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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE, DC, MONDAY, AUGCT 19, 1963 PAGE SEVEN Thii Was the Civil War Solons Backing Rights March Fear That It May Boomerang Proposes Total War' Reapportion Law Case UnderWay OPELOUSAS, La. (UPD-Trial began today of a St Landry Parish taxpayers' suit challenging the constitutionality of the state's new reapportionment law. The taxpayers, attempting to get the parish Democratic Executive Committee to conduct the Dec. 7 Democratic primary as if the law were never passed, were joined in the suit by a group of 41 officials and citizens from Lafourche Parish. Lost Seats Both parishes lost part of their House delegations under the reapportionment act St.

Landry lost one of three representatives, and Lafourche lost one of its two House members. The St Landry Democratic Executive Committee was not contesting the suit The committee March Backers Sought Overseas By Rob Small PARIS (UPI) Americans abroad were urged today to sign a petition support of the planned civil rights march on Washington and deliver it personally to the nearest U. S. embassy. Negro author James Baldwin, actor Anthony Quinn and other Americans living in Paris drafted the petition Sunday following a meeting of nearly 250 Americans at the annex of the American Church in Paris.

The 38-year-old author of "Another Country" and "The Fire Next Time," plans to join the Aug. 28 march in Washington to demand civil rights action in Congress. He shared the rostrum with Negro actor William Marshall at the meeting. "We want to serve notice we are part of this revolution in the United States," Baldwin told the gathering of American residents and vacationers. He received a warm reception from the audience.

Actor Burt Lancaster, who currently is making a film in France, has announced he will interrupt filming to join the march in Washington. Quinn Woji't Participate Quinn, also filming in France, said he will not be able to participate in the march but is extremely interested in the movement to show solidarity of Americans overseas with the civil rights campaign. The petition of support appeared as a coupon today in the international edition of the New Sherman By Merlon T. Akera Un'rttd Prtss International At we late summer of 1863 president Lincoln was thinking about how to reconstruct the rebellious states of Mississippi, Lou- isiana ana Arkansas, now that they had been occupied. He had to decide soon or Congress would seize eie initiative.

He wanted the opinions of "cool end discreet men," he said through Maj. Gen. Henry W. Hal- leek, Union army commander, Halleck passed along the word to several generals, one of them William Tecumseh Sherman, camped at the moment on the Big Black River east of Vicks- burg. Miss.

"Write me your views Halleck told Sherman in a letter from Washington dated Aug. 29, 1863 ena headed "private." Sherman did in many words of them. Closely reasoned nigniy realistic many paragraphs bordering on poetry. "Uncle Billy" had meditated at many a campfire since 1861. Then he had been called "crazy by newspapers because he said the Civil War would be a lone one and that hundreds of thousands of iwldiers must be recruited and thousands of millions spent before the South could be defeated.

Not only that, but the war must be carried to the South to city. hamlet and farm with gun and torch until the will to fight was extinguished and the gray armies crushed. That was "total war" in the modern sense. Thought Into Words And Billy Sherman was the first leader in the war to realize that end to put the thoughts into words and ultimately into action. Sherman knew more about the South and its people than most.

So he started his answer "pri vate and confidential" to Hal leck by pointing out that all states, north and south, had a stake in the Mississippi River and in keeping it open to navigation. "The inhabitants of the country," he wrote, "on the Jtfon-ongahela, the Illinois, the Minnesota, the Yellowstone and Osage are as directly concerned in the security of the Lower Mississippi es those who dwell on its very banks in Louisiana "I would deem it unwise at this time, or for years to come, to revive the state governments of Louisiana, etc They chose war we accepted the issue, and now they begin to realize that war is a two-edged sord I know them well. For the President's eye he divided Southerners into four classes. "First. The large planters, owning lands, slaves and all kinds of personal property.

These are, on the whole, the ruling class. They ere bitter as gall in other words they are conservatives. I know we can manage this class, but only action. Argument is exhausted, and words have lost their usual meaning it is better to ellow the planters, with individual exceptions, gradually to recover their plantations Majority Not Interested "Second. The smaller farmers, mechanics, merchants and laborers.

This class will probably number three-fourths of the whole; have in fact, no real interest in the establishment of a Southern Confederacy, and have been led or driven into war on the false STOCK fluence in Negro demonstrations. The fear that the communists might provoke a disturbance when more than 100,000 integrationists march on the city is not confined to Keating and Thurmond who represent opposite points of view on civil rights. It is shared, too, by congressmen like Rep. J. Edward Roush, who supports civil rights legislation but not the Aug.

