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BRUCE BIOSEAT
Schools in Financial Peril
As Voters Nix Tax Boosts
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEAX
The closing of the public schools in Youngstown, Ohio,
from now until Jan. 2 for lack of funds is merely the newest
and most dramatic evidence of a growing phenomenon in
this nation—the near financial starvation of from 30 to 50
school districts a year.
The cause of Youngstown’s closings was the failure by
some 1,500 votes of a tax increase proposition at the polls
on Nov. 5. It failed chiefly in poorer wards where the many
Catholic citizens who send their children to parochial
schools dislike the rising burden of public school costs.
But Youngstown seems to be unique only in the fact of its
total shutdown. Last year Cincinnati and Los Angeles
schools felt the money pinch for lack of new levies. At
earlier times, Cleveland and St. Louis have been affected.
Education officials who now are checking this matter
carefully see it as a mounting threat to the continuity of
schooling for thousands of American children in elementary
and secondary grades.
One other Ohio town, Perry, a small Lake Erie com-,
munity, closed its school doors for a month this fall. Six
more may have to do the same if voters reject tax in
creases in impending elections.
Meantime, some city school districts appear to have
been living at the edge of starvation for years. Several
Delaware communities are in frequent trouble, one having
spurned tax increases for nine straight years. The record
of steady tax hike rejection is nearly as high in a number
of New Jersey places.
In two Alabama counties, tax proposals needed for school
maintenance get beaten at the polls regularly.
How do badly pinched school systems meet their financial
emergencies? The responses naturally are immensely
varied. Los Angeles eliminated foreign language teach
ing and physical education in the elementary grades, left
teacher vacancies unfilled and made classes larger. Cincin
nati schools temporarily did away with football and other
extracurricular activities. At the next opportunity, voting
parents went to the noils and voted the needed extra levies.
Though plainly there are numerous repeaters among the
communities which suffer financial malnutrition, authori
ties in education estimate that perhaps as many as 150
have been affected altogether in recent years and suggest
that the proportion will rise among the nation’s roughly
22,000 school districts.
The laws which compel putting the issue before the vot
ing public are complex and varied. Situations sometimes
are special, as when a large industry paying heavy taxes
suddenly shuts up shop and leaves town, throwing a height
ened burden on remaining taxpayers.
Areas where state aid to schools is a huge budget factor
naturally are having the least trouble. But it is notable
that in many states education today accounts for 40 to 50
per cent of total annual budget costs.
Hundreds of major school systems still are not near the
financial peril point. But the warning signs highlighted
by Youngstown are ominously clear.
RAY CROMLEY
Red China Fears Deal
Between U.S. and Soviet
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Communist China’s insistence on restarting the Warsaw
meetings with U.S. diplomats may turn out to be as signi
ficant in its own way as Russia’s invasion of Czechoslo
vakia.
No one this far away knows, of course, what is going on
in the minds of the men who rule Peking. But having once
known these men on a day-to-day basis for eight months
in the caves of Yenan 24 years ago, it is possible to come
to some tentative conclusions as to their thinking.
It is known that Mao's people are deeplv disturbed over
the possibility of an alliance or deal between the United
States and the Soviet Union (as the Soviet Union is dis
turbed over the possibility of an alliance between the
United States and Communist China).
Peking knows that Washington and Moscow seemed to
work as a team when Mao’s troops invaded India. Peking
knows, too, that Washington received some assurances
from Moscow in its attempts to get the Paris talks going.
Peking noted that Washington talked but did not act when
the Soviet Union moved into Czechoslovakia.
Mao's men at Warsaw will want to explore how much of
a working understanding is developing between Washing
ton and Moscow. They will want to break up any such
America-Soviet arrangements. They will possibly want to
develop some agreements of their own with the United
States.
This last may sound improbable in view of U.S.-Red Chi
nese relations in the past dozen years. But it is not to be
discounted.
One basic Mao theory is never to let yourself become in
volved in a fight with two major opponents at the same
time. Make a deal with one to offset the other.
At this particular moment in history, the Soviet Union is
more of a threat to Red China’s ambitions than is the
United States.
Russia is Communist China’s next-door neighbor. The
United States is several thousand miles away.
Russia, in Czechoslovakia, has shown that it will not
hesitate to use its force - massively and recklessly to
achieve its ends. The United States in Vietnam has shown
a determination to move cautiously.
Russian aid carries political strings, as the Chinese have
learned to their chagrin. But a relaxation of the U.S. stand
vis-a-vis Peking could lead to opening the doors for profit
able deals between Red China and Western Europe and
Japan that would beef up Communist China's foundering
agriculture and industry.
It is important to remember that Mao is a pragmatist.
If orthodoxy interferes with what he wants, he will shift
tactics to achieve his ends.
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FERRER AND COOLER—Produc«r-dlr«ctor Mel Ferrer and
actress Audrey Hepburn are shown in a happier day, before
divorce in Switzerland ended their 14-year marriage. They
have a son Sean, 8, who lives with his mother in Switzerland,.
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