1961 US Commission on Civil Rights Report Book 2 - University of ...

Notes: Education, Chapter 6—Continued
99. Individual members of Local 371 of the Textile Workers Union
employed at the American Viscose Corporation plant in Front
Royal made regular weekly contributions to the Mosby Academy
during its first year of existence totaling about $50,000 during the
year. So. School News, Sept. 1959, p. 9. When contributions
were being solicited for the erection of a permanent building the
Local voted to purchase $8,000 worth of the Academy's bonds with
union funds. This action as well as the voting of an annual scholarship
of $500 for the College education of a graduate of the Academy,
was denounced by the executive committee of the international
union as a violation of the national rules and policies. (Washington
D.C.) Evening Star, June 20, 1960, p. 24A. The dispute was referred
to a board of arbitrators which sustained the ruling of the
executive committee, and held that union funds cannot be used to
support a school open only to white students nor to grant scholarships
to its graduates when such a scholarship is not offered to the
graduates of other community high schools. The union, of course,
complied with the decision. Arbitration Board Decision, Oct. 13,
1960.
100. Williamsburg Transcript 115.
101. Ibid.
102. Washington (D.C.) Post, June 10, <strong>1961</strong>, p. lA.
103. During the first year of operation, according to the testimony of
Mr. B. Blanton Hanbury, the foundation's president, at the <strong>Commission</strong>'s
Williamsburg conference, approximately $285,000 was
contributed for the construction of permanent buildings. Williamsburg
Transcript 97.
104. Id. at 86.
105. Ordinance adopted on July 18, 1960, by the Board of Supervisors
of Prince Edward County. The county treasurer of Prince Edward
informed a representative of the <strong>Commission</strong> that in 1960-61,
1,614 affidavits were filed applying for tax credit for contributions
totaling $56,866.22. He estimated that about 250 people own
more than one parcel, so that this represented 1,364 individuals—a
number approximating the enrollment at the foundation's schools
the same year. Since the county ordinance allows tax credits to persons
making contribution only to private schools located within the
county, the Prince Edward County Foundation, which is the only
such private school, obviously was the recipient of all of these
contributions.
106. Ordinance adopted in November 1960 by the Prince Edward
County Board of Supervisors. On June 16, <strong>1961</strong>, the county
board of supervisors adopted a budget including $285,000 for
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