Evening star., 1947-11-30
Five-Schoo| Transfer
Is Due Tomorrow 10
End Part-Time Study
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

more JQdn 5,5UU COlOTeQ DOyS anO
girls will begin receiving full instead
of part-time instruction tomorrow
when District public school officials
put into effect the much disputed
transfer of five elementary schools
from white to colored pupils.
The GIT white pupils attending
the five schools being transferred
will go to new buildings tomorrow
Another 343 boys and girls includ-
ing 81 colored, attending three
schools being closed for economy
under the plan, also have been re-
assigned.
And as the plan goes into effect
a suit still is pending in District
Court, filed by three Browne Junior
High School students through their
parents, which seeks to enjoin the
board from converting the Webb
and Blow Elementary Schools into
annexes for Browne. The other
three schools to.sbe transferred to
colored pupils are Bowen Hayes and
Lenox Elementary Schools.
Plan Opposed
Everything has been set and the
boys and girls go to their new as
signments tomorrow as planned,
School supt. Hobart M. Corning said
last night. . Z
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The plan was adopted by. the
Board of Education after several
hectic weeks of consideration and
one public hearing. Dozens of civic
organizations and other groups
fought the plan. Most of the oppo-
sition came from colored citizens.
The opponents said the transfers
were only a partial solution, that
the pupils would be harmed by the
midsemester change and that the
elementary Schools did not have
facilities for giving a junior high
school course. The board approved
the plan, with two dissenting votes
because it felt the advantages gained
far outweighed any disadvantages
WHICH mlgnC arise.
Details of Transfer.
Here are the details of the trans
fers:
The Blow School, Nineteenth
street and Benning road NE, and
the Webb School, Fifteenth AND
Rosedale streets NE, will relieve
part-time instruction at the Browne
Junior High School, Twenty fourth
street and Benning road NE. Chill
dren from the two elementary
schools will be sent to the nearby
Kingsman Elementary School and
a new unit at Eastern High School
known as the Eastern Elementary
School.
The Hayes School, Fifth and K
streets NE, will reduce part-time
instruction at Crummell, Payne and
Cook Elementary Schools. Pupils
from Hayes will go to the Blair
Ludlow, Madison and Wheatley Ele-
mentary Schools
The Bowen School, Third and K
streets S.W., will relieve part time
classes at Randall Junior High
School and pupils from Bowen will
go to Amidon and Greenleaf Ele-
mentary Schools and to a new ele-
mentary unit at Jefferson Junior
High School.
Dent School Closed.
Lenox Occupational School, Fifth
street, near G street Sc, will allow
Lincoln School to be abandoned and
will relieve time classes at Van
Ness anc Bell Elementary Schools.
Lenox pupils will go to Buchanan
and Bryan Elementary Schools.
Pupils from Dent School, Second
street and South Carolina avenue
Sc, which is being closed, will go
to Brent Elementary School. Hilton
Elementary School, Sixth street,
near B street NE, also is being
closed and pupils will go to Peabody
Elementary School.
The Hamilton Cabinet Shop, 1911
Bladensburg road NE, will be aban-
doned and the shop set up in the
Dent Building.
Corcoran Elementary School,
Twenty eighth street, near M street
NV, will be closed in January and
the pupils sent to four nearby
schools under the plan.