Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1949 — Page 38

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gation bill which places the In‘ dianapolis public schools on the same basis of mixed enrollment they were a generation ago poses special problems for the School Next September, under the act, Negro children may be enrolled in the first grades of any primary and high schools in the district where they live, - The exception to this is schools where space or facilities are not available to accommodate addi-| tional pupils, In these cases, grade schools. may continue as! they are now until September, 1950, junior high schools until} September, 1051, and high schools’ until September, 1954. One special problem the Indianapolis School Board will face if} the anti-segregation bill becomes law will be the districting of high! sols. The act provides that “schools “¢annot diseriminate; against any child living ita district. : \ It does not authorize children

choice in the city. ; Problem of Districting | Since are not districted as grade schools are, schoo! authorities are won-| . _ dering whether they will be re- .... quired to create high school dis-| tricts. ; TIN Ps Se ] Under policy of segregation, Negro high school students must, attend Crispus - Attucks if they |

‘high school except Attucks. Under the néw bill, would students be confined to the high

| raised. : ‘While sc¢hool officials do not visualize any mass movement of the pupil population as a result “57 the act, they believe most ele-|_ mentary schools in the city willl be affected to some degree. hel comment on og admit - privately it pushes them into a of “integration”—a term schoolmen use as the opposite of segregation—a little faster than they care to go : Removal ti of the segregation barrier will not have any marked effect on the am. This has been

Wail the ses sho MEL ups, . tion . by Fasial grou) been planned lines. With dan-

ears. f PN ntagration will neither over-| crowd nor underpopulate grade schools in the overall pic-| ture, as school authorities see it.) Board members believe it will, | however, create minor neighbor-/ hood tensions. They hope to solve these as they arise. { Since the end of the war, the! Board has quietly removed segregation bars in four grade schools ~-Nos. 5, 29, 32 and 36. This brought the total of non-segre- | ‘gated grade schools to 14. White parents protested in two cases and some moved away from the district; In one case; parents. kept § 150 children out of school, but ] most of the youngsters returned’ Co-operation Essential Schoo! authorities believe. reaction of the community to the; dropping of the color curtain will| not be as marked as “some Op-| ponents of ‘the anti-segregation bill predict. . " They expect a more significant] reaction to the provision of the bill which prohibits discrimination among teachers. .No personnel changes will be. made. immediately. and it is likely those which) are made will be worked out with Parent-Teacher Associations. wisi RAS... AD8. board _ believes; form the key to opening the doors of all schools to all children. Authorities believe their cooperation. is essential in - the change. Indications are PTA's will try to smooth oil on any troubled waters as the new program goes into effect.

Jewish Women Will

Hear Muncie Pastor ~The Rev, Arthur W. MgcDavitt, pastor of St, John's Universalist

Council of Jewish Women legi-| Slative committee meeting at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow in the home of! Mrs. J. K. Berman, 1105° Kessler "Blvd, His subject will be “Religion in the Public Schools.” The Rev. Mr. McDavitt, writer and lecturer, | has been the pastor of his church | in Muncie for 25 years. An open! discussion period “will follow the,

Group to Hear Swinton

Prof. R. 8. Swinton, “faculty member of the University of

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5 building houses nearly 700 chilIndianapolis high schools dren. . nlf ~ . DESPITE the cramped quarters, the staff and pupils at No. 23 have developed a school spirit | "that has brought them credit 1a’ several. fields. 3 In 1900 the School 23 unit of want to go to high school. White the PTA was formed. The interstudents have their choice of a0Y est of its members won the or-' {ganization a superior rating from |, [the National Council of the PTA [gale drives to boost the war ef- burgh, Pa. should be accompanschools in the districts where they |in 1046-47. The rating was again fort. live? That's one of the questions bestowed In 1947-48. the school authority here bas, To win such honors, a local 23 Was named in honor of a sen-|

PTA unit is required to meet

FL School No. 23. . . (inset) Mrs. Rose Thompson, principal. School Spirit Brings No. 23 Honors ;

To PTA and Pupil Newspaper CHARLES SUMNER School No. 23 open with an enrollment-of 322 in the first six grades. : There were no boundries defining the zone from school..drew. its pupils and each year the enrollment figure soared; rd until a high of 1100 children were attending | following the first World War. New additions, assigned -boundaries, and the shifting of pupils|™ . ~~ TTT TTT their, to other schools served to reduce Srades are combined to form to attend any school of their... gore over the years since then, but today the overcrowded)

eams. A representative from each {room included in the two groups then tells his story, the winners receiving prizes. First place winners have their names engraved lon a silver plaque, a »- DURING. WORLD, War, II a Minute Man flag hung’ contihulously from its staff at No. 23 in {recognition of the school's work n bond and stamp drives, ‘In addition to the sales, pupils ook part in scrap iron and paper

_ Located at 360 W. 13th St., No.

ator who served in Congress during the Civil War era and who

specified requirements in organi- was a strong advocate of aboli-{214 inches to the ieft on the ad-| ization and program activities.

tion. Mrs. Rose Thompson is

As for the pupils, one of their principal:

proudest achievements has been EE the second place award presented ’ eum Curator 'them in recognition ‘of the qual- N. Y. Muse c ity of their school paper, “The 23 School Review.” 5 Started in 1929, it was awarded t the second place plague in ther ” Columbia Scholastic Press contest after competing with some|History, New York City, 1100 other school publications.

AMONG other activities apart from the regular school func-! tions, No. 23 lists a unique story! telling contest. ¥

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To Speak at Butler

——— Dr. Margaret Mead, associate

of ethnology + of the {American Museum of Natural wiil speak on “The Emerging Ameri-

[can Character’’ at 3 p. m.. Wednesday at Butler University.

Former Instructor at Harvard The set will consist of 2%, 3d Dr,

{and Columbia Universities,

{Mead will be guest speaker be-| The event is held during the fore the combined meetings of of Christmas season with the com- ihe Butler Psychology and Sociol-/ mails \peting classes gathered aroundjogy Clubs, the Christmas tree in the school;

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~ Stamp Notes By Manuel Rabasa

| NEW YORK, Mar. 5 (UP)--{The Post Office Department announced that ofr-or-about-Mar.-7;; jair mail service will be inaugur(ated over segment No. 1 of new, lroute A. M. 97. Service on other! |segments- will be made later, | Special cachets will be providled for Washington, D. C. and {for Air Mail Field, Washington; |Baitimore; Frederick, Md.; Ha|gerstown, Md.; Cumberland, Md.,| |and Martinsburg, W. Va.; Con-| inellsville, - Pa.; Uniontowh, ‘Pa.;|

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{Field, Pittsburgh, Pa. l First flight covers sent to the| |postmasters of the above named] offices and to the district super-! {intendent, District . No. 6, Rail-| way Mail Service, Washington, |D._C,, for Air. Mail Field, Pitts-|

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iNew York advises that the sixcent ‘air mail stamps, in book {form, are now available at {branch stations of the New York post office. Stamp books contain-; {ing 6 or 12 cents will cost 37! cents and 73e, respectively. ! YN. | | BERMUDA will celebrate the icefftenary of its first postage |stamp—the 1 penny black—issued in 1848, with three stamps.

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