(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-
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CLUB
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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. "He said
that on our honeymoon we would drink In aH the sights of Man
hattanbut instead, he drank up all the Manhattans in sight."
Two eows tried to nudge their way inside a barn at the same time.
'Take it easy, sister," cautioned one. "Where were you brought up:
in a house?"
O 1958. y Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Feature! Syndicate.
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. Cecelia Kee
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land street had identified a
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