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Remains Foremost Issue
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was “hoping industries would not be
afraid to locate here.” He said Little
Rock, Ark., was damaged in regard to
neW industries after its desegregation
Cost of Protecting
Meredith for Month
Exceeded $4 Million
Tentative reports on the cost of pro
tecting Meredith at the University of
Mississippi give the figure as $4,256,508
through October.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal’s
Washington Bureau said Dec. 13 the
Defense Department reported the Army
spent $2,000,000 and the Air Force
$1,800,000 during September Eind Oc
tober The Justice Department had
previously reported an outlay of
$406,508 during the same period.
An estimated 300 military policemen
and several federal marshals still are on
protective duty at the university. U. S.
Sen. John C. Stennis (D. Miss.) said
that at the height of the disorders the
President had marshalled nearly 31,000
troops, including 11,000 federalized
national guardsmen.
The soldiers still on duty this month
were stationed at entrances around
Baxter Hall, the dormitory where
Meredith lives, and in jeeps patrolling
the campus. The sentries were armed
with rifles and the roving patrols with
pistols. They wore steel helmets and
carried gas masks.
Inside the two-room apartment Mere
dith has occupied since Sept. 30 a cot
was set up in one room for a federal
marshal.
Expected To Remain
It was apparent that federal troops
would remain at Oxford as long as
Meredith was there. The U. S. Engi r
neers on Dec. 28 awarded an $89,000
contract for construction of temporary
troop quarters for military police there.
(See another section on protest by
Board of Trustees.)
The facilities, suitable for 300 men,
will include construction of 25 wooden
tent frames; 13 government-furnished
prefabricated steel buildings, construc
tion of concrete floor slabs for two pre
fabricated buildings, water and sewer
lines and gravel-surfaced roads and
walks.
Commenting on the facilities, Gov.
Barnett said “this indicates that federal
troops plan to stay in Oxford for an
indefinite period.”
“I deplore this invasion of the state
of Mississippi and deeply resent plans
to make our state a permanently oc
cupied territory,” the Governor said.
“It is surprising to me that some tax
payer’s suit to enjoin the federal
government from paying out funds in
connection with this unwarranted
project.”
University Provost
To Leave Jan. 31
University Chancellor J. D. Williams
announced on Dec. 22 that Dr. Charles
F. Haywood, the provost, had sub
mitted his resignation, effective Jan. 31.
The 35-year-old economist and Ken
tucky native is leaving to accept a post
as Director of Economic Research with
the Bank of America in San Francisco.
Dr. Haywood, who served as vice
president of academic affairs and chair
man of the dean’s council, said he had
received “an offer to return to the Bank
of America and I believe that my long-
run career interests will best be served
by returning to the bank at this time.”
In a letter to Chancellor Williams,
the provost said, “I have always had
in mind the possibility of returning to
the Bank of America.”
There were reports that the resigna
tion stemmed from delay by the Board
of Trustees of State Institutions of
Higher Learning in opposing a state
Chancery Court order for reinstatement
of a student expelled in connection with
demonstrations against Meredith’s en
rollment. United Press International
said “Dr. Haywood would neither deny
nor confirm the reports.”
Hearing This Month
The student in question is Taylor
Robertson of Jackson. The Hinds
County Chancery Court ordered Rob
ertson’s re-entry and has scheduled a
January hearing to make the order
permanent.
The trustees have requested state
Attorney General Joe Patterson to op-
What They Say
Governor Challenges U.
Bottoms Up in Mississippi
—Commodore, Chicago Defender
pose the permanent order. Also, the
board has officially requested the Army
and Justice Department to remove
troops from the campus.
Relative to Dr. Haywood’s resigna
tion, Chancellor Williams said, “the
university and the state can ill afford
to lose a person with his acute under
standing of the social and economic
problems of Mississippi. We must pro
vide young men such as Dr. Haywood
with career prospects second to none
and opportunity and security if our in
stitutions and our state are to move
ahead.”
“The University of Mississippi and
other institutions of higher learning not
only must pay competitive salaries but
must have on their campuses an en
vironment conducive to intellectual
pursuits and academic achievement,”
Dr. Williams said.
Dr. Haywood joined the university
faculty in 1958 when he established a
program of banking under sponsorship
of the Mississippi Bankers Association.
He was graduated from Berea (Ky.)
College, Duke University and the Uni
versity of California. He was assistant
professor of economics at Tulane Uni
versity from 1955 to 1957, before work
ing with the Bank of America for a
year.
Board of Trustees
Calls for Removal
Of Federal Forces
The Board of Trustees of State In
stitutions of Higher Learning has asked
for the immediate removal of United
States Army personnel from all prop
erty of the University of Mississippi at
Oxford.
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Gov. Ross Barnett in a statement Dec.
