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...issue that might at last win back the blue-collar workers, especially Southern whites, who had been deserting them in droves. Some read great significance into a special congressional election in the First District of Texas in August. Democrat Jim Chapman, an advocate of protection, defeated Republican Edd Hargett, who said that he did not understand "what trade policies have to do with bringing jobs to east Texas." Later analysis suggested that many voters were bothered less by Hargett's stand on trade than by a feeling that he might not be especially bright, but at the time Democrats were...
...that eastern Texas race, the Democratic candidate, Jim Chapman, defeated a well-financed, former football player and Republican favorite, Ed Hargett...
...cannot tolerate or ignore this violence; in the name of Darlene Rogers, Desiree Etheridge, Daryal Hargett, Caren Prater, Gwendolyn Stinson, Andrea Foye, Christine, Ricketts, and those who knew and loved them, as well as those who fear for their own lives, we demand renewed and unceasing efforts by the police and informed individuals to find and convict the murderers of these women...
...clientele. Last month Safeway Stores rescued it from near bankruptcy, moved in to revamp its whimsical inventory, which included a $3,000 supply of imported wines. In Los Angeles a similar post-Watts effort called the "Unity Market" is now just a memory. Says Watts's Rev. James Hargett: "It's a bad thing for black people to think they can run a supermarket just on soul...
Some Negroes were victims of roaming predators. Rudolph Hargett, 18, a Negro Air Force recruit home on leave in Jacksonville, Fla., was astride his bicycle when he was shot in the head by a .22-rifle bullet that apparently came from a car full of night-riding whites. The Rev. George E. McKinney, 50, and his 16-year-old son were crossing the street not far from their home in Kansas City when both were shot down either by an unknown sniper or by police gunfire...