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6866 C5LI LAKE otAftixi, yu wetmwDAY, win tit tm Desegregation Two Negroes Begin Leader tot ttrip, ligi Classes at Alabama TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP)-Two Negroes-a girl and boy-went to their fint classes at the University of Alabama today and white students extended friendly hands in an atmosphere of tranquility. Three girls walked with Vivian Malone as she went from her dormitory to a classroom building. They chatted as they strolled. And a white youth called James A.

Mood "Jimmy" in advising him that he had taken the wrong turn along the tree-lined campus at one point. Across from Comer Hall, where Miss Malone went to study business administration, a National Guardsman in green fatigue uniform stood. Nearby were three federal marshals. IN FIRESIDE CHAT Rights Program Mapped by JFK WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy has warned the nation that discrimination against Negroes has lighted "fires of frustration and discord" that threaten lives and the public safety. The President outlined a broad legislative program he will pro- Property Sold For $168,665 On Ryan Street The first sizeable sale of downtown Ryan street in about two years was recorded today.

Sold for $168,665 was the property at 707-709 Ryan street occupied by Lerner's Inc. The deed shows the property was owned and sold by Charlake Realty Inc. of Atlanta, to Harry M. Hollins and others of Lake Charles. The last sizeable sale of downtown Ryan street property recorded here was about two years ago when Cagle interests purchased the old Calcasieu Savings and Loan building at Ryan and Division streets from Calcasieu Savings and Loan for $95,000.

The property included in today's recording is a two-story brick building now under long term lease by Lerner Stores, Inc. It is 40 feet on the east side of Ryan street and about 200 feet deep. The site was occupied for many years by the Murray-Brooks Hardware company, a pioneer Lake Charles business. The property was sold about 20 years ago to Lerner's who later sold to Charlake. Then the building was completely remodeled and modernized and Lerner leased the property from Charlake for its own use.

Hollins and his aisociates said they have purchased the building as an investment, and expressed "confidence" in the growth and stability of the downtown Lake Charles shopping area. The sale wag handled by Ken Strauss with Reinauer's Real Estate of Lake Charles. AUTO AIR CONDITIONING Installed Complete $224.50 GLASCO'S GARAGE DON DONALDSON InvilM Mi frlmfc and fotlomtn yltlt him gt: HOME FURNITURE GO. HOI Rytn Specie! PricM All OVE AUTO ONE WEEK OHLYI rEN ENAMEL JTO FAINT JOB 1995 BILL TOBBES I MORE BUY 1 GETS! Bedroom Suite Dinette Suite FREE pose to Congress next week. He said it will be based on the proposition "that race has no place in American life or law." Kennedy appeared Tuesday evening on radio and television in a fireside civil rights lecture to Americans of both North and South only hours after Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace bowed to federal pressure and stepped aside to let two Negro students register at the previously all- white University of Alabama. "I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents," said Kennedy. "When Americans are sent to Viet Nam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only," he said. "It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops." "In short," Kennedy added, "every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated.

But this is not the case." Kennedy, declaring that America faces "a moral crisis as a country and as a people," said he will ask Congress to make a civil rights commitment "it has not fully made in this century." The President said he will propose legislation that would: 1. Prohibit stores, hotels, restaurants and theaters from discriminating against Negroes. 2. Allow the federal government to take a more active part in court suits aimed at desegregating public schools. 3.

Afford greater protection for Negroes' right to vote. Acknowledging the new laws are. not enough, Kennedy said, however, that in too many parts of the country wrongs are inflicted on Negroes because they have no remedies at law-and "unless the Congress acts, their only remedy is the street." In Congress, leaders of both parties promised to put their shoulders to the wheel. "I recognize that Congress has a responsibility in this field," said Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, "and there should be some action in this session on ef- fectJve civil rights legislation.

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Annewiew of Henry j), Jfeheryw, M. OAK PARK LABORATORY Oak PLAU) I Ga'- WUb coupon, The marshals had followed the 20-year-old Negro discreetly in a car from tier dormitory a quarter of a mile away. The car was welt behind Miss Malone and thred white coeds who chatted with her as they walked along to class. One State Highway Patrol car drove around the area. But there were no crowds and no incidents.

Students at the university st-emed to take the situation in stride. Hood, 20, the other Negro admitted to the school Tuesday under National Guard protection also was -unescorted. The huge campus quadrangle was thronged with students hurrying to classes. A few newsmen were present. Otherwise, it looked like the start of a normal day on the campus.

Hood, walking to his first class, started to take a wrong turn. A student in a short-sleeved shirt saw him and called, "Hey, Jimmy, it's over this way." Hood smiled his thanks. The two students enrolled Tuesday, when segregation's wall around Alabama public schools cracked behind federalized National Guardsmen. Miss Malone is studying business administration and Hood's major will be psychology. A third Negro student, Dave McGlathery, plans to enroll Thursday at the university's Huntsville center, 150 miles northeast of Tuscaloosa.

