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AAA 5 DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 19G3 Schoolgirl Phonircq Chum Puts Dime, Dials $3180 She came out with $3,180 in $20 and $50 bills, all in "I was walking my bike Saturday night when 1 felt it go over something soft," young Glassner related. "Saw This Envelope" "I turned around and saw this envelope lying in the stieet. Inside were these five $50 bills." Marilyn, an eighth grader at Westchester Day School, and Sam, of Horace Mann School in the Bronx, now have nearly three tense months ahead. If the rightful owner doesn't turn up in y0 days, it goes to the finders. Police Capt.

John D. McCaffrey doubted yesterday that any claim will be made by the loser. "Right now," he said, "some unhappy bookies runner is probably telling his boss: 'Read the papers and see how I really did lose those two batches of By NEAL PATTERSON Mount Vernon, N. is a suburban city just north of the Bronx. It was incorporated as a village nearly 110 years ago, on Sept.

27, 1853, and has numerous business firms, churches and a population (1960 figure) of 76,010 including one Santa Claus, probably highly involuntary. Existence of the Santa Claus came to light yesterday with disclosure of the astounding good luck that befell two Mount Vernon youngsters. Marilyn Schwartz, 13, went into an outdoor glass-enclosed phone booth at Lincoln and Columbus Aves. carrying a dime with which to phone a girl friend. a plain white envelope with the name "Steve ritten on it.

But the Dime's a Loss Marilyn's dime, however, was a total loss. She had dropped it in the slot and had started talking when she spied the envelope, picked it up and glimpsed the contents. She hung up without completing her call. She ran with the money to her father. Dr.

Saul A. Schwartz of 131 Esplanade, who took her and her find forthwith to Police Headquarters. The cops were surprised, but not entirely so. This was Sunday morning. Only the night before, Samuel Glassner, 14, of 11 Parkway West, had brought in $250 found in a similar envelope, though an unmarked one, near the same corner.

Knapp Boys Enter School Near Home Boast! Backs Off On Strict lacfal By EDWIN BOSS The Board of Education, whose plan to set up strict racial quotas in Junior High School 275, Brooklyn, has been ruled illegal, indicated yesterday that it was backing away from its original intent to have the school enrollment one third white, one third Puerto Ilican and one third Negro School Superintendent Calvin 7 (XKWS foto by Ed Clarity) v. '7 Dr. Arthur Knapp leaves school with sons Ashley, 11 (left), and Arthur 2d, 13. Monday night in an action in Arthur 13. and Ashley, 11 -for whose custody the father A new note was struck yesterday in the long-running Knapp custody battle when it was disclosed that Mrs.

Gloria Knapp has been summoned in a suit for divorce by her estranged husband, eye specialist Arthur Knapp. The summons was served which Dr. Knapp charges adultery. No details have been disclosed. At yesterday's hearing before Supreme Court Judge George Postel.

Mrs. Knapp sought permission to place their sons, is battling in a hoarding school about 200 miles from New York. During the luncheon recess she surrendered them to Dr. Knapp, who then registered them in a public school near both the parents' homes. MM a to Maa irmmgnam urgei E.

Gross said that the current survey aimed at improving integration in the school system would "include a review of the present zoning plan for Junior IIS 275." "Maximum Integration" Assistant School Superintendent Max Meyers added: "We will strive to develop a racially-balanced school with maximum integration to the extent possible and will make whatever revisions are appropriate in the existing plan." The announcement followed by a few hours a unanimous decision by five justices of the Brooklyn Appellate Division upholding a temporary stay granted two Brooklyn couples to keep their sons from being sent to Junior HS 275, several miles from their homes. Court's Ruling Supreme Court Justice Edward G. Baker ruled on Sept. 6 that the two 12-year-old white students should not be summarily transferred from Junior HS 285, which is near their homes. The following day, Baker granted the temporary stay, pending appeal of his ruling which will be heard by the Appellate Division next Wednesday.

Four of the justices said it would be nnfair and a hardship to the children to again dislocate and disrupt them." In a concurrent opinion. Presiding Justice George Beldock said the matter "relates to the racial problem currently agitating the whole nation." He said that any other course would "serve only to aggravate the existing 9 Calvin E. Gro Announce zoning reff'ei to its mite rot8 liy MICHAEL O'NEILL Washington, Sept. 17 (NEWS Bureau) The Kennedy Administration has strongly urged Birmingham to put scores of Nejrroes on its police force as an immediate measure to prevent new racial violence there, Justice Departmental officials disclosed today. Judge Biased: Wallace They also reported that there appeared to be no immediate threat of new riots as an after- 17 In an affidavit attached to Montgomery, Sept.

Justice Baker found that the plan violated the State Education Law, which says that no persons shall be admitted to nor excluded from any school because of race, creed, color or national origin. Board's Defiance On the first school day, Sept. 9, the board defied Justice Baker's finding and refused to allow 51 white pupils to register at Junior HS 2S5, even though they lived near the school. They were told to go to Junior HS 275. The next day the board reversed itself and" let them enter 2k5.

Gross said yesterday that the city wide integration plan would be" completed by February, following a review by the board's professional stall and interested groups. his motion, Wallace said that during his campaign for governor he had referred several times to a case heard against him by Johnson and that he felt Johnson had "a personal bias and prejudice against During his campaign, Wallace referred to federal judges as "lying, carpetbagger (AP) Gov. George Wallace asked today that a federal judge disqualify himself from hearing a school integration case because of alleged bias. He said he would be unable to get a fair hearing before U.S. District Judge Frank M.

Johnson. The hearing is on a restraining order banning the governor from interfering with school integration. math to the Sunday School bombing. The officials said the city was very tense and that Negro leaders had no confidence that they will be pro tected by either white police or state troopers. omh Victim's Bona Grief at By FRANK HOLEMAN Of The News Washington Bureau Birmingham, Sept.

17 Thousands of angry but restrained Negroes turned out here today to say farewell to Carol Robertson, ,14, as the first of the four Negro girls killed in Sunday's church bombing was buried. Burke The result is, Marshall tney said, that Negroes have organized armed security patrols of their own which could trigger further clashes between the races. Lack Confidence in Police The Justice Department's top civil rights trouble-shooter, assistant Attorney General Burke Carol, clad in a white dress, turning to normal, as fear of more bloodshed subsided after 31! hours of relative calm, marred only by a series of minor fires laid to arsonists. Murder Charges Filed Tonight, the sheriff's office said it had filed murder charges against two white boys, both lti, who were arrested yesterday for the fatal shooting Sunday of a 13-year-old Negro, Virgil Ware. The victim was killed as he rode 2 ains Osi nights Hill Washington, Sept.

17 (Nkws Bureau) A House Judiciary subcommittee today tentatively approved the voting rights and school desegregation sections of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The subcommittee still has to tackle the controversial public accommodations provision but it was expected to report the full bill out next week. with a red rose in her hand, lay in an inexpensive wooden casket Marshall, made the plea for ap- i covered with baby-blue cloth. She The deeply-moving funeral service was held in the St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, only a block away from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church where the bombing pointing Negro policemen while was buried in Shadow Lawn Me- on a peace-making mission to i mortal Park, a small Negro ceme- r- 1, 1 tery on the edge of town.

Birmingham after the bombing. ThuSj even jn death she wa3 a He returned to Washington to- i vjctim of segregation. day to report to Attorney Gen- The other girls will be buried eral Robert F. Kennedy. 1 tomorrow.

a bicycle a few hours after the The city itself was rapidly re- I bombing of the church,.

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