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Up For Three More
Sergeant First Class E-7 Henry G. Underwood (1) has re-enlisted in the U. S.
Army for three years. He has completed 21 years of service with the U. S. Army.
Underwood was re-enlisted by LTC Othal T. Parsons, post commander, Camp
Pickett, Va. A native of Griffin, Underwood is married to the former Margaret
Freeman, also of Griffin. He is serving as first sergeant of Headquarters Company.
Sergeant and Mrs. Underwood and their four children live in quarters on post.
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By REX SANDERS
United Press International
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) —
Peace returned with the dawn
today in a 30-block area of
Negro colleges and residences
rocked by two nights of rioting.
At least 17 persons have been
Injured, two wounded by
gunfire, and 54 others arrested
in the first major outbreak of
violence in the nation this year.
Sporadic gunfire had cracked
through the early morning as
Negro youths apparently took
aim on cars, largely police and
reporters, driving through the
area in the northwest section of
the Tennessee capital.
An automobile containing
reporters for the Nashville
Tennessean was dented in the
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Concrete Evidence
that Georgia Power’s tax
dollars go a long way
Georgia Power Company’s tax bill for 1966
was $4214, million. Enough money to build
more than 42 miles of Georgia’s Interstate
Highway System.
Actually, taxes pay for many things. High
way construction is one of them. In addition,
they pay for streets, schools, police and fire
protection, health and welfare programs, and
national defense.
Like you, Georgia Power Company pays
federal income, state income and state prop
erty taxes. In addition, we make payments
to 154 counties, 444 cities and 180 school and
fire districts throughout the state.
Yes. like you, we pay taxes —in full meas
ure. Always have. It’s just one way to be
a good citizen.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
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Monday, April 10, 1967
top by a bullet.
"It’s very quiet now,” said a
police spokesman after daylight
today.
Earlier this morning, police
raided two houses near Fisk
University, one of three pre
dominantly Negro institutions
where rioting nas occurred
since Saturday night, and
arrested six Negro youths and
two girls. Officers said they
would be charged with inciting
to riot. They said Molotov
cocktails apparently were being
made in the houses, and that a
carton of soft drink bottles
filled with gasoline and rag
wicks was thrown through a
window as police swarmed into
one house.
Molotov cocktails touched off
scattered fires late Sunday
night and Negro youths stoned
three fire trucks speeding to
douse the flames. A small store
was badly damaged by the
firebombs, which also struck a
liquor store, an oil company
office, a vacant house and
burned a utility pole.
Whites, Negroes Arrested
Four white men, armed with
a shotgun and a pistol, were
arrested in the area early
today, and later two Negroes
were arrested in a station
wagon and charged with inciting
to riot. The Negroes were
identified as Ernest Stephens of
Tuskegee, Ala., a worker for
the Student Nonviolent Coordin
ating Committee (SNCC), and
George Ware of Atlanta, who
was seen with a”black power”
advocate Stokely Carmichael
Saturday when the SNCC leader
spoke at Vanderbilt University
a few hours before the rioting
started.
Police have accused Carmi
chael’s ‘‘bully boys” of instigat
ing the riots.
Heavy police patrols broke up
gatherings on the streets or
near the campuses of Fisk
University and Meharry Col
lege, where about 500 Negro
students rioted Saturday night
over the arrest of a disorderly
Negro youth in a case.
The violence continued spora
dically into Sunday morning an
then erupted again Sunday night
on the campus of Tennessee
A&I, about six blocks from the
other colleges. Around 300
students were involved in the
latest outbreak.
Exchange Gunfire
Officers said some of the
rioters fired on them with guns,
but that police fired their
weapons in the air to frighten
the students.
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Desegregation In
College Athletics
Gets High Priority
By Red Rogers
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
federal government plans to
tighten desegregation enforce
ment in Southern colleges this
year with the hope of gaining a
dramatic racial breakthrough on
athletic fields.
A U. S. Education Office of
ficial said the real target is any
form of possible campus dis
crimination — off-campus hous
ing, for example. But sports will
get emphasis “because it is a
dramatic thing.”
The USEO intends to plunge
into the thicket of scholarships
and grants in intercollegiate
athletics but hopes to do this,
he said, without trying to take
over the coaches’ jobs.
The USEO will use emissaries
and questionnaires. Technicans
are preparing the questionnaires
now for the 2,000 colleges that
now receive federal aid. The
emissaries have already begun
visiting campuses.
