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teaching personnel take place at
the same time Is the indignation
Of pupils. Employment and
placement Of all personnel should
be based on relative merit estab-
lished by personal and profess
sional qualifications for the re-
quirements Of any particular
vacancy existing in any county
school.
6. That wherever necessary
there be a realignment of school
districts or a reaSsignment Of
pupils to accomplish proper use
of existing facilities and that
new facilities be provided as
promptly as possible to relieve
overcrowded conditions.
Z. That wherever a pupil in a
secondary school desires a par
ticular course or courses. not
available at the school which he
would normally attend, the pu-
pill shall have the option to go
to a school that will provide the
course desired. These decisions
shall be made by the Board of
Education in accordance with
present administrative policies
but without regard to race.
8. That wherever attendance
at a particular school presents
to a pupil problems of adjust
ment which might be better met
by attendance at some other
school the Board Of Education
shall effect such transfer as shall
be necessary.
8. That there be no segrega-
ton of drivers or pupils on school
buses.
10. That the condition of the
school and equipment should
dictate the policy of the Board
Of Education in determining
whether a school should be re-
decorated or re-equipped and the
question of its former occupancy
should not be a factor.
IL. That wherever necessary
special or remedial groups should
be established for pupils requir-
ing assistance as indicated by the
standardized testing program or
other media and the committee
is of the opinion that white and
Negro parents will understand
the needs Of such a program.
IL. That every effort be made
to provide a program OF educa-
ton which will challenge each.
child to the limit of his abilities.
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mend that the Montgomery
County Board of Education con-
tinue planning and preparation
for eventual indignation Of
schools but not actually integrate
until the Supreme Court imple-
ments it's opinion that segrega-
ton in schools is unconstitution-
al, or the Maryland General AS
sembly has cleared the way by
repeating those laws requiring
segregation in county schools.
Approved. 1853. February 18th.
1855.
2. That the Board Of Educa-
ton shall adopt as a policy that
all schools in Montgomery
County be integrated beginning
on the kindergarten and first
grade level, depending on which
level the elementary school in
a given area begins operation.
Thus indignation would increase
gradually on a year-to-year basis
adding a grade each year. In
areas where a school will remain
segregated due to the area Of
population, and where a Negro
or white child may move into
such an area and desire admit
lance to the nearest school. the
Board of Education and School
Administration may decide IN
which school he is to be placed.
However. there shall be no delib-
crate mixing Of races for the
purpose of creating an integrated
school. Approved. 9-8. l mem
Der absent, member abstaining.
February "a, 1855.
3. That a pupil, regardless Of
race, shall attend the school
nearest his home.
4. That the same Indignation
policies shall prevail throughout
the county.
S. That indignation Of adj
ministrative. supervisory and
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12-Year Plan Urged
For Integration Of
Montgomery Schools
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Continued From First Page)
the board in an executive session
reversed itself.
In a statement accompanying
the reports, Mr.. McGraw said
the board docs not believe that
1t has the legal authority to in
tegrate the public schools at this
time or to designate an effective
date for such indignation until
the Supreme Court has issued its
decree"
He said both majority and mi
nority reports would be consid-
cred by the board before
announcing its own policy state
ment.
A public hearing. possibly in
April. will air the problems of
Indignation. he said.
PTA Council Urges Action.
Meanwhile, the Montgomery
County Council of Parent
# eacher Associations again
called on the Board of Education
to announce its indignation plan
as soon as possible. The council
disputed the boards claim that
complete indignation this fall
would be illegal.
: Delay tends to keep the school
system in a state of uncertainty
and controversy" the council
Said.
: The majority report of the ad-
yisory group was approved 1873.
q vote Mr.. Reeves called the
2s'closest possible" approach to
hnanimity in view of the varied
opinions of the members.
: Two members, Mrs. George
Monk and Mrs. John F. Wolfe,
declined to vote and instead,
submitted their own program for
integration. One member was
absent at the time of the voting.
On the critical question of
EradualiSm versus a one-step
program the committee split, 9-8,
In favor of the l2-year program.
Two Exceptions Open.