Gov. George C. Wallace declined to say whether he will stand in the doorway there as he did futilely here Tuesday. He turned back federal officials and delayed registration of the two Negroes only briefly at the University of Alabama. Then he yielded to an Alabama-bora general of the state's National Guard, federalited by presidential order.

For the youthful governor it obviously was bitter defeat. Wallace said again that Alabama's citizenry should refrain from violence, he denounced the federal government's "trend to military dictatorship" and then almost angrily unhooked a microphone from around his neck, let it drop to the floor and left the doorway. Applause, cheers and yells followed him as he rode away. Wallace, who returned by airplane Tuesday night to Montgomery, the state capital, was met by 200 well-wfshers and his mother, Mozelle Wallace. Smiling and expressing surprise at the reception, Wallace said: "I think we are helping to wake this country up." ALABAMA ANTI CLIMAX Vivian center, walks to her first class at the University of Alabama at Ttucaloosa today.

Two unidentified glrla accompany the Negro coed who enrolled Tuesday. No troops or marshals accompanied her. In the background is Denny chimes, a campus landmark. (AP Wirephoto). ON REAPPORTIONMENT Texas Man Drops Plan For Marina The Lake Charles lake front marina, proposed last year as a $1.5 million project at the foot of Broad street, has been dropped by Morin Scott, Texas businessman, and picked up by a Louisiana group.

Voris King, chairman of a nonprofit corporation acting as a liaison group for the city council, said today "something may materialize" shortly, and that an announcement may be forthcoming the latter part of this week. The project was originally to be undertaken by the Tri-State corporation, which was to lease land from the city, build and operate the marina, a motel, and restau rant. Terras couldn't be agreed to with Tri-State. and Scott, who the Tidelands motel in Houston, Texgs, was to undertake the project. Today's was tte first announcement that Scott had dropped out of the picture.

ENTIRE STOCK REDUCED! SUMMER DRESSES Vitoef to IU. Now $8 YUuet to ftt.M, Now 10 ATTENTION FALL IJtlBiS fey THE WMNUM CHUCK ABPOltf la Gremillion Urges Early Session of Legislature By JAMES MCLEAN BATON ROUGE (AP) Atty. Gen. Jack Gremillion said today the legislature should act quickly in a special session on reapportionment, because a federal court might order election of the 105 House members at large in the Dec. 7 first primary.

Gremillion touched on key questions involved, after Gov. Jinunie H. Davis told the 30-day fiscal legislature Tuesday he planned to call a special session soon on reapportionment. Davis, however, did not say when he would summon the session, expected to last 12 days. But legislators speculated on cither June 21 or July 11.

A three-judge federal court has set a hearing in New Orleans Nexf Space Shof 78 Months Away HOUSTON (AP)-The men who have put six Americans into space wanted another and longer one- man space shot. But their hopes were shattered today when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said no more Mercury shots will be made. The decision came from space chief James Webb in Washington. He said the next shot will be the two-man Gemini program, an expected 18 months from now, In interviews at the Manned Space Flight Center here, engi neers have repeated the same theme. They don't believe that they have enough experience with a man and a machine in space to drop the Mercury program in favor of concentrating on Project Gemini, the two-man Spacecraft.

Flight operations director Chris Kraft said there are unquestion able advantages to another Mer cury flight, whatever the problems that might overrule it. There is still much to be learned -in a longer how man cm perform, and now hardy rafems fee, he said Research and development chief Mai Faget said one of (be basic questions is bow well a man can take weightlessness-and then return to the normal gravity on earth. Basic question there SALE! CASH. OUTLET STORK, INC. MedroUy Drttm, Puthtrt, tor Va fcunUyi TO OJWtl (MkJtY a wasting of man's muscle and bone in the weightless condition- when he does not have to work against the pull of gravity?" Faget would like to know because his engineers are concerned with the behavior of men in spacecraft conditions for long periods- even up to a year in a manned orbital space station.

The question Is whether to provide some means of artificial gravity for long-term flights or Jt. Kraft is more concerned with the immediate picture. He feels the gains outweigh the losses in another Mercury flight, It would mean, he explained, more experience to the flight support people on the ground, and it would mean a quicker gain of space knowledge. Negro Official Is Shot Down In Driveway JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Medgar Evers, leader of Negro demonstrations for desegregation in this Deep South city, was shot to death outside his home in the early hours today.

Police found the weapon, a 30-30 rifle, in bushes not far from the Evers' house, and pressed their search for the killer. The killer apparently lurked in a vacant lot about ISO 1 feet from the Evers' Barnett Calls Slaying of Evers 'Dastardly Ad' not. Storm Damages Planes in Saigon SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) -Twenty three U.S. military aircraft were damaged at Saigon airport Tuesday night in a sudden storm. A military spokesman said some of the aircraft were badly damaged and there had been damage to buildings.

The damaged craft included U.S. Army H2J troop carrier helicopters. nest Tuesday on a taxpayers lawsuit. Gov. Davis may be waiting to see what the federal court will do.

