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SUNDAY NEWS. MARCH 15. 1964 Tenement Fire Routs Family Busing Foes Shape Plans To Set Up Private Schools By JOHN MALLON Thousands of parents in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx plan to withdraw their children from city schools if the Board of Education starts busing pupils from their home areas to out-of-neighborhood, integrated schools, THE NEWS learned yesterday. The board's busing program isl There's a Forecast of Reign scheduled to begin in September, when it will pair schoots in different neighborhoods. Facilities such as auditoriums and meeting halls are now being sought out for use as private neighborhood schools by local units of the Parents and Taxpayers Coordinating Council.

Lrge Policy Citywide The local units are urging the cooxdinating council to eonouct a citywide survey to find such facilities, and to adopt the send-our-kids-to-private-schools program as its official policy. Mrs. Ruth Gunning, secretary of the council, confirmed that "there is activity of this sort, but it isnt a part of council policy at this time." The separate units of the PAT council, which Thursday sponsored a save the neighborhood demonstration by 15.000 persons at City Hall and Board of Education headquarters, are drawing up lists of potential teachers for their private schools. The list includes teachers who have retired and married women who quit teaching to raise families. Unit spokesmen said there are many persons who hold teachers' licenses but are not teaching.

The spokesmen said their private neighborhood schools would be open to pupils of all races. 1 ft nil' i ill it Pre? Wirefotol Nellie, a Guernsey hi-ifer. shows the gals ho to turn on the charm at Rockford (III.) College here he i leading in a beaut contest normally restricted to Nellie doesn't attend the school, but boys of Nelson Hall entered her and she look, like a inner. Gals are (l. to Nancy Bro n.

Jud Potts. Terri Maurer. Educator Rips UFT As Bias Do-Nothings The grass-roots drive to set up neighborhood schools came to light almost on the eve of the planned second boycott of city i schools by integrationist groups. (NEWS foto by Paul DtMarla) Mrs. Angehta Torres.

holds Antonia. 2. a Martha. 7 and Herbert, H. cling to her after being routed from their apartment by a smoky tire in the tie--tory tenement at 270 K.

4th St. They were taken in by Fire also routed tlir', other families. Ttie Ol'lO-mpmher Fed fi-m's attitude toward tomorrow's school boycott by integrationists "is one of neutrality." Continuing his attack. Landers said: "The UFT. with its great Against the advice ot many 1 civil rights leaders and without the support of the Urban League the Rev.

Milton A. Galamison's I Citvwide Committee for Inte grated Schools will stage the boycott tomorrow. eration of Teachers has shown "the courage of a frightened rabbit'' by being "totally unwilling to take a stand" in the school-in-tergration battle, the man in charge of the Board of Education's desegregation program told UFT members yesterday. The blast was fired by Jacob Landers, himself a former principal of Junior High 64. Brooklyn, and now an assistant superintendent of schools.

"The UFT as an organization has been totally unwilling to take a stand." Landers told 500 persons at at a panel discussion in the UFT's annual spring luncheon conference at the Americana Hotel. In a news conference at the hotel. UFT President Chai les Cogen earlier had said his un- Witnesses Describe Stabber of Barmaid Bj MICHAEL KEATING Police yesterday distilled from witnesses' accounts the first official lead on the identity of the man who stabbed Catherine (Kitty) Genovese. a 28-year-old barmaid, to death on a Queens street early Friday. Thev broadcast this descrip- majority of teachers, must exert I leadership on this whole (integration! problem." The union has made no positive proposals except to say: "We don't think busing is a solution to the problem." Landers claimed.

