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Section Section Section Section Section A Main Jfewi. News, Editorial. Sports. Radio-TV. News.

Movies, State and Markets. Ollt Section. I1 Society. 2nd Society. Class.

I Comic. The Weather Montgomery: Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunder showers. Predicted high for today 79, low 60. High yesterday 80, low 53. (Details, Weather Map, Page 6D.) Section Section Section Section Section ALABAMA JOURNAL cwi o-.

i. it4o 127th Year-No. 49 Pull Day, Niht and Sunday y.Tha Associated Pr Montgomery, Sunday Morning, December 4, 1955 9 Sections 86 Pages 15 CenU-Pay No More Of Tech Student Angry IV. I isis, V' 41.. Protests Griffin Bowl Stand.

School Issue In Spotlight On Long Ballot Voters To Decide On 29 Amendments At Polls Tuesday Alabama voters will go to the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of 29 proposed amendments to the state including two which if ratified will finance a record-shattering school ly 1 I i Demonstrators Smash Line Of Police At State Capitol By JIM THOMASSON ATLANTA, Dec. 3 (AP) Gov. Marvin Griffin's official residence and the Georgia Stale Capitol were stormed early today by a howling mob of Georgia Tech students angered by Griffin's move to keep Tech out of the Sugar Bowl. The demonstrators, who several times burned Griffin 'PICKENS COUNTY Rev. and Mrs.

Rayburn Ray beam confidently as they point out Tuesday, Dec. 6, on the calendar. It'a the data the Lowndes County referendum to make the county dry comes before the people. Ray, of Pickens County, has been leading the campaign to return Lowndes to a dry status. The county has been wet since 1937.

Photo by Lesher MINISTER LEADING WAY Lowndes County Voters Weigh Wet-Dry Question By GERRY LKE Advertiser Assistant Managing Editor FORT DEPOSIT, Dec. 3 A slender 30-year-old Baptist minister from Gordo, hopes to be the Pickens County Moses that leads Lowndes County out of the wilderness of state-controlled alcoholic beverage sales come Tuesday's election. The Rev. Rayburn Ray, who fills the pulpit at Fort TENNESSEE PLANE USED BY FOLSOM This Tennessee National Guard C-47 was the plane used by Gov. James E.

Folsom in his trip from Mobile to Oklahoma City Friday. The Tennessee plane was loaned to Folsom after the Alabama Guard's C-47, "The Gully Jumper" was put in the shop for an overhaul. This photo was taken at Dannelly Field by Bob Underwood, announcer-photographer for WCOV-TV. 1 Tennessee Air Guard Confirms Reports Folsom Made Trip In Borrowed Plane The long ballot to greet the voters at the polling places includes six amendments of state wide application and 23 which are purely local, affecting either one or two counties or cities. Practically all of the interest leading up to the referendum has centered around Amendments No.

1 and 2 No. 1 is the proposed Goodwyn school tax, and No. 2 is the $110,000,000 bond issue to be used in a school construction program. ADJUSTED INCOME The Goodwyn tax as propsed would be a levy on the "adjusted gross income" of individuals and corporations, and would produce an estimated $29,000,000 annually for education. Rep.

O. J. (Joe) Goodwyn of Montgomery county, author of the Din, nas aeunea aajustea in come as all such income exclud ing normal business expenses, or expense which is necessary in pro viding the income. He has further described his plan as a "net profits tax" and not a gross profits tax. The proposed bond issue is to be financed by the Goodwyn plan, and should the tax proposal be rejected it would be necessary for the Legislature to find sufficient financing revenue elsewhere be fore the bonds could be issued.

Here is a brief explanation of the remaining amendments on the ballot: Amendment No. 3: This pro posal would permit any county or school district in the state to levy an additional property tax. with the proceeds earmarked for education. Under the present law, should any district or, county wish to increase its property tax it would first have to be approved by the entire state. Amendment No.

