The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 112

4 14-AW THE MIAMI HERALD Wed Jan 7 1970 Integration Contes Quietly Along the Pearl kA)APW my) Uivd wl Mf fit yX 1 Sr TwvWW'w 'i- I ym '4 By JAMES BATTEN Of Our Washington Bureau COLUMBIA Miss Fifteen years after the Supreme Court took its historic stand massive racial integration Monday finally reached the schools of this quiet Mississippi country town on a bend of the Pearl River At the back door of Jefferson School just before closing time Monday 70-year-old Charlie Jackson a white man sat in his muddy Ford waiting patiently for his 11-year-old grandson to come out No Jackson said slowly cracking the car door to expel a stream of brown tobacco juice he had never really thought of keeping young Charles a sixth-grader home from school on this historic day "I JUST see the white people letting their out of school and letting the niggers go to Jackson declared with a flash of indignation it does look like Mississippi is being picked on" he said Columbia a town of 8000 about 85 miles south of the state capital of Jackson was one of three Mississippi school systems to open Monday under the terms of last impatient ruling by the Supreme Court ANOTHER 27 districts many of them at the heart of staunchest g- School varsity three tall blacks they miss any said Richard Yarborough chairman of the Columbia School Board one of them would make a good shot the white boys would pat on the butt like they would anybody Marion (Bud) Bullock owner of radio station WCJU in Columbia recalled that at Friday game Columbia led 23-5 the end of the first he said was and people were saying on THE KEY source of concern for Columbia Monday was John Jefferson School the formerly Negro school named for a now departed black educator in Columbia All six and seventh graders white as well as black were assigned to Jefferson and all but about 100 of the 515 expected showed up White Principal Jim Brewer who replaced the former Negro principal at Jefferson said he had used parent volunteers and Boy Scouts to help polish up the school over the Christmas holidays THEN ON Sunday afternoon 735 Negro and white parents came to an open house at the school Brewer said many white parents impressed with the appearance of the school went away with their fears allayed When doors opened to white students for the first time Monday only 15 or 20 white parents bothered to escort their children to the school But beneath the surface appearance of harmony whites remained concerned and unhappy about the turn of events that had brought total integration to their town When a visitor to Jefferson School remarked that all seemed peaceful and a white teacher demurred and calm yes" he said happy? rural counties were lit up Monday night as private-school promoters staged meetings to recruit students and raise cash In Columbia and Wilkinson County it seemed likely that Mississippians might have a foretaste of what lies ahead for the public schools COLUMBIA has a comfortable white majority about 1530 white students and 900 Negroes Thus even with the coming of total integration white youngsters remain in a majority in each of the five schools But in Wilkinson County where most whites stayed home the situation is different That district has about 2-750 Negro students to only 780 whites In white-majority school systems such as most observers believe the public schools will survive although private schools may siphon off a minority of the white students BUT IN places such as Wilkinson County where Negroes outnumber whites the probable pattern seems to be public schools attended by Negroes and makeshift private schools for whites Columbia however seems headed for a happier fate There is a fairly new private school here Columbia Academy but so far it has attracted less than 100 youths from the school system amicable opening Monday apparently was helped along by a pair of basketball victories last Friday and Saturday nights for w-integrated Wildcats THE FIRST string was composed of three lanky Negro youths from Jefferson School formerly the all-Negro school and two white holdovers from the Columbia High White Students Picket High School at Columbia Miss Negro students gather on school steps to attend integrated school Anniversary of Guyana Revolt Finds Problems Still Unsettled tour Jj south of Georgetown on the Brazil border lies within the Essequibo region claimed by Venezuela The Guyanese government charged Venezuela with instigating the rebellion and supplying arms The charge has been denied repeatedly by the Caracas government FIVE POLICE officers and two civilians died in an attack on the police station in Lethem the main settlement For a while the insurrectionists blocked five of the six airstrips in Rupununi which can be reached only by air However by Jan 4 Prime Minister Forbes Burnham reported the revolt had been quelled Ten persons were charged with murder Their twice-postponed trial is now set for Jan 13 The Guyanese government said one of the captured rebels told of being airlifted to a Venezuelan army camp and given seven days intensive training in the use of weapons including bazookas ON NEW Day 1969 the ranchers and ranch hands reportedly were returned to the Hart Ranch one of the largest in the re-g i from where they launched their assault One of the rebel leaders Mrs Valerie Hart went to Caracas to seek overt support from the Venezuelan government However the uprising had already been Soviets Review Arms to Arabs After Capture GEORGETOWN Guyana (UPI) On