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The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 38

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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art union Ho. 2 HURRY CLOSING SOON DOT) iKgr(i NEW YORK, Sat. Southern whites are using pXSISSDV itching powder, eggs iam-and cigar addled monio is; ll 1 1st MIZE-1960 ford Zephyr Automatic Sedan. Vahw 2nd PRIZE 1960 Volkswagen Sedan, Value 978 3rd. KBZE Cresley Criterion 21 in TV Sot, Vahio 219 Dfowkig data postponed to Morck; 17 TICKETS ONLY 2- BOOK OF 12, 1 AGENTS CITY AND COUNTRY RttMMMWfflBHB OH MOB SB OB On OBI stubs in attempts to end sit-down strikes by Negroes.

The have adopted passive resistance to protest against the Deep South's- unwritten law that bars coloured people from sitting down when eating in public places. Their prime targets are the drug stores where for Sitting down 8 lx. r.o., wcMn in, ait mm years they have been able rtric Mad ac peseta 17V or af tfeketa al 1. fie nhk I caclost ttssaacd. addressed eaaetaac for tickets.

weeks ago, has since' spread to seven States and presages Nan another wave of racial un rest throughout Dixieland. to buy chemists lines but have been barred from sitting and eating at the snackbars. The started w' on 1 an impulse managers differed. Some closed down the lunch counters as soon as some Negroes sat down. Others closed the entire shop, fearing a major disturbance.

Fights broke out in some cities but mostly the Negroes refused to be baited, Negroes were elbowed, jostled and- shoved. "They were sprinkled with itching powder and spattered with eggs, cigar and cigarette stubs. One Negro youth was knocked from a stool by a white beside whom he sat. Another white hurled a bottle of ammonia through the door of a drug jtore in which Negroes were sitting. The fumes brought tears to their eyes but they refused to budge.

"We feel if we can spend our money on other goods," said one student, "we should be able to eat in the f. AGENTS "REQUIRED MAX1MIJM COMMISSION. S.H. 211 High school and college students walk into a chain store and after buying a few things, sit down at the AljL 'igsiQlT" among four Negro students in Norm mree lunch counter and demand to be served. When service Is refused, One-a-day TONE-TABS, sold only by your, chemist contain -same establishments." Another said.

"All I want is to come in and place my order and be served and they remain seated, quietly and decorously often reading the Bible until closing time. One New York newspaper commented this week: "It is evident that in this latest phase of their struggle for equal rights, the Southern Negroes have- adopted Mahatma Gandhi's pas-- sivie resistance tactics." Not so their white opponents, who have so far fought back with itching powder, addled eggs, ammonia and cigar stubs. Not a fad At, first the "movement was dismissed as another college fad. But this theory was soon discarded. The spark that touched heave a tip if I feel like it." This High Potency forptula also contains LIOVAL JELLV Scientists consider it to bene of the most concentrated sources yot discovered of Pantothenic Acid, one of the great complex vitamins, and the one associated with on the protests was provided by.

a 1 7-year-old college student, McNeil of Greensboro, North Caro longevity. NOW YOU TOO CAM OGAY THAT TIDED, RUNDOWN, HGC2VV FEELING lina, who felt that segregation makes me feel I'm un He decided to do some thing about it and approached three of his Negro classmates. They were enthusiastic over, a proposal that-they' demand service at the lunch counter of a down NEED 1 NEW I GLASSES? town store the next day. 1- Mi i in fill 3 'j Ho coffee At about 5 p.m. they entered a store in the heart of the shopping district GRATEFUL PEOPLE WRITE: "I' hate tried evert conceivable medicine to replace me on 'he way good health.

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Redfern, USS9. have been takina them note lor a while and am a lot tetter in -health in every way." Camptie. "I have found your tablet -to be all you claim lor them. They improved my health yean aoo I had a nervout and physical collapse thrcayft work and worry, and have teen trying to re- fain my health tvet tinea. A mat- continually tret and could net sleep properly without -drays, but thank to pour TONS-TABS have not needed any tinea taking them.

