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DALLAS SCHOOLS OPEN---DUNCAN REPORT
VOICE OVER BG SOF:
With e looRsexpressing wonder, fear and excitment in Dallas more than 14-thousand six year olds began their school carreers today, as did these first graders at the Martha Turner Reilly Elementary school.
They were among the /A2 , 6 90
students that
attended classes on opening day in l Dallas, Officials say school enrollment is expected to hit about 174-thousand before the end of the temi. Today also saw the ppening of three new elementary schools in Dallas and expansion of kindergartens to 17 schools. But for the first graders and their parents it was a day of instructions into their new world. (TIME: C.OD END CUE: "LOWELL DUNCAN, WBAP NEWS,
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Dallas school opening],
script,
September 3, 1969, 10:00 p.m.;
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