MRS. SYLVESTER SMrrH. Where's Poverty Plan For Lee and Russell?

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1 THE SOUTHE VOL II, NO 50 WEEKE ND EDITION DECEMBER 10-11, 1966 TE N CE NTS W I S WitnesS;s iffer "s egres lmlng At F r mers Forced Off Plnttion, Negro Rights Worker? Sy Lndlord Kept ASCS Money OPE LIKA--The second shot--the shot the stte sid killed Smuel L Younge Jr-- w s imed to miss him, ccording to mn who sw the incident WB Powell, Greyhound bus driver, sid In court this week tht his Atlntbound bus pulled into Tuskegee shortly before midnight lst Jn 3 Just tter he climbed off the bus, Powell sld, "I herd shot I didn't see wht t Then, sld Powell, he went Into Ed Wilson's Stndrd u service sttion next door to the bus sttlon, nd "hd Coc-Col" As he ws coming out of the service sttlon, Powell sid, he ws directly behind Mrvin L Segrest, 67, the white ttendnt chrged with second-degree murder for shooting Younge, Negro clvll rights worker "I ws looking over his shoulder down the brrel (of 38 -cliber pistol In Segrest's hnd)," sid Powell, witness for the prosecution, s he ws cross-exmined by Segrest's twyer, Hrry D Rymn Rymon sked If Segrest imed the pistol t Younge "No sir," repued Powell "He (Segrest) wlted untll he (Younge) ws completely out of his line of fire" A few questions lter, Powell sid It looked s though Segrest ws lmlng t post The bus driver ws the second witness clled Wednesdy fternoon s Segrest's tril got under wy before Circuit Judge LJ Tyner nd jury of 12 white men In the Lee County courthouse Erlier Wednesdy, Segrest hd pleded not guilty by reson of "self-defense" nd "1nsnIty" The first witness ws Joseph Dvid Morris Jr, formerly Tuskegee institute student long with Younge HE' testlfled--in direct opposition to Powll--Uwt Se&Test held the gun "pointing even--where smmy ws" Morris sld he sw the shot fired s he ws sitting In cr prked cross Highwy 29 from the Stndrd u sttlon just est of downtown Tuskegee After the first shot, Morris sld, Younge ducked up nd down behind h1 own cr, dshed cross the street IDd spoke to MorriS, rn bck, nd tiled "just stepped on the bus bout second" "Then he rn round In front ct the bus towrd the other side of the cb stnd," Morris testified, "Thls ws when the lst shot ws fired" "Who fired It?" sked District Attorney Tom F Young, who prosecuted the cse for the stte "The defendnt," Morris repuect He sid he turned his hed nd sw Younge "when he ws flling He fell In the direction he ws rlullllg" Morris nd Powell lo differed bout rolf club which pouce ottl rs sjd they found under Younge's body Morris sld tht tter the gun ws pulled, YoUllge grbbed the club from rolf bg on the bus sttioll bech Powell sid tht u he drove tile b up to the stuon--before the first shot ws f1red--he sw Younge tidng the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, Col 4) 'Not Going To Mric' BY ROBIN REISIG TUSCALooSA--"Don't pln pro grm bsed on the collpse ofwhlte so Ciety," Whitney Young Jr told SUllmn College udience lst Fridy "Tht's not going to hppen It w1u chnge, nd ccommodte Itself to the pressures put on It" The director of the Ntionl Urbn Legue qffered lterntives to "blck power"--ilke the power of negotition nd "brln power" "Power is the green of the dollr blll," he sid "Power Is the mroon of the textbook Power Is the white of the bllot" Young sid underprivileged immigrnt groups "didn't go round hollering 'irish power, 'Jew power 'Itlin power,' They used brin power Insted of lung power," "We're not going bck to Afric," Young sid "Afric doesn't wnt our welfre lod ny more thn Chicgo" As he met fterwrds with smll group of students, they questioned him bout his trip lst summer to Viet Nm Young sid he found complete Inte gru,n In the Army mong enlisted men " They doll't tlk bout Delng ginst open occupncy In those foxholes," But on off-duty hours, he sld, Negroes segregted themselves by go Ing to seprte night clubs And while Negroes mke up 24% of the men In combt, he sid, only 2 1/2% of the Army officers nd one-fifth of 1% of the Mrine officers re Negro The "potentil for the crem of the crop" Is In Viet Nm, Young sld If they re met on their return by the sme rednecks nd trouble tht met them fter the Koren Wr nd World Wrn, he sid, "then wht we've seen In Wtts Is nothing These re green beret fellows, nd they cn relly mess up the country Why not mke them force for good?" But Where's Dr King Jr? Young sid the Urbn Legue Is work Ing to do just tht He sid 11 hs rrnged to get the nme nd Interests of Negroes three months before they leve the service, nd to hve jobs or schools witing for them when they get out King Fmily's In Town BY ARUM CARR JR MONTGOMERY--The Rev Mrtin Luther King Jr wsn't there, but the King fmily dominted the Montgomery Improvement Assocition's 11th nulversry celebrtion lst Sundy IDd Mondy The theme of the MIA protrm ws "Freedom Myth--A Must In 1967 Through Spiritul, EdUctionl, Eco nomicl, nd Politicl Emphsis," Dr KIng's wife, Mrs Corett Scott King, ws the guest speker t the wo men's progrm Sundy evening In the Hll St Bptist Church She told D udience c1 bout 300, "ThrOUgh your bus boycott, you showed other Amer Icn Negroes tht they hd somethlnr to stnd up for" (Tbe MIA ws formed In 1955, t the time c1 the historic MOIItgornery bus boycott) Mrs KIng sid treedom will come only through dediction nd scrlflc,," "LIfe for the Negro bsn't been crystl stir," she sld "We must strive hrder, so tht we cn sing new nthem--'we Hve OVercome' '' During Sundy's prorrm, there were cddle-upt services for the deceued women c1 the MIA Mrs King visited with old trlends t reception fter the progrm QI Mondy nlgbt, the luldul m_ttnr ws held In the Holt St Bptlst Churcb The first big mss meetlng ws held there 11 yers &ro, led by Dr Kln( MRS KING But due to n Importnt eccement, the SCLC president ws DOt ble to ttend lst Mondy His fther, the Rev Mrtin Luther KIng Sr, gve the ddress Insted "Pm tired," be told n ud1811ce of bout 600 people "But Pm not roldr to stop" As be wlked round ld the pulpit, he repetedly sjd, "1bere re fn things tht I m throulll with, nd OIIe c1 them l serreptlo I dod't even llten to IJIybody who tlk It" Klni drn lughter nd cheers throtjibout his forceful ddress BY VIOLA BRADFORD TYLER--The Minter plnttion hs been home for mny Negro frmers in th is re For some, like 57- yer-old Arthur Brown, it's the only plce they ever clled home Brown hs been llvlng on the lndfor 55 yers, nd now he nd his nine children will hve to move before the end of this yer Brown nd severl other frmers sld they received letter from plnttion owner JA Minter Jr, stting tht Minter will not lese them ny lnd for 196'7 Brown sid he doesn't know exctly why Minter Isn't lesing them the lnd, "I think It's becuse of the checks," he sld "Some of us didn't sign our ssignment over to him," The checks tht Brown referred to re ASCS (Agriculturl Stbiliztion nd Conservtion Service) pyments provided for lndowners, tennt frmers, nd shrecroppers under the federl Food nd Agriculture Act of 1965 According to federl suit flied ginst Minter lst