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Students Rebel At South Point For Third DayAngered at School • Board’s Decision Not To Rehire 2 Teachers-IRONTON, Ohio . A larg Itand of student •‘rebels’* continue their strike at nearby South Poir High School today. Others returns tb classes after the walkoi: Wednesday protesting the schoc board's decision not to rehire tw teachers.; Principal Herndon Wilks sai about “75 or 100” students wer gathered across the street fror the school and refused to enter. H could give no estimate of ho\ many returned to classes.About 500 are enrolled ai th school.‘The strikers have adopted •'wait and see” attitude after wir fling a partial victory at a villa g meeting last night. The majorit of adults attending the meetin supported the students and helpe obtain a written statement fror three board members who prort ised a special board meeting Mor day night Two board members rt fused to sign.The students want the boar-meeting to discuss the dropping c Athletic Coach jack Dick and En* lish teacher'John Ayers, a bette lunch program, a better atlUud from their principal and a promis of no punishment for the strikeStrikers still out today gatherelt; around a large bonfire across fror the school, stayed off school pro* erty, and chanted slogans. The. paraded occasionally in order!, fashion.Earlier they burned in effig; their principal.Board Clerk Rex Miller toda; refused to let a newsman see th minutes of the board meeting woe it was decided to release the teach ers.Miller and Ennis Austin are th two board members who refuse* to agree to the Monday meetingThe Ironton Tribune, ic a fron page editor’s note to the strik story, called it ‘’mob rule” an* chided the students for using ai “undemocratic approach* to solv ing a dispute.Two of the board members wen present at the meeting last night They are Max Davidson and JacI Mann, who both said they opposei dropping the two teachers.Alter the meeting, Davidson ant Mann got L. M. Butcher, presides of the board, to call the specia meeting.Principal Wilks, in his first yea; at South Point after teaching anlt; coaching at Pomeroy, could giv* no explanation for the board’s ac tion in not renewing the contracts Both are “capable teachers,’* h* said.One theory, voiced at the meet ing by the Rev. Merrill Floyd, i
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Marion Star
Marion, Ohio, US
Fri, Mar 12, 1954
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