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mSm THURSDAY, FEI. i Vt. Racial Bias Termed More Subtle Than Souths I i. i pr i i Ifi im'i -I Windsor Road Collision Kills Springfield Man WINDSOR A Springfield man died Wednesday night from injuries suffered in a headon and it's a disgrace to the coun- talk with humor, said most try," he declared. youths in this area do not come However, real estate men into contact with Negroes be-must not be singled out to bear cause there are so few Ne- Vermont has its share of racial discrimination although it is more subtle than in the South and the responsibility groes.

for this discrimination rests the blame for this, he said. collision at 4:50 p.m. on U.S. 5 in Windsor. Charles Hartnett, 56, of 12 Valley Springfield, died at with the entire public, rather than with specific groups.

He related the experience of a real estate man who tried 10 years ago to find property for 1 -v 4 i "'ci 'J A This was the consensus of a a Negro family to buy. four-member panel which took Veterans Hospital in White River Junction of head and! "The reaction was so sharp "A Look at Our Own Back yard," Wednesday night in Rice chest injuries at 8:35 p.m. Memorial High School at' a din ner held by the Burlington Crapter, National Association 19 for the Advancement of Colored people, to celebrate tne sign 1 from his white clients that he feared going out of business," Ostrow said. He suggested that a speaker from the real estate association appear before 'the NAACP, and the real estate men invite an NAACP speaker to one of their meetings. On job discrimination, Soph ing of the Emancipation Procla mation.

Highway Death to Dat Yar Ago, 13 Don't Bo Noxt Two students at Mt. St. Mary Academy, Johnette He was a passenger in a car driven by John F. Martin 1 Hartnett and Angela 1 1- 47, of Springfield. Martin was rin pointed out that the Department of Employment Security in the same hospital late regulations prohibit coop Wednesday night with a dislocated left hip and head cuts.

eration with employers who will not hire anyone from mi The Martin car hit a car driv en by Michael Dennis Folsom, grav, discussed the problems of Negro teen-agers in the Burlington a i Alan D. Sophrin of the State Department of Employment Security spoke on job discrimination, and Pierson Ostrow, a real estate appraiser, discussed Negroes' housing problems. nority groups. "But when men compete for jobs, and there are not enough William Burke Miller looks over news copy in office of Rutland Herald, where he is associate state news editor. Forty years ago, he wriggled underground to talk with Floyd Collins, trapped in Kentucky cave.

(AP Wirephoto) Rutland Editor Recalls jobs, the man who wins often 21, of Northfield. Folsom's wife, Barbara, was riding with him. She is eight months pregnant, state police said. FolsAm was admitted to Wind "With Angela, I've had many good times, and I've l(rned a lot I wouldn't have otherwise," she said. Johnette said Negro boys are accepted more readily into society because "boys' don't care who they go' around with, and girls are particular." Teen-agers, unless taught respect for others at home, tend to stay away from Negroes because they regard them as an "unknown quality," and because teen-agers tend toward conformity and fear being friendly to Negroes may dislodge them from their groups, she said.

Speakers on the panel were limited to five minutes. Before the panel discussion, City Rep. Richard Schmidt told' the group a motion had been introduced in the Vermont House to commend the House Un-American Activities Committee and said a public hearing is to be held on the motion. The NAACP opposes committee. Music for the crowd filling the Rice cafeteria was furnished by folk singers Sandy and Caroline Paton of Huntington, pianist Mrs.

Ruth Bauer-Flynn of Essex Junction, and Angela, who plays a violin, and Johnette, who is a pianist. Mrs. Dorothy Page, chapter treasurer, made a plea for new members and donations: "We can't march but our dollars can." She urged potential NAACP members to call the chapter secretary, Mrs. Roland Mull-grav, TR 8-3674. Dr.

Cleveland Williams, first vice president, was master of 11 must look into the dark recesses of his mind for the reason. "Sometimes he must say that he won because the other man was inferior, and inferior be As most Negroes who come sor Hospital with facial cuts and abrasions, and injured jaw Comparing notes at news clinic are Sister Mary Beatrice of Mt. St. Mary Academy, the Rev. Raymond Finehout of St.

Paul's Episcopal Church and Mrs. Stuart Hall of Mary Fletcher Hospital Auxiliary. 70 Hear How To Handle News of Their Groups cause he was black," Sophrin and chest. His wife is in the same hospital with cuts and Saga of Floyd Collins to this community already have jobs, their main problem is not employment but housing; said Ostrow, who spoke of "doors slammed in farpQ and rAal e. bruises of the forehead and right said.

The root of the discrimination problem is the lack of suf knee and chest injuries. A news clinic for 70 public with a panel from The Free ficient jobs, he said. "When we WATERBURY Dr. Floyd Lapidow Optom have enough iobs, good jobs, ing him trays of white chicken tate men who say they have sandwiches. I 'nothing to One night, with Lt.

Robert "I remember when the same Burden of the Louisville Fire could happen to Jews. It men won't have to compete," he added. etrist, 6V2 Siowe Street, Thursday 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Walk policy were among those asked.

At the close of the program Miss Ducas turned the meeting over to the president of the Miss Elizabeth Downer, who invited everyone for refreshments before a regular business meeting of the club. ucpanment, we tnea 10 tasten still can happen to Negroes, Angela, during her discus Press Donald Whelan, city editor, Miss Pillsbury, Mrs. Sidel and McClure. Clayton was moderator. Questions about the types of news stories accepted by the Free Press, deadlines and news it or call Enterprise 6917 Adv.

sion, said tnere are many ad vantages to being a Negro teen a narness wun a ring at tne top around Floyd's shoulders. He himself had to work the straps down to his waist since neither Burden nor I could reach that far. One moment Floyd would cave-in above the elbow turn in the cave. That finally entombed Floyd Collins. Work on a pick and shovel sent equipment from Station 3 to the Howard Johnson restaurant on Williston Road, Widow and Four Children relations chairmen and others 'nterested in their club's news, as sponsored by the Burlington Business and Professional Club and The Burling-'on Free Press, Wednesday eve-ling at Champlain College's iamrick Hall.

