The Kokomo Morning Times from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 1

Good Morning! KOKOMO ORNING TIMES AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER VOL. I NO. 199 Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Kokomo, Indiana 10c NEWSSTAND 20f BY CARRIER WEEKLY Phone Gl 7-9161 KING DEFIES COURT ORDER IN SELMA follows REV. F.S. KEMPER (center with back to camera), pastor of the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church, 9 local NAACP sympathy marchers last night in prayer at the east steps of the courthouse in downtown fCokomo.

A i a 25 demonstrators marched in protest to racial i in Selma, A a frorr. Rev. Kemper's church to a i a of miles. Charles Lane a i i brick to camera), organized the march. (Morning Times SELMA, Ala.

(UPI) Defying a federal court order, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led 2,500 white and Negro inte- grationists Tuesday on a dramatic march that state troopers turned back peaceably. But violence erupted several hours later, after the shortlived march, when five white men on a downtown street attacked three white out-of-town ministers who had participated in the procession. One of the ministers, identified as the Rev.

James Reqb, 38, of Boston, was seriously injured and rushed to a Birmingham Hospital for surgery. One of the assailants carried a club. The other two ministers were treated and released with minor injuries from the Burwell Infirmary. They were identified as the Revs. Arlio F.

Miller, 25, Boston and Clark Olson, 32, of Berkeley, Calif. King proclaimed his march Tuesday was a victory because the marchers confronted and stood up to the state troopers. He also issued a call for a massive march next week in Montgomery. Selma police said the three ministers told them they were attacked while walking along a downtown street. They said the men who jumped on them were tended a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) rally at the University of California in Berkeley and planned a mass rally at Oakland, City Hall.

The demonstrations were directed against alleged police brutality to Negroes in Selma, Ala. NAACP has demonstration here A crowd of about 75 people gathered on the east side of the county courthouse about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to participate in a prayer session sponsored by the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The session ended a sympathy march by 30 members of the organization to protest the "police brutality in Selma, Alabama, and other events of the past week." The march consisted of a parade of NAACP members who walked in single file from the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church at 319 S.

Cooper to Sycamore and then followed Sycamore to the courthouse. They were led by the organizer of the march, Charles Lane, and the Rev. F.S. Kemper pastor of Mt, Pisgah church. The Rev.

Alvin F. Klotz, executive secre- tary of the Howard County Council of Churches, delivered the main address. Rev. Klotz related the present race problems to those the Jews had twenty years ago. "It is not a new thing, but the revolution of our day has-brought it to our attention.

We are confronted with it at every turn. It is not enough to call this cloud communism, facism, or any other kind of ism as if it were imported from some strange land. It is rather for us to look boldly into the mirror, see ourselves for what we are, and then strike as the heart of the disease," he told the gathering. Other clergy men who ledpraycrat the square were the Rev. Walter Doering, and the Rev.

Ronald Petry. "The march to the square was enjoyed by all who saw it," said Lane, the man who organized the demonstration in less than a day. "We sang freedom songs along tlie route," he added. The freezing temperatures and the slight snow fall didn't dampen spirits of the marchers who walked miles in the demonstration. Some parade members carried signs while others just sang as they walked: The single file observed the rules of the road as if it was a long motor vehicle, stopping for lights in the downtown area and yielding right-of-way to other traffic.

Some of the signs said "Fight discrimination not democracy- and "Support human dignity." Isaiah Kenner, president of the Kokomo Chapter of the NAACP told the Times that the demonstration was well received. "It was a wonderful turnout considering the weather and the fact that the protest was over events of a thousand miles away. It shows that the interest of the people is high on such matters." Protest spreads across all U.S. By United Press International Thousands of persons marched and demonstrated across the nation Tuesday violence against Negroes in Alabama. Evening rush hour traffic was tied into knots on Chicago's busiest shopping street, traffic was paralyzed around the FBI headquarters on New York's East Side, and the crowd of nearly 1,000 pickets in front of the White House in Washington was one of the largest gatherings of its kind in years.

five demonstrators were arrested in Chicago when they sprawled or sat in front of buses and taxicabs at State and Madison streets in the heart of Chicago's Loop. About 150 Negros and whites were dragged out of the Justice Department in the nation's capital, when they staged, a sit-in for the second consecutive day. Four ministers were arrested in Los Angeles when they and nearly 40 other persons, sing-jug and making speeches, blocked elevators in a sit-in in the Federal Building-. An estimated 10,000 persons joined Michigan Gov. George Romney and Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh in a protest march down Woodward Avenue, Detroit's main street.

Three-thousand persons at- neatly dressed in sport clothes but they were not sure of identities. The attack came rapidly from behind and for no apparent reason, they said. Tuesday's episode between the marchers and the state troopers came several hours after President Johnson issued a statement in Washington condemning Alabama police brutality and urging "calmness, reasonableness and respect for law and order" from leaders on both sides. The march was to have been a continuation of last Sunday's march on the Capitol at Montgomery to protest alleged discrimination against Negro voter applicants. Troopers and Dallas (Selma) County Sheriff i Clark's men broke up that march with clubs and tear gas.

