VOL. IV. NO. 14 WEEKEND EDITION: APRIL 6-7, 1968 TEN CENTS More Than One
Case Stalled 'Not Guilty' In Tuskegee In Greene BY MARY ELLEN GALE BY BOB LABAREE TUSKE GE E. Ala. EUTA W. Ala.--In 1962. Johnny Coleman, a Negro, "To tell you the truth, I don't know what to think," wa s convicted of murder said Ocie Devance Jr. as ing J. D. "Screwdriver" he left the Macon County Johnson, a white man, and courthouse last Monday was sentenced to death by morning. an all-white jury. In the six years since then, he has Devance, a YOllllg Negro man. had walted In jail whlle lawyers appealedhis come to court to testlty against two case to higher courts--twice to the Ala white law enforcement officers--Nota bama Supreme Court and twice to the sulga Police Chief Bobby Stngleton and U. S. Supreme Court. State Trooper James H. Bass. Ftnally, in October of last year, the According to warrants sworn out by U. S. Supreme Court ruled that Cole Devance, Singleton threatened him with man's trial had to be held over again, a gun while Bass beat and kicked him because Negroes had been "systemati on the ntght of March 16. cally excluded" from the jury that con OCIE DEVANCE JR. AT MACON COURTHOUSE FOLKS CONGRATULA TE COLEMAN (HALL IN FOREGROUND) victed him. The cases agatnst both officers were Negro sheriff. r------,So last Monday,Coleman went on trtal scheduled for trtal Monday In Macon And, he added, there is no guarantee for the second time beforea tense audi County Inferior Court. But Judge that justice will be done in any court. ence of Negroes In the Greene County Richard H. Powell suddenly announced "There are so many ways," he sald. courthouse. that he was sending the charges to the "The way they work around with that Us In some ways the trial was the same grand jury instead. 'They Look at Like jury box--it's a planned thing. as the 1962 trial. The same judge, Cir When the grand jury meets on AprU "That's why people are unhappy. cuit Judge Emmett Hildreth, held court 15, Powell said, there will be "further That's why people are dissatisfied, and in the same courtroom, and Dlstrlct At Investigation" of the tncldent. The 18 looking to change a few public officials. torney T. H. Boggsand County Solicitor jurors w1ll then decide whether the And I highly recommend it. There are Ralph Banks questioned most of the cases should be tried In Circuit Court. gonna be some changes--you walt and Some Kind of Nothing' same witnesses. Powell also disclosed that another see." BY BOB LABAREE One dltference, though, was the jury, charge agatnst Singleton has beendrop which this time--to everyone's sur But--although several black candi BffiMINGHAM, Ala.--From an em ped by the white man who rued It. prlse--was all-Negro. dates are runntng for public office tn ployer's point of view, a "catch-out" Peter Hall, one of Coleman's law The judge said Robert H. Bedford of Macon County this year--the county's is a place where you can always find a yers, said there should be nothtng ex CUrv1lle has decided not to prosecute Negro majority won't have a chance to man to do a job. It's a street-corner traordinary about an aU-black jury. Stngleton and a Notasulga patrolman, replace Powell. The judge is unopposed where men without steady jobs hang "In a county where a quarter or a half Joe W. Barnes, for assault and battery. tn his bid for re-election, around and walt for work to come to or more crt the population is Negro--as After Judge Powell said he was re them. it is here in Greene County--an all-Ne- Employers know that if they need ferring the Devance charges to the __ ...._ .. � .... -----""' •• _ ... 1,"', ...... "' _ -...... " ..... �-J - ______�-- grand jury, a puzzled murmur ran somebody for a day, or even a few white one," he sa1d. through the halt-filled courtroom. And Rap Loses hours--to lift a crate, or dig a ditch, A bluer difference was the Jury's Macon CountyAttorney W1lliam C. Hare or trim a lawn--a catch-out is taster verdict. After about two hours Of de demanded, "Can the court do that?" and easier than an employment agency. liberation Wednesday afternoon, the ju But men l1ke Tommy Wrenn and Ben "Yes sir, I've researched the law," rors ruled that Coleman was not gullty. 40 "Sunshine" Owens look at catch-outs Powell replied. Pounds As the courtroom erupted with cries BY JOANNE GAVIN from another point ot view. But Hare said later, "I'm against it. 01 joy, Dlatrict Attorney Boggs an EDWARDS, Miss.--SNCC Chairman Wrenn and Owens--veteran clvll "riley (the ca,ses)should be tried. We're nounced that othercharges still pending H. Rap Brown has lost 40 pounds frQm rights workers now organiztng for the ready to try 'em. There's no such law against Coleman wlll be dropped. that I know of." tasting and looks Hke he's 50 years old, SCLC Poor People's Campaign In The prosecution had rested Its case his lawyer told a Steertng Committee Washtngton--say It's only black men The judge's decision didn't displease on Tuesday afternoon, atter abouteight Against Repression (SCAR) meeting who stand at these corners, and many everyone. Half a dozen state troopers hours of testimony from 24 witnesses. last sunday at Mt. Beulah. of them have been standing there for --who accompanied Stngleton and Bass "This man personifies In one body The night before Johnson's death,the years. to court--smUed as they heard the an the spectacle of aU government being state charged, Coleman had broken into These men either can't get a regular nOllllcement. arrayed againstone man," said the law a dry store In Eutaw, and had job or think they can't, the SCLC work goods Asked if Bass w1l1 rematn on duty, yer, WilHam Kunstler. Brown is in ja11 stolen a shotgun, shells, and some ers say. Many of the men are old or OWENS AND WRENN (A T LEFT) SIGN UP CAMPAIGNERS Major John Cloud, chief ofthe Alabama on a number of federal charges. clothing. disabled, and most of them are un can I leave with my children," writing. "We know what you'retalking highway patrol, said, "Certatnly. Ev Lawrence Guyot, chairman of the A button found near a broken wtndow skilled. "Sign me up," said another man. "I about, brother," he sald. "We're say ery day." Mississippi Freedom Democratic tn the store was identifiedby State Toxi At a big "catch-out" corner on the can't get a Job and can't get Social Se- lng that these are the conditions that Party, said the federal government's cologist Nelson E. Grubbs as coming And Notasulga Mayor Ray Langford south side last week, a crowd of men curity." A line began to form tn tront breed riots." attitude towards the civll rights move from a shirt that the prosecution said said Stngleton "damn sure is" stUl in gathered as Wrenn and Owens passed Of Wrenn. There were other catCh-OUts, too. ment has changed from support to sus was Coleman's. charge of the City's law enforcement out literature. The SCLC workers were As people got to tallctng about their In a dirt alley in a different part of picion. The next ntght, the state claimed, operations. "They put It (the trial) off there to get names and addresses of problems, It wasn't long before their the south Side, halt a dozen men sat on And in MiSSissippi, he said, the Leg Coleman killed Johnson with the stolen 'cause he's not gunty," themayor com people who would go to waShington, anger began to show. crates around a fire as the two SCLC islature is conSidering a law that would shotgun, took the victim's money mented. "What you doing?" asked one man, "Yeah, I'll go," shouted one man, workers talked. require Independent candidates to get pouch, and escaped without betng seen, Macon County Sheriff Lucius D. a bit suspiciously. gesturing wildly. "Pm gonna tell 'em "Damn, I'm ready to go now," said more than 50% of the votes to win a gen Grubbs test1tied that particles on Amerson said he doesn't oppose Judge "We're going to the capital with Dr. what these son-of-a-bitches doing to us one man, eral election. some shells found near the scene of the (Martin Luther) to tell the Presi down here. People going by looktng at "What do you make?" Wrenn asked Powell's action: "My only jobis to ap KIng, shooting matched with some of the "You may have noticed that no one dent the way you're llvlng," Owensan us Uke we some kind 01 nothing. They him. "$3,000? $2,000? $1,000?" prehend 'om--I don't try to convict 'em. particles he discovered In the pocket of here Is asking you if you are betng op swered. "We're going to take care of pay us nothing, and they look at us like "Shoot, no," the man replied. "This In iaw enforcement, every officialhas to the shirt Identified as Coleman's. pressed," Guyot added. "If you are an you--give you a place to sleep and some ktnd of nothing. Theypay us noth past year I made about--let's see- do his part." But defense attorneys Hall and Orzell American citizen, you are being op something to eat while you're there." tng, and they lookat us like that. Police $695." B1lltngsley Jr.