Crowding Charges Stir Middletown School District
The Office for Civil Rights accuses Middletown schools of Civil Rights Act violations amid claims by Supt. Howard Cromwell that charges are unfounded. The district points to crowding at Taft Elementary due to remedial Title I staff and bused first graders to Garfield, with additional transfers to Oneida and other adjustments to ease overcrowding.
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Office For Civil Rights
Cromwell
Jefferson
Maple Park
Department of Education
Sherman
Mayfield
Employment of Negro Teachers Raises District Questions
Henderson notes Taft Elementary has the highest turnover and lowest 1+ year experience among district schools and historically employed Negro teachers only at Booker T. Washington School. After its 1956 closing, some Negro teachers moved to white schools. many were reassigned to schools with substantial Negro enrollment, prompting questions about discrimination and shifting attitudes toward teacher assignment.
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Henderson
Taft Elementary
Booker T. Washington
Owever
McKinney Junior High
Taft
Garfield
Cromwell
Oneida
Sherman
McKinsey
McKinley
Jefferson
New York
Boundary changes reflect race and crowding concerns in Ohio
In Henderson and Cromwell notes from 1967 to 1969, the district patterns show adjustments in white areas to prevent overcrowding while making fewer changes in overcrowded predominantly Black Taft. A small 1962-63 transfer near Amanda Elementary avoided busing to Taft, with no Taft students affected then. Transportation rules and a 1969 reorganization plan are described, including moving to a 5-3-1-3 system, converting junior highs to middle schools, and building a new senior high school delayed by labor strikes.
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Henderson
Taft
Amanda
Cromwell
Homer Davis
Rosedale
Creekview
Spring Hill
Ohio Gets Grant For Great Miami River Pollution Study
Columbus reports a federal grant of 110 500 to start a Great Miami River pollution control program. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will match funds to launch the project through fiscal 1969, with total costs estimated at 455 000. The Miami Conservancy District leads the study from Sidney to the Ohio River, coordinated by the DN R and Health Department. Governor Rhodes notes urgent action to meet 1972 water quality standards.
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Columbus
Ohio
Miami
Department of Natural Resources
Department of Health
James A. Rhodes
Morr
Stiff Rules Set For 2nd Trial
London Ohio judge imposes strict media coverage limits for Mark Hodges second trial in Madison County Common Pleas Court. No recording devices or publicity interviews. media seating limited. no new courthouse phone lines. all present in courtroom until verdict. Hodges faces a June 1967 shooting charge in Napoleon, Ohio. First trial in Henry County ended in mistrial and venue changed.
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London
Ohio
Gerald A. Baynes
Mark D. Hodges
Madison County Common Pleas Court
Hodges
Napoleon
Henry County
Baynes
Ohio Soldier Killed in Vietnam Action
Army Spec. 4 Steve E. Wertz of Springfield Ohio was killed in recent action in Vietnam, the Defense Department announced Friday.
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Washington
Army
Steve E. Wertz
Springfield
Oho
Vietnam
Defense Department
Elderly Pedestrian Killed After Car Strike in Toledo
Bertha Meier, 88, was struck by a car on a street near her home in Toledo shortly before 6 p.m. Friday and died about three and a half hours later at a Toledo hospital.
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Toledo, Ohio
Bertha Meier
Toledo
Sit-In At Wittenberg Settled After Daylong Protests
Springfield AP reports a Wittenberg sit in by Pierce, Jones, and others ended Friday after campus officials dropped trespassing charges. The incident began when three Antioch College students entered dormitory areas to retrieve a coed. they faced disorderly conduct accusations. The protest was described as a verbal exchange and involved police called to the campus.
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Springfield
Ohio
Ron Woods
Witten Wittenberg University
Berg
Suhner Jones
Alfred H
Pierce
Antioch College
Pierce Wen
Stu
Liv
Rcident
Allan O. Pinister
Uni
Change
Jonesiversity
Star
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Military Order of the Cooties
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Ronald Klapper
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