THE VOL. III, NO. 22 WEEKE ND E DITION: MAY 27-28, 1967 TEN CE~TS • Bloody Week for People Ill Ala., Miss.: Funeral in Jackson and Two New Deaths Man Found In Wilcox BY BETH WILCOX PINE HILL--The body of Rodell Williamson, age 31, was found in a·fishing net over a creek here last Monday. The next day, WU11amson•s cousin, Fred D. Campbell, identltled the body at the Brownlee Funeral Home. "It was hard to tell who he was," Campbell sald later, "but I went back tour or five times to make sure." The victim's mother, Mrs. WUlle McCaskey ot Lower Peachtree, said she told Campbell "to look at his (Williamson's) heels--they're rough, you can tell by that." Then, she said, Campbell "came "COLORED ENTRANCE" out and said, 'Yes, that's him.'" BENJAMIN BROWN'S FUNERAL IN JACKSON B'ham Victim Fled Through Here RODELL WILLIAMSON'S MOTHER Mrs. McCaskey said Charles Brown lee, owner of the fUneral home, told her not to look at the body. But Campbell said he saw signs ot violence, 'We Can't Leave Another B'ham Killing "It really seemed to be that his neck was natural-born broken, and his head BY ROBIN REISIG scheduled to start a new Job. He had bery or burglary. "Pollee don't shoot all covered up, smashed,'' aatd the cousin. "I asked Mr. Brownlee to pull BffiMINGHAM -- "Aren't the pollee been laid oft work for a month, and" got except at a fieelng felon," said Birm back the rar over the head, but he And Do Nothing' trained to shoot down, not up? Why up 6 a.m. every morning to look tor a ingham Chief Jamie Moore, "and it wouldn't do it." couldn't they shoot him in the leg?" Job, but he never did have any luck," doesn't make much difference where "He (W111iamson) sure looked to me asked the young widow of Bobby Thom said his widow, Mrs. Ruby Dean Tbom- they aim." BY MERTIS RUBIN was slaln in 1963, like something was done to him," as. Campbell said. "There was a gash JACKSON, M1ss,--11We can•t afford "Haven't a single white man served Thomas, a 20-year-old father ot two, On Tuesday, said Mrs. Thomas, a po around the back of the neck, and bruises to leave here and do nothing about the one day," hesald. "We'vegottochange was shot and kllled by a Birmingham lice officer with a warrant searched her on his chest." murder of Ben Brown," said Owen by uniting ourselves together." pollee officer last Monday. According house "for tools," but didn't find any. But Brownlee said, "I don't ttltnk it Brooks, acting director of the Delta Stokely Carmichael ofSNCC attended to pollee reports, he had broken into a "I told them I didn't see why they come was racial--you know what I mean." Ministry. the funeral, but made no comments. small restaurant when he was shot in searching," she said. "He's dead and paid tor his mistakes." And one of WUcox County Sherttt P. c. Brooks was one of the people who But Rap Brown, SNCC•s new chairman, the back by ottlcer Paul A. Price. {"Lummle") Jenkins' deputies said any spoke May 18 atthetuneralotBenjamin had a lot to say that night at a mass Thomas is the tourth Negro to be . Tuesday morning, tour members ot talk about foul play is a "damn ue... Brown, who was kllled in the May 12 meeting in Pratt Methodist Church, kUled this year by a law officer in the the Alabama Christian Movement- However, the FBI was called into the uprising at Jackson State College. Birmingham area. Ten weeks and one "Black people are as gullty as that George Walker, Tommy Wrenn, James case, to see 1t a fUll investigation is About 1 500 people packed into the Ma day ot marches protesting pastk1111ngs 1 racist cop whose bullet k1lled Ben Armstrong, and the Rev. L. J. Rogers necessary. And W1111amson•s fUneral, aOD!c Temple bere to pay their re- had ended less than two weeks before Brown, because we didn't do nothing --met with Chief Moore. scheduled tor last Wednesday, waa Thomas was shot. and tor 400 years we•ve been doing noth postponed until Saturday. "We wanted a statement ot the chief .. ing," Rap Brown sald. The victim was not armed. "I saw him last Friday for the last of pollee of his investigating of the "We k11led Ben Brown, too, but we Price refused to comment on the kUl Ume, when he caught the school bus to homicide case involving Bobby Thomas, can•t afford to let Ben Brown die. We ing. But a pollee official said Thomas go up and pick up his pay •" said Mrs. but he refused to do this," Wrenn said ~·~~· l let Medgar Evers die. We•ve been letting was one of three Negro men spotted by McCaskey. later. "He said his men are not trained black people die tor years. Ben Brown Price inside the W & W Beverage Store Campbell said, "David McCaskey (a 1 at about 2 a.m. to stop a suspect by shooting 1n the low is dead because