European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 04, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Fob 4 the Sims and stapes Tum Day Jun 4, 1963 monday is Day of decision at University of Alabama by Relman Mori Tuscaloosa Aja. A Foster auditorium a shiny Brick building with while facing on the Una Verity of Alabama Cam Pui to the focal Point in a critical move toward peaceful desegregation in the monday. Vivian Malone a negro student will be brought Jackson gets segregation soft sell Jackson. Flu. A Allens. Thompson the glib talking gracious mayor of Mississippi s capital City. Is determined to maintain the traditional segregation of the races. But when he tells this to negro leaders Thompson oozes be got respect for you. I think most of you have respect or me he told a 12-Man negro presides Over the City administration of Jackson inthe Brick City Hall built in 1m7. A plaque on the outside of the building notes it was built with Lave Hla meeting with negroes Thompson spent half the time praising the negro leaders a up stand eng citizens. Toward the and of the session them year old mayor said to been talking about How Ood Yott Are. How about baying something Nice about an elderly negro preacher . Mayor. We look on you a or father. You Are the father of ii jackson1 Thompson smiled. I like All of a stuck out i hand to another preacher and said you Don t like rot i know you Don t Bui if a got to know one another better you although Thompson Wannu to maintain the Ettabell Chad a Para ton of the Rac a Many Jackion to the portals of the there to bar her from entering so he has vowed will be Alabama gov George Wallace. But if a secret carefully de tailed plan works with precision miss Malone will pass into the building and enrol As a student to the school of Commerce the second of her rare to be admitted to the University since it was founded in 183l what then we Are not going to have an other Oxford they Tell you in Tuscaloosa a reference to the riots that brought two deaths an Many injuries at the University of Mississippi last september fb1kndly persuasion Jet Btaylor area Thomp on right Greeta unidentified negro us Titar at a Cul meeting called by mayor to a Effort to Iron oat racial Tife Reatea. A observers Don t consider him Ahard Core segregationist. He is however a member of the pro segregation citizens says he will obey Federal court desegregation or Ders. I Don t want to go to jail but he also contends that segregation will be voluntarily re established once the initial phase of court ordered integration has passed. Thompson insists the majority of negroes in Jackson Don t wan integration. He says they Are Happy and satisfied. Negro leaders Don t agree with him. He feels the current racial trouble in Jackson is fomented by outside pressure under his leadership Jackson has had r dynamic growth. In 15 years Jackson t population has nearly doubled the City limits have expanded and the assessed valuation has skyrocketed from 991 million to 9250 million. 5-state drought costing millions Dallas Dpi drought Hascoat Many millions of dollars in Parta of five southwestern states. The total toil cannot be estimated. Recent Alna have broken or relieved the drought in Parta of the stat a Texas Oklahoma Kansas. Colorado and new mex too. Whether us damage goes higher depends on whether it Rains in the succeeding weeks and months not actually the Rainy season inthe Southwest these at the big Marks the drought has left erosion damage on who acres in Colorado. An estimated 190 million Worth of wheat Oats and Barley mined in Oklahoma. A us Dent in the wheat crop in Tana and k Nim. Costing Farmers additional millions. Generally the area of recent or lingering drought la in Eastern Colorado southwestern Kansas Northwestern Texas Northwest Ern and northeastern new Mexico the old out bowl in addition drought has hurt11 counties in South Texas extending from above san Antonito below Laredo. The situation la not consistent in any of the damaged area. It was a dry Winter and Earl Spring not Only Over the area but Over wide areas around it Alna in late april and May after a heavy percentage of the wheat crop waa lost broke or relieved the drought Over a Large part of the area. But the area depends on Winter snows and rain to provide deep subsoil moisture. Lacking this moisture us situation could quickly turn critical again. The Texas Panhandle lost up to10 per cent of lie wheat crop to drought and cold. But the Hay crop mostly irrigated la one of the beat in Yean. Farmers have Grain sorghum Tofall Back on and they Are optimistic. Truck Galea in Amarillo were the highest on record and truck Galea Are taken a a certain Signor How Carmen View the future. They bought the fancy lobs with Chrome and air drought in Oklahoma has caused a democratic Republican political to Edorn. Democrats want to declare Alx drought coun ties a Ole Aster area As Farmers can get government gov. Henry Bellmon refuted to Call the Alx counties Ali after at liken and democratic