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...Bogalusa, La., a paper-mill town of 23,000 near the Mississippi border, gun-toting white and Negro toughs seemed ready to throw themselves into pitched battle against each other. That they had not actually begun open warfare was almost entirely because of the efforts of Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithen-and, as so often happens to the peacemaker, McKeithen himself was under fire from both sides...
...that required considerable courage for a Southern Governor, McKeithen flew to Bogalusa to plead with Negro leaders for a 30-day cooling-off period. When he got there, an angry white man demanded: "Why don't you take the state police out of here?" Replied McKeithen: "We would-but about 500 or 600 people would be killed...
...which city churches are opened for tours by men of other faiths. Cody has been a quiet but effective witness for civil rights-the biggest social problem he will face in Chicago. Three weeks ago he visited the widow of murdered Negro Deputy Sheriff O'Neal Moore in Bogalusa, described him as "a martyr to the cause of racial equality...
...same, Bogalusa remained a sleeping volcano. Last week it erupted with a sickening blast. Deputies Moore and Rogers were cruising in their police car one night near the hamlet of Varnado, seven miles north of Bogalusa. An old pickup truck caught up with them from behind. Shotgun bursts smashed the deputies' rear window. Then the truck drew abreast of the car. A second volley ripped out. It caught Rogers in the shoulder and blew Moore's head open...
...detailed down to the Confederate-flag decal on the front bumper. Less than an hour later, police at a roadblock in Tylertown, Miss., just across the state line, stopped a truck fitting Rogers' description. Arrested was Ernest Ray McElveen, 41, a mill worker and sometime insurance man from Bogalusa, who happened to have two pistols with...