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2-A Wednesday, tepi. 1, 'VI LitiKUii hKttFKtbS Pontiac NAACP Hints It May Ask for U.S. Troops pealed to the U.S. Supreme Court declaring that the busing plan would trigger a mass exodus of whites from the city and result in a "black municipality." The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the school board's appeal.

TWELVE OF Pontiac's 36 public schools have pupil populations which are more than 90 percent white and in seven schools blacks make up more than 90 percent of the enrollment. The city's population is just over 27 percent non-white. Under Judge Keith's order elementary schools will have a black enrollment of 20 to 40 percent; junior highs will Continued from Page 1A are scheduled for delivery Thursday. NO ONE HAS been arrested in the bombings and officials refused to say whether they suspected any individual or groups. range from 31 to 36 percent and high schools will have from 30 to 35 percent.

School officials have estimated the cost of the busing program at about $500,000. A Pontiac school official said that the farthest any child will be bused from his home will be six miles. The average trip will be 2Y2 miles and take 15 to 20 minutes, he said. Kalamazoo to Start Busing Despite School Tax Defeat Racial Balance 'Edict Clarified JUST (6) DAYS LEFT FOR You've got to be quix and use one of the last six if you're going to enjoy that Bob-Lo cruise this summer. The I season ends Labor Day and after that nothing but ears.

DOCK FOOT OF W00CW4RO mm a JgpjS Special to the Free Pr KALAMAZOO School officials in this western Michigan city are proceeding with plans to bus about one-third of the public school system's 17,000 students when school opens Sept. 7 even though the defeat of a school property tax this week will cost the system about 20 percent of its budget. The Kalamazoo school system has no choice but to proceed with the busing plan. It was ordered by U.S. District Judge Noel Fox and on Monday, only hours before the polls closed on the millage election, the U.S.

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stay Judge Fox's order. THE BUSING PLAN has been the focus of widespread controversy since it was originally adopted by the Kalamazoo Board of Education last May 7 as part of efforts to improve the racial balance of the city's schools. About 17 percent of Kalamazoo's public school students are nonwhite. The June school board election put an anti-busing majority in control of the board, however, and the new board repealed the plan at its first meeting. Three days later, school Superintendent John Cochran resigned.

The local NAACP filed suit challenging the new board's action, and on Aug. 20 Judge Fox issued a preliminary injunction requiring the school board to proceed with the original May 7 integration plan. Judge Fox called unconstitutional a voluntary integration plan adopted by the new board majority as an alternative to busing. On Monday, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals refused the board's request for a stay of Judge Fox's order.

And hours later Kalamazoo voters turned down a 7.8 mill school property tax request by a vote of 8,433 to Dr. Reed Hagen, the city's acting school superintendent, said there is little doubt the busing controversy led to the millage defeat. "I fear that the children of Kalamazoo have become the victims of a philosophical controversy over school desegregation," he said. "It is an issue which will be settled by the courts and not by the school board." School board President A. T.

Luey said the court-ordered plan will be carried out. "Regardless of our difference of opinion on busing," he said, "the courts have ruled that it shall be done." School officials say it is not too late to schedule another election in an effort to recoup the $3.5 million tax loss during the coming school year. The school board will meet later this week to decide what cutbacks to make in the school program in light of the millage loss. "I felt there was adamant opposition (to busing) but I felt they (opponents) would stay within the framework of the law," Hatchett said. "It is shocking that they would resort to these means.

anticipate possibly going to court and asking for federal troops." HATCHETT said he thought "hostile whites" who opposed busing were in a minority in Pontiac, but added: "They can do a lot of damage if they are not controlled." Mrs. Irene McCabe, head of the National Action Group (NAG), a leader in the anti-busing forces, described the bombings as "an unjust thing." She said the NAG had posted a $200 reward for the arrest and conviction of the bomber. L. Brooks Patterson, a NAG attorney, said: "Let me emphasize that NAG members always choose to work within the law. "We don't do that by blowing up buses," Patterson said.

"We're going to win our fight in court." NAG already has filed a federal court suit to block the busing on constitutional grounds. That suit will come before Judge Keith Wednesday. IN ADDITION the group has filed a separate suit in Oakland County Circuit Court on behalf of 14 black and white children and their parents against the Pontiac School District. That suit, which also seeks to block busing, comes before Judge James Thorburn Thursday. Mrs.

Francile Anderson, president of the Pontiac Parent Teachers Association Council, which has been working with other civic groups to bring about orderly busing, said her group will have a black and white parent at each school to welcome children bused to them. She said the fear of violence had been "in the back of people's minds," but added she had heard no rumor of specific plans of violence. Judge Keith's school busing order followed his finding of discriminatory practices in the Pontiac school system, including the location of new schools to "perpetuate segregation." The school board appealed Keith's ruling but Keith was upheld by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. The board since has ap School Superintendent Dana P.

Whitmer said school would open Tuesday as scheduled. He said the school district would have to borrow buses to replace those destroyed and he said security precautions to protect the buses, the children and the schools would be "stepped up." CHIEF Justice Warren Burger: not every school in every community dered busing plans to achieve racial balance since the Charlotte case. Some of these plans had been prepared by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. However, the White House said three weeks ago that President Nixon disapproves of some of HEW's activities in this area and wants plans drawn in the future with as little busing as possible. In San Clemente, Health and Welfare Secretary Elliot L.