he's black." relative) told me that about 11 or 11:30 er part ot the body--the legs--and that \ : . Price ordered the three men to stand Saturday night, Rodell came to his -Y\f· The SNCC chairman related Ben still, said to the ottlclal. When they his officers do not aim at the head with . · house. McCaskey did not open the door the intention of kUling," Brown's kUling to the war in VietNam: ran, Price nred into the store. J, c. or go out, because he was asleep. But "(President) Johnson has become a Barnes hit in the leg, according to was SCENE OF THOMAS' DEATH Wrenn said the chief referred to he knows it was him- -by his voice." two-gun cracker. He•s ktlllng you the official, but Henry S~ith and Thom as, a slender, pretty 20-year-old. Thomas• previous record--including a " Later," Campbell went on, " I heard B,BROWN C. EVERS over there in Viet Nam,andhe'sktlllng 11 as ran out the back door. 1 feel bad that hegotshotthatway- conviction tor grand larceny and burg that a doctor's nurse was going to see spects. you in Jackson • ••• Next to Viet Nam, Thomas's body was found several didn' t want him to die that way, any kind a patient, and she said sbe saw a man Mississippi and Alabama have the high lary. "Brown was a quiet person," Brooks hours later, a block and a hall away. ot way but that way," she said, talking between the sick lady's house and the said, "but he had a wUl- to-do. He did est casualty rate tor black people." Smith, after being released on bond, about how Thomas was shot in the "We may have to march with the road. He was beaten and oo his knees. more in 22 years than most people do The Rev. Allen Johnson of Jackson said he wasn't robbing the store. He back, caskets again to dramatize the Negro's He looked real bad. Butshedidn'tstop, sald the people should boycott all white in twice that time." (Brown worked as sald he heard the poUceman shout Under law, pollee can use whatever problem," said Wrenn. "I believe you because she was atraid." stores in the city, until their demands a group leader tor the Delta Ministry "something, but I don't know what." force is necessary to catch someone can apprehend a criminal, especially 1t "We asked the sheriff about it," said in 1965-66.) {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, Col,4) The morning he died, Thomas was who has committed a felony- -like rr;!J- he is unarmed, without k1111ng him." Campbell, "but hedidn'tsayanything." Brooks said Brown was "murdered, , a victim of racism," "So that Ben and all the other Ben Browns don't die for nothing, we•ve got to commitourselves to stand together," he said. Although the Rev, Kenneth Dean of Educators Plead for More Money the Mississippi Council on Human Re lations had asked city otticlals to attend BY MARY ELLEN GALE Tuskegee, he said, amended its said former Governor George c. Wal Ward Mllltary Academy in his home flocked to Montgomery last week to ask the fUneral, none of them came, But MONTGOMERY -- "The average charter in 1943 to allow tor expanded lace had promised ~m a few months county ot Tallapoosa. "All the private the Legislature tor more money. there were some white students from Tuskegee student's tamlly is at the pov state aid: "U this hadn't passed, there's ago that Tuskegee•.s funds would be con schools are doing an excellent Job," Mlllsaps College in Jackson. .,I belleve the people ot this state- erty level or below," said Tuskegee In no telling how many nigger students tinued--and probably increased. said Radney. it they understand the competition we "I've been told by some ofthewhites would be at the University Alabama stitute President Luther H. Foster. "U ot "I asked him about it yesterday," Lyman Ward, Marlon Institute, and tace and the potential of education- here that they care," Dean said at the Tuskegee's appropriation is reduced or and Auburn--they would have swamped Pinson continued, "and George say, 'I Walker Junior College are the only fUneraL "But when people care, good wm be w1111ng to pay for tt," said Au ellmlnated, many of these students •em." forgot it.