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...ESPY Dothan, Ala...
Letting out the first growl of its life, the year-old federal Civil Rights Commission announced last week that it will use its subpoena powers to gather in witnesses and records for public hearings on denial of voting rights to Alabama Negroes. Place and time of hearings: Montgomery, Ala., starting in early December. In a strained attempt to prove its fair-mindedness, the commission added that it was pursuing an investigation north of the Mason-Dixon line, too. Some Puerto Ricans, the commission explained, have charged that New York City's literacy test denies voting rights to citizens...
...River Grove, Ill. 14 Kugler, Andy '60 B 5.10 163 Kansas City, Mo. 15 Mallory, Barton '61 B 6.0 170 Memphis, Tenn. 20 Sigal, Richard '60 B 5.11 178 W. Hartford, Conn. 21 Kangas, Nick '60 B 5.9 165 Chicago, Ill. 23 Creamer, Michael '61 B 5.11 165 Birmingham, Ala. 24 Curran, Michael '61 B 5.11 170 W. Hartford, Conn. 30 Winkler, Richard '60 B 6.0 180 Hinsdale, Ill. 31 Hard, Ted '61 B 6.0 180 Dallas, Texas 32 Grean, Michael '59 B 5.10 187 Rye, N. Y. 33 Muller, Louis '61 B 5.0 170 Maywood, Ill. 34 Forstmann, Tony...
...year-old, slow-starting federal Civil Rights Commission ran up against its first Southern-built stone wall last week in Macon County, Ala., where Negroes outnumber whites 6-1, but white voters outnumber Negro voters 2-1. Assigned to gather evidence on complaints that the county board of registrars discriminated against Negroes in registering voters, two CRC agents went to the board's office in Tuskegee, asked to look at registration records. The board's Chairman Emmett P. Livingston telephoned Alabama's Attorney General John Patterson in Montgomery. Registration records are not public documents, ruled Patterson...
...Pals. In Tuscumbia, Ala., Prisoner Herman Byrd cut through the jail wall on his second escape try in three weeks, left a note to Sheriff Raymond Wheeler: "Gone again, Raymond old buddy, I hate to do this but it looks like I have got to go. I hope to have better luck this time," clambered through his hole, surrendered to deputies who had heard him hacking away and were waiting on the spot...