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-—— - {Mount Clieping in Spoce Belew) Action May Be Spreading O: edcouch-Elsa Studer Continues W { NOLENE. HODGES y NOLENE ES ing ‘COUCH Mexican erie * Edcouch-Elsa ign clumaxed 2 daylong = demon stration Thursday night with & rally in front of the campus andtorium. ‘Xavier Ram:rez. a senior who Reads the sin member “student committee” leading the revolt. claimed as many aS 20 left classes. ‘The last report from sehoal | authorities indicated 136 were) absent. There was no official | support” of PASO. sitgla Villarréala memtlr * of the Student commitive. sai she had talked by telepho; ‘ith Sen. Ralph Nvarosonads nceming the school situation. . the said he told her to write Am concerning the compiainis, { A group of Weslaco students| joined im the rally. ‘The; Spokesman for the Weslaco, ip identified himself as! itton Hinojasa. i Other speakers included Abel; Ochoa. Hidalgo County PASO: President who told the students, they had the "100 per cent 10 ames count on how many had beet’ pounced carlier in the week it: suspended due to the walkowl. = would be PASO’s policy to offer j ‘The group said it is protesting ; legal aid to students expelled, disermination and conditions iN for demonstrat: ——— (Additional Photos. Pg. $12) failure of the schoo! board to call 9 special cession to hear student demands +t Cars Line Highway ‘The «Thursday night at! ince was estimated at more ion 1,606. © Sand trucks, filled = the su periang spaces and fins: voth sides of the divided hignway in front of the school. Adult education classes normally held Thursday nights at the high school sere called off, straiors would be back on the ——$$—$__—_amps a 8 a.m, the district as well as therincipa) } Ramirez said the demon! | “ _ af L. Pipkin ~ calle. facully meeling to discus overall situation and Strategy for today. “We will coatinue to have school as much as possible,” said, “and will. check tht afternoon, mest carefulty."* He said the demonstrators generally are from the average and lower section academically . d¢c-oastrat and mon - participants as far athletics and extra Guricular activites are con’ corned. . presumably because of t#—=="“Some are trouble AQ Boeme ATe BO” be said. - 3. a= The high schow is located =I ? Piplon also announced over loud speaker that studerts th Ra alk out would} estionably be expelled" |___ thé schoo] Board. ‘ollowing tne noon hour, he Ineructed teachers to check exreipilly for class members Page One Bane been feed alter] Valley Morning Star sessions. Students in the class|| Harlingen, Texas boycott at 8 a.m. became more|/_—__. unruly as the day wore on, clapping and chanting as they) marched clocer and closer to the building, — sometimes shouting to those Inside. Kidaigo Cousty Sheriff E. E.|! Vickers told his deouties to stay away from the area, Dae: 11/15/68 Eats: One only Author: between the cities of Edcouch and Elsa. and therefore out of, tBé jurisdiction of city police. However, Police Chief Eloy) E¢itor: Zavala of Elsa and Chief Er-| Tutte: Sesto Ollvarez of Edcouch ere! 66 the scent mos! of the time 18 the event trouhie broke cut. ‘State bighway patroimen in thé arta trequeatiy orn + VISTA workers and |Pan Americas College students! er tesetticetien: 62-3269 iting Office: Being Investiqniog