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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 7, 1963
Catholic Parents Continue Protests
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — (UPI) Catholic parents, beaten temporarily in a battle for free school buses for their children, backed away today from demonstration enrollments at public schools but promised stronger action later.
A committee of spokesmen for the parents said late yesterday they had made the public aware of their grievance and instructed the students to return to their parochial schools. Massive enrollments were promised next fall, unless buses were provided.
The Missouri House of Representatives yesterday declined to reconsider a bill which would have provided the free buses to private and parochial schools students. The inaction was viewed angrily, but no new immediate actions were announced.
THE MORE THAN 2,000 students who had left their church-sponsored schools during the past few days and enrolled at public schools were expected to return to parochial schools today, still without free bus transportation.
Gov. John Dalton said he believed the state was "fiscally" capable of handling the influx next autumn. It was estimated to cost Missouri an additional $66.5 million annually to educate the 172,000 Catholics who
now attend private institutions.
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Although the transportation bill was beaten down yesterday, there was a remote chance it could be revived today by the House. James Cox, chief lobbyist for the bill, said if there is no action now "the governor had better get ready to call a special session" of the legislature.
Gov. Dalton said that he believed the proposed bus service for the parochial students was contrary to the state constitution, and had made a ruling to that effect when he was state's attorney general.
THE COST OF THE BUSES,
about $763,408 a year, was a small
matter. The main issue was whether
aid, in any form, would be extended to
parochial schools or students.
There was a revival of talks about
separation of church and state.
The religious-political enrollments were totally peaceful. There were never any of the harsh feelings that surrounded racial school enrollments at Little Rock, Ark., or Jackson, Miss. But schools in many communities were filled past capacity and classes dismissed.
LIVERPOOL, England — (UPI) Six hundred ministers and elders opened the 87th general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of England yesterday.
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Churchmen Violate Traffic
Then, on a police complaint, the assembly adjourned for 10 minutes so that 100 of those gathered could park their cars properly.
Airplanes Banned for Mozart
The reason, said Dr. William C. Hartshorn, was "because in previous years we often had 6,000 airplanes flying on stage at the beginning of a program."
Airplanes Banned for Mozart LOS ANGELES — (UPI) — Programs were passed out to 6,500 grade school pupils yesterday after, rather than before, a student performance of Mozart's opera, "The Magic Flute."
Jke Now A Young Republican AUGUSTA, Ga. — (UPI) The local Young Republicans club, faced with a membership shortage, yesterday said it had signed its 36th member — former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 72.
"In this predominantly Democratic area," the group explained, "membership is open to anyone up to 88 years of age."
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