St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 3

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1963 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3 A SCHOOLTEACHER HUSBAND 01 ENROLLMENT IS EXPECTED BY CITYSCHOOLS TO DEATH 1 Svstem Has Sh lortage lar of 1 10 Regu Police Conclude Man -Killed Wife, Then: Himself Mrs. Roberta C. Hickman, a public school teacher, and her estranged husband, Rudolph, a state employe, were found shot to death yesterday at her home, 4274A Sacramento avenue. A revolver was Face Teachers, May Pupil Boycott found under Hickman's body.

Police concluded that Hickman, 38 years old. shot his 35-year-old wife and then killed himself. Miss Laverne Hickman, 18, a jr" itvmast' as Kr daughter, told officers that her father returned unexpectedly from Jefferson City yesterday afternoon. The pair quarreled because Mrs. Hickman planned divorce, the daughter said.

Hickman prepared to leave at p.m., and his wife accompan ied him downstairs. The daughter said she heard two shots, ran downstairs and found the bodies lying at the foot of the stairs. Each had been shot through the head. Neighbors called police. Mrs.

Hickman was a teacner at Bates School. Hickman was a clerk for the Missouri Department of Revenue. By Renyold Ferguson, Post-Diipatch Photographer Scene From Africa's Past The Pierre Laclede, its stack belching smole, created a scene out of central Africa In the nineteenth century as it highballed past grazing white rhinoceroses on the xoo grounds In Forest Park today. The St. Louis Zoo Line railroad began public operation this morning.

(Another picture in Everyday Magazine.) New Zoo Line Begins Service BOY HIT BY AUTOMOBILE, HURT IN EAST ST, LOUIS As Baer Drives Golden Spike Christopher J. Manning, 5- AUGUST COOLER THAN NORMAL; LOW MARKS SET August was not so hot in St. Louis this year. The Weather Bureau reported today that the average temperature was 75.4, 2.4 degrees below the seasonal normal. Total precipitation was 2.55 inches, .38 of an inch under normal.

Several low temperature records were set in the middle of the month. On Aug. 15, the mercury dipped to 52, 1 degree un- der the previous record for the date, set in 1962. Record lows of 59 and 54 were set on Aug. 18 year-old son of Mrs.

Bonnie Manning, 1806 Kansas avenue, East St. Louis, suffered serious head career as engineer-brakeman for the Zoo Line. "It's sure a big day for everyone," he said, as he made one of those mysterious hand signals only trainmen understand. PRISONER SOUGHT AFTER ESCAPE FROM COURTROOM Sheriff Martin L. Tozer was investigating today the escape of Hallie Robinson, a former convict, from the courtroom of Judge David W.

FitxGibbon of the Court of Criminal Correction. A deputy sheriff had his back turned when Robinson injuries when he was struck by an automobile in the 100 block of North Eighteenth street, East St. Louis, yesterday. The driver of the car, Willie R. Ferrell, 2100 block of Kan A record enrollment of 112,386 pupils is expected in St.

Louis public elementary and high schools next week. School officials are facing a shortage of 110 regular teachers and the administrative headaches of instituting a modified open enrollment policy and continuing a massive bus transportation program. The expected enrollment is 9,364 for elementary schools and 23,022 for high schools. There were 108,000 children enrolled last year. William Kottmeyer, deputy superintendent of instruction, said the shortage of teachers was caused primarily by the sharp enrollment increase and the lack of new teacher applications.

To meet the shortage of 75 elementary and 35 high school teachers, qualified substitute teachers have been assigned on a fulltime basis. $400,000 fcr Busses To alleviate serious overcrowding in central area and West End elementary schools, administrators have rented 98 busses for daily transportation of 4625 pupils to available classrooms in 31 schools in south and northwest St. Louis. The bussing program will cost about $400,000, Kottmeyer said. The transported pupils, predominantly Negro, will be integrated into "as many classrooms as educationally sound" at 19 receiving schools where class schedules of transported pupils can be synchronized with those of local pupils, he said.

Kottmeyer said that integration would not be based on a formal testing program for pupils. "Principals at receiving schools have been instructed to adhere to the Board of Education's policy of achieving maximum classroom integration within sound elucational principles," he said. Some Negro leaders, demanding integration of all transported pupils, have called on Negro and white parents to boycott the schools starting Thursday. Stay-At-Home Campaign The St. Louis branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is sponsoring a "pupils-stay-at-h campaign to protest against alleged discriminatory school policies and racial inequalities.

The Parents for Integrated Education announced today that it had urged the NAACP to delay the proposed boycott "until more thorough planning and more complete community co-operation can be achieved on this or some other step to protest the continuance of segregated education." Officers and members of the group's steering committee voted unanimously to request the NAACP to hold off the boy-cott "in view of the shortness of time until school starts," a spokesman said. The new St. Louis Zoo Line began passenger service in Forest Park today. A go'den spike was hammered home at 5: 18 p.m. yesterday to officially complete the narrow-gauge railroad.

