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p i cturesque
shrine of the
Immaculate
Conception,
still under
construction.
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C emetery’s
famed tomb
of the U.S.
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dier draws
thousands to
Kay respects
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of war dead.
Milk Delivery
Resumed In
California
United Press International
CHICAGO (UPI) —Fresh
milk deliveries were resumed
today following the settlement
of a strike and lockout which
had affected fit dairies and
dried up the milk supply in the
metropolitan area.
A three-day dispute between
truck drivers and dairies had
forced housewives to drive as
much as 50 miles to buy milk.
Within the city Itself, a
doctor’s prescription was need
ed to purchase fresh milk at
many stores.
The dispute between the
Hairies and the Teamsters was
only part of complex labor
troubles which have crippled
trucking in the nation’s trans
portatio hub.
Mayor Richard J. Daley
mediated the milk dispute,
which began witli a strike
against one dairy and was
followed by lockouts of drivers
at 60 other dairies.
In a 6 1-2 hour session in the
mayor’s office, an agreement
was hammered out between the
dairies and Local 753 of the
Teamsters Union.
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May Day
Program
D.C.’s Famous
Buildings
Seen from the window of an
airplane, most cities look
pretty much the same, except
Washington, D.C. The differ
ence lies in unique structures,
some of them outstanding ex
amples of architecture. The
nation’s capital doesn’t claim
to rival New York’s skyline,
but awe all hos interesting
monuments and buildings
make it a special place to visit.
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
The sixth grade at Third Ward School presented a May Day program this week
on the campus. The students plaited the Maypole. Mrs. H. H. Tippiis was in
charge.
Troop It wall From
Europe May Send
Some To Vietnam
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
35,000 soldiers and airmen the
United States is bringing home
from Europe next year stand an
increased chance of fighting in
Vietnam if the war goes on,
Pentagon sources say.
The fact that the units
withdrawn from Europe will be
held in reserve here will not
prevent the replacement of
individuals and their reassign
ment to the war front,
according to the sources.
U.S. officials, in aimouncing
the withdrawal Tuesday, said
28,000 troops of the U.S. 24th
Division in Bavaria would be
returned, along with 7,000
airmen from Air Force units
yet to be selected.
The Army withdrawal means
two of the 24th’s three brigades
will become reserve forces
here, along with four of the nine
U.S. fighter squadrons now in
Germany. About 33,000 depen
dents of these men are also to
be brought home.
Volunteers or selected indivi
duals have gone from service in
Europe to Vietnam duty right
along, but their numbers have
been minimal.
The final withdrawal figures
arrived at in tripartite talks
with West Germany and Britain
were larger tnan the adminis
i (ration’s public announcements
■of recent weeks, and come
somewhat closer to the “sub
stantial reduction” some con
gressmen have been asking.
Senate Democratic leader
Mike Mansfield called the plan
i “an encouraging start,” and
Sen. J William Fulbright, D-
Ark., chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
said it signified “progress.”
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From the air, the White House looks
much smaller than it really is.
Tire recall, scheduled to begin
after next Jan. 1, will mean a
15 per cent reduction of the
260,000 man U.S. force in
Europe. It will be the first
permanent reduction in the U.S.
force there since the cold war
began.
The two brigades of the 24th
Division that are brought home
will leave their equipment
behind and be kept ready here
for instant redeployment if
necessary. All three of the
24th's brigades will rotate the
duty in Germany.
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a particular
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Devil-May-Care
Whale Freed
CAPE LOOKOUT, N.C. (UPI)
— A devil-may-care whale,
spouting water, swam close to
shore along the outer banks
Tuesday and became entangled
in the pilings of a dock.
Six Coast Guardsmen spotted
his plight and worked for more
than an hour to free him.
The 70-foot sperm whale was
“frantic, but suddenly quieted
down like a baby when it saw
we were trying to free it from
the pilings,” a Coast Guards
man said.
“The last we saw of the
whale, he was doing about 15
knots and heading southwest
into deep water. He was injured
pretty badly, but he’ll make it.”
Wednesday, May 3, 1967 Griffin Daily News
ACLU Battles
All-White
Draft Boards
By ANN MOHR
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—AII - white
draft boards in the South are
under attack in the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
defense of civil rights worker
Cleveland Sellers, who has re
fused to be inducted into the
army.
ACLU attorney Laughlin Mc-
Donald said Tuesday he and re
gional ACLU director Charles
Morgan, in defending Sellers,
will ask the courts to prevent
local boards from functioning if
Negroes are systematically ex
cluded.
“The same reasoning applies
to draft boards as to juries,”
McDonald said. “The courts
have ordered juries that sys
tematically excluded Negroes
cannot convict people. They
could order that draft boards
could not function unless there
were Negroes on them.”
Refuses Induction
Sellers, 22 - year -old pro
gram director for the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Com
mittee, refused to be inducted
into the Army Monday at the
12th Army Corps headquarters
here.
