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Fairfax Board Studies
‘ New School Integration
By WALTER WURFEL
Stir Stiff writer
Faced with court action to speed full racial integration,
the Fairfax County School Board voted last night to study the
"desirability of establishing a more fully integrated school
system.”
The decision was unanimous after more than an hour of
discussion over the wording of the resolution.
By deciding to study the matter itself, the board laid to
rest, at least temporarily, the
Idea of a citizens' study com
mittee, first proposed last
spring by Chairman Eugene L.
Newman.
The board agreed to discuss
with its attorney possible plans
for full integration before the
September 12 pre-trial confer
ence with lawyers for students
challenging the county’s dual
school system.
Sees Hann in Trial
Mrs. Martha Oertwagen
urged her fellow board mem
bers to try to avoid having the
two suits against them brought
to trial. A public trial, she
said, would harm “the good
race relationships” that the
county has had.
“It's our problem and we had
better go about doing some
thing about it," Kenneth N.
Clark agreed.
Although the county began
desegregating its schools in
1960, only 390 of its 2,200
Negro students attended
classes with white children
last year, according to Associ
ate Supt. George Pope. Seven
all-Negro schools operated last
year and 63 schools had only
white students.
Further integration "must
be discussed irrespective of
whether you’re under litigation
br not,” Howard E. Futch, a
board member, stated. He said
the board should not delegate
this study to a citizens' com
mittee. John D. K. Smoot
•greed, saying that such a
group would face “insurmount
able difficulties.”
Asks Open Meetings
&
William S Hoofnagle asked
that all school board meetings
called to work out a plan for
full desegregation be open to
the public.
Inquest Leaves Death
Os Prisoner a Mystery
Just a few hours before he
died William Alfred Tillman,
55. told an Alexandria (Va.)
detective that he had been
beaten and kicked by the
District police.
A District coroner’s Jury
ruled Wednesday that the
broken neck and resulting
complications bringing death
were caused by “undetermined
circumstances.” The case has
aroused charges by the Con
gress of Racial Equality of
police brutality.
But the dying man had also
. told District detectives two
different stories about fights
in Alexandria and in North
east Washington, according to
testimony at the inquest.
Arresting officers “passed” lie
detector tests and a polygraph
test given to an "eye-witness”
proved inconclusive, according
to District police.
The 55-year-old Negro, father
of five, was arrested the night
of July 26 after police received
a call about a drunken driver.
Two witnesses at the scene
said he did not appear to be
intoxicated. One, who accom
panied him, said she knew he
had not been drinking.
Searched Prisoner
At the police precinct the
night of the arrest, another
prisoner charged with drunken
ness testified, he saw a police
officer beating Mr. Tillman
about the neck with his fists.
Another witness said she saw
him there bleeding from the
nose.
An arresting officer testified
he shoved the prisoner three
or four feet against a wall
when the prisoner stumbled
towards him. Mr. Tillman
slumped to the floor, he said.
After “placing” him prone, he
said, he searched the prisoner,
who, he said apparently did
not wish to stand. ■
Several hours later, Mr. Till
man asked his cellmate to tell
the Jailer he had a pain In his
back and wanted to go to the
hospital. The Jailer testified
he went to arrange transporta
tion and when he returned
found the prisoner on the floor
and the cellmate asleep In a
sitting position on the one
bunk.
Admits Drinking
Two officers dragged Mr.
Tillman by the arms to the
wagon, the Jailer said. The
doctor who examined the pa
tient at 8:30 o’clock In the
morning at District General
Hospital, said the patient told
him he had been drinking and
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Mr. Newman and Mrs. Gert
wagen disagreed, saying that
since the board was involved in
litigation it should meet in
closed session with its at
torney.
In other actions, the board
deferred a decision on whether
to hire a management firm to
study the school administration
and put off a decision on
changing its method of making
available student accident in
surance policies.
A decision on the manage
ment survey will come next
month, after the board mem
bers have studied proposals by
three firms.
The board chose a ten-acre
site on the south side of Fran
conia road for an elementary
school to serve the Loisdale and
Springfield Forest areas. The
decision climaxed more than
three months of controversy
that saw citizens of the two
areas clash sharply over the
choice of sites.
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Senators Back
Two for Posts
By the AMocteted Free*
The Senate Commerce Com
mittee has tentatively approved
the nomination of David S.
Black, former Assistant Attor
ney General of Washington
State, to be a member of the
Federal Power Commission.
Similar action was taken on
the nomination of Robert M.
