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430 Jailed
At Perry
PERRY, Ga. (UPI) — More
demonstrations were expected
today in the wake of a week
end of defiant protest marches
that saw 430 demonstrators
jailed.
Heavily armed and helmeted
state troopers, sent in specially
to aid city officials, rode side
by-side with police to enforce
an uneasy dusk-to-dawn curfew.
The bulk of the arrests came
Satirday during a series of late
afternoon and evening marches
through the downtown area.
Those arrested included men,
women and children. All were
charged with parading without
a permit—a permit city officials
refused to issue.
Numbered among the 330 per
sons arrested Saturday were 65
juveniles, all of whom were re
leased. About half the arrests
Sunday were juveniles.
The city jail filled quickly and
the remainder—nearly 300 per
sons in all —went to the neigh
borning Dooly County prison
farm at Pinehurst.
Among those at the prison
camp were Hosea Williams of
Atlanta, a top executive in the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference; Oscar Thomie,
president of the Houston County
NAACP; and Silas Smith, pres
ident of the Houston County
unit of the SCLC. They were ar
rested Saturday but were still
in jail Sunday when the after
noon marches began.
Sunday’s march came with
city officials apparently feeling
confident there would be no rep
itition of the Saturday protests.
But in the late afternoon, with
everything apparently quiet, a
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wave of about 300 marchers,
mostly Negroes, left a commun
ity center and paraded through
the center of town.
Some of the 90 officers on
duty during the demonstrations,
blocked off both ends of Spring
Street and began herding dem
onstrators into blue and white
prison buses.
Among those arrested and
taken to the Dooly County pris
on farm was one woman who
was released almost immedi
ately when she went into labor.
City officials said they had
not granted requests for a par
ade permit because of racial
tension that has swept this
largely agricultural community
that sits alongside heavily trav
eled Interstate 75.
Demonstrations have been oc
curring here for several weeks.
They have centered largely
around the recently submit
ted school desegregation plan,
which blacks maintain is still
unfair. They also have been an
gered by the suspension of Mar
vin Dyson, a black mathematics
teacher in the public schools
who was suspended recently by
a Negro supervisor, James
Hightower. Dyson’s suspension
came after he allegedly urged
Negro students to boycott
classes in protest over segrega
tion policies.
L. C. Walker, chairman of the
Houston County School Board,
said some of the black demands
can be met, but Hightower will
not be dismissed. Walker said
Hightower is too valuable to
fire.
Georgia News
Working Late
NEWNAN, Ga. (UPI)-Four
prisoners probably won’t be up
late working on theater crafts
at the Coweta County Public
Works Camp in the near future.
Warden Wendell Whitlock said
four were allowed to stay up
late Saturday night, and Sunday
morning about the time they
were to return to their cells,
the four overpowered two pris
on guards and escaped.
The two guards were stripped
of their clothing and pistols,
Whitlock said, and locked in a
CPU Rut the ffimrrts managed
Fellowships Given
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Fif
teen journalists, ranging from
college editors to veteran re
porters, today were named to
fellowshipsfrom the Washington
Journalism Center.
The journlists will spend 15
weeks in Washington, beginning
Sept. 8, in an in-depth study of
Inmate’s Death
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - A
restless crowd of some 200 Ne
groes were promised by Rich
mond County Sheriff E. R. At
kins a thorough investigation
would continue today into the
death of a 16-year-old inmate at
the jail late Saturday night.
The Negroes, led by Augusta
City Councilman Grady Abrams,
wanted a full explanation of the
death of Charles Oatman, who
was awaiting trial for murder.
Some said it was rumored Oat
man had been killed by police.
“A delegation of five came in
to see me inside the jail”, At-
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to attract the attention of a mo
torist who saw the guards
waving a flashlight beam into
the air.
The motorist, Buddy McKen
zie, summoned police and a
search was launched for the
four escapees, identified only as
Johnny Pitts, Donny Ray Cum
mings, Paul Thomas Yamell
and Marvin Bridges. They were
all arrested about noon Sunday,
two of them dressed in the
guards’ uniforms. They were
taken without a struggle.
the Washington news scene, the
center said. The fellows will also
work as interns with Washing
ton news organizations.
Winners include:
Joel F. Blackwell, 25, Athens,
Ga.; Gladys C. Echols, 20, Flor
ence, S. C.: and Nathaniel Shep
pard Jr., 21, Atlanta.
kins said, “and I told them a
preliminary investigation show
ed Oatman had been killed by
other prisoners.”
Atkins promised Abrams and
the four other leaders a full in
vestigation would be continued
today and results would be an
nounced publicly.