week by Brown nd eight other frmers, these checks were supposed to be used to finnce plnting, cultivtion, nd the purchse of frm equipment They were lso supposed to be used to support tennt frmers nd their fmilies, the frmers sld But, sid one, "Minter wnts us to sign the checks over in't seen their checks" The suit, to him A lot of people ftled In Montgomery by Donld A Jelinek of the Lwyers Constitutionl Defense Committee, sks the court to order Minter to give the frme rs the ASCS subsidy pyments they re entitled to It lso sks tht MlDter be ordered to sign new leses with som of the frmers he Is evicting ARTHUR BROWN AND FAMILY MRS PEARL MOORER The frmers sld they wnted the ASCS money so they would not hve to MrS Sylvester Smith of Sehn ADC Rule 'Gives Me the Devil rly MICHAEL S LOTTMAN SELMA--Mrs Sylvester Smith, mother of four Children, works In Wlker's cfe six dys week, from 3 m to 1230 pm For this, she is pid $16 week She used to get welfre check every month, under the Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) progrm, but her checks were cut off two months go The reson ws Albm's "substltute fther" rule, which sys tht If mn Uves In or visits In womn's home, he Is considered to be the substitute fther of ll her children And If the children hve substltute fther, they no longer qulify for welfre pyments, In October, Mrs Smith ws told tht her children were no longer eugible for welfre, becuse Willie E Willims ws their substltute fther "Tht's some kind of mess," sld Mrs Smith this week s she worked In the cte "He's not no substitute fther He don't come In regulr 'Substitute fther'--it's like he ws living there or something," To chllenge the substitute fther DR KING SR He blsted out nswers to use "If the white foli sk you wht the Negro wnts" One ws, "Tell them we WDt freedom by 930 1D the morning And If they sk you pjn, tell them we wnt Jobs by 730" The Rev Jesse L Dougls, who recenuy resigned s MIA president, gve his frewell ddress Mondy night Dougls hs been clled to the Thurrood CME Church ld BIrminghm Mrs Johnnie R Crr, first vice-president, will serve In h1 plce utll the election of new offtcers MRS SYLVESTER SMrrH rule Mrs Smith Is suing Albm nd Dlls County welfre officils In federl court In her suit, flied In Montgomery lst week by the Lwyers Con I stltutlonl Defense Committee, she sks three-judge federl court to declre the rule illegl nd unconstitutionl She lso sks the court to restore her welfre pyments Besides supporting her four childrel'--lm- Eliubetb 14; Ernestine, 12; W1I11e LouIs, II; nd WHite Jmes, 9- Mrs Smith helps cre lor Id Ellzbeth's elght-month-old bby According to the suit she hs known Wllltms nerly ll her life In the lst five yers, the suit sys, "he hs vlslt ed her home with some frequency," but does not live there The suit chrges tht Mrs Smith's children lost their ADC pyments for "thoroughly rbitrry nd Irrtionl" (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE, Col 1) Where's Poverty Pln For Lee nd Russell? OPE LlKA--Nerly two yers go, Lee nd Russell county officils strted tlking bout combined nti-poverty progrm They're still tlklng--nd the poor people In both counties re sull wlt Ing "We're t stndstill," sid Negro leder from OpeUk "Somethlng needs to be done before this progrm ends nd we miss out on It,', But the Negro leder, who didn't wnt his nme used, dmitted tht he didn't mow wht to do "The white people know It's supposed to help poor Negroes," he sid, "so they don't wnt It They're not Interested In ny thing but preservtion of themselves And I don't see how we cn get 11 without them" But Jck Ttum, the chirmn of the Lee-Russell Community Action Committee, sld the Negro leder ws wrong Ttum ln$lsted tht the committee Is trying to get some nti-poverty money to set up community ction progrm "We turned our ppuction In to the stte office In Montgomery nd they ws supposed to put It In to Atlnt for us," Ttum sld "Tht ws round bout September We hope to hve some mooey round the first of the yer," But spokesmn for the Office 01 Economic Opportunity (OEO) In Atlnt, G, sid this week tht the office hd never berd from the Lee-Russell Community Action Committee Negro leders In Auburn sid they thoucht the committee hd decided not to send In Its nti-poverty proposl fter Nerro cmc group complined to OEO, Mrs Mry Brooks, publlclty chlrmd for the Auburn Voters Lerue,s1d the rroup wrote to Atlnt to object to the wy the community ction committee ws set up "The voters leque did not pprove of the people chosen," Mrs Brooks sld "There ws 3D-member bord for the two counties, but It didn't hve enough Negroes on It And the whlte people picked them ll "We told OEO we wnted representtion In proportion toour popultion We lso sld the Negro community should be llowed to choose Its own representtives I don't think tht ws sk- Ing too much" Negro leders In Opelik hd different complint bout the committee They sid it hd Ignored them ltogether "I don't know ny Negro who ws sked to serve," sid one of them "1 tried to get on It, but I couldn't" But Ttum sld his committee ws "modelled on OEO guidelines" He climed tht whl te nd Negro com mlttee members were working together "We hven't hd ny problem," he sid "No problem t ll" depend solely on Minter for lnd, food, nd frm mchinery "Whtever price he (Minter) wnted to give, we hd to tke, becuse we couldn't get nything from nywhere else," sld Brown OtIs Hle, school bus driver nd frmer, sid, "I didn't sign my cks over to him I wnted something for myself Those who Signed, he (Minter) let them work lnd And those who dldn't, he didn't give them lnd to worhor next yer" Hle Is lo pllnt11f In the federl suit, lolll with Brown, CImOll Brlow, S1nnJe Blocto, WfUle Glleret, EbJh Green, WllI Moorer, nd Will Wlllims Minter sld this week, "I know no thlng of suit" He refused to comment on his reson for not leslnr the lnd to the tennts for next yer Some tennts sld they didn't th1n1t the checks were the reson for Minter's ction Miss Lur L Perlclns Sld, "I will sy becuse we joined with the freedom (movement) Pm going to tell It exctly how It Is Becuse we registered to vote," Mrs Perl Moorer, whose children re the only Negro students In their Dlls County school, sld, "I've been working In the movemenuor four yers As soon s I went to Selm bout three yers stright to meetings, nd to Wshington to see bout some modey, he (Minter) strted turning the other wy" "They (the white people) wnt me to go," sld Mrs Moorer "I hd chnce to go to Kentucky, but Pd rther sty here nd worry these white folks" The problem tht conrroots the frmers Is ftndlng plce to live, plce tht cn be used for frming, before the yer Is out "1 hve plce picked out on the other sldec1selm," sid Brown "T here's white ldy who sid we could sty on her plce nd she'll tret us right, nd us being registered voters won't mke no difference" Other frmers my not be so lucky Miss Shirley Mesher, spokesmn for the Dlls County Frmers Aid Committee, sid, "We reppeungfor lnd tht could be used, or nything tht cn be of help" BEXIlNG CHARGED BY JOHN C DIAMANTE PRICHARD--"I