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Some a friend, Mrs. Katherine Wil son He was beaten on the out side and then dragged into the basement, police theorized. He had lived alone since his wife death several years ago Mrs. Wilson instituted the search when Dr. Grubb appear ed to be missing from the cam pus the following morning, inasmuch as Dr.

Grubb's home has been recently burglarized 4 Are Priests Discontent? CHICAGO i Following a statement by Southern Christ ian Leadership Conference's Rev. Jesse Jackson that the only four Black: priests in the gigantic Chicago Roman Cath olic Archdiocese may leave the priesthood because of limitations on their, civic activity and chances for advancement, one of the priests, Rev. George Clements assistant pastor St. Dorothy's announced CONCORD, N.H. A Negro, Judge Ivorey Cobb, 57, who put himself through law school while studying nights while in the Army at Fort Devens, has been named presiding judge of the Colebrook District Court.

Having been elected presi i tk nrodnminantlv white ELEVATED Miss Anita Mack has been appointed to the last week that they will issue newly created position of re a joint statement soon. gional management' training Although there is a woeful; officer for the U. S. Depart dearth of black priests in. most ment of Labor's Bureau of Catholic dioceses, with the Work Training Programs.

She Chicago archdiocese being the will be responsible for setting largest unit in the nation, at up and coordinating training the same time. Archbishop Ter ence J. Cooke, new leader of the New York Catholic Archdiocese was praising "Project Equality" which the Catholic Church sponsors jointly with other religions, as being "one of the most successful phases of organized religion's attacks on discrimination." About the four priests, Rev. Jackson said: "They cannot grow They cannot be men." Under church law, however, the four priests cannot leave the Archdiocese without per of the Bishop. John Cardinal Cody.

Leaving without; permission would be a serious violation of church rules. Heads N. H. Court programs ior me Dureaus staff and personnel in seven midwestern states. She'll be headquartered in Chicago.

last week. The case was that of Robert Winters, an indigent Negro charged with a morals offense involving a white woman in Little Rock, Ark. Because Winters was not represented by a lawyer at his municipal court misdemeanor trial, held on the same day of the offense May 3, 1965 LDF attorneys urge he was denied the right to counsel. Arkansas does not ap point counsel for persons charged with misdemeanors. Winters did not ask for as sistance and "was not inform ed by the presiding judge, or anyone else, of a right to counsel," according to NAACP LDF lawyers.

The action of the local court deprived Winters of rights due him under the Fourteenth Amendment, the LDF stated A federal district court in Lit tie Rock agreed, and the State appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals. uvailable to qualified Coos County Bar Association A TDOKJ 17 whi'e serving1 under appoint I I Ixxl ment as a "special" judge of the New Hampshire court, Judge Cobb has been serving as temporary presiding judge since retirment of his predecessor on Oct. 8. His permanent appointment as presiding judge was con firmed last week by New, Hampshire Gov.

John W. LDF attorneys told the court that other persons in the same indigent situation as Winters routinely work off their fines at the Pulaski County Penal farm at the rate of $1 daily Once imprisoned, Winters did file for a writ of habeas corpus, asking "relief against his un constitutional restraint, convic tion, sentence and fine" in the municipal and circuit courts. Both courts denied his LDF attorneys then took the case to the Supreme Court of Arkansas which issued an order halting the sentence pending consideration of the Winters petition and releasing him on $100 bond. Appearing in the U.S. Ap peals Court last week for the LDF was attorney Michael Meltsner of New York City.

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Repeating wha the Supreme Court has said, in substance within the last five years in If "M'ymmmm AZ THE NEW COURIER, DEC. 21, 1M8 PAGE Mi Cfflwf It To Fund Sot Wp mjedfasi Mi Under llks. Khsg WASHINGTON There have been many educational foundations and scholarships efforts for needy students set up since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King but Murdered Prof Is Buried when the American Association of University Women named such an educational fund, in behalf of his widow, the Coretta Scott King Educational Fund and started a solicitation drive for it, about a half dozen chap ters of the AAUW objected loudly. Since the.

AAUW has approximately 177,000 members scattered across the United States, the few chapters who raised the howl are a minority and consist mainly of some of the group's southern and southwestern women members. I ii I A v. I I aU MUfr" nil ifrflr tir nn V1 I The new Nixon Administration and the U. S. Supreme Court may be on a collision course if the has been out lawed by the Supreme Court as failing to bring about desegregation in act uality, that instead of only benefitting white students as in the Louisiana decision, South Carolina's 1963 law can be used to give black youngsters freedom to go to private or parochial schools, too.

