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•NESS-FILS •'SrSDSS BOX 167B , ST. AUGU-3.HNS: FLA r .32034 BOCA RATON NEWS Vol. 13, No, 39 Thursday, Feb. 29, 1968 24 Pages m School situation here called county's worst Hardest hit # by teacher resignations By SANDY WESLEY Boca Raton's school situa- tion is one of the worst in Palrri' Beach County, a spokesman for the county school board said yesterday. Wednesday, when 71 per cent of the county s schools were get- ting ready for regular sessions Thursday, Boca Raton princi- pals and acting principals were still trying to figure out how they could possibly get the schools back on regular sessions Mon- day. "As soon as the principals can get enough quality substi- tute teachers, regular teachers and right teachers for certain subjects, they will notify the Teachers in audience raise hands at school crisis forum. county and the superintendent The case of the disappearing fire hydrant on Northwest 1st ave- will set the wheels in motion so the schools can go back on nue was finally solved yesterday morning when city workers found regular sessions," the spokes- it several feet below the street level. James C. McKinnie, a Miami Teachers, legislators agree man said. truck driver, struck the hydrant and broke the water main. As wa- Boca Raton schools were so ter bubbled, sand washed out and the hydrant slowly sank from badly hit by the teacher walk- sight in a four-foot-deep hole. McKinnie was charged by police out that the only ones who could with failure to exercise due care. be a good judge of when classes will be able to go back on regu- that school hill is no good lar session would be the prin- cipals themselves, he added. Electrical code passed, Boca Raton parents left the lem. It's a result of neglect by program for education which Eleanor Davis, principal at League of Women Voters edu- a number of delegates and leg- would mean the program would Boca Raton High School, indi- cation forum Tuesday night still islators. It so happens that Kirk ,be fully funded by the founda- cated she's hopeful classes will not knowing the answer to their is governor when the crisis tion. The education program be back on regular sessions by another one coming up most important question — why came about. It's his responsi- included provisions for a nego- Monda^, and Paul L, Sammons, A new electrical code won attorney John Quinn that one is did Boca Raton teachers walk bility to find a solution. Our tiating committee, not included principal at JJ3. Mitchell School, City Council approval Tuesday, heeded here. out? fight is not with the county. The in the present bill." is still accepting applications but yet again another new code VOTED to make an applica- The forum which lasted for an bill was described by the FEA He emphasized the fact that for substitutes. may be in the offing, tion for a $1 million matching hour and a half drew close to as a poor bill." there is no difference in the Robert Trafford, principal at Councilmen in a rash of ac- federal grant to pair with the 400 parents and teachers to "The teachers of Palm Beach salary between the two bills, one Addison Mizner School indi- tions and counter - actions, city's recently passed bond is- Boca Raton, School to hear State County have heard promises for which passed and the one which cated, "things have been running adopted one code which has been sue for beach acquisition funds. Senator Jerry Thomas, House many years. They've reached only got through the senate. about as smoothly as could be in the mill for some time and . minority leader Don Reed, CTA the end of their rope.'' "Salary is not the issue," he expected under the circum- has been modified since its orig- president Carl Bair member "The degeneration of the pub- said. stances." inal hearing started. On the APB receives of the FEA board of directors, lic schools must be stopped. A Pompey said the FEA board Don Robinson, principal at theory that the ordinance might C.S. Pompey and School Board large number of teachers will is elected by the teachers. One Boca Raton School, said he's be attacked because of the chairman Dr. A.D. Thorp at- spread their wings if it isn't delegate is allowed for every ten pretty certain that with a few changes, councilmen then turn- HUD grant tempt to explain the school stopped soon," he said. "Three teachers. They make the final substitutes he'll be able to open ed around and re-introduced the Palm Beach County's Area crisis. quarters of the teachers indi- Continued on Page 12A) (Continued on Page 12A) ordinance. Planning Board will receive a Not one member of