He contends he was drafted
out of order because of his in
volvement in civil rights acti
vities and was denied due pro
cess because his draft board at
Bamberg, S. C., systematically
excluded Negroes from serviing.
There are 161 white persons
and one Negro now on South
Carolina draft boards. McDon
ald said the Negro was appoint
ed two years ago by Gov. Rob
ert McNair, the first Negro in
history to serve on a South Ca
rolina draft board.
Draft board personnel is se
lected on the recommendation
of the governor to the Presi
dent.
“Thus you have a situation
where governors in the South
who have campaigned on seg
regationist tickets are choosing
people to serve on draft
boards,” McDonald said.
A South Carolina Selective
Service publication stated Ne
groes were not placed on draft
boards.
Excluded Systematically
“We have it on record,” Me-1
Donald said. “This is an open |
practice that Negroes are sys-1
tematically excluded.”
He said it would be unlikely
for the courts to enjoin the gov
ernor from discriminating in his
selection of draft board person-
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nel “but if the order said a
board that systematically ex
cludes Negroes can’t induct, it
would have an impact.”
Sellers also contends the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation
was allowed to inspect his fold
er in Bamberg, a violation of
local draft board regulations.
McDonald said it would be
difficult to prove Sellers was
drafted out of order because of
his civil rights activities.
“Draft boards have enormous
discretionary powers,” he said.
“There are virtually no guide
lines for them to follow. And
what one board in South Caro
lina may do might be entirely
different from what a board in
Washington would do with the
same case."
Sellers, who passed his army
physical examination, also con
tends he has a heart condition
that would prevent him from
serving. He presented a letter
from a physician to substanti
ate the claim.
Criticizes War
At induction headquarters
Monday, Sellers said there was
a “conspiracy on the part of
the government to induct”
SNCC workers. And SNCC chair
man Stokely Carmichael has
accused Defense Secretary Rob
ert McNamara of “urban black
removal” in drafting Negroes to
serve in Vietnam.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
has stepped up his criticism of
the Vietnam war and has
praised heavyweight champion
Cassius Clay for refusing to be
inducted.
“Sellers also is opposed to the
war in Vietnam,” McDonald
said. “But his opposition to in
duction is based on systematic
exclusion, not on his feelings
about the w r ar.”
The original Sellers suit was
filed by the ACLU in federal
court here Feb. 28 seeking to
enjoin the youth from induction.
It was denied and currently is
in U.S. sth Circuit Court of Ap
peals at New Orleans.
In the meantime, a request
for a stay of induction was de
nied by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Two other cases were brought
to courts in Mississippi seeking
to end systematic exclusion of
Negroes on draft boards. One
was dropped after a Negro
youth was reclassified and the
other was pending.
McDonald predicted an in
creasing number of draft cases
following the Cassius Clay re
fusal to be inducted.
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Negro Wins In
Gary Primary
Race For Mayor
GARY, Ind. (UPI) A 34-
year-old attorney, a vocal civil
rights activist, today appeared
to be a shoo-in as the first
Negro mayor ever elected in
the United States by popular
vote.
Richard Hatcher, councilman
at large in this industrial city of
200,000 —Indiana’s second lar
gest, Tuesday won Gary’s
Democratic primary election.
In the past, a win in the
Democratic primary assured
the candidate in the win of the
fall general election. Gary has
never elected a Republican
mayor. Traditionally the GOP
in Gary and surrounding Lake
County has been, at best,
moribund.
Hatcher won what was
basically a three-way race
Involving him, incumbent Mar
tin A. Katz, a Jew, and
businessman Bernard Konrady,
a Catholic.
Six others were also-rans.
Katz had a well-oiled political
machine working for him but
the fact that an estimated 58
per cent of Gary’s population is
Negro.
Although winning the Demo
cratic nomination in Gary has
been tantamount to election in
November voting, Hatcher’s win
could jeopardize continuance of
that tradition.
Former Gov. George Wallace
of Alabama scored heavily in
Lake County from what was
called a white backlash vote in
the 1964 Democratic presiden
tial preference primary.
Hatcher’s 19,000 vote total
was, in addition, 10,000 below
the combined totals of the two
leading white vote getters,
indicating that either many
Negroes cast ballots for white
candidates or did not vote.
Hatcher, an articulate spokes
man for his race, has been an
active demonstrator for equal
rights in Gary, a drab industrial
town that clings to the
southeast flank of greater
Chicago and is most often
characterized as a place of
smoke-belching steel mills.
Befor the primary election,
Hatcher said he believed
demonstrations had their place
in the fight for equal rights but
thought political power, especi
ally in a town like Gary where
Negroes are in a majority, is
the key to advancement.
Born in nearby Michigan City,
Hatcher was educated in
Indiana schools and believes if
he is elected he would be the
first mayor of his race to do so
by popular vote. He said the
other five Negroes who hold the
office were elected by city
councils.