Action Report

Although the Supreme Court has yet to decree how its sweeping decision against school segregation shall be put into effect, the decision was felt nonetheless last week as the U.S. opened its new school term. Items:

P: In Montgomery, Ala., 23 Negro children showed up at the new William R. Harrison elementary school, were barred on the grounds that they lived in another school district. Representing the children and their parents, Attorney Nesbitt Elmore declared: "We definitely plan to take the issue into court."

P: In once-segregated Hobbs, N. Mex. (just four miles from the Texas border), white and Negro children quietly went off to school together without incident, despite the warnings of the Rev. William (Bill) Carter, who had declared that the town would explode into violence. Local police refused to get hysterical, kept extra patrol cars and men inconspicuous, and the local district attorney quieted Carter with a warning that he would be held responsible for any outbreaks.

P: In Austin, Texas, Marion G. Ford, a Negro, applied for admission as an undergraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Texas. Open only to Negro graduate students since 1950, the university first notified Ford that he had been accepted, later sent him a letter: "Prairie View A. & M. College [Negro] will offer all the required courses of study for your freshman year . . . After you have completed your first year's work [at that school], you may apply here for admission ... In view of the above [we] regret to advise you that your acceptance notice is hereby canceled . . ."

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