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TUCSON, SUNDAY. MAY 25, 16 THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR PAGE EIGHT SECTION A Berkeley, Greensboro Seek Peace After Week Of Violent Disorders AT BJLAYLOCK-SiUITII'S CAMPER TRAILER CORRAL 1 WW By 'I UK ASSOCIATED PRESS Authorities in Berkeley, Order Issued In 1868 Memorial Day Vivid In Tucson Holiday Conceived By Grandmother Of Retired Cavalry Officer Here EDITOR'S NOTE The idea for Decoration Day. it sfenis, was conceived by a woman. She was the wile of Gen. John A.

Logan, who, as commander of the Grand Army or the Republic. Issued the order designating May 30 as a special day for remembering those who died in battle. By MURRAY SINCLAIR Associated Press Writer Memorial Day may mean more to a retired Tucson cavalry officer than anyone else in the nation his grandmother conceived it. John A. Logan still has General Order No.

11 issued by his grandfather on May 5, 1868 which designated May 30 as Decoration Day for "the purpose of strew On Brand New, Popular TEARDROP STREAMLINE Black Power Gets Support Of Christians LONDON (AP) An niter-national conference of Christians declared themselves allies of black power Saturday. Some Negro militants said it was too little and maybe too late. Foity white and colored dele-gales approved a broad statement of principle meant to marshal the world's Protestant and Orthodox against racism. Racist practices, the World Council of Churches conference said alter six days, were ingrained in the church itself. The church must cure itself and strive to become the kind of revolutionary world force Christianity was in the first days after Jesus, it added.

The delegates agreed that Christians should employ an array of economic and political weapons against the domination of colored people by rich white nations. In the end, they said, Christians should not shrink from violence to achieve racial Some of the HUD National Guardsmen in the city for the North Carolina University disorders were being recalled The trouble al the 1'niversity of California stems from a dispute oxer a "people's created by students and coiimui' inly people on University owned projieily. Nearly persons have been arrested since May 15 in the dispute and a 25-year-old San Jose, man was killed by a shot fired by law enforcement personnel. About persons tried SaU urday afternoon to stage a march in support of reopening the park, but dispersed shortly i. assembling when police told them their demonstration was an unlawful assembly under terms of the emergency order.

The (ireensboro disorders began in mid-week at North Carolina During the two days of violence at the predominantly Negro school one student was killed and five policemen, a guardsman and a student were wounded. The college was closed Friday alter National (Juardsmen cleared it ot students, but a school spokesman said commencement exercises would be held June 1 as scheduled. The trouble began alter the student body president and other persons were forbidden by court order to enter the grounds of a Negro high school. They went to the high school to advise students who were protesting the dents who were protesting the conduct of a school election. and Greensboro, N.C., moved Saturday to restore a measure of normalcy in their cities, disrupted by violent campus disorders.

In Berkeley. Major Wallace .1. S. Johnson proposed that Gov. lionald Reagan withdraw National Guardsmen who have been in the city Max and to lift a state of emergency order that, among other things, imposed a 10 p.m.

to li a.m. curlew. The mayor asked the City Council lo approve the request to lieagan. In Greensboro, Mayor Jack Elam lifted an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.

curfew he imposed Thursday and the City Council rescinded its state of emergency order. SALE! USED CAMPERS TRAILERS! LAYTON 1325 EAST BENSON I1WY. CLOSE-OUT SALE TRAVEL MASTERS! 889-0029 At A jo Way ing with ttowers or otnerwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in the defense of their country during the late rebellion." Logan's grandfather was John A. Logan, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the lie-public. But the inspiration for the order originated with the general's wife, a small, compassionate lady with a will ol iron.

Italy Bans Movie Starring Young Romina Power 1.01)1. Italy (Al'j An Italian- justice. Some delegates thought the it a jp- i II JT mi or I i The quality goes in before the name goes on The 1970 Models Are Now Here made movie starring Uomina Power, 16-year-old daughter of the lale actor Tyrone Power, was ordered seized throughout Jtaly Saturday on obscenity grounds. Lodi's state attorney. Francesco Novelo, known in Italy as "the Puiitan prosecutor," had the fUm stopped here in a public-theater Friday night halfway through the showing.

