Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Privilege. In Prince Albert, Sask., angry citizens protested against a new local tax on outdoor privies, said it made "the poor poorer and the rich richer...
John Johnson had been a soldier in Europe, but in Minden the whites had figured he was a "bad nigger"; he got drunk and was uppity. Three weeks ago, a white woman said she saw him and a young Negro named Albert Harris trying to get into her house."She shined a light and they ran away. The sheriff picked them up and took them to the red brick Webster Parish jail. Along about dusk a couple of nights' later he let them go because nobody had filed any charges against them...
There were a couple of cars outside the jail. Afterward the sheriff said "he thought he had heard the nigger yelling something like, 'Don't take me.' " But he didn't pay much attention. Albert Harris turned up the next morning. All he remembered was a voice saying, "You're a good nigger-we aren't going to hurt you much." He'd been hit on the head with a pistol...
...When Albert C. Childs first went to Mount Wilson in 1922, the mountaintop was owned by James H. Holmes, whose daughter Childs had met and married in Hawaii. The observatory, for which the Carnegie Institution had leased 15 acres for $1 a year, was required by its lease to keep its grounds open to visitors. But the toll road and the hotel atop the peak had yet to make a profit. Said Childs: "This place ought to carry itself...
With this new drawing card, Mount Wilson will probably get more visitors than ever before. But 65-year-old Albert Childs hopes not to be there to greet them. After 24 years on his mountain (with only two ten-day vacations), he thinks it is time "to go down off the mountain and see something of the world." Then he wants to settle down to his favorite hobby -astronomy...