Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 7

it' SUNDAY, APRIL 1SS3, Ungvisw Morning Journal 7-A el I A pt- I 4 -M H.y Mil 1 1 I IT ff Etfip APUterphoto KKK PROTESTS BLACK POLICE CHIEF, HOMOSEXUAL POLICY Chief Lee Brown organized police security around the march. Angry spectators jeer Klansmen Brookshlre's now offers you 3 choices In film developing! We are pleased to bring to you this new service for convenient, economical photo processing. 1 111 ri If mi r'ti i HOUSTON (AP) A small platoon of robed members of the Ku Klux Klan marched for nine blocks in downtown Houston Saturday, protected by about 600 police from a crowd of jeering, fist-shaking spectators. KKK leaders said the purpose of the Houston march was to protest the appointment of a black man, Lee Brown, as the city police chief. The group said they also were protesting a new policy which will admit homosexuals to the police force.

Polite arrested six people, confiscated a variety of throwing weapons but reported no injuries. The Klansmen, garbed in traditional white and scurlet robes and black and camouflage uniforms, were bused to Main Street and began the march within un envelope of riot-equipped officers who lined the street for 10 blocks. Police said that three adults were arrested on charges of interfering with a lawful procession; two were arrested for possession of rocks; and one juvenile was arrested for throwing rocks. Police said two of those arrested were members of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. Houston Police Chief Lee Brown congratulated the officers at the conclusion of the march and called the operation "the most successful policing of an event in any city, bar none." The crowd began gathering more than an hour before the a.m.

march was to begin, and the canyons of the city were filled with streams of invective against the Klansmen. A group identifying itself as The International Committee Against Racism carried banners and chanted, "Death to the Klan, death to the Klan." One woman speaker with the anti-Klan group instructed a crowd at the beginning of the march; "Make sure the Klan doesn't have a safe journey on the streets of Houston today." But they did. Brown said that through pre-arrangement officers met the two yellow schoolbuses at the Klan headquarters at Pasadena and searched both the buses and the Klansmen. The buses were then escorted to downtown Houston und stopped in the center of Main Street where they were surrounded by a squadron of officers wearing helmets, flak jackets and bearing clubs and riot sticks. The Klansmen immediately started up Main Street led by a phalanx of riot-garbed police officers.

The crowd was held to the sidewalk by ropes and more officers in riot gear. The sidewalks were filled, with a crowd estimated at 2.000, by people shouting, making obscene gestures and screaming threats. The Klansmen. some of whom carried signs attack- Mill) rSlar prints This service offers you one superior quality Ax color print per exposure on any size roll of JJ 12 exposures $1.49 15 exposures $2.49 ff lr 24 exposures $3.49 tfitjr ris I i. I AP Uttrphoto RIOT-GARBED OFFICER STANDS WATCH Over bus carrying KKK members ing the police department and the police chief, occasionally returned the shouts.

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