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PLAN OF DESEGREGATION
I. ANNUAL FREEDOM OF CHOICE OF SCHOOLS
A. The Bryan County Board of Edu?ation has adopted a poli
cy of complete freedom of : hoice to be offered annually in all
grades of all schools without regard to race, color, or lational
origin.
B. The choice is granted to parents, guardians and persons act
ing as parents (hereafter called "parents”) and their children.
Teachers, principals and other school personnel are not permitted
to advise, recommend or otherwise influence choices. They are
not permitted to favor or penalize children because of choices.
11. PUPILS ENTERING FIRST GRADE
Registration for the first grade will take place Monday through
Friday between May 1, 1966 to May 15, 1966, from 8:30 a.m. to
3:15 pm. When registering, the parent will complete a Choice of
School Form for the child. The child may be registered at any
elementary school in this system, and the choice made may be
for that school or for any other elementary school in the system.
The provisions of Section VI of this plan with respect to over
crowding shall apply in the assignment to schools of children en
tering first grade.
111. PUPILS ENTERING OTHER GRADES
A. Each parent will be sent a letter annually explaining the
provisions of the plan, together with a Choice of School Form and
a self-addressed return envelope, at least 15 days before the date
when the form must be returned. Choice forms and copies of the
letter to parents will also be readily available to parents or stu
dents and the general public in the school offices during reguar
business hours. Section VI applies.
B. For the school year 1965-66, for administrative purposes,
priority will be given to those forms returned by Sept. 8, 1965. On
first day of school, Sept. 1, 1965, classroom teachers will give
copy of letter and form to each child. This Choice of School Form
is mandatory for all students. Any student entering at any time
during the school year will follow the same procedure.
C. The Choice of School Form must be either mailed or
brought.to any school or to the superintendent's office by July 15
each year. Anyone not registering his choice by that date must
■file his Choice of School Form at the time of registration when
school opens. Anyone from whom a Choice of School Form is not
obtained will be assigned to the school nearest his home, where
space is available after choices have been granted, but without
regard to race, color, or national origin.
IV. PUPILS NEWLY ENTERING SCHOOL SYSTEM OR
CHANGING RESIDENCE WITHIN IT
A. Parents of children moving into the area served by this
school system, or changing their residence within it, after the reg
istration period is completed but before the opening of the school
■year, will have the same opportunity to choose their children’s
school just before school opens during the week of August 1 to
August 15 by completing a Choice of School Form. The child may
be registered at any school in the system containing the grade he
will enter, and the choice made may be for that school or for any
other such school in the system. However, first preference in
choice of schools will be given to those whose Choice of School
Form is returned by the final date for making choice in the regu
lar registration period. Otherwise, Section VI applies.
B. Children moving into the area served by this school sys
tem, or changing their residence within it, after the late regis
tration period referred to above but before the next regular regis
tration period, shall he assigned to the schools nearest their homes
where space is available without regard to race, color, or national
origin.
V. RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT ATTENDANCE
This system will not accept non-residenl students, nor will it ,
make arrangements for resident students to attend schools in other
school systems where this would tend to preserve segregation or
minimize desegregation. Any arrangement made for non-resident
students to attend schools in this system, or for resident students
to attend, schools in another system, will assure that each stu
dents will be assigned without regard to race, color, or national
origin, and such arrangement will be explained fully in an attach
ment made a part of this plan.
VI. OVERCROWDING
A. No choice will be denied for any reason other than over
crowding. Where a school would become overcrowded if all
choices for that school were granted, pupils choosing that school
will be assigned so that they may attend the school of their choice
nearest to their homes. No preference will be given for prior at
tendance at the school.
B. Anyone whose choice is denied because of overcrowding
will be required to make another choice from among all other
schools in the system where space is available in his grade. In
event overcrowding continues to occur after all available choices
have been made, facilities will be made available at a school of
his choice.
