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The Greenville News from Greenville, South Carolina • Page 36

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A Y. JUNE 2. 1966 THE GREENVILLE HEWS. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE THIRTY-SIX 4 Charged In Attack On Trio; One Is 102 Londoners Hear Graham i hum mii COLUMBUS, Ga.

(AP) A or three days at her small house on a dead end road about 20 Columbus woman, her two sons Probers Say $115,000 In Federal Funds Went To Anti-White Group miles from Newport, Tenn. Odell said one of the victims apparently was beaten on the head with a pistol, but all three survived and described the Morgans as their assailants. He said one of the women worked loose from her bonds (P If mom and a daughter-in-law have been charged with armed robbery and assault with intent to murder the woman's 102-year-old grandmother and two elderly aunts. Muscogee County officers said the three victims were tied up and apparently left for dead Monday night during a robbery at their home in a mountainous rural section of Cocke County, Tenn. Held awaiting extradition proceedings are Ruby Morgan, 51, her sons Leon and Floyd Morgan, both in their 20s, and Leon's wife, Betty.

Cocke County Sheriff Tom Odell said Mary Jane Messer, a NEW YORK (AP) The Black Arts Theater, whose productions included violently anti-White plays on Harlem street corners, got $115,000 from a federal crash program to keep Harlem cool last summer, a investigating team has reported. The team said the theater, once headed by Negro poet-playwright LeRoi Jones, got the money in a "circuitous manner" under the guise of "day camps." The Black Arts financing was probed by an internal investigation committee of the board of directors of HARYOU-ACT, the Harlem agency through which A section of the investigating committee's report, obtained by the AP team, said: "Records show that the Black Arts Theater was turned down for funding as part of the (summer) crash program and that OEO (Office of Economic Opportunity) had also refused to grant it funds. "Had the board of directors (of HARYOU-ACT) been keen and observant, Black Arts would not have entered PUL (Project UpDift, the program) in the circuitous manner in which it did." "The Black Arts Theater was made to appear to be operating as 'dav camns thp rpnort and walked to a neighbor's house, where she called police. Muscogee officers said they recovered $3,850 of about $4,000 reported stolen, as well as a pistol and several homemade quilts, which they said belonged to the three victims. STEEL CENTERS PITTSBURGH Pennsylvania leads in raw steel production and blast furnaces and is followed in order by Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

DIXIE CRYSTALS HAS WHAT IT TAKES EHERGY I widow, and her twin daughters, Liza and Martha, 60, had been visited by the Morgans for two antipovertv funds were continued, "with a condition if neled. The committee's report BiHUi iwiiiiitww ii iMiMMjMiiiiiiirii 'II iwiii nidi which states that only $2,800 worth of 'consumable goods' was to be provided." ITEMS LISTED But that much, the report added, was spent on just three has been delivered to the board, but has not been made public. An Associated Press reporter team obtained a copy of principal sections. The money obtained by the theater came from a $2-million fund poured into the Negro ghetto to prevent a repetition of the 1964 riots. The riots did not recur.

LONDON Evangelist Billy Graham, opening his second crusade in Britain, begins his two-hour revival meeting in Earls Court Arena in London Wednesday before a crowd of 18,038 people. He appealed to his audience to make London a dynamic center for the spreading of the gospel. "I am delighted with the audience," Graham said. "It was a much quieter and more responsive one than that of 12 years ago." (AP Wirephoto) Fine Foods From 2 Locations 106 GREEN AVE. 90 ALLEN ST.

at DUNEAN Next to Fire Station items $1,200 on men's suits, $800 for rent of a tape recorder and $800 for a rented living room suite. 'f rom documents in our possession," it added, "Black Thursday, Friday Arts spent at least 90 times the The theater's federal funds were choked off last Sept. 7 and Sargent Shriver, federal anti-Dovertv chief, said it should sum of $1,280." That would be at least never have gotten the money. The committee said the thea PC Host To Industrial Management Session ter rented 55 vehicles, for un specified reasons. It a'so said the theater plays used "inexcusable language.

NEW OLDSMOBILE ToicI n2 uiSTatki contained an "unusual attack tute of Milwaukee, and Grady E. Gant of Charlotte, personnel director of Dixie Yarns, upon the role of the clergy" in Harlem, and were staged for CLINTON More than 200 operating supervisors and personnel managers are expected to assemble on the Presbyterian College campus Thursday for youngsters unable to "distin Inc. The group will be welcomed guish between filth and community expression." CHUCK WILSON Tender Made the eighth annual industrial management workshop of the However, it said there were by G. G. Dowling of Beaufort, president of the State Chamber of Commerce, and Dr.

Marc C. Weersing, president of Presby South Carolina State Chamber of Commerce. Wilson Certified SIRLOIN STEAKS ROAST good things in the theater's program of drama, dance, jazz, classes in Negro culture, histo terian College. The session opens at 10:30 a.m. in Beik Auditorium and ry, political pnuosopny, piay- writing, painting, sculpture, the two-day workshop will extend through Friday afternoon.

ANPA dance, remedial reading and math. HAris Mb. 14-ox. Can $11 99 A group of speakers will lead gc "The general activities," the DRAMAS STAGED Among other things, the Black Arts Theater staged street-corner dramas, including one travesty on the old Jack Benny radio program, which ends with the actor playing Rochester, the Negro chauffeur, killing all the Whites in the cast, including Benny. Livingston Wingate, executive director of HARYOU-ACT, when asked for comment on the committee's report, said Black Arts cost $95,150.