28 march. just plain afraid serious things could happen," Roush said. He said "extremists" such as the communist and American nazi party were plotting to turn the march into a disaster. "The people who have planned it are, for the most part, conscientious and they don't want trouble," Roush said. "But neither they nor the crowd are trained in peaceful demonstrations." 3 G.O.P.

Hopefuls Address BR Rally BATON ROUGE (AP) Sixth district Republicans ate baked beans in a weekend meeting, but the menu was no concession to the Kennedys of Massachusetts. Charlton H. Lyons of Shreve-port, GOP national committeeman, 68, delivered heated accusations against President Kennedy's administration last night during the affair. Three of the four GOP candidates for the House of Representatives in the East Baton Rouge parish race C. G.

Hall. Dr. Roger Peak and J. Patrick Smith, spoke on behalf of their candidacies. Charges Socialism Lyons, an oilman, told the audience of some 250 United States under the Kennedy administration is being transformed into a socialistic, totalitarian nation.

"We conservatives," he added, "must be dedicated to the re-establishment of constitutional government. We have got to do this with the great help of conservative Democrats," Lyons said. "The Democratic Party of Jefferson is dead, so we southerners have to turn elsewhere for the type of leadership to preserve our free society." "God has given us one more chance," Lyons said. "If we don't re-establish constitutional government by 1964, this nation as a free people Is going down the drain." The President's Intervention in the steel price increase, the Republican leader said, was an example of the "arrogant assumption of power that typifies this administration." On civil rights, Lyons said Republicans are agreed on the question of racial integration. He said the civil rights proposals in Congress in their present form show again arrogance and police state methods.

Scottish Rite Assn. Dinner Is Planned (Special to The Town Talk) WINNFIELD, La. The Kis-atchie Scottish Rite Assn. of Grant, LaSalle, Jackson and Winn parishes will be honored with a dinner beginning at 8 p. m.

Fri day at the Westside Elemetary scnooi caietena. The dinner is being given by the Shreveport Scottish Rite bodies. The guest speaker will be D. Louie Butler, 33rd degree and past grand master of the Grand Lodge of QU I I BEST TIME TO 1 BURN BRUSH? I I AFTER i' i A RAIN York Herald Tribune, published in Paris. It was scheduled to appear tomorrow in the Paris edition of the New York Times.

Both papers have wide tion overseas. The coupon reads: "March on Washington. the undersigned, as an American citizen hereby publicly express my support of the march on Washington movement which aspires not only to eradicate all the racial barriers in American life, but to liberate all Americans from the prison of their biases and fears. I cannot physically participate in this march but like the rest of the world, have been tremendously stirred by so disciplined an exhibition of dignity and courage and persistence and would like to associate myself with it" Below the petition is a space for a signature and the following instructions: "Present this at the American embassy in your city on Wednesday, Aug. 21, between one and three o'clock." ROOF LEAK? If so dial 3-6355 De SeDe Roofing.

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Halleck reported back that Lin coin bad read it and wanted to publish it if Sherman approved. "At the tune, I preferred not to be drawn into any newspaper controversy," Sherman replied. perhaps remembering the news stones that had said he was "cra zy." Lincoln never published the letter but Sherman did in his me moirs years later. U.S. Moon Shot Complex, Costly (Continued from Page 1) large and small, for the gigantic isaturn rocket which in two min utes will consume 2,100 tons of fuel to start the astronauts on their way.

More than $1.3 billion has been earmarked for Saturn development in this fiscal year, Estimated cost for each launching of the 360-foot vehicles, including booster price, will reach millions, Before the hardware can be flown, it must be thorougly groundtested, and launch pads must be built. For fiscal 1964, NASA has requested $800 million to construct test facilities in Mis sissippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Cape Canaveral and other centers. The biggest construction expen diture in the next few years will be at Cape Canaveral where near ly one billion dollars will go into launching complexes and support facilities. Already. 5,000 construe tion workers are on the job.

Next year there will be 4,000 more. Why the high price for the great moon adventure? Walter C. Williams, associate di rector of the Manned Spaceflight Center, recently gave this expla nation: "Increases in technology since the days of Ferdinand Magellan and wooden sailing ships have not come easily, nor have they been cheap. "To be able to fly higher and faster, researchers found that they not only needed a vehicle that would give high engine performance, but one that could protect its pilots from heat and cold and provide an environment in which a pilot or crew could sur vive. Examination of North Ameri ca's approach on the command and services modules, provides good insight into the complexity of the project.

