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Incidents Being Probed At Two Junior Highs

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June
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1968
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School officials and Arm Arbor pólice are pressing their investigation today of a series of incidents yesterday in the areas of Slauson and Forsythe Junior High Schools in which several white students reportedly were assaulted by a group of young Negroes. Damage to several autos and two larcenies1 were also blamed on the group by city pólice. Uniformed pólice officers were called to Slauson yesterday afternoon by youth bureau personnel already at the school when the group, totaling about 20, would not leave the area. As pólice arrived, the group dispersed but damaged several parked cars in the school's parking lot and on surrounding treets on the way out of the school grounds, pólice said. Officers said tires were Islashed on a teacher's auto, several radio aerials snapped off and at least one car shoved from its parking spot and dented. An outside mirror also was ripped off one auto, pólice said. Damage listed on pólice reports totaled more than $150. Pólice said the band of Negroes apparently reformed and walked to Forsythe, where classes were just being dismissed for the day. Several Forsythe students were assaulted in separate incidents as they left school grounds, pólice said. None of the students required medical attention and most were simply roughed up or shoved around, according to Forsythe Principal William R. Rude. Rude said the group apparently never tried to enter the school and there was no trouble inside the school itself. Rude said it was his understanding most of the group were students from Ann Arbor High School, which was closed for the day because of fights which broke out there shortly before noon Wednesday. School Supt. W. Scott Westerman Jr. and Ann Arbor High Principal Nicholas Schreiber have ordered the high school patrolled by city pólice ofñcers for the remainder of the school year. Westerman told The News today he has ordered no similar patrols at the two junior high schools "at this point." He is meeting today with Schreiber and Pólice Chief Walter Krasny over the disturbances at the three schools. Westerman said the administration is investigating the incidents at the junior high schools as well as the ones at Ann Arbor High. "We need all the details," he said. He said at this time he could not say for sure where the members of the Negro group were from but they apparently "were not Erom the two buildings involved." Pólice said today they had about 20 uniformed officers and several squad cars at the two junior high schools during the course of yesterday afternoon. Officers said they did not observe any of the assaults or tarcenies and that no arrests have been made. Complaints have been filed for five assaults by parents of the victims. Several of the victims were able to identify their alleged assailants for pólice.' The two larcenies attributed to the Negro group involved a purse snatching and the theft of some $50 worth of cosmetics from an auto parked near Forsythe. A student walking home near the school told pólice several Negroes approached her, asked her if she had any money in her purse, and when she told them "no" they grabbed her purse and ran. Ten small bags containing thei cosmetics were stolen from an auto parked in the 1100 block of Wendy. Dorothy Schlekewy, of Dexter, told officers the 1 metics were ready to be delivered to a customer. Several witnesses said they saw the group of Negroes with the bags after the larceny.