Evening star., 1957-08-29

Talbot school officials an ulti-
matum to remove Negro chill
dren from the school rolls.
Cecil County, with 16 Negroes
attending q school serving the
integrated Naval Training Cen
ter at Bainbrige last school
year. win have about 20 Ne
groes in white schools next
year. All but three will be in
Bainbridge Elementary School.
These 20 Negro students in
Talbot and Cecil Counties rep
resent less than half Of one
per cent Of the approximately
1917 Negro public school chill
dren on the Eastern Shore.
In Southern Maryland, CAL
vert County admittedly faced
with the biggest problem per-
centagewise and having quite
q few traditions Of its own-has
taken no public step toward
deSegregation.
No transfer applications have
been received from Negro stu
dents. None has been asked
for. School authorities are say
ing nothing publicly except
that they estimate q total en-
rollment Of 1858 in the public
schools next month. More than
half. or 2.154. win Negroes, 1t
is estimated.
st. Marys, southernmost Of
the States % counties, has
made progress. A year ago,
county school authorities were
faced with q Federal court suit
In which the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement Of
Colored People demanded q
start on integration. A Fed
eral court ruled the NAACP
had not exhausted its remedies
at the local and State level.
The st. Mary's school board
has approved the transfer Of
four Negro pupils to previosuly
all-white schools when schools
open September 5. The trans
fers are in line with the boards
policy to consider transfer ap-
plications for the elementary
grades. one through six, where
administratively feasible.
Charles County, with the
second largest percentage Of
Negro students in the State
ass per cent-will again have
i've Negroes in the Indian Head
School = the same five who
were accepted last fall after
the school board said it would
accept applications for trans
fer to all grades.
Anne Arundel had n Negro
students in the first three
grades Of Is deseeregated
schools last year. DR.. David
S. Jenkins. county superin-
tendent. says that until classes
begin 1t will be impossible to
tell how many additional there
will be this year.
Howard County, which APP
proved nine Negro transfers in
the first six grades last year,
will have nine again. There
have been no new applications,
according to John Z. Yingline,
superintendent.
Carroll County began the
1856 school year with l6
Negroes in two schools, but nine
left the New Windsor School,
leaving only seven Negroes en-
rolled in the 531-pupil Union
Bridge School last year. It win
take five more this year for q
total Of IL out Of a countrywide
Negro enrolment Of about $50.
Frederick County has desc
gregated all but six schools and
officials say the number Of Ne
groes attending mixed classes
this year will more than triple,
ITO compared to 20 last year.
The county expects . total en-
rollment Of 1880. including
1877 Negroes.
Washington County expects
the same number of Negroes,
about l55, to attend deseere-
gated schools but expects the
number to Jump considerably in
1859 with completion Of a build
ing program. The county has
only 3e2 Negroes out of a total
school population of about
1920.
Hartford County, confronted
by a Federal court directive to
speed up its integration, is ex-
pecting between 35 and 40 Ne
groes in four grades Of mixed
schools this fall, according to
David @. Harry. jr.. president
to the school board.
Fourteen Negro students at
tended three grades in other
wise white schools last year.