VII. TRANSPORTATION
Transportation wil be provided on an equal basis without seg
regation or other discrimination because of race, color, or na
tional origin. The right tio attend any school in the system will
not be restricted by transportation policies or practices. To the
maximum extent feasible, busses will be routed so as to serve
each pupil choosing any school in the system.. In any event* ev
ery student eligible for bussing shall be transported to the school
of his choice if he chooses either the formerly white or the for
merly Negro school nearest his residence.
VIII. SERVICES. FACILITIES, ACTIVITIES AND PRO
GRAMS
There shall be no discrimination based on race, color, or na
tional origin with respect to any services, facilities, activities and
programs sponsored by or affliated with the schools of this school
system.
IX. STAFF DESEGREGATION
A. Teacher and staff desegregation is a necessary part of
school desegregation. Steps shall be taken beginning with school
year 1965-66 toward elimination of segregation of teaching and
staff personnel based on race, color, or national origin, including
joint faculty meetings, in-service programs, workshops, and other
professional meetings. ■
B. This school system will not demote or refuse to reemploy
principals, teachers and other staff members who serve pupils,
on |he basis of nace, color, or national origin; this includes any
demotion or failure to reemploy staff members because of actual
or expected loss of enrollment in a school.
D. Attachment D hereto consists of a tabular statement,
broken down by race, showing: 1) the number of faculty and
staff members employed by this system in 1964-65 ; 2) comparable
data for 1965-66 ; 3) the number of such personnel demoted, dis
charged or not reemployed for 1965-66 ; 4) the number of such
personnel newly employed for 1965-65. Attachment D further con
sists of a certification that in each case of demotion, discharge or
failure to reemploy, such action was taken wholly without regard
to race, color, or national origin.
X. PUBLICITY AND COMMUNITY PREPARATION
Immediately upon the acceptance of this plan by the U. S.
Commissioner of Education, and at least three weeks before the
final date for making choices, copies of this plan will he made
to all interested citizens and will be given tn all television and
radio stations and all newspapers serving this area. They will
be asked to give conspicuous publicity to the plan. If the plan
does not receive prominent front page coveage, an advertisement
of not less than one-half page will be conspicuously placed in all
newspapers serving this area. The advertisement or other news
paper coverage will set forth the text of the plan, oie letter ta
parents and the Choice of School Farm. Similar prominent no- ■
tice of the choice provision will be arranged for at least once a !
week thereafter until tjhe final date for making choice. In addi
tion, meetings and conferences will be called to inform all school
system Staff members of, and to prepare them for, the school de
segregation process, including staff desegregation. Similar meet- '
ings will be held to inform Parent-Teacher Associations and other
local community organizations of the details of the plan, to pre- I
pare them for the changes that will take place.
XI. CERTIFICATION i
This plan of desegregation was duly adopted by Bryan County
Board of Education, Bryan County, at a meeting duly called and
held on Aug. 18th, 1965.
Signed: J. R. DeLOACH,
Superintendent of Bryan County Schools.
LETTER TO PARENTS
Dear Parent:
A plan for the desegregation of our school system has been
put into effect so that our schools will operate in all respects
without regard toj race, color, or national origin.
Tse desegregation plan provides that each pupil and his par
ent or guardian has the absolute right to choose each year the
school the pupil will attend. No teacher, principal or other school
official is permitted to advise you, or make recommendations or
otherwise influence your decision. No child will be favored or
penalized because of the choice made.
Attached is a Choice of School Form listing the names and
locations of all schools in our system and the grades they include.
Please mark a cross beside the school you choose, and return the
form to your school principal or the Superintendent's office by
Sept. Bth, 1965.
No choice will be denied for any reason other than over
crowding. Anyone whose choice is denied because of overcrowd
ing will be offered his choice from among all other schools in the
system where space is available in his grade.
School bus routes will be on a desegregated basis. There wil)
be no discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in
any school-connected services, facilities, activities and programs.
