"Not Right & Not Scriptural"

While three North Carolina cities quietly announced plans for partial desegregation in the fall (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Robert D. Ingle, for almost 30 years pastor of the Berea Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was all set last week to see that no such fate ever befalls his flock. In what Ingle claims to be the first move of its kind in the South, his congregation has approved the building of a new twelve-grade private school to take care of up to 1,000 white pupils. The church has okayed a $300,000 bond issue for the building; the sale of some church property will bring in $200,000 more. White pupils will pay a modest $200 tuition. Dr. Ingle is a longtime enemy of integration, has often addressed the local Ku Klux Klan, of which his brother is a leader. Says Ingle: "We believe that this integration program is nothing but a Communist plot. It is not right, and it is not scriptural."

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