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...cause for nostalgia. Consider the speed trap, that once ubiquitous feature of Crossroads, U.S.A., now largely and mercifully extinct, the victim of interstate highways and perhaps even some slight evolution in civic if not human nature. One malignant exception to progress, however, is the southeastern Georgia town of Ludowici. Named after an immigrant German roofing-tile manufacturer who built a factory there at the turn of the century, it is one of the last remaining speed traps in the country. TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane drove slowly into Ludowici and sent back this report...
...large roadside billboards just inside the county lines north and south of town guard the approach to Ludowici. Placed there by Governor Lester Maddox two weeks ago, they warn approaching motorists of "speed traps" and "clip joints" in large black letters on a white background. State Trooper Thomas Randall sits in his blue Chevrolet guarding the southernmost sign against Ludowici's irate citizens. Occasionally Randall puts aside his Playboy and climbs out to chat with a tourist, such as H.E. Phillips from Beaufort, S.C. "I've heard about this place in the state of Washington," says Phillips, snapping...
...town of Ludowici is 56 miles south of Savannah, deep in the heart of Georgia clay country. The county seat of Long County, it boasts a population of 1,600 and all three of the county's newspapers. Once a quiet train stop, it is now a depressing roadscape of shabby gas stations, diners, motels and half-filled grocery stores. It is also one of the best-known little nowheres in the country. Sitting astride the junction of federal highways 301, 25 and 82, Ludowici commands the traditional north-south highway to Florida; 1,000,000 motorists drive through...
Rose Marie complains: "There isn't a chorus, a dramatics society-nothing-at Ludowici. It was fine at Walker, and we couldn't wait to go to school. Now we sit separately in the classroom and in the cafeteria." Adds Mike: 'The whites act like they are scared...
Both are well aware that the North is no promised land. But Mike, at least, wants to get out of Ludowici (population about 2,000), where his father runs a shoe-repair shop in a roadside shack. Mike disdains separatist ideology, but sees his future in terms of heightened black identity: "Whites used to say, 'Respect us because we are beautiful.' Now we are saying: 'O.K., and you respect us because we are black and we are beautiful too.' " Says Rose Marie: "This is a new day and a new time, and they know...