Classroom Damage Called 'Fantastic'

Vandals caused more than $1000 damage to the interior of a portable classroom at one city school yesterday. Two other schools were burglarized. City Police Detective Paul Bunten called the damage to a portable room at the Mary D. Mitchell School, 3515 Pittsview Dr., "just fantastic." He said there appeared to be no intention of theft. "Everything which could be broken was smashed," Bunten said. Twenty boxes of school supplies were dumped on the floor, desks were broken and the entire room was ransacked, the officer said. Entry to the classroom was gained by kicking in a glass door on the east end of the structure, police said. About $20 in change was stolen from three vending machines which were forced in Forsythe Junior High School, 1655 Newport Rd. Police said the machines were in a teachers' lounge in which a door had been forced. Officers said it could not be immediately determined how entry to the school building was gained. Roof-top burglars who forced their I way into the Abbot Elementary School, 2670 Sequoia Parkway, apparently were scared off as they tried to flee with 48 bottles of soft drink. Police said the ' prowlers forced a trap door on the roof of the school and were making off with the soft drinks taken from a machine. However, 42 of the bottles were found on the roof near the trap door when police made a check.