--who have worked on the But the sheriff also said he wasn't pressed." "Don't cost you nothing?" the man run us off these corners. They don't At the end of the morning's canvass- notified In advance about Powell's de case since 1962--sald the state's evi Owen Brooks of the Delta Mintstry asked. want us to get a job." tng, Wrenn counted the number of men clslon--or about the dropping of the oth dence was circumstantial. explatned thatSCAR--a coalition of DM, "Not a dime," said Owens. He paused a moment, breathing hard, who had signed uP. Therewere 63. And er charges, against Stngleton and In the hour-long defense, several crt MFDP, SNCC, SCLC, CORE, and the "They gonna brtng you back?" and then spoke to Wrenn. he looked at the figures he had collect- . Barnes. Coleman's six witnesses said they saw Southern Student Organizing Commtt "That's right." ed. "You know somethtng, mister? The him getting into a truck and leavlng Eu- tee--is trytng to go Into communities "The highest salary was $2,200," "Inasmuch as I am the chief law en The man backed away, shaktng his average man In this town is ready to taw two days beforeJohnson was kUled. forcement officer, I should have been and Inform people of "hidden acts of head. "You caught me off-balance,"he fight." Wrenn said. "And he had eight chil- And Coleman himselt told the jury told," said Amerson, Alabama's only oppreSSion. " dren," said. "I got to go home and tlnd who Wrenn looked up from what he was that he had arrived In Cleveland, Ohio, just hours atter the kllUng occurred. "I All- White YMCA Group Hears Wallace had no knowledge of him (Johnson) be Ing dead at all," he testWed. The trial was important for other people besides Coleman. The Rev. Thomas GUmore said only a few Ne groes had showed up for the trial six Just Like Grown-Up Le islators years ago, because "then, they were g scared." But, at a mass meeting atter this BY MICHAEL S. LOTTMAN which they love so dearly." IAst Friday, the boys and girls- vember, 1966)," Wallace said, InclUd week's trial, the Rev. WUliam McKin The letter said the localYMCA would many in couples, holding hands- Ing "871/2% of the votes In the all-Ne MONTGOMERY, Ala. ley Branch pointed out that Negroes have "qualified youth" available, if trooped Into the House chamber,where gro wards of Selma, Ala." --The 20th Alabama had fllled the courtroom. "This Is just Chandler decided to Invite them. But they heard a speech from Presidential "You know the reason folks in Selma Youth Legislature met a beg1nning--to show what can happen there were no Negroes at the seSSions candidate and former Governor George voted for my wife?" he asked. "Be when biack folks stick together," he last weekend in the state of the youth legislature. C. Wallace. cause very few people In the Selma said. Capitol. Like their Asked about Holmes' letter this week, The youths gave Wallace a standing . march were from Selma--they were all Coleman, with tears st1ll In his eyes, Chandler said, "I don't have any re ovation, and one group unfurled a ban grown-up counterparts , trom Berkeley, California." At that, agreed. "A change is going to come sponse to It." The director said he ner saytng "Decatur Supports Wallace the young "legislators" the boys and girls burst Into loud ap- about," he said. "And I'm a symbol thought he and 'Holmes had been "tn for President." were all white. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, Col. 4) of it." complete understanding and agree The former governor criticized the "It's a dyin' shame," said Alvtn ment" I after their telephone conversa federal government's recent stand on Holmes, president of the Young Demo tion. schools--that freedom-of-cholce plans crat Club of Montgomery County, a "We have never turned down any can be used only if they brtng about a Come to Think of It mostly-Negro grouP. "We make con youth who wanted to participateand who substantial degree of Integration. In BY MARY ELLEN GALE tlce, and "send It on up as far as It tributions to the YMCA, and then we are had properly and adequately prepared other words, said Wallace, "if you TUSKEGEE, Ala.--The TUskegee has to go." dented to share in the benefits." himself," Chandler said, The only choose like you oughta choose, you can City Council has agreed to seek city Mrs. Elaine Benn and Mrs. Mabel W1Iliams--two ladies who have com Two days beforethe youth legislature qualltication for partiCipants, he said, choose." mail service for all city residents. plained about receiving rural mall in met, Holmes telephoned William is that they must belong to a club that Soon, he warned the aUdience, At last week's meeting, Council Chandler, director of the p(ogram, and Is active In the Hl-Y program and Is "you're gonna find yourself being sent man L. M. Gregg said he didn't learn the Rockefeller Hill section of town asked him to Include Negroes In this registered with the youth legislature across town to another school, whether unUl "a couple of weeks ago" that --were present at the meeting. They year's activities. GEORGE C. WALLACE thanked the councilmen for paying board. you want to go or not." some Tuskegeeans are sUlI on a ru Photo Handed Out to Youths According to Holmes, Chandler "said Holmes charged that Negro branches Wallace said there are "more gen ral mall route. attention to their needs. he was not agatnst selecting Negroes, The next day, Holmes sent a letter of the YMCA were not Invited to send uine good feelings" between the races Il Tuskegee Postmaster John And Mayor Charles M. Keever delegates to the legislature. But Chand as long as he could ftnd qual1t1ed Ne to Chandler, agatnasking him to include tn Alabama and the rest of the South Fletcher Segrest can't provide said he has a special tnterest In the ler clatmed that "some Negroes would il'oes." lAter in the conversation, Negro youths this year. Excluding Ne than there are anywhere else in the house-to-house mall delivery, the matter. In the area where he lives, have been eligible, had they prepared Holmes recalled, Chandler said that groes, the letter said, means "denying country. counCilmen deCided, they wlll make a the mayor commented, "we don't themselves. None applied, that I know "maybe next year, we'll consider se them the right to participate in the "My,wite received more nigra votes formal request to the U. S. Post 01- get city mall either." lecting some." growth of this great State and nation in of." than either of her two opponents (In No- PAGE TWO THE SOUTHERN COURIER APRIL 6-7, 1968
.THE SOurHERN COVRIER ROOM 1012, FRANK LEU BUILDING MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA 36104 Buford Hits Discrimination PHONE: (205) 262-3572 THE SOUTHERN COURIER is publlshed weekly by a non-profit, non-share edu cation corporation, for the study and dissemination of accurate information about events and affairs in the field of human relations. Price: 10� per copy. $3.50 per year in the South, $10 per year elsewhere in the U. S., patron subscription $25 per year used to defray the costs of printing and InBY MARY ELLENFarm GALE Extensionthat the extension service is not guiltySe But Robertsonrvice admitted that he publication. Second-class postage paid at Montgomery, Alabama. of the same charge, not In terms of mis doesn't know everything that goes on in AUBURN, Ala. -- Why !)andllng of funds but rather in terms of extension service offices and programs Editor: Michael S. Lottman don't Negroes appear on not using its personnel to the best ad around the state. "A lot is done local Executive Editor: Mary Ellen Gale the weekly televiSion pro vantage?" ly," he explained. "This is a little like Associate Editor: Amy R. Peppler grams put on by the state The NAACP head wondered why most a sales organization--the fellow at the Photography Editor: James H. Peppler agricultural extension Negro agents work primarily with low top doesn't know who all the salesmen income people, and why few--it any- are." Compositors: BarbaraFlowers, Mary Corbin service? Technicians: Kenneth Lumpkin, Farris Lawrence Negroes hold t6P jobs, such as the Nevertheless, Robertson said, past In a letter last week, the Rev. K. L. Regional Circulation Mgrs: George Walker, Norman Warren chairmanships of stateor county exten racial discrimination Is steadily being Buford, Alabama field director of the SUbscription Manager: Margaret H. Dabney sion service committees. corrected. The process "doesn't NAACP, suggested that the answer Is Robertson--the state extension ser please everybody," he noted, "but we racial discrimination. Reporters: vice director--said he can't reply to all couldn't please everybody anyway. For instance, he said, on a program Alexander City, Ala. (Charley Thomas) •••••••••••••••••••••234-6845 the charges. "It would be wrong for me, We're striving to improve our pro three weeks ago, the white extension Birmingham, Ala. (Bob Labaree)••• ••••••••••••••••••••••78 1-3746 a public servant, to take issue with an grams and serve all people equally." agent from Bullock County"appeared Helena, Ala. (Bob Dinwiddie) ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••663-3628 organization such as the NAACP," he along with a lily-white group of 4-H •••••••••••••••••••••••••• commented. Mobile, Ala. (Marty FIschbein) members." Beating Charge Montgomery, Ala. (sandra Colvin) ••••••••••••••••••••••••263-1491 "The question rises, why was the Ne But he pointed out that the extension •••••••• e. •••••••••• •••••••••• - Selma, Ala. (Estelle Fine) 872 5562 gro agent and Negro 4-H members ex servlce--which is financed Jointly by BY PRESLEY FRANKLIN Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Ethel Thomas) •••••••••••••••••••••••••759-2384 cluded?" Buford wrote to Fred R. Rob federal, state, and county governments MARKS, Miss.