never been kicked before by nyone," sid Mrs Helen Winston "It's very exspertln' to be kicked In my fce" Mrs Winston ws rrested Nov 26 by Prichrd poucemn T,R, Lee, t the home of her brother, Robert Mlone The rrest grew out of fight between Mrs Winston nd her brother "I told them they wsn't going to rrest me U they didn't rrest him," Mrs Winston sid this week Afler being "slugged" In the bck, she sid, she spit In Lee's fce "It ws the only defense I hd," she climed "He Sid, 'You blck son-pj--bltch, you're c s Ing rce riot nd then tried to close the cr door on my legs" Mrs Winston sld In Recorder's Court Nov 30 tht Lee slugpd her wh11e she ws hndcuffed t the police sttion "I spit on blm gin, nd be knocked me to the noor nd kicked me twice In the fce," she sid Lee denied the chrges In court Mrs Winston ws collvlcted ofdrunk Dd disorderly conduct, ssulting p0- licemn, resisting rrest, nd Vloltlog the Prichrd lm1fe ordinnce She sid she would ppel The NIll-Prtisn Voters Legue hs fued compllnt bout the cse with the Us Justice Deprtment MRS, WINSTON AFTER ARREST

2 PAGE TWO ROO M 1012, FRANK LEU BUILDING MONTGO MERY, ALABAMA PH ONE (205) Is publlshed weekly by noo-prollt, noll-shre educuoo corportloo, for tile study nd dissemintion ofccurte lnformuon bout events nd ffirs In tbe neld 01 humn reltions, Price l per COPY, $5 per yer In the South, $10 per yer elsewhere In the Us" ptroo subscrlpuoii $%5 per yer used to defry the costs of printing nd pubuc Uon Second-clss postge pid t Montgomery, Albm Editor Michel S Lottmn ExecuUve Editor Mry Ellen Gle BuslDess MnllVr Andrew CUrtis Photocrphy Editor Jmes H, Peppler Ly-out Editor Amy R, Peppler Rectonl Circultion Mgrs George Wlker Normn Wrren Vol n, No, 50 December 10-11, 1966 Editoril Opinion A Job JVell Done When n Albm Negro is injured or killed, you usully don't see much bout it in locl newsppers And the newsppers lmost never tke enough interest in the deth of Negro to demnd t1\t locl officils do something bout it The silence of the press is mjor reson for the continution of rcil violence in But when Jmes Erl Motley ws killed lst month Wetumpk, the Albm Journl decided not to remin silent "Montgomery's fternoon dily hs,jjlde crusde out of the Motley cse-- crusde tht should set" stndrd for other newsppers, in Albm nd elsewhere Journl reporters tried in vin to cover the Elmore County coroner's "preliminry investigtion" of Motley's deth The pper rn n editoril criticizing closed-door investigtions rid officil silence in cse of such importnce The Journl pressed county nd stte officils to mke their findings public And the pper ws the first to lern the contents of the stte toxicologist's report- which confirmed tht Motley died from mssive hed injuries Finlly, the Journl uncovered three white men who witnessed some or ll of the events leding to Motley's deth Most importntly, the Journl hs kept the Jmes Erl Motley cse before the public, dy fter dy The pper's refusl to let the trgedy be forgotten my yet men tht justice will be done The Albm Journl's crusde hs been in the gret trdition of public service through journlism 'For Colored Guests' Along Highwy 80 ner Selm, there re signs tht sy, "Torch Motel--For Colored Guests" You hrdly ever see "White Only" signs ny more To the Editor Some one cme to me nd told me this "I wnt you to know there Is job tor you with the poverty progrm, I know becuse you re one of the SHAPE representtlves, Your nme ws cll In the meeting, If you hd been there you would hve gotten one of them jobs mking $5000 week becuse this progrm ws gotten thrue SH APE, the ooe you work so hrd with In order for It to rech the poor," I thnk them; but, I begin to thinlc bout the thousnds of poverty stricken people living In the ghettoes here In Dlls County, How could I except the $50,00 week job In order for them to move on with their progrm, when Itls not reching the poor (Negroes nd white) wheres It will benefit ll people? How could I except the $5000 week when they re beutifying the down town city, cutung Uttle grss trom In front my door, little clening oft the bck yrds, sweeping leves, picking up blown down tree tops nd brnches, digging ditches, nd sy they re In trin Ing? We were brought up digging ditches, When It come pour down rin I cn swim from my bouse to ner t,he down town district, Wsh bord streets dirt streets, drk Negro communlty, light here 'nd there, slum res nd bd housing, How could I st t my Ible nd et llttle better--mbe stke--nd thousnd of my people, poor whites s well re stul eting the type of food Is not good for the body? For the lck of better jobs I m In poverty my self nd hrdly hve plce to sty nd Is working with poverty people nd knowing their condition Numbers of them will be put" ott the lnd nd ott Jobs, Mr, Shrlvers ob Mr, Shrlvers did you relly men for this progrm to rech the poor, or the mn tht Is lredy eting stkes? My plns Is to keep pressing for the thing tht Is right We shell overcome Mrs, Addle Lily Selm" To the Editor Mrs, LilUe WIDls is client nd n old friend of mine Her dughter, Jennie, is 13 yers old nd now hs only one eye I doubt It mny people herd bout wht hppened to them on Thnlcsgtvlng nlght--of ll nights I hd lunch with Mrs Wlllls nd Jennie tody, Jennie ws unble to cut her pork chop by herself--i guess her b lnce Is not quite right while she Is getting used to seeing from onjy her left eye She stut hs 17 shotgun pellets In her body; the 18th ws removed with her right eyei you cn only see the one In her forehed nd one on the bck of her hnd, No one knows s yet who shot Jennle--" no one of Mississippi officildom seems to much cre, They hve not sid nything The Sheriff did not come out to the Wlllls home to Investigte the shoot Ing "unttl three dys fter It hppened, Mrs, WUlls sked me tody whether there ws not something In the 1966 Civil Rights Bm tht covered cts of violence like this I told her there ws She lso sked If one of the resons the BUl ws not pssed ws becuse mny people up North thought things were ll better In the South--I told her tht I thought tht ws true too She sid tht she would like people to know bout JeMie so tht mybe It would not hppen to other children, I promised to tell everyone I knew Jennie Is just 11 ttle older thn my oldest dughter, Mrs Willis hs hd to borrow money from friends to py the hospitl buls, Her friends don't hve much money, She ws going to tke Jennie to the Wellre offlce to see bout fltung her with n rtlflcll right eye, Insted I hve rrnged for her to see specilist I told the doctor I would py for Jennie myself I would lso like to py for the future tretments tht Jennie wlll need, InCluding the removl 01 the other shotgun pellets I cn't quite fford their pyments, Whoever did this to Jennie ws member of our SOCiety, no mtter how unfortunte member You nd I belong to the sme society, nd I believe we should ssume some responslblllty for Jennie, Cn you help Jennie nd Mrs WUlls by sending check to my order "s ttorney for Jennle Willis"? WUl you lso tell your friends wht hppened to JeMie Willis on Thnksgiving? Alvin J Bronstein (603 N