School Bond Plan Draws New Fire

I The executive board of the ■Vational Association for the Ad■vancement of Colored People ■ NAACP) went on record last pight in opposition to the Jan. 8 B15.5 million school bonding profcosal. The NAACP joined the ChamIber of Commerce and the Junior Chamber of Commerce in lurging a "no" vote on the proIposal. The Parent-Teacher Leglislative Committee, the Ann ArIbor High School Parent-Teacher lOrganization and the Newport land Burns Park PTOs have Icome out in favor of the elecItion. NAACP spokesman Russell IWest, who is a Democratie canIdidate for the Fourth Ward seat hi the City Councü, told the Board of Education membersl last night that the bonding pro-l posal Jacks "essential information on several critical points . . . (concerning) de facto segregation in the public schools." The NAACP apparently based its opposition mainly on the de facto segregation issue. West listed seven questions which the NAACP board believes have not been answered. They included queries about fu-j turgj.uses of Jones School, proposed;,changes at Mack School, population changes in centrallylocated elementary school attendance areas, opportunities for a greater number of Negroes in the apprentice-training facilities, and planned provisions for the pre-school programs. School Board President Hazen J. Schumacher said that a meeting will be scheduled as soon as possible with the NAACP executive board, in an attempt to answer the Roosevelt questions. Trustee Josepli R. Julin remarked, however. that apparently the school board's answers - . . aïSrnattéThNAACPha ing already taken a negative position on the bonding election. Earlier in the evening, permission was given by the board to the Ann Arbor High School Student Council to distribute a letter to the parents of AAHS students, urging the parents to vote on Monday, Jan. 8. The Student Council's letter cxpressed its "interest" in the bond proposal and detailed the Dond items, but did not take a stand oneway or the other. School' Board President Hazen J. Schumacber u r g e d a "yes" vote on Jan. 8, and asked :he voters to study the proposél I horoughly. Schumacher said he I was satisfied that as a boacd I member the enrollment and cost I projections were as accurate I as possible; that as a taxpayer I the tax increase would be I able," and that as a parent the I school construction was a 1 essity. "I hope the rnistakes of I the past will note repeated." I ■