•" three private schools besides Tuskegee things happen." burn University President Harry M. would have to transfer or--traglcally- To cut ott Tuskegee's money now, State Senator Tom Radney, who now which have regularly received state Before the funeral, the Committee to PhUpott. rtve up their education." " without any warning, is not right mor represents Macon County, reminded the tunds. All their students are white- Protest the Murder of Ben Brown had "We•re right at the bottom of the 50 Without state money, Foster ex ally or legally," said the elderly former legislators ot Tuskegee Institute's and all three were lett in the governor's put out a Ust c1 demands to be made on states in terms ofper-studentexpendl-· plained, tuition rates in nve graduate senator. "grand and glorious history in our na education budget. tures," sald University of Alabama the city, county, and state governments. and professional programs would have Pinson, a Tuskegee Institute trustee tion." But the over-all budget was cut by Tbese included: President Frank A. Rose. "There just to be doubled--pricing a Tuskegee ed under the arranrement with the state, Then he put in agoodwordtor Lyman 3.6%. And so the state's educators isn't enough money being appropriated 1. The governor must "suspend the ucation out of reach tor many Alabama suspected kUlers," and open an imme for higher education." tamWes. But there were signs that the lerts diate investigation into Brown's death. And the loss, he said, mlrht damage 2. "All lawmen accused ot kUling c1- lature was not wUltng to give all the "the total program ••• so that Tuskegee schools allthe money they wanted. "It's vU1ans (must) be suspended immediate wm be less attractive to Alabama stu ly." quite evident here we•re $250,000,000 dents ••• this wlll undoubtedly encour short," said Etowah County Senator 01- 3. " 'Big Red' (Nerro pollceman El &&e students to transfer to other insti Uson We~thersby) should be ftred 1m Ue w. Nabors. "I don't see any poesi tutions I offerinr strong programs." ble way tor the Legt.slature to get this mediately." Although Alabama's annual grant to kind of money out of the people ot Ala 4. "The governor, sheriff, and may Tuskegee is only of the $13,000,000 5% bama." or of Jackson (must) integrate every budget, Foster said it is "the vital fac Some educators said loss c1 state level of the pollee force, down to the last tor enabling Tuskegee to secure grants mooey mlrht mean loss of accreditation paddy waroo and squad car• " from other sources, prlmartly founda 5. Jackson must immediately hire at tor their schools. Several speakers tions and the federal government." least 20 Nerro pollcemen. predicted that unless Alabama raises 6. Lynch St., where the kllllng oc Foster spoke to the Alabama Legis teachers• salaries, it wtllloee teachers curred, must be blocked ott near the lature May 18, just two weeks after by the hundreds to neigbborlng states- Jackson State campus, or a 15 m.p.h. Governor Lurleen B. Wallace recom such as Georgia--which have just speed limit should be enforced. mended cutting Tuskegee's appropri boosted their educatloo bucteets. fn addition, the committee demanded ation out ot the state's education budget. And some schools said they needed low-cost .publlc houatng, 350 new Jobs Two other men joined him in asktnr the money they had uted for just to tor Necroes, tree food st:amps and the lertl!lators to restore Tuskegee's stay in business. E. B. Holloway, su school lunches, job-trainlng programs, fUnds to last year's level ot$670,000- perintendent ol the Alabama IDduatrltl and re-opening of the Jackson swim or raise them to the $1,067,000 the In School tor NerroChildrenatMt.Metp, ming pools. stitute requested this year. described badly-needed repairs. At the fUneral and in meetings "Let me tell you this, and ret it "Raw sew&&e is flot.tlnr on tbe throughout the week, people talked about straight," said former State Senator rrounds," and the school wu without how to achieve their pis. John H, Pinson, who helped arrange a running water for severt.l weeks lut Charles Evers, NAACP state fteld substantial increase in the rrant to Tus year, be said. director, told the mourners that kegee 24 years ago. "This was not thelr "Tbe d1n1nr room ts •1Dklnr 1n tbe Brown's death was the 45th racial k111- request to us. It was our request to middle. It we have a ra!Dy HUoo, tbe inr in Mississippi s ince Medgar Evers them." LEGISLATURE HEARS UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESIDENT FRANK A. ROOE (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, Col. 3) PAGE TWO THE SOUTHERN COURIER MAY 27-28, 1967 THE SOUTHERN COURIER In Abbev ille ROOM 1012, FRANK LEU BUILDING MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA 36104 Peace Comes 2 Arrests, 1 Beating In PHONE: (205) 262-3572 THE SOUTHERN COURIER is publlshed weekly by a non-profit, non-share edu cation corporation, tor the study and dissemination ot accurate 1ntormation about To an End events and affairs in the field of human relations. BY MARY ELLEN GALE Price: 109 per copy, $3.!50 per year in the South, $10 per year elsewhere in the Mobile-Area Restaurants ABBEVILLE --"We had three such patron subscrlpttoo $25 per used to defray the costs printing and BY ROGER RAPOPORT u.s., year ot peacefUl meetings," said Charles L. Moffett, his. 24-year-old sister; Claude publlcation. Secood-clus P