The attorney general said the court might issue an injunction blocking House elections Dec. 7 on the basis of the present representation and order election of House members at large, one of the requests in the taxpayers' lawsuit. But such a drastic move might interfere with other sections of the state constitution which guarantees at least one representative for each parish. "It will be my duty to be present in federal court Tuesday when the hearing on a temporary injunction will be heard by a three- judge federal court," Gremillion said. "We have no legal defense to this lawsuit," Gremillion said, "because the right of the federal courts to act already has been decided by the U.S.

Supreme Court. Therefore, it is very important to the people that those charged with the responsibility of reapportionment should act without further delay." Former Sen. J. D. DeBlieux of Baton Rouge, who filed the lawsuit for taxpayers, said he wanted .0 commend Gov.

Davis for his plats to call a special session "so that the legislature iUmlf will do what should have been done long time ago, "If the legislature votes to reapportion the House within its present constitutional DeBlieux said, "we will be glad to dismiss our lawsuit." Over the years, the legislature has rejected attempts to give the growing parishes more equal representation-other than in piece meal concessions to East Baton Rouge and Jefferson parishes. The federal court even held of just before the current session began on the lawsuit, giving the legislature another chance to act. As the situation stands, the re apportionment session may be called June 21 or about July 11 right in the middle of vacation time. house, waiting for the Negro leader to return home from a meeting. Stringing a thread from the bullet hole along the supposed trajectory of the bullet, police estimated the shot was fired with the rifle muzzle poked through a wire fence, about 10 feet above the ground.

Police in announcing discovery of the gun, said only that it was found in bushes near the death scene. The 37-year-old Evers, Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was shot In the back as he got out of his car. He died at a hospital about 50 minutes Inter. 'This is most unfortunate," said Jackson Chief of Detectives W. B.

Pierce, who asked the FBI to assist in the investigation. In New York, Roy T. Wilklns, executive secretary of the NAACP, said the death of Evers "demonstrates anew the blind and murderous hatred which obsesses too many Misslssipplans." "In their ignorance they believe that by killing a brave, dedicated and resbilrceful leader of the civil rights struggle they can kill the movement for human rights. They cannot." Wilklns said the NAACP was posting a $10,000 reward for Evers' assassin. Evers was carrying several NAACP sweatshirts when he stepped from his car and was shot.

The blood-spattered shirts, bear- ng the legend "Jim Crow Must remained in the driveway or several hours. Evers staggered past his sta- ion wagon parked in the driveway, and collapsed in the carport. His wife, Merle Beasley Evers, 30, became hysterical when she aw her husband. Houston Wells, 39, a Negro fur- liture dealer who lives next door Evers, said he didn't see or tear a car. Police units converged on Evirs' modest, frame house In North Jackson.

Hours later they were questioning neighbors. Small groups of nightclothes-huddled on porches. SALE WILL CONTINUE AW, WEEK! OPENING AT nw A.M. In U. S.

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"The ambush killing of Medgar Evers, a local colored citizen, last night is Indeed regrettable," he said in his statement. "Apparently it was a dastardly act and as governor of the stato of Mississippi, I shall cooperate in every way to apprehend the guilty party. "Too many such incidences are happening throughout the country, including the race riot last night in Cambridge, Md. "I am calling upon all law enforcement officers to put forth every effort and use all their facilities in apprehending the guilty parties. Inasmuch as we have had several agitators In our state, both white and colored, during the past several weeks, I have ordered the highway patrol to be on the alert in identifying all nonresident vehicles that may bo attempting to leave the state.

"I appreciate the calm attitude of all our local citizens, both white and colored, and ask their continued cooperation. We must at all times work together to maintain law and order, and to suppress violence, turmoil and bloodshed." Kennedy Appalled At Brutal Slaying WASHINGTON (AP)-president Kennedy "was appalled by the barbarity" of the slaying of Medgar W. Evers, Mississippi Negro leader, the White House said today. The Justice Department had told Kennedy "that its full inves- tigatory machinery has been placed at the disposal" of police officials at Jackson, "in an effort to uncover the assassin," a White House statement said. Andrew T.

Hatcher, assistant White House press secretary, said the Justice Department had learned of the killing earlier, and even before the President was notified, placed the facilities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the disposal of Jackson police. He said Kennedy is keeping in touch with the Jackson situation through reports from his brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and through reports relayed direct from Jackson.

The attorney general in an earlier statement said he was "saddened and shocked." "We have asked the FBI to offer its full cooperation and services to the Jackson Police Department, and it is already doing so," he added in a statement. "I think all of us share in the hope that those responsible for this crime will be found and prosecuted." In Congress, there were numerous expressions of shock. Sen. Phillip A. Hart, called the claying "lynching without the rope." Sen.

Thruston B. Morton, and others said the killing increased the urgency for congressional enactment of civil rights legislation. FATHER'S DAY SPECIALS 14 thru 11 YEAR BOUND Oacron 4 Mf tUMMER MATS-STETSON, MEN'S DISCOUNT SHOP troad St..