: The committee adopted the
~school nearest a pupils home
policy as the standard for the
Indignation process but left two
openings for exceptions.
In areas where school will
remain segregated due to the
area of population. and where a
Negro or white child may move
into such an area and desire
admittance to the nearest school,
the Board of Education and
School Administration may de-
eide in which school he is to be
placed. However, there shall be
no deliberate mixing for races
for the purpose of creating an
integrated school,"
In another part of the report
the committee says:
That wherever attendance at
q particular school presents to
q pupil problems of adjustment
which might be better met by
attendance at some other school,
the Board of Education shall
effect such transfer as shall be
necessary"
Mr.. Reeves said the majorit,
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The committee also had before
it for consideration the state
ment of May 26, 1854. of the
Maryland State Department Of
Education in reference to the
Supreme Court decision. This
statement reads in part:
Furthermore. we are conf
dent that the local school boards.
the local officials, and the parents
will settle this problem without
resorting to chicanery or devious
methods and with due regard for
the rights of all parties con-
cerned Any program of imple-
mentation will be based upon
professional and human consid-
erations and not with coercive
designs or methods. The public
school system of Maryland has
always been known for its high
professional attitude and for its
unbiased and unprecedented treat
ment of all children"
The committee has made no
recommendation as to the time
when indignation shall become
effective in Montgomery County
for the reason that the Supreme
Court of the United States has
not at this time made any state
ment or given any indication as
to when or under what circum-
stances indignation shall be made
effective in implementing its
previous decision The laws Of
Maryland specifically provide for
segregation in the public schools
and teachers colleges.
With the facts before the COM
mittee and after having thor
oughly studied the educational
policies of the State, and Of
Montgomery County. the COM
mittee submits the following
recommendations:
/. In view Of the present laws
requiring segregation. we recon-
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Natural Cos Topic

R. R. Rinehart of the ESQ
Standard Oil Co., will discuss
Federal Regulation of Natural
Gas-An Unprecedented Curb on
Free Enterprise" during a lunch
con meeting of the Washington
Executives Association at 1915
pm. tomorrow at the Wash
ihgton Hotel.
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Gradual Indignation,
II Any, Suggested
By Minority Group

Following is q partial teri
OF a minority report By Mrs.
George Monk and Mrs. John
F. Wolfe:
There remains the question Of
whether there should be forced
public school de-segregation in
Montgomery County, without
waiting for a final Supreme
Court decision. regardless of its
effect on rights of individuals.
Recommendations and suggested
procedural principles filed with
the States Attorney General and
the State Board Education by
a special committee of school
Superintendents repre- nting
boards of education of Baltimore
City and twenty three counties,
advised against "coercive meas
ures," particularly drastic ones,
and declared:
attitude of Races"
THE manner in which de-
segregation is put into effect in
our State and in our Nation will
determine for many years to
come the attitude of the races
toward each other.
Mere edict from above will
not change thinking nor the at
titudes which influence human
behavior. Indignation procedures
will need the sympathetic under
standing of all citizens if the de-
cision and resultant course of &C
ton are to be freed of emotional
outbursts."
Maryland's legal and school
authorities have accepted the
Supreme Courts opinion and will
comply with its final decision.
/ The committee report indicates
that segments of the State are
unhappy about the matter of de-
segregating the schools. The re-
port stated:
THE Supreme Court in abol-
iShing segregation in the public
schools of this country, created a
new right for a minority group.
BY the same action, it abrogated
a right of the majority group. 1t
is SpeciouS to argue that this
right did not exist legally: it has
been countenanced as a right for
nearly a century, and the Su-
preme Court on one memorable
occasion placed its official sane
ton upon it.
Cite Court Stand
dramatically, then, the right
of white people in any given
State, under approval of its State
laws, to send their children to
segregated schools has existed.
More important than any other
consideration is the fact that
citizens of the several States
practlcing segregation in their
schools have thought they had
this right, and their thinking and
their attitudes have been condi-
toned by this fact"
Citing the Supreme Courts
reference to psychological dis
turbances in Negro children,
caused by segregation, the report
said the court should bear in
mind the emotional disturbance
it is creating in white children
by revokng the pre- existing
right. 1t is reasonable to expect
that indignation will cause emo
tional disturbances in white
children"
The report said missionaries
sent to school superintendent of
the counties and city indicated
that the most acceptable method
of ending segregation would be
by gradual transitional period.