Sincerely yours,
J. R. DeLOACH,,
Superintendent, Bryan County Schools.
CHOICE OF SCHOOL FORM
Date Sent to Parents and Guardians:
This form is provided for you to choose a school for your child
to go to next year. The form must be either mailed or brought
to any school or to the Superintendent’s office at the address
above by
1. Name of Child
Last First Middle
2. Date of Pupil's Birth (if entering first grade)
Month Day Year
3. Grade Pupil Eligible for
4. School Last Attended
5, School Chosen (Mark B beside school chosen)
( ) Black Creek Elementary School—Grades 1-7—Ellabell, Ga.
( ) Bryan County Elementary and High School—Grades 1-12—
Pembroke, Ga.
( ) George Washington Carver Elem. and High School—Grades
1-12—Richmond Hill, Ga.
( ) Pembroke Elementary and High School—Grades 1-12—Pem
broke, Ga.
( ) Richmond Hill Elem. and High School—Grades 1-12—Rich
mond Hill, Ga.
Signature ‘
Address ‘
Date
This block is to be filled in by the Superintendent's office, not
by parents:
School chosen:
School assigned to:
If different, explain:
ASCS NEWS
Hg Kvalyn R. Stricfcland
County Office Manager
Farmort' Suggeetione Solicited
FARM STORAGE FACILITY
LOANS AVAILABLE
Loans to farmers for the pur
chase of facilities in which to
store grain and soybean crops
are avialable through the local
ASCS Office according to an
announcement by H. L. Page,
Chairman, Bryan County ASC
Committee. Program regulations
have been recently revised
which change the provisions as
to making loans.
Under the facility loan pro
gram, farmers may borrow up
to 85 per cent of the unerected
delivered cost of the movable
facility or 50 cents per bushel
of storage capacity, whichever
is smaller. The loans run for
not more than five years from
the date of disbursement. They
may be repaid in not more than
four annual installments with
the first installment due on the
first anniversary of the loan.
Interest is charged at the rate
of 4 percent per annum on the
Nitrogen
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If you want quality fertilizer — If you wpnt
service — If you want to save — then call.
Raymar Fertilizer Company is equipped to distri
bute your bulk fertilizer, lime or nitrogen needs.
Just Phone 839-3348, Nevils, Ga.
RAYMAR FERTIUZER CO
Nevils, Georgia
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THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL
unpaid balance.
Mr. Page points out that it is
not too early for farmers in
Bryan County to start thinking
about adequate storage for this
year’s crop of grains and soy
beans. To take full advantage
of CCC price support loans on
grains and soybeans, it is neces
sary that the farmer have his
commodity in an adequate stor
age facility. The erection of
good on-the-farm storage en
ables a farmer to place his crop
in good storage and obtain a
loan at harvest time when
prices are usually depressed.
The crop can be sold at a latei
date when market prices may
be more favorable. The CCC
price support commodity loan
.program and the farm storage
facility loan program combine
to make a very useful tool in
the development of order 1 y
marketing.
Details of the farm storage
facility loan program may be
obtained from the Bryan ASCS
Office.
FINAL 1965 FEED GRAIN
PAYMENTS BEING MADE
Payments are now being
made to those who participated
,jn the 1965 Feed Grain Pro
gram. All farms have been
visited and required measure
ments of land diverted from corn
and acreage planted to corn
have been completed. As soon
as signatures by farm operators
and persons sharing in pay
ments have been obtained, final
payment by sight draft is made.
All interested persons have been
notified to visit the County of
fice to sign for the payment
due them.
In March of this year 108
farms were signed up to divert
2070 acres from corn produc
tion. Final measurements of di
verted acreage totaled 2271.1
acres. Payments for diverted
land will be $60,413.04. Ap
proximatelyy one-half of this
payment was received last
spring.
The total corn measured on
these farms for which price
support payment is due totaled
981.7 acres. The price support
payments for this acreage will
he $8,707.10.
