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Teachers Citedii* iSOUTH POINT, Ohio (AP) -Lawrence County sheriff's de uties arrested more than 40 persons Thursday night on co mpt of court charges for allegedly violating an injunction rbidding picketing at SouthPoint schools-Lawrence ' County Common Pleas Court Judge Kenneth Ater signed complaints againstsome 40 former teachers and four parents He maintained they had violated the terms of a no-picketing order he handeddown last week. .Those arrested were pickedup at their homes and at a local motel which has been used as headquarters for the striking South Faint Classroom Teachers Association. County residents were later released on their own recognizance pending a Friday hearing. The others had to put up (250 bonds each* The arrests culminated events that began early Thursday when some 30 pickets gathered at South Point High School and turned back students and substitute teachers.Two pickets were slightly injured when they were struck by an automobile apparently driven by the superintendent of the South Point school district. They were treated and released at a nearby hospital.Leslie York and EugeneSmith—among the 114 teachers * *Lineboard—said they were bumped by an auto driven by School Supt. Lawrence Derifieid- They said fee drove through the picket line without stopping.Lawrence County Sheriff James Howell said Derifieid told hiin he thought he “might have bump ;d two pickets” but did not stop to look. No chargesDerifieid fired all the teachers in the district last week after they refused to come hack to class without additional pay benefits, including a $900 cost-of-living increase-The strike began two weeks ago after negotiations br lt;e down. Classes were closed for several days and the school board obtained a court injunction which forbade picketing.A spokesman for Thursday's pickets said they took the position that he injunction did not apply to them as they were no longer teachers. There were no reports of arrests at the school.Only a - handful of the district’s 2,600 students were in class Thursday, the sheriffsaid-Classes are being conducted by substitute teachers, school supervisors and 14 teacherswho were rehired.The teachers associationmaintains that the classes aro little more than babysitting ex-
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Steubenville Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Fri, May 16, 1975
Page 20
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