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INTEGRATION- OKAY SOUGHT Rippy Advocates Voter Approval Of Stair-Step Plan for Schools By AL HESTER, Staff Writer A favorable vote on integration for Dallas schools was advocated Saturday ‘by Dr. Pawin Rory. former president of the Dallas School Board. Dr. Rippy helped to fashion ‘the plan of gradual integration the board has proposed to put in effect beginning in September, 3961—if Dallas voters favor integration, He ended hie term on the ‘April 2. On Friday the board announced the integration pian Which would begin in the first grade and desegregate « rravle, year. t would be the “Yopical solution of our problem if the would vote for integration,” He said Saturday in an interview. He explained that the school district is under a ‘federal court order to integrate with all deliberate speed. : “A tavoreble vote on integra-. tion could resolve our dilemma—| that of being caught between con- tation and its officinis would be fined. But om the other hand, he said, if the district doem't in- \tegrate, it will min afoul of the trict,” Rippy said : He ad the district make a test of state ation law, but that such a! See SCHOOLS on Page 5 Whe Dallas Times Herald" Felix R. McKnight, Executive Editor ors ~ FO, (Fe lias, Texas Submitted py Dallas office