NASA selected North American for the job in 1961 and the com pany worked under temporary con tract until last week while plan ners and engineers hammered out just what type of craft was needed. Many Models Required With something as intricate and revolutionary as a moon vehicle, a company can't just custom-build one model and be sure it will do the job. So the contract calls for 11 flight-worthy spacecraft, 15 boilerplate or engineering test models and 10 dummy or mockup models, plus 10 craft for future manned missions in various stages of development The development and testing program will include the launching of seven boilerplate and four regular unmanned Apollo craft from White Sands, N.M. in tests of the emergency rocket escape system and from Cape Canaveral. The other models will be sub jected to various air drop, parachute, environmental chamber and other tests.

The craft labeled for future missions will carry astronauts on earth orbit and moon orbit flights before the lunar landing is at tempted. Together, the command and ser vice modules are 25 feet high and 13 feet in diameter. The complete Apollo vehicle, with the lunar excursion module and escape tower will be 84 feet tall and weigh 000 pounds. To provide subsystems and assemblies for its two modules, North American set up a subcontracting network of 1,500 com- By Stovon Gorsttl WASHINGTON (UPI) The staunch est congressional advocates of the "march of Washington" are a little bit jittery. The fear that one incident one touch of violence, one disturbance on Aug.

28 could turn the march into a giant boomerang and bring incalcuable harm to the cause of civil rights. Among these supporters of "the march on Washington for jobs and freedom" are Sens. Paul Douglas, D-I1L, Kenneth B. Keating, R-N. and Jacob K.

Javits, three of the most active civil rights backers in Congress. Javits had called Aug. 28 "a historic date" and Keating has labeled the march "an American cause." But in their statements, they have warned repeatedly against violence. "I know clearly that the whole cause could be very seriously hurt" Javits said, "if there's violence, if there's disorder, if there's even bad taste." At another time, Javits warned "there, are, of course dangers in any mass assembly." Javits To Attend Javits, who feels that march leaders have taken every possible precaution, will close his office Aug. 28 and free his staff to participate.

Javits plans to attend the ceremonies at the Lincoln memorial Similar warnings against possible violence were urgently given by Douglas recently to a delegation from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Keating said Sunday "any incident or outbreak of violence connected with the demonstration could do grave damage to the civil rights cause. "It would serve," he added, "as a spurious but convenient pretext to the enemies of civil rights to delay or scuttle the pending legislation." Keating said plans for keeping the peace had been carefully drawn and that necessary precautions had been taken. But he said the marchers "may face trying circumstances not of their own making from communists, from the American nazis, or from other racist groups." Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.

who frequently has expressed the southern distaste for the march and other demonstrations, contends that such activities are used by the communists. Communist Role Cited "There is no question," Thurmond said in his weekly newsletter, "that many people participating in these disturbances are sincerely seeking to obtain some end other than advancing the cause of communism. "However, there are also some who are sincerely carrying out communist orders and aims of the Communist Party USA." He said a recent article by the National Editorial Association claimed that Gus Hall, head of the communist party in this coun try, "has issued secret orders for reds to infiltrate the demonstrations, especially the march on Washington." Thurmond said the authorities had ignored all requests for an investigation to determine whether there was any communist in Military Leaders Endorse A-Pact (Continued from Page 1) pending treaty which would allow this balance to shift in favor of the Soviets, McDonald replied: "I'd say the chances of that hap pening from testing alone would be rather small. I don't think they can be eliminated aitogetner." Questioned about the capability of a Russian missile-killer missile system and U. S.

ability to penetrate the Soviet system, LeMay said he would prefer not to an swer in the public session. But he said he believes the United States "can survive" a Russian first strike with nuclear weapons at the present time. A closed session of three committees was scheduled this afternoon at which the service chiefs were expected to testify on classified matters. LeMay told Sen. Richard B.

Russell, Armed Services Committee chairman, that all of the joint chiefs consider as "extremely important" the safeguards outlined in their earlier joint statement of treaty approval. These relate to continued U. S. underground testing, maintenance of laboratory and test site facilities and an detection system. "I attach a great deal of importance to the military and technical disadvantages which the treaty has in it," LeMay said.

Russell wanted to know if the chiefs had received assurances that the safeguards would be carried out or whether they would "depend on Congress" to estab lish provision foe the safeguards. LeMay replied that no one had said they would be provided. Two Senate committees have asked that the administration provide a "bill of particulars spelling out guarantees of such safeguards. Russell also asked the other chiefs, McDonald, Army Gen. Earle G.

Wheeler, and Marine Gen. David M. Shoun. whether they would have approved the treaty "in the absence of these safeguards." Each said he would not have. theory that they were to be benefited somehow they knew not how.

