Governor Wallace Confronts Federal Government, Reopens Black School TROY, Ala. (AP) - Gov. George C. Wallace ontered an Alabama school board today to disregard a '<*deral court busing plan and reopen a dominantly black school which the court had closed. Then he challenged President Nfaton to issue a similar order to halt busing nationwide. Wallace, invoking his police power as governor, made public an executive order directing the Limestone County School Board to open the New Hope Junior High School under a freedom-of-choice concept, which would allow residents of the predominately Negro community to choose their school. At a news conference, his second in two days in which he has challenged Nixon to back up his stand against busing, the governor said he has "given him (the Pjresident) an example" to follow if Nixon is "sincere in his desire to stop busing." Asked if he was suggesting that Nixon issue a similar executive order, Wallace replied, "Yes, I suggest the President issue an executive order to halt busing and no ifs, ands and buts. Just stop it." The New Hope School, established in the early 1920s, had only black pupils for many years. At the end of the 1970-71 school year,
there were 184 Negro and 5 white children in the student body. Wallace ordered the school board, to reinstitute the attendance aone plan in effect last school year which permitted pupils in the New Hope community to attend that school or any other of their choice in the county. He directed the board to provide transportation for those who elect to attend other schools. Acknowledging that his action will create an "economic burden" for the board, the governor said the state will contribute $30,000 "to help in renovating the New Hope School to provide adequate classrooms for all students in the New Hope community who desire to attend New Hope School." Wallace said that under a federal court order handed down July 30, New Hope pupils were assigned to Tanner and East Limestone schools 20 to 22 miles away. Bus transportation to Tanner and East Limestone is dangerous, he said, because the route is heavily traveled, "bumper to bumper" at times. New Hope is one of more than 140 Negro schools in Alabama dosed by a three-judge federal court as part of a stepped-up integration formula. Their pupils were reassigned to predominantly white schools.
Wallace said one of the reasons he singled out the Limestone County school in northwest Alabama as the first to reopen is c£at more than 100 black parents petitioned him to intervene. The governor had said earlier he would order the reopening of an undisclosed number of the schools under the freedom of choice plan which has been rejected by the federal courts. Until today, he had not identified any of them. He made the announcement at Troy State University while here to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree and to deliver the commencement address closing the summer term. Wallace on Thursday ordered a white pupil transferred from a predominantly black school to which she was assigned by a federal court desegregation plan. He allied on the Nixon administration to join nun in fighting the federal court desegregation plan and told newsmen he was trying to assist the President in his announced opposition to massive busing to obtain school integration. "You might say Gov. Wallace is working closely with the President to help carry out his desire not to have massive busing," the Alabama chief executive said.
"If President Nixon is against massive busing, I would expect his attorney general and the secretary of health, education and welfare to join with me." President Nixon's press secretary, Ronald L. Ziegler, pointed out that the President also has stressed that "the federal government has an obligation to uphold the law of the land." Asked for the President's reaction to Wallace's statement, Ziegler replied: "What he said was: 'Let's look into the matter.' " Meanwhile, the six-member U.S. Civil Rights Commission issued a statement sharply critical of Nixon's stand against massive busing as a means of achieving integration in the schools. On Aug. 4, Nixon said he wanted no more busing than "the minimum required by law." Wallace also said Th'-irsday he may intervene to prevent the predominantly Negro school at Hobson City, near Anniston, from being paired with a predominantly white school at nearby Oxford. Pairing would mean that the first three grades from Oxford would attend Hobson City and the 4th through the 12th grades at Hobson City would go to Oxford.