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BY GAIL FALIC Jesse Morris had the Idea two years ago when he was a SNCC worker. Since povert} was the mostserloos problem JACKSON, M iss.--Every other Tues faced by black people 1n Mlss1sstpp1, he reasoned, employ day morning Doug Jenkins leaves Jackson ment was what they needed most. And he believed that the with ten or 12 big burlap sack.s full of cot only jobs M1ss1ss1pp1 poor people would be able to depend ton, hundreds of yards of cloth, several on were ones they created by and for themselves. His answer was to start the Poor Peoples Corporation, big cakes of clear wax, and supplies of a group of cooperatives owned and run by Mississippi poor felt, suede, glue, thread, and yarn. people. The PPC co-ops are croups of six to 20 people that When he returns, late at night, all these manufacture cratt Hems--the products JenkJDB picks up. lb the co-ops, each worker doesanequalshareof the labor and things are gone. In their place, he has rets an equal share of the pay. Each member has one vote. hundreds of stuffed dolls and as many s~ts Early In 1965, Morris pthered a staff and raised a few of doll clothes, about 400 brightly-col thousand dollars 1n loans and donations from sympathetic ored candles, shoe boxes full of wooden Northerners. This mooey was d1vlded1Dtoloansto help new and suede jewelry, and a menagerie of co-ops get on their feet. The loans were small--just enough stuffed lions, owls, and rabbits. to buy one or two sewing machines, pay the ttrst month's rent, or purchase a month's supplies. Jenkins works tor the Poor Peoples Corporation (PPC). The most important things PPC could otter new groups Tuesday Is his day to dellver supplles to the six PPC co-ops were advice, moral support, and the chance to work very In Clay and Monroe counties, and to pick up the work they hard doing something for themselves. have produced during the past two weeks. Oo other days of For many people, that was enough. So far PPC has helped the week he visits the six other PPC cooperatives now OP start 17 co-ops all over Mississippi. The co-ops operating erating around Mississippi and brings back quilts; leather now are In Holmes, Pike, Clay, Bolivar, and Monroe counties. belts, hats, and handbags; cotton dresses, and handpuppets. Some of the people who joloed PPC had lost jobs because He delivers his loads to a big Jackson warehouse called of civil rights activity. John Brown, now president of the Liberty House, where they are checked for quality and malled West Point Woodworking Co-op, used to work ata stockyard. to fill orders from all over the country. On an average week, But he quit his Job after Negroes who tried to integrate a cafe Jenkins picks up and dellvers $4,000 to $5,000 worth of goods. at the stoc.kyard were met with cattle prods. Brown, who had Jenldns' truck Is the practical ll.nk that joins all the parts worked with the M1sslss1pp1 Freedom Democratic Party for of PPC. But what really holds them together 1s an Idea three years, couldn't get another job because "they (white shared by PPC's 125 workers. people) considered me as a civil rights worker. They PPC staff member Wlllle Blue put It this way: "There wouldn't hire me for nothinJ." are thousands of black people all over Mississippi who can't Many others who now work with PPC never had jobs be get jobs, and who don' t llke being on welfare. The Idea be tore. Mrs. Mary Chandler and several other friends in Mt. hind PPC Is to have them earn their dally bread with their Nebo community near Prairie had been trying to ttnd work MELTING WAX AT THE WHITE STATION CANDLE CO-OP own ingenuity." at the factories 1n the area before they got together to start to earn$1.25 an hour, butfew co-ops are by holding socials, selling plates, and In Jackson. "We•re trying to be a bust Jenkins bad a simpler expl&Dation: "PPC Is black power- the Mt. Nebo Sewtnc Co-op. The factories "told us they able to reach this level. getting local people to contribute the ness that Is a business,sot.hatttpeople It's sbow1Dc people bow to do aomethiDc for themselves." weren't hlrtnc anyone over 50, and many others under 50 Some of the co-ops say they could cost of one cinder block. Now the co- ret tired of civil rights--which they are weren't getting jobs either," Mrs. earn $1.25 an hour per worker 1f they op members have room to spread out --this thing can still go on.'' Chandler said. could buy more sewing machines or had and light to see by--and their wages To show what he meant, Morris told And