On Teacher Rotation He said one ingredient of the racial equality problem stems from teacher rotatior being assigned to difficult schools at the beginning of their careers, then moving on to so-called better in-j stitutions. "You wouldn't take an intern out of medical school and I give him the most difficult job, would vou?" Landers asked. Kids March in Harlem Children chanting "Jim Crow UHft go" marched through Harlem yesterday in a demonstration aimed at whipping up sup-port for tomorrow's boycott. The march, involving about 75 children, began at 12:10 P.M. at 125th St.

and Old Broadway and went east on 125th. south on Seventh east on llrtth. north on Lenox Ave. and then back to Hat starting point, which it reached at 1 :40. tion of the mystery killer: HE GREETS THE VIPs Barnes Se ts King-Sized Queens Shift New Y.

i i ii i i tin' it' Richard C. ilar but I'- he set to official greeter Patterson, 8 think the I You motorists who struggle tnrougn trie in uy mini ui streets in Queens just ain't seen nothin' yet. Tomorrow, our town's traffic czar. Henry Barnes, will start to revamp traffic flow on hundreds of blocks in the World's Fair area. I he special progiam.

Traffic Commissioner Barnes says will be completed in time for the fair's April 22 opening, will involve. Installation of new one-way-street systems, and new traffic signals: "the painting of "special channelization" and safety-zone markings along with center and lane lines: the mounting of new parking, informational, warning and other regulatory signs; establishment of new hack stands, bus stops and bus lay "An unknown male, maybe a light-complexioned Negro or dark-complexioned white, 25 years. feet 145 pounds, thin build, wearing a dark Tyrolean-type hat, a three-quarter- length dark coat and dark pant. walk with a short pace and rapid erect stature, may be riding in a late-model light-gray domestic compact sedan." Girl Stabbed 11 Times The information had leen gleaned by Homicide Squad and Richmond Hill precinct detectives fiojii three or four witnesses who saw a man beating, chasing and again beating Kitty on the street in front of her apartment building. 82-70 Austin near Lef-erts Kew Gardens, Queens.

Witnesses said they saw her running up Austin St. toward concrete steps leading up to Lef-ferts with the man in pursuit. This was about 4 A.M. He caught her and pummeled the 5-foot-l, 105-pound girt, but apparently was frightened off into the shadows when someone passed nearby on Lefferts Blvd. She ran up the steps.

lut was soon seen running back down again, with the man chasing her once more. Then they ran to the rear of the Austin St. group of buildings, toward the alleyway entrance to her apartment house. Somewhere in the shadows of the alleyway, ha stabbed Kitty. Prof.

Scott's Bad Day Manchester, England, March 14 (AP) I thought there was something Prof. William Scott told a judge, "because I had to keep swerving to advoid oncoming cars." A constable who picked up Scott said the professor had driven four miles against traffic on a one-way superhighway-lane. Scott, 40. who teaches at Manchester's Royal College of Avanced Technology, was lined $70 for dangerous driving. meet.

lv i ii queens, presidents, all pel the big lo from Patterson, an ex-diplo-m. a whose composure i seldom shaken. Read He I iitolU the i Ki Cai pet on Page 96 OFF-BROADWAY SUCCESS STORY Most models dream of a stage career, hut Judith Marechal ehose to remain in the wings. She's an off-Broadway producer, an imaginative, shrewd 26-year-ohl whose know-how lias launched lour stage hits in a row, a downtown reeoril. Read "She's I lie I oast of Off-Broadway" on Page 10 in Section Two over zones: and retiming of traf- fic lights.

The affected area will be between Northern Blvd. on the north, Kissena-Parsons Blvd. on the east. Queens Blvd. on the south and lOsth St.

on the west. Without pausing to gasp for breath. Charley Murphy, public! relations man in Barnes' office, i om 1 1 1 1 oner Barnes Goes into action on nea' plan Then, doggedly, hi typed on Pa pages more of copy in which he listed all ths changes that tima to rest and get ready for the confusion you'll meet on the typed out in a press release all will be made Rather than confuse you a3 you streets of Queens beginning to- that information in the above read this story, we'll, leave you 'morrow Ltsa luck. paragraphs of this story..

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