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nnv m. jm I iyiiaPqw i Ml IXIII Dr. King Leaves'Montgomer Martin Luther King Jr. left his first pastorate, theDexter Avenue Baptist Church (left photo) in that city, to act as assistant to his lather, the Rev. Martin Luther King at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Gi.

In center photo, the Rev. a 4 '1 In: i 55 MIncIk UD. (C. mteaipiiray Afiirs Volte Kefiirosalls WASHINGTON Members of Congress, along with Civil Rights Commissioners, have been presented with first hand reports of voting violations against Negro citizens in five Southern states. Witnesses from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina and Tennessee related their experiences with voting registrars before a voluntary Civil Rights Commission here Sunday.

At a mock hearing held at As bury Methodist Church, Dr. Daniel W. Wynn, a member of the faculty of Tuskegee and Miss Fidelia Jo Anne Adams, a Tuskegee student, told how they were refused the right to register because they "flunked" the literacy test, according to the local registrar. BOTH SAID their intelligence tests required them to write the second article of the Constitution of the United States, and to read aloud the first article. They were then asked to fill out an applica tion blank and to address an envelope to themselves.

Weeks passed without any word from the registrar. When they Inquired about their applications, they were informed that they did not meet the necessary qualifications. Similar stories were related by Prof. S. T.

Nero of Holly Springs, and F. R. Gray of Tallahassee County, Miss. Gray said he was prohibited from paying his poll tax, so that he would be disqualified to vote. No fancy excuse was given, according to his testimony.

He was just told point blank by the county sheriff that "no niggers pay poll tax In Tallahassee County." HAYWOOD COUNTY, has a population of 26,000, of whom 18,000 are Negroes, but there hasn't been a single Negro to register In that county since Reconstruction Days. Thl fact was revealed by Prof. Curry P. Body. The youthful school teacher holda a B.

A. degree from Tennessee State University and a master's degree from Iowa State University. Still he has been denied the right to register to vote. He has tiad 11 years of teaching experience In high schools and a year of teaching experience at Iowa State University. When he carried his complaint to the County Court clerk, he was referred to the local election board.

At the lime the three man board had dwindled to a single member. One had died and another had resigned. The one remaining kept putting him off, he said, until he carried his Case to the state election board. Since that time he has met with threats and all kinds of economic pressures. Ralph D.

Abernathy, one of the leaders in the famed Montgomery bus boycott, shaltes hands in a fond farewell to Dr. King. On the right is the "lair of the foe," the Judicial Building of the State of Alabama, home office of ex Atty. General, now Governor, John Patterson, who was the implacable foe of Dr. King, whose church is directly across the street.

Vote Refusals Told tesfifw vim a moct hearing in Wash ington, D. at Asbury Methodist Church told how they were treated when they tried to vote in the South were, left to right: John McFerrer, Fayette County, Grafton Gray, Mississippi; Dr. Daniel W. Wynn, Tuskegee Institute, and Prof. S.

T. Nero. Holly Springs. Miss. Cabell Photo.

After Three Years Citizens Assets Total $3,623,351 80 (Courier Press Service) BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Just a little over three years old, the Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association, headed by Dr. A. G.

Gaston, has reached a net worth of almost four million dollars. As of Dec 31, 1959, the bank assets were: $3,623,351.80. Funds are coming in an average of $10,000 a day, president Gaston told The Courier. Forming a substantial bulwark in the progress of Negroes in home ownership here and throughout the metropolitan area, the bank has made first mortgage loans totaling $3,124, 984.90. It has savings accounts amounting to $2,977,673.45.

Its growth an amazing one has averaged a million dollars a year since Its birth. The firm has just moved ls offices Into the new million dollar A. G. Gaston office building which will be formally dedicated Feb. 28.

Bank officers are: Dr. Gatson. president; S. O'Neal, executive vice president and manager; Atty. A.

D. Shores, vice presi dent and general counsel; John J. Drew, vice president; Louis J. Willie, secretary treasurer; Alton M. Lee B.

M. Montgomery and John W. Nixon, vice presidentTWA. 1910 40LDEN ANNIVCRSAIIV 1960 Scottsboro Citizens Ask Play Facilities SCOTTSBORO, Ala. Local Negro leaders have asked the city for recreational facilities compar ble to those for whites, including a baseball field, swimming pool, tennis courts and a supervised recreational "program.

Prof. Thomas Weatherly, principal of Carver School led the Negro delegation. Whites have a swimming pool. Negroes now In a lake about two miles northeast of the city. Also, whites swim In the same lake.

Relations here have been good for many years. This was he scene of the famed "Scottsboro Case," in 193L F.b. 13, I960 it ii III I II I I I II I I Couldn't Register were F.S. losses who told i treated when they tried to register and vote in the South were left to right: James Edwards, Mississippi; Or. Aaron Henry, Mississippi; Prof.

Currie P. Boyd, Tennessee; Atty. J. F. Estes of Tennessee, counselor for the group, and Harpman Jameson, Tennessee.

Cabell Photo. Bear Crippled Wife? Why, Mr. Patterson! (Courier Press Service) THENIX CITY. Ala. Gov.

John Patterson's brother, Sam B. Patterson, is due to go on trial here Friday on charges of assault and battery. The case was postponed from Jan. 23 to Feb. 12 by Judge Homer D.

Cobbs who will hear the case. Mr. Patterson was arrested after his wife a paralytic, confined to a wheel chair made the formal charges and signed a warrant that the governor' brother had beaten her. Her husband, 2S years old, is a city fireman. His older brother, John, became Attorney General of Alabama after their father who had won the Democratic nomination was murdered, gangland style, during the famous Phenix City "clean up" in John Patterson, now Governor, according to reports, was admittedly not close to his father.

In an interview with The Courier's roving reporter in 1957, former Gov. James 'Kissin' Jim) Folsom commented that the Phenix City story "has not been fully told yet." Ex. Governor Folsom and Mr. Patterson then, his Attorney General, did not get along well together, either. Pattprson made raids on the office of the Tu kegee Civic, Association without consulting him, Mr.

Folsom told The Courier..