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an For Schoo! Board The sorely harried board of the Dallas Independent School District is back in court again trying to get the bench—any bench—to give it a little Tegal advice. So far the board knows what its lawyers think, what the con- sistently monkeywrench - heaving NAACP lawyers think But it does not know what the courts think The law, you know, is what the courts say it is. But on the important point in- wolved in the question of integrated Dallas schools, the courts ain't a-sry- ing so far. Of course the Jocal board has no major worrtes. All that can happen to it is for the members to go to jail, or to lose a couple of million bucks in state aid, or maybe heve to close the schools. Just little things like that. The upper.and nether milistones ‘between which the board is caught ere: (upper) a Feders! court order to integrate, (nether) a state law that state aid is forfeited without an ev- thorizing vote of the district. In the indigestible matter in the grinding process are the doubt that a vote could _ be obtained to integrate and the ques- “dons of proper court jurisdiction. The “federal eourts do not have the state -Igw before them until it has been ap- ed. School aid will not be withheld ti] integration occurs. @ Simple, isn't it? Ask Ix Rippey * and his colleagues! ; . LL -/0 C7 — 2 LNCLOCvP Yr "The Dallas Mornin News" Dallas, Texas, (/2/457 Jack B. Krueger Managing or Submitted by Dallas Offi VK -7I9 n\\