Evening star., 1957-08-31
Assignment
Instructions
FormuIized

Al AAAAS SOA1 SCAAVo4 PAAAASAPoAo
have been formally instructed
to maintain the status quo on
racial segregation when classes
reopen Thursday.
Supt. T. Edward Rutter told
the principals yesterday that
no child, white or colored, who
applies for admission to a
school for the first time shall
enter classes without permis-
sion from the Pupil Placement
Board. which was set up as
part Of the States anti-inte-
grafton program.
In effect, this means that
no student is to enter a racially
school because the
placement board has refused
to make integrated assign
ments.
More than 20 Negro children
are expected to present them
selves for admission to white
schools in Arlington on Thurs
day.
Mechanics Discussed
Yesterdays conference was
called by Mr.. Rutter to discuss
the mechanics of routine pupil
placement applications through
the new Arlington branch Of
the placement board.
The branch office, in the
Arlington Trust Co. Building.
headed by B. S. Hilton, will
begin making tentative as
signments on Tuesday.
In addition to discussing
procedure for expediting as
signment requests through this
branch office. Mr.. Nutter took
up the matter of rejecting the
expected on-the-spot integra-
ton requests Thursday.
Under State law, the Arling-
ton school system has no choice
but to deny any such pleas.
Last Thursday, the State
Placement Board turned down
the applications Of six Negro
students to attend white
schools in Arlington.
Plan Is Discussed
Contrary to a prediction by
Edwin c. Brown, legal advisor
IN Northern Virginia for the
Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People,
al six Of these children do not
plan to ask for admission to
white schools Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bowles F.
Phillips said they have decided
hat their three children will
1bey the Pupil Placement
Boards order and go to Hoff-
Junior-Serior High
School for colored.
Their 15-year-old daughter.
Sadie. had asked to 60 to
Nashington-Lee High School.
The two other children, Eliz-
lbeth, IA, and Bowles, IL, had
applied for classes at Stratford
Junior High.
According to the NAACP at
5orney. about 26 Negro chill
dren. including the six whose
were rejected, were
expected to be at white schools
of their choice on opening day.
Still Undecided
The parents of two other
Negro children whose applica-
ions for transfer were turned
1own are undecided. And the
of the sixth child said
hey plan to send him to the
white school despite the board
'uling and contest his assign
nent.
George Tyrone Nelson, IA
son of Washington
Police Pvt. George M. Nelson,
ir., said he still wants to 60
20 Stratford Junior High, a
white school. His parents said
ne would try to enter when it
opens next week.
Attorney Oliver w. Hill said
yesterday between so and so
Richmond Negro parents, who
nave baked at signing pupil
placement application forms,
nave authorized him to file suit
in their behalf if their children
are denied admittance to
schools of their choice, the As
'ocited Press reported.
Richmond school authorities
nave estimated that some 800
10 400 parents here. mostly e.
yroes. have failed to sign the
application forms. Some Of the
Negro parents are expected to
present their children for en-
'ollment at white schools when
classes sart next week. Others
'eportedly are content to take
heir children back to Negro
chools.