the forum cated they want to go ahead and The ordinance passed Tues- $150,517 federal grant for its would say that the present edu- seek jobs elsewhere," he said,, day is labeled the 1967 edition planning program, cation bill, waiting to be signed "The difference between the of the city electrical code. The The grant, from the Housing by Governor Claude Kirk, is a governor and the legislature, Council to organize same code, this time marked and Urban Development Agency, good bill. and the legislators, governor "1968" will be up for public was announced yesterday by In fact, Reed told the people and teachers is very small. We hearing in a couple of weeks Congressman Paul Rogers. at the meeting he was opposed must not wait until March 7, but again. John Flancher of Boca Raton, to the bill as it stands. we must find an answer tomor- at Friday session In other action at Tuesday's chairman of APB, said the funds "It is an irresponsible piece row," he said. meeting, the Council: will be used for the board's to- of legislation with a bad tax City Attorney Malcolm "And- according to the charter. These AUTHORIZED City Manag- tal planning efforts for the en- structure," he said, "but it March 7 is the end of the 20 erson will be acting mayor of are the municipal judge, judge er Alan Alford to make inquir- tire county. Boca Raton at 10 o'clock to- ad litem, prosecutor and phys- ies of other cities on the organ- does not give the teachers the day period in which the governor Flancher also praised Rogers right to breach their contract," can study the bill. At that time morrow morning, but just about ician. The administering of the ization and operation of com- oath of office to the four will munity relations boards, fol- efforts in boosting the local Thomas told the group he he can either sign it, veto it or long enough to rap a gavel. program. wanted the governor to act on let it become law without sign- Anderson will preside in or- conclude the morning event. lowing a plea from former city the bill "whereever he is, so ing it. der that the City Council may we can get ourselves out of this Reed answered Bair with, elect a mayor for a one-year mess." "If the difference is so small, term. All indications point to Inside Alcatraz "I'm not satisfied that the I wonder what the teachers the job going to Harold Maull, teachers, when resignations would do if the difference was who tallied the highest number were taken several months ago large?" of votes in the second munici- and the Florida Education As- Bair also said the teachers pal election, Feb. 20, sociation acted five hours after feel "the state has broken its The mayorality post tradi- Report from high school the legislative session ad- contract not the teachers. The tionally goes to the highest journed, knew what was in the state constitution says the state vote-getter, and the other four Normally, David Bergamini's "Bobtails" job in handling the students. education package," Thomas councilmen have indicated these teachers back and start legislature will provide lib- column of news from Boca Raton High Ten of the 69 former teach- learning something! i said. "The bill is available to erally for education. The teach- they'll not break custom. School appears somewhere inside the pa- ers and administrative person- everyone who wants to see it. I ers are seeking to talk to the The organizational meeting per. With the teacher walkout, however, nel did not hand in their resig- think this is a lack of communi- school board in an orderly man- will open with a prayer, then we felt that his first-person report from Even though our advisors have the school might be of special interest to nations and are responsible for not been at the school, clubs cation." ner through negotiations," he re-elected councilmen Maull our readers. —Ed. operations at Boca High. They Reed said • if the governor added. and R'.I. (Pat) Honchell will be have been given the go-ahead to By DAVID BERGAMINI are Mrs. Eleanor Davis, Mrs. continue with their plans. The vetoes the bill, the teachers Bair admitted if the bill is administered the oath of office. Randon, Mrs. Scott, Mrs, Furn- have indicated they will stay out The mayor's election will fol- Yearbook Staff met their final vetoed the legislature will be School resumed this past ell, Mrs. Back, Mrs. Morri- deadline Tuesday. The senior until another bill is adopted. called back in session and if it low. son, Mrs, Eiser, Mrs. Stamp, "The FEA didn't meet with us After the new presiding offi- Friday with a number of inci- high newspaper, The Cat Cour- isn't, it won't hurt Palm Beach dents.