Wingate, who was restored to his post after a five-month leave to "reconstruct" HARYOU-ACT's tangled finances, said he "wove in" Black Arts because he was desperate for jobs for Harlem youth. the time LeRoi Jones came to me he was accepted by the White community," Wingate said. "I knew nothing about Jones to suggest he should not be funded. "The job they gave me was to prevent a riot, not to reach the middle class." i Jones' first off-Broadway play, "The Dutchman," has drawn critical raves early in 1964. Two later plays were much more anti-White, used filthier language, and got cooler reviews.

practical discussions on labor relations labor law, supervisory development, communications, R. Taylor Named Head Of Foundation NEW YORK (AP)-Robert L. Lb. committee said, "found a receptive audience in the Harlem community." By Commission human relations, attitudes, leadership and personnel prac tices. Some of the speakers include Edward J.

Dowd Jr. of Char-- lotte, N. executive vice pres ident of Central Piedmont In Chase Sanborn Taylor, president and publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin, was elected president Wednesday of the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) PORK CHOPS dustries; Eugene A. Keeney of Washington, labor counsel for Tentative' Milk Price Action Taken COLUMBIA (AP)-The South the N. S.

Chamber of Commerce; Dr. George D. Heaton, labor consultant from Charlotte; lb. COFFEE 78c 48c Center Cuts Economy Cuts foundation. He succeeds David Lindsay president and publisher of the Sarasota, Herald-Tribune and Journal.

Eugene S. Pulliam, assistant Clark Caskey of the University of Michigan School of Industrial lb. Carolina Dairy Commission took what was described as "tenta Relations; L. L. Cunningham president of the Business Insti- 12-oz.

Jar publisher of the Indianapolis Star and News, was elected tive action" Wednesday in the controversial area of milk price The playwright pulled out of vice president. He succeeds Wil Black Arts after a dispute ana ARMOUR TREET controls. Commission Director Charles A. Shaw said the agency would S1 33 was last reported in Newark, N.J. He could not be reached for liam F.

Schmick publisher of the Baltimore Sun. Barnard L. Colby, publisher of either make a definite decision Friday or schedule another 12-oz. JOG me iew London, Day, was relected secretary, and May Is Second Best Ever For Auto Industry DETROIT (AP) Auto output last month was the second Eugene S. Bishop, president of meeting.

Presumably the commission wi'l seek legal opinions from the Can With Coupon in this Paper reninsuia newspapers, Palo Alto, was elected treasurer. The ANPA Foundation admin state attorney general's office comment. The HARYOU-ACT committee, headed by Samuel R. Pierce a former judge, was set up last Oct. 11.

Dist. Atty. Frank S. Hogan's office also began an investigation last fall. The investigating committee said many of the theater's purchase orders could not be accounted for, and that it had a revolving petty cash fund of $100 with no limits on replenishment or disbursals.

highest May in history despite a to make certain their action falls within the scope of the new price control law. isters the newspapers in the classroom program of work- variety of handicaps, including HUNT'S TOMATO SAUCE production cutbacks, supplier Under a recently passed act shops for teachers, sponsors the annual World Press Achieve JERGENS LOTION SOAP HUNT'S FRUIT COCKTAIL the commission has emergency shortages and labor disputes. General Motors, Ford, Chrys powers to regulate milk prices ment Award and publishes a va riety of materials to aid teach ler and American Motors pre at the wholesale and retail 12c ers and newspapers in educa levels. liminary reports Wednesday listed May's car production at tional activities. 794,524 units.

This was well be (0)C (5) 21 Large Bath Size No. 300 Size low the record of 837,166 set in 10-LB. BAG CHARCOAL 49c May 1965. Firemen Mop Up Production for the opening Coverihg Auto Accident Newsman Cleared In Case Of Failing To Obey Officer five months of the year came to Their 'Big Fire' PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh firemen are firm believ KANSAS MAID ers in the adage, where there's testimony, saying he found no smoke, there's fire. evidence that the photographer 4,097,743 cars, more than 160,000 vehicles behind the comparable 1965 figure of 4,259,626 cars.

Auto production schedules were trimmed by 175,000 units in early May with another subsequent cut of about 100,000. Most cutbacks were blamed on a slowdown in sales. Ford estimated it lost about Lbs. LIMIT 1 With $5 Ord.r FUmm Answering an alarm at a five-story building recently, firemen had violated the officer order The charge was filed by county patrolman C. B.

Edenfield at tirst could find no blaze. ii- ii cut me smeii oi smoKe was the investigation officer at the accident. He said he was protecting the girl who had asked strong. 15,000 units from its May plans that her photo not be taken. SAVANNAH, Ga.

w-A newspaper photographer, charged with failing to obey an officer when he refused to leave an accident, was cleared in Savannah police court Wednesday. Wyman Ayer, 27, a photographer for the Savannah News-Press, was arrested May 23 while covering an accident in which a car driven by a 15-year-old girl plunged into a canal. Recorder Henry B. Brennan dismissed the charge after hearing more than an hour of They persisted and located the trouble. A mop in the basement was smoldering.

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