4: Similar to No. (See Page 6A) Legal Foriim Set Tuesday A discussion of "The Law of. Neighbors" will be featured at the Montgomery. Bar Assn. -Advertiser-Journal Legal Forum at, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Panel members who are attorneys and their discussions will include: Robert Varner: nuisances, including smells, noises and animals, covering specifically dogs and cats. 1 Evans Hinson: trees, fences, and parting walls and hedges including spite fences. Sol Brinsfield, easement including joint driveways, drainage and the flow of water. Fn.hk Hawthrone: zoning and plat restrictions and restrictive covenants.

Moderatpr will be Sam Rice Baker. The program will be held in the Montgomery County Courthouse and is free to the general public. in effigy, broke through a cordon of Georgia Bureau of Investiga tion agents and smashed their way into the Capitol. But police lines reinforced with 25 cars of state troopers held back the crowd of more than 2,000 at the governor's mansion. REQUEST TO REGENTS The demonstration was touched off by Griffin's request to the uni-ersity system Board of Regents bar stat! colleges from playing opponents having Negro players or in games where spectators are not racially segregated.

Pittsburgh has a Negro, Bobby Grier, a reserve back, on its football squad. And segregation will not be practiced in 6ale of Pitt's bloc of tickets to the Jan. 2 game in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. A few hors after the student demonstration broke up, a source close to the governor, who de clined to be quoted by name, said. "Georgia Tech will be allowed to play in the Sugar Bowl." DIDN'T MENTION BOWL This Griffin administration source pointed out that the gover nor's message to Regent Chair man Robert O.

Arnold of Covington did not specifically mention the Sugar Bowl. But in view of the sweeping segregation policy laid down by the governor and his call of an uiv mediate called meeting" -of the regents to consider it, the request obviously was prompted by the forthcoming bowl game. Arnold said today he has asked the regents to meet at 11:30 a.m. Monday to study the governor's request. But in addition to the administra tion spokesman's (statement, there were other indications that Tech's Sugar Bowl contract will not be disturbed.

CLOSE FRIENDS Regent Quimby Melton, editor of the Griffin News and a close friend of the governor, first declined to comment on the matter, but later apparently laid down the administration's policy line. He suggested that Tech be allowed to carry out its Sugar Bowl contract, but that the regents adopt Griffin's suggestion for all future athletic events of state colleges. Tech President Blake Van Leer told John Earp, Chicago NBC sports editor in telephone interview, "I'm 60 years old and I have never broken a contract and I'm not going to break one now." Van Leer also is chairman of the Tech Athletic Corporation, a separate" agency set up by the Legislature to handle athletic affairs. The race issue in connection with the Sugar Bowl was raised unofficially earlier in the week when Hugh G. Grant of Augusta, former diplomat "and fervent prosegrega-tionist, wired Tech coach Bobby Dodd a protest.

Dodd ignored it and Arnold at that time said it would be "no innovation" for Tech to play against a Negro YOUNG DEMOS NIX METCALF OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 3 (At David Bunn of Denver was elected president of the Young Democrats of America over Neil Met-calf, Geneva, at the organization's national convention here." Bunn received 503 votes to 3S0 for Metcalf William Poindexter of Kansas City, the third candidate, was never in the running. The new president succeeds Neal Smith of Des Moines, Iowa. Negro Groups Ready Boycott Of City Lines By JOE AZBELL Advertiser City Editor A "top secret" meeting of Montgomery Negroes who plan a boycott of city busses Monday is scheduled at 7 p.m. Monday at the Holt Street Baptist Church for "further instructions" in an "economic reprisal" campaign against segregation on city busses, The Advertiser learned last night.

