Southern schools close
A Florida school that compiled last week with the Supreme Court's immediate desegregation order was ordered closed Wednesday shortly after black and white students threw chairs at each other in its cafeteria.
One black student and one white student were expelled for the violence at Everitt Junior High at Panama City, Fla., by the Bay County school board, which met in emergency session minutes after the fracas occurred.
They and 15 other students were arrested. Several of the 50 students involved in the fracas received minor injuries.
The Panama City schools, which had been partially desegregated, complied Feb. 2 with the Supreme Court's order for full integration. The Panama City strife and the Monday night burning of a school at Maben, Miss., are among the few disturbances reported in the South since the massive transition began last month.
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"We presently have viable policies to cope with the situations of this type, Stewart said. "The board members feel that we are on top of the situation at this time."
In agreement with Stewart, Mrs. Walter R. Porter, R-Emporia and a member of the committee, said that if we threaten the students with bills such as these they will rebel. She advised the legislative members to listen to what the students want and then take positive action.
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told to "hold up" on proceedings against Calley. He said the order came in a telephone call he received late last August from Brig. Gen. Samuel Reid, his counterpart at the Third Army level at Fort McPherson in Atlanta.
Normally soft-spoken defense attorney George W. Latimer pounced on the phrase "hold up." "Hold up?" he asked.
"Hold up?" he asked.
"Yes." Keirsey replied.
The pretrial hearings have been conducted in the same courtroom where Calley will be court-martialled if his motions fail. No date has yet set for the trial.
Keirsey said the first indication he had that Calley was under investigation came July 23rd when he received a call from Col. William Wilson of the Inspector General's Office in Washington informing him Calley was at Ft. Benning and "was not to be re-assigned."
He said the "hold up" order he later received from Brig. Gen. Reid was removed on Sept. 4th or 5th when officials here were given what has been termed the "green light" to proceed on their own in the Calley case.
He said Gen. Reid called again saying, "It's your action, you're not receiving any instructions."
He passed out copies of the newly prescribed code of conduct which is expected to be adopted by the Student Senate Feb. 25. He asked that the University be allowed to try things out on its own to see how they work.
Morgan said, "A communications vacuum exists; the legislators don't know what the University is doing."
"The obvious advantage to this," Morgan said, "is our ability to change rapidly if established regulations become ineffective or new ones necessary. We all know the legislature can't do this."
Von Ende spoke on the importance of retaining a state of confidentiality between student and University. He said he was against taking private and confidential records and making them available.
"I am asking that we be understood as a community that is in many ways unique," Von Ende said.
As the Panama City fight occurred, movements mounted across the South to relieve the pressure of court orders requiring the busing of students to accomplish desegregation.
North Carolina Gov. Robert Scott told a news conference that state funds would not be used to bus school children out of their neighborhoods, and the Florida cabinet adopted two anti-busing resolutions.
The Tenn. Senate also passed an anti-busing measure by a 24-2 vote, with the only opposition coming from the Senate's two Negro members.
Sen. James B. Allen, (D-Ala.), meanwhile, called on all southern governors to push for anti-busing and freedom of choice laws. He suggested they be patterned after New York state's statute which has been approved by federal courts.
"If New York is entitled to such a law, Alabama and all the other states should be as well," said Allen.
However, South Carolina Attorney General Daniel R. McLeed said there was no law that could provide the South relief from desegregation pressures. He said politicians who insisted that immediate integration orders could be blocked were engaging in "political buzzword."
Informed sources in Louisiana predicted Wednesday that Gov. John J. McKeithen will call a special session of the legislature Feb. 18 to deal with public schools. The source said McKeithen will
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give the legislators five days to deal with two bills-one dealing with unitary school systems and the other with a New York-type busing law.
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Gov. Scott of North Carolina told a news conference that a 1969 state law prevents involuntary busing of students, and expenditure of state funds for such busing.
Gov. Claude Kirk introduced one of the Florida anti-busing resolutions to the cabinet, and State Education Commissioner Floyd Christian presented the other. The cabinet decided to ask state legal authorities to extract the best parts of both and merge them into one resolution for adoption as policy.
Final arguments for seven heard
The Tennessee bill, which now goes to the House, would cut off state aid to any school district which forces its students to attend a school outside his neighborhood. The two black senators who voted against the bill predicted it "will rise up against you and haunt you in the pages of history."
CHICAGO (UPI)—A prosecutor told a federal court jury Wednesday the government has proved beyond reasonable doubt that the "Chicago Seven" came to the city to incite a riot which they hoped would "start a Vietnam in the United States."
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The defense, in final arguments, charged the government is trying to make "scapegoats" of "seven men who worked most of their lives for peace."
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