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Virginia Shanty town Is Studied i-i i rfre Amtislnrt lar Wednesdoy, Sept. 18, 1968.. "43 The 01 her Side Of Wye Is LBJ Gets Award Crowded FronTTeterans WASHINGTON (AP) Pres when I entered the Wye was a weather-beaten shanties, all one- governor to find ways to prevent Blacks comprise more than 80 EDITOR'S fc NOTE: The of the railroad tracks located behind the Gray Lumber Cd: author is a free-lance writer-f 'uent Jonnson has received a special Gold Helmet award from and -and the wife of a Richmond, attorney. She visited the Wye district of Waverly, recently after reports of efforts by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to The tracks form and yeare ago when people asked residents from the other side of the tracks where they Jived, they replied: "I live on the other side of the "YV The Wye is an overcrowded square mile of shanties ana undeveloped wasteland that is part of Waverly. The rest of Waverly, is a pleasant hamlet with tree-lined paved streets, homes and shopping centers.

Two dirt roads known as Wye No. 1 and Wye No. 2 form the community. There are 26 organize, a self-help program, for the destitute people of the townThe -Turner-family of 26 described in her report are some of those people. By DOLORES B.

ROBINSON Special to The Washington Post (First of a Series) WAVERLY, Va. The Wye derives us name from the shape Senate During Crises Communist Presidential Hopeful Says intervention Was Necessary per cent of the industrial labor force; Mr. Gray's Town State Sen. Garland Gray "owns" Waverly in the sense that plantation owners of yesteryear "owned" their communities. Several residents of the town I talked to referred to the bank aslMivXiray's bank," to the mill as "Mr.

Gray's lumber company," and to the community itself as "Mr. Gray's Town." Sen. Gray, aDemocrat, is 66. He has been a state senator sin 1948. In the 1950s he headed a commission appointed by the California ballot for the November election, the Communist Party has a list of electors with the secretary of state and the number of write-in votes for them will be Mrs.

Mitchell said her name will be on the ballots of three states and she would consider 80,000 to 100,000 votes a good turnout. She said the two major domestic issues of her campaign are the war in the Negro. Her first step a president, she said, would be to name an attorney general who would enforce existing laws against racism that are already on the books. Also high on her priorities were na- NixesGun Sign Up Violent Crimes Punishment Set WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate rejected today an amendment to the firearms control bill to require the registration of all firearms and the licensing of their owners. Sen.

Joseph D. Tydings, calling the proposal an an- ticrime and not an antigun measure, offered it as an amendment to a bill barring interstate mail order sales of rifles and shotguns. But it was defeated 55 to 31. Strongly Urged Registration and licensing "wefe" dent Johnson after the assassination of Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy, as part of the firearms control legislation he submitted to Congress. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, made his first appearance in the Senate chamber since his brother was slain last June to vote for. the Tydings By BOB RA WITCH The Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES The presidential candidate of the United States' Communist Party Monday defended the Russian in-t into Czechoslovakian affairs as 1 1 abl but necessary." However, Mrs.

Charlene Mitchell, a 38-year old Negro, said she supported reformist Czech leader Alexander Dubcek and called for continued ex- At a news conference at Lost Angeles International Airport, she denied any contradiction in the two stands, claiming both the Soviets and the Czechs are in favor of reform. The Soviet intervention was necessary, she said, to "counter Tax Code story and jacked-up" on stilts. They have-nowaternonside' toilets, no gas. Makeshift electricity lines recently were installed. Waverly, in Sussex County 43 miles southeast of Richmond, has a population of about 1,600.

Residents of The Wye total 197. Of Sussex County'sJotal population of 2,100, 66 per cent is black. All of The Wye's residents are black. Besides the Gray Lumber important industries are two saw mills, a wood products company and the Sussex-Surry Dispatch Newspaper Company. revolutionary force who tried to take advantage of the liberalization" of the Dubcek regime.

