Schools, City Investigating Disorder Incident On Bus

School, city and pólice officials today continued to investigate yesterday afternoon's incident on a city bus which resulted in the arrest of three black Huron High School students and the reported assault of one pólice officer by one of the pupils arrested. All three students- one boy and two girls- were later released to parents or relatives. Pólice officials refused to comment on the incident. According to witnesses, however, a group of about 12 black students who entered the city bus about 3 p.m. yesterday at Huron High threatened and heckled the bus driver for several miles. The bus was filled mostly with students, but a number of adults also were riding in the vehicle. The driver finally halted the bus at Pittsfield Blvd. and Washtenaw Ave., and ordered the rowdy students off the bus. They refused, though about 20 other persons had left earlier. Ann Arbor pólice were called by the driver. Four officers responded. Witnesses say one officer attempting to quiet the students was knocked to the ground by a male student and then was hit over the head with Èis own night stick by one of the témale students who was later arrested. The blow broke the visor on the officer's heimet, though he was not hurt. The officers then escorted the [bus and the students to Ann ArIbor City Hall, where three arIrests were made. One student [faces the charge of assaulting an officer and the other two pupils of interfering with pólice officers. A meeting to discuss the sitLialbn_aifls_held at 8 p.m. terday. In attendance were Mayor Robert J. Harris, members of the Ann Arbor Human Relations Commission, the chairman and manager of the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, Police Chief Walter Krasny, other pólice officers, and Ronald R. Edmonds, human relations director of the Ann Arbor Public Schools. Hiiron High Principal Paul Meyers and Edmonds met all morning with members of the school's Bi - Racial Advisory Committee and other "concerned students" to discuss the incident, according to the schools' community services ofüicer, John Hubley. ! Hubley told The News the kneeting progressed "very well" [and was called by school offiteials so that "they may be of Iwhatever help possible to the students themselves and city government in resolving the difficulties that led to the arrests." It was decided at the meeting, g Hubley said, that there would be I 10 suspensions of students. A joint statement released I late yesterday by city, pólice and HRC officials said ments were made to have the Huron High bus run continue today as scheduled. Adult supervisión was to be provided today and on an interim basis until the problem is resolved. The HRC staff will work with the Huron High faculty, administration and students toward improving human relations in the school and an the buses." The statement was signed by Walter Hill, chairman of the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority; John Evans, a member of the HRC; Pólice Chief Walter Krasny, and City Administrator Guy C. Larcom Jr. Chief Krasny has asked persons who may have witnesesed the bus incident to contact Police-Community Relations Lt. Kenneth B Klinge at pólice lipariauarters. 663-4112,