Frish St,) Jckson, Miss (COIltrlbutlons cn be sent to Mr, Bronstein t the bove ddress--the EDI TOR) To tbe Editor * We Are the Cltlzens of Albm, we py Tll OIl everything In Albm, nd when we get sick we cn not go to our Greenville Why DECEMBER 10-11, 1966 Sy In It's Stn vs Scripture Butler Co? BY HENRY CLAY MOORER GREENVILLE--Th"e other dy In public plce group 01 high school youths nd ooe elderly Negro mn were discussing the problems 01 Butler County "00 you ll's feel tht Butler County needs more men? " the mn sked, Someone replled, "Yes! But wht's the use--u ooe of us went off to Howrd UniverSity nd got degree In lw nd cme bck to Butler County nd rn for public offtce, I doubt It we'd get 25% of the Negroes' votes," But the elderly mn shouted, "You re the future businessmen, executl vest nd offlcls 01 Butler County, If you sty In school nd get It upstlrs--nd If you cn't get It up there then try nd flx your pocket-book," The mn sid Negro boys nd girls often go North fter finishing high school, Those who go to college, he sid, usully forget bout Butler County nd strt themselves off someplce else "They torget we s prents suffered mny dy s nd nights to get them through high school nd college, looking to one dy tht mybe they'll do their best towrd trying to Improve the living condi tions for the old nd wery, who once helped them," the mn sid In sd voice Over the fces of the Negro boys rn lines of gret thouthts towrd helping Butler County nd the veterns of the future, One boy told the,mn, "More of the older people like you, sir, should sit down nd explin your feeungs for us nd wht you teel our gretest respooslbll1tles of the future should be," JURY CASES MOBILE--There Is no question tht the jury commissions In Perry, Hle, nd Wilcox counties hve been discriminting ginst Negroes, FederlJudge DnJel H Thoms ruled lst week, "The existence of pttern nd prc Uce of exclusion of Negroes from Jury service is virtully uncontroverted," Thoms sid, The judge ordered the Jury commissioners to throw out their present jury llsts, nd to re-flll the jury boxes OIl non-discrimintory bsis within 30 dys, If the commissioners fll to obey his order, Judge Thoms sid, he will ppoint other men to re-tlll the boxes, The suits sldng for desegregtion of the jury Usts hd been flied by Albert Turner ol Perry County, Lewis Blck of Hle County, Jck McNeir of Wilcox County, nd other Negroes HosplUl to get ny service, We py for Hospltll service nd the workers there will Turnus down becuse we don't Crry Insurnces, We don't hve to Crry hospltll Insurnces, becuse they Just Rob the peoples In the hospltll when they found out you re Crrying insurnce, We hve py (or ever}tlllng, Whtever we ever got done, we py more becuse the Colored 01 our skln, White peoples Cn go there ny time nd never be turn down, but we Colored peoples be turn down on every things Birminghm Is Trickey Clty, This Is to ll the Good so-cll white peoples here, we wlll tke gret stnd on the hoslll tl Offices We got Boys fighting In the Arms ser Vices, nd their prents cn not get Doctor service If you wnt to py for tile Services, they will Turn you down t Unlversry HosplUl CUnic offices, We llve In sick City nd Town The hed is wrong nd ll Its Followers too Is Corupted In the hert bout Blck peoples Joe AWl Smith Birminghm To the Editor * * * Somewhere In Southest Asl, Viet Nm Is the spot Pm doomed to spend my time In lnd tht God hven't torgot A lnd of constnt summer where men re lwys blue It's In the middle do nowhere, long, long wys from home I swet, Itch, nd burn, It's more thn I cn stnd I'm not convict, but defender of the lnd I'm soldier In the rmy, erning my monthly py I thlnlc ot yers In service ll the things I hve missed I hope you don't get drfted for heven's ske don't enlist, When I get to heven sint Peter will surely yell Lord, this mn's fromvlet Nm, he hs spent time In hell I keep remembering my country so we ll I must do wht I must do This my sound lllce joke, whue lughing remember tbls 18 true This story begn with honor nd ended with ter Pfc Johnny 1, Foster 196th Ligh t Infntry Brigde Somewhere In Viet Nm In Hle County Election BY ROBIN REISIG GREENSBORO -- Stn nd the Scriptures joined combt in Hle County this week The Scriptures won, 1,803 to 1,383 At lest tht's the wy locl mlnlsters sw lst Tuesdy's vote on whether to llow the sle of liquor In the county, The results ment the county would remin "dry," The politicl bttle (Jf the seson ws led (rom the pulpit, s the "wet forces" nd the "dry forces" Joined In spirited combt, While some folks were close-mouthed bout their sentiments on spirits, others expressed their rge t White Llghtnlng In undlluted terms "Nturlly I'm, mlnjster, Nturlly tht mens I'd hve to vote dry Nturlly ministers couldn't vote for sin," sid the Rev ER, SmPles, pstor of St Mtthews AME Church In Greensboro Nturlly Smples ws crrying the Lord's bnner Into the Uquor tlght, becuse "tbe world Is Inflted to lrge percent nd It's becuse of the lrge number of lcohoucs Reding the Scriptures you cn see every drunlcrd kjlls mn" Preching 00 "the long bloody tril of drunlcemess" three weeks go, he cited the Scriptures s sying liquor "bltest s serpent nd stlngest s n dder," "It mens poisoning," he sid, "Tht's dngerous" In the seculr world, Hle County Circuit Court Judge LS, Moore sw slmllr--but dl!ferent--dnger In some lcohol Bootleggers often mke llquor so bdly, he sid, tht "they're not selling whiskey, They're selling polson," More thn dozen bootleggers--ll 01 them Negro--were brought before the judge In the court's November session, Expulsions Not Lewis Blck, director 01 the Rurl Advncement Project of the Albm, For CR Work, Schools Sy BY GAIL FALK PH IL ADE LPHIA, Mlss--Bennle Ry Btts, Miss AM ColUer, nd Ronld Brown hve been expelled from schools In N eshob County this fll, All of their fmules hve been prom 1- nent In clvll rights ctivity But school ottlc ils sy this hd nothing to do with the expulsions, The most recently expelled ws Btts, senjor t George Wshington Crver High School His mother, Mrs Mry Btts, rn s n Independent cndidte for the school bord lst month, His fther, McElroy Btts, county school bus driver for six yers, lost his job In September fter he nd his wife took prt In cml rights demonstrtions this summer Miss Collier Is the dughter of the Rev Clinton COllier, MFDP cked cndidte for US, Congress In lst June's DemocrUc primry, nd Brown's testlmony Is prt of federl suit ginst Neshob County officils, students who re expelled cn not go bck to school nywhere in their school district, Schools In other districts re under no obllguon to dmit them, Btts ws expelled lst week, long with Wlllle Jmes Yrborough, becuse ot n incident t Crver Nov, 23 Acco rding to Neshob County Schools superintendent Prentice Copelnd, Btts hd been "plying hookey (rom two cls ses," nd "jumped on techer" when the techer ordered him bck to clss, Crver's discipline committee (composed of techers) ccused Btts of "cutting clss use of profne lnguge dlsrespect tor uthority, liqu or on cmpus, tight techer," IntOxicting nd ttemptlng