some people quit their old jobs better UghUng. At the Shelby co-op have gone up. At the Una co-op, mem- about a white-owned store in Florida. when they heard about PPC, Mrs, Mary some of the workers sew s lowly because bers take turns checking the finished " The owner tells us to send the stutt Diggs, now secretary of the Athens they need eyeglasses, but don't have products. Mrs. Eula Wllllams works down Without the labels. They're just Community Co-op, used to work in a enough money to buy them. full-time at Liberty House in Jackson, Interested in the quality." white lady's house. ''Well, you gets Members of the White Statton candle checking the stitching and the neatness This determination to be independent tired of going out there working In co-op, near West Point, said their of each Item that comes ln. Occasional- has made PPC different from similar another person's home," she said. "We weekly pay this winter was sometimes ly she sends back a stuffed owl without co-operative efforts around the South. heard about this and we discussed how as low as $8 and seldom morethan$15, a nose or a p1llow that Isn't plump From the start, Its members reallzed we could start something r:i our own so They work in a dark, crowded building enough. there was morP to becoming a success we wouldn't have to go outandbemalds where it's hard to produce candles etfl- Why Is there such an emphasis on ful business than producing a good pro all the Ume. clently. In the winter 1t often was so quality? "We don't want people to buy duct. They set up Liberty House in "We Negroes never had the opportu cold that the wax got stiff and many our work just because they dig buying Jackson to take charge of buying the nity to do som ethtng like this on our own. candles had to be made over. black. We want them to buy It because supplies and selling the flnlshed goods. Now we're coming out trom under the But at least one co-op has solved this it's good," satd WUUe Blue. Over the last year, the Liberty House white people." kind of problem. The Prairie Sewing And PPC wants to make Itself an In- stalf has tried to make PPC a large The co-ops are all dlfterent because Co-op oear Una was originally housed dependent business. "We don't want to scale operation that does not depend on 1t is up to the members of each group to 1n a slmllar shack, but the members depend on a sympathy market," satd one person or one group, set their own rules and manage their raised enough money for anewbulldlur Jesse Morris at a recent PPC meeting Now Uberty House has a big man- own attatrs. . . . ., order department that sends out 10,000 At Mt. Nebo, for example, the mem> brochures every month. PPC puts ads bers decided they would work better 1f in newspapers around the country and they set strict hours for themselves. has contracts with several anti- poverty groups, They work an eight-hour day 11 five days a week. Anyone who 1s teo minutes late PPC goods are sold across the nation rets a half-hour's pay deducted from his in 70 stores with names like Xanadu, check. The Moppet Shop, and ToastandStraw berrles. Recently, Liberty House But at Athens Mrs. Cordelia McFar opened three outlet stores of Its own In land said she liked the co-op because Yellow Springs, OhJo; Detroit, ~flchl "we work out here long we can as as gan; and New York City. want and stop when we get ready. If we work for somebody else, we work under But PPC still needs money. The cor them and they be telltnc us when to start porallon has uot received any large - and when to stop.'' foundation grants, and none of its appli · The workers at West Point also come cations for federal aid have been ap aDd go as they please. ''ldon' tpush no proved. The staff esumates that It time clock for nobody," explained John would take $95,000 to expand PPC and Brawn, 11and I don't want to make any make It really competitive. The money body else do that. As long as everybody would be used to build up stock, buy sup does their share of the work, ltdoesn•t plies in ~antlty, and do mO£e sales pro matter what time they do lt... motion. Tbe pay checks Jenldns delivers to Whether or not PPC Is able to grow the co-ops are dlfterent sizes. Some larger, 1t has built Itself a solid founda co-ops are paid on a piece rate--which tion. The ldea--atflrst called an 1deal- means, a PPC worker said, "If you don't 1st1c dream by many civil rlght.s groups make u, you doo't ret lt." 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' BY GAIL FA LK for tbe Aueustprlmaryelect1ona, In his Many one man, one vote sulta have e BAY ST, LOUIS, Mlss.