Atkins said he did not know
the motive for the slaying.
Abrams and the other leaders
returned to the crowd still wait
ing in front of the jail. He told
them what Atkins had promised,
and the Negroes dispersed with
out incident.
Manila tower planned
MANILA (UPI)— Mayor An
tonio Villegas plans to build
a tower offering a panoramic
view of Manila Bay in time for
the 400th anniversary of the
founding of Manila on July 24,
1971.
His financing is unusual: he
plans to get the money from
‘‘Manila s One Thousand,” a
group of wealthy and influential
citizens. No city funds will be
involved.
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CAMBODIAN SOLDIERS taking a stand against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces driving toward Phnom
Penh are digging in outside the capital city. Communist troops advancing along an east-west highwayare pre
senting a serious threat to the capital, but a Cambodian commander is determined “they shall not pass.”
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Nixon: A Play
To His 'Gallery'
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
. NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
President Nixon’s Cambodian venture is the strongest of
many proofs in his 16 months’ tenure that he is not really
trying to be a “consensus president.”
Though he could not anticipate that Ohio National Guards
men would kill four Kent State university students, he knew
that sending Americans into Cambodia would distress cam
pus youth, dovish legislators in both major parties and
countless liberals across the land. He clearly calculated
that lack of support very carefully.
The fact is, Nixon’s whole plan for withdrawal of U.S.
combat ground forces from Vietnam has been widely mis
read from its start last June.
The real compulsion upon him to break the Vietnam log
jam, as seen by him and politically astute Secretary of
Defense Melvin Laird, came from his own voting consti
tuency and that of George Wallace—which together in 1968
comprised 57 per cent of the major presidential vote.
All the reliable polling evidence, from at least late 1967
on, indicated a steadily growing weariness and sense of
futility about the war among millions of Americans who
earlier had either supported it in varying degrees of hawk
ishness or had watched in puzzlement without openly op
posing it.
It is amazing to look again at 1952, when combat in Korea
still raged at high human cost to us while armistice nego
tiations faltered, and see how parallel were the attitudes
among the broad mid-range of Americans. Millions once
strongly supportive of that war were saying either “Let’s
get out” or “Hit ’em hard and get it over with.”
In 1969, not campus unrest nor the fresh muttering of im
patient doves drove the President down the withdrawal
road. His response was to those he considers “his own
people”—including Wallaceites he thinks he can grab off
in 1972. He, along with Laird, decided any hope of re-elec
tion then depended crucially on doing something drastic on
the war. So he chose to undertake what no prominently
placed dove had dared propose—unilateral withdrawal.
Just before his Cambodian announcement, he committed
himself to taking out another 150,000 ground combat men
by next May. One could argue that this was possibly a
temporary cop-out from his previously more specifically
dated and numbered withdrawal schedules, leaving him
free to hold off awhile and then bunch up the pullouts later.
Under the broad tent of “150,000 more by next May,”
Nixon can play flexibly with the specifics. But to tinker
with that commitment could be deadly for him.
Obviously, the original withdrawal plan had its critical
risk—its link to an always unsure program of “Vietnamiz
ing" the war.
When he smashed into Cambodia to destroy Hanoi’s en
trenched sanctuaries there, he was piling one gamble on
top of another.
He has been persuaded that this new one is necessary to
lessen the dangers of the earlier one—to diminish Hanoi’s
capacity to strike either at remaining U.S. forces in Viet
nam or still ill-prepared South Vietnamese.
It is important to understand, however, that the Presi
dent, in the political realm, sees both these gambles as
ones his voting constituency is willing to have him take.
All of his key withdrawal utterances have contained mili
tant warnings to Hanoi not to take advantage of our pull
outs. These were in part a sop to “his own people” who
want out, but not in a surrenderlike crawl. Both the Viet
namization program, and this Cambodian venture intent on
buying it more time, belong in the same category.
If the President’s Cambodian move fails, it may enlarge
the chance Vietnamization also will fail. In the possible
loss of that double gamble, with certain disruption of our
withdrawals, lies the real danger he bespoke of being a
“one-term president.” For he would then be gravely dam
aged with the millions of voters he counts as his.
Nixon does not think his present “nonconstituents”—the
young, the blacks, the doves, etc.—can beat him. So his
every appeal, like Spiro Agnew’s, is not a quest for con
sensus but a bid to hold “his own.”
Griffin Daily News
Crackdown on litterers
VICTORIA, B.C. (UPI)-A
new anti-litter bill believed to be
the toughest in Canada has been
introduced in the British Colum
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