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(Gang Fights Staged for Control off M.Y. Schools; Judge issues Warning Kditor'i note: Thi is the second f two artielei on criminal violence in New York schools and what the city u doinf about It. Bt ALBERT McCOLLOGH United Press Correspondent New York OH A "hard core" of teen-age hoodlums among New York's one mil' lion school children has risen to the point of staging gang fights for control of individu al schools, reports a judge who sentenced five young gang members for ambushing and wounding three rivals. "The time is coming fast when some jury or authority must take drastic action if the city does not want some of these schools run by the law a of the jungle," Kings County (Brooklyn) Judge George J. Joyce warned. Moved by such warnings and its own estimate thatas many as 9,500 delinquents are sowing the seeds of violence in the city's 800-odd schools, the Board of Education has begun mapping' long-range strategy to deal with what an other judge recently called "this horrible, miserable mess that is now called our public school system." , School officials disagree that the schools are a mess, and say the number of prob lem children is less than one per cent of the enrollment. Nevertheless, the board ap proved a six-point program this week aimed at weeding out the trouble makers and preventing more from spring ing up. Police Protection Used At the same time, it went along, though reluctantly, with demands for police pa trol of the schools where vio lence has been worst. Though vigorously opposed to use of police throughout the system, officials have emphasized that principals are free to ask for whatever police protection they feel is needed. beven scnoois now have a policeman assigned inside the building; 34 more are guard ed by patrolmen on perma nent posts just outside. But what about longer range measures? What to do, for example, with teen-agers who have re belled against further school ing, have -completed institu tional sentences and by law are compelled to return to the very schools they hate until they turn 17? What to do with the 200 emotionally disturbed Brook lyn children turned away by the Child Guidance Bureau for treatment because its fa cilities were overloaded with out another 200 already re ferred to it this year? It will take time to find the answers. Six-Point Program These are the paths the Board of Education outlined in its newly adopted program to combat school, crime: Segregate the trouble makers. Put them in spe cial schools where, in small classes, they can get expert help and teaching. To the five such schools already operat ing, add six more, at least doubling the total of 1,200 pupils now sent to such schools. Expand space in institu tions for youngsters who can not be rehabilitated in either the special schools or at home. Change the laws, includ ing those that now compel school attendance through age 18. Lower that limit by at least a year; Mayor Robert F. Wagner has tentatively suggested allowing youngsters to quit at 14 if they obtain full-time jobs. Improve and expand psy chiatric, guidance and coun seling facilities. Improve school coopera tion with other city agencies to combat delinquency. Boost teacher morale with assurance of official support for "reasonable" disciplinary classroom action again un ruly pupils. New Measures Too Late? Will these measures lick the problem, and do it soon enough? Even as the board was putting the finishing touches on its plan, a Man hattan' high school student stopped a fellow student on a stairway, robbed him of a wristwatch and all his cash 70 cents. A similar rob bery took place in the same school barely a week earlier On the day the plan was announced Judge Joyce warn ed fast action was needed and disclosed that the five teen age members of the "Stone killers" gang he had just sen tenced to a reformatory for up to five years had been fightyig the "Bishops" gang for control of Brooklyn's Francis Scott Key Junior high school and the community center it houses. New York Schools To Suspend Pupils In Criminal Cases New York (IP) School of ficials today began suspend ing pupils charged with crim inal violence in an effort to rid classes of young hoodlums and "protect the innocent." Spurred by new outbreaks of beatings and stabbings, and under fresh pressure from a grand jury to take "prompt emergency action," the Board of Education ordered that any pupils "charged with a viola tion of law involving violence or insubordination shall be forthwith suspended from regular school attendance." Preliminary unofficial esti- a an CLUB -mi NEWS Eagle Point Child Care Club A meeting of the Eagle Point Child Care club was I held in the school cafeteria Feb. 4. The meeting was called to order by vice president Mar tha Armstrong. W completed plans on our sk. party, Feb. 7. We planned furthev on our Mothers Tea, Feb. 22. Our visitor was Miss Gar dener, the county extension agent. She gave us some ideas about demonstrations and the Friendship Folies. - The next meeting will be in two weeks. Helen Vickaren, Reporter Reporter Finds Humans Still Human Gastonia, N. C. (If) Re porter Bill Williams, who has just completed a panhandler survey, reports that "humans are sun numan." Fifty per cent of them, anyway. Williams got himself up as a hobo and made two dozen or so house calls, asking for food. At half the homes he got a handout. The