Jan 2 1969 a band of ranchers and Amerindians in the remote Rupununi grassland made an armed bid to take over the local government and set up an autonomous state The revolt failed after two days of fighting but a year later many of the problems that prompted the uprising remain unsettled Questions of land tenure development of the underpopulated and largely unexploited region and the conflict with Venezuela over the ownership of the land still exist The Rupununi an elevated savannah some 350 miles Ik 4 put down Mrs Hart was permitted to use a Caracas radio station to appeal for assistance in the revolt the Guyana government claims The larger issue that of ownership of the Essequibo which represents two-thirds of territory remains unsettled A MIXED border commission set up by a Geneva Agreement in 1966 is apparently no closer to a solution than when it was formed The commission is scheduled to meet for the last time in February unless Guyana Venezuela and Great Britain agree to extend the deliberations claim to the Bishop Hunts A Lost Cousin AUCKLAND NZ (AP) Bishop Edward Ma-ginn Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Albany NY is in New Zealand for four days to seek a long-lost cousin Mrs Isabella Turner whom he has not seen in 60 years The bishop said his own and the families emigrated from Scotland in 1910 Her family went to New Zealand his to the United States Isabella married in New Zealand but the families lost contact 25 years ago Mrs Turner is now about 70 on MS Skyward ARRY SISTERS HARRY JAMES n0 TONY MARTIN Cruises of the MUSIC MAKERS Cruises lanuary 9 and 12 Cruises ol Jenuery 16 and 19 January 23 end 29 regationist country will reopen in the next two weeks With classes beginning in three districts Monday and registration taking place in half a dozen others there were no reports of serious trouble IN WILKINSON County a predominantly Negro area on the southwest comer of Mississippi 80 miles west of here very few white children showed up for classes There were fears that the boycott might become permanent Among public school forces and especially the business community in Mississippi there has been widespread apprehension that the Supreme get-tough ruling might destroy public education in parts of the state PRIVATE white only have been popping up in many communities often fueled with little more than white determination to sidestep massive school integration A substantial number of Mississippi courthouses the hubs of political life in Diplomats in London said the Soviets had two alternatives in trying to prevent such future losses to the West either quit giving such equipment to the Arabs or demand that Soviet advisers man the equipment in force Reports from Moscow have said the Kremlin of late has become increasingly hesitant to step up arms shipments to the Arabs if only to prevent Arab actions that could spark another Middle East war The value of Soviet equipment lost by Egypt in the 1967 war has been estimated at $1 billion Much of it has been replaced often with more sophisticated equipment Of Is Tragic MONTREAL (UPI) In the outlying sections of Quebec Province they call this the a time when folks gather around the fireplace secure in their wooden forest homes from zero-degree cold For 18 persons in two Quebec homes last weekend it was a time of death and destruction by fire Eleven of those who died were children tucked in their beds In St Roch de a two-story wooden home was destroyed by flames killing 12 persons six of them children ranging in age from one to 12 The victims were members of one family and family friends who were weekend guests FIVE MILES farther north a man and his five children died in another blaze at Lac des lies The fire Saturday killed Dollard Gratton 42 a sawmill worker and his five children who ranged in age from five to 14 A witness at the fire in St Roch 30 miles northeast of Montreal said place was a complete inferno Except for the crackling of the fire it was quiet They must have all died in their A volunteer firemen added was nothing we could do" POLICE REPORTED the Gratton children had been living in foster homes in the Lac des lies area because of problems" but Gratton picked up the children on Friday night to take them to dinner When the children were not returned police received a call from a foster parent reporting the Gratton children missing When they were located they were dead The cause of the blaze has not been determined 1 1 3 ijl Press Wirephot land is based upon its nonrecognition of an 1899 arbitration ruling ceding the disputed territory to what was then British Guiana Observers in Georgetown say the uprising was prompted by the contention that they were being shortchanged by the central government THEY WANTED ownership or long-term leases on the vast cattle ranches their families pioneered in the early The ranchers operate their holdings under leases renewable every year The future of the 12000 Amerindians was also at issue The indigenous population has been well behind the rest of the country in economic progress and even the jobs as ranch hands are frequently filled by Brazilians Four separate tribes inhabit the Rupununi each speaking a different language and practicing different customs Since the uprising the government has announced several programs designed to lift the economic level of these peoples but the communications obstacles alone make the task an arduous one While a few Amerindians participated in the rebellion none of 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