--Mrs. sarah Ander Tuskegee, Ala. (Mary Ellen Gale)•••••••••••••••••••••••• 727-3412 ertson, state director of the Coopera --has been "under soUd Investigation son charged this week that two Negro Miss. (John Sisson) •••••••••••••••••••••••••,.3 32-61 Greenville, 85 tive ExtenSion Service. (by federal officials) for the last three deputies entered her house illegallylast •••••••••••••••••••••••••••362-7989 REV. K. L. BUFORD Jackson, Miss. (Jan Hillegas) Over six or eight months of viewing years to correct inequities." Friday night, and beat her and her hus Marks, Miss. (Presley Franklin) •••••••••••••••••••••••••326 -9441 the TV programs regularly, Buford taken as an opportunity--it's taken as "We've been trying to do everything band. Miss. (Katy Slepmann) ••••••••••••••••••••• •• Mendenhall, said, he has never seen a Negro: "The a chore. If anyone has a wish to be on we can do," he said. "This Is so re Mrs. Anderson said the deputles- Meridian, Miss. (Patricia James) ••••••••••••••••••••••••485 -9 555 monitors, the paneliSts, and other par television, we arrange it." cent, we just couldn't do some things. L. C. and "Bo" Pryor--entered her In his letter, Buford charged that TV We wouldn't have any program in some Vol. IV, No. 14 April 6-7, 1968 ticipants, for some strange reason, home without a search warrant. "They have all been white." isn't the only place where the extension of the counties--and that wouldn't help beat up my husband in front of my three But this week at his oftlce in Auburn, service practices segregation. anybody." children," she claimed. Robertson said the reason isn't strange "This office has received a report But, Robertson added, he thinks some After L. C. Pryor hit her in the stom Here Come the Judge --or discriminatory. that •••personnel in Barbour County of the charges are misdirected, "We've ach, she said, she was dragged to the "A lot of white people have never been are required to use separate rest cooperated with SWAFCA 100%," he police car by a white officer. She dis Thurgood Marshall gave a pretty good indication of on the TV programs," he said. "It's rooms," he wrote. "In Montgomery said. "We've held training meetings played a scar on her left arm, from the County, all Negro personnel work in and so forth." the kind of Supreme Court justice he was going to be actually hard to get 'em. This is not wrist to the elbow. a section separated from the whites by As for the report about segregated when he lied under oath last summer before a U. S. Mrs. Anderson was tried last sat a wall--with only an opening a little restrooms, he went on, "I'm having it urday on a charge of resisting arrest. Senate committee. 'A First In larger than the average doorconnecting checked into--but 1 just can't believe After the deputies testified that she Senator James O. Eastland, a member of the com their office with that where white em it. This was taken care of two years fought with them, Mrs. Anderson was mittee considering Marshall's nomination for the high ployees work. ago." convicted and fined $200. She said she "The most casual observer can de court, was trying to make something of the fact that Tuscaloosa' Robertson said the state extension was not allowed to present witnesses BY ETHEL THOMAS tect that Negroes and whites are not to Marshall--as a federal appeals judge--had once cited service was "the firsfagency (In Ala who would have disputed the deputies' TUSCALOOSA, Ala.--For the first gether in this office by function." bama) to help poor people--and Negroes testimony. a book Wetumpka, Ala. "People fear black power, but It is not Bullock Election Upheld a problem. White power is the prob lem," said Miss Winifred Green of At BY MARY ELLEN GALE some technical violations of Alabama lock County, Pittman found "sufficient lanta, Ga.. Miss Green--a representa election laws. provocation to bring into play discipli MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The 1966 tive of the American Friends Service nary efforts." He said the officials' elections were a ditf1cult time for ev Although white people living in other Committee--also quoted from the cam actions were not "unduly harsh, illegal, eryone in Bullock County. a federal counties were permitted to keep their paign speeches of U. S. Senator Robert voting privileges in Bullock County for or arbitrary." judge said last week. Kennedy during her talk to NAACP many years, some Negroes were purged For the 70%Negro majority, the elec "There was a real effort to conduct members and friends last month in the as soon as they left the county. tions offered the first real chance to a fair election without racial discrimi Elmore Rehobeth District Center. have an effective voice in local govern On May 31, 1966, "there were sev nation on May 31," the judge wrote. Another speaker, the Rev. K. L. Buford eral flareups and disagreements be WILLIAM H. SAMUEL JR. ment. "The fact disagreements arose only of the Alabama NAACP, also touched For the 30% white minority, "the tween �egro) poll watchers and (white) proves everyone involved was a human of the Voter Education Project of the on the subject of politics. "Don't get tranSition from dominant polltical con election officials" in Bullock County. being with human frailties." Southern Regional Council. In these overjoyed when people in the political trol of their elected officials to the Negro poll-watchers were denied the The judge did grant, some of the Ne state-wide VEP's, civil rights and com structure meet you on the street and prospect of sharing or losing this con use of restrooms at the NationalGuard gro candidates' requests. He ordered munity groups work together on voter shake your hand," he said. "Watch trol to the Negro population--with a Armory, the county's main polling the Bullock and Macon county boardsof registration, citizenship education, and their motives, and be very careful not great number of those registered being place. registrars to purge their voting lists leadership training. William H. Samuel to let the campaigning candidates fool illiterate and untrained--was undoubt But, Pittman ruled, none of these and correct their methods of record Jr., president ofthe Ibervtlle Industrial you as a registered voter." The Rev. edly a searing emotional experience, matters was serious enough to void the keeping. He also directed Bullock Voters League, is the Louisiana VEP J. L. Jones of Wetumpka organized an "The Negroes were haunted by slav election� In addition, he said, the Negro County officials to open restrooms, and director. The project's officewill be in advisory committee to the NAACP. The ery and historical discrimination, and candidates were wrong In blaming most follow the laws concerning poll watch Plaquemine. members are Mrs. M. F. Bracy of We the white population was haunted by 19th of the violations on racial discrimina ers and illiterate voters in the future. Clarksdale, Mi'SS. tumpka, J. W. James and Mrs. A. L. century Reconstruction pOlitics," tion. But Pittman also suggested that court Skipper of Tallassee, Mrs. D. A. Boze wrote U. S. District Judge Virgil Pitt For instance, he said, although ab orders are not the best way to insure The local, state, and national NAACP man of Dexter, and Mrs. J. K. Maxey sentee ballots may have been handled man. fair elections. have complained about the hiring prac of Millbrook. (From Debra Bracy) For that reason, ¥d becauseof" dis improperly, the service was "equally tices of the Southern Bell Telephone H. O. WILLIAMS "LEADERS SHOULD LEAD and make agreements" at the polls,"it is easily available" to members of both races. Company in Coahoma County. The lly Negro candidates in Bullock County. their Influence felt among their respec West Point, Miss. understandable" that five unsuccessful And on several questions, the judge Clarksdale NAACP said that over the The losers included H. O. Williams, tive groups as much as pOSSible," he Negro candidates became suspicious ruled against the Negroes altogether. past six months, it has referred at least The Poitier Players of Mary Holmes the first black man to run for sheriff wrote: after the May 31. 