Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groin muscle injury will prevent outside right Gerry Montero from playing. His place will be filled either by last year's starter Ahmed Yehia or the J.V.'s John Runyan. Elsewhere on the line, Captain Scott Robertson, scoring star Peter Bogovich, and Vargas are all ailing, but should be able to operate at full tilt...
...wife were delighted. Together they had six daughters and one son from their previous marriages. Young Scott, who is bright and alert, quickly took his place as the family's younger brother. Delight turned to dismay when the Damaschkes tried to make certain that Scott would always be legally theirs. At least five court decisions in Michigan have established that a man who gets a divorce has a right to be treated as the father of any child born within nine months of the decree...
...hearing in circuit court, Damaschke was surprised to find that Judge Halford Streeter was not at all impressed by such precedents. Streeter was far more concerned about the fact that Scott's Negroid characteristics proved that Damaschke was not the boy's father -even though no one claimed that he was. More important, the judge made it clear that racial integration is not particularly popular in Port Huron, where the Damaschkes live. "I am a politician," said Streeter. "I get around the county, or I wouldn't have been elected three times, and I know...
Oriental Playmates? Both Streeter and Assistant Prosecutor Ronald Flanigan argued that two-year-old Scott would be more comfortable living in the colored South Park section of Port Huron instead of in the Damaschkes' white neighborhood. "There's a noticeable difference in color between your other children in the home and Scott, is there not?" Flanigan asked Damaschke's wife Joy, belaboring the obvious. Does the boy have any Negro, Indian or Oriental playmates? asked the prosecutor. Judge Streeter had a question for the social worker who testified for the Damaschkes. "Can't you foresee...
Streeter turned down Damaschke's motion. Shifting the case to probate court, he told Damaschke to initiate adoption proceedings. Damaschke has understandably decided to appeal Streeter's ruling. He is afraid that if the probate court turns him down, Scott may be sent to another family. It seems a reasonable fear, especially since Judge Streeter had occasion to remark that "I act as probate judge when the regular judge is absent...