The campaign, modelled along the lines of the White Citizens Council program, was initiated by unidentified Negro leaders after a Negro woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested by city police Thursday on a charge of violating segregation laws by sitting in the white section of a city bus. Yesterday Negro sections were' flooded with thousands of copies of mimeographed or typed letters asking Negroes to refrain from riding city busses Monday. SECOND TIME The, letter states: "Another Negro woman has been arrested and thrown into jail because she refused to get up out of her seat on the bus and give it to a white person. It is the second time since the Claudette Colbert case that a Negro has been arrested for the same thing. This must be stopped.

Negroes are citizens and have rights. "Until we do something to stop these arrests, they will continue. The next time it may be you, or you or you. This woman's case will come up Monday. We are, therefore, asking every Negro to stay off the busses on Monday in protest of the arrest and trial.

Don't ride the busses to work, to town, to school or anywhere on Monday. 1 You can afford to stay out of school -for one day if you have no other way to go except by bus. If you work, take a cab or walk, but please, children and grownups, don't get on a bus at (See NEGRO, Page 6A) bile Thursday, after first having landed at Dannelly Field Wednesday afternoon. While on the runway at Dannelly a photograph was made of the plane, and as a result of this picture the cameraman reportedly was threatened with legal action by an Air Guard official. Bob Underwood, an announcer and photographer for WCOV-TV here, took the picture of the plane shortly after "he -had landed his own light plane nearby.

"I had been out flying and just as I was landing at Dannelly I heard ove" my radio a conversation between the C-47 and the ground," Underwood said. "The C-47 pilot radioed to the field asking where he was to pick up the two governors." "Dannelly Field radioed back, asking what governors the pilot was talking about," Underwood continued. "The pilot then replied, 'Folsom and Harriman." The ground radio then replied it knew nothing about it, and suggested the plane land near the Air Guard hanger." "After hearing this conversation I hopped out of my plane, grabbed my camera and ran over to get a picture of the two governors," Underwood continued." "When they Clifton E. Oliver Dies At Age Of 78 DADEVILLE, Dec. 3 (Special) Clifton E.

Oliver, mayor of Dadeville from 1910 to 1940, died in Alexander City today after an illness of several days. He was 73. Born and educated in Tallapoosa County, Oliver was a director of Alabama Mills and the bank of Dadeville at the time of his dpath. He was prominent in religious and civic affairs in east Alabama throughout his active years. Funeral services will be heid from the Dadeville Methodist Church at 2 p.m.

Sunday witn the Rev. Carl E. Tolleson officiating. Buria.1 will be in Dadeville Cemetery. Dec.

3 Heat Snaps Record Warm winds from the Gulf of Mexico precipitated the warmest Dec. 3 in Montgomery's history, according to the U.S. Weather Bu-, reau at Dannelly Field. The mercury rose to an unsea-sonal 80 degrees shortly after 2 p.m. yesterday breaking the rec- ord of 78 degrees set Dec.

3, 1922. The all-time high for this time of the year in Montgomery is 83 degrees set on Dec 7, 1951. A rainfall of .15 inch added discomfort to the heat as the humid ity ranged as high as 93 per cent. The low temperature reading for day was 53 degrees. Unusual heat prevailed through-the state with a reporting a high of 81 degrees and Evergreen a high of 80.

There was light rainfall sprinkled over Alabama. Weathermen forecast a partly cloudy and warm day today with scattered showers and thunder-showers. They added it will turn cool late tonight. The predicted high is 78 degrees while the low is forecast as 60. Army Speeds Rotation Of Troops In Far East SEOUL, Sunday.

Dec. 4 The U.S. Army said today it is speeding up its usual rotation of soldiers bound for the United States to get as many as possible home for Christmas. Since mid-November, the Army reported, 3,850 U.S. soldiers have left Korea for home.

Another 1,000, who normally would leave in January, will depart by mid-December. FAVORITE SON By BOB INGRAM The Tennessee Air Guard In Memphis confirmed yesterday that one of its planes had been loaned to Gov. James E. Folsom for use in flying him to the Young Democrats national convention in Oklahoma City. The plane, a C-47, was loaned to Alabama on the request of Adj.