Miss Lula Ducas, public relations chairman, introduced Lawrence Clayton, state editor. Clayton introduced J. Warren McClure, publisher of The Free Press; Miss Judi Pillsbury, women's editor, and Mrs. Jac-luelyn Sidle, family page South Burlington. cry out: 1 scale to free Collins started on "Don't pull me out, you'll pull Feb.

5. No dynamite or heavy off my leg!" gear was used for fear of disintegrating the honeycombs of A department official said the call came at 9:35 p.m. when a steam fitting sprung a leak. The doors of the boiler in the Queen City Park Family Burned Out of Their Home ceremonies, tilling in lor tne boiler room directly behind the restaurant part of the complex were blown open by the pres A South Burlington widow and their burning home late ager in Burlington instead of the South, but she said there is discrimination, especially socially. She said a Negro teen-ager in Burlington may expect some of these reactions; "My mother doesn't want me to go around with you 'any more.

"Don't you wish you were white?" "I'll bet you can really fight, because all Negroes are good at fighting." Angela said she thinks being a Negro has caused her to up more rapidly, to think more deeply about world problems, and to realize how difficult it can be for a Negro youth to have the, courage to speak out in favor of civil rights. 1 Johnette, sprinkling her short: A question period was held, her four children escaped from 'Wednesday evening, but they Rt. Rev. Edward J. Fitzsimons, president, who is away on vacation.

BRISTOL Card of Thanks We wish to thank all our friends and neigh sure. Firemen relieved the pres FRESH CAUGHT FLAVOR sure and shut off the water go But in the next breath he would say: "Do anything, but get me out of here." Finally, the strap harness was in place and Burden and who were above the elbow turn, slithered andtwisted trying to exert pressure. But as the rope tightened, Floyd Would cry out like a child and we had to immediately give the rope slack. Trapped by Cave-in I collapsed on reaching the surface and I was hustled to a hotel to ward off possible pneumonia. But our car was overtaken and we were told of a sandstone.

The digging went on for 12 days and nights without interruption. A lateral pass was started on early in the afternoon on Feb. 16. A little miner from Cincinnati named Ed Brennan worked himself into the lateral passage and saw Collins1 head. Floyd Collins was dead.

Any further effort to get Collins body out might have resulted in, injury to too many. So, the cave was filled with timbers and cement and Collins body stayed where the cave trapped him. ing into the boiler. "When we got there, the bors for their many acts of kindness during the recent ill boiler room was full of steam." Hoi Di.h.. 1 ictor the official said.

It took about ness and death of our wife and Editors' note: Forty years ago this month, a young Ken-tuckian named Floyd Collins became trapped while exploring an underground cave. For 17 days, the world waited and prayed as all efforts to free him failed. William Burke Miller, then "Skeets" Miller of the Louisville, Courier Journal and now a staff member of the Rutland, Herald, covered the rescue attempt. Many times the diminutive Miller slipped through the narrow cave opening and down the 65 feet to talk to Collins and take food to the trapped man. For his stories on the Floyd Collins saga which ended in tragedy, Miller received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for reporting.

By WILLIAM BURKE MILLER Written for The ASSOCIATED PRESS Forty years ago, this month, millions of people focused their attention, and prayers, on a newly named hamlet Sand Cave, Ky. For here, just 65 feet below ground, Floyd Collins fought for his life. Collins was lying, encased in stone and chilled by underground drippings, in a fox hole not far from the opening of Mammoth Cave, Ken y's World renowned underground cavern. Above him, hundreds worked around the clock in an effort to free him while telephone calls and telegrams poured in to newspapers offering suggestions and money. Opened Up Crystal Cave Collins had been a loner and the underground world seemed to fascinate him.

In 1917, he hap-, pened upon a hole on his father's farm and together with his father and brother, labored to develop it and opened up what-was to be known as Crystal Cave. 50 minutes to take care of the mother, Lila Taylor. Special thanks to the doctors or and nurses at the DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital Lee Taylor, Harold Taylor Adv. lost nearly all their possessions in the blaze. Mrs.

Margaret Lamb, 76 Central noticed the fire and called the local fire chief, Howard Shepard. Shepard said he got to the home about 10:45 p.m. and said the fire was going in the upstairs. The Burlington Fire Department also sent a truck to the fire. Shepard called the house a complete loss, and said the Lambs were staying with friends nearby.

No estimate of the loss was available Wednesday night. Earlier in the evening, the Burlington Fire Department problem. The explosion, however, blew tiles off the ceiling and ripped the rear doors off. A spokesman said that it was questionable whether or not the restaurant would be able to operate this Thursday without the hot water and heat system. Protein-rich, low in calories, ready to use in salads, cocktails, or main Course hot dishes.

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On this particular morning after breakfast, he took rope with him in an attempt for a descent of 80 feet. He wasn heard from until Saturday morning. Heard Him Calling Jewell Estes, 16, went search ing for Floyd and could barely hear him calling. At the Fox Hole entrance, Jewell could hear Collins shouting that he was caught. Collins yelled that while re turning hand-over-hand up the EXCITING VARIETY! All the wonderful creamy-rich Sealtest flavors you like best are on sale from old-time favorites to delightfully lively newcomers.

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