Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-28
Charlottesville
Weighs Delay
0nSchooI Start
2-Week Deferment
OfOpening Studied
To Clarity Status

Charlottesville today con-
sidered postponing the fall
term of school as much as two
weeks while Virginia awaited
outcome of the Little Rock
case in hopes it might buy
more time for segregation.
Attorney John S. Battle, jr.,
said the opening of Charlottes-
vile schools, scheduled next
Tuesday, may be postponed two
weeks until the legal picture
clears.
He made the announcement
after an injunction was granted
in Charlottesville Corporation
Court forbidding the local
school board from making any
student assignments. A similar
injunction previously was
granted against the Norfolk
School Board.
Local Assignment Plan
Charlottesville, like Norfolk
has adopted a local assignment
program to meet Federal Court
order to desegregate. Federal
Judge John Paul has told the
Charlottesville School Board tc
furnish him results of achieve
ment tests and interviews given
Negro applicants, and has pre-
dicted that he will wind up as
signing students if the school
board fails to do so.
In Corporation Court, where
Mr.. Battle appeared in opposi-
ton to the State court injunc-
ton, the school board counsel
reported that Judge Paul had
said he would ignore any in
junction granted by the State
court if it interfered with the
carrying out of his orders.
The injunction actions in
Charlottesville and Norfolk
were brought by white parents
who contend that the State
Pupil Placement Board has the
sole authority to assign students
In Virginia.
Look to Judge Hoffman
Virginia's hopes for more
time resulting from the Little
Rock case hinge on comments
last week by Federal Judge
Walter Hoffman in the Norfolk
case.
Judge Hoffman told the State
last week he did not expect the
Supreme Court to uphold Judge
Harry J. Lemley's 212-year
Little Rock delay.
But if it does, he said he
would call the Norfolk integra-
ton case to halt right away
The State would then seek SINH
lar action in the Charlottesville
and Arlington indignation suits
Waits AnxiOusly
While watching Washington
anxiously for word from the
Supreme Court, Virginia had
its hands full at home with a
series of other last-minute de-
velopments in the Indignation
struggle:
/. The State Pupil Place
ment Board offered to take
over the job of assigning pupils
in Norfolk and Charlottesville
Both localities are attempting
to meet Federal Court desegre-
cation orders by using Their
own local assignment plans.
2. The Norfolk School Board
filed papers in Norfolk Circuit
Court denying that its adop-
ton of a local assignment plan
usurps any lawful powers OF
the State Placement Board
Like Charlottesville, Norfolk is
confronted by a suit by white
parents challenging the city's
right to use local assignment
plan.
3. Commemorative attorneys
and county supervisors attend
ing the Local Government Off,
Gals Conference at the Uni
versity of Virginia unanimously
adopted resolutions supporting
Gov. Almonds stand that there
will be no enforced indignation
in Virginia schools.
The State Pupil Placement
Board is the agency set up by
Virginia to handle all student
assignments in the State. II
originally was created in 1856
as part of the States legislative
program to bar indignation.
Rebuff Placement Procedure
In Federal Court rulings in
Arlington, Charlottesville and
Norfolk. however, it has been
held that Negro students need
not use the placement pro-
cedure.
Arlington has continued to let
the placement board handle as
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