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HOUSTON SCHOOLBOARD
On Monday, the central office of the Houston Public Schools will be surrounded by 200-pickets. John Coronado, publisher of a Spanish-language newspap said the group of Mexican-Americans will demonstrate to protest the removeal of 4-thousand school children from the free lunch list.at the last meeting of the Houston School Board. At the same meeting, the Board voted 25-thousand dollars to fight the Justice Department on Houston's freedom-of-choice integration plan. Speaking in Washington yesterday, Senator Ralph Yarborough said necessary steps should be taken to see the school lunchprogram operates at its greatest potential. Yarborough, a member of the select committee on nutrition and human needs, said hungry school children should have not only free lunches, but breakfasts as well if they are to prpgress. He estimated there are 800-thousand mal-nourished in