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SOUTH POINT, Ohio (AP) -Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies arrested more than 40 persons Thursday night on contempt of court charges for allegedly violating an injunction forbidding picketing at South Point schools.Lawrence County Common Pleas Court Judge Kenneth Ater signed complaints against some 40 former teachers and four parents. He maintained they had violated the terms of a no-picketing order he handed down last week.Those arrested were picked up at their homes and at a local motel which has been used as headquarters for the striking South Point 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 3(T 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 Eugene Smith— among the 114 teachers fired last week by the school board—said they were bumped by an auto driven by SchoolSupt. Lawrence Derifield. They said he drove through the picket line without stopping.Lawrence County Sheriff James Howell said Derifield told him he thought he “might have bumped two pickets” but did not stop to look. No charges were filed.Derifield fired all the teachers in the district last week after they refused to come back to class without additional pay benefits, including a $900 cost-of-living increase.The strike began two weeks ago after negotiations broke 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 the 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 sheriff said.Classes are being conducted by substitute teachers, school supervisors and 14 teachers who were rehired.The teachers association maintains that the classes are little more than babysitting exercises.Cincy Teachers Batify Contract
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Logan Daily News
Logan, Ohio, US
Fri, May 16, 1975
Page 8
Full Page
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Brickael S.
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