--"One man, oplnloo, Judp Cox said he beUeved the claimed that unequal dlstrlcta were These Girls Play Rough one vote" ts for counties as well as U, S, Supreme Court would extend the used to keep Nerroes from holttlng of states, one man, one vote rule w local,overn- flee, But GJaas said race was not a- That was the oplnton of federal Judges ments, factor ln the Hancock suit. BY MICHAEL S, LOTTMAN Claude Clayton, J, P, Coleman, and Last Monday, however, the SUpreme What dlt:ference wtll new dlstrtcta MONTGOMERY--You may not be Harold Cox, who ruled last Friday that Court refUsed to apply the rule to anum- make? "This wtll affect the problem or Utve lllis, but the Macntttcent Nine ~ every supervisor's beat In Hancock ber of local governing bodles--tnclud- where you spend the money ln the coon North Mootcomery outlasted the Max County must have about the same num- lng the Houston County (Ala.) board of ty ," predicted Glass, who 1s editor ot well Air Force Bue Ladybirds, 11 w ber of people, supervisors. the Sea Coast Echo 1n Bay St. Louts. 8, lut Friday in a rtrls' softball game. Unttl now, 68% ot the people ln the n wu the sixth win apinst no losses county Uved tn one dis trict. These peo Female Help Wanted for the all-Nerro outttt from North ple paid 73% ot the taxes, but had just Montcomery. The Ladybirds were play lDC their season opener on their home one of the ttve supervisors, satd Han Maids to $55--Cook.s w $65 cock County newspaper edlror Powell Housekeepers $75 weekly c:U.amood. w (Ages 18 60) The girls kept the fans awake with 11 Glass Jr. w Glass--who brought the suit asking errors, 12 bases on balls, 11 sroleo $ FREE ROOM & MEALS IN N.Y. & BOOTON $ bases, ooe hit b&tswoman, four wUd tor equal dlstrtcta--said that under the new plan, the Gulf Coast county will have AU expenses advanced--Tickets sent pitches, and four pused balls, Write or call collect: The fans also rot a lauch out of the no beat wtth more than 3,600 people or umpire who yelled, "He•s outl" u the less than 3,000. The case was decided last week so ABC Maids letd-off batter, Miss LorratneJacksoo 934 w. College Street, F\llrence, Ala. or North Montcomery, wu thrown out at that new dlstrtcts can be set up tn time first...... 766-6493 After two 1nn1ngs of play, the Magni : FOR A BETTER ficent Nine hadn't manapd whit the ball ! out of the 1nt1tld--but they st1U had : TOMORROW • three runs. The Ladybirds, hitting the • In Alabama all our yesterdays•• loor ball, led at this point, 4 w s, • are marred by bate, dlscrlmlnatton,e• Wben the visitors rallied for three :Injustice, and violence. Among the: runs 1n the top of the third, the LadY • or~ntzaUons working for a bettere birds rallied right back for three of :tomorrow on the principle ot human: their own, maldng 1t 7 to 6,otnr into the :brotherhood ts the Alabama' Councu: fourth. • on Human Relations, MembershiP• But the hand-writing already on was :In the Council Is open to all whCI: tbe wall for the Ladybirds. They were MISS CHERYL ARMISTEAD PITCHES TO MISS CISSIE COOPER • wtsh to work tor a better tomorrow• hitting some tremendous clouts the w very healthy. Miss Combs hlt a hot smash toward • on this principle. For turther tn-• outtteld, but moat ot the balls were be 1 1 With Miss Nancy Kramer on tlrst, the pitcher's mound. But Miss Dorothy : formation, wrtte the Alabama: lni hauled In by Miss Arwllda Grtna the batter--Miss Carolyn Barnes--hit Tellts, on the mound tor the MagnUtcent • Councu, P.o. Box 1310, Aurburn,e and Miss Beatrice Turner , lett-fielder a shot out over second base. But Mrs. Nine, made a fantastic stop, and threw • Alabama • and center-fielder for North Montgom Mattte Powell, the North Montgomery w tlrst for the t1na1 out. ery, second basewoman, fiung herself ························= Tbe Ladybird defense, on the other througb the air, caugbt the ball, and 1_,.. IMPOitnD HUMAN HAll band, disintegrated completely In the threw w first tor a double play. fourth 1nn1nc. The Macntttcent Nine scored four runs oo just ooe real hit. In the seventh and last lnnlng, there Time The vtstrors got their 11th run In the was another tense moment. With two • t1tth lnDtnc, when Mrs. Barbara Moses out, the Ladybirds loaded the bases , WIGS stole home while the Maxwell pitcher and Miss Helen Combs--who had two 'ready-to-wear' tS wasn't looldng, RBI's alreadY--came to the plate. Tben the pme rot serious. Even in girls' softball, there are Urnes when a To become a member of the game suddenly becomes a test of nerve, The t1rst such time wu In the Max WORLD PRAYER Money well sixth. ~erunwasln,andthe Mac n1flcent Nine's 11-8 lead didn't look CONGRESS AVAILABLE COLORS Black Dark brown Write 1n your prayers. 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