Offers Of Aid Pour In For St. Thomas

Good Samaritans are alive arta veil. Ask St. Thomas High School students and staff members. Since a fire destroyed the school's library, Sunday, causing some $50,000 in damage, th,e school has received a number of offers for help from public agencies and individuals, according to Principal Ronald Mrozinski. Beginning Monday, seventh and eighth I graders will meet for classes at St. I Andrew's Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division. Ninth through 12th graders will I continue to meet at St. Thomas. When asked why the Episcopal Church I offered its facilities, Dr. Gordon Jones, I rector, said, "They were burned out and we haö sepre space . . . We were fee ' sest chufí-h." The Ann Arbor public schools have offered to loan surplus books and desks to St. Thomas to use until the materials destroyed can be replaced. Washtenaw Intermedíate School District has offered to aid the school and Greenhills School has Offered students the use of its library. Mrozinski said the school is making a list of offers and will make a decisión about whether to accept them once it has been decided where the library will be relocated on a temporary basis. The U-M and Washtenaw Community College are opening their doors to field trips for St. Thomas students. Today, freshmen, sophomores and juniors visited the community college and U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens, while seniors visited U-M science laboratories and toured the Exhibit Museum. Junior high students visited the General Motors Corp. plant in Ypsilanti. Pólice believe the fire in the third floor library section was set by an arsonist and that as many as four fires may have been set. They know at least two fires were set - one in the counseling office in the library and another in a closet down the hall from the library. The fire was reported at 5:36 a.m. Sunday when a householder living across N. State St. looked out and saw flames rolling out of the library window. The church and school complex lies between Elizabeth St. and N. State St. The windows of the library face east across N. State St. Ann Arbor Pólice Detective Robert LeVanseler and Deputy Fire Marshall Benjamin Zahn Jr. brought material taken from the fire scène to the State Pólice Crime Laboratory at Plymouth for analysis today. The investigators, who have now interviewed a half-dozen persons in their probe, were scheduled to talk to several more suspects later today. They said the state Crime Laboratory is expected to make a report on the evidence in a short time.