Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 5

y- 5- i Sunday Doe 22 1974 Kingsport Tlmes-News 5A Schools Out For 2 Million Kids: Report Ruby Keeler out of danger GREAT FALLS Mont (UPI) Ruby Keeler former wife of singer A1 Jolson and star of Broadway and Hollywood musicals in the 1930s and 1940s is improving following brain surgery Columbus Hospital reported Friday Miss Keeler 64 is out of danger but there are no plans yet to release her from hospitalization a spokesman said She underwent surgery Nov 23 for a weakened artery in the brain the 1972-73 school year 12 per cent of all black students were suspended at least once and were suspended an average 25 per cent longer than whites The Fund found that 63 4 per cent of the suspensions found in its survey were for "offenses that were neither dangerous to persons nor to property Truancy and tardiness were the largest ground for suspension Only 3 per cent were suspended for destruction of school property criminal activity or use or drugs or alcohol The report wasnbasea un interviews of 6500 families and more than 300 school officials in nine states and 'he District of Columbia Jr 1 1 4 Ruby Keeler Not only do they exclude these children they frequently do so arbitrarily discriminatorily and with impunity The Fund said school administrators sometimes suspend students for conduct which is neither harmful nor disorderly Our findings do not support the commonly heard claim that poor parents minority parents or uneducated parents do not value education These parents overwhelmingly hoped their children would get an education so they wont be like us But poverty forces some children to stay home the report said because parents cant afford books or bus WASHINGTON (UPI) Unbending school administrators physcial handicaps and pregnancy combine with the traditional burdens of poverty and discrimination to keep nearly 2 million children out of school according to a special report issued Saturday Most children are out of school not by choice but because they have been excluded said the report issued by the Childrens Defense Fund a privately run organization based in Washington and Cambridge Mass It is as if many school officials have decided that certain groups of children are beyond their responsibility and expendable transportation fees charged by some public school systems or cant clothe children properly Spanish-speaking children lose interest classes they cant understand and have no access to bilingual programs in many areas it added Of the 2 million children aged 7 to 17 out of school over a million are under 15 and 750000 of them are under 13 the report said In 10 states over 6 per cent of the school-age population doesnt meet the minimum attendance requirement of three consecutive months each year used in the survey Black children are suspended twice as often as whites the report said In (IIUISTMAS nBmiE'nriiA Pardon for oddsmaker WASHINGTON (UPI) The odds must have been against it but President Ford Friday granted a full pardon to Las Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy the Greek Synder Snyder whose real name is James Synodinos was sentenced to five years probation and a $10000 fine in Nevada 11 years ago after he was convicted of interstate transportation of bets and wagering Jimmy Snyder our Choice 5 or 8 BLOOMS Change Of Heart Bandits Free Hostages Return Car Scoop on the mend WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen Henry Jackson D-Wash is recovering from surgery for removal of a kidney stone according to his Press secretary Brian Corcoran Jacksons press aide said the 62 year old Democratic presidential hopeful was operated on Friday at a Tacoma Wash military hospital The surgery was successful and he now anticipates seven to 10 days of convalescence at the Madigan Army Medical Center Corcoran said Corcoran said Jackson delayed the operation until Congress finished its business for the year Remember: Come See First the kids they told the president they wanted $50000 by tomorrow (Saturday) morning We understand they left in Mickleys car but returned it and parked it about a block from the Mickley House Hoff said Hoff said law enforcement officers from the Police Department here the sheriff's office neighboring communities and the FBI were involved in the investigation Henry Jackson and no ransom was paid Theres just no logical explanation yet said Horne They may have had a change of heart Were still trying to figure it out Horne said the children were released on a county road near this north central Ohio community of 1000 They telephoned police from a farmhouse Horne said Mickley and his wife were tied up by the kidnapers but were freed by an 8-year-old daughter who was in the house Horne said the kidnaped teenagers were so badly shaken they could hardly talk when picked up by police Lieutenant Mike Hoff of the Richland County Sheriffs department said when the kidnapers entered the home and took BUTLER Ohio (UPI) Police said Saturday it may have been a change of heart that led the two kidnapers of a bank presidents two children to release the teen-agers and return his car which they had stolen to make their getaway Police Chief Fred Horne said the men armed with a shotgun and a pistol and wearing ski masks kidnaped Andy Mickley 16 and his sister Janet 15 the children of Jesse Mickley vice president of the Richland Trust Bank Fnday night and demanded $50000 ransom The kidnapers were the subject of an intensive search but remained at large Saturday However authontes said the children were freed several hours after the kidnaping their fathers car which the kidnapers used in their getaway was returned The chief Grinch? KANSAS CITY Mo (UPI) Chief Fire Inspector Veodist Luster Jr says he feels badly about playing a Christmas villian but would feel much worse if one child died because of his negligence Thousands of school children regard Luster as the Grinch who stole Christmas He decided Friday morning to enforce a 1966 city ordinance prohibiting fire-hazardous trees in public buildings He dispatched inspectors with notices to area schools to have the trees removed in three hours It just clicked in my mind Luster said You cant make Christmas trees fire retardant and Id rather see the children safe Wait a minute 0 0 0 Our After Christmas Sale Starts Before Christmas Save 2 to 5 It's been quite a year Hurrying worrying laughing and crying Good times bad times and lots of in-between times Don't you think that once in awhile folks should sit down and ponder what this world is all about? 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