Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-22

For Indignation
In High Schools
Montgomery Board
Avoids Timetable;
Silent on Policy

lie montgomery OUuIlCy oOdTQ
of Education last night paved
the way for the indignation of
all secondary school students by
September. 1859.
A 5-hour meeting, ending early
today, produced a facilities pro-
gram" for the integration goal,
but members SHE'D away from a
statement of policy on an inte-
grafton timetable.
In another action, the board
voted, Az, to restore a $4,000
item to its proposed 1956-57
budget for an addition to Be-
thesda Chevy Chase High
School. 1t thus reversed its vote
of Monday night which resulted
in strong protests from the B-CC
and Leland Junior High parent
teacher groups.
Key to the indignation issue
was decision to put $451 900 in
the estimated $12 million budget
for an addition to the all-Negro
Carver High School in Rockville.
Proposal Of DIR. Norris
DR.. Forbes H. Norris, superin-
tendent Of schools, declared
We've gone up the hill and
down the hill on Carver" He
proposed raising the capacity of
Carver by means of the addition,
transferring to Carver the pupils
from the Lincoln Junior High
School. and the closing of the
sub-standard Lincoln unit.
He suggested the board "feel
its way" toward the eventual use
that will be made of Carver.
Mrs. Helen Scharf, board
chairman, pointed out, however,
that enrolment at Carver. now
at 1853. would decline to 1853 by
1859 if it is kept an all-Negro
school.
In the interim, Negro students
gradually will be absorbed into
other up-county larry
schools. for which additional
space is being planned in antici-
patton of indignation.
This year, indignation on the
secondary level was inaugurated
only in down-county schools.
Call for Declaration
Mrs. Rose Kramer and La
throp Smith, board members
who have championed the
school indignation program, both
called for a declaration from the
board on actual Indignation
planning.
The board, however, voted
only to include In the budget an
that the Carver
plant would be used in 1859 for
excess" secondary school Ca
pacity This statement, in
tended as justification for the
new addition. ruled out the
schools conversion to a junior
college or a vocational school or
a school administration build
ing, all of which measures have
been suggested.
The B-CC project was revived
by board member Wayne Bird
sell, who had declined to vote
on the addition on Monday. It
was again opposed by Wylie
Barrow, who disputed claims
that failure to build the add
tion-most of it a new library
would jeapardize the schools
accreditation.
Big Item Hangs Fire
One big item in the forth
coming budget was still hanging
in mid-air today.
The projected $2.5 million six
year Springbrook High School.
planned for the Colesville area,
will be supplanted by a North
Silver Spring Junior High School
if a site can be found by Mon
day, deadline for submission of
the building budget to County
Manager M. L. Reese.
Ruling out a new elementary
school in Gaithersburg. the
board voted to renovate the
present school there and plan a
new junior high school in the
community in the 1888 budget
period.
Discussion of secondary school
facilities revealed that temporary
double sessions are in store for
an estimated $40 pupils at Rock
vile Junior High in September,
1857 pending completion of the
new South Rockville Junior High.
The board will hold special
all-day session Saturday to COM
plete preparation of its operating
budget. currently estimated at
SIG million exclusive of any