SPARE TIME INCOME
Refilling and collecting money
from NEW TYPE high quality
coin opeated dispensers in this
area. No selling. To qualify
you must have car, references,
S6OO to SI9OO cash. Seven tq
twelve hours weekly can net
excellent monthly income.
More full time. For personal
interview write P. O. BOX
4185, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15202. In-'
elude phone number.
PEMBROKE
SHOW TIME:
—Theatre will be open each
night except Sunday night
Only one complete show
each night starting at 8:00
p.m.
—Saturday continuous show
ing from 2:00 p.m.
AUG. 25-26, Wed. & Thors.
NONE BUT THE BRAVE
(In Color & Panavision)
Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker
Tommy Sands
AUG. 27-28, Fri. & Sat.
PAJAMA PARTY
• ■ (In Color & Panavision)
Tommy Kirk
Annette Funlcello
AUG. 30-31, Mon. & Tues.
YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE
James Francisus
Suzanne Pleshette
Briefs, Very Brief
Vietnam war lifts price of
pillows.
Soviet stands firm on Viet
nam policy.
■ Clerics back from Vietnam
urge peace talks.
Talks progressing on new
Dominican regime.
U. S. mobilizer says we are
ready if war comes.
Paris widens grain supports
in EEC crisis.
Gemini 5 to chase satellite
for six hours.
Foes of voting bill urged to
back Republican bill.
Connecticut bill to ban pro
boxing is signed.
Project Head Start has 3,000
vacancies in plan.
Ford urges U. S. to bomb
Hanai’s missile sites.
Football Giants’ home games
are sold out.
Wirtz urges Senate panel to
aid migrants.
Three former champions urge
U.S, boxing controls.
Soviet tightens laws on
drunkenness, narcotics.
Labor Government has trouble
satisfying unions.
Senate backs warning on
cigarettes.
GOP presses U. S. on 1 shar
ing taxes with states.
FCC finds TV commercials
too loud.
Ford Foundation’ aids ed
ucational TV.
Pravda urges broader rights
for Soviet worke rs.
Vietnam Catholics dubious
on Lodge.
Senate creates an ethics
committee.
Soviet may ease planning in
machine industry. •
Bonn asks Allies to yield
Berlin veto power.
Ford grant to aid Southern
newspapermen.
Guerrilla bands pose prob
lems for Peru.
Non-Discrimination
“The Pembroke Telephone Company, Inc. has filed with the
Federal Government a Compliance Assurance in which it as
sures the Rural Electrification Administration that it will com
fly fully with all requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 and the Rules and Regulations of the Department of Ag
riculture issued thereunder, to the end that no person in the
United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national
origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits
of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination in the conduct of
its program and the operation of its facilities. Under this As
surance, this organization is committed not to discriminate
against any person on the ground of race, color or national ori
gin in its policies and practices relating to applications for serv
ice or any other policies and practices relating to treatment of
beneficiaries and participants including rates, conditions and ex
tension of service, use of any of its facilities, attendance at and
participation in any meetings of beneficiaries and participants
or the exercise of any rights of such beneficiaries and partici
pants in the conduct of the operations of this organization.
Any person who believes himself, or any specific class of in
dividuals, to be subjected by this organization to discrimination
prohibited by Title VI of the Act and the Rules and Regulations
issued thereunder may by himself or a representative, file with
the Secretary of Agriculture, the Rural Electrification Adminis
tration or this organization, or all, a written complaint. Iden
tity of complaints will be kept confidential except to the extent
necessary to carry out the purposes of the Rules and Regula
tions.”
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I Jacksonville, Fla.-After
26 years of marriage and ten
daughters,Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
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Guarantee
Water Well Drilling
3"-16" Wells
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Great Dane Trailer, Inc.
Lathrop Avenue Savannah, Georgia
Thursday, AuPust 26. 1965-
D. Roberts are beaming with
happiness over their first son.
His name is Douglas D.
Roberts Jr., of course.
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