Walla Walla Union Our 103rd Year, No. 102 10'
Walla Walla, Wash. 99362
Friday, August 13, 1971
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Agreement on Terminal Wheat Storage Sought ShootingRuled
Above: Penitentiary guard tower and fence where inmate was shot. Coroner's jurors questioned whether a prisoner could actually reach the tower catwalk from the fence. Below: Penitentiary Supt. 8. J. Rhay points out details of the fence and surrounding area to jurors during quick inspection trip to prison.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A bumper wheat crop remained on farms and ranches in Oregon and Washington today but seemed a small step closer to its markets in Japan and the Far East. Grain elevator operators and striking lonphoremen announced Thursday they would meet next Tuesday to try to resolve their differences. If they do reach an agreement, it will only mean that farmers would have a place to store eight million bushels at the ports. But with the longshoremen also striking the ship owners, there still won't be anyone to load the vfbeat onto ships. And even if the grain elevators are opened, doubt remains that the major railroads would have the capability of moving the wheat to terminals in Portland, Vancouver, Longview, Astoria, Tacoma and Seattle. A Union Pacific official said in Portland Thursday his line and others probably would not have enough cars to handle all the grain because the lines reassigned many of their cars to other regions after the dock strike began six weeks ago. This year's bumper crop has been estimated at 200 million bushels. Farmers, with no way of shipping or
storing their wheat, are being forced to store it in barns, temporary structures and on the ground. In Portland, Yoshio Okawara, a Japanese Embassy official, said if the longshore strike continues over an extended period, Japan may be forced to look to other countries for wheat. In San Francisco, meanwhile, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 10 has started a campaign which might get negotiations under way again in the West Coast dock strike which began July 1. But ILWU president Harry Bridges has said there must be substantial progress on local negotiations before coastwide talks, broken off June 30, could get going once more. Local 10 officials decline to discuss it, but a delegation is reported to have started a tour of struck ports tc convince other locals that certain previous local issues be shifted to coastwide issue status. Observers say shifting some of the issues to a higher level could speed up local talks and thus permit quicker resumption of coastwide bargaining on such things as jurisdiction over container cargo, a guaranteed wage and wage and fringe increases. The strike involves 15,000 longshoremen.
Quiet Settles on N. Ireland
Other Man's Gross Is Always Greener Sheriff's Deputy Bud Fix measured some of these 11 marijuana plants at almost seven feet tall Thursday evening after the crop was harvested by deputies and police five miles north of Walla Walla on the Sudbury Road. Arrested near the scene, they said, was Walter Patrick Wallace IK, 23, Route 2,
charged with possession of a controlled substance in connection with the incident. Bail of $2,506 was posted for Wallace. Officials said each plant had been tarred and sprayed to prevent insect destruction, then carefully ringed with wire to keep out rodents.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The tide of flow of refugees, the thousands of Roman Catholics and violence in Northern Ireland ebbed today after four days Protestants who fled their homes this week in fear. of rioting, shooting and firebombing that has left 25 dead Police said they would deal harshly with any cases where and hundreds injured. militants intimidate residents. Despite the lull, which appeared to be a recess of exStill the Catholics fled to the Irish Republic and the haustion by British troops and the Irish Republican Protestants to friends in the quietest parts of Belfast, to Army, more hundreds of Roman Catholics fled south to Liverpool across the Irish Sea and to other English cities, the Irish Republic. cities. Slowly as the day brought no fresh outbursts of Brig. Marston Tickell, army chief of staff in violence, the 412,000 residents of Belfast began filling Northern Ireland, hailed the fragile armistice as an the stores and the offices, to work and to shop in almost outright defeat of gunmen of the outlawed IRA at least, normal fashion. in part the result of the provincial internment-withoutWholesale trucks once more ventured on their trial campaign. rounds. Slowly they conquered the food shortages of the It was this government internment order that week. Belfast, except in the burned out trouble areas, touched off the latest round of fighting led by the IRA. It began to look almost normal. wants to unite Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. In Belfast, Londonderry and Newry, all centers of religious and IRA fury since last weekend, the snipers Troops and roaming gunmen in Belfast exchanged and the bombers went underground. shots but no casualties were reported. Four explosions One blast marred the peace— an explosion that occurred in the town of Newry, near the Irish border, damaged a Northern Ireland government building near and a frontier roadblock at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, Castlederg. was peppered by a dozen shots from the Irish side of the Police, freed of fires and snipers, moved to stem the border.