1966, Democratic prl The charge that " stand-ins" regis 40 job applicants to Southern Bell, but College presented Arthur Miller's play In the county's history. "It may be from fear that white voted mary run-off, the judge said. tered for some seriously ill white peo for white and Negro for Negro, butttwe none has been hired. "A View from the Bridge" early last The complicated law-suit has been But, he ruled last week, their suspi ple in Bullock County two weeks before would make a reality of the American month. Clarence M. Simmons, a pro winding its way through federal court Montgomery, Ala. cions were not supported by the evi the run-off"faUs for lack of sufficient dream, we should vote for a man on his fessor, directed the play, w1th help trom for nearly two years. During that time, dence they presented in federal court. evidence," Pittman said. merit regardless of color, race, or "Resjlonsible citizenship is the Charles LEe, a sophomore student. Judge Pittman said, the case dwindled And so, the judge said, he will not Doctors testified that many of these creed." membership tee we must pay to live in Mississippians in the cast were Henry order a new run-off election for state from massive charges of fraud and ra people had not left their homes for a democracy," Macon County Sheriff Colllns of Houston: Dianne Adams, Tu Although "all is not perfect," Pitt representative from Barbour, Bullock, cial discrimination to "a series of cir years. But Pittman accepted "the ex Lucius D. Amerson told about 60 people pelo: Patricia Collins and Willie Smith, man remarked, "the progress made in and Macon counties. cumstances suspicious in nature." planation that these people would make last Sunday at a meeting of the Young Starkville: Bennie Turner, West Point: these three counties within recent years Judge Pittman's decision· leaves a Pittman conceded that, as recently the extreme effort to register," al Democrat Club of Montgomery County. McKinley Jefferson,' Picayune: Ernie can be viewed with high heart." white man, William V. Neville Jr., in as September 1961, only five Negroes though they then voted by absentee bal Amerson said it is important for each Robinson and Walter Mitchell, Colum possession of the office sought by civil were registered to vote in Bullock lot. citizen to understand his rights under bus: Arthus Wright, Gulfport, and Laura County. He also found that: Moore, Jackson. Other performers rights attorney Fred D. Gray. Despite testimony to the contrary THE SOUTHERN COURIER wel the Constitution: "This must be taught to our young people, and re-empha were William R. White, Lafayette, Ala.: Gray--the first Negro to run for the Registration ltsts in Barbour, Bul from some witnesses, Pittman also comes letters from anyone on any Helen Purnell, Selma, Ala.: Marcus state LEgislature Since Reconstruction lock, and Macon counties included the ruled that no Negroes were prevented subject. Letters must be Signed, but sized to our adults." A major problem --lost to Neville in both the primary names of some white people who were from voting, or pressured--or misled of today, he said, is that some people Sims, Chattanooga,Tenn.: Charles LEe, . your name will be withheld upon re McDonough, Ga.: Mary Jackson, Elaine, and the run-oft by less than 600 votes • not qualified to vote. --into voting for white candidates. quest. don't care enough to exercise their right The judge also ruled against a new . Bullock County officialshandled their As for the disputes between poll to vote. Although the Negro vote alone Ark.: and Clarence Brown, Fernandina, run-off for four local offices contested voters list in a casual manner, and made watchers and election officials in Bul- can elect black office-holders in many Fla. APRIL 6-7. 1968 THE SOUTHERN COURIER PAGE THREE A DAY OF PROTEST AT TUSKEGEE TUSKEGEE, Ala.--On Monday, March 25, president of the Stutient GovernmentAssociation, Thursday. Student leaders organized the cam Tuskegee Institute students stayedout of classes address several hundred protesters in front of pus-wide class boycott when this and other ses to demand a better education and more student the administratIon building. sions failed to bring the changes they wanted. power. Clockwise, beginning with the photo to the right: studE-nts y< Ie on a motion to meet with For several hours. the students blocked en President Foster; demonstrators bar the door trances to college buildings, while a faculty-stu way to Huntmgton Hall, a classroom and faculty dent committee tried to work out an agreement office building; students watch the evening news with the administration. Latethat night, Institute on TV outside the administration building; Sen President Luther H. Foster agreed to many--but ior Class President W1Iliam Clark (center) not all--of the demands. confers with newsmen; demonstrators sit-In inside the administration building. Above, James H. M. Henderson (left), a bio logy professor and a member of the faculty-stu The young lady in the center was one of many dent commtttee, and Warren Hamilton (right), speakers at an all-Institutemeeting the previous Photos by Charles Criner and Melvin I. Todd PAGE FOUR THE SOUTHERN COURIER APRI L 6-7, 1968 • It's Baseball Time In Florida ! TEXT AND PHOTOS BY MICHAEL S. LOTTMAN ST. PETERSBURG , Fla.--Out in Tampa Bay , a small boat had caught on fire. A Coast Guard plane swooped toward the bay at shoulde r he ight, and a he licopte r hovered over the burning boat. "JtI s sinking l JtI s sinkingl" cried a small boy in the stands at nearby Al Lang Field. "Hooray l He re comes the Coast Guard!" shrieked his companion. But more than 2,500 other pe ople at the field ig�ored the sea-going drama, be cause something more important was happening. The St. Louis Cardinals were play ing the Ne w York Mets at Lang Field, in one of baseball's most sacred rites --spring training. No true fan would be distracted from a spring-training game , even if the Titanic we re going down behind the left-field fe nce. As It turned out, the nautical emergency was merely part But, Taylor said, "I like to be unsure. You're never sure of a water-sports show. And when major-league baseball of anything in this game." The ffrst squad cut was due soon, comes to Florida every spring, other sports--even burning Taylor said, and he wasn't counting on anythng. up your boat In Tampa Bay--have to wait. Is it really necessary to have five weeks' training in Flori- SIxteen major-league teams are training in Florida this da before the long season begins? Taylor said the club man- year--the other four are In Arizona and california. agement needs the chance to look at all the candidates, and At each training camp, about 50 ball-players are trying the players need the time to get In shape. to win the 25 spots open on the varsity roster. Those who "Some ball-players are slow starters," Taylor said. miss out are sent to the club's huge minor-league camp "They'd be in even worse shape It spring training were for re-asslgnment--and some are cut loose entirely. shorter." Buddy Bradford, a Negro native of Mobile, Ala., is one of Anyway, spring training Is a tradition. Infact, It's a tra the players trying to stay in the big time. Bradford--a dition made up ot traditions. sbort, stocky outfielder with six years of minor-league ex perlence--is fighting for a job with the Cblcago WhIte Sox. One of baseball's ohlest customs Is the autograph, After He gave himself a big boost one day ' when he came to the the games, the players are always mobbed by a crowd of plate with two out In the last of the ninth and smashed a kids (4 5 years and under) who want them to Sign a score two-run double that gave the Sox a 5-4 win over Minnesota. card, baseball, or anything else with an Inch of clear space But the next day against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Bradford available. went 0-for-4. and bls spring averagesank from .304 to .259. In the mob scene that followed one St. Louis-Boston game, After the game, he was despondent. cardinal outfielder Bobby Tolan had to warn his fans, "If "I just didn't pick the ball up good today," he said In the you don't stop sticking things In myface, I won't sign any." locker room. A bit like the game-winning double "gets you "You don't even want me to finish, do you?" he asked one up a Uttle wblle," he said. "But you go bad the next day, excited kid. "You grabbed it away before I was through." and you're back down again. 