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()}thireansumi edi M! Se! tri! gathi arPfCccuarHEARS SCHOOL HOARD ROW. Gov. Frank .T. Lausehe (left) listens to complaints of throe fatherson the refusal of the South Point High School board to rehire athletic Coach Jack Dick and English Teacher John Ayers. Some 519 students went on strike at the school last week, hut returned when a committee of parents agreed to see the governor. Lausehe said he would go over the situation withstate Education Director Clyde Hissong.Edward Hilgonberg and Ellison Wheeler.sharfoFathers are (from left; Rev. M. Floyd, Baptist minister; (Internat ional)arsu^ iis]ouSolons Calling Lausehe TellsFrenchfRebelthI bfi A iFor Report OnHis Views onPacific TestSchool StrikeArtillery Duelre*inCongressmen DecloredHcll-Bomb 'So Horrible'World Should Be ToldWASHINGTON — Rep. Van iandt (R Pa) said today American scientists have broken through a ogjam in the development of hy-irogen and atomic power, and that he achievement points to aceeler ited development of both weapons and civilian power. He gave no details.COLUMBUS W—Gov. Frank J. Lausehe reiterated today he lack ed authority to intervene in a dispute that led to a walkout by South Point high school students..The governor, by letter, confirmed previous statements made to a three member parent committeerepresenting pupils who struck at the school last week.Students said they walked out in protest over refusal of the school board to rehire two teachers.His letter to Ellison Wheeler of North Kenova. a member of the’ committee, said:At Long RangeRed Backed VietminhExpected To LaunchwA i tr of auqiSiNew Ali-Out AssaultHANOI JV- French gun- from theUnited States and Chinese-suppliedVietminh artillery dueled at longrange todav across the barbed wireof I)ien Bien Phu as the defendersMeanwhile, two other Senate House Atomic Energy Committee members, Representatives Durham (I) NO and Price (Dill) called upon the Atomic Energy Commission to tell the public allit can about the Pacific hydrogenblast.The new bomb, Durham said, “is such a horrible thing it’s best to tell the world about it.” Price said he saw no reason to bar a quickannouncement, but the AEC gaveno indication it would have a statement soon.Van Zandt’s prediction followedthese disclosures:1. Members of the atomic energy committee confirmed that a preliminary hydrogen explosion March1 in th** Pacific was three or fourtimes heavier than scientists expected. Van Zandt estimated its power at 600 times that of the Hiroshima atom bomb, the first one used in war.t * *2. INFORMED source- who de clined to he named said the United States now is stockpiling hydrogen bombs that could be delivered anywhere in the world. This followeda statement by Rep. W. SterlingCole (R-NY) Tuesday night thatparents“Even though I were so inclined, under the law there is no power vested in either the director of the department of education or the governor of Ohio to intervene in the settling of a dispute concerning the management of a local school.of the big French fortress in northwest Indochina awaited more violent rebel assaults.StetmPlt;tFtr01atfi“The law contemplates and soprovides that the educational program and the business affairs of local schools .-.hall be administeredbv the elected members of theschool board.With clear, sunny weather the Erench also unleashed the full fury of their air power on the (ommunist-led rebels’ artillery posts and troops massed aroundthe heavily fortified plain. Fn their sixth day of constant at tack, the French still were confident they would win a majorvictory.tlt;tiSbceefib“The law* provides for the election of school board members every’ two years. If the people are not satisfied with what the board members are doing, they have the means at election time to remove the incumbents and place into office other personsThe governor again expressed “deep disappointment” over the strike by students in an attempt to influence school board action.Latest word from the battleground plain six miles long andfour miles wide said the rebels stillhad not resumed the frontal assaults by thousands of screaming fanatic warriors which so far had been unable to penetrate the barbed wire ringed fortress.htlt;sCsThough the French expected a resumption of the rebel charges momentarily, the Vietminh since yesterday had steered shy of the mad, wave-on-wave rushes which had strewn the battlefield and barbed wire with an estimated 3,-000 rebel dead and 9,000 wounded.* *y *“1 am quite certain that in their mature years,” the governor said, “those boys and girls will underhand that the means which they chose to achieve their objectivewas in complete conflict with thespirit and the letter of our Constitution. laws and moral concept.PPf *FROM LAND and aircraft carrier bases American-supplied Hellcats, Bearcats, Privateers and B26 bombers roared over Dien Bien Phu to paste the rebels.Other transports continuedwoS1toafci
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Van Wert Times Bulletin
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Thu, Mar 18, 1954
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