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Dr King Lived His Dream That Men Are Created The first railroad tunnel in miles south to Beaufort Inlet town Pa Bourbon men agree against vio October STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 86 PROO DISTRIBUTED BY McKESSO' 4 ROBBINS INC NEW YORK NY 6 1965 ne of the joys of Wide Tracking in a Pontiac is that it cost any more than ordinary driving And with 35 kinds of Pontiacs you can choose your way of Wide Tracking Our five irebirds He's out tosmash sales records for the 7th straight year I rom 1095 44th and Dodge Streets IQci icjlon tJ N6WS ana WIDE TRACK DRIVE I A CHAPIN Sunlfyr fl a six week of Birming 10 13 will not of their of their state months we most vigor to 1865 Sizes to 16 been agreeing for over 100 years It's time you joined them Smooth mellow is something to celebrate Buy a bottle tonight Sizes Sixes BE SURE TO READ THE CHURCH PAGE IN THE Open Monday and Thursday Nights 'til 8:30 ree orking In Our Own Big Lot One of the many styles that are very long on comfor Breathin' Brushed CHURCH DIRECTORY "ROM THE PULPIT" CHURCH NOTES CHOIR NOTES NEWS and STORIES to 14 Jumbo Width to 16 Slim Narrow Medium or Wide 7 i ij A part of North Out Negro can Dr King de dared And March they did They marched despite court injunc tions police resistance shoot ings beatings tear gas and oth er violence More than three thousand Ne including Dr were arrested He led the historic march from Selma to Montgomery the capital which swelled with thousands of supporters from over the nation in the spring of 1965 In early summer of 1964 Dr King was jailed for engaging in a sit in demonstration during a period of racial turmoil at St Augustine Dr King was the son of the Rev Marlin Luther King and his wife Alberta (Williams) The slain civil rights leader was educated in pub lic schools (segregated at that time) Morehouse College in At lanta Crozer Theological Semi nary in Chester Pa the Uni versity of Pennsylvania Har vard and Boston Universities He earned a Doctor of Philoso phy Degree at Boston University in 1955 and a Doctor of Divinity degree from the same school four years later He was award 1 ed numerous honorary degrees He married Coretta Scott a gifted and attractive concert singer on June 17 1953 our children were born to the cou ple They are: Yolande Denise 12 Martin Luther King 3d 10 Dexter Scott 7 and Bernice Al bertine 5 By Richard oster Chicago Sun Times Service Martin Luther life and work took him into the na ghettos and into gilded halls occupied by Presidents Whatever his surroundings he remained a man of simple dig nity and rare eloquence His death in Memphis ended a career of accomplishment setback and inevitably contro versy He was born January 15 1929 into the family of a Baptist min ister in Atlanta Ga the first son and second child of his par ents violent protest is the most effective weapon of an op pressed Dr King said on several occasions In the face of every provoca tion he counseled lence In 1963 during civil rights siege ham Ala Dr King remained loyal to his personal philosophy Insiders said he seldom lost his stoical calm even when he went for 3i2 days virtually without sleep It was commonly observed that under a core of iron tough belief he remained a gentle man Have a At first meeting persons re marked that he was a friendly man a ready but not a striking personality It was quite a different im pression that developed how ever when Dr King mounted a podium He built his sweeping cli maxes slowly his rich baritone rhythms carrying his audience along At the Lincoln Memorial inWashington on August 28 1963 he said: have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners Huslx BRAND CASUALS Hush are making sidewalks softer Dr King made a jail cell prophecy: the next few will see one of the ous assaults on segregation ever undertaken in the When the fulfilment came it went beyond the South In April 1963 Birmingham was the target And Dr King went to jail again But so did more than two thousand others When police dogs and fire hoses were brought into play against demonstrating Negroes the mass protest demonstration movement caught world atten tion and spread throughout the nation Dr King saw his crusade take on revolutionary proportions His philosophy of non violence prevailed in Birmingham when civil authorities feared racial disaster after a church bombing killed four Negro girls in Sep tember 1963 The Nobel Prize Dr King traveled widely in Europe Asia Africa and South America Among the mementos in his red brick house in Atlanta is a small ivory carving of Mon handas Gandhi from whose teachings much of Dr philosophy derived In 1964 Dr King received the tangible recognition of his lead ership when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for asserting the prin ciple of non At the time he was the third Negro the twelfth American and the youngest man ever to receive the award The 200 inch Hale telescope Omaha World Herald riday April 5 J968 at Mt Palomar Observatory (California) can photograph a the United States was built in er Banks Cape Lookout candle light 10 thousand miles 1803 four miles east of Johns stretches from Ocracoke Inlet 58 away will be able to sit down at the table of brotherhood have a dream that one day even the desert State ol Missis sippi a state sweltering with the injustice sweltering withthe heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they be judged by the color skin but by the content Created SCLC He led Montgomery Ala Ne groes in a boycott against segregated city buses for 381 days touching off bombings of their churches street attacks by white thugs and mob vio lence A court ruling finally desegregated the buses A bomb that did not detonate was thrown on the porch of Dr home during that 1956 struggle But in 1958 violence came in a Harlem department store A Negro woman stabbed him in the chest with a small nail file But Dr King recovered and returned to his work After his success in Montgomery he re turned to Atlanta in 1960 to cre ate the Southern Christian Lead ership Conference of which he was the first president He was jailed at least five times The first time was in 1960 in Georgia when he was iailed for having no license Confined at a prison Dr King for the first time found himself in the na tional political spotlight A Prophecy The late John Kennedy campaigning for the Presidency telephoned Mrs King Mr Ken nedy's brother Robert tele phoned the judge to inquire i about bond Dr King was re itiabcu In 1961 Dr King joined a large protest move against seg negation in Albany Ga and again went to jail with hundreds of other Negroes i Disappointed and defeated in I the Albany campaign which stretched over a year of unrest See the US Ski Team vs World Competition Sunday April 7 NBC TV ree 24 Page Ski Team Race Guide at your Pontiac Dealers PROVIDES SPECIAL COVERAGE Each Saturday morning The World Herald Sun Up edition features: TALL BIG MEN In accenting She accolade be I fore a distinguished assembly at Oslo Norway Dr King said he accepted t'qq award in behalf of millions of American Ne groes to the long night of racial! Dr wife underscored the contrasts in her career when she remarked at the time of the honor: wish we could remain on this mountaintop forever for the past 10 years we have lived with the threat of death always Dr King like any visionary was the object of both praise and scorn He contended that his non violent marches and demon strations that sometimes in curred violence were the only alternative outlet to Negro frus tration which otherwise would explode violently Confrontation The key word he maintained was confrontation Nothing changes the social order without the creation and exposure of ten sions and prejudices he said Early in 1965 when civil rights leaders picketed Alabama as a testing group for a concen trated voter registration drive Dr King and his followers re sorted once more to the tactics of non violence At Selma focal point of an area where Negroes outnum bered whites but few had ever registered to vote Dr King led street demonstrations in support of Negro voter applicants I are going to march I through the streets until every begin with a unique 175 hp Overhead Cam six and escalate to the 400 cubic inch irebird 400 And because they're Pontiacs irebirds cost less than you think So think The drive is on See your Pontiac dealer hi 9 OB $7 or A zl 1 rc Motor Division I 0 Pigskin HH i BBE1T atarclcui Suji HE wem i it 11 'Af a ilerryLeonard TH UZt4 R' i 1 CHAPIN GORE 1 'W vc Ci I i.