
paint, liked it so well they “drank
it up” faster than it could be
bought. When the cost mounted
above $80, Clark and Speaman
had to call a halt until fur
ther arrangements for procuring
paint can be made.
In addition to these functional!
improvements, much progress to
ward general beautification of
the school has been recorded.
Some 2,500 pine seedlings, donat
ed by Editor Isidor Gelders, of
The Leader, have been planted.
Trees on the campus are white
washed. Shrubbery, bought by
the children, has been planted
around the main building. Flow-
rH£ CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950.
Negro’s best friend is not the
Northern ‘do-gooders’ and agita
tors, but his white friends, right
here in the South.” With that
belief uppermost in mind, he is
teaching his goys and girls to get
along with everybody, to ignore
the railings and ran tings of those
who would stir race against race,
and to realize that their great
est opportunity lies “here at
home, where the good white folks
stand ready to ihelp you if you
prove yourself worthy of help.”
Key to Clark’s outlook on
things may be found ^ the
“General Philosophy” he wrote
, f or Queensland school, when he
j took over as principal. Here it
j s .
i ‘To provide an appropriate gen
era j eduaction to meet the needs
0 f a predominantly agricultural
community centered in the role of
| you t bs as homemakers, workers
and citizens who wiU uphold th T
of v I
riotism and high ideals of > m
ericanism.”
.Somehow, Clark’s method of
approach makes the interested ob
server feel that .a breath of fresh
i a:r has touched the “Negro
i lem” in the South.
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