Such counter revolutionary force would have attempted to turn Czechoslovakia into a capitalist state, a reactionary step, she added. "We urge the withdrawal of Soviet-bloc troops as rapidly as possible and a speedy normalization of the in Czechoslovakia, based on the maintenance of socialism -in "that- coun" try," Mrs. Mitchell said. In Los Angeles through to speak a several local colleges and rallies, Mrs. Mitchell said she did not intend to measure the success of her campaign by the number of votes she obtains.

Although not on the Certain controversial and drawn-put study pf the epde at the time gent heed for immediate passage of the surtax. TU Tunn A A ntihmlnt 4rt recommend to Congress possi- ble changes in the law. Congres- sional leaders don't expect the recommendations until after the November elections There has been no official dis closure of what the Treasury may recommend, but it is not expected to call for abolition or drasUcjeductioaof-ihe versial 37V4 per cent oil depletion allowance. Other Subjects Other likely subjects for re Wfficlude: Revisions in the capital gains tax, including possible changes in when it would be imposed and on the length of time assets be, held before straight income tax is applied in place of the capital gains tax. Limitations on income solit- n.

WGGolohel Visits "amendment. He came in as thedebate over i the controversial proposal was-nearing anncf. He took no part) in it and sat with his chin in. his hand. 4 "Sentence Set But the Senate did tack onto the bill an amendment that would make a person using a in a federal crime of violence liable to a sentence ranging up to life in prison.

This was adopted Tuesday; prior to the opening of debate! For Lensthy Study Fort McClellan Today Lt. Col. Ruth M. Isham, who. Army Community Servii Service.

today on the most controversial Tccno" "tho" TvinTrnT "lilT- shed occupied by a 64-year-old blind and two small children whom he is raising on his 80 dollar a month welfare check. The tarpaper shed has two small windows and is furnished with a lumpy double- bed, an old wood stove, a handmade table and a backless wooden chair. Because the shed is so small, the stove is dangerously close to the decay ing wood and tarpaper walls. The Turner Family But while the lives of the blind man and the two small children are pathetic, the Turner family is a 'case of almost unbelievable poverty and cultural depriva tion. Theirs is the first shanty on the right as one enters Wye No.

1. It is occupied by three adults and 23 children. Robert Turner is a lean man In his early 40s with lines of weariness showing through his black skin around tired eyes. He married at 16 and for many years worked at the Gray Lumer Co. His starting wage was 12 cents an hour.

After 14 years working (here, his salary was increased to 79 cents an hour. By that time, he had 15 children and could not support his family on such a meager income. He says he went to Sen. Gray and explained ni3 pngni. ne was una ne couia not have riiore pay and that If he left the company, the rent on his shack would increase.

But Turner left anyway and is now working aL the Seward Construction Co. for $1.68 an hour. Mamie Turner is a dark-skin ned woman who recently gave birth to her 25th child. She married Turner at 13 and figures that she is now about 36 or 37 Twenty-one of her 25 children have somehow survived and 20 share the three-bedroom shack. There is also a kitchen and living room.

Also living in this hovel are three grandchildren born to the Turners' 20-year-old daughter, Bette, who is pregnant again, and a child of their daughter Janice. It's hard to conceive of 26 people having to sleep in three Small bedrooms. Two of the bedrooms have only one double bed each and the other has only a roll-away bed. One of the beds has been im-broved through the efforts of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) volunteers They donated a mattress to cover the springs. When they first came on the scene, the spring8 Were balanced on cinder diocks ana covered Dy oia rags The bed serves as the sleep- ing place for as many children as can pile on.

