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4 Saturday, Oct. 36. 1968 OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
Junior High Reports Few Problems
Central Parents Elated at School’s Change
By Kay Dyer
“I was afraid I was
about lo see a racial inci-
dent," said the mothpr of a
white student at Central
Junior High.
The W'oman. whose son
attended Classen last year
and is now in Central un-
der the court-ordered inte-
gration, saw two white
boys fighting near the
school grounds.
"A tall Negro boy
A1 Marshall
walked up and picked up a
rock and a stick," she
said. "1 was afraid this
was going to he it."
Far from getting into the
fight, however, the Negro
youth threw the rock out of
the way so the combatants
wouldn't get hurt on it and
used the stick as a warn-
ing to keep onlookers from
jumping In on one side or
the other.
"When the fight was
over, the Negro boy took
off his undershirt and gave
it to the boy who lost so lie
could wipe the blood off
his face."
Central parents ques-
tioned about progress at
the school ha\e expressed
elation and surprise at
••how well things are
going."
Central has a student
population of 1)68 with 11.4
percent Negro, compared
in the projected 10.8 per-
cent Negro in a population
of 1.054.
••I guess a few things
have happened — kids
fighting, a big boy trying
to get money from a little
hoy — but that happens in
every school,’ said a Cen-
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Richard M. Nixon (R)-Page Belcher (R)-
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Ed Edmondson (D)-
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EDITOR'S NOTE: School
integration. It's more than
just a term in Oklahoma
Cliy where four schools
are experiencing court-or-
dered integration. This is
the last in a series of
six articles on how it is
working.
tral father. "I don't think
there's any more here
than there was at Classen
last year."
A Negro mother who has
two children at Central
says she has heard of no
problems. "They went
there last year and they
like the school. They’ve
made some friends with
the new ones (transfers
from Classen), too."
Principal A1 Marshall is
new' at the job, but not to
the school. Me served as
assistant principal to Joe
Lawier for several years.
Lawter, who successful-
ly steered Central through
earlier years of integra-
tion. is now director of the
Southwest Center for Hu-
man Relations at the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma.
Marshall says he be-
lieves there was more ap-
prehension when the
school (then a 6-year jun-
ior high and high school)
was first integrated than
there is now.
“I’m not naive enough to
think that everyone is 100
percent for it,” he says,
"hut I think most parents
and students are pretty
happy with it."
Marshall has held off on
election of student council
and class officers until aft-
er the first quarter. "We
want to give the young-
sters a chance to know
something about their
classmates — more than
just a name."
•‘We’ve had a few fights.
That happens in Junior
High."
"Wo ve had a couple of
kids trying to get money
from mhers, but that’s not
unusual."
Marshall says he has
urged parents and stu-
dents to lell him if some-
thing is wrong so he can
check it out and get the
facts siraight.
"We’ve had tremendous
co-operation from the par-
ents and teachers,” he
says.
And Ihe students are
learning to accept their
responsibilities. Marshall
says he wants the students
to feel that Central is their
school. He wants to let
them have an active part
in it.
He says he plans lo
leave ii up to the students
to decide many matters,
such as naming the school
paper.
Central students seem 1o
think they have a good
school.
One Negro 8th grader
who answers questions
cryptically replied:
"Yeah, it’s okay. It’s
about like it was last
Singing freedom songs Saturday were, left to right, Joyce Robinson, Sherrie
Anderson, Devita Jackson and Stephanie Moore. (Staff Photo by Ron Hill.)
Older Negroes Watch Youth
6 They Are 9
By John Bennett
The snappy-looking Ne-
gro kid in his sports jacket
and neat slacks clapped
his hands together and
flashed a big, toothy smile.
Four girls, in line beside
him. began singing softly
to the boy’s booming
voice.
“Ain’t going to let no
George Wallace turn me
around . . . ain’t going to
let no white man turn me
around . . . ain’t going to
let no black man turn me
around ..."
Thp people in the little
church clapped and sang
along.
Outside the doorway of
the Quayles Methodist
Church, NE 28 and Mis-
souri, two older Negro
men stood watching.