reporter's final con clusions: 1. People are pretty gener ous, after all. 2. The life of a hobo isn't as bad as he'd pictured it. 3. Livermush is a popular ingredient for sandwiches in Gastonia. First CM 9 Packet At Portland Airport Portland (IP) A C-119 Packet arrived at Portland Air Base Thursday from Ger many, the first such aircraft of its type to be stationed at the Air Force installation here. The new type plane can carry .up to 62 paratroopers, compared to 50 in the C-46. It will see duty here with the 313th Air Force Reserve mates indicated up to 600 pupils might be affected. The school board was said to have adopted its new policy as the immediate result of two incidents Wednesday in which a school monitor was stabbed by a fellow student and another monitor was beaten unconscious by three other pupils. The beating and stabbing were the latest incidents in a wave of teen-age violence that has included two rapes inside schools. A few hours before the sus pension order was issued, a grand jury that has been in vestigating school violence in Brooklyn handed up a fifth presentment critical of school policies in handling juvenile delinquency. The jury urged a broader policy on weeding out lawless youths from the schools and declared "prompt emergency action is neces sary." Noting that a previous Board of Education statement had said less than one per cent of the school system's nearly one million pupils were problem children, the grand jury said "this means there are nearly 10,000 seri ous aggressive and disruptive children" menacing the re mainder. Segregation Planned The jury suggested that ex isting schools "be used to con tain these undesirable ele ments" without waiting for establishment of the six new special schools in which offi cials plan to segregate diffi cult pupils starting next fall. Five such schools containing 1,200 pupils are operating now. The grand jury, which has been involved in a running fight with the school board over the school crime prob lem, announced Thursday that it expected to complete its investigations and make a final report soon. The new special schools proposed won't be built to morrow. Funds for them are provided in the 1958-59 school budget, which still has long legal procedures to go through before it receives final ap proval. Furthermore, these schools five for boys, one for girls are all on the elementary level, unlikely to be of help to children above 15 years age at most. More Help Needed School authorities say far more help from social work ers, psychologists, psychia trists, is needed, but there is not enough money to hire1 more. The 1958-59 budget, before receiving even tentative ap proval from the board, suffer ed two sharp cuts, one of $14 million to provide more such counseling and other facili ties, another of $30 million to raise teachers' salaries. And police have entered the schools, despite Mayor Wagner's earlier declaration that "we don't want to run an educational system with a policeman standing over it." The ultimate solution, the school board's statement of plans points out, lies in recog nition that "discipline does not begin and end at the school door . . . proper re spect for law and order is the responsibility of the fam ily and of all authorities who have to do with the daily life of the child . . . there is no substitute for the principles of religion and morality." PTC Officials Escape Arrest Friday, February 7. 1958 MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTTfTE ITVH Portland Attorneys for the State Public Utilities Commisison failed Thursday in an attempt to bring about the arrest of three Portland Traction Company officials in connection with stopping of Bellrose and Oregon City in terurban service. PUC attorney Irving Allen asked Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding to issue bench warrants for the arrest of Charles C. Bowen, E. E. Von derahe, and P. A. Adams. Allen sought the arrests be cause of the traction com pany's failure to obey Judge Redding's order directing the company to restore interurban passenger service on its Rose City and Bellrose trolley lines. Judge Redding said he would not issue any warrants without giving the PTC of ficials a chance to be heard Judge Redding also noted that counsel for the PUC pre viously had informed him that the maximum penalty a judge could impose for disreagard ing his order to restore serv- ive was a 10,000 fine. ' Redding's order was in the nature of a peremptory writ of mandamus supporting an earlier order of State Public Utlity Commisisoner Howard Morgan directing PTC to re store passenger service on the two lines from Portland. PTC has appealed Judge Redding's peremptory writ of manda mus to the Oregon Supreme Court, and the case is pending. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- ACHAP WHO LOVED his weekend golf was laid low by an attack of grippe. After a fortnight, he was all set to re sume play when he suffered a relapse. "Why can't you play this time?" .grumbled his constant opponent on the links. "Let me put it this way," said the stricken one glumly. "My trouble is an overlapping grippe." "When we speak of the Sev en Seas." proposed the pro fessor, "let us be specific." "Okay," agreed a fresh Froshu. "You be specific, and I'll be Atlantic." A tearful bride explained why she wanted to leave ber brand-new husband. 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