The smaller ones are simply pushed off during the night, and lie in heaps on the floor. m1. All Turners are Illiterate fat, he father has always been a home and the tnmh Ml received vejfare aid. Two Hef lin rpe POllTC I VPT 1 WUIU -vF lv Top Ranks HEFLIN Michael Turner nd Freddie Boyles members ri; 7u ere presented their Eagle Scout Awafds recently in MICHAEL TURNER ceremonies at Pleasant Grove School. A SeVen-7ear-mfimber flf scouting, is tip son of Mr.

and Mrs. Allan Q. Turner 0: 'Heflin. A graduate of Cleburtie County High School, he is a freshman at Gadscjep Junior College this fall. Son of Mrs.

Fred 1 Bgyjef Pf FREDDIE BOYLE Hefijni Freddy Boyhjs is a junior' at Cleburne Couniy High school and has participated in the scouting program since ism Twenty-one merit badges must be earned before attaining the rank of -eagle scout, including 10 required badges and 11 badges chosen by the scouts, the Eagle Scout awards to Turner and Boyles was William B. McNeil, former scout director Scout Council. of Choccolocco public school integration. Among his -other he now is chairman of the senate Privileges and Elections Com mittee. He once served on the State Board of Education.

"Mr. Gray's lumber com pany" was. founded by his grandfather. The Wye is separated from it by the railroad 'tracks and an open drainage ditch flowing from the mill. The slow-moving, polluted water is a breeding place for flies and mosquitoes that infest the shanties of Wye, most of which Sen.

Gray also owns. One of the first things I saw tionalization of all industries, especially tha ommunications media, which she claimed is controlled by the wealthy segment of America. "The war in Vietnam was 'created by a idential executive order and it can be stopped in the same way," she said. Mrs. Mitchell said she wanted to make it quite clear that the aim of her party is "to overthrow the system." "When a government can no longer meet the needs of the people, it should be abolished," she declared.

Such an overthrow could be by violent or nonviolent actions, depending on the desires of the people, she said. Colonel Isham is not a stranger to ft. McClellan fjaV ing servea two tours at tne wau1 Center "The colonel's visit, sponsored by the Director of personnel, will be highlighted by a helicopter tour of the installation and a trip to the Edith Noufse Rogers Museum To Jnspept Colopel Isham on Wednesday will inspect post Corrrmunity Service Aciiv'e3- She is the Army Community Services Officer-for the third coordinates Women's Army Corps activities in the seven southeastern states of the Third Army area The WAC Center and School will occupy the final two days of her visit. She will be officially welcomed by Lieutenant Colonel Max-ene B. Bichl, WAC Center commanding officer and commandant of the WAC School.

She will visit a basic training unit, Company and observe! classes at the WAC School, and vkit th utn Arm Ranri hPfnr i.itin th. Attends Course On Friday she will attend basic and clerical course graduations and review a WAC parade. Colonel Isham received a M.A. degree in Education (Guidance and Counseling) Irom Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, N. C.

in 1957. hc obtained her B.A. degree in Home Economics and Biology From North Dakota State Col- 1 kl T-. lAin vpuey uiy, in. u.

in Other tranquilizers in cluding tfizae'pam (valium), which -is -almost identical ''Increase the effects of he said: Dr. Goldberg said he is unsure of the 'exact reason for the different effects of the two similac drugs. He also found that taking another drink relieves some symptoms of a hangover, but "the blocking "effect of the new alcohol lasts only for a few hours; then its effect is reversed and added to the hangover." Thi3, he said, may explain the need ot a dependent in- dividual to take new doses (drinks) at fixed intervals" Story I I i i i the American Veterans of World War II, which cited him as the first president to care enough to send special messages to Congress on behalf of veterans." Amvet's regular award, the Silver Helmet, went to Johnson 1960 when he was Senate majority leader. LEGAL EQUITY COURT NOTICE TO NONRESIDENT BY PUBLICATION BETTY ROBINSON ANDREWS. ompiainam vi.uLtK f.