1 try to take it all In stride." As the cardinalswere fighting their way toward their cars, AUTOGRA PH HUNTERS MOB CARDINAL OUTFIELDER BOBBY TOLAN But It's hard not to worry, Bradfordsaid: "Every time at several people were absorbed In the day 's big question- standers he still isn't too keen about players who tell auto ered Grady Hatton, and the Astro boss obliged with some bat is a big factor. one of the big moments. Every day , ev should a player who makes from $10,000 to $100,000 a year graph-hunters to "get lost." weather-beaten observations: "Barrin' injuries and stuff like that, we have a chance to ery at bat, you're on the spot•••• It seems like every day, be required to sign autographs at all times? "Unless you know the guy--and even it you do--it's hard you've got to do it, until you make It." "You sign 5,000 autographs, miss one, and you're a had to excuse him," said Buck. have a real tine (pitching) staff." For a player Uke Mets pitcher Ron Taylor, however, guy," complained St. Louis pitcher Bib Gib son on a radio When ball-players talk to each other, tradition requires "ThIs could be some kind of rough league this year." spring training should be fun. Taylor--who starred tor the show. "As soon as you get up In the morning and go down to that nicknames and insults make up most of the conversa "It (Willie) Mays has just a halt-decent year, San Francis cardinals in the 1964 World Series--had bls best year In breakfast, people are asking you for autographs." tion. Sometimes it sounds like a code, or a foreign language. co's going to be rough." 196'7 with the Mets, chalking up a 2.34 earned-run average. But atter the show, announcer Jack Buck told some by- One day when the Pittsburgh Pirates were war mlDgup for '� The cardinals are double tough." (What It the Cardinal a game with the White Sox in Sarasota, the Pirate infielders pltchers--other than old reliable Bob Gtbson--don't have started razzing shortstop Gene Alley , who was trying to work good years? a writer asked. "Then they're going to be in oft the effects of a sore arm. trouble," said Hatton gravely.) "Me and Joe got a plan, Oople," yelled Maury Wills. Will the acquisition of outfielder Lou Johnson help the (Translation: WhIle Alley was out of the line-up, Wills had ChIcago CUbs? "He's certainly not going to hurt 'em," Hat moved from third base to shortstop, and Jose "Joe" Pagan ton advised. had come off the bench to play third. Also, "Oople" is what After all this, the Cards and the Astros went out and played the players call Alley.) the kind of game that makes you wonder if anybody is really "Don't worry, Jake," added Chuck Hiller, a reserve in serious about spring training. fielder. (Translation: A player who fakes an injury to get In the first inning, Lou Brock of St. Louis--one of the out of work Is said to be "jaking It.") game's finest base-runners--got blmself picked otf first Alley--whose arm may determine whether or not the Pi base. rates win the National League pennant--did not seem to be Then Wade Blasingame--the pitcher, of all people--put amused. the Astros Into a 4-0 lead with a three-run homer. SOffi9times--especially as the cut-down date approaches --the kidding gets a little rough. In the fifth, with Houston ahead 6 to 4, Brock wandered back under Norm Miller's fly ball, and then let It bounce The morning before Houston played the Cardinals, Doug oft bls glove for a run-scoring double. An error by third Rader--trylng to make the Astros as an infll!1der--wasn't baseman Ed Spiezio let another run in, and before the Inning bitting at all in batting practice. The catcher, teammate Hal was over , the Astros had a 12-4 advantage. King, was keeping up the usual chatter about how every pitch was a strike, the pitcher was looking good, and so on. Nelson Brlles--one of the pitchers the Cards are counting Suddeniy, Rader, who Is white, whirled on his Negro team Ing on--stayed on the mound for five full innings of bobbles mate and barked, "What are you try In' to do--work me over and boo-boos. When he headed for the showers, his slate in practice?" After that, King shut up, but Rader wasn't showed 12 runs given up, on 11 hits and three Cardinal er satisfied. rors. With Ivan Murrell. a Negro outfielder,at bat, Rader asked With a 12-8 lead in the ninth, Houston added a run on a the silent King, "Was that a strike?" squeeze bunt by Julio Gotay. Not only did Miller score (he "Yeah--go to hell," the catcher muttered. had tripled), but Gotay was sate too, because nobody covered "Well, why don't you tell HIM (Murrell) about it?" Rader first base. demanded. (Squeeze bunts are usually seen when the score is tied in "We're putting our hearts in it todlly ," mused Jackie the ninth inning of the final Il3me of the World Series, or on Brandt, a veteran outfielder trying to catch on with the low occasions of equal importance.) ly Astros. The final score was Houston 15, St. Louis 10. Some 1,700 bemused fans had seen 30 base hits, six errors, and a year's of all baseball traditions, none Is more unchanging than the sportswriters' springtime chat with the manager. Be worth of wacky plays. HOUSTON SLUGGER JIM WYNN (LEFT FOREGROUND), JULIO GOTA Y, AND HAL KING (RIGHT) fore the St. Louis-Houston game, a crowd of writers corn- (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX, Col. 1) Mays Has a Good Season ... IfBY MICH AEL S. LOTTMAN The CUBS surprised everybody by fi (14-8 atter being converted from a out Pitcher Tom Seaver (16-13 In 196'7) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--A look at looks as good as ever, and rookie sec nishing third last year, when everything fielder). six at the National League clubs train ond-baseman Bob Heise could be a real went right. Third-baseman Ron Banto The CARDINALS also can hit. At one Ing in and around St. Petersburg gives surprise, but they need more help than is a perennial super-star, but a few point this spring, they listed the follow you a pretty good idea how the N. L. they are likely to get. things are likely to go wrong this year ing averages: Floyd Wicker .625, Dave pennant race will shape uP. The PHILLIES traded away their best with the rest of the cast. Ricketts .400, Bobby Tolan.395, Orlan Of the teams on view March 16-24 in pitcher, Jim Bunning, for reasons best Bunning, who came from Philadel do Cepeda .394, John Edwards .367, this area, the st" Louis Cardinals look known to themselves. Rookie shortstop phia, makes the PffiATES a pennant Curt Flood .361, Roger Marls .353, Lou by far the best. They shouldfinish sec Don Money is a future star, though may threat, especially it shortstop Gene Al Brock .351, Jullan JaVier and DaI Max ond. be not this year. ley's throwing arm is all right. vill .333, and Mike Shannon .308. Bob The Houston Astros should finish A strong-armed pitching staff and Though the ASTROS have never fi Gibson is the best pitcher in baseball, fourth, the Pittsburgh Pirates fltth, the some sp'.!edy outfielders won't make nished higher than eighth, this could be but no other Card starter has ever put Los Angeles Dodgers eighth, the Pblla contenders out of the DODGERS. Short the year. Houston has a flne pitching ' two good years together. delphia PbllUes ninth, and the New York stop Zoilo Versalles--who hit .200 at staff (headed by Don "No Hit" Wilson), Several times In the past few years, Mets tenth. Minnesota last year--isn't likely to a proven slugger in Jim Wynn (37 hom the GIANTS have managed to snatch de The other teams wUI fUI In the gaps. start busting fences just because of a ers last year), a lot of good young ta feat from the jaws of victory. But wlth From the bottom uP, that would put the change of scenery. lent, and a winning attitude. pitchers like Juan Marlchal (14-10 last AUanta Braves In seventh place, the For years, the BRAVES have had the The REDS are loaded with sluggers year), Mike McCormick (2 2-10), Gay Ch1cago CUbs in sixth, and the Cincin talent, but not the will. Now the talent like Pete Rose (.301 In 1967), Vada Pin lord Perry (2 .6 1 ERA), and Ray Sadecki nati Reds In third. Who will win the is disappearing, too, although pitchers son (.288), Tony Perez (102 RBI's), and . pennant? The San Francisco Giants. Pat Jarvis and Pbll Nlekro, third-base Lee May (who has been going wild In (12-6), and with a boatload of powerful Reasons: man Clete Boyer, second-baseman Fe training). But the pitching depends too bitters In the .275-.300 range, how can The METS don't seem much different lix M1llan, and the great Hank Aaron are much on one-year wonders like Gary they miSS? They won't--it Willie Mays from the lovable losers 01 past years. still functioning. Nolan (14- 8 as a rookie) and Mel Queen has one more good year left. it .....,. . --. ,,��- ... . - RADIO ANNOUNCER JA CK BUCK (LEFT) INTERVIEWS ST. LOUIS PITCHER BOB GmSON (CENTER) LOU BROCK OF THE CARDINA LS AT BATTING PRACTICE APRIL 6-7, 1968 THE SOUTHE RN COURIER PAGE FIVE Hardaway Man Needs Benefits, But ... Negroes Lose in Selma SELMA, Ala.