"Donation" Drives Eliminated - Middletown students may now skip to the city's schools with less coins than usual clinking in their pockets. The Board of Education last night set a policy that would eliminate collections of money in the school by non-educational agencies for non-school purposes. Intensive discussion about the two-month-old student group insurance controversy followed the board's policymaking. The board's action will eliminate donations to drives like the Red Cross, cancer, polio and Christmas Seal campaigns. In addition, sales of such items as sweaters, jackets and insurance will not be permitted. Exempted from the board's ruling are money activities conducted by members of the "school family"...

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