Complex sentence: Republican Ted Dalton had also called for a nonpartisan biracial commission to work out a desegregation program for Virginia, and state superintendent of public instruction Dowell Howard expressed his hope that the problem could be solved gradually.
Split into simpler sentences: Republican Ted Dalton had also called for a nonpartisan biracial commission to work out a desegregation program for Virginia. State superintendent of public instruction Dowell Howard expressed his hope that the problem could be solved gradually.