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engaged in price fixing and other activities which hmder the catching of tuna in Pacific waters and Japan. The over-all result is that the public must pay more for tuna, the complaint said.Race Tension atSchools WaningimpConlifesia.T1spyMoidipltheWOImoiAmnovBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSRacial tension eased at Sturgis, Ky., and Clinton, Tenn., Tuesday and newly integrated classes showed an increase of attendance by white students in both towns.In Sturgis, seven Negroes returned to classes at Sturgis High School and white attendance roseInformativeParley SetOn Schoolsfrom about SO to 250. The white; enrollment is 310. There was no demonstration by the 65 persons gathered in front of the school as the Negro students arrived. Two companies of National Guardsmen were present.In nearby Clay, Ky., two Negro children were enrolled in an all-Negro school, ending a disturbance resulting from efforts to send the two to the all-white school in Clay. Some 75 Clay residents bad gathered outside the school where a similar crowd turned the Negroes away Monday.More WhitesPlans for a conference designed to inform Walla Wallans about all aspects of the District 110 schools were launched by more than 80 men and women representing various city groups Monday evening.The “Community Educational Conference Planning Meeting,” in Pioneer Junior High School, was the first development from original planning last spring by the Board of District 110 and the Walla Walla City Teachers Assn., each of which agreed separately that a program of the “Little White House Conference” type would be of value in Walla Walla.The groups joined in appointing a six-member eommitte to set up Monday’s meeting, to which were invited representatives from PTA’s. Federated Women’s Clubs, Ministerial Assn., service clubs, fraternal organizations, veterans groups, labor, the Chamber of Commerce, the WWCTA and other groups.Murray Heads GroupThe 80-plus who attended Monday chose a 15-member committee to inaugurate plans for the conference, and the 15 chose Orville Murray, attending as Edison PTA delegate, as chairman.In Clinton, Tenn., white student attendance at the high school rose to 590 and 11 of i2 Negroes were in class. A week ago only 266 white pupils were in the schoolafter anti-integration disorders.D. J. Brittain Jr., Clinton principal, said 36 white pupils have transferred to other schools. This leaves total enrollment at 770.•itheRGnuafouinesthemaishoBHajtheo’clwh»larA boycott of four Mercer County schools in West Virginia lost much of its steam. At Mataoka High School where 29 Negroes are enrolled, white attendance rose to 433 out of an enrollment of 614. The Matoaka Elementary School reported 290 of its 341 pupils present.In the Springton, W.Va., elementary School reported 290 of its 341 pupils present.In the Springton, W.Va., elementary and junior high schools attendance totaled 236 with only 48 absent and the Arista Elementary School reported 38 pupils out of an enrollment of 60.The group of 85 persons outside the Sturgis, Ky., High School Tuesday contrasted to the noisy crowd of betweeh 600 and 1,000 persons in front of the school Monday, Some in the crowd said the white pupils would never come back.carHajo’c'.Up,SatfoiltheAcovinc of i ryeingTe^WyWalt;3Royej195theRuIwo:yei3shefouat
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Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Tue, Sep 11, 1956
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