Raleigh, May 8—Despite its capacity for 500 inmates, the Caswell Training School at Kinston will have to discharge 30 or 40 of the 370 feeble-minded children now cared for in the institution, according to Dr. C. Banks McNairy, superintendent, who is in Raleigh attending the annual convention of the American Society for the Study of the Feeble-minded. Lack of money with which to buy food was given by Dr. McNairy as the reason a number of the inmates would have to be turned out.
In the last four years the Caswell Training School has received nearly a million dollars in bonds for permanent improvement. This money it has more than doubled its capacity and recently started increasing the number of its inmates, anticipating an increased current expenses appropriation from the 1925 General Assembly. But the General Assembly gave the school annual operating expenses of only $145,000, whereas it received $146,000 (?) each year of the past ??. When the 7 per cent cut is made in all appropriations in order to balance the budget, the school will have only approximately $135,000 left.
What is to be done with the children that must be discharged is a vexing problem for Dr. McNairy. “They have all been formally committed and are now legally wards of the State,” he said, “and where they are to be turned back is a problem the courts will have to decide, but we will have to get rid of at least 30 or 40 and possibly as any as 70 in order to live within our appropriations.”
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, May 9, 1925. Gov. McLean was elected on a promise to balance the budget and he decided the fairest thing would be to cut equally throughout the budget.
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