to But Mrs Btts sid the techer hit her son with "gin belt or some kind of bello" Atter tht, she sid, the boy "went ll to pieces He's nervous type, high-strung boy, nd If you mess with hi m, It just gets ll over him" She sld she ws sure the school officils hd mistken his nervousness tor drunkenness, Anywy, sid Mrs, Btts, "If he got It Olquor), he hd to get It down t the school, or either on the bus, becuse he didn't hve ny when he left home In the morning" Crver principl Robert F, Hthorn sid he hdn't smelled ny liquor when he spoke with Btts bout hlf hour before the InCident, but "fter the scuftle you could smell drlnlc ll over," Mrs Btts didn't deny tht her son hit the techer, but sid she thought the boy hd been punished unusully severely becuse of the fmily's civil rights connections A former Crver techer recued tht boy who ttcked nd injured techer there ws OOly "suspended for couple of weeks" But Copelnd sidthe punlshmenthd "noth1nc to do with his (Btts') ou tslde Ufe," Dd Hthorn sid Btts hd recelved dlsclpunry wrning fter "mlsdemenor" lst September, Miss Collier ws expelled from pre viously ll-white Neshob Centrl lugb School In September for hving knlte In her purse The ttorney for the Neshob County schools Lurel G Weir, sid Miss ColUer received no wrnlng or second chnce, becuse the Negro prents hd been told there would be "drstic"ctloo ginst nyone who crried knife In school, He sid tht ws "the sme thing s hving second chnce" Shortly fter Miss ColUer ws expelled, prents of ot her Negro studedts SEGREST TRIA L (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE),0U club out 01 Volkswgen (Younge's cr), Mcon County Sheriff Hrvey sdler lso clled s stte wllness, testified on cross-exmlnuon tht Segrest's "generi reputtion Is good,,he's lwys been quiet" t the high school stopped sending their children to school becuse of hrssment nd ttcks by white students, Brown, senior t previously llwhite PhIldelptJ High School, ws expelled In September fter flghung with white student nd refusing to sy "Yes, sir," to city Schools SUperintendent J,C Hurdle Albny, C SC LC stff worker Alfonso Hrris ws kjlled In n utomobile ccident In his home town of Albny, G, lst Fridy, Hrris ws member of the SC LC Freedom Singers nd project director In Grend, Miss, during the violence lst summer A lrge mnwlth powerful voice, Hrris led mny of Grend's mrches nd mss meetlngs, It ws his ide to begin ech njghtly m ss meeting with pryer service Hrris hd worked with SCLC In mny towns, but he sid before leving Grend, "I've never seen town llke Grend" Greenvillp A new telephone system went Into opertlon here lst SUndy The system DOD (Direct Distnce Diling), will llow Greenvllllns nd people In surrounding res to cll long distnce directly, without using the opertor Lst Fridy, representtive from the telephone compny cme to n ssembly t Southside High School nd expllned the system to the students He sid, "By telling you, we hope you'll educte your prents to this system," (From Henry Cly Moorer) Mobile Moblle detectives this week were serching for the driver responsible for the hit-nd-run kuling of two Prichrd teen-gers lst Fridy Albert Blck Jr" 17, nd Hrold York, 16, were riding motorcycle home from their jobs t the Mobile Country Club, when 1958 Chevrolet mowed them down on the BettUne Highwy service rod Chicgo, Ill Hose WllIlms, SCLCSouthern project director, Is coming North tc hed n intensive voter-registrtion ndpo lluti-eduction cmpign In Chlceo, HOSEA WILLIAMS Council 00 Humn Reltlons, pointed out tht wet county--where liquor sles re legl--mlgbt put these bootleggers out of business He sid mny white people were for dry county becuse "they wnt to keep the Negroes from buying whiskey leglly" By flnlng the bootleggers white officils cn "operte the county out of the Negroes' pockets," Blck sid, Blck sid most Negroes wnt wet county "Those who don't wnt It-wet re those who pretend to be reugious," he sid in the white communjty the ReV, A,G Higdon ws toung teetotling gospel In his Nov 27 church bulletin he quoted the Scriptures "Better Is lit tle with righteousness thn gret rev_ enues without right," Ronld Clements, white Hle County resident, hd tken n d In the locl pper showtng tht the county would gin revenue by txing legl liquor -"To think of the broken homesl" excllmed Higdon's wife before the election "We hve so mny lcohol Ics We hve so mny morl problems In the world lredy And people wlll spend their money on liquor Insted of groceries" The "dry forces" met the bttle In the locl pper with fl\ll-pge d tht red, "Don't SUbject Your Children to Leglized Whiskey" A totl of 40 merchnts pid for vote-dry dvertising, the But one of the store owners who took vote, vote-dryd sid "I didn't even I doll't think you cn legislte morls, Besides, there re ten txi cbs running bck nd forth to Eutw, They bring liquor lickety-split, dy nd njght," ill, Tbe SO-dy drive In Ch1C310' Negro neighborhood will led up 10 \U" city elections, when officils with power over jobs, housing, schools, welfre, nd civil rights wlll be chosen, "We re confident tht Mr, Wllllms will hve gret Impct on Chicgo," sid the Rev, Mrtin Luther KIng Jr" hed of SCLC, Among those helping Willims re the Rev Smuel Wells of Albny, G; Leon Hll, Robert Sims, nd RIchrd Smith of Montgomery; BT Bonner of Austln, Tex,; Willie D Leon ot Prttville; nd Golden Frlnks of Edenton, NC, Under WOIfhington Georgi lw, lndlord cn evict tennt simply by flllng pper with Superior Court judge, The tennt cnnot fight the eviction unless he puts up substntil mount of money for the bond, As result, sys the NAACP Legl Defense Fund, less thn 1% of the 1400 eviction cses flied ech month In Atlnt re contested by the tennt, So the LDF hs sked the US, Supreme Court to strike down the lw requiring the tennt to post bond, The cse Is one of the first In the LOPs new progrm to protect nd estblish the rights (Jf poor people Mobile As the NAACP's plckeung of A&P grocery stores goes Into Its third week, one Negro cshier hs been hired t the A&P's Sprlnghlll brnch, All of the plcketers--thelr number hs Incresed from two to nerly dozen, In rottlon--re now concentrting on the MIchign Ave, brnch of the grocery chin, Meridin The Meridin First Union Bptist Church Federl Credit Union Is In the process of mking Christms lons to Us members, so they cn do their Christms shopping, Strting the first of Jnury, the credit union wlll hve Christms Svings Club for 1967, The credit union wlll offer smll mount of Interest 00 Christms svings ccounts, wheres bnlcs do not, (From Ptrlcl Jmes) Mobile one of tle new lntergency Bords of U,S CMI Service Exminers opened federl Job ottlce here t 167 st Louis St, The office wlll be consolidted employment center for 11 federl Instlltions In South Albm nd Northwest Florld--Inc!udlng Brookley, TIndll, nd Eglin Air Force bles tbe Tuskegee nd Montgomery veterns' hospltls,end Fort Rueter, ExecuUve Officer Robert Reeves pointed out tht the government needs people to pply for jobs, "We'D be dvising these encles to tke In people who re unklled, nd we'll encourge 011- the-job trlnlng," he sid,

