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5 i i 1 November 5, I960 Farmer Who Sftairffcedl utfc Wolfch Ome Aftule iMIovs Has 41 Tractors ciinicO Giraiin Combine I GETTING HER CABINETS Mrs. J. C. Pull.n of Bell City, It all smiles as her husband builds the kitchen cabinet sha wanted. Ha also added a bedroom, a bafhroom, a utility room and a picture window.

USDA Photo WASHINGTON J. C. Pullen of Bell City, who started out on his lather's farm as a share renter with one mule. 22 years ago, now owns four tractors and a grain combine. With these, ha and his family not only take care of the crops on the 290 acres they farm, but also earn nearly $3,000 a year extra doing custom work for neighbors.

AH eight of the children and Mrs. Pullen pitch in to help. "The children take real pride In their work," says Mr. Pullen. "They boast about their ability to chop and pick cotton, as well as to plow with our tractors and harvest soybeans and wheat with our combine." LAST YEAR this family harvested 45 bales of cotton off 29 acres, 2.600 bushels of soybeans off 35 acres, 2,400 bushels of corn off 30 acres, and 660 bushels of wheat off 15 acres.

A few years ago yields were scarcely half what they are now. "We've pot In drainage ditches, I planted cover crops, used good seed, and had or soil seated from time to timo so aa to know bow mock fertiliser to ase," Mr. PuDea explains. Little by little the family is adding hogs and beef cattle as cash enterprises. "Just getting ready for the future when we may not have enough help to continue in cotton." he points out.

In improving their farm and planning ahead, the Pulleiis have had the advice and counsel of their Extension Service county agent, Thomas A. Brown, and of their Farmers Home Administration county supervisor, Cecil Thorn. Mr. and Mrs. Pullen married in 1938 and started farming as share renters with his father.

Four years later they bought 20 acres, added 20 more in 1944, and the rest of their 160 acres about a dozen years later, partly I through Farmers Theyi rent aa additional 130 acres. AS SOON AS the children are old enough they become 4 dub members carrying such projects as corn production, hog raising, tractor driving, sewing, and food preparation. Their two older chMrea. 1 year oM Robert and yw aid Fighting Bias Young Va. Lawyer By Tiemant W.

Anderson BIRMINGHAM, Ala. When you sat in a courtroom In Alabamaone of the two foreign countries within the boundaries of the USA, Mississippi being the other and watched a young Negro lawyer stick his finger In a whits police lieutenant's face and make him face the truth, you knew you had seen the once impossible come true. That actually happened, in Gadsden, and the young Negro lawyer was 32 year old Lea Holt of the Norfolk. firm of Jordan, Dawler and Holt. ATTY.

LEN HOLT, serious, dedicated, irrepressible, cool, calm and as ferocious as a rattlesnake in a courtroom, is the newest legal light to fling himself into the full swing of battle against racial discrimination. He Is in the front line in support of the efforts of Rev. Fred L. Shuttles worth, as well as others seeking to eradicate racial bias. He has even entered suits on his own behalf against airport limousine and restaurant bias in Binning ham, and taxicah segregation in Atlanta.

Attorney Holt won the hearts and admiration of hun dreds of Negroes at the Gadsden courthouse last month when he defended Patricia Ana Shuttles Jerefene, finished high last year and are now enrolled at one of their state land mat eotlegea Lincoln University. Along with education, Mr. and Mrs. Pullen also believe In living well. Their 20 Ioot home freezer seldom holds all their home in Georgia, Alabama worth, 17, daughter of Rev.

Mr. Shuttlesworth. i slashing cross examinations brought out open court admisison that no disorderly conduct had been shown on the part of the Shuttlesworth children. They were found guilty in spite of this, later in Juvenile Court Attorney Holt promptly A. Mi ATTY.

LEN HOLT legal wins "I i I COMtINf IS AN EARNER In addition to harvesting his own soy baa ns a ad wheat with this combine last year, farmar J. Pullan, right, of Ball City, Mo aarnad an axtra $2,300 gathering crops for his neighbors with tha machina, and anothar SoOO with his tractors. Mr. Pullan is discussing crop prospacts with County Agant William D. Purnall of an adjoining county.

USDA Photo grown food. They store the surplus in a freezer locker in town. This year Mr. Pullen and the beys got out hammer and saw and enlarged and modernized their home. But first the whole family sat down with their home demonstration agent.

Magnolia P. Fires Legal Blasts appealed the verdict and threw the Judge into a tizzy. This had never been done before. Attorney Holt Is working in connection with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and a friend. Rev.

Wyatt X. Walker, executive director of the SCLC They filed the suit against Atlanta taxlcab segregation. Attorney Holt, a former secretary of CORE, was born in Tuscumbla, but was reared on Chicago's South Side on State Street from three months to the age of 17. Ha attended Phillips High School, enlisted in the navy in July, 1945, stayed two years as a pharmacist's mate 3c in an Integrated unit. He says he was too well thought of by his buddies; he opposed regimentation and was outspoken about it Returning from the Navy he went to the University of Redlands in California in 1943, coming out in 195L He later went to the Howard University Law School, arriving on the campus with 68 cents in his pockets, wearing a $1.15 suit given him by the Union Mission, in Parkersburg, W.

Va. He had been arrested there while hoboing a train to get to Howard. HIS FIRST TUITION to Howard a fine investment was paid by Howard Finkelsteln, a 0 Wesson, and planned the improvements. Then a bedroom, a bathroom, and a utilitly room were added, and Mrs. Pullen got the kitchen cabinets and picture window sha had wanted.

white Arizona lawyer. As Mr. Holt puts it: "For three years, Howard University clothed, fed and educated me." He tells how former Dean George M. Johnson now on the Civil Rights Commission gave him a suit of clothes. He wound up with a fellowship scholarship and was graduated in the class of 1956.

He calls the Howard University law school "the greatest law school In the world," with Its entire faculty and student body mobilized to one thing, winning civil rights cases. He Is trying now to carry on that tradition and doing a fine Job of it. Here In Alabama they are already beginning to call him "the scourge of the courtroom." Usually dressed In blue jeans and shirt, Holt dresses formally only when he is headed for the courtroom. He shocked the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights mass meeting by appearing in his Jeans and shirt. But they soon found what was beneath the garments and they liked what they found.

In his firm Atty. Joe Jordan is a paraplegic. Of his jeans. Holt says: "I want 'the people to know I'm with them." You'll be hearing more about this young man..