--All three Negro can date Willie Harvey lost the Democratic didates for the CUy Council lost to white city council nom lnation to a white man, opponents last Tuesday in the Demo W. David Lang. cratic primary run-off. In a contest between two white candi The Arm Can't Remember Edwin Moss, the Rev. L. R. Harrison, dates, E. H. "Hamp" Graves was re y and Marius "Ace" Anderson trailed elected mayor of Eufaula. He defeated BY MARY ELLEN GALE At the Macon County office of the Ala Powell of the VA hospital staff In Tus three present council members--Her Marvin E. Edwards, who had been en HARDAWAY, Ala. -- Joe Wheeler bama State Department otVeterans Af kegee, Menifee should apply for Medi man Blagg Sr., Maxie M. Ellis, and dorsed by the all-Negro Eufaula Voters Menltee didn't harvest cotton In the tall fairs, she said, "the man Bay he don't care. Luther D. Pepper--by 5-to-3 margins. League. want any more to do with us." of 1917. Instead, he went to war. But Mrs. Menifee said she doesn't Meanwhile, in Brewton, Negro candi- Menifee was in the last group of draft But workers there insisted that Mrs. have much faith in government pro �M� �t� ��� ees from Tuskegee during World War I. Menifee is mistaken. "We've done ev grams any more. "They didn't feel As a private, he worked in U. S. Army erything we possibly can do," said a like settin' him in welfare," she noted, kitchens at Camp Dodge, Iowa, and Fort spokesman. "Ifshe wants to come back, "and he had trouble getting on Social Meade, Maryland. And sometime early we'll keep trying." Security. The Army said he's tooold- In 1919, he came home. Staff members at the regional VA of but the Social Security said he wasn't �II That, at least, Is the way Menifee re fice In Montgomery and the VA hospital old enough to get that benefit." ������=-- - members the Army. But the Army in Tuskegee said they, too, are willing Although her husband now receives doesn't remember him. to continue the search for Menifee's Social Security checks, Mrs. Menifee ···�ouncelllents According to workers for the Veter Army records. But they also said that said, "he needs to go into the hospital. ans Administration in Tuskegee and if no papers are found, he can'tget vet His health is not good. He should get Montgomery, a three-year search has '.� erans benefits. what he's entitled to--lIke everybody tailed to turn up any proof thatMenifee Meanwhile, suggested Wendell W. else." ever served in the armed forces. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED--The Mont-. FOR A BETTER ALABAMA--The As a result, Menifee--who is now 74, gomery Head Start needs all the volun Alabama Council on Human Relations partially deaf in both ears, and too fee teer belp it can get to work In the class has active chapters in Birmingham, ble to work--can't get veterans bene rooms. Men, women, and teen-agers Mobile, Montgomery, HuntsVille, Flor fits, or gain admission to the big VA Radio Station WA PX (mtnimum age 16) can all be of use. ence-Tuscumbla-Sheffleld, _ Auburn hospital in Tuskegee. Volunteers will assist as teacher's Opellka-Tuskegee, Talladega, and Tus Menifee spends his days sitting HAS INSTITUTED The Pa stor 's Study aides and cook's helpers, and will take caloosa. It has a staft that works around his small frame home in upper JOE WHEELER MENIFEE children on field trips in the area. A throughout the state. The Alabama he was born on Aug. 12, 1894. And if Hardaway, in rural Macon County. BROADCAST DA ILY volunteer can choose his or her own Council Is integrated at all levels: there is no record of his military ser When the weather is warm, like it was hours between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on a its staff officers, staff, and local chap Vice, Mrs. Menifee charged angrily this MONDA Y THR U FR IDA Y, 9:00 to 9:15 A this week, he naps on the porch. !'vI convenient day Monday through Friday. ters all have people ofboth races work week, that's because the Army has lost His wife, Mrs. Eugenia Menifee, Transportation and lunch will be fur ing side by side. The Alabama Coun It. THE PASTOR'S STUDY Is a daily devotional prepared under raises corn on the family's small farm. nished. If you are available, apply to cil wishes to establish local chapters "They just won't admit he's a vet the auspices of and in conjunction with the Montgomery With the money she earns from her the Rev. E. W. McKinney, volunteer di In every county In the state. Ifyou wish eran," she said. "Because he's old, Ministerial AlliancE'. ! islen to your favorite minister in crop--and with Social security and wel rector at 419 Madison, call 263-3474, to join the Council's crusade for equal didn't have no education, can't read and our Pastor's Study. fare checks--she keeps her household .or go to the nearest Head Start cente� opportunity and human brotherhood, write, can't count one-two-three, they together, and provides a home for her . write The Alabama Council, P. O. Box do him like that. He been held off from Also, for your continuing listening, our GOSPEL fROGHAM S, PEACE PROGRAM -- The 1968 14-year-old grandson. 1310, Auburn, Ala. 36830. a whole lot he's supposed to have." 4:00 to 6:00 AM and 9:15 to 11:00 AM, and with GretchE'n Peacemaker Orientation Program in But the Income isn't enough to buy Mrs. Menifee admitted that her hus Jenkins from 11:00 AM to 12 !lioon, 1>tonda,' thru Friday. Non-violence w11l be held from Aug. 17 PHOTOGRAPHERS--The Southern her husband a hearing aid, or pay for band doesn't have his Army discharge to Sept. 1 at Heathcote, the School of Courier is now accepting applications the medical treatment she thinks he papers. But that, she said, Is because Living Center, in Freeland, Maryland. for the position of staff photographer. needs. his house burned down several years WAP X Radio Discussions will center around the · Candidates should be willing and able So, for more than three years, Mrs. ago--wlth the papers inside. problems arising in trying to lead a dai to travel. They should have a driver's Menifee has been traveling to Tuskegee "We got plenty of friends to swear ly life of non-violent witness in a world license, imagination, and ambltion. Ex and Montgomery, telephOning offices as 1600 k.c. in Montgomery that he did go," she said. "That should of increaSing force and violence. Tax perience will be conSidered, but it is far away as Atlanta, Ga., and writing be enough." not a necessity. Salary: $30 a week letters to state, VA, and Army officials. refusal, draft reSistance, and other She charged that stateand federal of forms of non-complicity with war-mak plus expenses. Write to Jim Peppler, The draft board in Tuskegee, theAla ficlals aren't really trying to help her. ing will be explained and explored, as The Southern Courier, 1012 Frank Leu bama Department of Archives in Mont well as problems arising in the areas Bldg., Montgomery, Ala. 36104. gomery, and the regional VA office in 1*-*- *- - - "* -* - - "* -*1 of education, family living, urban and Montgomery have all told her they can * * * FEDERAL JOBS--The Interagency The Southern Courier rural communities. Applicationsor re find no evidence that her husbandwas a FROM PEKING AND HANOI Board of U. S. Civil service Examiners : *1 quests for further information shOUld be soldier. ie for South Alabama and Northwest Flori WIO TSE·TUNG'S "Quotations" I sent to Wally Nelson, 3810 Hamilton St., And last week, the Military Person I * da is holding examinations for general, l ie ,I nO "On Peoples WJr," both 1 gives you the Philadelphia, Pa. 19104, or George A. nel Records Center in St. LoUiS, Mis famous little red books . structural, and airfield fire-fighters. lie $1.00 * 1 Lear Jr., 520 E. Buffalo St., Ithaca, souri, wrote her a letter saying the , HU CHI·MII�H'S PrlSon Diary I'J Starting salaries range from $86 to $107 I N. Y. 14850. same thing. PEKING REVIEW, * a week. This examlnat!on providesap I ie 5? weeks. air I Menifee's fingerprints "were com 4.00 pl1cants with career employment op I VIETNAM COURIER, 26 weeks 5 1 REGISTRA TION CAMPAIGN -- The pared with those of former Army per ie 00 * in the federal service in the VIUNAM (1IIustr.J, 12 montlls 5.00 , Alabama NAACP will kick off a state portunitles sonnel filed In the Federal Bureau of : 28 counties of South Alabama and the ten ie send payment wrth o'de' to * FACTS wide voter registration campaign at Investigation, and no corresponding counties of Northwest Florida. Send I ie 1 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 7, with a mass prints were located," the letter said. I CHINA BOOKS & PERIODICALS *1 "nnli"� tlnn", tn th", Tnt"'r�u!''''ncv Board u.s. (�O\,.. ·t. Llcnn!;cc! Importer I meeting at the Clinton Chapel AME Zion I of U. S. Civil Service Examiners for When Menifee registered for the c:. [)"tnllutor * Church, 1128 Thurman St., Montgom _ i'I?