3 DECEMBER 10-11, 1966 PAGE THREE Mobile vs Montgomery l for THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME STORY ON PAGE SIX Photogrphs by Jim Peppler

4 PAGE FOUR DEC EMBER ON NOV 11 THE TYSONVILLE HEAD ST ART CHILDREN VISITED THE TUS KEGEE POLICE (LEFT) MET THE MA YOR (ABOVE), AND RANG THE BELL IN THE FIRE ENGINE (RIGHT) Controversy Over Tysonville Hed Strt SHORTER-- The sign bove the bul With sncks nd hot luncbes, they hve u gined trom two to tl ve pounds They bve bd bolldy prties nd tken trlps--to the South Albm Fir in Montgomery to downtown Tuskegee to meet the myor &lid visit the pouce nd tire deprtments letin bord sid "Plying is our busine ssu Beneth the sign 15 young children st in circle of chirs, singing song bout the letters of the lphkegee," Miss Frnk sid, "It wu the tirst time ny r1 "It ws the ttrst time mny of them bd even been to Tusbet tbem bd ridden on tire truck Prents, techers nd studenls trom Deborh Gnnoo In the sunny room next door nother Wolte Hlgb School In Sborter worked long bours to mke 15 children got redy for snck A flot tor the children to ride on in the Tuskegee Institute little boy helped the techer bring out bomecomlng prde Tbe flot woo tlrst Prize the crdbord crtons ot milk, Then the children st l'be TysonvllIe Hed strt progrm seems ljke sucb down t two long tbles nd bowed their beds while the techer sid grce WhIle the children were drlniddg their mwe, Miss good tb1dg tht nobody would wnt to rgue bout It But ever since It bern, the progrm bs been one of the most controversil prts of the nti-poverty progrm Httle Frnk, the techer-in-chrge, tlked bout the in Mcon County TysonVille Hed Strt progrm '! Hed Strt clsses begn In TysooVille, I1tue commun "You see tht Uttle girl?" she sked, The girl turned Ity just north of Shorter, over yer go But they didn't round nd smued "The first two weeks she ws here hve ny help from the federl government she cried every dy But now she loves It" Insted they rn on the energy of Mrs Consuello J Hrper, "Tht boy--he ws the menest child I ever did 5ee third-grde techer t tb(i Pririe Frms Elemen He pinched everybody Finlly we told the other children try School, nd the enthusism of locl prents to pinch him bck Now he's lerning tht It you Mrs Hrper begn trying to get Hed Strt clsses for wnt to get long with other people, you bve to be trlendly yourself" bout the progrm But when the first Mcon County Hed the children In her re prcticlly s soon s she berd "Tht girl didn't wnt to shre nothing She sw ll Strt proposl ws pproved In 1965, Tysonv1lle wsn't those toys nd wnted to ply with 'em ll t once Tht's one ot the most Importnt things we try to do--tech the chudren to shre" The children hve lso received medicl nd dentl cre Included, Most people would hve given UP But Mrs Hrper MOOT OF THE CHILDREN NEVER SAW A PUZZLE BEFORE LEARNING HOW TO TIE A SHOE got group of prents together bought 50 pounds of tlsh t cost nd sold them to rlse molley for Hed Strt project The sle brougbt only $18 but tlit ws enough to buy some equipment nd berln The progrm opened Oct 4, 1966, In New Hope Church NO 1 whue Mrs Hrper &lid her friends looked round tor better building Eventully Mrs Ros W Bnks lent the progrm house on her property The Mcoo County Bord of Eduction contributed desks, chirs, nd bulletin bords The prents 5crped together few dollrs for pper nd cryons They gve their time to fix up the bu1ldlng nd tech the clsses OVer the next severl months, some 80 pre-school-ge children trom the TysonvUle re ttended Hed Strt clsses t the Bnks center MenwhUe, Mrs Hrper drew up proposl for covernment-sponsored Hed Strt prorrm nd sent It to the regionl mce f1 Economic C»portunlty (OEO) In Atlnt, <l She got help from Mrs "Jennett S Brnche, director of the Hed Strt progrms operted by the county bord of eduction UDder the Mcon County CommWl11}' Action Progrm (CA P) John Gown then chlrmn ofthecounty's community ction committee, l- 80 gve her dvice nd support, THE TYSONVILLE FLOAT WON A FmST PRIZE IN THE HOMECOMING PARADE C Johnson, the pid CAP director Insted, Mrs Hrper sid Mrs Johnson objected to the project nd did her best to convince OEO oftlclls not to pprove It Mrs Johnson won't tlk bout the TysonvUle Hed Strt progrm "I won't discuss rumors nd untruths" she sid lst week But other employees In her office were willing to tlk bout It "We did tell them (the Tysonville prents) wht to do," Mrs Lottie Esu insisted, "But they still went bck nd did It wrong" But Mrs Hrper must bve done something right, becuse lst Jui} OEO pproved her pphctlon grnted the progrm $16,000, nd sent check to the CAP ottice In Tuskegee Wht hppened to tht check? Mrs Hrper nd the CAP office disgree According to Mrs Hrper the CAP oftlce simply held onto It, even though the locl poverty ottlclls knew It ws ment tor her But Mrs Esu sid tht wsn't true But Mrs Hrper sid, she never "It wsn't mrked" she sid, "We cot ny help t ll from Mrs_ _ didn't hve ny_ Ide whose It ws MILK WAS NEW TO SOME OF THE CHILDREN I took It down to the bord of eduction nd Mr WIlson (Schools Superintendent Joe C Wilson) sid It wsn't his "We didn't find out whose It ws until they strted tussln' U the Tysonvllle people hd told us wht they were doing, they would hve hd It much sooner" Mrs Hrper hd two nswers to tht "They're not tht dumb" she sld, "They knew It ws mine" She lso sid she didn't get the money untli Donld A JelInek, of the lwyers Constitutionl Defense Committee, wrote letter to the Community AcUon Committee to sy tht If she hd to tke legl ction to get the check, she would, "It ws September betore we could Issue our first pychecks" Mrs Hrper sid But she didn't wlt for the OEO money to get the progrm under wy In mid-july, Pece Corps trinees from Tuskegee Institute went out to the Pririe Frms School nd fixed up n unused bulidlng for the Hed Strt clsses On Aug 22, the first 14 children showed up to enroll The progrm's employees -- Mrs Hrper, the director; Miss Frnk nd Mrs Mttie HrriS, techers; Mrs Lorlne Jckson nd Mrs Ester B Wlllims techers' ides; Miss Betrice Crowell, secretry; nd the Rev Nimrod HrriS, jnltor--ll went to work without py And locl prents continued to support the progrm Some of them, luce Jmes Lumpkin, mde prctice ot stopping In to see wht they could do to help "We're so gld to hve Mr Lumpkin," Miss Frnk sld, "So mny of these children don't hve fthers It helps to hve mn tke n Interest In them" Menwhile, Mrs Hrper sld, Mrs JohnsOli wrote to the OEO office In Atlnt to complln tht the Tysonvllle Hed Strt center ws poorly equipped, "It's ridiculous" Mrs Hrper &ld pointing to plies f1 toys nd klnderprten techldg mteril "We've even cot phonogrph nd new tpe recorder tht someone lett 1D my cr couple of months go--i never did ftnd out who, but It ws someone who wnted to help II In tct, she sid, the locl prents hve dyed so much nd done so much tht the Tysonv1lle progrm will run tor more tmn four months on grnt expected to lst only three months Insted of ending In November the clsses wlll continue through the end of the yer