The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 7

THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Jan. 14, 1970 f. Muscogee Planning Faculty Balance he said that implementation of it is proceeding smoothly. "We're doing what it looks like we'd eventually have to do," Shaw explained. 20, 000 Pupils Ride Buses to School Daily "snmrise- at the large number board's action is to keep the in before the passage of the board resolution.

By BILL SEDDON Although not vet under any itiative and not have the whole court order to do so, Muscogee community disrupted by orders of teachers who have volunteered have been in "the low priority group." Shaw asserted that there has been "no real opposition, no threats of walkouts, marching, boycotts," over the plan, and County schoo! officials are proceeding with their own plans to desegregate faculties in the district's public schools by Feb. 2. Dr. William Henry Shaw, Superintendent of Schools for the Muscogee County School District, has been authorized to implement teacher desegregation through a Board of Education resolution. Tnrlnriftd in the district are Full racial balance will require a ratio of 75 to 25, white to Negro, among the teachers in the district's schools.

Meetings of the principals and teachers of each of the schools affected were held and the teachers were asked what method of desegregation they preferred. They chose seniority, Shaw reported, and so teachers with the least seniority will be transferred first. The teachers of only one school voted for a lottery. The superintendent indicated Steve McQueen: What's bugging him? LH3 ON SALE NOW from outsiders," Shaw declared in a telephone interview. His district has not been ordered to desegregate faculties, but he said that in light of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals directives to Atlanta and other school districts, "We had no reason to believe we wouldn't eventually be called back into the courts." Shaw said that about one-half of the teachers needed to be re-assiened to orovide racial bal An Atlanta group has copyrighted an integration plan that would greatly expand the public transportation of cit pupils but would do it in airport-type 'in-ousines.

Judge Hooper commented from the bench Tuesday, "I don't know of any decision by the courts under which the Atlanta School System would be required to buy buses and use buses." Hamil said 27 years ago as a driver he was providing the same service by streetcar to Boys High and Girls High. The bus company says it loses money on the service. "But," Hamil said, "we think we gain it back in good will." Busing has become an issue in the hearings on the city's desegregation plan now being conducted by U.S. District Court Judge Frank Hooper. "AMERICA'S TASTIEST" CJ fCJ Kgjj R51 fsy the schools of Columbus, Georgia's second largest city.

"The main purpose in the ance had already been moved By MIKE BOWLER Constitution Education Editor Busing is not a part of the Atlanta School Board's desegregation but some 20,000 students more than one-fifth of the total city enrollment ride the bus to school each day. The service has been provided for years by the Atlanta Transit System. It costs the student 10 cents per ride, a fare that has held steady since it was doubled July 18, 1956. The line estimated it provides 40,000 rides a day (one each way), about half of them on regularly scheduled buses that carry commuters to work and housewives to the store. About 55 per cent of the rides, the line "said, are on 398 special buses that run before and after school.

High school students are given identification cards to be shown to the driver for the special fare. Grade school students need only look like grade school students The service is funded entirely tmm ctudont fares and inHi- iiiuuuuuiJijiiuiiujMiu--. iimiijiiuii iwi ii null hi ii in 1 mummy ii ummmmmmmmmiMmWilm illiluuguMWUUUU Will UbUM.V 11.. JC Uixliii nf 8 IIS MmMrhM recuy, lioui uie mguei lcueo regular bus users. The current base fare is 35 cents.

The school district provides no funds for the service, owns no buses of its own and says it doesn't keep statistics on the number of student riders. The buses are not the familiar yellow school buses seen in other communities, but all of them are convertible from commuter bus to school bus in a few minutes. The driver simply uncovers a "School Bus" sign ait the front and back of the vehicle and flips a switch to activate the flashing lights warning that a school bus is picking up or discharging passengers. Requests for beginning bus service can come from a community group, group of parents, school official or city official. Sometimes requests are routed through the school administration, but many buses are running without the knowledge of district officials.

"We try to honor as many requests as we can," said D. R. Hamil, school and special service engineer for Atlanta Transit System. "Not only do we try, but a look at our yard during the afternoon will prove that we do. We have a few more buses in the afternoon on school service than on commuter AT EBENEZER King Body Taken to New Site Mrs Martin T.llt.hfT KinS Jr and her four children were present during the predawn a hours luesaay.

as King's body si I in na tijpi was transferred from South View I Cemetery to a i site near the I Ebenezer Bap- I Ust Church. The removal of the crypt, I which bears the 1 11 Kin WOrOS, TUS Last, Thank God Almighty, I'm Free At Last," was a first step toward building the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, pprmannet. entombment will eventually take place in an area i near the Ebenezer cnurcn wnere King preached, which will contain the memorial center. Mrs.

King, with the approval of the center's board of trustees, chose the time of transferring her husband's body so that the site could be officially inaugurated Jan. 15-King's 41st birthday anniversary. The widow requested the trans fer of the body be made at i night, so that it could be done without fanfare, "as a matter of taste and dignity." Mxmmm fe! A service commemorating tne birthday of the civil rights leader will be held Thursday at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Afterward, those attending will file past the new crypt. The main speaker will be Dr.

Benjamin E. Mays, president emeritus of Morehouse College, and the new head of the Atlanta Board of Education. Other speakers include Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, successor to King as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Mayor Sam Mas-sell and the Rev. C.

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