ANDREWS The State of Alabama, Calhoun County Circuit Courf of Calhoun County, In Equity, Case No.9297. This the 23rd day of Auaust 1968. In This Equity cause, it being made to appear to the Register of this Court, the sworn Affilavit of Betty Robinson And Complainant, that the Respondent, Adler F- Andrews is a non resident of the State of Alabama, and thaf his post office address Is unknown otner than 4012 Jackson Boulevard Chicago, Illinois and that such addres: cannot be ascertained after reasonable effort; and further, that In the belief of said affiant, the respondent Is over the age of twenty-one years. It is therefore ordered that Publication be made in the Anniston Star, newspaper published in Calhoun County, Alabama, once a week for four con secutive weeks, requiring the said above 3smeg reiponomi 10 answer, neao or emur to the till of Complaint now nn tne in inn cause oy in jvm aty 01 sept 1961, or after thirty days therefrom 1 pecree pro Cinfertq ifray be liken jtsainst him. "The Attorney pf Record In thli ciuie Is M.

YAfinfl Hersehil e. Emerson, Register qf ktuii, i-ovri. Aug. 31, Sept. 4, 11, 11, 1961 1EOA1 NOTICE Ltiley Jones, hereby glvei notice that they have completed contract with the Calhoun County Commission for the construction of Project No.

CCC-5, reaih No. 3 of Alexandria1 Creel! wlfhin the Tallahatchee Creek Jubwaterihed, Coosa Valley Proect, Calhoun County, Alabama, and that' the Commission hat set the date for final settlement as September 20, 1968. All claims should be filed at our office at 347S Ashley Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36108, before date set for final settlement. LESLEY JONES, Inc. 3475 Ashley Road Montgomery, Alabama 36108 August 28, Sept.

4, 11, 18, 1968 NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF ALABAMA, CALHOUN COUNTY, PROBATE COURT In fheiattroWh Bstate-of. Sylvia Lee Soles, deceased. Letters Testamentary on the estate of Sylvia Lee Soles, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the day ot September 1968 bv the Hon. o. t.

bnnain, juoge 01 Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that' -all persons having claims against said estate, are nereoy requirvu 10 present ine same wumii me nine allowed by law, or the same will be bar red. Ola Mae Askew. Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Sylvia Lee Soles, deceased. Sept. 11, 18, 25, 1968.

GUARDIAN'S SETTLEMENT NOTICE THE STATE OF ALABAMA, CALHOUN COUNTY, PROBATE COURT September 4, 1968. This day came J. B. Holman, Guardian of Kenner T. L.

Stevens, Incompetent and files his account, vouchers, evidence and statement for final settlement of his said Guardianship. It is ordered thaf tne 3 oay ot octooer, 1968, be, and the same hereby Is, ap pointed as theday en-wfiicn-to make such settlement, at which time all persons Interested can appear ana contest tne said settlement if they think proper. Witness my hand this 4 day of September. 1968. G.

C. BRITTAIN Judge of Probate Sept.ll, 18, 25, 1 968 GUARDIAN'S SETTLEMENT NOTICE THE STATE OF ALABAMA, CALHOU" COUNTY, PROBATE COURT, September 4, 1968. This day came J. Holman, Guardian of Julius K. Martin, Incompetent, and files his account, vouchers, evidence and statement for final settlement of his sai.

Guardianship It is srdsred that tha 3 day of October, 1968, be, and tne same naraoy is. ao pointed as the day on which to make such settlement, at wmcn time an persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they thmK proper. Witness my hand this day of Sep tember, 196J. G. BRITTA" Judge of Probate Sept.

11, 16, 25, 1968 tha matter of the astatt of Arthur H. Smith. deceased. In the circuit court of Calhoun county. Alabama in Eauitv, No.