Few, if any, county units are
prepared for a sudden change
over"
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The teri OF the majority re-
port tollotcs:
This committee was appointed
pursuant to a resolution of the
Board of Education passed on
June 8. 1854, which read as fol-
lows:
That, the president of the
board. subject to the approval of
the board. appoint a committee
of II to Is white and Negro citi-
zens. including educators. for the
purpose of advising and confer
ring with the board and school
administration on matters of
policy for the augmentation of
the recent decision of the Su-
preme Court concerning segrega-
ton"
Later resolutions Of the board
increased the membership of the
committee to 10.
The committee chairman was
selected by the Board Of Educa-
ton and the committee itself at
its first meeting selected a vice
chairman, Paul c. Howard, and
a secretary, Mrs. Frank r. Gar
field. The following subcommit-
tees were formed at the organ
ization meeting with the persons
below named as chairmen:
Committee Chairmen
Community Aspects Paul c. Howard
Educational Problems Mrs. Walter Nolte
seSoni 81 er pa5ef BoM@s5
The committee and the sub
committees desire to acknowledge
the invaluable assistance and CO.
operation of DR.. Forbes H. Nor
ris, Superintendent of Schools.
and of the others in the Depart
ment of Education who have
given so generously of their time
in providing the committee with
factual information. This factual
information has been of great
assistance in formulating state
ments of policy to be presented
to the Board of Education for
submission to the people as the
policy to be followed in the
schools of Montgomery County
when experimentation of the
recent decision of the Supreme
Court concerning segregation"
becomes a reality.
| AS a matter of information to
those who may be interested in
this report, the committee pre-
sents the following statistics re-
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The teri of the majority re-
port follows:
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Pvt. Jones came before the board
headed by Inspector Sullivan
March IS. The board found him
not guilty of malingering but
guilty of the other charges and
recommended the probation
later rejected by the Commits
sionerS as an illegal sentence.
The Municipal Court cases that
have never gone to trial grew out
of two arrests of Pvt. Jones on
drunk charges March %. In
both cases, he spent about six
hours in the cell block and was
released after posting $40 col
lateral each time.
Dismissal Urged
His case was scheduled for trial
March 25. Meanwhile. on March
"a. the trial board met to recon-
slider the sentence and was ad-
vised of the two arrests. The
majority of the board recon-
mended his dismissal but the
findings were not presented to
the police chief until March Is
after Pvt. Jones had gone to Dis
trict General Hospital on a court
order for a mental examination.
Inspector Sullivan ended his
dissenting opinion by noting that
Pvt. Jones had been committed
to District General Hospital. Four
days later, when Inspector Sui
Ivan went to District General
to serve the findings, he brought
back a note from DR.. Amino
Perretti of District General say
ing it was not deemed advisable
to serve the findings on the pa
tent because it would aggravate
his mental condition and inter-
fere with proper evaluation of
his case.
Asked about the Municipal
Court case, Judge Walsh said
a friend had called him to ask
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kltohen e6dns1F - 3o0k " m
cash.
IN the living roam. he removed
90 cents from the billfoid Of the
Wheatley's s-year-old daughter.
Judy.
Maj. wheatley said he 10 keep
ing q gun handy at night until
the burglars operations are
checked.
A great proportion Of the men
in the two subdivisions are serv-
icemen assigned TO nearby mill
tary installations. Most are war
veterans and their weapons in
clude souvenir machetes and
commando knives.
Some of them have set BOBBY
traps at front and back doors.
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intruder found a door unlocked,
according to Mrs. Mclean.
Nothing was disarranged. We
heard nothing, though I sleep
lightly. He took SGT from my
husbands wallet in the dining
room and put back the wallet"
The one glimpse of the burglar
was caught by Maj. Joseph Shee-
han, a special missions pilot with
the Military Air Transport Com
mand.
Early Wednesday he fell asleep
while reading on the divan Of
his home at 6222 Raleigh drive
in the Deer Park subdivision.
