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HOUSTON SCHOOLBOARD
On Monday, the central office of the Houston
Public Schools will be surrounded by 200-pickets.
John Coronado, publisher of a Spanish-language newspap
said the group of Mexican-Americans will demonstrate
to protest the removeal of 4-thousand school
children from the free lunch list.at the last meeting
of the Houston School Board.
At the same meeting, the Board voted 25-thousand
dollars to fight the Justice Department on Houston's
freedom-of-choice integration plan.
Speaking in Washington yesterday, Senator
Ralph Yarborough said necessary steps should be taken
to see the school lunchprogram operates at its
greatest potential.
Yarborough, a member of the select committee
on nutrition and human needs, said hungry school
children should have not only free lunches, but
breakfasts as well if they are to prpgress. He
estimated there are 800-thousand mal-nourished in
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Houston schoolboard], script, March 6, 1969; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1038212/m1/1/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.