European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                White flight monday september 4, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 controversial study says court ordered school desegregation sparking exodus to suburbs Washington up David Armor a Rand corp. Sociologist has prepared a study that says court ordered desegregation and busing contributes to White flight from increasingly Black cities to predominantly White suburbs. Up obtained a copy of Armor s controversial study to be presented thursday at a meeting of the american sociological association in san Francisco. It is already being mentioned by opponents of busing. Using birth rates and migration Statis tics Armor studied 54 school districts that had 20,000 students or More. He concluded that Whites fled from school districts shortly after desegregation orders were issued either moving to the suburbs of sending their children to private or parochial Aca demies. In Boston Armor said White enrolment dropped 14.9 percent the first year after desegregation was ordered and 20 percent in the second. Denver s loss was 13.2 per cent in the first year of a desegregation or Der and Pontiac mich., lost 18 percent of its White enrolment. Armor s study said White enrolment dropped an average of 13.1 percent the first year desegregation was ordered compared with a projected 3.6 percent drop. In the second year the drop was 9.8 percent in the third 9.1 percent and in the fourth 7.5 percent. Court ordered mandatory plans rather than desegregation per be have been the primary causes of accelerated White flight in de segregating school districts he said. Voluntary busing plans such As that adopted by san Diego do not appear to have any significant effect on White  Gary Orfield a political scientist from the University of Illinois Points out How Ever that the Cost of housing or rental poli cies against children also contribute to Whites leaving cities. You can t say it s because they re running from desegregation he said. Breaks Long silence on a Plant employee s death company denies safety violations Oklahoma City up Kerr my gee officials breaking a four year silence on the death of nuclear Plant employee Karen Silkwood say they have uncovered no evidence she had proof of Plant safety Vio lations. Controversy and Legal action have sur rounded the death of Silkwood since nov. 13,1974, when her car plunged into a ditch. The woman an employee at the cres cent Plant reportedly was on her Way to meet with a new York times reporter and Union officials about safety violations at the facility when the fatal Accident occurred. The Oklahoma Highway patrol said the death was accidental but the Oil Chemi Fra concludes ipecac is Safe Home remedy Washingon up ipecac syrup a Long time Home remedy is Safe and should be kept on hand to induce vomiting in Case of accidental poisonings the food and drug administration said. However the Agency which looked at the Medicine As part of its review of All non prescription drugs said it would pro pose that ipecac be labelled to urge users to Call a doctor Poison control Center or emergency room for advice before using it. The proposed Label would also advise that ipecac should not be used if Strych nine corrosives such As Lye and Strong acids or Petroleum products such As Gaso line or cleaning fluid have been ingested. Fra commissioner Donald Kennedy said the Agency has concluded the drug is Safe and  can save lives ipecac syrup should be in every medi Cine Chest especially in Homes with Small children Kennedy said. In cases of Acci dental poisonings ipecac syrup can be a life saving  the Agency said it would propose that the syrup be marketed in containers of one ounce or less with the recommended dose for infants being one to two Teaspoons Fol Lowed by a half to a full Glass of water. The dose for children Over one and for adults is one Tablespoon followed by one to two glasses of water. The Agency said the dose should be repeated if the first dose fails to induce vomiting and if that does t work a doctor should be consulted. Beirut refugee Aid is okd Cal and atomic workers Union claimed she was forced off the Road. Company spokesmen said an official of the Union has documents missing from the woman s car since shortly after her death. The papers show no solid evidence of safety infractions at the company s Crescent Plant the officials said. Union spokesman Anthony Mazzochi de Nied the Union had any documents and maintains they were taken from silk Wood s car after the wreck but before help could arrive. There s no question but that papers were removed prior to our people getting there he said. That s what we be been fighting for these last four years. The papers she had would have conclusively proved the violations. She was accumulating  Mazzochi said the Only thing officials claimed to have found was a notebook and a few other papers of no importance. Had we gotten any More we might not have been suspicious Mazzochi said. A deposition from the last person to see her alive said she had a Large Manila folder with her. That never turned up. We called for an official investigation. Jet course some Are missing. This whole Case was figured by the failure to find any substantive  William j. Teague Kerr Mcgee administrative vice president denied allegations by Silkwood family attorney Daniel Shee Han that Kerr Mcgee was in collusion with the Fri or the police department in connection with the Case. The company has also denied cooperating with Oklahoma officials in the alleged wiretapping of Silkwood s apartment. Teague said Silkwood s charges against the Plant resulted in at least 17 investigations by state and Federal agencies which failed to turn up any serious safety Vio lations. The company was never fined and we were never closed Down because of safety infractions he said. Silkwood s family filed a lawsuit in 1976 against Fri agents and Kerr Mcgee claiming her civil rights were violated be cause she was denied the right to form a la Bor Union. The petition still pending in court also charges Silkwood was contaminated with film executive Dies after surgery for phlebitis Hollywood a George h. Orn Stein longtime film executive Here and abroad has died following surgery for phlebitis a family spokesman said. Ornstein 61, spent More than 20 years in Europe As production executive for United Rome a the u n food and Aeri artists Paramount and Warner Bros. Denumn. Iarj Ine . 1000 and agn w11w0 in  last Vear and was to culture organization has approved $1.1 million in emergency food assistance from the world food program to displaced fam returned to Hollywood last year and was to be executive producer of an upcoming James Bond spy film. Plutonium because of company negligence. Kerr Mcgee officials discovered that the woman her Boyfriend and Roommate were contaminated with traces of plutonium Only a few Days before the fatal Acci Dent. Company officials said they did not know How Silkwood and her friends were contaminated and an atomic Energy com Mission report gave no explanation for the contamination. Authorities concluded after the woman s fatal crash that the Accident was not caused by radiation. An autopsy showed no radiation in her body. Officials of the . Conference on civil rights say further that White flight has existed since world War ii before the supreme court s desegregation orders. It May be that people moved to the suburbs because they were racists but that racism is not necessarily based on school desegregation one official said. Armor said bigotry is not a Complete explanation. Racism As an explanatory fac Tor is not alone sufficient to account for the fact that the vast majority of Whites accept desegregated schools when brought about by voluntary methods but reject them when their children Are mandatorily bused or reassigned to schools outside their  Armor says the solution is either to use voluntary desegregation or to have desegregation and busing cover both suburban and City areas. Boston University professor Christine Rossell who disagrees with the Long term effect of Armor s study said there is no getting around the fact that voluntary plans cause less White flight. That is be cause voluntary plans cause less de Segre  Armor s study of metropolitan areas touches Only lightly on Florida where school districts Are on a county basis Cov ering both cities and suburbs. White flight appears to be insignificant in most Florida districts Armor noted but said More important statistics come from Louisville and surrounding Jefferson county ky., where he found mandatory metropolitan plans can indeed have White flight but perhaps with somewhat weaker Long term effects. 111 do it my Way Ilies and other destitute people from East he is survived by his wife Gwynne and and Southeast Beirut. Three children. Three year old Lucas Hill of Kirkville n.y., keeps his Eye on the Ball and grips the club in a Way that seems right to him As he practices on a putting Green at the new York state fair in Syracuse. He May not sink any putts but he s having a lot of fun just trying to tap the Ball any Way he can. Up photo