The seizure was made nationwide Saturday. The film, "Justine," is based on a Marquis de Sade Novel. Miss Power plays a scantily clad girl subjected to physical abuse. Novello is famous for his unrelenting fight against anything he considers indecent. proposals they prepared for a vote of World Council policy makers later this year represented a remarkable contession of collective sin and repentance.

Hut American Negroes kept up a barrage of dissent during the meeting. Nathan flare, black studies director at San Francisco State College, said the delegates were wasting time. Eddie C. Brown, a Greenville, community organizer, pointedly stayed away from many meetings. An American who said he represented the Students' Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, George Black, came uninvited Friday night and demanded millions of dollars for colored liberation movements.

Delegates told Black they would refer his demand to World Council officials but were powerless themselves to meet them. 111) was chosen because the w'ildflowers would be blooming. Children and theu- parents could go into the fields and woods to gather the flowers, and then place them on the graves. "In the early spring of 1S6S, Gen. William i'.

Sherman took a party of friends on a tour of Southern battlefields," Logan explained. "My grandfather was invited, but he had recently been elected a senator from Illinois and felt that he could not take the time away from these duties. His wife my grandmother went in his place. "She was impressed by the fact that the graves of the Confederate soldiers were decorated with flowers. Most of them had OHCE EACH YEAR IT HAPPENS THE 69'S MUST GO! MRS.

JOHN A. LOGAN bill was signed, the name was changed to Memorial Day, although many continued to use the name Decoration Day." Logan also recalls that his grandmother had an interest in Civil War veterans before and long after Memorial Day was established. Whenever they wanted something, they would go to my grandmother," he said with a smile. "She would put on her bonnet and go to the secretary of war with her arguments. When she knew she was right, she would keep after him until been placed there by children.

"When she returned to Washington, she told my grandfather Japanese Scouts I plH 1 fLi! Wd 0 0 A 0 S. AND 0 S. 100 TO GO 58 0 A lO.IHIll activp Madrid is the chief population center of Spain. Japan has about Girl Scouts. that it would be nice, and fitting, il the graves of the men from the North also had flowers ST NURSING HOME she "Ot what she placed upon them.

"M.v grandfather agreed at once. His order designated May 30 as Decoration Day for all G.A.K. members. "The idea took hold at once. wanted.

Ac considerable 1 tualiy she wielded political power. Hour Skilled Nuismg (oie Hot Water therapy Pool lor Anlintirs Quiet Rustic Ermioiiment Reputation For Good Food The day was celebrated all over House by The Side of The Road the North. Then, in 1871, I believe, my grandfather introduced the bill in Congiss that made it a holiday. When the BRAND NEW ZENITH TABLE RADIOS $8.95 07 E. Adelaide Ph.

624-3450 'jo "They used to call her General Logan. At her funeral, a delegation of Civil War veterans from soldiers' homes rushed out, pushed aside her pallbearers and insisted on carrying the casket. It was a fine tribute." Logan's father was a classmate at West Point of John J. Ph. 624-30141 Melt her heart with 4 Pershing.

He was killed in the Philippines and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Logan also started a career in the Army. A 1912 graduate of Yale, he as commander of the 13Gth Machine Gun Battalion of the 37th Division. He also served with the French army. ill ii DAYS ONLY SATURDAY MAY 24 9-6 SUNDAY AAAY 25 12-6 MONDAY MAY 26 9-9 Id from the Love Bug's store.

All in 14-karat gold Til a iM mmmmmmmmmmmmutiint 8 tit? as "During World War my grandmother kept track of all major maneuvers with pins on a large wall map," he recalls. "An aunt told me it was almost prophetic the way she figured out movements before they took place." Then in 1922 Logan resigned from the Army to enter business in New York. After 11) years ui the reserve he was placed on the honorable retired list. After retiring from business, he spent two years as second in command of the Lamb expedition that explored China and northern Tibet for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Williams, a Free Service black power advocate who fled the United States eight years ago alter being charged with HOURS Mon. Fri. 9-9 Sot. 9-6 Sun. 12-6 kidnaping a white couple, ai med here Saturday from exile in Red China.

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