And t the monthly meeting of the community ction committee on Nov 17, Mrs Brnche nnounced tht the 30 children In the Tysonv1lle progrm re being Included In the Mcon County Bord of Eduction's new Hed Strt proposl "OEO sid we could get only s mny s we hd betore--140 Children," Mrs Brnche sid "But I insisted tht they Include TysOllv1lle nd the demonstrtion progrm (for 15 children) t Tuskegee Institute" The school bord Is sking OEO for $179,528 to run Hed Strt clsses tor 185 children from Jn 2 to Aug 31, 1967 Mrs Brnche nd Chrles G Gomlll1on new chirmn of the community ction committee, sid tht lthough they pleded with OEO officils, they were told there ws no chnce for ny more But Mrs Hrper plns to keep try Ing_ "We hve mde just one tiny Indenttion In the Uves of these children," she sid, "The sd thing ts tht it's so few--nd so mny needs It" Lst week, Mrs Hrper sid, she tried to get Hed Strt ppliction forms from the CAP office But Mrs Esu told her there weren't ny She finlly got copies from Mrs Brnche Now, Mrs Hrper sid, some scbool officils hve hinted tht 5he won t hve job s techer next yer "I'm g0- Ing to pply for nother Hed Strt progrm," she sld In reply "If I lose this job I cn get nother I'd be bppy to be full-time Hed Strt supervisor-director" Mrs Hrper sid her experience In running the only loclly-strtedpov rty progrm In Mcon County hs proved to her tht poor people mke Just s good--or better--communlty leders s nyone else She chrged tht the CAP olt1ce bs kept too much nti-poverty money In downtown Tuskegee "It belongs out In the county," sid Mrs Hrper "Tht's where the poor people re "We don't need people to sit behind desk nd mke phone clls to Wsh Ington, We need dedicted rurl pe0- ple to brln the poverty procrm to their own commlldltles"

5 DECEMBER 10-11, 1966 THE SOUTHE RN COURIER PA GE FIVE Two Acts to Go In School Cse MONTGOMERY--There will be long, long intermission between the first nd second cts of the courtroom drm bout school desegregtion in Albm Four federl judges rng down the curtin on the first ct lst Fridy fter three dys ct testimooy The secood ct will tke plce Feb 3, 1967, when the four judges gther gln to her bttery of lwyerslrgue over wht the evidence proves Tbe third, nd finl, ct will come when the four judges--ctully twopnels of three judges ech--hnd down their rulings on four importnt questioos 1 Should the court order desegregtion of every school system In Albm? 2 Are the 1966 federl school-desegregtion guidelines unconsututionl? 3 Is Governor George C Wllce's nti-guidelines lw megl? 4 Cn Albm py tuition for students ttending privte schools? Ech pnel of three judges will rule on two of the questioos Circuit Judge Richrd T Rives nd DIstrict Judges Frnk M Johnson Jr nd HH Grooms w11l consider the stte-wide school desegregtion order nd the tult100 grnts Rives, Johnson, nd District Judge VirgU Pittmn Will cooslder the coosututionllty of the guidelines lid down by the US Deprtment 01 Helth, Eduction, nd Welfre (HEW), nd the legllty of the Albm lw ginst the guidelines In theory, thi! judges could decide ll four questioo? lhdependenuy But in prctice, becuse the cses re closely relted nd becuse Rives nd Johnson re mjority on both pnels, the decisions will probbly be linked together These re some of the things the judges could do They could find in fvor 01 the HEW guidelines nd ginst the nti-guidellnes lw This is wht the US Justice Deprtment lwyers, cting for HEW, hve sked them to do HEW sys such ruling would mke court order desegregting the schools unnecessry If the nti-guidelines lw 1s struck down, HEW sys, the US Office of Eduction cn enforce school desegregtion without court help "BIt- the judges could rule tht stte ottlcils hve interfered with HEW's school integrtion etlorts so much In, the pst tht stte-wide school desegregtion order Is necessry In 1964, the Rives-Johnson-Grooms pnel wrned Governor Wllce nd other stte ot1lc1s tht theywouldfce blnket desegregtion order unless they proceeded "wlthdeuberte speed" to Integrte the schools on their own On the other hnd, the judges could order stte-wide school desegregtion without upholding the 1966 HEW guidelines They could sy tht school integruoo is required under the US SUpreme Court's lndmrk school-desegregtion declsloo In 1954, nd under the 1964 ClvU Rights A t They could lso strike down Albm's nti-guidelines lw regrdless of whether they rule for or ginst the guidelines themselves The judges could decide tht the only proper wy tor the stte to ttck the guidelines Is through the court--not by legisltive ct But even If the judges do not Issue desegregtion order, they could find tht the tuition grnts to privte-school (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX, Col 5) MRS SMITH (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) reson--thelr mother's lleged reltion "with mn who Is not their fther who owes no duty of support, Is giving no support, who Is not mrried to the mother, nd who Is not living " with them" This, sys the suit, deprived the children of their legl rights Furthermore, the suit chrges, the substitute fther rule hs been used ginst Negroes, but not ginst whltes In Mrs Smith's cse, she sid, wht "got the whole thing -going" ws letter she wrote to President Johnsoo, compl1nlng bout Albm welfre po UCies She sid her id ws cut off few weeks fter she sent the letter "It gives me the devil" she sid, "trying to work, tke cre ofthe cblldren, py the rent, the gs b1ll, the Ught b111, the Insurnce b1ll It's hrd but Pm going to try to mke It" Mdm Choctw IN DIAN HEALER READER & ADVISOR Are you sick? 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Brlng your problems to MADAM CHOCTAW tody nd be rid of them tomorrow 4 MILES FR OM BOYLSTON ON LOWE R WE TUMPKA ROAD LOOK FOR INDIAN HEAD SIGN IN FRONT OF HER HOME JUDGE FRANK M JOHNSON JR Member t both federl pnels WJLD 1400 on Your Dil Sturdy Will Her Houston County Cse Court Sys Go " House Cn't Br Julin Bond WASHINGTON, D C--Julln Bood hs been elected to the Georgi House three times NOW, thnks to US SUpreme Court decision, bew1l1s00ntlte his set in the legislture for the first time Bond, former SNCC officil, ws first elected to the House In 1965 But lst Jnury, the House voted not to set him becuse t his criticism of the drft nd the wr In Viet Nm The 26-yer-old Negro then won specil election In his Atlnt district, but House committee dlsqulltled him ctn "Tbe dlsqullflctlon of Bond from membership In the Georgi House becuse of his sttements violted Bond's right of free expression under the First Amendment," the Supreme Court ruled lst Mondy In unnimous decision So Bond--who ws elected gin lst month--will t1nl1y get to tke his plce in the House next Jnury Mondy through Fridy BIG D WAKE UP SHOW 6-9 AM sm Double 0 Moore GOSPEL SHIP 9-11 AM Trumon Puckett NOON SPECIAL 11-1 PM Rick Upshw AFTERNOON SESSION PM Willie McKinstry WEEKEND SPECIA L 6-12 Noon Sm Double 0 Moore SA TURDA Y SESSION 12-6 PM Johnny Jive SA TURDA Y EXPRESS 6-12 Midnight WUUe McKinstry In nother ction Mondy, the court greed to decide whether