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Violence ClosesHouston SchoolHOUSTON i AP»—Smiley High School and other schools in the Northeast Independent School District were closed today following an outbreak of racial troubleThree teen-agers were injured Thursday as violence broke out at Smiley and at San Houston High School in the Houston Independent School District, Smiley had the worst encounter when about 200 pupils clashed with rocks and clubs A shoving match between a white girl and a black girl prompted 10 Negro boys to walk out of class at Sam Houston. Police moved in to prevent a confrontation between blacks and whites.Following the clash at Smiley, two buses loaded with junior high school pupils were set upon by a group of blacks at an intersection near the school.One bus driver, R. J. I^n-drum, said about 30 blacks hurled rocks, bottles and sticks. Five girls were slightly injured when windows were broken.Police were first called to Smiley about 10:30 a.m. when some 75 white pupils who were boycotting classes began milling around in front of the school.They were protesting what they termed preferential treatment by the administration to Negroes.During lunch time, blacks andwhites began jeering one another and then one pupil ran through the halls saying blacks were stripping cars in the parking lot. police said.•‘It was like sticking a match to kerosene,” said Police Sgt. J. N. Smith. “It spread through the halls and people started coming from everywhere.“I was too busy dodging xlubs,” he said. I tried to iso-pbte someone, but how do you isolate 2.000 kids?”The fighting subsided by the time police reinforcements arrivedL. B. Lon. superintendent of the Northeast school district, said he doesn’t plan to ask police to be assigned to Smiley, which has been integrated for several years About 550 blacks are in the enrollment of 2,200. he said.Damage was confined to a tew broken windows.Fire Hits CleburneBIRTHSMr. and Mrs. Joe Besina. 1209 Thirty-third, are the parents of a 7 lb. 5*4 oz. baby girl, born at 10:10 a.m. Sept. 241 Killed, 2 Hurt In CollisionGALVESTON (AP» - A collision on a Galveston street Thursday killed April Basore, 16. Officers said a car was making a turn and another vehicle struck it. Two other per-CAnc cnCLEBURNE, Tex.« AP)—Fireafter an unexplained explosion wiped out three business places on the west side of Cleburne's downtown square Thursday nightAmmunition discharged by the heat in a sporting goods store kept firemen ducking for a time but there were no injuries.Police said a burglar alarm sounded and the explosion occurred almost at once. They had not determined the causeSheriff Cliff Benson, in the county courthouse across the street, summoned firemen after the blast at about 11:05 p.m.The flames raced through the plant of the weekly Johnson County News and an insurance agency in addition to the sporting goods store. Firemen found the top of a wall blown out in the insurance office.‘‘It looks like I’m wiped out.’’
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Snyder Daily News
Snyder, Texas, US
Fri, Sep 25, 1970
Page 7
Full Page
Clipped by
Sharlotte E.
TX, USA 23 Jan 2017
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