These are the real tier elcat of the South and hardly worthy of a thought they will follow blindly the lead of the planters The Southern politi cians, who understand this class, use them as the French do their masses seemingly consult their prejudices while they make the orders and enforce them. We should do the same. "Third. The Union men of the South I have little respect for this class They give us no assistance or information I ac count them as nothing in this great game of war." "Fourth. The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, law yers about town, good billiard' players and sportsmen, men who never did work and never wilL War suits them, and the rascals are brave, fine riders, bold to tashness and dangerous subjects in every sense.

They care not a soul for niggers, land or any thing. They hat Yankees per se, and don't bother their brains about the past, present, or future, As long as they have good horses, plenty of forage, and an open country, they are happy. This is a larger class than most men suppose These men must be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace Sherman came to the conclusion that "a civil government now would be simply ridiculous" for such a people. Maintain Military Rule Interests of the United States "demand the continuance of the simple military rule, till after all the organied armies of the South are dispersed, conquered, and subjugated We cannot attempt to reconstruct parts of the South as we conquer it, till all idea of the establishment of a Southern Confederacy is aban doned Sherman wrote on: "Another great and important natural truth is still in contest, and can only be solved by war, Numerical majorities by vote have been our great arbiter. Here tofore all men have cheerfully submitted to it in questions left open, but numerical majorities are not necessarily physical ma' jorities.

The South, although numerically inferior, contend that they can whip the Northern su periority of numbers, and there fore by natural law they contend they are not bound to submit War alone can decide it "Can we whip the South? "I would banish all minor Ques tions, assert the broad doctrine that as a nation the United States has the right, and also the physi cal power, to penetrate to every part of our national domain, and that we wil do it that we will do it in our own time and in our oyn way; that it makes no differ ence whether it be one year, or two, or ten, or twenty. that we will not cease till the end is attained Make Them Sorry "I would not coax them, or even meet them halfway, but make them so sick of war that generations will pass away before they again would appeal to it The only government needed or deserved by the States of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, now exist in Grant's army The people of this country have forfeited all right to a voice in years actual experience at! i i I 1 I WE ARE LIQUIDATING OUR INVENTORY PRIOR TO CLOSING OUR BUSINESS Between August 14th and 31st ALL ITEMS REDUCED ALEXANDRIA SEED and GARDEN CENTER, Inc. Lee and Main Phone HI 2-8823 met last weekend and voted to support the taxpayers contention that the law deprived them of a representative to which they were entitled. The committee said it thought the taxpayers' demands were "justified, legal and proper." No Court Ruling Fighting the suit was a group of Baton Rouge taxpayers, who filed suit in federal court earlier this year to force the House to reapportion itself. The federal court never ruled on the suit because the legislature, meeting in a session es pecially called to deal with reap portionment, took action on its own.

The Baton Rouge group contended that if the Dist Court here upheld the taxpayers, it would have the effect of invalidating the reapportionment act panies in 40 states. When a subcontract is announced, the dollar figure is dominant. What the public rarely hears about are the tough technical problems, the long, hard engineering spadework and test procedures which a company acquires as part of the award. North Ameican went to Avco Corp. for the design and fabrication of a heat shield to protect the Apollo crew during the return trip through the earth's atmosphere.

Avco has had considerable experience designing nose cones to protect nuclear warheads of military missiles. But Apollo will have a longer, hotter re-entry and new materials must be designed. Collins Radio Corp. long has been accustomed to building communications equipment to link pi lots and more recently the Mercury astronauts to the ground. Under an estimated $45 million contract, it is tackling the most demanding communications task ever assigned a company- developing the equipment which will maintain reliable connection, both oral and electronic, with the Apollo team on its seven-day round-trip journey.

To help solve many problems, such as heat, vibration and distance, Collins enlisted four major cemmuniactions subcontractors. Other firms are wrestling with problems involved in devising the escape rocket; environmental control system to assure the crew ample air to breathe, water to drink and sanitation facilities; a fuel cell for a steady supply of electrical power; propulsion units for maneuving the craft; guidance, stabilization and control sys tems; parachute recovery sys tem; television cameras and hun dreds of other items. Quick-Acting Cop Saves Cut Victim WASHINGTONf UPI quick thinking policeman reached into a man's slashed throat Sunday and saved him from almost certain death by pinching off the flow of blood form his severed jugular vein during a 15- minute ride to the hospital. Using only two pieces of gauze, Pvt. Volney Wiley Jr.

kept his ife-savmg hold on Edward Evans, 36, who suffered a six inch straight razor slash across the neck during a fight. Wiley saw Evans stagger out of a house, and collapse. He cal led for an ambulance and then applied his first aid. All during the ride to the hos pital, Wiley kept his fingers on Evans Jugular vein. Officials at the hospital said Evans had not received im mediate attention, he almost certainly would have died.

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