9 us TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Take notice that Mary G. smith Siewart; txeculrix of" the above estate. has filed her account and vouchers for a final settlement of her administration said estate, and that -the Court" has decreed that the 27th day of September, 1968. at 1:30 D.m. at the courthouse at Anniston.

the-fime and place for the heanna on the matter ol passing upon the account and vsucners, at wn'cn lime you may appear and contest the same if vou sea prooer to do so. This, the 10th day of September, 1968. HEKSLHfcL t. fcMfcKSU Sept, IV 18, 25, 1968 NOTICE TO CRETITORS THE STATE OF ALABAMA, CALHOUN COUNTY ROBATI COURT In the matter of the Estate of Clnude Clement, deceased. Letters Testamentary on the estate of Claude Clement, deceased, havlno been oranted to the un erslqned on the 16 day of September 1968 by the Hon.

G. C. Briftain, Judge ot Probate of eald County, notice Is hereby olven thst all persons naving ciaim, against said estate, art hereby required to present the same wirnin tne tim-allowed by law, or the tame will be bar Mary Lou Clement, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Claude Clc nent, deceased. Sept. 18, 25, Oct.

2, 1968 ANNOUNCEMENTS Lost And Lost: A pair of child' dark rim glasses faeryveen proedna Drug E. th St 2 Be ntt, be (tlnd to hat pnj clean. lfh Blue' j-usfre. elecfrlc shampoqer $1 Woore-K Xpenslve em Ing (faroyyare, oxtori), A'a. Mitchum Lotion 50c (Lirttited) WlkliDrug Edith Rehnborg cosmetlci brings out your natural beauty, offering the finest of nature'r goodness blended with mar velous ingredients from the world of cosmetic science to give a radiant naturally beautiful complexion.

Call Mrs Nell Buck 236-1262. Have you filed Application for the "New Card" "BANKAMERICARD" If Not. apply Commercial National Bank Services Offered Concrete work blocks, driveways, porches. See J. A.

Edwards Pho. 892-3576. Reweaving alterations. Call before theH rush. Mrs Marie Jones, 236-2268, 2829 McClellan Blvd.

Experienced painter. Inside and our Stencil celling. Call for free estimation. Phone 237-0180 or 236-3897. Bookkeeping Payroll Reports and Sales Tax James A Pullen Pho.

236-0702 420 W. 23rd. Day's TV Radio Service. Curtis Mathls RCA color TV Pin. for 36 months, ltth year, 202 4th St.

237-5211. Billard Supplies And Repair? Home and Commercial New and Used Tables Pho. 237-9707 Continued on 5-D) whether to amend it to require the complicated and much-the registration of all tax code is due for a and the licensing of their own-! Everydcr You'll Find An Interesting Selection Of New and Existing Homes In'v Your ANNISTON Classified ion Shop' Them Today ii Dial 236-1551 next year. The registration proposal by; Roth Chairman Wilbur D. By EDMOND LeBRETON WASHINGTON (AP) No imatter who is president or tu searching study and possible re- Mins of the House Code.

In separate interviews, both Maryland Democrat Joseph cTvdings was rejected by tne Ways ancj Means Committee, House and the Senate Judiciary and Rep John W. Byrnes, R-Committee earlier in the year ms wno ig in line to chair-when those bodies genially man jf the Republicans take limited the measure to barring over the House7say they favor a the mail order sale of rides and 11010 rpvipw of the Internal tViair urftulrl nut tha rpuipw ns. Life Sentence The. life sentence would possible for people convicted of -rcarrying-a-gun-while-eommit- ting such crimes as rape, arson, murder, kidnaping, theft, racketeering and extor-, tion in a federal jurisdiction. of a president also was specified.

The amendment was proposed bv Sen. Peter H. Dommick, R- and was passed by voice vote after Sen. Thomas J. said he knew of no opposition.