At S am. he was awakened
and saw a face peering around
the corner of the dining room.
He ran toward the burglar who
fled to the kitchen, slammed the
back door in his face and fed.
Eight Homes Entered
Mai. Sheehan's alarm ended
the nights work for the burglar.
Police found later he had entered
eight homes that night.
His unhurried approach to his
task was shown at the home of
Mai. and Mrs. Howard Wheatley
of 1906 Dallas drive, which he
had invaded earlier.
In the kitchen he found q
handbag belonging to Mrs.
Wheatley He emptied the con-
tents and spread them about the
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Nebraska Mother of S
Named Mrs. America

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. May
IA (R.-Mrs Ramona Deite-
meyer. a lovely blue-eyed blond
Nebraska Sunday School teacher.
parent-teacher association pres
ident and mother of five. was
named Mrs. America of 1856 to-
day. She will receive $4,000
worth of prizes.
Her voice trembling with ex-
element. one of the first things
Mrs. Deitemeyer said was:
II want the title to mean two
things: First that the job of
homemaking will be kept on a
terriflcally high plane and next
that my church can be part of
the title"
Later, at a press conference,
she said her children-Diann. ID;
Steven. IL: Kaye. 10; Cheryl. 8,
and Kent, 6-and her church are
my No. l hobbies"
Mrs. Deitemeyer, IS, teaches
the second grade Sunday School
class in Christ Lutheran Church
of her home town of Lincoln,
Nebr., where her husband, Carl
edits the Nebraska Farmer mag
azine and is chairman of the
church congregation. She is
president of the Holmes Ele-
mentary School Parent Teacher
Association.
For the first time in the II
years of the Mrs. America con-
test there was no bathing suit
competition. 1t was all home
making.
The winner proved her home
making skill to. the judges even
before she was picked as Amer
ica's No. housewife by winning
two preliminary awards; one for
the best dinner menu and the
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their decision In allegiance after
Chief Murray told them the
papers hadn't been served on
Pvt. Jones.
On April IL. the court was adj
vised BY DIR. Perretti and DR.. Et-
tore De Filippis of District Gen.
eral that Pvt. Jones showed no
mental disorder but their exam
ination revealed the presence of
a psychoneurosis extending over
a period of many months. They
added a recommendation that
any trial pending against him be
postponed at least a month to
give him chance to improve in
his mental condition.
Continuance Won
Judge Nadine Gallagher then
continued the case until last
Thursday.
Asked by The Star il he had
ever recommended a months
continuance in any other case.
Dr.. Perretti said he had not.
Asked why he did 1t in this case,
he replied. II never had circum-
stances exactly like this" Asked
if he had discussed the case with
Inspector Sullivan, DR.. Perretti
said, Inspector Sullivan was in
terested in the case. told him
what the report to the court
would be-"
When Pvt. Jones was released
from the hospital the day after
the continuance was granted.
Inspector Sullivan served the
trial boards findings on him and
he appealed to the Commission
ers. He contended that his vet
Grams rights had been violated
and that as a veteran he was
entitled to be restored to duty
without any penalty or loss of
pay. The Commissioners referred
the case to the Corporation
Counsel for a legal opinion.
Meanwhile, there was still the
Municipal Court case-due to
come up last Thursday. On May
| 6, Judge Andrew w. Howard con-
tinued the case until July IL after
Inspector Sullivan visited him in
chambers.
II didn't know a thing about
the case" Judge Howard said.
Il Just knew it was a policeman.
I was told he hadn't been drunk
recently and was showing some
improvement. When anybody in
authority comes in. I just go
along with it. 1t was just a
drunk case"
Ordinarily, a drunk case is
settled by the FORGETTING of COL
lateral or by trial shortly after
the arrest. On the occasions
when a mental examination is
ordered. the case is disposed of
soon after the hospital makes
its report. Judge Walsh told The
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Der of the fiscal subcommittee
Of the House District Committee
Even if there are legitimate
savings to be made in the Dis
trict's spending program for the
next fiscal year." he said. "this
in no wise should change the
principle involved in the agree
ment that was made when the
new public works program was
launched.
