Evening star., 1955-02-20
Full lntegration
0fMon!igonery
SchooIsAsked
Executive Group
OF PTA Advocates
Step in September

Step in September
Full integration of Montgom-
cry County schools next Sep
tember is recommended by the
Executive Committee of the
Montgomery County Council Of
Parent Teacher Associations.
The committee announced It's
recommendations following dis
closure that the Board of Educa-
tion's special advisory committee
on integration was split 10 to 9.
with the majority urging simul-
taneous integration at all levels.
The PTA council executive
committee emphasized it adopted
the recommendations of the PTA
committee on integration Friday
Night las a basis for discussion
In local units"
The PTA integration commit
tee includes representatives ap-
pointed by about 40 PTAs and
Is persons named by the chair
man. George T. Guernsey.
Full Council Acts March 70.
The executive committees rec
concentrations were effectuated
by adoption of its integration
committees report.
The executive com m 1t e e.
through PTA Council President
Myron s. 1saacs, will submit the
amended report to all PTAs for
consideration and action prior to
"a full PTA council meeting. Ac-
ton by the full council is ex-
pected at its meeting March %
The executive committee rec
concentrations call on the school
board to announced "comprehen-
sive firm plans for integrating
the school system of Montgomery
County,"
The committees other recon-
mendationS included:
/. That the school boards S
present policy of fixed school dis
tricts be continued with neces-
sary redistricting carried out
without regard to race, and that
the present policy on transfers
from one school to another be
unchanged.
2. That all qualified teaching.
administrative and other school
personnel be retained under an
integrated system of hiring and
firing
3. That school personnel. chill
dren and parents, be educated in
integration.
4. That the school construction
budget be planned in terms of a
policy of full integration at all
levels, at the start of the next
school term.
The committee also called on
the school board to make public
full factual information on
Negro and white school popula-
ton and a new integrated sys-
tenn of districts" ~
In support of its proposal for
full integration, the committee
also released a legal opinion
prepared by c. A. Horsky, an at
torney living in Silver Spring.
Mr.. Horsky declared that
Maryland law calling for sep
arate facilities for Negroes and
whites "is now certainly uncon-
stitutional under the recent deci-
sion of the Supreme Court
In his opinion he noted that
the only challenge of integra-
tion in Maryland courts had held
the law constitutional and had
not been appealed. He referred
to decision by Superior Court
Judge James K. Cullen last Oc-
tober in Baltimore.
The laws are no longer of any
effect. Mr.. Horsky said. He added
that it was not necessary that
the legislature repeal them.
Favors Gradual Integration.
The minority members of the
school boards special integra-
ton advisory committee ap-
peared to have gained some sup
port in their stand by state
ment made Friday by Schools
Supt. Forbes H. Norris.
DR.. Norris said he favorS a
gradual approach to integration.
warning that immediate inte-
grafton would disrupt the plan
ming for classroom allocations.
The nine-member minority
bloc wants integration put into
effect one grade at time over
a 12-year period.
The full committee is expected
to meet either tomorrow night or
Wednesday night to seek anew a
unanimous statement of policy.
The majority report, delayed be-
cause the minority insisted on
submitting separate report,
calls for full integration once
the Supreme Court issues i'm
plemcnting rulings on its deci-
sion to end segregation.