White, president of a Hartford
(Conn.) research firm, to be
chief of the United States
Weather Bureau.
Chairman Magnuson said ap
proval yesterday was tentative
since several absent committee
members are to be polled. He
said he knew of no opposition.
could not remember what
happened.
Later Mr. Tillman told de
tectives about the two fights.
Then, a day before his death,
he told Detective Sergt. Mar
shall E. Reid, investigating the
fight supposedly in Alexandria,
there had been no fights and
he had been beaten and kicked
by the District police. An in
vestigating officer for the Dis
trict testified he found no indi
cation of drinking or of fights.
Mr. Tillman died July 30.
An autopsy showed no marks
beyond an abrasion on the
cheek and a swelling on the
back of the neck. But his
spinal cord had been severed.
The doctor who performed
the autopsy testified that such
an injury might be caused by a
severe auto accident—and, in
an unusual case, could possibly
be caused by a fall out of bed.
Bruises, he said, might have
disappeared by the time the
body was examined.
Sixteen persons testified
during the 5-hour hearing.
The jury deliberated only a
few minutes before reaching its
verdict of “undetermined cir
cumstances."
The death of William Alfred
Tillman, of 622 Seventh street
N.E., was still a mystery.
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load, Bethesda, is reigning
as queen of the annual
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this week in Gaithers
burg.
Two CORE Men
Charged After
University Sit-In
Two District CORE members
were arrested and charged with
unlawful entry last night after
a sit-in at Benjamin Franklin
University at 1100 Sixteenth
street N.W.
Police were called shortly
after the 9 p.m. closing time.
They said Anthony Ercollno,
assistant registrar of the uni
versity, asked the two CORE
men to leave while Police Lt.
Francis Conley looked on.
Police said the men refused
to leave.
Charged, but out today on
S3OO bond each, were Jack
Goodwin, 34, of 223 Pennsyl
vania avenue SE. and Mar
cellus Goff, 33, of 1322 Missouri
avenue N.W. They were sched
uled to appear in the Court of
General Sessions later today.
Picketing had originally been
planned at Franklin but was
changed because of the near
ness of the school to the Rus
sian Embassy, a CORE repre
sentative said. The spokesman
said the picket line was set up
instead at Strayer School of
Business at 601 Thirteenth
street N.W., where no arrests
were reported.
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Cleon, wholesome conduct, that
will stand the closest scrutiny by
both God and man is much to be
desired. God is able to see the
very secret, of the heart. If wo
conduct our life pleasing to Him
we’re bound to please our fellow
man. try to do sneaky things,
that man is unable to detect,
produces the lowest form of char
acter. We must live a life clean and
open before God and man to obtain
lasting happiness. As found in
Proverbs, Ch. 28, V. 13, “He that
covereth his sins shall not prosper;
but whose confeueth and fore
sake th them shall hove mercy."
To be ot our best for God and
country we must walk in this won
derful Christian way. Accepting
the Lord Jesus Christ os a Personal
Saviour and trusting in the Hood
of Christ for the remission of our
Sins. If you have not already done
so, seek Him right now in humble
prayer and Confession of Sin. I
urge you to search the Scriptures,
and pray doily and attend church
regularly. This formukir will defeat
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Negative Factor Seen
In Teacher Merit Pay
Most school districts
throughout the Nation that
have tried merit pay for teach
ers have later dropped the plan,
according to Paul Peters, ex
ecutive secretary of the Fair
fax Education Association.
Mr. Peter, representing the
teacher’s professional organi
zation, will outline the survey
to the Dranesville information
forum at 8 pm. Monday in
Evans Farm Inn near McLean.
Mr. Peter said he plans to
work closely this fall with a
two-man committee of the
Fairfax School Board, which is
studying the possibility of start
ing a merit pay plan for coun
ty teachers.
Extra payment for high
quality work is now used “only
in small school districts where
the per family income is high,”
he reported.
New York and Delaware,
which tried merit programs,
have dropped them, he added.
Despite this apparent negative
experience, Mr. Peter said, the
FEA has taken no stand on the
issue.
Arlington adopted a modi
fied merit pay plan based on
“career recognition” this year.
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During more than two years
of study, county officials found
strong opposition by some edu
cators who felt that perform
ance rating of teachers would
cause personnel conflicts and
dissatisfaction among those
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Other speakers at .the
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director of planning for Fair
fax County; Elliott G. Shaw,
jr., information director, and
his assistant, A. L. Wise.
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Friday, August 23, 1963
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