Richardson, disavowing a rift with Mr. Nixon over school busing, said he is in "total with the President's policy and never considered resigning. Richardson met with news-m following a one-hour meeting with Mr. Nixon where they touched on a range of subjects, including the school busing controversy. There had been reports that Richardson threatened to quit after Mr.

Nixon issued an Aug. 3 statement opposing a HEW" plan for desegregating Austin (Tex.) schools and maintaining that busing should be implemented "only to the minimum required by law." Richardson also said he informed Mr. Nixon that school openings that took place in the south Monday "proceeded in an atmosphere of calm, quiet co-operation. He denied that armed guards would be hired to ride the school buses but said "lay monitors paraprofessional people" would be employed by the schools both to ride the buses and assist the children at schools. Volunteers also would be sought for the same purposes, Whitmer said.

Whitmer said there was no guard at the bus parking lot Monday night because the school board planned to hire one when the new buses arrived. "Our arrangements were to add security people Thursday when the new equipment was received," Whitmer said. DETECTIVE Lt. John De-Pauw of the Pontiac Police Department said police got their first call on the bombings about 10 p.m. Monday when explosions were heard.

DePauw said witnesses reported hearing separate explosions. He said a police investigation showed that six bombs had been placed on the tops of bus gas tanks behind the front doors of six of the buses. The bombs blasted the six buses and touched off fires which spread to four more buses. DePauw said police found several pieces of fuse of the kind used with dynamite. One piece was about three or four feet long, he said.

DePauw said the bombers cut a three-foot-by-three-foot hole in a chain-link fence in the southeast corner of the lot to get to the buses. He said the fence was sturdy and the intruders "would have spent a lot of time cutting it." DePAUW SAID the bomber apparently was skilled in the use of explosives. He noted that Pontiac, an industrialized city of some 85,000 population, would have any number of people with experience of explosives. Asked whether police had any suspects in mind, DePauw answered: "We've got a lot of suspects. You know the problem with busing." The policeman referred to the fact that the court busing order the first of its kind in a northern United States school district was certain to touch off violent emotions among many.

"We're dealing with emotion and from emotion you get action and reaction," DePauw said. Hatchett, whose law firm handled the NAACP suit which resulted in the school busing order by Detroit Federal Judge Damon Keith late last year, said: "After last night (Monday night) I don't know what might happen." urwKWM. DAWK, TV Mystery Shrouds Diplomat's Death WASHINGTON (UPI) -Alarmed by confusing reports, U.S. diplomats went to the two-man American embassy in Santa Isabel in Equatorial Guinea and found one of the men dead and the other in a state of mental collapse, the State Department reported Tuesday. American officials from Cameroon who went to the island capital about 250 miles off the western coast of Africa to investigate found the body of Donald J.

Leahy, 47, in the chancery. They also discovered Alfred J. Erdos, 46, "incapacitated and apparently suffering from a mental breakdown," department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said. McCIoskey said details about the time and cause of Leahy's death were not immediately available.

The ambassador to the African state, Lewis Holfacker, was in the United States at the time. But he is ambassador to both Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea and normally stays in Yaounde, Cameroon. McCloskey said the officials stationed in Cameroon decided to go to the island to investigate after they received confusing reports from the embassy, but he did not know what the nature of the reports were. 4 WW DownfowrvGrosse Pointe, Northland, Westland, Dearborn Continued from Page 1A turbing" the Winston-Salem school board's apparent understanding that the April 20 decision required a fixed "racial balance" in the city's Indi-. vidual schools.

The Winston-Salem plan provided for increased busing in a metropolitan area with a school-age population of about 50,000, which is 72.5 percent white alid 27.5 percent Negro. The plan calls for busing of 34.000 pupils, compared to 18,000 now being transported, in a system where schools were to have opened on Monday. Burger rejected Winston-Salem's plea to stay the plan until it could appeal against it because, he the application was "in- an undesirable state of confusion" and could have been presented earlier in view of the complex issues involved and the Aug. 30 school-opening date. SEVERAL courts have or- Tradesmen Set School Walkout About 350 skilled trades employes of the Detroit Board of Tiducation, members of the Building Trades Council Tuesday scheduled a limited walkout for Wednesday in a wage dispute.

The employes, mostly painters, plumbers and carpenters, have been negotiating a new contract with the board. They have demanded a pay scale equivalent to scales in private industry. The school board has said it can't afford such a scale, leading to a stalemate and the walkout. School officials said the walkout will not affect the opening Detroit schools. Classes begin Sept.

9. The employes said the walkout would be "limited" to the extent it will not shut down work on any project that will involve the safety of school children. Writer Arrested On Charge of Draft Evasion By Ihi Ataociatad Prtst A young newsman was arrested Tuesday by the FBI as entered General Motors Chevrolet Division national press preview i suburban Southfield. A spokesman for the FBI said Thomas A. McPherson, 23, of Leamington, Ontario, automotive editor for the Windsor Weekly Standard, was arrested on a warrant issued last year in Cleveland charging him with failure to report for induction into the U.S.

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