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PHIUDELPHU OMIT KEWS 5 TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1978 2 Soveraors Vow to My High Court on Schools GOVERNOR LESTER MAD- AT THIBODAl'X. fighting between white students and blacks broke out again at Thi-bodaux High School. School Superintendent Woodrow J. Defeiice dismissed classes. "We're closing the school because tension is so bad and we're not accomplishing anything not teaching them anything," he said.

About 40 students had engaged in "fist swinging and mostly shoving" at the school Friday. A lunchroom battle between black students and whites at Rose High School, in Greenville, N.C.. at the start of last week touched off a week of intermittent fighting. About 40 students were suspended. The school began the new week with no incidents but 175 students were absent.

DOX has urged Georgia students and teachers to boycott classes in protest against teacher and pupil integration orders by Federal courts. Dr. Franklin Shumake, president of the Georgia Education Association, yesterday accused Maddox of complicating the situation and vowed that his group "would resist any effort to defy laws, close schools or promote substandard private schools in Georgia." Fourteen Southern school districts submitted plans to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans suggesting how they might best carry out total desegregation by Feb.

1. The "suggestions" could be incorporated into the final decrees. 'T 1 mill ATLANTA (UPI). Parts of the official South are beginning to balk on the Supreme Court's massive desegregation program for public schools. Two governors say they will defy the Federal courts and a third is advocating classroom boycotts.

A Louisiana high school shut down yesterday following fighting between whites and black students. A North Carolina high school cautiously reopened after a week of intermittent racial battling between students. Many Southern school districts are under Federal court orders to desegregate by Feb. 1. but Gov.

Claude Kirk of Florida told the Supreme Court such a deadline would create "financial chaos" in his state. KIRK TOLD the high court yesterday that if it didn't extend the deadline to June 15 he would do it himself by executive order. "Floridans have stood on no school doorways, nor have we brandished ax handles," Kirk said. "And were it possible to achieve racial balance by Feb. 1 or even Jan.

31, you would find us at the head of the line, striving to lead, not be led or coerced." Louisiana Gov. John J. Mc-Keitben said last night he would refuse to "allow my children to be bused as animals in some experiment. Enough is enough." Dems Shrug Off Stadium Probe By BILL FIDATI and NELS NELSON The odds were 2-to-l today against an investigation of spiraling costs for the new South Philadelphia stadium two Democrats opposed, one Republican for. An impromptu three-way press conference found Councilmen Isadore II.

Bcllis and Thomas it iitit RAYMOND YORK and U. S. MARSHAL schoolboy defied Mom of Arrested Soy Plans Integration Test ings on a new stadium loan are completed, and if it is determined that the extra costs are due to faulty price estimates by architects or anyone else in positions of responsibility, then the city should consider taking action. He said he was certain a lot of questions would be asked at the public hearings. The loan bill, at this point, has not been introduced.

LONGSTR ETH cited presentments returned by the special grand jury against Harry Blatstein. the city's stadium coordinator, and Nixon Snub, Up N. J. Cops gas pistol an illegal weapon in New Jersey on the car seat. A further search, he said, turned up "six or seven knives of varying sizes." A fourth person in the car, identified by police as Jeffrey Lerner, of Tacoma Park, admitted the tear-gas gun was his.

All four were taken to the State Police barracks at Newark about 1:15 A. M. Police said Lerner was being held in jail overnight but the other three were released. Gov. JOHN J.

'bused as animals' others connected with the new construction. cnouph smoke to look for the fire." he said. Mcintosh joined Eellis in suggesting that any investigation await im'ormaticn turned up at the public hearings. He recalled that as a member of the Council committee which toured several stadiums around the country when the new sports facility was in the planning proccs. he already could foresee mcney trouble here.

"1 have yet to find enp stadium built in the last 10 years," said Mcintosh. the cost c.l actual competition was net from 50 to 25 percent higher than Cyclone Pounds Resorts BRISBANE. Australia (IT1V Cyclone Ada battered lusury island resorts on Australia's Great Barrier Reef for the second consccutic day, smashing almost all buildings on some of the islands. Polite reported at least 2 persons dead and 12 missing. The Australian government ordered army troops and air force planes into the 12iKl miie-long reef to launch rescue operations.

Police said approximately persons had been evacuated from the islands that dot the reef. Dai'y News and The Inquirer and began operating the to papers Jan. I. Lee Hills, president of KM. said publishing is a liusines "but journalism is not essentially a business.

It is more of an ait a vital public service in a free society. Yes. we are business people, with a passion for solvency and proud of our progressive management. But we are basically professional journalists, all of us. deeply invohei in the community and dotnn the best we know how to put forward the best intercuts of the city, state and nation." JAMES KNK.IIT, KM chairman of the board ant chief executive officer, noted that newspapers are the lot It largest industry in the V.

