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Ikkm, Be "4BM mum mr wan NATIONAL I CMTIAH I Csana 1 1 51 0, )5 I Pi). sl 5 A BROTHER'S REMORSE Unidentified friends are shown helping heartbroken Duerwood Middleton away from Warren Methodist Church in Orangeburg, S. after funeral services were held for his brother, Delano Middleton. The youngster, a 17 year old high school student, was one of three people killed at South Carolina State College when police fired upon demonstrating students. Kidnapped Girl Found Dead; Killer Captured GAFFNEY, S.C.

Police recover dragnet for an allegedly admitted payed the slain body of a 15 year old Negro copathic white kidnapper strangler who school girl, Opal Dianne Buckson, last called an editor by phone to tell him that Friday. For more than a week police he had killed three other' white women, had been searching with a statewide Others Eyeing Congress WASHINGTON Mississippi and the Deep South having come up with legerdemain in politics before, civil rights leaders have not already counted Charles Evers who is running there as in the congressional "hatch basket" as yet, even though Evers runs for the seat in a special election next Tuesday and appears to have plenty of good mathematical chance to win. But they feel that they almost certainly can count on electing new Negroes to Congress next year in the three further to the North cities of St. Louis, Cleveland and Brooklyn. In St.

Louis, however, Negroes have had a problem of getting together and are presently feuding over the pros Dect of electing their first black countywide officeholder, to the post of sheriff. Before district leaders could meet and agree on a candidate, Benjamin L. Goins, a former Negro deputy of the present in cumbent white sheriff, beat them to the punch and filed to run for sheriff. Negro leaders say he boasts of having a $30,000 campaign chest and in disowning support of Goins as "the Negro candi DR. MARTIN L.

KING, JR. Stands For Good King Listed With Greats ATLANTA, Ga. A poll of the 3,500 members of the Over seas Press Club ranks Dr. date" have publicly ased: addition to Dr. King, "What white politician wants the other leaders chosen in the control of the sheriffs office poll were: Sir Winston that much.

1 Churchill, President Franklin With a Federal court still to id. Roosevelt, President John rule on exact lines of court demanded redisricting, St. Louis politicians have not agreed on the Negro supported congressional candidate's name either. The Cleveland Negro congressman should follow easily in the footsteps of the recent municipal "win" of Mayor (See Page 4) Martin Luther King Presi dent of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a one of the 12 persons in the world who have done "the greatest work for good in our time." Dr. King is the only Negro and one of the three living persons chosen as the top twelve modern world leaders in the poll.

A total of 302 persons were nominated by Overseas Press Club members. F. Kennedy, Dr. Jonas Salk (who developed the polio vac cine), Mohandas Gandhi of India, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, scientist Albert Einstein, Pope John XXIII, humanitarian Dr.

Albert Schweitzer, President Harry S. Truman, and United Nations Secret ary General Dag Hammarskjold. (See Page 4) The slayer had even sup plied the editor with informa tion as to where the bodies of two of his women victims could be found. Police who said they were "led to the body by outside help" found Opal about a mile off the State Highway in thick woods. She had been missing for four days after her older sister, Gracie, told police that she had seen a white man stuf fing her sister's body into the trunk of his car as the two started out from home on their way to a bus stop on the way to school.

Police also had gone to a textile mill and arrested white man, Leroy Martin, on his job and charged him with her murder. The older sister, Gracie, had said she left the house about three or four minutes after the slain girl and started up the road to catch up to her when she saw a white man stuffing her screaming sister into his car trunk. A caller had phoned Bill Gibbons, managing editor of the "Gaffney Leader," the lo cal newspaper on the previous Friday and told him that he had killed two white women, Mrs. Nancy Parris, 20, and Miss Nancy Rhinehart, 14. He (See Page 4) Term Awaits Killer BOGALUSA, La.

When U.S. Judge J. Hillary Crain sentences a white, 45 year old sheet metal worker, Thomas Bennett, to a possible 20 year prison term here on Friday, Feb. 23, the fatal shooting of a twice bilver star ecorat ed Vietnam Negro Army officer, which helped spark the second Watts (Los Angeles) riots will have been legally avenged. The Negro Vietnam Army officer who was the victim in the case was Capt.

Donald Ray Sims, who was in the United States on furlough making a long distance call to (See Page 4) VOL. 60 No. 8 ifrf ft NIW Cfr America's Best Weekly FEBRUARY 24, 1968 Two Section 16 pages 15c 20c Outsid New York Bl IBB MB am am'iMHl Training Assured In Pact WASHINGTON Plans of the NAACP and other civil rights groups to institute a barrage of suits on a broad basis to compel Government, federal, state and local, to de ny funds to unions and con tracting employers who dis criminate has forced the presi dent of the AFL CIO's Con struction Dept. and the U.S. Labor Dept.

to come up with a carefully worded working agreement to insure the use of Negroes. Although the agreement is looked upon by many Negro labor and civil rights leaders as a delaying or at least minimizing action to satisfy the un relenting demands of the La bor Dept's analytical expert J. Stanley Ruttenberg, who was once AFL CIO top counsel and later big corporations' legal advisor before entering government service, it will let labor "police itself" for the good of the whole community. More than that, according to observers, it may keep Rutten berg and civil rights leaders from demanding an exact population ratio quota from in dustrial unions and contrac tors, which it was said Ruttenberg was about to insist on before granting contracts. Ruttenberg, Assistant Labor Secretary, who has been battling the Negro apprenticeship and membership problem for the past two years had already worked out details of the quota plan, it was said.

