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An article appearing in the "Dallas Star Post", Dailas, Texas, @ weekly Negro newspaper, dated April 26, 1958, reflected that Reverend CAESAR CLARK, Negro minister, was unanimously chosen by the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Dallas as their choice for a write-in candidate for place 8 on the Dallas School Board. Reverend CLARK stated he was willing to serve in any capacity in which his fellow citizens felt he could make a contribution to the betterment of the youth in Dallas. An article appeared in the "Dallas Morning News", Siumday edition, dated April 27, 1958, in which it was stated that 300 white Protestané ministers in Greater Dalias have signed a statement calling enforced segregation morally and spiritually wrong. These ministers asked that law and order be kept as Dallas faces desegregation in its public schools and called upon the Dallas School Board to make their desegregation public as soon as possible, They called on churches, service clubs, community organizations, newspapers, radio and television, to goin together in seeking actively to promote the sapirit of harmony and peace among all people. This article stated that these 300 white Protestant ministers represented 13 denominations and were a majority of the white Protestant clergy in Dallas County. Mayor R. L. THORNTON of Dallas was quite prompt in saying the statement would be helpful to community peace. Dr. W. T. WHITE, Dallas School Superintendent, commented that he appreciated the attitude and expressions of the clergy in Dalles in their statement, but added that the school board faced the responsibility of resolving the conflict between the state and federal laws concerning desegregation. Dr. WHITE added that the Dallas School Board now has two cases pending before the courts to resolve this conflict. It was noted that the Dallas school district would lose $1,500,000 of state aid as a penalty for integration without td a favorable majority yote under the present state laws.