S. and the nation's (iflh Jart Continued on page 26 OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI). Mrs. Yvonne York, mother of a 14-year-old boy taken into custdy for defying a Federal desegregation order, says she will take the case to integration order Unlfax man John Smith telegrammed President Nixon criticizing his administration for interfering in local school issues. "The people of Oklahoma are fed up with forced busing and Federal court orders running our schools," Smith said.

"We demand an end to this madness." Mrs. York said she expected to be arrested for contempt of court and said such an arrest would help her case through the courts. She said she had received much financial aid from the community. Smith said a fund he started last week contained about $2500. Mrs.

York said she personally had received more than $1000. McKeithen called on parents in Louisiana and other states to join him in opposing busing to achieve racial balance in schools. "I'm going to send my children back to the school they have been going to," he said. Dank Robbed Twice in Day A man with a gun tucked in his belt robbed the First Pennsylvania Bank branch at 5th and Bainbridge sts. of about $3000 at closing time yesterday.

The bandit handed teller Mrs. Margaret Huff, 30, a note reading, "Give me all the money. Don't make any noise or I will kill you." Earlier yesterday four robbers waited for the First Pennsylvania branch at 6701 Germantown ave. to open and took $10,800 from cash drawers and another $12C0 from a tavern owner who was making a deposit. Officials said it was the first time in the bank's history that it had been robbed twice in one day.

Mcintosh, Democrats, shrug ging at talk of a probe. Republican W. Thacher Long-streth, on the other hand, was hot and heavy for some nose-poking into the extra $6.4 million the stadium committee wants to finish the job. His exact word was: "Outrageous." THE STADIUM experts last week announced they needed an additional councilmanic loan of $6.4 million for seats, artificial turf, concession areas and other evidently un-forseen contingencies. Bellis, the majority whip, said that when public hear Oleo Heir Gets Fails to Butter NEW YORK (UPI).

Michael James Brody who wanted to give away his $25 million fortune, bummed a ride from Washings ton to New York last night when he couldn't find enough pocket money for a ticket. A run-in with police early today further delayed his return. Brody went to the White House yesterday to try to tell the President about his plans to end the Vietnam war and solve the Middle East problem. He talked to a succession of police guards and Secret Service agents but got no farther than the gatehouse to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Brody chartered a helicopter to fly him from New York to Washington but he didn't have enough cash left to pay the cab driver who took him to the White House.

When it came time to return to New York, he tried to borrow fare for him and his wife, Rence, but didn't meet with much success among members of the White House press corps. WHEN A YOUNG man with a black leather jacket offered to drive him to New York, Brody accepted. They got as far as Newark, when the State Police pulled them over for failing to keep to the right on the New Jersey Turnpike. According to a State Police spokesman, the driver of the auto, Melvin Merrick, of Washington, was. given a ticket.

Then the officer noted there was a tear- Knight Newspaper Officials Host Community Leaders the Supreme Court. U. S. District Judge Luther Bohanon last week ordered the Yorks to enroll their son Raymond at Harding Junior High School in compliance with desegregation rulings. The boy had been enrolled at Taft Junior High, a few blocks from his home.

Harding is 4 miles from his home. RAYMOND WAS taken into custody yesterday by Federal marshals when Mrs. York tried to enroll him at Taft. "I enjoyed it," Raymond said. "But I would rather have been in school." "I think I have proven my point that the Federal Government would rather pick on a small boy than adults," Mrs.

York said. "I plan to go all the way to the Supreme Court to fight this. "Never, never will he go to Harding." Community sentiment rallied around the mother and child after the detainment at the Federal Office Building. Members of the Neighborhood School Association, a group that has fought Federal integration orders in the court since the beginning, planned a march on City Hall Saturday to show their support. OKLAHOMA CITY Council- Hong Kong Dance Marathoi HONG KONG (UP).

Nineteen couples danced nonstop in a 10-hour dance marathon. It was the first such contest in. Hong. Kong. The winning couple donated heirV $1670 prize money to charity.

"yf Smn' je t.m "My instinct is that the 1970s may usher in an era of maturity in which extremism and anarchy will not rest well with the American public," John S. Knight, editorial chairman of Knight Newspapers told a luncheon audience here today. "Despite the campus demonstrations and other evidences of disaffection with establishment thinking, my confidence in- the youth of America remains unshaken. I see a turn in direction from destructive dissent to constructive participation." Knight and other visiti.ig executives of KM were introduced to some leaders of Philadelphia at a community luncheon at the Bellevue Stratford. KM purchased the MISSING COEDS FEARED KIDNAPED Possibly abducted as they hitchhiked back to their dormitories at West Virginia University, W.

are coeds Karen Ferrell (left), 19, of Quinwood, W. and Mira Malarik, Kinnelon, N. J. Girls have been missing two days. Police have issued an "all points' bulletin" for the VuiUt.