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Public Appeal. Several weeks later the Committee of Concern was organized by clergy of nine churches; among the founders were Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Gerow of Natchez-Jackson and Rabbi Perry Nussbaum of Jackson's Temple Beth Israel. The committee issued an appeal for whites and Negroes to join in rebuilding the 42 Negro churches bombed and burned in Mississippi. By year's end the committee had collected $50,000, much of it from within the state. Help came in other ways too. A group of students, mostly from Ohio's Oberlin College, arrived to help rebuild...
Sneaking Suspicion. Goldwater, in the meantime, has been gathering newspaper support all over that traditionally Democratic preserve, the South. Among his more recent converts are the Chattanooga, Tenn., News-Free Press and the Natchez, Miss., Democrat. Last week he got the support of four papers in Alabama and Mississippi owned by Ralph Nicholson...
...Klan organizes registration drives and car pools to put whites on voting rolls, permits members to wear civvies at rallies. A major offshoot in Georgia, the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, uses recordings narrated by former Network Radio Announcer Wally Butterworth to spread its pitch. Kluxers near Natchez, Miss., dropped recruiting leaflets from an airplane. Shelton himself uses a car radiotelephone to communicate with his henchmen...
What delight it is to linger over William Sheldon's treatise on aerial navigation (Eng 5508.50.3) written in the middle of the 19th century, or John Ranking's "Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, in the thirteenth century, by the Mongols, accompanied with elephants" (London...
...most recent attack, graduate student Bruce Paine was attacked by a group of townspeople in Natchez last night. Earlier, Kenneth E. Klotz, a junior, and Richard N. Anders, a sophomore, were assaulted in Hattisburg. A police chief in Clarksdale broke the glasses of Frank Q. A. Heintz, a junior...