ITO make that program pos
sible, we put lot Of extra taxes
on District residents and in
creased the Federal payment
This should be upheld.
"For one reason, the financial
problems of the District may be-
come more serious next year and
in following years than even in
the oncoming fiscal year."
Promise to Fight Cut
The same view was expressed
by Representative Simpson, Re-
publican, of Illinois. who during
the last Congress was chairman
of the House District Committee
He wired the Editor of The
Star that "as a member Of the
House District of Columbia Com
mittee, I will support amend
ments increasing the necessary
Federal contributions that have
been reduced in appropriation
bill. This especially applies to
the amount reduced on the pub
lie works program.
A similar promise was made
Friday by Chairman Smith OF
the House Rules Committee, a
Virginia Democrat and veteran
member of the House District
Committee. He served with Mr.
O'Hara in drafting the program
to finance the public works
plans.
The Rabaut subcommittee not
only slashed the Federal pay
ment, but cut the spending pro-
gram for next year recommended
by the Commissioners and the
White House from SITS. 405, 900
to $166 SAT, 500, a reduction Of
$8.8 million.
The figure which the commit
tee recommended also is $4.2
million lower than Congress al
lowed last year for the current
budget, which ends June 80.
Although the total cuts ir
spending amounted to about I
per cent of the budget, about $2.1
million in major highway prot
ects were postponed briefly with
the hope that they can be re.
stored before the Senate CON-
pletes action on the budget. Il
they are put back then. the
House cut viii amount to only
"a per cent.
This also would reduce by one
third, the SCI million surplus
which the committee said its
action would create by the enc
of the next fiscal year.
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WARSAW
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NOHtInueu rIOm EESt EdBt
commander. He reminded the
crowd that it was Konev who led
the armies which liberated much
of Poland from the NaziS.
(Western diplomats believe
the Russians have been in
overall command of their sat-
elites armed forces for some
time and that today's Warsaw
action does not change the
existing situation.
(But the pact gives the Rus
slams a legal framework under
which Soviet troops can remain
in the satellite nations through
individual treaties between the
Soviet Union and each country.
s Million Red Force
(The United States Govern
ment estimates the armed
strength of these European
Communist nations at more
than six million men in from
ITS to 225 Russian divisions
and 80 satellite divisions. NATC
divisions under Gen. Alfred
Gruenther number about 100,
with West Germany to con-
tribute later a 12-division army
of 100000 men,
Marshal Bulganin, wearing 8
gray-blue double breasted lounge
suit. led the procession of pre-.
mierS, foreign ministers and de-
Tense ministers into the hall fol
the ceremony winding up the
four-day conference.
Similarity To NATO Stressed
Two hundred reporters, in
Guiding about a dozen from
Western countries, watched the
signing. Afterward a summarized
text of the agreement was read
to reporters by a Soviet spokes-
man. One clause provides that
the treaty will automatically be
dissolved if the Fast and West
can agree on any all-Europe col.
lective security system.
(The summary of the treaty's
contents emphasized the Com
munist intent to make their
alliance a counter to NATO.
The provisions are almost ex-
actly the same as those con-
tanned in the North Atlantic
Treaty signed April 4, 1949)
Deputy commanders will b,
the defense ministers or othe
military leaders of the partici
pating nations. Each of the dep
utieS will command forces to b,
provided by his country to Mar
shall Konev's unified command
The exact numbers of East Ger
many's contribution will be de
cided later.
Entered Army in 1918
Marshal Konev, 81, entered tn
! Soviet army in 1918, joined tn
Communist Party the same yea
and fought in the revolution.
In World War II. he was com
mander of the armies of tn
Kalinin. Steppe, and 1st and q
Ukranian fronts successfully. o.
May 2, 1945. armies of the q
Ukranian front under his com
mand. along with armies of tn
LIST Ukranian front, took Berlin
He is twice a hero of the Sovie
Union and has three orders o
Lenin and the order of victory
! Marshal Konev will have a
his Moscow headquarters a per
manent staff made up of repre-
sentatives of each country
NATO has a similar headquar
tiers staff at Paris.