Train whistles screeched and several hundred spectators cheered as Howard F. Baer, chairman of the Zoological Board of Control, swung a sledgehammer at the traditional "wedding of the rails." The crowd then boarded cars pulled by the streamliner Spirit of St. Louis and two vintage sas, said that he was going north Zoo's wooded areas with white smoke billowing downwind, is pure Currier Ives. One apparent attempt to derail the first train occurred when a boulder two feet in diameter was found between the rails at a secluded point. In addition, wire had been wrapped around a rail near the Elephant House.

Participating in the ceremony with Baer were Zoo director R. Marlin Perkins; Robert W. Murch, board chairman of the Zoo Line; Harold Batt of New Orleans, president of the line; Jefferson Miller, president of the Zoo Association, and Robert Heath, railroad consultant. As happy as anyone was B. F.

LINDBERGH CASE DISMISSED; SPEED CUT UNCERTIFIED A speeding charge against a motorist on Lindbergh boulevard was dismissed in county magistrate court yesterday because the state speed limit on the highway was not certified until two days after the arrest. Magistrate Harry J. Stussie dismissed a speeding charge against John R. Langston 735 Daniel Boone drive, Florissant. Langston's attorney argued that there was no record to show that a 45-mile-an-hour speed limit was in effect on July 23, when Langston was stopped by the Missouri Highway Patrol on Lindbergh near Dorsett road.

He was charged with going 52 miles an hour. The State Highway Commission announced on July 15 its decision to adopt a part of the county traffic code which reduced the Lindbergh speed limit from 70 to 45. However, the new limit was not certified by the commission until July 25. The magistrate's ruling apparently means that arrests made when the boy darted in front of his car. The boy was taken to St.

Mary's Hospital, East St. Louis. Farrell was booked suspected of driving without a li Robinson was brought into the courtroom yesterday and placed in the prisoner's dock for arraignment on a charge of stealing more than $50 last June 19 from the Selle-Zale jewelry 420 North Sixth street. As Deputy Sheriff George and 18, respectively. As in most past Augusts in St.

Louis, temperatures managed to edge above the 100-degrea mark. On Aug. 2, the mercury hit 100 and on Aug. 3 it was 102, both shy of records. There were only 11 days with readings of 90 or above.

On Aug. 18, the temperature reached an afternoon high of only 60 degrees under rainy and overcast skies. Measurable rain fell on only six days this month, the last yesterday, when .01 of an inch was recorded. Total precipitation for the year is almost 5 inches below normal. cense.

ADZHUBEI VISITS FINLAND HELSINKI, Aug. 30 (UPI) -Alexei Adzhubei, editor of the Soviet Government newspaper Izvestia and son-in-law of Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, arrived yesterday for a week's visit as guest of the Finnish Foreign Ministry. Youngblood accompanied another prisoner to the clerk's desk for payment of a fine, Robinson quietly walked out of the dock and through the door to judgments on the board's Integration policies. The board's suit asks for an injunction restraining interference with the bus transportation program.

The NAACP's petition seeks a temporary injunction restraining school officials from segregating transported Negro pupils in separate classrooms at predominantly white receiving schools. Open Enrollment Plan The modified open enrollment plan, another program intended to further classroom integration, goes in operation next week. Called a permissive transfer policy, the plan permits students to attend partly filled classrooms anywhere in the city once neighborhood children have been seated. The transfer pupil must pay transportation costs and must display educational achievement adequate for the instructional program of the class. Kottmeyer said it would be several days after registration before administrators determine the number of students who have elected to transfer under the plan.

Earlier, school officials said the proposal would not result in large-scale movements of pupils and would not cause chaotic educational conditions which critics of more extreme forms of open enrollment fear. School officials hope to end large-scale bussing of pupils in the fall of 1964, when six new elementary schools are opened in the central area and West End. Despite recent strikes by building trades unions, the six schools will be completed by September 1964, the school building department said today. ACCUSED OF MAKING FALSE AFFIDAVIT TO POLICE BOARD Eldridge Downing, a busboy, was charged today with making a false affidavit to the Board of Police Commissioners in a complaint about the amount of mon Schneider, a retired veteran of 46 years as a Missouri Pacific fireman, engineer and road foreman. Schneider, 2620 Margaretta avenue, Maplewood, has a new by the patrol in enforcing the new speed limit on Lindbergh before July 25 are invalid.

The ruling would have no effect on speeding arrests by St. Louis county police. engines, the Auguste Chouteau and Pierre Laclede, for a 20-minute trip beginning and ending at Vierheller Station. Members of the Zoo's bird colony staged an unscheduled fly-by for the occasion. Two flights of wild ducks, flushed from North Lake by the commotion, whirred over the trains in tight formation.

Two attempts by boys to derail the train were foiled when aiert crews removed rocks and wire from the rails. Children were enthralled by the engines' brass bells, the shout of "Boa-a-a-rd! by the conductors and the clang of signals at grade crossings along the meandering right-of-way. Much of the animal population can be seen from the route and reached from three stations. Tunnels, ravines and varying grades occur along the one and one-half miles of track. Railroad buffs will relish the clicking wheels, the scraping sound of flanges on numerous curves and the side-to-side sway of the rolling stock.

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