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AlY NEWS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER "22,: 1970 7 By BERT SHAN AS A racial flareup at a brand new Brooklyn high school, the continuation of last week's boycott at a Bronx elementary school and the start of a new boycott at a Manhattan intermediate school all harassed the city school'system yes terday as it went into the second week of the new term I 1,700 pupils are blacks who come in from other areas. Attendance was reported at about 50 yesterday. On another front, parents, teachers and community leaders joined in a boycott of Manhattan's IS 44 in protest against a staff cut of 21 teaching positions Luther Seabrook, principal of the school, which is at 100 W. 77th noted that the staff had been cut even though he now had nearly 100 more registered students than last year's 1,250. Lost Specialists, Supervisors According to Seabrook, the Kids gather outside IS 44 playground, where parents, teachers and protest cut in teaching staff.

NEWS photo by Jack Smith community leaders joined to Fights between black and white students, with several outsiders joining in, developed at Brooklyn's new South Shore High School, despite the fact that a heavy police detail was posted at 6565 Flatlands Ave. Asks for More Guards Police reported the arrest of one 16-year-old on loitering charges as fights occurred both inside and outside the school building. The youth was not a student at the school. Calling the situation "extremely tense," Principal Max Bromer mnt with Deputy Chancellor Ir ving Anker in an attempt to get additional guaiua, mwre waiucia aide3 and additional school equipment for the building, which opened last Monday for the first time. The trouble began on opening day when a band of 25 white teenagers who were not students at the school attacked several black students near the school.

The fighting continued all through the week as the youths went at each other with fists and sometimes metal pipes. The $13 million school building is in a predominantly white area, but about 35 of the enrolled We budgetary cuts included the loss of two guidance counselors, two corrective reading teachers, two department chairmen and one assistant principal. The rest were regular teachers. Seabrook met yesterday with Chancellor Harvey Scribner in an attempt to work out a solution, but leaders of the boycott said the protest would continue today. Meanwhile, a boycott in protest 'against overcrowded conditions at PS 11, Bronx, went into its second week yesterday.

Par- to submarine" decentralization efforts by using "cute terms." The superintendent, Andrew Donaldson, who heads District 9, called on Shanker to say whether he was actually "for or against decentralization and youngsters being upgraded." The charges, which followed a broadcast over WINS in which Shanker charged two schools within District 9 with "educational huckstering," were made at District 9's headquarters, 1377 Jerome Ave. Win by a Landfill 250,000 Families Are Study Unit By martin Mclaughlin More than 250.000 families in the city earn less than the state poverty level of $5,050 for a family of. four, even where the breadwinner is a full-time worker, the New York Urban Coalition reported yesterday. In the broadcast, Shanker said that the teachers' union was preparing court action that would prevent the "contracting" of education by two of the schools. The two schools, PS 117 and PS 104, have engaged, through the Office of Economic Opportunity, the services of Learning Foundations, a firm owned by Giants quarterback Fran Tar-kenton, in the teaching of reading and math to 600 children.

orking Harry Van Arsdale Theodore Kheel for income supplements that increase with family size. The report pointed out that fewer than 30,000 working poor families, or 11 of all those eligible in the city, are receiving welfare. In this connection, the report called for a stepped-up educational campaign by employers to inform low income work ers of their eligibility under law to income supplements. is expected to JnK prove to "near acceptable" levels. Dept.

of Air Resources Poor, ells City lAIRDEXl UNHEALTHY-mm4 UNSATlSFACTORt. ACCEPTABLE 'GOOD-; I F24ki.Pe.i. rf9 Mi 3 Jrt Yesterday. niniifT ents and children resumed their demonstration in front of the building at Ogden Ave. and 169th St.

None of the school's 1,350 pupils have attended school since the new term started. Shanker Criticism Called 'Cute' Words The superintendent of 25 schools in the Bronx charged yesterday that the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Albert Shanker, was "trying Back Girl, 7 "Actually, she did have to borrow the money to see her child," Kiss Rothaus said. Geore-e Starke set Aaa in tho action for Oct. 7. In the meantime he ordered Merrick to let Mrs.

Merrick see the child twice a week at his apart ment in the Ritz Tower Hotel. Mro Mprrick. a Dublicist for TinuiiwdT nrodueer. divorced Mer rick in Mexico in 1966 after four years of marriage. si, NEWS photo by Paul DeMarla Mayor Lindsay and Connecticut Sen.

Abraham Ribicoff (second and by aides and newsmen as they tour the Fountain Ave. landfill BJ" peace during mayor, who clashed last month in Washington over whose streets grand tour through some of the worst slums Brooklyn and Jldt neighb orno 1 'I didn't realize how bad it was here," Rib coff said during nr of Brow JJ; cke Snd the mayor is doing a good job in difficult circumstances and Me Undsay had a chance toughest-next to the presidency. He also told newsmen he d.dn think Mayor Lindsay for the 1972 Democratic nomination, for the nite House. These families represent close to a million people and when these are added to the million on welfare, it means that about one person in every four in the city is living in poverty. The report was released after a yearlong study by a special co alition committee, headed Dy labor mediator Theodore Kheel and made up of 23 leading representatives of labor and lo cal community groups.

The 29-page report said that more than nail ot tne city 263,500 working-poor families are white iamines repre senting 6 of the white labor force. There are 73,300 black working-poor families, representing 12 of the black labor force; 16 of the working Puerto Ki-cans, or 45,500 families, earn incomes below the poverty line. Eueene Callender, coalition president, who joined Kheal at the coalition offices at 55 Fifth said that the report ex plodes the myth that poor people are "shiftless, dole-seeking people who have- no desire to seek or hold a fulltime job." "The taxes paid by the working poor," said Callender, "contribute significantly to the struc ture of this city, but their des perate needs have been virtually ignored by government agencies and labor organizations set up to protect them." Also present were Harry Van Arsdale, president of the New York City Labor Council, Manuel Diaz, vice president of the coalition, and Fred Fischer of the coalition's manpower task force. As an immediate solution to the problem, the report called Sues to Get Merrick The divorced wife of By ALFRED ALBELLI Broadway producer David Merrick made a new effort yes. terday to gain custody of their daughter, Cecelia, 7.

Mrs. Jeanne Gibson Merrick filed a custody suit in Supreme Court in the latest move in the long legal battle. Her ex-husband's lawyer, Ephraim London, indicated in court that Merrick opposed her suit on the grounds that 'she drank too much. Mrs. Merrick's lawyer, Beatrice Eothaus, denied the charge, declaring that her client was "a well woman and being driven out of her mind by the delays" in the legal fight.

Miss Rothaus charged that Merrick allowed his ex-wife to isit Cecilia only "on rare oc casions" and only at his place at Wpst.hamDton. L. I. She said Mer- TMrV in sis ted on Westhampton be cause he believed that Mrs. Merrick did iwrt have the cash to" get there..