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The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 3

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Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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a Sunday Morning, June 19, 1966, The Dally New Journal, Mwrfrvesbofa, Page lents Press Lollegebtud For Freedom Of The Press Conscience Forces Man To Aid State In Death Of Aged Negro identified earlier this) year as members of the Ku Klux Klan by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. They were also employed at a paper mill. Anders and District Attorney L. L. Forman said no motive has been uncovered tor the shooting of hite.

KODAK FIN I8HINQ 12 Exposure RoM A. Smith Co. Phorx 893-7971 Mt in aJ former student now engaged in journalism said: The board Is the key to control of a newspaper, if the board does not approve the qualifications of the person seeking the editorship of the newspaper, he cannot run the board can freeze out potential editors year in advance." A former editor of the Daily Trojan at the University of Southern California said "what goes into the Trojan is the views of the schools and its Catholic church and the Green Berets. At Syracuse, a group of students conceded that -the school newspaper, The Daily Orange, is probably as tree as a university-supplemented paper can 'get. Nevertheless, they didnt want the school's money and charged that the board of publications system guaranteed the university could pick the type of editor it wanted.

So the students founded an independent weekly tabloid last year called The Promethean, has also been charged with the death of White and bound over to the Grand Jury for investigation. All were held without bond. Jones came to sheriff Odell Anders Monday and gave a signed statement in the incident, saying "I couldn't live with my conscience." The arrests followed Tuesday night. White was described by Anders and others as a quiet Negro who had not participated in any civil rights activities and who was not even a registered voter. His bullet-riddled body was found Sunday afternoon in Pretty Creek about 20 miles from Natchez, in the Kingston community.

Fuller and Avants were NATCHEZ, Miss. (UPI) A man who said he was stricken by his conscience turned state's evidence Friday and told how he watched two Ku Klux Klansmen gun down an aged Negro. "Oh Lord, what have I done to deserve this?" the Negro, Ben Chester White cried as he collapsed and died on a lonely country road, according to James L. Jones. Jones, 56, told his story at a County Court hearing.

He said Claude Fuller, 46, pumped rifle bullets- into the body of the 65-year-old White and then Ernest Avants, 35, fired a shotgun blast that "tore off the top of his (White's) head and scattered it all over my new Jones, a paper mill employe, administrators-Period." At Mil- which managed to get both TURN TO THE CLASSIFIED PACE -FOR THE LISTINGS OF waukee's an adviser students and faculty mad at it. reads all stories before publican WOULDN'T FIGHT Pvt Adam R. Weber of New Orleans smokes nervously at Cu Chi, South Viet Nam, while awaiting the court martial verdict in his trial for refusing to accept a gun to fight the Viet Cong. He got a year in prison, reduction to recruit, and pay loss. He said he in the Vietnamese struggle.

By DAVID SMOTHERS United press Internal lonsl While small minority of the nation's college students clamor for free sex, tree drugs and tree sitins, another segment is pressing for an old fashioned freedom: A tree press. It is not a coincidence. The student revolt of the 60's has been at its noisiest in campus demands tor untram-meled speech, unrestrained personal codes of living and unrestricted voices in how the schools should be run. In quieter voices, editors of college newspapers are demanding the right to report say more, and kick a few sacred cows while they're at it. They are winning some -battles and losing some.

Some skirmishes this spring: Alumni and faculty memoers joined students at Ohio State University in protesting the appointment of new bead et -the school of journalism. They charged the move was part of a plan to turn the Ohio State Lantern, the school newspaper, into a mouthpiece of the administration. A Wisconsin state legislator demanded disbandment of the Milwaukee Post, published by students at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, it ran a series on campus six. The school stood behind the At dime a copy, as opposed to the free Daily Orange, the Promethean also made enough money to keep going. "It is' a fine example of journlistic enterprise," said journalism dean Wesley C.

Clark. tion and vetoes what he doesn't like. University funds were cut off for a humor' magazine at the University of Massachusetts after state senators objected to the publication of-two cartoons poking fund at the Soman JACK HOUSTON REALTY CO. you owe it to yourself to see IS by (T VaV The Crowning Touch The Look of Elegance and Luxu. "paper.

Karalyn Weidenan was fifed as editor of the Parsons College Portfolio in Iowa a few days after she reprinted a Des Moines Register story about the school. The story examined, in critical terms, charges that Parsons is a haven for college dropouts "dumb rich kids." Parsons' administration said Miss Weidenan was removed because of "lack of cooperation," not because she ran the register story, There were more struggles which never came to the surface at scores of universities across the country. College journalism professors are far from unaware of tensions between student editors who want" to tell all and university administrators who don't want to rock the boat. One of the most outspoken is Melvin Mencher, associate professor of journalism at Columbia University. He wrote last year in an educational journal that "on most campuses, the student newspaper is at best tolerated by the administration, condescended to by the faculty, and ignored ftby the better students." Mencher is one of those who believes the student press should have complete freedom with ribbons on it university subsidies without university say on what goes into the paper; enlightened faculty advice without the slightest hint of censorship.

Most universities claim to give just that almost. A United Press International survey of major campuses indicated most university administrations believe they are granting their school papers a free hand and that most of the student editors agree. But there were student complaints that they were being manipulated without really feeling it. They placed their finger on the boards of publication, common at many colleges, which select, the editors and the key personnel of the newspapers. Such boards are generally divided equally between facilty members and students.

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