Married Couple Wins School Case

CARROLLTON, Tex (UPI) - A judge who admitted he was a fan of teen-agers ruled Friday a married teenage couple could return to R.L. Turner High School.
"I'm not in favor of teenage marriage." Dist. Judge Owen Giles said, "But I'm in favor of teen-agers. I think they're fine people."
Tex Lloyd Knight, 17, and his wife, Sallye Ann Thompson Knight, 18, were suspended from high school Jan. 16, two days after their marriage.
School officials said they were to be suspended for three weeks because they were a disrupting influence at the school.
But Judge Giles ruled Friday that such action would "illegally deprive" the couple of their proper education. The couple had been reinstated in school under a restraining order pending Friday's ruling.

The Amarillo Globe-Times - January 30, 1967
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Young Couple Wins Round Over School

DALLAS - A young couple, barred by a policy of the suburban Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district after they were married in January, seemed to have won the last round of their court fight.
The Texas Supreme Court refused again Wednesday to grant a rehearing to the school system of the 68th District Court's decision last February permitting the couple to continue school
Both Carrollton-Farmers Branch Supt. Newman Smith and Earl, Luna, the school system's attorney, said they had not received the court's latest decision Wednesday.
The attorney said any firm decision about the case must come from the school board but that "such cases usually end at this point."
The couple Lloyd and Sallye Ann Turner, were denied entrance to R. L. Turner High School under a 1959 board resolution three days after they were married last January. Earlier this year, the Texarkana the district court's decision.

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times - December 22, 1967
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams