From The Files of The Seminole Producer

WASHINGTON – A federal judge Friday order the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) to begin desegregation proceedings against all public school systems of 10 states and some school systems in six others.

U.S. District Judge John H. Pratt ruled that HEW must take steps to bring the 16 states into compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Pratt ordered desegregation proceeding begun within four months against all public school systems in Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Maryland and Virginia.

He ordered similar action begun within two months against some school systems in Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Missouri.

The school systems involved include those of Baltimore and Kansas City, Mo.

Pratt ordered HEW to enforce provisions of Title VI of the 1964 law, which forbids use of federal funds in segregated school systems.

HEW would have to hold hearings before it cut off any federal aid.

HEW had found the school systems in the first 10 states to be segregated during the 1969-70 school year and found some school systems in the other six segregated during the 1970-71 school year.

Pratt also ordered HEW to begin desegregation proceedings against state vocational schools throughout the country “without unreasonable delay.”

Under the terms on his order, HEW will have to report back to him within the stated period of time showing that the school systems have taken steps to comply with the 1964 act.

Of the 10 states found operating segregated school systems, five had submitted desegregation plans that HEW found unacceptable.

HEW declined to comment officially on the plans.

Among the other large school systems affected by Pratt’s orders are Ashville, N.C., and San Antonio and Galveston in Texas. -oOo OKLAHOMA CITY Chieftain forward John Randolph scored 42 points for his second consecutive game to lead Seminole to a nerve-racking 68-66 over-time victory against Prague here Friday in the semifinals of the Runnersup Regional Tournament.

The contest, Seminole’s first overtime game of the season, was a real thriller with Prague tying the contest 64-64 at the end of regulation play with a pressure packed jump shot by Roy Fincher with one second left in the game.

A crowd of 1000 watched the upset victory in the Crooked Oak gymnasium. Prague, now 23-4, was favored to defeat the Chiefs, who are 11-12 with the win.

Kenny Brooking, 5-9 Chieftain guard, hit two free shots with 2:33 showing on the three-minute overtime clock to put Seminole in front 66-64. However, Don Gillham of Prague bolted downcourt and nailed a jumper to tie it at 2:24.

A Seminole error gave the ball back to Prague and the Red Devils started a delay game wanting to run out the clock for a final victory shot. The Devil’s plan was apparently working as a minute elapsed, but with 15-seconds left to play Seminole’s offensive leader Chris Clark leaped in front of a Prague pass to intercept.

Before Prague could recover, Clark bolted downcourt with the clock ticking and two Prague players, one on each side, in hot pursuit. Clark drove head-on into the basket, leaped and laid in the victory marker with 12 seconds burning bright red on the score clock.

Prague, desperate for a basket, brought the ball downcourt but apparently a Red Devil did not notice the time and with three seconds left to play was trying to pass the ball when the buzzer sounded with the prize still in his arms.

Randolph, who has turned into a top scoring show for Seminole, knocked the bottom out of the nets hitting 14 of 27 field shots for 51 percent and 14 of 17 free tosses for a 92 percent average.

Thursday, in a 74-70 quarterfinal win against Purcell, Randolph set a new SHS scoring record with a 42-point production. Friday he bounced back for another 42 marks. As of Friday he was leading all players in the state playoffs with 84 points in two regional contests.

Clark, who was injured in the Purcell game, came back to score 17 points and play heads-up defense in a top performance against Prague. Randolph and Clark scored all of Seminole’s field goals against the Red Devils.

Terry Devore’s four points, Brooking’s four and Woodrow Island’s one for Seminole were all tallied on free shots. Brooking’s four points came in crucial moments in the final seconds of the contest. -oOo WASHINGTON (UPI) Jim Thorpe, “the world’s greatest athlete,” would be commemorated in medals of the U.S. Mint, if a bill introduced by Senator Dewey F. Barlett becomes laws.

Bartlett filed the bill Thursday and said Thorpe “is a legend not only in Oklahoma, his birthplace, or in America, his homeland, but throughout the world. His prowess in baseball, football, track and field go unsurpassed today.”

The bill would authorize medals, whose sale would support awards by the Jim Thorpe Memorial Athletic Hall of Fame Commission, and would pay for a Jim Thorpe Museum.

Thorpe was the American Indian whose medals at the 1912 Olympics were taken away because he had once played semi-professional baseball.