(J-2�th SL draft, the letter added, he listed his I San franCISCo 94110 , ery, Ala. The campaign Is co-spon South Alabama and Northwest Florida, !In Call/ornld. * , .blrth date as Aug. IS, 1873--whlch I ie Read 107 St. FranciS Street, Mobile, Ala • dUU :';l, .'Hllt:.,> t.-fA 011 buo"'�) sored by the East and West Montgomery I I 36602. The forms are available at any would make him too old for duty during l ie FREE CATALOGUE ON REQUEST *1 branches of the NAACP. World War board of U. S. civil service examiners, I. I • 1 �. ____ • __ • •____ • • _ •____ ••J REGISTERED NURSES--Lee County and at most main post offices. Appli But M!s • Menifee and her huSbal\d say . THE Head Start needs a registered nurse for cants must indicate Fire Fighter as the part-time employment, beginning in title of the examination, and AA-8-18 Lesa Joyce Pri ce SO UfHERN early April. For more information, as the announcement number. Addi write P. O. Drawer 1632, Auburn, Ala. tional information may be obtained by S�ys : 36830, or call 887-6536. contacting the Federal Job Information Center, Room 105, 107 St. Francis COURl�ll POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN- I am ten years old, and I'm in the ' Street, Mobile, Ala. 36602, or any U.S. $3.50 per year mailed In the South Hosea Williams and Albert Turner want fifth grade at Center St. School in post office. $2 for six months mailed in the South Birmingham. I'm a member ot the to discuss the Poor People's Campaign $10 per year mailed the North New Hope Baptist Church, and an In (WaShington, D. c.) wlth YUU. COme to $25 per year patron subscription BAHA'IS--The Baha'Is of Montgom usher for the Alabama Christian a meeting at 11 a.m. saturday, April 6, ery invite you to their weekly fireside Movement. $1 for three months mailed in the South in the St. Paul CME Church on Tremont at 6 p.m. this saturday, at the Commu I have been selling The Southern St. in Selma, Ala. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• nity House, 409 S. Union St., Montgom Courier for the past three years. I TUSKEGEE SUBSCRIBERS -- You ery, Ala. For transportation, call 265- enjoy selling the paper . MAIL TO: have TWO local post offices: Tuskegee 4394. Meet Baha'u'llah. You, too, can sell The Southern THE SOUTHERN COURIE R 36083 and Tuskegee Institute 36088. Courier in your neighborhood--and Your Southern Courier will arrive on Room 1012, Frank Leu Bld . JOB HEARINGS--The U. S. Commis make money while you're making g time if it is sent to the correct one. . 79 Commerce St. friends. Please check your mailing label, and let Sion on Civil Rights will hold hearings from saturday, April 27, to Wednesday, For Information, write to The Montgomery, Alaba ma 36104 us know if it should be changed. Southern Courier, 1012 Frank Leu May I, at Maxwell Air Force Base in Bldg., Montgomery, Ala. 36104. Send me th e SOUTHERN COURIER CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS--"Unreal Montgomery, Ala. The purpose will tty" is the subject of the Lesson-Ser be to collect information on job security for one year. I am sending check or mon to be read in all Christian Science and economic opportunities in 16 Alaba money order SE LL THE churches this Sunday, April 7. The Re ma counties--Autauga, Barbour, Bul N.ame------sponsive Reading includes these verses lock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, from Proverbs: "Let not mercy and Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Macon, Ma SOU'THERN COURIER truth forsake thee: bind them about thy rengo, Monroe, Perry, SUmter, and ------neCk; write them upon the table of thine Wilcox. The commiSSion is Interested Bld Address For information, write to 1012 Frank Leu g., heart: So shal t thou find favour and good in hearing testimony from federal, Montgomery , Ala. 36104, or call 262-3572 in understanding In the sight of God and state, and local officials, and from citi zens of these counties. Montgomery. C itY·------aStatel--- man." Prol. Val Palmist Crystal & Psychic Reader WHY WOR RY! WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING WHEN Il lS ALL SO UNNECESSARY YOU WISH TO KNOW ! BISHOP GAYLOR Who dan when you .hould marry? How to always get )"Our wish ? Wo uld You Who your friend. and enemlll arer Why you are '0 unlucky? Suggests Wisely, Wams Gravely, Ex.plains Fully ! Calling You By If the one you love lov.. you? How to make a per.on at dll.tance Your Full Name, Giving Dates, Facts and Actual Predictions Of If you loved one la true Gr 'al .. ? think 0' you? like to know ' How to win the one you lover H ow to reltore lo.t natlll'e1 8ee me I Your Past Life, Your Present Conditions and Your Future To Be ! There Are No Secrets Hidden From This Master MincH TELLS YOU ALL ABOUT YOUR TROUBLES AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM He is the only adept of the Hindu Occult Mysteries practicing in the St ate of Alabama, who bears 20 years a reputation for his LUCK HAPPINESS SUCCESS honesty and integrity. :aem Bad Evil ove Luck aDd lDfiuenoe of AU Kind. I Overcome Obstacles and Hidden Pears. I Will located In An Office Building In The Heart of Town! Tell You How to Remove UnhappineSl. Ba.nish Misery. Be Lucky. Regain Youth and Vigor. Bishop Gaylor warns you of these wandering Gypsy parasites who operate on trailer Oet Back Stolen Goods. I Lift You Out of Sorro w and Trouble and Start You on the Path of wheels and downtown slum districts, who al"e here today and gone tomorrowl U S JlappiD.... Why Be Down Hearted, Sick and Worried When You Can Be Helped and Everything I do not give advice outside my office--those claiming to be Bishop Gaylor, going from HO R : DAILY M to PM ... Clear By Consulting Thla Gifted Reader Today, house to hous9.. are Impostors, and I personally offer a REWARD OF $100 for the arrest 10 A 5 and conviction of any person representing themselves to be Bishop Gaylor. Bring this CLOSED ALL DAY card for special reading I Wednesdays and Sundays - , PROF. VAL Th e Man Wh o Knows . NO LE TTERS ANSWE RED--CALL IN PE RSON Permanently Located At Houri : 10 A.M, to 8 P.M. DAILY and SUNDAY Look for Sign 7�8 Holcombe AYe. Mobile, Ala. 16 SOUTH PERRY ST. MONTGOMERY, ALA. GOVERNMENT and SENATOR BUS STOPS AT DOOR No Letters Anlwered - 5 Blocka Beyond Government Street Loop Call In Peraon PA GE SIX THE SOUTHERN COURIER APRIL 6-7 I 1968 Something New in Montgomery Court Orders Merger of Ensley Protest BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--Negroes com plaining of job discrimination have been picketing four large stores In Ensley 'Bivens Made the Ala. orts Grou s since March 28. r�£��' Sp p Several white store-owners argued MONTGOMERY, Ala.--"Btvens and this week that Negroes are already em BY MICHA EL S. LOTTMAN conclusion that the "dual athletic sys Thackston made the tackle," said the ployed as clerks. But the picketers MONTGOMERY, Ala.