Amendment Adopted Another amendment, also, adopted Tuesday bv voice vote, would prohibit "the' confiscation! 1 .1" wumi! neviM0" Ttion could determine the num i potato nnrl fflFt tjiypb en qc in last month was appointed VAC Staff Adviser Third V- S-Army, will visit Fort McClejjan today through Friday to view WAC Center activities and 4 Million Fish Killed By Pollution MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Two kills in the Mobile area i have nushed the number of fish in rtiauama uus year 10 more rnan million The State Water Improvement Commission said today that nearly 378,00 fish died in the Mobile Industrial Canal Tuesday Another kill occrred at the same time in the Dog River but the fish sank before investiga- i oer invoivea. with ft WU" CanaI K111' 3 t0tal ot 4,135,000 fish have died in Ala- "bama's streams this year. The Worst previous year was 1968 wnen just over miion fish i necessary to fish life. answer to an observation that "I've heard so many time from alcoholiesSomething's different in my body'," Dr.

Von Wartburg said. He received the Jellinek Memorial Award for his research at the' Congress Tuesday. 1 Another researcher, Dr. Leonard Goldberg of Stockholm, reported Monday that one of "the most common tranquilizers, chloraiazopoxide (librium) lessens the effects of alcohol in both the drunken ness and' hangover stages. This happens without any' change in.

the blood alcohol level, indicating that the drug effects the central nervous system, Goldberg said. bv a government agency of any gress earlier this year in con-U1'. wmcu'f legally held and used firearm, with passage of the 10, which hav-e already been thej offidas Sen. Daniel Brewster, per cent income surtax for revhisutJJep extensive congres- kjlls on heayy rajns and exDi.esg. said there was nothing in the sions to allow for additional slonal studies.

ed fear that more fish may die current bill that would allow revenue without a general tax1 Limitation Of Cuts if the rains continue. Rain caus-confiscations but there is wide- increase. i -Limiting the present oppor- es settled wastes to rise and spreacf concern among gun own-; Treasury Pleaded tunity of reducing the taxes on a iflushe them downtream where ers that stricter firearms con- But the Treasury "pleaded! business bv organizing it into thev decav and use nn owapn trols could lead to that. To Alcoholism high on the committee's order to schedule weeks, possibly hearingsr Modlfications Made Althoueh some minor modifi- Nations were made in the code connection with the 1964 tax reductions, there has been no extensive review of the tax laws tnM 10RJ aiuic lju-i. Over the years a host of spe cial provisions have been at- Itached to the code, many of 1 1-- which are said by critics to be loopholes for the well-to-do and the well-advised.

Demands were made in Con- against what promised to be i. w. Congress most people can' drink moderately with few ill effects is under deep discussion here this week by some 1800 persons registered at the 28th international Congress on Alcohol and Alcoholism at the Shoreham Hotel. The answer js far" from clear even though alcoholism is listed as the nation's fourth greatest health problem. "We are unable to identify those who may become dependent," Dr.

Abraham Horwitz ol Chile, director'of the Pan American Health organization, said Monday. "We do not know as yet the intermediary metabolism of alcohol in all its -phases, the way it acts in different organs Alcoholic Governor Tells maKe it less, attractive to give Skwav nrnnortu Hnrlno- lifpfimp -Tightening the regulations several corporations. especially the brain and the reaction of the body as a whole. We havejioUletermui ed if the problem Is genetic or acquired." But some clues are emerging from the laboratory. In Bern, Switzerland, Dr.

Jean-Pierre Von Wartburg has found an abnormal enzyme in the liver that breaks down alcohol in a test tube five to six times as fast as the dehydrogenaze. Twenty per cent of the residents of Switzerland have this abnormal enzyme, Dr. Von Wortburg said in an interview. It may cause a "craving" for drink in some alcoholics, he said, and could provide the By STUART ALERBACH The Washington Post WASHINGTON "1 am an began Iowa Gov. Harold E.

Hughes Monday in a talk at the largest meeting ever devoted, the prevention and 'treatment of alcoholism. "I was born an alcoholic. I nt'ver look a normal drink in my. life. I realized in my late 20sthut for me, to drink was to I could nut drink and maintain sobriety," the three-term Democratic governor continued.

Once a truckdriver, Hughes, 46, said he finally gave up drinking about 14 years ago. Thr question of why one drink turns a man such as Hughes into an alcoholic while.

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