the Houston County bord t revenue should be repportioned 00 "one mn, ooe vote" bsis The Supreme Court hs pplied this rule of equl representtion to districts drwn tor the Us House nd for stte legisltures Lst spring, Dothn Myor Erl C Moody nd other Dothn residents sked federl court In Montgomery to pply It to the county bord The Dothn residents sid their city hs 61% ct the county's popultion nd pys 690/0 of the txes, but hs only one representtive on the five-mn county bord But the Montgomery court sid It sw no reson to pply the "one mn, one vote" rule to Houston County, nd dismissed the cse he Dothn residents ppeled to the Supreme Court, The court lso herd rguments on Georgi's contused rce for governor Fll nd Winter Progrm Schedule MOVIN' HOME SHOW PM sm Double 0 Moore EVENING SPECIAL 6-8 PM Wlllie McKInstry GOSPEL SHIP 8-10 PM Trumon Puckett LATE DATE MIdnight Johnny Jive All-Nite Show--Mldn1ght to 6 AM Johnny Jcksoo - Lewis White - Rick Upshw News t Twenty-five nd FUty-tlve Pst the Hour BIG D RADIO WA PX 's First A nniversry Show ALABAMA STATE COLLEGE ARENA MONTGOMERY I ALABAMA Show Time 800 pm Adv $300 - Door $350 nckets on sle t the usul plces Sundy FAVORITE CHURCHES 6-12 Noon TOP 14 REVIEW 12-4 PM Rick Upshw SONGS OF THE CHURCH 4-6 PM Trumon Puckett FAVORITE CHURCHES 6-12 Midnight SAT DEC 10 THE BIG SBOW or THE YEAB * * BUTTERBEANS I GO GO I JAMES & I I BOBBY I DANCING CRAWFORD BY R D 0 I X le G IRLS "HONEST I DO" "ONI WIlT A light' QQQQQQQQQDQQQb QQQQQQQQQQQQQQt In Mo ntgomery, Al You Cn Depend on WRMA WRMA News irs rcil, civic, nd soc il informtion Do you hve deq u te street lights? 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6 PA GE SIX DECEMBER , THE S O U T H E R N C O U R IE R Gme of the We ek S tte Title Goes to Mobile County, - BY JOHN C DIAMANTE - It w s c ol d, w i nd y dy t H rt w e l l F ield l st Sturdy A tte nd nc e w s lo w, the M OBILE A, bm Chri i n Mot'fOmen' for Humn R igh,; The weekly m eeting the stte footbll chmp i o n ship 7 Pm Mondy, Dec 12, In the Mt 6300 dy fo r c o nc e ntrti ng o n the rt of footb ll, s d e m o n strte d by C r v e r H i gh of Mo ntgo m e r y nd Mobile Co unty Tri ning School i n the ir bttle for will be t Olive Bptist Church, bnds d rowned ech oth e r o ut, nd the s c o r e bord w s n' t working It w s Third Ave N, the Rev Edwrd Grdner, Th e gme--won b y the M ob U e County pstor Speker will be the Rev JW Whippets, Snkey, pstor of SI Jom Bptist much In C hurch, Prtt City 12 to O--didn't contribute the wy of fncy offensive plys But It did stisfy those who like bitter nd merciless struggle -- WJLD, Rdio Top 14 Hits 12-0 Both tems mustered ferocious en ergy for their smothering defensive work As result, there ws little chnce for either tem to show the t tcking power flwless 9-0 tht hd mde tltem chmpionship contenders with eqully records Crver's Wolverines could gin only 40 yrds rushing U fternoon, s o qur terbck OScr Belser fought desperte ly to brek through on pssing ttempts Belser completed nine out of 27 ps ses 12 for 125 yrds nd most of Crver's first downs, but he couldn't connect on touchdown ply Whippet qurterbck Anderson F len fced the sme difficulties, since Coun ty mde only picked up yrds rushing F len yrds on five pss com pletions out of 12 tries The difference ws tht two of his psses went for touchdowns Though they could scrpe together just five firsi downs, the Whippets ne ver let up for n Instnt They ccount I I'M LOSING YOU The Tempttions (Gordy) W H ISPERS-- 9 Jckie Wilson (Brunswick) 10 KNOCK ON WOOD-- Eddie F loyd (Stx) 4 YOU CAN'T HIDE A H EART5 A C H E - - Z Z Hill (Kent) TOO MANY TEARDROPS-- Joe Simon (Snd Stge) TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS-- Otis Redding (Volt) Jmes nd Bobby Purify (Bell) H DON'T BE A DROPOUT-Jmes Brown (KIng) 12 MUSTANG SA LLY-- W I1son Pickett (Allntlc) Ste\1e Wonder (Tml) 6 NEVER LET ME GO >IAN OR MOUSE-- 14 The Vn Dykes (Ml) Jr Prker (Duke) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON-- Supremes (Motown) YOU GOT ME HUMMIN'-- Sm nd Dve (Stx) S E r-; D $ F O R E A C H 4 5 R P M - - N O C, O D Music Center One stop P, 0 Box dy's 90 three tumbles They lso d rew yrds In penltles-- twice s much s Crver I' M YOUR PUPPET-- A P LACE IN THE SUN-- ed for six of the gme's seven pss in terceptions, nd recovered two of the 1041 Birminghm, Albm " G UA R A N T E E D D E L I V E R Y FOR A BETTE R TOMORROW In A lbm ll duced two fleeting but crucil openings for County In the second qurter, After grinding lon«for 43 yrds to the Cr ver 13, Flen (ound Theodore Sprdley open ner the end zone nd pssed to our yesterdys re mrred by hte, discrimintion, ' Injustlce, nd violence, Among the M OBILE COUNTY DEFE NDERS SURROUND CARVER BALL-CARRIER It ws this ggressiveness tht pro orgniztions working for better tomorrow on the principle of humn ' brotherhood Is the A lbm Council ' MembershiP Reltions Humn on In the Council Is open to ll who wish to work for better tomorrow For further In- on this principle formtion, Albm write the Councll, PO Box 1310, Aurburn, Albm him for the gme's flrst six points frequency--cuslng the ction to con tinue long tter the whlstle-- the Crver Cpitlizing on n Interception few m inutes lter, ttck lost precious time Flen fired three suc cessive psses from the Crver tuuy disintegrted South Jckson Montgomery, Albm c ogni ze Crver out tbere," sid fn, mn for the second Whippet TO thought C ounty looked like the Southern For tht mtter, District's seson chmps But being Whippet Sturdy ment hving tht ne Intercepted wht would hve been speed, This ws the element tht re culrly fter C ounty's Jimmie Stutts cessry scoring bullet pss from four yrds out, As tempers flred with incresing Moblle s tudents extr bur s t of split-second turned the highest conference honors to JUDGES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE F IV E) Nelson Gnd Spurgeon Mldn not m ny people went beserk trying to score, prti WHAT nd even didn't even re The third one skimmed pst Wolverine fingertips Into the rm s of Gbe Cole During the lst hlt, Crver nerly BROTHERS BARBER SHOP MALDEN "I COULD DO the judges will consider They must lso look through hundreds of written exhi re n illegl id to school bits, segregtion Including the bulk of Albm's stte nd locl eduction r ecord s, nd The testim ony t lst week's hering, depositions (written testimony) from d ozens of locl, stte, nd federl of nd the orl rguments tobe herd next ficils, yer, re only frciion of the mteril Rdio Sttion WAPX The P s tor 's Study H A S I N STI T U T E D BR OA DCA S T DA I L Y M O N D A Y T H R U F R I DA Y, t o A M THE PASTOR'S STUDY Is dlly devotionl prepred under the uspices of nd In conjunction with the Montgoqlery Ministeril Allince Listen to your fvorite m i nister In our Pstor's study with A lso, for your continuing listening, our GOSPE L PROGRAMS, 400 to 600 THE \SO UTHERN CO URIER f to AM to AM, nd with Gretchen 1 2 Noon, Mondy thru Fridy WAPX Rdio 1600 k c on your dil H O W T O ENJ OV CHRISTMAS SPECIAL $ 1 OFF!! 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