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...Lake County (Fla.) school board added a sordid postscript to the saga of the Platt children (of Irish-Indian descent), who were barred from school in Mt. Dora because Sheriff Willis McCall arbitrarily decided that they are Negroes (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the board fired Math Teacher Don Conway for giving his blessings to a high-school student petition urging that the Platt children be allowed to stay. Conway's only comment: "If giving the kids my moral support in what I consider a Christian act is guilt, then I guess...
...would only "offer a forum . . . for the more importunate voices−a stage and a place in the headlines for opportunists." Most newsmen agree that the biggest newspaper problem is to fight hotheaded extremists on both sides. Such rabble-rousers as Race Agitator Bryant Bowles and Florida Sheriff Willis McCall (TIME, Dec. 13) have been vigorously opposed in the Southern press...
...pupils had just signed a special petition to TIME about the plight of the five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt (TIME, Dec. 13). Though the Platts had insisted that they are of Irish-Indian descent-and had documents to prove it-Mt. Dora's Sheriff Willis McCall arbitrarily decided that they are Negroes, and ordered them out of the school. TIME'S story had said that, except for Editor Mabel Norris Reese, no one seemed to care. The petitioners simply wanted "the world to know" that they...
...into her office and threatened to get even with her "if I have to stay in [this] county two years." Meanwhile, an unidentified man called on the Platts' landlady, told her she had better get rid of them or "the house might burn down." Race Relations Expert Willis McCall was not impressed by the Platts' ancestry. Said he at an N.A.A.W.P. rally: "There must have been a smoked Irishman in the woodpile...
...Eaton, who had put in a bid for Follansbee a month before, and failed, won the mill this time because Republic Steel agreed to call off its deal with Richmond. No news could have pleased Follansbee more. Said the steel company's general foreman, Boyd McCall: "This is the best Christmas present the people of Follansbee could get. And Mr. Eaton is the Santa Claus...