Gen. William D. Partlow after Alabama's C-47, "The Gully Jumper," normally used by Folsom, was grounded for repairs. The Tennessee C-47 picked up Folsom at Brookley Field in Mo- State Counts. 8 Lives Lost On Highways By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least eight persons died in weekend traffic accidents in Alabama.

A four year old Robertsdale girl, was killed and eight other persons hurt Saturday in a head-on collision of two cars near Foley, Ala. Brenda Sue Boyington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Boyington died shortly after she was taken to a Foley hospital. Her parents were among the injured.

DIED SATURDAY Dickey Layfield, 17, Springville, Rt. 2, died Saturday when a car in which be was a passenger was wrecked near Trussville, Friday night. William Herschel Vaughn, 25, St. Clair County, died earlier after being injured in the same accident. Another traffic accident which caused two deaths occurred before the weekend period began at 6 p.m.

Friday. Mrs. Hazel Lewis Cox, 42, Clan-ton; and McKinley Barber, 53, Wetumpka, were killed in the headon collision of two autoirio- biles 5.2 miles north of Wetumpka on Highway 111 Friday afternoon. (See TRAFFIC, Page 6A) API Gels $650,000 For 2 New Dorms WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 mA loan of $650,000 to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, to build two dormitories, was an nounced today by the Community Facilities Administration.

One dormitory will house 100 women students and the qther 1S2 men students. Auburn, as the institute is pop ularly known, is a state coeducational school with a current enrollment of 7,058. The new dormitories will house students now living in adequate off-campus hous ing. didn't show up, I went ahead and took a picture of the Underwood said later he received a phone call from Ed Dombrowski, former manager of Norraandala shopping center who last week was employed as an informational writer for the state, assigned to the State Military Department as public information officer. "Dombrowski wanted to know what I took' 'a picture of, and when I told him, he said th plane was on a confidential in strument calibration check, and no pictures should have been taken without permission," Underwood continued.

"I asked him why it was necessary to fly all lha way to Mobile for such a check when it could have been done just as easily on a flight to Memphis or Chattanooga. He said he didn't know about that." Underwood said the following day (See TENNESSEE. Page 6A) $16,000 Plane Ready For Use By Governor 1955 Cessna airplane model has been purchased from, Tuscaloosa dealer for $16,000 for us by Gov. James E. Folsom, it was learned today.

It also was reported a late model was traded in and $10,000 allowance given for the plane; Then the old model is said to have been repurchased by the state for the price of $10,000. According to reliable sources th new plane came completely equipped but apparently the equipment was not satisfactory and was removed for new equipment. The highway department is sup posed to have use of the new plane and reliable sources at the Capitol confirmed a purchase order had been approved by Highway Di rector Herman Nelson. He said th plane would be used for survey work. were in Gettysburg to talk over legislative plans for the coming session of Congress said they had received no clues from Eisenhower oh his second term intentions.

They stressed they were voicing their own personal opinions. While Republican attention was focused on Gettysburg, Democratic leaders were gathered in Oklahoma City where they took turns critizing the Eisenhower admin-istration for its foreign and domestic policies. Sen. Sparkman of Alabama, tha Democratic 1952 vice presidential candidate, told a Young Democrats convention" there "The sorry mess that we find in so many parts of the world today is due in part to the bungling manner. of bluff and bluster, followed by backing away, in the handling of our foreign affairs." Com Chrlstm Oo Quicker th Santa Safe 11, Faont 4-5328.

adO Deposits Bethel Baptist Church each Sunday, decided this Black Belt county needed "drying up" last September after two county rallies spearheaded fcy J. M. Swe- denberg of the Alabama Temperance Alliance. SLAM DOOR Success for Ray at the polls Tuesday would slam the door on the county's only liquor store at Fort Deposit and dry up a few scattered beer joints. It was Ray who led the crusade through the red clay hills of Lowndes in getting enough names on a petition to force a showdown on the wet-dry question.