Although Tuesday's march, one of the most dramatic events of the long civil rights struggle, (Continued on Page 2) Planners hear Vocational school discussed apartment plan Public hearings will be held at the April 13 meeting of the Kokomo plan commission on plans for a 48-unit "town house" apartment project and a six-lot commercial subdivision. The planners accepted applications for the mission's plat commit- two projects attheirre- tee for study. The pro- r-alar monthly meeting posals could receive final plan commission approval at next month's meeting. The town house apartment project, to be known as Canterbury House, is proposed by Kingston Green, for property in the 1700 and 1800 blocks of West Carter. The proposal is unique in that the occupants would own the apartments in which they would reside.

Developer of the commercial subdivision, on U.S. 31 just north of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks, is Gilbreath Implement company. Several commercial enterprises would be located there, under the oro- posal, with a frontage road planned to give a single exit onto U.S. 31. The commission also granted the Seven-Up Bottling Company a variance to permit the firm i on a 2) night and referred plans to the com- Viet Cong dealt worst defeat; Marine killed A majority of the more than forty administrative personnel attending a meeting here last night to discuss the possibilities of a vocational school in this area indicated that they are in favor of further investigation.

Following a suggestion from W.A. Williams, state director of vocational and adult education, principals, superintendents, and school board members attending plan to investigate population and valuations in their respective corporations. In his opening statements, R.W. Bray, superintendent of Howard county schools who called the meeting said that vocational education is becoming one of the most important situations in our country today. The meeting was set so administrators from surrounding areas could discuss the possibility of building a vocational school which would work cooperatively with the existing comprehensive schools.

Those present represented Northern Community Schools of Tipton, Maconaquah, Oak Hill, Southeastern-Cass, Carroll Consolidated, Kokomo- Center, Eastern-Howard, Clay- Ervin-Howard, Harrison-Honey Creek Monroe and Taylor Township. Speaking to the group, Williams stated that vocational education can do very little for those who don't have the basics (reading, writing, arithmetic,) that "it is not a panacea for the drop-out problem, It can, however, serve certain aptitudes better than the purely academic school," he said. Noting that vocational education is expensive, he acknowledged that many communities simply cannot provide a comprehensive and a vocational program. "The idea doesn't need to be promoted so extensively," he continued, "the problem is to provide the staff and facilities for the area involved." Citing the program which is underway in the southeastern part of the state, he explained (Continued on Pogft 2) SAIGON (UP') viet Con guerrillas ambushed a South Vietnamese battalion 295 miles northeast of Saigon Tuesday killing 3. V.

S. Marine Corps officer adviser and wounding another. The ambush in which 28 government troops were reported killed or injured occurred about 20 miles from a special forces camp at Kannack where U.S. soldiers and mountain tribesmen dealt the Viet Cong their worst defeat in months earlier Tuesday. The Marines were with a Vietnamese Marine battalion truck convoy traveling between Bong Son and Hoai An when the guerrillas opened fire with automatic weapons.

A U. S. military spokesman here said the wounded U.S. Marine was evacuated to the U.S. Army Hospital at a Trang with a bullet wound in his right cheek.

His condition was reported not serious. At Kannack a valley stronghold was left strewn with Communist dead. An inch of snow and zing temperatures have made roads in the Kokomo area extremely dangerous. Police caution all drivers this morning to be careful stopping at intersections and turning on the slick city streets. DR.

MARTIN LUTHER KING addresses his supporters after they returned to the Brown's Chapel AME Church in Selma, Tuesday after i abortive "March to Montgomery." (UPI Telephoto) Trooper killed, man is arrested RAMSEY Ind. (UPI) A state trooper was shot to death Tuesday infrontofa grocery store where he had gone to answer a complaint of a man creating a disturbance. TALKING! OVER the possibilities last night of a i a new vocational school in i area are, the Bill Spence, assistant state supervisor of vocational education; Gene secretary of board a i A i i a state director of vocational cmd adult education; Charles Coan, president of the county board of education; and R.W. Bray (seated on a county superintendent of schools. (Morning Times photo) The victim was William Keiser, 36, rural Georgetown, Ind.

Several hours later state police arrested Nicholas Wilkerson and charged him with murder in the shotgun slaying. Wilkerson was held in the Harrison County jail at Corydon. Kieser was cut down in front of Richardson's grocery in this southern Indiana community. Kieser, Tell City, was a Marine veteran who joined the state police as a clerk in 1957. He became a trooper the following year and was assigned to the Charleston District.

He is survived by his widow, Mary, and a 4-year-old son. Kieser was the 17th trooper killed in line of duty and the 10th in the past 10 years. The last previous death of an Indiana trooper while on duty was June 8, 1962, when Robert Gillespie lost his life in a traffic accident. The last trooper shot and killed in Indiana was William Keliems, who was shot near North Vernon on Sept. 30,1957.

Police said there were at least six eyewitnesses to the shooting. They said Wilkerson later was taken to the Floyd county Jail at New Albany, where he signed a statement admitting to shooting the trooper. The story of the slaying has just now emerged from a statement taken from one of the eyewitnesses. The witness said Wilkerson left the store before Kieser arrived, but that he had just driven a short way down Indiana 64 when the trooper arrived. THE TIMES inside Classified Comics Editorials Entertainment Financial Obituaries Sports Women's pages 14-15 12 4 10 13 8-9 6-7 outside Partly cloudy today with not much change in temperature..