‘ challenged the U. S. Justice Depart
ment s demand that he be cited for
criminal contempt of the Fifth U. S.
ourt of Appeals for three times block-
ajg the enrollment of Negro James
eredith in the 114-year-old all-white
diversity of Mississippi at Oxford.
he Governor’s position is based on
s assertion that the federal govem-
echi^ t^ aS no authority in the field of
oiMh^ 16 Same thne, the Governor called
to k ^' on ^ ress convening in January
submit the issue to the people in a
onwide referendum “and let the
the ^ 6 < jf* ade whether or not they want
fed<f , ocds under the control of the
control ,? overnmen t or under their own
natil * ma jority of the voters of this
their^ 7 an *' federal officials to operate
trutk , °°h—then let us know the sad
.,q ’ he said.
tnajorit* 6 0ther hand -” he added ’ <lif a
of e 7 the voters want the people
s choo] C stete to operate their own
interfp aS dley see fit—without federal
date f r rence —then let us have a man-
feder a i 0r ^.t^e people to the congress, to
to kp. ° f h cia ls and to the federal courts
horial ■ their hands off of our educa-
^ mstitutions.”
‘To Resolve the Clash’
CLk B , a ^tt asserted that “it will be
au tho7i‘; J ,:V° res °lve the clash of lef
•ttent an 7 between the federal gover
i °f ed u „... e var ious states in the ar
'batter 7 without submitting t
a,J thorit v ■ . People—from whom ,
“I , m , this nation really coi
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m ^ Ue ftion of federal interfe
5 s Position to the people as so
j* v e to 0,7 s0 . that no other state v
,‘°ns , mit to the insults, humili
, ga l in vo, arrassm ents that come w:
° a state >> S k° n and uulitary occupati
The r ’ he said -
‘ ll 0 PPo°se e tk° r Said “ certa in peop
he proposal “because th
know that a great majority of Ameri
cans in the secrecy of the ballot box
would tell the federal government to
leave our schools and colleges strictly
alone.”
Barnett, declaring that only Congress
can make laws for the entire nation,
said Congress “has never passed a law
giving the federal government or the
federal courts any powers or rights in
connection with the operation of the
schools, colleges and universities of our
states . . . and has never passed a law
giving the federal government or the
federal courts any right to determine
who should or should not attend the
educational facilities maintained by the
several states.”
‘Crystal Clear’
“One thing is crystal clear—the con
stitution does not delegate any power
to the federal government to interfere,
. . And You Incited Those
Innocent Rioters to
Violence . .
in any way, with the operation of the
schools, colleges and universities of the
individual states,” he said. “Therefore,
when the United States Supreme Court,
or any other federal court, attempts to
rule on matters pertaining to the
schools, colleges and universities of the
several states, then that court is as
suming powers not delegated to the
federal government or to the federal
courts by the constitution.”
“While this is clear to me and thou
sands of Americans in every state, it
seems that certain federal officials are
determined to take over and operate the
schools, colleges and universities of our
states, regardless of the constitution or
the congress. I am convinced the time
has now arrived for the people of
America to go to the polls and settle
this question of federal control of our
educational institutions once and for
all.”
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NAACP Official Sees End
To Rioting Over Colleges
Medgar Evers, field secretary in Mis
sissippi for the National Association for
Advancement of Colored People, pre
dicted in Dallas there will be no fur
ther rioting in the state against desegre
gating higher education.
“The climate of opinion of the white
community is such that riots are hardly
probable although they are still pos
sible,” Evers was quoted in the Dallas
Morning News.
Evers said Negroes plan to enroll at
Mississippi State College for Women
and at the University of Southern Mis
sissippi.
The NAACP official denied that his
organization has ever aided James
Meredith financially, except in court.
He said the association had spent about
$40,000 in 18 months assisting the Ole
Miss Negro, after “Meredith came to
us after his application was turned
down. ..”
The college board also protested the
planned construction of permanent
quarters for the remaining troops on
the University-Oxford airport, located
on university property.
ifie request ror removal of the troops
was sent to Secretary of Detense Cyrus
Vance; Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy, tne commanding officer of the
United states Army torces now en
camped on tanos or the university, the
Army Corps ot engineers at Mobile,
Ata., and tne Mississippi congressional
delegation. The Corps oi Engineers has
let a contract to a Birmmgnam, Ala.,
firm lor construction of the troop-sup
port lacifiUes at Oxford.
Use of Property
The college board in a resolution
adopted Dec. 2U said that "the erection
oi tne facilities will impede and prevent
tne use lor which this property is in
tended, and will interfere with the op
eration and expansion of the Univer-
sity-cixlord airport.”
Pointing out that “the United States
Army has not legally acquired the right
to enter, take, use or occupy said prop
erty,” the board said “the United States
Army heretofore occupied and con
tinues to occupy said property without
the consent and permission of the board
of trustees or the administrative officers
of the University or any agency of the
state of Mississippi.”
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Legal Action
NAACP Leader Says
Jackson Lawsuit
Being Considered
Medger Evers, state field secretary
for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, said
late last month legal action to seek de
segregation of public schools in Jackson
is contemplated.
He said a lawsuit is in prospect since
no reply was received to a request filed
by nine Negro parents for admission of
their children to schools with whites.
Evers indicated that a legal move
will be made before schools open next
September.
