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...resident most of his life, he has been the town's most active and noisy agitator for racial justice. His attitudes have hardly altered in office. His mannerisms grate on white nerves. He hails white people by their first names, criticizes without a qualm Tallulah's white civic leadership and unabashedly seeks personal publicity...
...read the Advertiser, "if you want the straight reporting." In June, the mayor barred a Bulletin reporter, whom he considered hostile, from his office. A month later, after a Bulletin series implied collusion between Fasi and a contractor who had won city permission to advertise on the envelopes of civic-center tickets, Fasi banned all Bulletin reporters from all administration offices...
...week's end Stokes replaced Ellenburg with Cleveland Police Inspector Lewis Coffee, the fourth chief in 28 months. Since Stokes just won a second term in office, the Ellenburg controversy is unlikely to have any immediate political ramifications. There is, however, growing dissatisfaction among civic leaders with his performance. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which had supported Stokes in his campaigns for office, printed an editorial last week signed by Editor-Publisher Thomas Vail. "Time is running out," wrote Vail. "The people of Cleveland will not stand for another fiasco in public safety...
...Federal Building. She arrogantly tried to attract our attention by young, "You people-quit wasting your time here! I'm a lawyer and I was just up in the courtroom and I know that you'll never get in! Why don't you come over to the Civic Center and give support to Sidney Peck? He case is being tried there and you in just walk...
...their donations on a credit card, and in Denver women can use their cards to charge a visit to a gynecologist. In Phoenix, the accused can arrange bail on a card, and citizens of Walnut Creek, Calif., can charge at least three dozen city fees, from business licenses to civic theater tickets. Last week the last word in the credit-card way of life was announced: in ten states, U.S. income taxes up to $500 can now be charged on either a BankAmericard or Master Charge card where banks are willing to cooperate...