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tmaf 17 fW 5 Town still feels ms0 effects of rights murder By RICHARD M. COHEN THC WASHINGTON POST-OUUOOK PHILADELPHIA, Miss. This is the place where a mob ambushed and killed three young men in 1964 one for civil rights activity, the other two just because they were with him. find it a friendly place. This is the place where the black area of town remained unpaved for more than 20 years, where the man refused to make deliveries to blacks and where the sheriff thought it was part duty, part sport to cruise the black quarter after dark, telling grown men in front of their children that it was time, boy, to go to bed.

find it changed. This is the place where the former deputy sheriff, out of jail now and shorn of both badge and gun, is a delivery man for the local gasoline distributor. He has his troubles. Just last February, when CBS aired a television movie of the 1964 killings, he had to take his son out of the integrated school for a couple of days. Black students were harassing the boy Cecil Ray Price Jr.

The father comes to you for the interview, to your motel room where he knocks on the door and asks politely if he can come in. He tries to tell how it happened, but he knows that a Northern reporter could never understand why it happened, only that it happened. He was once the typical Southern lawman of the time, red in the neck "The 'boys' Andrew Goodman Michael Schwerner and James Chaney they died for something they believed in But they are not martyrs. Ray Price CECIL RAY PRICE, former Neshoba County (Miss.) worker, in 1964. Price, back home in deputy sheriff who went to jail for a role in the Philadelphia, as a gasoline delivery man, killing of three young men, one a civil rights has changed like Philadelphia.

and mean in the eye. But he comes in bearded, laughing that he looks like a hippie, eyes twinkling, talking the language of the television networks words like instead of which might offend. No offense meant. like him. A He protests his innocence, so there is no sense asking how it really was.

He remembers that the were scared was only natural for people like them at that But he has known fear himself, he says, like when the blacks in the Minnesota jail where he spent 44 months found out who he was and what he had done. He has come, he says, in the hopes that someone will finally do a good story about this town, saying that a friendly place, a nice place in which something happened that could have happened anywhere. He was confused then and angry. They had come down in great number, college kids hawking civil rights, mocking the ways of the area. he says, shaking his head.

people here thought they were being invaded, changing the way of life they had been used to for so long. felt that way at the time. I know how to explain. born and raised in a certain society and you have your beliefs, and here comes a group which is trying to change you overnight. It upsets The words come slowly, which is partly the custom, partly the subject.

The Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney they died for something they believed in, Price says. But they are not martyrs. was just something that happened in the Something that happened The government of the United States said it quite that simple. It said that Cecil Ray Price arrested the three on the night of June 21, 1964 Chaney for speeding, the other two for He released them about 10:30 that night, sending them out of town in fear. John Doar, the special prosecutor, told the jury at the 1967 conspiracy trial of Price and 17 others that it happened like this: they were released from custody, they were chased by three cars, one of which was driven by Cecil Price, deputy sheriff, in an official state law car, and as they got 15 or 16 miles south of Philadelphia, they were stopped on a side road, and again placed in custody of Cecil Price, who was accompanied by some of the defendants The deed were taken back in Cecil car, four or five miles back up towards Philadelphia in Meshoba County.

The deputy sheriff turned off the side road, stopped his car. The Success failure of LSD experiments WASHINGTON There has been an uproar over LSD experiments since the Central Intelligence Agency admitted it has slipped LSD to unsuspecting subjects. One of them, Frank Olson, leaped to his death out of a New York City hotel room. For three weeks, we have been interviewing the leading LSD researchers in America. They have found the drug effective in treating alcoholics, neurotics, heroin addicts, and terminal patients.

The LSD experiments usually are conducted in a carpeted room, with a couch and soft classical background music. Most of the patients describe the experience as memorable. But some have bad trips. One patient felt, alternately, that he was being chased, struck with a sword, run over by a horse and frightened by a hippopotamus. There was another chilling note.