"They are different,
aren’t they?" one of them
said to the other. “They
are different than we
were."
His memory turned to
past days and then flashed
back to 1968.
“We didn’t speak out
t h e n,” he said. “We
thought the same but we
didn't always say it.
“But these kids have
something." he continued.
“They have something
they’re willing to die for.
They'd die before they
gave up their beliefs.”
The youth they discussed
were members of the
youth council of the Na-
tional Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People.
They w'ere helping kick
off the annual Oklahoma
state conference of
branches of the NAACP.
The young man leading
the singing was Harold
Woodson, 16, a smooth
talker, smart, and willing
to speak his mind about
Negroes in America.
"It used to be Negroes
had to be twice as good as
whites to get ahead,” he
said outside the church.
"Now it's leveling off
some.”
But not fast enough. Not
for Woodson, who wants
youth his age lo get more
involved in civil rights.
Like others at the meet-
ing Saturday, Woodson
feels keen resentment
against presidential hope-
ful George Wallace.
“He called me a Nigger
once,” he said. “Now in
his speeches he’s changed
it to Negro. But he’s not
changed. Wallace is still a
bigot.”
Politics was a major top-
ic at the conference. The
NAACP has pledged itself
to a strong statewide voter
registration drive.
Richard Dockery, Dal-
las, regional director of
the NAACP, urged Ne-
groes to "make a definite
mark" in Oklahoma, poli-
tics and otherwise.
"The day of the individu-
al martyr is over.” he
said. "We (Negroes) will
be immortalized as a
group because the task re-
quires group action."
He both praised and
chastised Oklahoma’s
progress in civil rights. He
said the Sonnpr state leads
many others but still falls
short in housing, educa-
tion, and employment op-
portunities for Negroes._
OCC Enrolment
At Record High
Late registrations have
pushed Oklahoma Christian
College’s fall trimester en-
rolment to 1.082, an increase
of 77 over last fall. Forty-
five of the 50 state* are re-
presented in this year’s re-
cord student body. Students
also have come from 13 for-
eign countries.
Dr. James O. Baird, presi-
dent, said the growing enrol-
ment underscores impor-
tance of the $750,000 Youth
Investment Campaign now
being conducted.
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Congregational Church
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year." He shjs he has
made friends with some of
the boys who came over
from Classen.
Some students are upset
because they heard they
weren't going to have a
yearbook, a girl who went
to Classen says.
A 9th grade girl confides
that "Some of the girls are
worried because their boy
friends are at Classen and
we can’t keep an pye on
them. We don’t know what
ihey’re doing over there."
Other than that she has
had no problems at Cen-
tral.
Mrs. Patrick O. Cramer
has three children at Cen-
tral, two of whom attended
Classen last year. She says
her children are doing
"much better than they
did at Classen."
"It’s working better than
we expected and I think
they’re (Ihe children) hap-
py and surprised."
She says her children
were disappointed when
they learned they’d be
going lo Central. Their
first attitude was, "Oh,
No.”
However, their father, a
Central graduate, told
them about how things
were at the school when he
was there. "We got out his
old annual and some other
annuals and looked at
them and this (feeling of
tradition) made them feel
better about it.”
Mrs. Cecil Pogues, who
has one child at Central,
says her child is enjoying
it and that she is pleased
with the extra attention
the girl gets in some of thp
classes.
Another mother with a
son at Central, after a
year at Classen, says the
main problem they've had
is the school buses. At first
they weren't running on
time and sometimes (hey
didn't stop. But that’s
working out, she says.
“The principal is giving
them the responsibility for
good behavior,” another
Central mother says.
“Oh, the halls are pol-
ished and the kids run and
slide, but that’s just junior
high behavior. They're
trying to make ladies and
genllemen out of them.
"The teachers assump
they’re all going to be
well-behaved and until one
gets out of hand there
aren’t too many restric-
tions. The response has
been good.”
"There have been some
rumors,” a Central mother
says. "But the principal
will check them out imme-
diately and let you know
what actually happened.
"I heard some rumors
and asked my son about
them. He didn’t know
about any trouble. I asked
him if he had any Negro
friends,” she said.
