Desegregation rulings may reshape Lubbock schools
Court decisions in Corpus Christi and state actions threaten TEA funding and accreditation tied to desegregation plans. The Justice and 5th Circuit rulings push districts to review 66 percent minority enrollment in schools, with potential bus shuffles affecting about 15,000 students and costs near 1.7 million dollars.
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J .W. Edgar
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Woodrow Seals
Corpus Christi
Seals
California
Los Angeles
Dalla Gueryan to Award Shallowater Schools
The text notes Grant FROM PAGE ONE discussing growing Mexican American population in West Texas and the Southwest, Harvard ties, and Della Gueryan of Shallowater set to award the Shallowater public school system. It references patterns of segregation and court rulings affecting neighborhood schools and shifts in racial enrollment at Hunt School, with whites decreasing from 35 percent in 1969 to 14 percent in February of the year reported as minority enrollment rose.
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Southwest
Harvard
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Missionaries return home to Brownfield with new daughter
The Hendersons, Baptist missionaries from Manaus Brazil, return to the United States with Sundae now aged seven and baby Rachel, planning to stay in Brownfield until June 1972 before returning to Manaus. They describe bare Brazilian homes, hot baths, and the challenges of schooling for Sundae, with the family housed in a two floor, unfurnished apartment and mosquito and roach problems noted.
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Sundae
Rachel
Manaus
Brazil
Fort Worth
Brownfield
United States
Hendersons
Amazonas
Rio Negro
Amazon
Henderson
Joe Hawkins
New Tribes Mission School
Mrs. Henderson
Unsure Economic Future Prompts Consumer Cutbacks
The Commerce Department reports fewer plans to buy a new car, home, furniture, and appliances as consumers worry about the economy and jobs. Productivity in the private sector rose 1.7 percent in Q2, below the 4 percent target. The data challenge Nixon administration hopes for stronger growth without inflation.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce Department
Labor Department
Texans Testify On Countryside Crisis Before House Panel
Four Texans spoke to the House Agriculture Committee about the rural crisis. Bradford and Davia led two hours of testimony, joined by Virgil Cauthorn of Del Rio and Dallas editor Charles G. Seruges of the Farmer.
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House Agriculture Committee
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Virgil Cauthorn
del Rio
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G. Seruges
Dallas
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