Neither contractors or unions would have been able to obtain or hold Federal contracts without hav ing shown in writing in advance what they had compiled. The new plan gives both unions and contractors much more freedom but contains (See Page 4) Renewa Contract To Race ST. LOUIS In answer to nation's renewal contracts on the continual gripe of civil rights leaders that Negro firms do not receive any of the wrucn federal monies are spent and that Negro arch! tects are never notified that bids can be submitted, the Federal government has awarded a renewal contract in St. Louis to the first all Negro group of businessmen. The St.

Louis Land Clear ance Authority has awarded the redevelopment contract for the seven acres Grundel Square area to the Vanguard Bond Mortgage whose black president, James E. Hurt is also president of the St. Louis School. Board and a businessman of considerable worth. Although the total investment which must be made by Vanguard Bond Mortgage Co.

to purchase the costly inner city land and to construct all improvements as develooe of the Grandel Project is more than $689,000. this does not (See Page 4) Jlii i mm If ulL SEEKS SELMA POST Several years ago when Selma, Ala. was in the midst of severe racial tension, the day appeared far off when a Negro would be seeking the top elective office in the city. Last week, however, Rev. L.

L. Anderson, announced that he is running for mayor of that city. At the same time it was announced that six other Negroes are seeking city council posts. HATCHER BRING CHANGE Gary Doing Fine Under New Mayor GARY, Ind. Slightly more than six weeks after Mayor Richard G.

Hatcher took over as the first black mayor of this industrial city, none of the things which opposition whites said would occur to explode the municipality into violence have taken place. Opposition forces had said that Mayor Hatcher was under the influence of national black extremists. Hatcher had promised to wipe out corruption in high places and crime in low places. He has begun to move toward elimination of both and even tnougn approximately half of his department heads and employees at City Hall are now Negro, there is a 50 50 partnership of whites and blacks in a city whose popu lation is 55 per cent Negro. This was the appraisal this week as a Lake County Grand Jury probing into an alleged election attempt to keep Ne groes from voting in order to rob Hatcher from being elected last issued its first report which completely exonerates Mrs.

Marion Tokar Texas Arson Bugs Sought HILLSBORO, Texas Nei ther the FBI nor state and local investigators have come forward with clues at press time as to the identity of the arsonists who set fire to three black urches and four homes in this Cotton Belt area earlier this month just after the completion of a highly suc cessful voter registration campaign in the state put more (See Page 4) ski, the white election board worker who revealed the plot (See Page 4) Evidence Shows Most Students Shot In Back ORANGEBURG, S.C. Classes resumed this week at South Carolina State and adjacent Claflin Colleges amid a somber, explosive setting that was veiled with an undercurrent of bitterness in the wake of the brutal and wanton police slaying of three students and the wounding of 37 others. Even as the three students were being buried at services, a city wide boycott of all white owned stores in this town of 15,000 people was put into effect by students and the Ne gro community. Leaders such as Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, Dr. Martin Luther King Stokely Car michael.

Rap Brown and Cleveland 'sellers of SNCC, and others issued statements of protest calling the incident "the largest armed assault undertaken under color of law in recent Southern history." Most of the leaders agreed that the three dead students and the 37 to 50 wounded were shot in the back, some while lying on the ground. Cleveland Sellers of SNCC, who was wounded while act ing as an observer on the South Carolina State College campus during the bonfire protest of the students, which was broken up by police and 600 National Guardsmen, was in South Carolina Penitentiary, with a $50,000 bond as the price tag for his release on charges of inciting to riot, arson, assault with intent to kill and damaging property. Sellers' home is across the highway from the South Carolina State College. He was born and raised in nearby Denmark, S.C. The riot had occurred about ten days after Carmichael had made a speech in nearby Frog more, S.C.

He had attended a statewide South Carolina Con ference on Education in which resolutions were passed to de mand better quality education (See Page 4) Drag Ga. Kids Off Bus.Paths SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. Despite age old complaints which crystallized into being formally presented two years ago and into the breaking point stage two weeks ago, no white people including the school's principal have ever really cared what kind of education the students in Social Circle, Ga. ever got. That is up until one white woman teacher applied and was hired last year.

It is also said there are several white teachers available in the area. Since then the fully qualified white teacher has been fired for caring and that is but a small part of why some 44 Negro students were dragged from in front of the city's school buses last Thursday morning in what Social Circle Negro citizens say will be a daily demonstration until either all are in jail or their demands for better school conditions are fulfilled. It was the first time that Negro students had been arrested and carted off by van loads for lying down in the path of the school buses but it was not the first time Negro students had lain down in front (See Page 4) friz KL i I TAKE ACTION Negroes in Orangeburg, S. C. are boycotting white businesses this week in an effort to get them to meet a list of certain "objectives" in the racially tense town.

Dr. Roland Haynes, center, is shown announcing plans for the boycott. With him are Mrs. Eddie Bellinger of the local NAACP chapter and I. D.

Newman, South Carolina field director..