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...enough public pressure to force the Maryland legislature to pass a proposed Public Accommodations Bill. The legislation would classify restaurants as public accommodations, thus making restaurant owners liable to prosecution for discrimination under existing state laws. The demonstrators also seek public support for the creation of a biracial civic committee in Easton...
...Clem E. Bininger, chairman of the civic planning group, "envisions a closer relationship between students and residents by offering the latter the opportunity to invite young visitors into their homes, clubs, and churches." Joining students will be "the presidents and deans of several universities and colleges." The educators will be guests of the city's leading hotels...
...February 24 sit-ins will be part of extensive anti-segregation demonstrations being conducted by the Baltimore Civic Interest Goup in conjunction with the Northern Student Movement, the NAACP, the Congress On Racial Equality, and other biracial organizations. According to plans for the projected demonstrations, biracial groups will enter restaurants in the Eastern Shore area of Maryland and leave peacefully if requested to do so. Under Maryland law, however, a trespasser cannot be ordered of the premises of a business open to the public until the management has read the state trespass acts...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, labeled the CORE charges unfounded, noting that "non-white families now live in all University housing units...
...more than pint-for-pint replacement, some hospital banks demand two pints for one. A common compromise is to take two pints for the patient's first transfusion pint, to cover waste and spoilage, and then accept pint for pint. A few community blood banks, organized by civic groups but not in AABB, also furnish blood to hospitals in their areas...