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...Monday, July 22, Charlie Ware stood trial on the first of three criminal indictments brought against him. The scene was the tiny city of Newton, located in Baker County, Georgia. This slight, almost fragile Negro man of about 45 faced charges of being drunk on the public highway, drunkenness on a ball park, and assault with intent to murder the Sheriff of Baker County, L. Warren Johnson. It was an historical setting. For it was here that former Sheriff Claude Screws twenty years ago dragged another Negro, Bobby Hall, by the bumper of his car into the next county...
Charlie Ware's testimony and that of the two persons accompanying him in the car differed substantially. Yes, they probably had been going slowly, for Newton is a "speed trap" and Negroes are arrested and fined heavily for "speeding" or drunken driving when they are crawling along the road or even absolutely sober. But the three Negroes testified that Ware was sound asleep at the time that the car was stopped...
...from scratch, the School has built up in the last ten years close contact with the local school systems. An internship program to give Ed School students a term of practice teaching was set up in 1954, and in order to give them additional experience the six-week Harvard-Newton Summer School was begun...
...University of Colorado's President Quigg Newton is resigning after six years of bitter fights with his regents. A new law in Idaho requiring loyalty oaths for all state employees, including professors, is spurring resentment and resignations. But the rocky problems of the Rockies have lately come to sharpest focus in Montana, where last week President Harry K. Newburn summoned his faculty at Montana State University and told them why he is quitting...
After months of rumor, FCC Chairman Newton Minow resigned last week. He is leaving his job to go back to Chicago as the executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica. To replace him, President Kennedy picked E. William Henry, 34, FCC commissioner only since October and now the youngest chairman in the history of the commission...