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Latest to drop the newsprint barrier is the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and Journal. For 30 years, the paper went through the costly routine of stopping its presses on each of seven daily runs, replating one or two pages with Negro news, then starting the presses again. Of 95,000 papers, 75,000 were white, while the rest dropped the financial pages for news of Negro events. When a white edition was inadvertently delivered to a Negro area, claims Publisher Carmage Walls, there were protests. But the split runs "slowed down the operation, and they had to go," said the cost...
Governor Wallace, arguing insistently that his state cops could keep order in Birmingham, filed suit with the U.S. Supreme Court, charged that Kennedy's action was "unconstitutional and void." Said little ex-boxer brought the action only hours before he went to Muscle Shoals, Ala., to meet the President, on a tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...Gover nor George Wallace. Kennedy's visit had been scheduled long before the Birmingham troubles began; there was a speech to make at the goth anniversary celebration of the founding of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Term., and there was also TVA's birthday party at Muscle Shoals, Ala...
Wallace met Kennedy at Muscle Shoals, applauded the President's speech, then hopped into Kennedy's helicopter (with members of Alabama's congressional delegation) for a 35-minute jump to the Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, Ala. In the chopper, Kennedy and Wallace discussed Birmingham in what was carefully described as a "not unfriendly" manner. At Huntsville, the President switched over to his jet and headed for home. Alabama's Wallace, looking aggrieved, would tell newsmen merely that he and the President had a "brief discussion." Neither Wallace nor Kennedy had budged one whit from his position...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 16--Tension eased in this racially disturbed steel city today as business life in the downtown district appeared to be returning to normal. Although there were reports of a white boycott, a spot check of some of the downtown department stores showed business was running from good to subnormal...