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Beneath South Carolina's appearance as "the last stronghold of the old South," changes are occurring that suggest a "general Southern growth," Mrs. Libby N. Alford, special events reporter for WCOS of Columbia, S.C., said in a speech to the Society for Minority Rights last night...
Although integration "as a symbol of something to come has yet to be seriously considered" in South Carolina, major inroads can be made against Southern problems by "mass media," Mrs. Alford suggested. Among these, she included the race problem, a lack of education, and economic troubles...
...Alford cited several examples of successful radio campaigns. In Columbia, S.C., station WCOS commands about 43 per cent of the listening audience, while broadcasting programs on which Negroes can object to segregated schools...
...station openly campaigned for a Negro candidate for the state legislature. The station's manager "would have been lynched ten years ago" for similar activities, Mrs. Alford asserted...
...Died. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., 66, professional-aviator, prophet and pioneer of U.S. military aviation, first man to fly over 300 m.p.h. (1925, unofficial record); of cancer; in Elizabeth City, N.C. A onetime baseball pitcher (Fordham and New York Giants), Al Williams joined the Navy in World War I, started a 13-year flying hitch that produced such acrobatic innovations as the inverted falling leaf, made him one of the many fathers of dive-bombing, ended when he resigned from the regular Navy in 1930 in protest against sea duty. A Georgetown-trained lawyer, he was no less articulate than...