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Fields, Dutton, Carmack, Cash and Lewandowski were arraigned and placed under $2,500 bond. U.S. Atty, Macon L. Weaver said Warner and Stoner planned to turn themselves in Wednesday. Stanley was reported in Canada...
...preserve "separate-but-equal" status in at least one area. For years many Dixie newspapers have printed separate Negro and white editions, splitting press runs to drop in pages of news for each community. "Negroes like it because they get more attention," claims Editor Joe Parham of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News, where the practice is still in effect (as in Augusta). "We print their deaths and funeral notices, a hospital report, club meetings, birthdays, lodge notices, social and personal news...
...chance for a change? Says Texas Republican Leader Kenehan: "This is the first time we've ever had a real choice between a conservative and a liberal candidate. Not in my lifetime have I had a chance to vote for a real conservative for President." Says Harry G. Taylor, Macon County (111.) Republican chairman: "If the conservatives are ever going to elect anyone, perhaps this is the time to give it a test...
...community protest. In Birmingham, retailers have averaged a $750,000 weekly loss, some because Negro trade boycotted stores, some because whites did not venture downtown for fear of possible violence. "The boycott seems to be moderating," says one businessman. "But it has been effective all right." In Macon, Ga., last year, Negroes discontinued riding buses to protest segregated seating, came back only after the bus company, suffering a 50% fare loss, capitulated. Charleston, S.C., Negroes won 16 clerks' jobs by selective buying, tightened their boycott with weekly "name the traitor" meetings at which line breakers were singled out. Negro...
...Grady unit has 18 beds. Georgia also has a 20-bed unit in Augusta, and there are centers with ten to a dozen beds in Macon, Columbus and Albany. But because the facilities are still so limited, the Georgia clinics have strict eligibility rules. To get in, a patient must have the backing of a psychiatrist and another physician; he must be seeking help voluntarily; he cannot be currently addicted to drugs or alcohol; and the admitting psychiatrist must be convinced that his illness is likely to be arrested within a month...