--"There are tem operates to discriminate against Cramton Bowl announcer last Friday, said too few Negroes have been hired. actually two systems ot high school ath Negroes." For one thing, the court during the second quarter of Jefferson And, they said, many of those who have letlcs in Alabama--one predominantly said, the dual system has Jed to "inad Davis High School's intra-squad foot been hired are in part-time or menial white and the other Negro," a three equate athletic programs in the various ball game. posltlons. judge federal court concluded this week. Negro schools." It was just a routine play--and then The Rev. L. H. Whelchel, one of the And, said the court, "one of the most And, the judges added, the system again, It wasn't. Jeff DavisIs Montgom leaders of the protest, said he was effective vehicles for the racial sepa "has resulted In a loss of recognition ery's new high school, which opened Its " pleased" last Monday, when a meet ration in Alabama athletics" IS the ex 'for athletes in the Negro schools ••• spring football practice under a tough ' Ing between demonstrators and the Ens Istence of two high SChool athletic as on both local and national levels." federal-court desegregation order. ley Chamber of Commerce resulted In sociations. And Charles Bivens, a defensive back The court also ruled that theAlabama the formation of a bi-raclal lnvestlgat "There should be only one state-wide tor the Jeff Davis "Whtte" team, Is one associations are "state agents," with ing committee. high school athletic association," the of two Negro players on the 98-man an "affirmative duty" to do away with Whelchel said the committee will court said. "There Is no adequate ex squad. the dual system. survey the hiring practices of all the planation other than race for the exis Although many other high schools in stores In the Ensley area. But in the tence of two such associations." "As a matter of fact," the court the state have fielded integrated ath meantime, he said, "we"re keeping the So, the court said, the Alabama High noted, "the offices of thewhite Alabama letic teams, Montgomery has been slow pickets on." School Athletic Association (white) and High School Athletic Association are In in this regard. LastFriday, Bivensand the Alabama Interscholastic Athletic the State office building; theassociation Wilbur HamUton--a split end In the Assoclatlon (Negro) must join to form pays no rent." "Green" lineup--probably came as a single organization, with members, close as any Negro athlete ever has to · · ····························· · dlrectors, and executives of bothraces. participating In a varsity sport. ·j::ij'WNilliN Furthermore, the court ordered im Bivens and Hamilton both saw a lot of mediate desegregation of all athletic action In the scrimmage, as the Whites programs and contests "where more beat the Greens, 51 to 47. Bivens was than two schools participate." This In in on numerous defensive plays, and cludes track, basketball, baseball, and Hamilton scored a touchdown on a 22- football championships, and cheer CHARLES BIVENS (47) WAITS FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS yard pass from Green quarterback Al leading and coaching cllnlcs, the court Barnes. said. "They're two tough little football Clrcult Judge Richard T. Rives and players," said Coach Billy LiVings • • District Ju dges Frank M. Johnson Jr. answers questions about Red Sox Edge Cardinals after the game. "They haven't played a and H. H. Grooms said they would not lot of tootball--they don't get startedIn Junior Miss etiqueue, order schools of opposite races to their program till the eighthgrad e--but Broomi", and mterests. schedule games against each other. they're tough llttle kids." In World Series Replay The Judges said they "leave that mat Nearly 200 boys--Includlng about 20 Q. rm Dot a nail nibbler - level with y.our prospective em ter to the school authorities, with the (CONTINUED FROM PAGE FOUR) championship depended on it. Negroes- -turned out for the first dayof but my DaUs look like it. Every ployer. Tell him the job sounds hope that no judicial action will ever Bobby Tolan uncorked a powerful spring practice a month ago. Though time let them grow, they split just wonderful - but you've But a week earlier, when the Cardi be necessary in this area." I throw from right tield, and Smith slid just 98 players were listed tor the and peel and look a mess! been wanting to · work for the nals played the Boston Red Sox, it was The court's order was based on its for the plate as Mccarver went up tor Green-White game, Livings said no one camp since you were eight. Then clear how baseball canbecome the num What's my problem? the ball. McCarver came down on top had been cut from the squad: "Every _OY'-....,.��I�K?.--"'f(;) ber one concern of so many otherwlse Could be your diet! Eat tell him you'll be in touch with of Smith, but the Boston speedster was boy . not out for the team made his own A. reasonable people. lots of calcium-rich foods, such him in a couple of days. Sum already across the plate. deCision." More than 7,000 fans crowded into Al Gleaners fo r Christ mer is still many weeks away Later, Tolan threw out Gene Oliver "I'm as tough as naUs on everybody," as milk and cheese. Gelatin also Lang Field for the second spring re - and you'll have plenty of with another mighty heave, ending the Livings said. "That's the only way I are offering prayers tor anyone who helps make strong nails. A match between the two 1967 World Se time to make the right decision! inning. But the Red Sox had won, 3 to 2, know how to coach . • ••I'm not going is Sick, in trOUble, heartbroken, or weekly manicure is essential. If. ries opponents. and both teams had shown the stulf of to look at any side issuesl and I think distressed. in the growing process, one of Q. Believe it or not, have They saw five innings of champion I which great ball clubs--and great I can pretty well speak for the other Whatever your problems are, send your nails starts to break, re ship pitching, as Series foes Gtbsonand 10 best friends, and we're all sports events--are made. coaches around the state." them to The Gleaners for Christ, Jose santiago each held his opponents to inforce It with a tiny piece of turning "sweet 16" this year! 411 S. Lowe St., Dowagiac, Mich. one run and four hits. Then in the Sixth, white Kleenex tissue placed That means an important birth 49047. a clutch two-out single by St. Loutscat over the broken spot. Then day - AND a prese'lt - al cher Tim Mccarver gave the Redbirds Tired of Making $10·15·$25 Weekly ? This Service is Free apply polish over the nail and most every month of the year! 2-1 a lead. tissue. No one will notice your But what about my budget? When Red Sox outfielder Tony Conig nifty handiwork and the nail llaro came to bat In the ninth inning, ••••••••••••••••••••••••• A. The best gifts are those • • will be saved until it grows out. things looked bad for him and his team. NEW YORK AND BOSTON with more thought than money Conigliaro had not played the final : FOR A RETTER : Q. Two summer job possi poured into them. For the bilities have come up, ODe as a two months of last season after being NEED 1,000 MAIDS TOMORROW writer in the crowd, take an beaned. and he wore an extra protective •: ••: junior counselor at camp, the empty tin can and cover it with flap on his helmet when he returned this .. In Alabama all our yesterdays . other here in the city. rd like Marvalon adhesive covering in Ages 18·65 are marred by hate, diSCrimination, spring. Even though he seemed as fear : : the counseUDg job best, but a bright, feminine pattern. Voila less as ever at the plate, he had man • injustice, and violence. Among the . • wbat do say if the other is Salary $40 to $80 weekly, plus free room and meals. All expenses • I - a penholder! Top off the aged just three hits In 19 previous trys. • organizations working tor a better . offered first? gift, with a feather-topped ball advanced, tickets sent. Friends are placed close to one another. All tomorrow on the prinCiple ot human But Conigliaro smashed a double ott : : Jobs are guaranteed. brotherhood is the Alabama Councll . A. Lucky you! Summer jobs point pen. Or, cover a waste the wall in deepest center field, and the For more information, write ABC MAIDS, 712 W. Moblle St. , Flo on Human Relations. Membershi� are hard to come by. Write to basket, box for rollers. haIr Red Sox caught fire. When Conigliaro : rence, Ala. 35630, or call 766-6493 collect. In the Council is open to all who . the camp director as a follow spray can, and notebook for a was removed for a pinch-runner, the wish to work for a better tomorrow roomful of accessories. The fans gave him a standlng ovation, and : up to your conversation. It's un on this principle. For further in- every player in the dugout shook his Leave (o r New York or Boston : likely you'll be offered the city possibilities end only where formation, write the Alabama Coun- • hand. job on the spot, but if you are, your imagination does! the same day you arrive in Florence cU, P.O.Box 1310, Auburn, Alabama. Outfielder Reggie Smith followedwith : .....•...... ••...... � ...... • a run-scoring triple, tying the game. • ••••••••••••••••••••••• And when shortstop Rico Petrocelli tol -God Helps Those lowed with a fly to short right field, Smith dashed tor home as if the world Who Help Themselves' Alabama Chri.tian Mo"emen' fo r Human Righ •• The weekly meeting w1l1 be at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 8, in the Mt.He bron Baptist Church, 503 Fifth St., Thomas, the Rev. T. L. Flsher, pas tor. The Rev. F. N. Nixon will be the speaker. 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