Paine Parents Take Plan in Stride By DAVE SCHAEFER
Parents of students who would have attended Paine school next year met witn officials from School District 140 Thursday evening in the area's second "town-hall" meeting in as many days. The school proposal, splitting Paine students between Jefferson and Sharpstein Schools, closing Braden School and housing an expanded Child Development Center in Paine, was taken in stride by Paine parents. A load was taken off Paine Jefferson and Sharpstein Schools when Prospect Point was completed. Paine and Jefferson had both operated as one-section schools, 1970-71 school year. ONLY
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Mrs. Jacqueline Ormsby, director of curriculum in the district, told parents a better education could be provided using Jefferson as a two section school. Among the advantages Mrs. Ormsby described were team teaching, a full time librarian and savings in equipment and materials. Paine district would be divided at Second Street. The 27 students residing East of Second Street would attend
Sharpstein; the 129 students West of Second Street would go to Jefferson School. Final decision on the matter will be made by tbe school board at their Tuesday meeting. The board will also decide whether or not to close Lowden School. School officials were relieved at the reception at
larger building. Some kindergarten classes and the first and second levels of s p e c i a l e d u c a t i o n "achievement" classes would remain in Paine as well. A Head Start program, in cooperation with the Blue Mountain Action Council, may be housed if it is f u n d e d by the f e d e r a l
government. Paul Board questioned the system of housing achievement classes in a building separate from regular students. "I have one boy in achievement," Board said, "and I think he makes better progress when he is not isolated." (Please See Page 5)
By JO MORELAND
Fair and not to warm with low tonight €8. High Saturday M. Afteraoon viadi soathwest 19-15 mph. Chute of rtia: less than !• per cent. High Thursday was 161. Low Friday morning 72. Extended outlook: Fair and not so not Sunday through Tuesday. Highs hi the upper 81's.LowsiatbeM's. Thursday'i d«watowa official high temptratare of Itl ertabttaaed a aew record for Aag. 12, the Natfoaal Weather Service reported Friday. The oM record was 1M, set in 1M1. Cowles was the fourth generaThanday WAI iis sixth straight day with a Ugh of IN or hotter tion of his family active in the rad the 3fth straight day with a newspaper business, a tradition hhjh of Nor hotter. wUch started in Ohio in the
1840s when Alfred and Edwin later purchased by the late J. G. Cowles learned the printer's Kelly and combined into the trade, the latter serving time Union-Bulletin. with The Cleveland Herald. He became president of the At age 19 Edwin had a print- Spokane Chronicle Co,, which ing business of his own. That publishes the Spokane Daily led to part-ownership in a news- Chronicle, in 1935.
paper, The Ohio American, and later to a partnership with Joseph Medili and John C. Vaughan in the publication of The Cleveland Leader, successor to various Whig free-soil and antislavery newspapers. Cowla' father started the Spokesman shortly after coming to Spokane in 1891. He merged that paper with tbe SpokaneReview to create The Spokesman—Review under his proprietorship in 1893. The Cowles organization at one time owned the morning Walla Walla Union which was
In 1946, following the death of his father, he became president of Cowles Publishing, publisher of The Spokesman-Review and five state farm magazinesWashington Farmer-Stockman, Oregon Farmer-Stockman, Idaho Farmer-Stockman, Utah Farmer-Stockman and Montana Farmer-Stockman. In 1988 he became chairman of the two companies and his son, W. H. Cowles 3rd, pubbsher of The Spokemsan-Review, assumed the presidencies. Cowles was elected to the botrd of directors of The As-
sociated Press for three terms. He was a director of the Inter-American Press Association from 1950 and served as president in 195940. He had been a director of the Inland Empire Paper Co., Millwood, Wash., since 1927 and a member of the executive committee of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association intermittently since 1D36. Lone active in the Boy Scouts of America, he was the recipient of numerous awards from that organization. Cowles was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity. The newspaper man is survived by hi$ widow and several children. Funeral arrangements are pending.
