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Chestertown, Md.-The Chester-town Chamber of Commerce meets in one of the few air-conditioned rooms in town, a large, nicely furnished place on the second floor of the bank here. Most of its members are professional men who arrive promptly for meetings, dispatch their business efficiently and return to their comfortable suburbana homes. Just now, the Commerce's main item of business is the publication of a small brochure describing the placid Luxuriousness of life here in Kent Country...
...inflexibility of this attitude makes the integrationist feel that he had scored a major triumph if a member of the white community concedes the most minor point. For instance, Chester-town has a large, new hospital which can comfortably house around 50 patients. In it there are eight beds for Negroes, four to a room. Infectious and non-infectious patients sometimes must breathe the same air; slightly ill babies must lie next to old women, all Negro men and women must share the same bathroom...
Pioneer Spirit. "We love all the things you can do out here," says Dr. Chester L. Meade, 76, a tanned, lithe, white-haired man who gave up his dental practice in Mason City, Iowa, and moved to Sun City last November. His wife Mabel chimed: "People say, 'But don't you miss Mason City?' Those dear friends, yes, but not Mason City. We're not lonely at all, and the people are so friendly here...
...employment: about 90 per cent of the colored people here work in one of the two plants. Just now there is a strong movement to unionize the Campbell's plant which offers, as its maximum wage for skilled laborers, $1.90 an hour. (An unskilled laborer who works across the Chester River in Wilmington Del. can earn around $2.40 an hour; a skilled worker at Campbell's unionized Camdem plant earns around...
...Chester R. Huntley, TV commentator L.H.D...