18 Aug 1991
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Newspaper
The Gaston Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1991
Page
1
Gazette Staff Reporter Jennifer Cetta reports on a small price change and local reaction, detailing how a 75 cent adjustment affects shoppers and merchants in the downtown area with brief quotes from store owners and residents.
Horizon Youth Services reports state funding down to 27500 for 1990 91 and faces February personnel troubles after ex executive director Ben Ellington. Experts warn cash strapped non profits face survival of the fittest as donor outlook tightens and competition for limited funds rises.
The Gazette reflects on August 1966 when Gaston County Schools began desegregation and blacks and whites started attending the same campuses. It notes how seniors in the Class of 1967 remember their pivotal year and outlines a yearlong look at racial relations during the 25th anniversary of integration.
In August 1966 Gaston County schools fully integrate as four black high schools close and desegregation becomes mandated. Ashley High School, the largest in the county, receives the most students with 365 Blacks transferring from Highland High, boosting enrollment to 1,444.
In Gaston County and Cherryville the school systems hosted about 7 700 and 1 700 black students respectively with total county figures around 22 000. The Spinner Ashley’s annual honored integration featuring seniors Doug Lanham and Bobby Parks on the front steps and notes peaceful progress amid remembered efforts by students teachers and administrators to prove integration could work.
A compact reader’s page outline highlights Arts and Classifieds sections with brief entries across 10C 4-7B and 4E-8F, including Comics Insert Crossword 11C and Home 1-3E. High and Low temperatures 85 and 71 appear in weather notations.
Hurricane Bob, now a hurricane with winds near 75 mph, alerts NC coast with warnings from the South Carolina border to Virginia Beach. Authorities urge cancellations and park closures as forecasters expect a northward track with uncertainty on exact landfall.
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