state chairman Gene Mcgill accused bellmen of the water Al Tuazon Over All of Oklahoma is muddled with som areas needing rain and others with plenty. But the drought has not been broken in the Panhandle and extreme Northwest Oklahoma. D. D. Ptttman agricultural statistician for Oklahoma estimate cold and drought losses to wheat Oats and Barley at a total of Iso million. When James Meredith Wen ire not going to permit another aul Herne Lucy Case they a a reference to the shattering violence of 1957 when miss Malone s predecessor was by Efly atmosphere in Tuscaloosa be wholly unprecedented in this correspondent s experience or similar racial and univ realty Leaden have gone to enormous lengths planning and preparing in every conceivable Way to ire vent violence next monday and in the succeeding s have Law and order is the theme endlessly chanted. Sometimes they add. Even if we Don t like the Colling for uphold ing Law and order have come from numerous in the City businessmen women s clubs labor unions Etc. Not Only in Tuscaloosa but elsewhere in Alabama newspaper editorials Are hammering the same Alabama stands to lose said an editorial in the birding Ham Post Herald urging Wallace to drop his battling the Gadsden times gov. Wallace is not Only in open Defi Ance of the Federal government but is running head on Agal Nutche wishes of the University of Alabama Board of the Birmingham news Bald though Many Whites have been highly critical of the . At Torney general when he said the issues should be fought out inthe courts and not in the streets southerners in great numbers said amen " in Quaca Looma the equation has Many factors. The governor is one. Will he simply make a symbolic Effort to Block miss Malone or docs behave further plans what effect will his battling stance have on extremist of both races student sentiment at the Una Velty seems to be overwhelmingly prepared to accommodate to the enrolment of miss a. Lane officials said. However a few Lausee of a segregationist newspaper rebel underground appeared clandestinely on he Campus until authorities tracked Down the source and stopped its Community leaders express Confidence that the situation Kennedy to meet Skeleton in family s Irish closet Dublin up one of pres ident Kennedy s ancestor waa a rebel who waa caught tried an jailed by the ill Elsb. Civic offt Fala in new Rosa county Wexford. Said they have the documentary proof and it willbe shown to the Prea Dent during his visit Here june 3m8. Or. Kennedy will be shown the evidence when he stops in at the ancestral cottage in dung Ana town. New Rosa to meet Hla Kin. The family possesses a Page of the Wexford county jail records which show James Kennedy of Dungan town. A Nephew of the presidents Grandfather served a sentence at hard labor cram jan.2 to april a 1888, for la slating and obstructing the sheriff the incident took place during time of much agitation and trouble to the country. Ireland Wae then ruled by Britain. James Kennedy then 21. Waa the son of John Kennedy. Joh Kennedy was a brother of Patrick Kennedy the president s grand Kennedy took a prominent part in resisting the Brit Ash imposed landlord system. He died in 1337 at the age of 80. Jamea Kennedy Hla Nephew lives a Short distance from the Kennedy cottage which la now in the farmyard of another Mem Ber of the family lira Mary Ryan. Will be kept under control next monday. But if violence does break out. It will not to for Lack of plan Ning and Effort to head it off. This has been going on in tin Catoosa for Many months. It started with a series of quiet meetings of Community Leaden. The objectives to prepare a City population about 68,000 for integrating the University and to marshal sentiment for doing it peacefully. Similar meetings were organised on the Eam Pua by ate Dent Leaden and Tinl Nulty official. There will be More be fore monday. Through its editorial Columna the Tuscaloosa news played an effective role in preparing Community if violence Breaks out. There Are powerful Law enforce ment details on or near the scene. Including Root iral Ned troops of the 101st an div. Press arrangements for cover ing the Story Are spectacularly Complete. The uneven Ltd engaged u a consultant Edward Ball former associated press executive an now publisher of the Venice fla., Gondola. The jews has net up a Lima in a building about a mile fan the Campti. Batteries of telephones connecting directly with Lonj dle Tance operators and extra on " distance circuits have been in stalled. Typewriter tables line the necessary univ realty representatives will staff the press room around the clock. Identification Carda have been printed for reported to peas police lines sealing off the carapace. They will be permitted Only to station themselves in the Stu Dent Union building with poor arrangements on special aped of the Story. We feel we have a responsibility to the nation and to the world to show How we a Bani dung Thea event an official Sam. Lui Oruh in Ipoh Navy Alaski Cha Sio wat r. Saum a. Us
