Bomb Threat Comes-- Elementary School Is Ready

I Six years ago parents and staff at Burns Park Eelementary School develIped an emergency plan for evacuation lí students to área homes. . . . I Thursday the plan was implemented. I The 630 students and their teachers lere clear of the school within 10 Binutes following a bomb threat at 12:50 l.m. By 1 p.m. each class had marched n one of the 26 volunteer homes within ii two-block radius of the school, f Ann Arbor detectives searched the building: The telephone threat was a hoax. f _- - Miss Marión Cranmore, principal at Burns Park for 18 years, said: "Everybody kept cool. Everybody was fine" during the evacuation. This is the first bomb threat for the elementary school, but the plan to utilize homes in the area was developed six years ago after a winter fire left children standing in the cold while firemen battled the blaze. For six years, Mrs. J. F. Vincent, 1324 Wells, compiled the list of available homes. Miss Cranmore said: "Each year we wondered if we should continue ... We will." Mrs. Vincent vvho has a third grader at Burns Park, said that each fall she tries to contact home owners personally to see if they will open their homes to I classes. Some volunteers no longer have children in the school. She said most are anxious to cooperate but "every once in a while vou run into a funny one." ; Thursday, Mrs. Vincent wasn't home to see the results of her six years labor. During the hour it took detectives to search the building, students watched televisión, told stories, playecl games and some were served refreshments. 'They had fun," Miss Cranmore said. Reactions ranged f rom, "It was a fake and really I didn't worry about," (Faith Caroll, sixth grade) to "Scared. It was helpful to have some place to go" (David Conhey, fifth grade). David Carrigan, first grader, summed up the situation: "Someone was acting like a i-'"-f"tiPr "