Cambridge Teachers Want Protection Because of the Recent Bomb Threats

Cambridge teachers stormed a School Committee meeting Wednesday night to demand bette protection in the schools for teachers and children who are being threatened by persons entering the schools without authority.

Recent threats to bomb the home of John Barry, a retired teacher who patrols the grounds of Cambridge High and Latin School during lunch hours, precipitated the teachers' demands for tighter security.

The threats were circulated earlier this week in a two-page mimeographed pamphlet which called Barry a "dirty clothed fascist pig."

"Let's eliminate the tramp who is dedicated to spying on us," it said. "Let us demolish the small fry." The paper was unsigned.

Threats Recent

Lorraine Butler, a member of the Cambridge School Committee., said that the threats to teachers have occurred only within the past two weeks.

She said that other teachers have been threatened by phone calls, and that she, herself, was threatened after voting against a Black Student Union in a School Committee meeting by black students who shouted, "Lorraine, we'll take care of you."

Butler added that "it could be possible" that the threats came from student activists who have "picked up with particular groups, whether the Black Panthers or the SDS." She also said that "outsiders" could be responsible for the threats.

Marsha Winn, a senior at Latin, said that the threats probably came from individual students to scare the teachers rather than from any student groups which are trying to keep things quiet after last spring's disturbances. She added that teachers still felt "scared and threatened" after last year.

At the meeting, the worried teachers requested the "School Committee andthe City Council to employ any means necessary including police or security guards to settle the atmosphere in the schools so we may get on with the business of education."

This morning a guard was placed on the school's main door to keep outsiders away; all other entrances were locked.