Southside Aims to End One Room School Era
Southside districts move at full speed to eliminate one room schools as superintendents across Petersburg region push consolidation. Sussex, Greensville, Dinwiddie and Brunswck counties report expanded programs, with several counties closing remaining single room schools and planning new consolidated facilities to modernize education.
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Southside
Hugh Moore
Petersburg Progress Index
Petersburg
Jenthasinas
George
Surry
Sussex
Fire devastates telemetric school forcing consolidation plan
Grilled ville County faced Dec 27 fire that destroyed a telemetric school south of Em Poria. Displaced students moved to a fast-completed facility while nearly 300 one-room pupils stayed in coedient l for the rest of the year. Greens School Board plans to borrow $35,000 to build a new school. Superintendent Andrew G. Wi isht aims to consolidate for broader subjects athletic programs extracurriculars and lower per capita costs with better trained teachers and stronger college prep.
Placed danger: SAO influence on Paris students in 1940s
In Paris, high school youths aged 16 to 20 join the Secret Army Organization in France. The piece reports on teen offenders planting plastic explosives, police arrests of cadets, and widespread SAO influence linked to Algeria. Teachers and Parisians note fear, language changes, and a culture of plastiquage amid political unrest.
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Tom A. Cullen
Asst
Paris
NEA
Hact
Secret Army
France
Algiers
al ‘Ice
Ser Fale
Michel Tensinii
Jean-Pierre Matagne
Sts .Louis
Army
Navy
Fotur Army
Naval
Polilies Sud
Young Nation
SAO
SAQ
Who
Iseut Hhere
Algeria
Com
Jeune Nation Memmunists
Isome
Usu
Laycee
Ste Louis
Raoul Salan
SA0
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