And he just said: "Oh,
Boy. do I!”
Physician
Gets New
Defender
KANSAS CITY - A new
defense attorney was ap-
pointed Friday for Dr. Rich-
ard P. Mucie, osteopathic
physician convicted last
June of manslaughter by
abortion in the February
death of a University of
Oklahoma coed.
Hearing on a inolion for a
new trial for Mucie will ho
Thursday.
The 49-year-old osteopath
was convicted June 27 by a
district court jury in the
February 8 death of Nancy
Ward, 19-year-old OU coed
from I-as Vegas, Nev. He
was sentenced to 10 years in
prison, the maximum penal-
ty-
judge Paul E. Vardeman
of the Jackson County Cir-
cuit Court Friday accepted a
request by James Patrick
Quinn to withdraw as Mu-
cie's attorney and appointed
1-awrcnce P. Gepford to suc-
ceed Quinn.
Quinn told Ihe court he had
had been advised by his phy-
sician to withdraw from the
case. Gepford is a former
Jackson County prosecutor.
Fele Set
At Church
Dr. Dorsey Kelly, superin-
tendent of the Oklahoma
City North District of the
United Methodist Church,
will be honored Sunday at a
dinner in the LTnited Metho-
dist Church. Piedmont.
Dr. Kelly, who paslored
the church 30 years ago. will
| preach at 7:30 p.m. services.
Opening an eight-day revi-
val Sunday will be th** Rev.
Raymond DeLaughter, Pet-|
tus, Texas.
Mr. DeLaughter. a profes-
sional magician who mixes
magic with his preaching,
will speak each night at 7:30
through November 3.
Mr. DeLaughter formerly
served Ihe Mount Zion Evan-
gelical United Brethren
Church near Okarche.
Rev. Freeman H. Pearson
is pastor of the Piedmont
church.
Cold Wave Hits
Southern Areas
By the Associated Press
A wave of late-October
cold rolled out of the mid-
west over the south Saturday
and scattered frost from
southern Illinois into central
Georgia.
Temperatures skidded into
the 20s across a wide stretch
of the region.
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CHURCH OF CHRIST
*01 N.W. 10th St.
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10:41 AM—Bill McMurry
Guest Speaker
4:00 PM—H. H. Moore
Guett Speaker
SnaOcait t AM Sundaya KTOK
Dudley
Spears,
Minister
Dr. Don Schooler
Schooler
To Speak
At Avery
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Dr. Don Schooler, super- 9
intendent of the Oklahoma
City South Disirict of the
United Methodist Church.
Sunday will preach at
10:50 a.m. worship serv-
ices in Avery Chapel AME
Church, 1425 N Krlham.
I)r. Schooler is a gradu-
ate of ihe University of
Oklahoma. United Free
Church College, Aberdeen,
Scotland: Mansfield Col-
lege, Oxford, England, and
the Yale University divini- ^
ty school. “
His Oklahoma pasto-
rales include churches in
Stillwater, Chickasha, and
Muskogee.
Dr. Schooler is a leader
of prayer groups and re-
treats, and often speaks
before ministers' groups
and youth conferences.
Understanding
Of Fears Urged ^
ATLANTA (AP) — A re-
port published by thp Ameri-
can Jewish Committee says
there is a vital nepd for un-
derstanding of the fears and
concerns of the lower middle
class whitp persons “to pre-
vent the further polarization
of American society along
black-white lines.”
The report, released Fri-
day is called "The Reacting
Americans." |
First Unitarian
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N.W. 13th & Dewey
Services 11 A.M.
400 E. Wiltklra llvd.
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8 Lynn McMillan
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BAPTIST
CHURCH
1201 N. Robinson
Ml A.M.
Snndij Schott
11 ta 12 ttm
Iraidcist ROMA
5 45 P.M.
Trainini Unitn
Dr. Ilpnchtl H.
Hobbo
11:00 AM—
"You Hava Company"
John 11:21
Dr. Hobbi Spooking
4:4$ PM "Tho Commitment of
Champion*”
Act* 24:19
Rov. Richard Wafer,
rCHMSTIAN SCIENCE!
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