Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06
Quick PASSAGE
Plan Held Vital
Would Relieve
Court Pressure,
Senators Believe

RICHMOND, Sept. s (R.-I
State Senators Ted Dalton, Re-
publican of Radford, and Arm
istead L. Boothe, Democrat Of
Alexandria, said today they be-
lieved immediate passage of
pupil assignment legislation pro-
viding for administrative appeals
could take the Charlottesville
and Arlington school boards of
the desegregation hot spot.
Prompt passage Of lsuch legis-
lation with an emergency clause
Gin our opinion" they said. viii
enable these school boards Ito
obtain reconsideration of their
cases Gin the Federal courts) and
probable modification of the
(desegregation) DEGREES so as to
require the compliments to ex-
|haust their administrative REM
Iedies."
mot only should an assign
ment plan be enacted. but it
should be done as. soon as pos
sible with an emergency clause.
No one knows where or when In
Virginia the NAACP win file its
next suit. Every days delay pre-
Sents a danger to some school
board in Virginia"
Both Under Legal Guns
Both Arlington and Charlottes-
vile are directly under the gun
of desegregation rulings issued
by Federal district judges. Char
lottesville was ordered by Judge
John Paul last month to de-
ISegregate its schools by the
start of the fall term. Judge
Albert v. Bryan ordered Airing
ton County to desegregate its
elementary schools by January
81, 1857. and its junior and
senior high schools by Septem-
Der, 1857.
Judge Paul has already stayed
the effect of his order pending an
appeal to the 4th Circuit Court
iof Appeals. Arlington school
officials have filed notice they
will appeal Judge Bryan's ruling.
Neither decree indicated full
scale integration of white and
Negro students in theclassrooms
Both seemed to point to other
conceivable means for separating
the races in the public schools
but both said no child shall be
denied admission to the public
schools on the basis Of race OF
color.
Local Rules UppermOst
Mr.. Dalton and Mr.. Boothe
pointed to that section of Judge
Bryant's decree which said the
injunction "shall not be con-
Istrued as multiplying any state OF
local rules, now in force or here
after promulgated, for the as.
lSignment of children to classes
courses Of study, or schools, Sc
long as such rules or assignments
are not based upon race or color;
Nor. in the event of a COM
plant hereafter made by a child
as to any such rule or assign.
ment, shall said Injunction BIZ
construed as relieving such q
child Of the duty of first fully
pursuing any administrative
remedy now or hereafter pro.
vided by the defendants or by
the commonwealth Of Virgins
for the hearing and decision Of
such complaint, before applying
to this court for a decision OF
whether such rule or assignment
violates said injunction"
Judge Bryan said he retained
jurisdiction of the Arlington
case with ''the power to enlarge
reduce or otherwise modify" tn,
injunction and the decree.
Mr.. Dalton and Mr.. Booth ar
Jointly sponsoring one of severa
TYPES of pupil assignment legis
lation introduced at the specia
session called to consider TIN
States school problems. Thei
: bills call for a system of pupi
assignment for reasons othe.
) than race. teacher placemen
land administrative appeal Of tn
assignments made by the schoc
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