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...deepest drive so far into Dixie, Humphrey showed up for a morning speech in the small (pop. 16,000) south Georgia cotton town of Moultrie. As he stood up to speak to a small audience assembled in Moultrie's main square, he was greeted by a chorus of boos. "Communist!" came the cry, and "Go back where you belong!" Finally, Humphrey turned to Georgia's Governor Carl Sanders, who had introduced him and was now sitting near by. "Governor," said Humphrey, "you'd better do something about this." Sanders, who has his own political problems, sat silent...
...rough to hold them. But the police did discover a palmprint from Oswald on a section of the barrel attached to the stock. Said the Commission: "Oswald's palmprint on the underside of the barrel demonstrates that he handled the rifle when it was disassembled." A tuft of cotton fibers ? blue, grey-black and orange-yellow ? was found clinging to the rifle butt. Under microscopic examination, the fibers matched those in a shirt that Oswald had worn the day of the assassination...
Hens in Factories. U.S. farmers invested $4.8 billion in plant and equipment last year-more than any manufacturing industry. Automation has transformed harvesting and animal husbandry. This year 80% of all U.S. cotton will be picked mechanically v. only 1% at the end of World War II. One company, two-year-old Gates Cyclo Inc., has seized a tenth of Denver's egg market with an automated egg "factory" whose caged hens are moved past conveyer-fed food and water troughs in climate-controlled circular buildings: the plant covers only three acres, runs 24 hours a day with...
...second Freedom School began in Benton County a week later. The rural school was different in that some students had to walk as much as five miles to reach the little church beside a cotton field. Most students came by car or in the back of a pickup. The adults also were involved in the school, and it soon became a community affair, daily involving 60 people from four to 70 years...
...when they join their parents in the fields, working 10 hours a day, six days a week, picking the 'white gold' for $2.50 a day (standard wage for adults in Benton and Marshall counties). Another school break occurs in May and June, so that the children can help 'chop' cotton (essentially weeding with...