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Daily Press from Newport News, Virginia • Page 24

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Daily Pressi
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Newport News, Virginia
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used In cooling jet aircraft on DAILY PRESS, Newport News. April 23, 1959 24 CauseSought v. Southwest Va. Integration In Richmond Island Blaze RICHMOND Firemen Wednesday sought to determine Effort Due, Attorney Says ROANOKE, W) An effort to inteerate public schools in a south est Vireinia county will be the cause of a spectacular Tuesday night fire that caused an esti Now On The ine iuuuu. The fire was fed by 200 to 300 tires used on the trailers and by plastic ducts.

Flames shot 100 feet into the air and black smoke was visible all over the city. The bridge that runs to the island has a recommended load capacity. Firemen said that limit prevented use of the city's big pumpers in containing the blaze. By the time firemen arrived, the job at hand was one of containing the flames. Andrew J.

Asch Recony president, emphasized that it was a "ball park estimate, but a half-million dollar damage figure is about as good as we can do pending further investigation." He said there was "ample" insurance coverage. lature will do." Newsmen took this to mean Lawson's move could come early next week. Lawson wouldn't say how many children of school age were involved in the proposed desegregation move. He did say he represented perhaps 12 families. Questioned further.

Lawson said launched soon, Roanoke Attorney Reuben Lawson said Wednesday. He said about 12 Negro fami mated $500,000 damage on Belle Isle in the James River. Three of the Recony 12 lies would seek the transfer of PENINSULA their children from Negro to white school. But despite persist major Duiiaings were involved in the fire. Two were leveled and a third was left with only its front portion standing.

Recony is encaged primarily in he knew of no definite plans to ent questioning, Lawson would not tell reporters the name of the county. "We're not in a position to give the manufacture of components and assembly of trailer-mounted, air conditioning units seek enrollment of Negro children in white Roanoke public schools. But he said he had "been casually consulted by some colored parents about such a possibility." Should desegregation litigation be instituted by Lawson, it would be the first of its kind in southwest Virginia. cut that information yet, ne said. One possibility is Pulaski Coun-tv.

In September. 1956, Lawson WITH THAT FRESH NT i( FLORIDA FLAVOR I mailed to the I a i County school board a petition from the parents of six Negro students For a sociable weekend: Pepsi In the new VW bottle New Missile Uses Outlined A new member of the Nike missile family will be made operational in the very near future, designed to seek out low flying enemy aircraft, the commander 'V 1 A seeking desegregation ot trie county's public schools. He said at the time he believed a desegregation suit would be filed if the petition was rejected. Frank Critzer, superintendent of Pulaski County schools, said he knew of no efforts to transfer. Negroes into white schools.

In addition to Pulaski County, several other Southwest Virginia Counties have no high school for Negroes, placing them in a position of vulnerability similar to that of Warren County, where the white high school was ordered integrated last fall. Among those counties without a Negro High school are Carroll, Grayson, Lee and Craig. Lawson's refusal to name the county where the desegregation effort would be made apparently temmed from the fact that a special session of the legislature is ISLAND FIRE Smoke from a spectacular half million dollar fire on a James River island rose into the air Tuesday night as flames destroyed three buildings of a Richmond firm that makes refrigeration equipment. of the Peninsula's Army Nike cules site will be placed in operation of this area "in the very, very near future." School For Palsied OSLO Europe's first grade and nursery school for children with cerebral palsy has been opened in Oslo by the Norwegian Association Against Cerebral Palsy. Btxlltrj.

Hampton, Va, Col. Treadway said chances for an accidental nuclear detonation units declared Wednesday night. The new missile, called the Hawk, will be used solely to intercept enemy planes at tree-top level and low flying planes that seep through Ajax and Hercules missiles radar systems, Lt. Col. Joseph E.

Treadway, commander of the 4th Battalion, 51st Artillery, told members of the Peninsula Junior Chamber of Commerce at a dinner meeting at Hotel Warwick. Col. Treadway emphasized the Army's role in the nation's air defense and spoke briefly of the job of Nike missiles. He also reported that a Her- 100 PURE still in the process of drawing up explosion at a Nike missile site are almost nonexistant and there iiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim is no danger from fallout. a new anu-iniegrauuu yiv gram.

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