Greeley Daily Tribune from Greeley, Colorado • Page 9

Proposed amendment on busing opinion only By CARL MILLIARD Associated Press Writer DENVER (AP) Few Colorado residents have come out publicly in support of busing students for racial balance, but the entire voting population will have an opportunity to express its opinion on the issue Nov. 5 at the ballot box. Amendment No. 8 on the general election ticket amends the state constitution and would bar the assignment or the transportation of pupils to public educational institutions to achieve racial balance. The question was placed on the ballot after a lengthy petition drive by a Denver organization called Citizens Association for Neighborhood Schools, or more familiarly, CANS.

Ironically, the proposed amendment will be an expression of opinion only, because it is directly at cross-purposes with the requirement for "equai protection of the law" contained in the federal constitution. If adopted by the voters, the proposed amendment is likely, eventually, to be ruled unconstitutional since the federal constitution and its interpretation by the U.S. Supreme Court are the supreme law of the land. That, in effect, was what the Colorado attorney general's office told the state legislature last winter, when the lawmakers were considering enacting such a proposal. The legislature abandoned the idea, but CANS, hoping to get an overwhelming expression of opinion on the busing issue, proceeded.

In doing so, CANS leaders said, they hoped to provide some guidance to the state's congressional delegation in possible changing of the federal constitution. CANS supporters say adoption of the proposed amendment would reinforce the state constitution which prohibits "any distinction of classification of pupils on account of race or color." Its adoption would reaffirm (hat state voters do not want public policy decisions made on the basis of racial distinctions. It would also be a mandate, they say, against racially-determined busing and pupil assignment which could not be ignored by state and national political leaders. The proposal is intended to show, clearly, to the courts and local school authorities that racial distinctions are not to be made in decisions relating to pupil assignments and transportation. Other factors in favor of the amendment: -Busing is contrary to the neighborhood schools concept; which allows children to walk to school, and return home quickly after school.

That type of school also allows more parental involvement and allows the child to develop and maintain a sense of identity with his own community. --If public schools are established for the purpose of educating children without regard to racial, ethnic or religious considerations, they should not be used for solving problems such as racial segregation, opponents say. Those problems usually go beyond the area of education anyway. The main argument against the proposal is that it legally isn't going to do anything. While pupil assignment and busing may not be the ideal means of desegregating a school system, they are the only practical methods of as- suring that the desegregation of the system proceeds, amendment critics point out.

The extreme long-range solution appears to be change in housing patterns of minority citizens. The choice, then, seems to be no choice at all: accepting pupil assignment and busing as an inconvenient means toward integration- which has been ordered by the court--or accepting an unconstitutionally segregated school system. Those who are unwilling to accept that have moved their children out of the Denver Public Schools System and into private schools, or moved out of the core city entirely. Supporters of the courts say the judiciary is the main body responsible for determining when an elective body or an administrative unit has abused constitutional rights. And, they say, the judicial banch has the further responsibility of initiating a remedy for such a situation.

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District Court in Wichita Saturday against Martin Allen Geringer, 30, Mosca, in connection with a holdup at the Midland National Bank in Newton Friday. Geringer, who appeared before U.S. Magistrate John B. Wooley, was being held in the Sedgwick County jail in lieu of $50,000 bond. A bank official told police a gunman got away with about $14,000 just at closing time.

The robber dropped some money in the bank as he left, then ran into an alley witnesses saw him speed away in a pickup with a Colorado license. A Reno Counly deputy sheriff stopped Geringer in the truck near Buhler, about 25 miles northwest of Ni'wtnn hut Ihe man sped off. A seven-mile high-speed chase followed during which the fired deputy two shots. ended when Ihe pickup blew a tire three miles west of Buhler. UNSCRAMBLE ABOVE II TURf.

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John Vanderhoof flailing the group Tuesday and his Democratic opponent, State Rep. Richard Lamm, firing a cannonade on Thursday. Glowering at the comments of both is Rep. Sanders G. Arnold, R-Boulder, JBC chairman.

Arnold is chafing at criti cism by Vanderhoof, a fellow Republican, and at the same time is trying to wage a tough campaign for re-election. Vanderhoof, during a speech before the American Society of Public Administration, said the spending practices of the JBC were hurting the effectiveness of state agencies. He said he was going to get tough with the JBC, which is dominated by Republicans, and would not tolerate under-funded programs endorsed by the group next year. The governor said his "new system" of dealing with the JBC would be to "sit down with the new members" and have a "clear understanding of how the governor is going to react to their bills, programs and "It's going to be a very simple understanding. We're going to write the program, and the program is going to be funded- or there's a word called That's just how simple its going to be," the governor continued.

There isn't going to be any more of this business of creating a program, then not funding it--and then giving the people in our department fits for not getting the job done." He termed past funding practices of the JBC "ridiculous," and "a farce." Arnold told the Associated Press he had called the governor's office Friday to get a clarification of his remarks and find out if they possibly were "in error." "1 really think those comments have been unfortunate," the three term lawmaker said. Arnold said the governor has referred to two specific areas in his criticism. One concerned an alcoholic "detoxification" program, aimed al decriminalizing public drunkeness, and the other involved two of the governor's own pet projects, streamlining the planning and budgeting process and creating a separate department of corrections. Those bills all were approved by the JBC and passed the House with adequate funding, Arnold said. The $3.5 million in the detoxification bill was reduced to $500,000 when it left the Senate, forcing a hardship on local communities, and the Department of Corrections program was killed outright.

Arnold played key roles in getting those measures through the House with what he believes was adequate funding. "I feel his attack is unfortunate--and unwarranted," Arnold said. 'f feel the committee had nothing to do with Ihe iteams he mentioned." Lamm, who criticized the JBC for its funding of programs at state institutions--including the State Hospital and at Ridge Home in Wheat Ridge, was also off base, Arnold said. "After the long bill was introduced I was personally thanked by Dr. Charles Meredith (the hospital superintendent) for treatment of the hospital's budget.

He thought the budget we had proposed to the General Assembly was well- handled. "And when the bill reached the House floor, to the best of my recollection, there was no attempt to amend the long bill by any legislator -from Pueblo or elsewhere--to change the hospital appropriation," he said. "We've been attacked on the salary appropriation for the personnel al the state hospital. You have to understand this has nothing to do with the JBC. It applies funds for personnel established through the Department of Personnel, which sets classifications and conducts salary surveys.

We do not set salaries for state personnel," he emphasized. The idea that the budget committee "cuts budgets" at Ridge Home or anyone else is wrong. Arnold says. "We build budgets. Our responsibility to the taxpayers is to see that their money is spent as wisely as possible.

And we have to have a budget presentation made clearly enough, so we can understand the program and see what Ihe departments intend In do i funds. And also so we can look one year later and sec whether the taxpayers got what they paid for." "If clarity can come from the executive department, it will help decrease the friction that exists today. I welcome any clarification. But by constitutional law, Ihe general assembly is responsible for all budget preparalions-and not the executive department." LEES A DECOR' 716 12th St..