Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-27

III 4 LIZ kS((nt AL Ms aug.
81 (AP) The Arkansas Legis-
lature raced the clock today to
pass a sheaf Of anti-integration
bills before the United States
Supreme Court meets TO take
up the Little Rock school con-
troversy.
A special House Education
Committee last night whipped
through and approved II meas
ures aimed at blocking forced
Indignation and at Gripping the
effectiveness of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People in in-
tegration lawsuits.
The Supreme Court meets in
Extraordinary session tomorrow
Ito rule, in effect, on whether
1.-THE Little Rock school system
shall receive a breathing spell
Of months or perhaps years be-
fore 1t integrates a second time
as it did last fall.
1t was to block a possible
Supreme Court ruling demand
ing immediate Indignation that
Gov. Orval Faubus convened the
Legislature yesterday.
I
Power to Close Schools
The key measure he placed
before the lawmakers gives the
Governor power to shut the
doors of any schoolhouse the
Federal Government seeks to
lintegrate by force or court Or
der. A followup bill would per-
NIT students thus displaced to
carry their State school funds
to a school of their choice.
One last-ditch measure pro-
vides for segregation of classes,
should a school be forced to
admit students of another race
into the building.
Political observers expect the
bills to be passed by the House
and Senate today and to be
signed by Gov. Faubus tomor-
row.
Representatives Gayle Wind
sor, jr., and j. H. Cottrell, jr.,
prepared a bill for introduction
today permitting school dis
tricts to lease their buildings
to individuals or groups for
operation as private schools,
presumably to teach students
whose public schools had closed.
Should the Federal Govern
Iment continue its attempts to
enforce court indignation Or
ders and should the Supreme
Court deny a breathing spell,
the stage is almost ready for
a whole new round of legal
battles on the relation Of the
States to the Federal Govern
ment.
Questions Arise
The situation brings up such
questions as these:
Can the Federal Government
somehow open a school closed
by State law?
Can it force a private school
arising from a closed State
school to integrate?
Can it by injunction or other
means gain some measure OF
control of State or local school
funds to keep a reopened school
operating?
Little Rock NAACP spokes-
man, Clarence Laws, assailed
the anti-integration bills as
evidence of an attempt to
evade school desegregation for
ever.
Meanwhile, School Supt. Vir-
gil Blossom refused to enroll
three Negroes in white schools.
Two sought to enter Central
High, and third sought to
enter all-white Hall High.
May Apply Today
Seven and possibly eight
Negroes, veterans of last years
riot-marked indignation of Cen
| trail High, may apply for re-
admission today. The eighth is
Minnijean Brown, expelled last
school year because of repeated
conflicts with white students.
The ninth Negro student who
entered Central High last fall
was graduated.
Supt. Blossom has said he
will tell all Negroes who apply
at white schools, including
Central High, that their rec
ords are at all-Negro schools.
The House Education Com
mittee also approved six bills
written by Arkansas ATTORNEY