I am able to work veil and deep axil now; S'o And have entrant for too." lir. Oardrou.tma. feet, wonderful tinea I started taking l-A-V AT TONS-TABS. Before I itarted taking them I was always tired and seldom witheut headache, put tinea taking 1-A-DAY TONS TABS my headaches have gone and eel much evert-way." Mrs. Gocndiwlxdi.

S25S. hare obtained wonderful 'benefit from them, they have given me new life. They are really worth their weight in gold:" r- JLS su num. "After taking TONS-TABS for I weekL 7 -really feel digerent person." Mrs. Albert Par.

StllSt. v- "I mint (ell yon how wonderful your f-A' DAT TONS-TABS hav been to both my ftvaband and We haven't feU to welt for years after a week' I treatmenZ" Mrs. A.B., Uoura, rililS. "The certainly made nt feel more energetic and at I am a busy housewife, it made me feel lik doing tha chore without feeling rinsed out by dinner time." Mrs. JT.fi..

rotfenham. iiSSt. Joseph said be bought a tube of toothpaste and the others made similar purchases. Then they sat down at the lunch counter and in Joseph's -words, is what happened: A Negro woman kitchen If you are suffering from constant over-tiredness, nerves, lack of confidence and concentration, morbid fears, irritability and other signs of generally run-down -condition, chances are thai you have a biological deficiency of certain essential vitamins and minerals that your body must have. of-happy, healthy Australians have overcome -this deficiency by taking 1-A-DAT TONE TABS, the high-potency Multi-Vitamin it Mineral Tablets containing Royal 12 VITAMINS, 11 MINERALS Just one-Tone-Tab each day at breakfast is all you need for renewed health and vitality.

Each Tone-Tab contains, a -balanced combination of 23 essential vitamins and minerals plus Royal Jelly this formula is guaranteed safe and pure by Government Regulations. kv ARE YOUR SYMPTOMS HERE? Research: shows that approximately 9 cut of 10 people suffer from Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency and these illnesses indicate It: Gastric Trouble, Skin Eruptions, Catarrh. Nervous Disorders. Poor Appetite Fatigue, Chronic Read-aches, -Anaemia, and many others. Like thousands of other satisfied 1-A-DAY TONE-TABS users, you can help rectify these dlsof ders simply by taking 1-A-DAY TONE-TABS each day at WHY BE HALF-ALIVE? There's no excuse now for being Vitamin and Mineral starved tired, nervous, a pushover for headaches and Illness.

Get 1-A-DAY TONE-TABS for new health and vitality and feel fit fasti PRICES: 2 weeks' course 20- Don't hecept substitutes- Then, of course, you'll go to OPSM. Because at OPSM you choose from high fashion spectacle frames brought from all parts of the world. With expert fitters to make sure that the glasses you select fit comfortably. And because the lenses we make at OPSM are exactly what your eye doctor prescribed! That's why we say get your glasses made al Optical Prescriptions Spectacle Makers. helper walked up and told them, "You know youre not supposed to be in here." She later called them "ignorant" and a disgrace" to their race, 1 Impassively, the students then asked a white waitress for coffee.

'Tm sorry, we don't serve coloured people here." she said. "1 bee vour pardon." said one of the students, "you OPSM 4 weeks' 35- 8 weeks' 6o7-'. Good health is priceless just servea me at a counter two feet away. Why is it that you serve me at one counter and deny me at another? Why not stop serving me at all the counters?" The four students sat, coffeeless, until the shop closed at 5.30 p.m. OPTICAL PRESCRIPTIONS SPECTACLE MAKERS PTY.

LTD. 235 Macquarie 174 King Sydney Telephone BW 1941 and Brontht) IVorywhere im The incident made the headlines in the nation's Negro papers and led to a rash of similar protests in various other southern cities. The reactions of store 1 A. P.A.I. A.

CHEMISTS ONLY LINE aVf; rocowmond thmt ym ymur ay doctor regvtorly THE SUN-HERALD, FEB. 21, 1960 JS Hi-.

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