“I can assure you that 1963 will be
one of our biggest years in seeking to
end segregation,” he said.
★ ★ ★
Ex-Student Files Suit
Against State Officials
A $250,000 slander suit has been filed
in federal court at Oxford by Billy
Barton, former University of Missis
sippi student, against Gov. Ross Barnett,
officials of the Sovereignty Commission
and leaders of the pro-segregation
Citizens Councils. It charges the def
endants with conspiring to destroy his
reputation.
The suit stems from a highly pub
licized campaign in which Barton un
successfully sought editorship of the
Ole Miss campus newspaper in 1961. He
was managing editor but lost the lead
ership of the paper to Jimmy Robert
son of Greenville.
Barton alleges that the defendants
engaged “in a common conspiracy to
ruin and destroy his reputation, char
acter, social standing and present and
future business and professional ca
reer.”
Besides Gov. Barnett, others named
as defendants are William J. Simmons
of Jackson, administrator of the Cit
izens’ Councils; Mrs. John Aldridge,
receptionist in the governor’s office;
Mrs. Sarah McCorkle, a former youth
worker for the Citizens’ Councils;
Sovereignty Commission Director Al
bert Jones and W. A. Lufburrow of
Atlanta, Georgia States Rights Council
member.
Atlanta Incident
Barton charges that Gov. Barnett
and others accused him of being a
member of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
and a participant in an Atlanta sit-in
demonstration. Barton denied both,
stating he was a reporter for the Atlanta
Journal covering the sit-in demonstra
tions and not a participant.
Barton, now 21 and formerly of
Pontotoc, Miss., now living in Norfolk,
Va., charged that Simmons told an
other university student “any amount
of money would be sent to Ole Miss to
defeat Barton.” He also accuses Sim
mons of writing a letter to Director
Jones, stating that Atlanta Constitution
published Ralph McGill “has taken
Barton under his wing.” It charged that
the letter asserted Barton had been
“planted” on the campus to instill
“liberal” thinking.
No date has been set for the hearing.
Books and
the Issue
The Library of Southern Educa
tion Reporting Service has acquired
these books on the race issue:
SCHOOLS WEIGHED IN THE
BALANCE
A staff study for the Association for
Christian Schools. St. Thomas Press,
1962, 63 pp.
This study looks at the question of
whether the central government will
control all schools. The book “assumes
that schooling ... is a religious adtvity
in its own right, subject to laws of
ChristiEm voluntarism, and fruitful only
when properly controlled by those
whose qualifications are continuously
tested by their product.”
THESE RIGHTS THEY SEEK
by Jacquelyne Johnson Clark. Public
Affairs Press, 1962, 85 pp.
The author, associate professor of
sociology at Southern University, com
pares the goals and techniques of the
local civil rights organizations in Bir
mingham, Montgomery and Tuskegee
in Alabama.
THE ANGRY BLACK SOUTH
edited by Glenford E. Mitchell and
William H. Peace III. Corinth Books,
1962, 159 pp.
Six Southern Negroes discuss various
aspects of the civil rights movement.
The authors are Charles B. Robson,
Edgar N. French, F. Henderson Moore,
Glenford E. Mitchell, William H. Peace
III and Robert B. Gore.
NEGRO AND WHITE IN CONNECTI
CUT TOWN
by Frank F. Lee. Bookman Associates,
1961, 207 pp.
This 1951-52 study of Negro-white
relations in a small New England town
had as its objectives to determine the
place of the Negro in the community
and the means of controlling the race
relations pattern.
REVOLUTION IN THE CITY
by Vincent J. Giese. Fides Publishers,
1961, 123 pp.
The problems of changing neighbor
hoods are presented in this study of
how one community on the South East
side of Chicago changed from white to
Negro in a few years.
RACE RELATIONS: PROBLEMS AND
THEORY
edited by Jitsuichi Masuoka and Pres
ton Valien. University of North Caro
lina Press, 1961, 290 pp.
Writers of the 19 essays in this col
lection include Charles S. Johnson,
Ernest W. Burgess, Robert Redfield, E.
Franklin Frazier, Everett C. Hughes,
Andrew W. Lind, Jitsuichi Masuoka,
Guy B. Johnson, Preston Valien, Lewis
W. Jones, John Burma, Inez Adams,
Bingham Dai, William Fielding Og-
bum, Samuel A. Stouffer, Herbert
Blumer, Edgar T. Thompson, Vivian W.
Henderson and Herman Long.
NEGRO EDUCATION IN AMERICA
edited by Virgil A. Clift, Archibald W.
Anderson and H. Gordon Hullfish.
Harper & Bros., 1962, 315 pp.
The significance and future outlook
of the education Negroes receive is
analyzed by W. A. Low, William H.
Martin, Ina Corinne Brown, Regina M.
Goff, Charles H. Thompson, Robert E.
Martin, Guy H. Wells, John Constable,
Nelson H. Harris, Katharine Dresden
and Dan W. Dodson.
‘Well, I Certainly Hope So’
—Haynie, Louisville Courier-Journal