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P ig e 6 P o r t la n d O b serv er T h u r s d i> g \ p r i l 2 0 . 197 2 You M a y R e g is te r to V o te At H ig h la n d C o m m u n ity C e n te r Racial Injustice at Jackson High School (continued from page I, c o l.8) the door and chat hewasn'tgo- Ing to pay fo r her glasses. Frank Montgomery, friend to Debbie, appeared on the scene to ask what had hap pened. The incident could not be settled in the hall, so, ac cording to Cumley, he asked Montgomery to come to the ot- fice with him. Montgomery refused. Cumley then asked fo r his name and received no answer. He asked Montgomery once again to accompany him to the office, ami Montgomery replied, "N o chance." M iss Balsh, another teach e r, overheard the conversa tion and told Frank to go to the office or he would be in wo i se trouble. Meanwhile, no one had checked to see if Debbie Smith was injured in any way. Montgomery proceeded to the west unit office with many of the brothers and s is te rfo l lowing him. Cumley beckoned Frank to follow him into the electronics room because, he said, he wanted " to avoid fr ic tio n " in the halls. Montgom ery feared he would be at tacked by Cumley and would not follow, but proceeded to the office. When questioned about this, Cumley said, "T h e thing that bothers me most is that people implied there was some devil ish reason to go to th e elec tronics room.” When both fin a lly reached the office, Montgomery was accused of swearing by Cum ley. M r . Hildreth then sus pended F rank on cha rges of in subordination fo r not follow ing Cumley into the electronics room. Montgomery went home and returned to school with his mother. A conference w a s held discussing and resolving some of the day’ s events. H il dreth concluded that he had to take the teacher’ s side in such m atters. Cumley said he would pay fo r Debbie Smith’ s "lousy glasses.*' He later defended himself by saying that the ten sion was present all d a y in tf» halls, and that he was begin ning to feel it, too. He said, " I t was an unwise thing to say about the'lousyglasses',’ ’ but he wanted to end the troubles. Of the incident, he said, " I wasn't even given a chance, I was just attacked right away." The black students’ com ments were: "W e can’ t get a f a ir shake here.” "T hey always take the white people’ s side.” During the conference, the whites involved were allowed to call witnesses and dis cuss in groups; the blacks were asked to appear one by one with no witnesses, only participants allowed. Black students at Jackson feel that the administration is giving preferential treatment, not only in discipline prob lems, hut in academics too. Some students are appar ently unaware that they lack R e g is te r b e fo r e A p r il 2 2 n d f o r th e M a y p r im a r y SHOP lENOW'S FOR Shirley A . 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Then, it is too late to do anything in time to graduate. The students feel that many of these problems would be eliminated by having more black students and teachers at Jackson. Mike Jones, community agent disagrees. He said, "M o re black teachers are not necessarily needed." He thinks there should be more workshops fo r teachers in race relations, valid instruc tion and m aterial to deal with the problems and more con form ity in disciplinary action. M r. Carlson, principal of Jackson, feels there is a lack of commitment on the part of the school d is tric t to re c ru it blacks fo r nearly all white schools. IN S U R A N C E A ccep ted A ll D e n ta l / Ijw nuce 1 ID K N T T H T 5 1 5 s w A ^ t h Between Alder TONI BONNER RAY LARKINS T o r n t * A v o iio b lo At . .1 O l l i . • MYRTI E FORD 4 A ve. 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