The jury's unexpected trip to the prison during the afternoon occurred after a surprising interruption in the proceedings by Dave Burgess, representing the Washington State Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union. "On behalf of the deceased, I move to intervene and terminate this inquest on the grounds that the proceedings have failed to uncover all the relevant evidence and to do all appropriate questioning," Burgess stated at the conclusion of investigative evidence presented by County Prosecutor Art Eggers, assisting Coronw Henry Liebmann. "I believe there exists a possible conflict of interest between the prosecutor and guards on the one hand and the deceased and the inmates on the other," Burgess said. His request that an independent party represent the dead inmate led to comments Please see page 5
A justifiable homicide verdict was tempered with conscience Thursday by the coroner's jury investigating the Monday shooting death of a penitentiary inmate Dissatisfied with what they felt were a limited number of verdicts, the six men attached three recommendations to their findings of the killing of 27-yearold Robert A. Shipelbaum, a mental patient in the prison hospital Shipelbaum was shot while attempting to escape by a penitentiary guard identified as Melvin Dick Grange, according to the jury's ruling "We thought our choice was rather narrow," jury foreman Clyde Dyar explained to the courtroom after delivering the verdict. "The guard was well within his rights and duty . . . but after visiting the penitentiary and seeing the physical evidence it could have been handled very, very differently " He added, however, that it was a matter of judgment Dyar listed the suggestions as tranquilizer guns in each tower, a one-button intercom between towers and immediate removal of a "man in Shipelbaum's state of mind" from the prison population. "When we went up to the pen and saw the tower there, it was - Roger Ranta, a completely different picture 41,BURBANK new superintendent from the photos in court," Dyar Columbia School District, of is said later. expected to arrive here "To a man . . . we felt there was no way that man could Monday. Ranta, a former escape. We just weren't superintendent of schools in satisfied with the verdicts and Eureka and Rosebud, Mont., only three of us planned to sign will replace Dr. John Tibbitt, it at first. Then we asked the who resigned after one year as judge and he agreed we could the chief administrator of make the recommendations. It was kind of a conscience thing." Burbank schools. Ranta also taught social He said the jury plans to make an appointment with studies at Forsyth, Mont. He is working toward a Penitentiary Supt. B. J. Rhay to presentlydegree. discuss the recommendations doctor's A state study committee with him. recommended that Tibbett Jurors in addition to Dyar resign after it investigated a were Don Maxson, Bob Jesse, severe split in the community Don McMann, Leonard Dorsch over the school program. and Tom Rice. Gordon Walters was the alternate.
New Chief At Burbank Schools
2nd Strike
Spokane Publisher W. Cowles Dies Hits Lower SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) William Hutchinson Cowles, 69, chairman of the Cowles Publishing Co. and the Spokane Chronicle Co., died here Thursday following a long-time illness. Death was attributed to heart failure. He was a victim of emphysema and had undergone surgery for the ailment Aug. 2. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, at the home, sons William H. Cowles 3rd, and James P. Cowles, both of Spokane, and two daughters, Mrs. Dankl A. Stein of Spokane and Mrs. Shepley W. Evans of St. Davids, Pa.
The Weather
Paine after an emotion-packed meeting gathering at Lowden School the previous evening. The district recommendation includes closing Braden School and transferring the Child Development Center, operated at Braden by Dr. Roy Aichele, to Paine. Aichele hopes to expanded the program in the
Justifiable
Granite Construction on Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River ground to a halt for the second time in a month Friday when laborers walked off the job in a pcrtal-to-portal pay dispute. Approximately 33 members of the laborers union failed to show up for the swing shift Thursday and another 38 for the graveyard shift. When only eight appeared on the job Friday morning the contractor decided to shut down the project and turn the dispute over to the legal department. A representative of the laborers said the nen feel their pay should start at the time they reach the entry to the p instead of when they read
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