Query on Grants
One of the questions that
“could” appear, provided the
U. S. Budget Bureau approves
the venture, is “How many ath
letic grants have you issued this
year, white and Negro?”
But the officials said the real
question will be: Why are North
ern colleges able to outbid
Southern colleges for top Negro
athletics and scholars?
Meanwhile phrasemakers are
at work to help put across the
campaign for a breakthrough on
Southern athletic fields.
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drain but a brawn drain,” ap
peared as one keynote.
The official said, “Northern
schools are taking the cream of
the crop, not only in scholarship
but in athletics. This is fine for
the students but terrible for the
South."
USEO teams have already
gone to a number of campuses
to explain the questionnaire and
to tell college officials what will
be expected of them starting
next fall.
Campus Visitations
In the past few weeks they
have visited Southwestern Louis
iana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Vir
ginia, Georgia Tech, Alabama,
Auburn, Mississippi, LSU and
Tulane, among others.
Have they found any colleges
and universities that are violat
ing the law or the terms under
which they receive federal
funds?
“We’re no making any
charges or implications,” the
spokesman said.
After the 1964 Civil Rights
Act was passed all but a half
dozen colleges that were getting
federal funds formally stated,
in order to continue getting the
money, that they permitted no
discrimination.
The USEO believes this usual
ly reflected bona fide policies
that had predated the Civil
Rights Act, in some cases dat
ing back, to the 1954 U.S. Su
preme Court decision outlawing
school segregation. .
The USEO has since been
kept so busy investigating ele
mentary and secondary schools
in the South that it has been
forced to take the colleges
largely for granted. There was
not time for even a question
naire.
“It presented complex prob
lems. We wanted one approach
(for all agencies issuing funds)
and that meant a great deal of
negotiation. We are almost
ready to go to the Budget Bu
reau with the final form," the
spokesman said.
Alumni Money
“In athletics,” he said, “you
have a different kind of prob
lem. Recruiting is done with
very substantial alumni assist
ance.”
The official left the statement
dangling without any charges
or implications. Then he added:
“In some cases coaches indicat
ed to us they would not be un
happy if we explained to the
t,rads in alumni associations
that there will have to be no
discrimination.”
This agrees with a belief of
Southern sports observers that
with many coaches talent
comes before race. Scholastic
requirements of the athletic
conferences must also be con
sidered.
“We wouldn’t think of break
ing any conference rules,” the
USOE official said. “All we say
is, if this is your practice
(granting scholarships), you
ought to include all elements of
the population.”
He emphasized the question
naire will be used to point up
areas of responsibility and not
uncover cases for investigation
or try to say this or that par
ticular athlete deserves a schol
arship.
“I hope we never will have
to get into the numbers game,”
he said. “We certainly don’t I
propose to interfere with the |
coach’s job.”
Cong Choice:
Surrender Or Die
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press International
SAIGON (UPI) —American
and Vietnamese troops plnred a
crack Communist battalion
against the banks of a river on
Saigon's outskirts and virtually
wiped it out today in one of the
war’s most lop-sided victories.
The allies killed at least 166
Viet Cong and suffered only 17
men wounded themselves,
spokesmen said.
Late today fighting still raged
in the suburbs. The American
Infantrymen drove in toward
the Communist pushing them up
against South Vietnamese posi
tions. They tightened a trap
that left many guerrillas only
two choices—surrender or die.
Attack Communist Village
The battle of the Doi Ma
River, only 15 miles south of
Saigon’s sidewalk cases, formed
one of many fights erupting in
South Vietnam. In the Central
Highlands, U.S. air and land
power closed a ring of fire and
steel around a heavily fortified
village defended by a Commu
nist company.
U.S. spokesmen said latest
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Optometric Association
reports had at least CT
Communists killed and five
suspected guerrillas captured.
Americans suffered 19 men
killed and 27 wounded.
In the air war, all weather
U.S. Navy A6 Intruder jets
streaked through heavy clouds
and anti-aircraft fire and
bombed the Thai Nguyen steel
plant 35 miles north of Hanoi. It
was the ninth raid in four weeks
on North Vietnam’s greatest
metals plant. Pilots reported
the weather so bad they could
not assess damage.
FARM CRITIC “
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
chairman of a Republican task
force on agriculture says the
administration has “utterly
failed” to solve the problems of
the farmer.
Rep. Odin Langren, R-Minn.,
added in making the charge
Sunday that “every effort must
be expended” to help the
farmer get more money for his
production efforts. Langren
announced a reshuffle in the
panel’s makeup to include more
freshmen congressmen.