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Federal Court
Orders Alabama
To
By RANDOLPH PENDLETON
United Press International
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI)—
— The historic federal court rul
ing Wednesday ordering all Ala
bama school systems desegre
gated was labelled by civil
rights leaders as a step toward
breaking resistance in other
“hard core states” such as Mis
sissippi, Louisiana and Georgia.
Gov. Lurleen Wallace and oth
er state officials who were spe
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Romney. He was telling rep
resentatives of the Harvard
Crimson that he thinks LBJ
can be defeated in 1968.
Russian Boat
Charged With
Violation
JUNEAU, Alaska (UPI) —A
Coast Guard cutter towed a
Russian fishing vessel to port
today to answer charges of
violating U.S. territorial waters.
The Soviet ship was the second
seized in less than a month.
Radio reports from the Coast
Guard cutter Storis said it
would dock Saturday at Kodiak,
Alaska. A spokesman for the
U.S. attorney’s office here said
arraignment would be held at
Anchorage.
The Russian trawler was
seized Wednesday as it fished
for shrimp less than six miles
off the Shumagin Islands. A
party from the Storis was
placed aboard the Russian
vessel, SRTM 8-457 after it
failed to heed warnings from a
Coast Guard aircraft.
Second Russian Incident
The incident took place just
two days after the Soviet
Embassy paid a $5,000 fine for
a Russian vessel’s violation of
territorial waters March 2.
The first seizure was made
under a law which set the
fishing limit at three miles.
Wednesday’s action came under
a new statute which extended
the limit to 12 miles.
The seizure of the SRTM 8-457
drew an angry comment from
Alaska Gov. Water J. Hickel
who demanded that the federal
government press for the
maximum penalty, including
confiscation of the ship.
“I don’t think they (the
Russians) will be deterred until
we seize and confiscate one of
their ships to show we mean
business,” Hickel said.
Urges Strict Enforcement
The governor got support
from Rep. Howard W. Pollock,
R-Alaska, who said in a House
speech: “The Russians intend to
engage in a series of violations
to test our determination and
mettle. We should make our
intentions to enforce these laws
abundantly clear.”
Upon learning of the second
seizure the director of the U.S.
Bureau of Commercial Fishe
ries, Donald McKernan, said he
would fly to Juneau to confer
with Hickel on the problems of
Russian and Japanese fishing
fleets off the U.S. coastline.
The 12-mile offshore fisheries
claim was established by
Congress last year, and early
this year Russian and U.S.
negotiators reached what was
described as a business agree
ment to recognize the claims
with certain exceptions.
The new law added nine miles
to the three-mile limit with the
added miles applying only to
fishing.
No Goldfinger
PARIS (UPI) — The most ab
sent-minded traveler in Air Fr
ance records was the man who
left ten 2.2 pound bars of gold,
worth $11,200, on his seat. Cus
toms officials, who want four
times the value in penalties,
doubt he’ll be back.
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cifically warned against inter
ference maintained silence on
the three-judge panel's ruling.
Sources close to the governor,
however, said late Wednesday
the governor would make a
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Thursday, March 23, 1967
statewide address, possibly to a
ioint session of the legists*
ture, in the next few days.
Studies Ruling
“It will be one of the most
important by a governor of Ala
bama in recent years,” the
spokesman said and indicated it
would be in comment on
the federal court ruling.
The governor and her attor
neys were reported studying the
ruling Wednesday.
Prom New York, Jack Green
berg, director counsel for the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
legal defense and education
fund, said the ruling was an im
portant step in stopping evasion
of the Constitution and desegre
gation guidelines of the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW).
The court, however, had rul
ed Negroes were entitled to de
segregation as a Constitutional
right and this did not depend on
the HEW guidelines.
“We plan," Greenberg said,
‘‘to follow this up in those hard
core states where massive re
sistance remains the order of
the day, particularly Mississip
pi, Louisiana and south
west Georgia.
“The legal defense fund now
has 175 school cases,” he said,
“in all southern states and the
ability to obtain a statewide rul-
ing will enable us to move
much more effectively.”
Greater Compliance
Harold Howe III, U. S. educa
tion commissioner, said the rul
ing would bring about greater
compliance with the Civil
Rights Act and therefore allow
spending more federal money in
Alabama for benefit of children.
He said from Washington, “We
are delighted the Justice De
partment and the federal court. .
have taken a position that sup
ports the Office or Education
requirements for school desegre
gation.
“The state of Alabama has the
largest proportion of compliance
problems of any state, and this
action will serve to give local
school districts a chance to take
the responsibility that is theirs
to bring desegregation about,”
Howe said.
The judges issued a lengthy
opinion bers and ordering, staff members, “faculty facili- mem
ties and activities, as well as
student bodies, must be desegre
gated to such an extent that
there no longer exists in the
Alabama public school system
discrimination of any sort or to
any degree that is based on
race or color.”
The court also directed the
state to enforce desegregation by
cutting off funds to any school
system that does not desegre-
gate,
Strikes Down Grants
The grant law provided a stu
dent who wanted to transfer
from a school for reasons of
“physical or emotional health”
must first apply to another pub
lic school, and if turned down
there he would be eligible to re
ceive state money to attend a
private school.
The federal order said the
law was designed to aid and as
sist discrimination. The most a
student could receive was $185
a year.
In the desegregation orders to
the governor and state school
officials, the court included re
medial education programs for
those who had been victim of
inferior, segregated education.
It also ordered the state su
pertendent of education to ob
tain plans for consolidating
schools which have fewer than
the minimum number of stu
dents required by state law.
The order requires local school
systems to submit detailed re
ports by October 5 of each year
giving the racial makeup of
schools in their districts, it re
quires all students, white and
Negro, to exercise free choice of
schools annually.
The order was signed by Ap
peals Judge Richard T. Rives
and District Judges H. H.
Grooms and Frank Johnson.