In one LSD clinical experiment, there were five attempted suicides out of 5,000 persons. Visitor By JACK ANDERSON 4 Pulitmer winning columnist whose weekday column appear in the Express The diver, we are told, was led off to a psychiatric ward for observation. Controversy MERRY-GO-ROUND At the Secret Service, agents frequently swap tales about the crackpots who come knocking at the White House door. One such story has become a legend. A few years ago, a taxi pulled up in front of the East Gate of the executive mansion.

Out stepped a man dressed like a scuba diver. He had on a wetsuit, mask and flippers, and he carried a spear gun. He flip-flopped up to the gate and demanded to see the President. this wav, said the guard, and then he led the diver into a room for interrogation. After a half hour of questioning, the man suddenly realized he was not going to be seeing the President.

He reached for his spear gun and let fly at a Secret Service agent. The harpoon missed by a fraction of an inch and imbedded itself in a wall behind the agent. On June 20, we reported that Defense Secretary James Schlesinger had advocated the use of nuclear weapons, as an option, to repel an invasion of South Korea. This was confirmed by Schlesinger and by President Ford, himself. Their statements caused such a backfire, however, that Schlesinger later stressed that nuclear weapons would be used only in the event of major We reported on July 8, nevertheless, that the Air Force was receiving special training to use tactical nukes as a response to White House press secretary Ron Nessen has now admitted that the Air Force, indeed, is training with nuclear weapons to meet all possible emergencies in an uncertain world.

He stressed, as we did in our story, that the special training mean the United States actually intends to use nuclear weapons to deal with minor emergencies. The preparations merely give the President another option. Disaster We can report, meanwhile, that the United States now has more than 22,000 tactical nuclear weapons. This is probably triple the tactical nukes in the Soviet arsenal. an untold story behind the Eastern Airlines jet that crashed at Charlotte, N.C., last September.

The passenger list reveals that a number of military personnel were aboard. The Navy, especially, suffered a setback that has seriously hampered one of their major operations the mine warfare program. Rear Admiral Charles Cummings, the top mine warfare man in the Navy, died in the crash, as did his chief civilian science advisor, Paul Merenthal. Captain Felix Vacehione, one of subordinate commanders, also went down in the plane. In addition, the Navy lost two Polaris submarine skippers Jack Hoel and John Sopko.

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The President believes they are honorable men who have paid for their mistakes. He would like to give them back their good names by appointing them again to positions of public trust. He has in mind some honorary but prestigious spot for them, possibly on a presidential board or commission. By bringing these Watergate figures back into government, the President might revive the controversy over the Nixon pardon. But there is a streak of Harry Truman in Ford.

Just as Truman was stubbornly loyal to his friends, President Ford isn't likely to let political considerations deter him. He still thinks it was right to pardon Nixon and spare the former President from being dragged through the courts. Ford is equally persuaded that some of the Watergate committees deserve public rehabilitation. Close to three million Americans, who entitled to food stamps, are using them to buy food below cost if an unreleased Agriculture Department study is correct. The food stamp proaram helps feed 17 million Americans at a cost to the taxpayers of $4.4 billion.

boys were taken out of the car and shot and killed at close, contact that Price was saying. was just the times then. It was strange. You know, it seems like everything just fell into place. Maybe it was destined for it to happen like that.

hard to sit down and understand But sitting in a motel room here, he makes some judgments. It worth the fight. Things are better now. The cherished way of life that men killed for is gone and not missed. There is more opportunity, less tension.

He boasts that the schools were integrated peaceably. His boy goes there. Cecil Ray Price, shorn of gun and badge, turns out to be anyman, every- man somewhere around center on the Gallup Poll. He's in favor of penal reform and integration and has a hero of sorts at least he once met a man he says he will never forget: Martin Luther King. They met when King came to town after the murders, drawing the farmers out of the hills, guns bulging under their overalls.

King came to the jail to bail out a colleague and talked to Price. Dr. he says. had something. There was something about that man King, you remembered what he Leather Chairs a most comforting experience at 30 off.

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