This was a point, the South Carolina attorneys felt the Supreme Court had not consider ed in going back to the Su preme Court for a second look at the 1963 law providing public funds fur private tuition. "The obvious effect of the statute is to bring private education within the financial reach of the children of persons in the lower i groups," the state argued. "Since Negro citizens are more likely to be found in these lower economic brackets the statute is of particular value to them." Woman Rejects Nixon By ETHEL L. PAYNE in her present post and con NEW YORK Mrs. Ersatmue ner close working relat cases arising from Louisana, I Poston, president of the New'0EsniP witn toe New York Virginia.

South Carnlina anH Vnrl Sfafo Tiiril Conrix. governor. IW ,11 1 I mm 1 'Jf I Pw uwrn.cr, 01 ne new ion. UVim scdh)i. roiice arresiea tne union teaciiers accused or defy other states about "massive1 mission, has declined the offer, A native of Paducah Ken rpflisinr; in rnntrihnlP tn trip nnlire ifonarlment ar II riomnnvtratnrs anil rkimJ Ih.

n.a1 kxn J'. r. vl aum.au, oxa as a member of the racially January meeting of the school's mixed faculty at the tradition ally interracial school, were two Wack teen agers, Rich trustees that $10,000 be contri buted to the fund for needy students named for Dr. Mar ard Twyman, 18, and Gary, tin Luther King. Butcher, 15.

They were not' This would boost the Penn students at the university but State fund named in honor of lived in the little university! Mrs. King's late husband, to town which surrounds the $17,200. school. Leaders of the fund said that Dr. Grubb taught student faculty campus drive Frpnrh and Snani.h was! last month had provided $2,011 apparently attacked while on in contributions, that various his way home from a visit to pledged another that the alumni had come up with and that $1,700 had been collected last spring when the fund was first started.

i h' a viuti it siMdinc scncmes LINCOLN UMVERSITY.Pa., Iuna wmcl "as a 8ai oi siw, escorting a sit in demonstrator; them with criminal trespass, to observe a school holiday Dr. Armstead 0. of wnicn $11,000 has been from Public School 39 in EastThe demonstrators were de former president and registrar' raised since tne recent an Harlem last week after she and; manding that city officials of Lincoln University, who was uouneement found beaten, murdrrpd and "The AAUW should not have robbed in the basement of a set UP sucn 8 fund without vacant house next to his cam jfirst getting the support of the pus home on Dec. 6, was "bur SrouP's entire national mem ied last week following funeral' bership," in substance seemed services in the Mary be the chief complaint of Brown Chapel of the university Dr. Daniel Davies, professor of religious studies at the university, was in charge of the the objectors.

Mrs. Mary Boyette, spokes man for the nationaal headquarters in Washington ad mittoH' "Whrt hatu ha1 An. Bvi.a. ur. uruoD wno is poon t0 tne program from survived by a lone daughter, some branches and some mem Susan B.

Grubb in California, bers However," she added, was buried in Oxford Ceme "the opposition has been quite Long Jail Term Of Poor Prisoner Fought By LDF ST. LOUIS, Since the U.S. Constitution bans imprisonment for debt is it not illegal for the state of Arkansas to put a Negro in jail for 254 days, or 8 'a months, simply lery, uxiora, a municipai smau wnen compared to the becauss he was too poor to pay lty a short distance from the a fine and court costs totaUng campus town. HoweVer, at Pennsylvania dollars? Being held in the Chester State University in University i County Prison Farm also near Park, the Penn State! Tfhat a Quest10" Legal by, on charges of murdering 'Foundation, which is the uni De.fense4. attorneys are anil rnhhina iha whilo i lnr vorcitv'c fnnl.raicino anonoir laSKing the U.S.

LOUrt Of Ap who had snpnt thp last Ml vpars vntpd tn rprnmmpnd at a case nere which of a sub cabinet position in the tuckv. Mrs Pnstnn i urad. would give similar per capita Nixon Administration, it has uate of the University of Ken education grants provided for been reliably learned. lucky and holds a Master's De public education to students The President elect, upon the gree in Social Work from At who prefer to attend private I recommendation of Gov. Nel lanta U.

She has had a bril or parochial schools, the U.S. son Rockefeller, was ready to liant career as a professional Supreme Court again turned name Mrs. Poston to a mem jsoeial worker. Mrs. Poston down a new case from South bership on the United Statesman working in state govern Carolina.

rnmmiinn on Ksrvina mont in 1017 tn Vn1 I In the new case, attorneys for South Carolina argued un der the South's new determination to stick to its "freedom She would have been the first Regional Director of the Youth Negro to serve. However, last; Commission. She has held var week, she officially turned, ious posts in youth opportunit down the offer on the grounds lies councils, both for the state uuwu me uuer uu uic giuuiius ies councils, DO in ior me stale I i iT choice" banner, which she would rather remain'and for the City of New York. I I lllllp' 111 iisi I i pvi I fgm aiiiiiilSp mmWLM IlliSSifil llilll Wlsl If I mm WmW bag' cf msifal mnlm Corpora; on 196S.

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