Lowndes, which has been wet since a sfate election on Nov. l6, 1937, puts the issue before the county's voters for the first time since that date. It was in 1937 that the wets managed a victory by only 78 votes. Ray proudly points out the petition needed only 234 names to put the issue to test. Ray's crew of bush-beating Baptist and Methodist laymen stirred up a list of 301 signatures.

The Pickens parson submitted the petition to Lowndes Probate Judge Harrell Hammonds at the county seat in Hayneville on Nov. 3. ABC BOARD CHIEF Hammonds, ironically, is the Fol-somappointed chairman of Alabama's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. In the light of Judge Hammonds' position with the state ABC board has be taken an active role against Ray's dry crusade? Ray says not. "To my knowledge Judge Hammonds took no active part either way." The young minister says his own position in Tuesday's election was inspired only by "the moral issue." He says there have been no major incidents from a smear standpoint.

"There was a rumor I had re-(See LOWNDES, rage 6A) gether and decide what are the issues." Harriman said his name will not be entered in any preferential primaries. Stevenson, who spoke to the Young Democrats yesterday, had announced he would enter the Minnesota primary and perhaps Florida. The New York governor declined to get into a party dispute over whether Democrats will have a "moderate" or "progressive" program. However, he has labeled "moderation" as a Republican term that Democrats should avoid. Stevenson urged such a program in a speech at Chicago on Nov.

19. Since then Gov. G. Mennen Wil liams of Michigan, another possible choice for the presidential nomination, has taken issue with Stevenson, calling for a "progressive" program. Harriman said the issue in 1936 will be "President Eisenhower's surrender to big business and special interests." EYES ON GETTYSBURG Harriman Up For Nomination But Status Still Inactive' 2 Republican Leaders Differ On Outlook For Second Term -5e wrw-" tmr 'I i 1 V- 1 i I'' ''i i A i r- 1 i.V" I lll.i.1i..r,"l 'j -if- 'til i -r I -'-''V I ir M.

A Wat OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 3 Gov. Averell Harriman of New "York said today his name will go In nomination for president at the 1956 Democratic national convention but continued to insist he is not an active candidate. Harriman parried a round of questions from newsmen on his candidacy at a press conference before he was to address the national convention of Young Democrats.

"My name will go into nomination by the New York delegation," Harriman said. He amplified that it would not be as a favorite son. Asked about the candidacy of Adlai Stevenson, 1952 nominee who Is the only avowed candidate so far this year, Harriman said: "It is too early to make up our minds on candidates. What's important now is to get the party to- By The Associated Press Speculation over whether President Eisenhower will seek a second term was fed yesterday (Saturday) by comments of two Republican congressional chiefs after they had conferred separately with the chief executive. House GOP Leader Martin of Massachusetts came out of the President's temporary office at Gettysburg, and told newsmen he believes" Eisenhower will be a second term candidate, "assuming that he will pass the (medical) examinations." Martin said Eisenhower will have to continue in office "for th world's sake." Later, Senate GOP Leader Know-land of California conferred with the President and said he believes Eisenhower has reached "no final decision" on the second term question.

Both Martin and Knowland who AYCEE 'HOUSE RAISING SUCCESS Members of the Montgomery Junior Chamber Commerce declared an old fashioned "house raising" complete with dinner on the grounds at 3762 Audubon Rd. yesterday was a "big success." Early in the morning the 47 Jaycees began to build the house and by nightfall a large portion of the construction had been completed. It generally requires from three to six weeks for an average crew to build a house. Actual construction was under supervision of Paul Robbins. Skilled workmen also were on the job.

The proceeds from the sale of the house, priced at $14,500, will go to the Jaycee civic project fund in providing lunches for needy children. Photo by Owens i -I Trllw takes you STRAIGHT THRU to Norfolk and TllhaiwMl Bavn TIMS TRA1LWAYS. Phone 4-M29 ad).

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