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02 SATURU4.Y DECE)J1BER 10, 1955 A special meeting of Martinsville City Council, called by the Mayor and Council, was held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, on Saturday, December 10, 1955, at 10:00 A.M., with all members present, as follows: Mayor and Councilman R. S. Hodnett; Vice-Mayor and Councilman C. P. CraiG; and Councilmen B. H. Hill, W. T. Turner and J. R. 1"[ alker . The purpose of this meeting, as stated by Mayor Hodnett, was to hear reports of General Assembly Delegates William F. Carter and William F. Stone on legislation proposed by the Gray Commission on Public Education and to take such action thereon as the Council might choose to take. Delegates S tone and Carter explained to the C ou..'1cil the objectives of the Gray Commission's recommendations which, essentially, would provide the only approach for continued public education in Virginia within the limitations of the United States Supreme Court I s ruling on segregation and/or integration. The speakers reporte d that they, along with an overwhelming illaj ori ty of the members of the Vir ginia General Assembly, are wholeheartedly in favor of the Gray plan and that the enactment of tl1is plan would be to the best interests of all of the people of Virginia. Council, thereupon, by a recor ded and unan:i.1nous vote, adopted the follovTing resulution in support of the Gray Go~.ussionls recomrrondations, indicating that it would give its full support thereto and would exert every effort to uresent its merits and related facts to the people of Martinsville: W'HEREAS, the General Assembly of Virginia has enacted, by an overwhelming vote, an act submitting to the voters the question of whether or not there shall be a limited convention, to which there will be delegated by the voters only the limited powers of revising and amending Section J.Lfl of the Constitution to make possible certain legislation proposed by the report of the Gray Commission on public education; and,