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Richard E. McLaughlin, Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles, has written the City Council that "a very large proportion of the payment markings...have been created without the knowledge or approval of the Department of Public Works and, in consequence, are without legal standing before the courts of the Commonwealth...
...knocked down seven courthouse steps by the sheriff when he brought Negroes in to register. In Mississippi's Oktibbeha County, a Negro woman who asked the sheriff for directions to the courthouse was gruffly told, "We don't let Nigras vote here." The locked door to the registrar's office in Alabama's Lee County bore the sign "Back Sept.1," and the office in Mississippi's Rankin County was closed because the circuit clerk has been "ill." In some counties, local registrars processed whites ahead of Negroes, then slowed to a snail's pace...
...Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish Boss Leander Perez urged whites to offset Negro voting gains by "rushing to the registrar's office." His plea had scant effect. In New Orleans, where there are 122,000 unregistered whites, the local registrar one day last week enrolled 386 Negroes−and 14 whites...
...Negroes?" a newsman asked Katzenbach. "Negroes who can't read or write?" "Absolutely," he replied. "Treat them the same as whites. If they have been registering illiterate whites, then register illiterate Negroes." Katzenbach's instructions were fol lowed to the letter. Hundreds of Ne groes simply answered registrars' questions, signed an "X" in a couple of places and were put on the rolls. In Alabama's Marengo County, a registrar estimated that two-thirds of the first 50 applicants could neither read nor write. They were enrolled. It was a far cry from the days when...
Leonard W. Holmberg, registrar of the summer school, said that facilities are available for increasing the teaching space. He pointed out, however, that the number of these places is necessarily limited by certain repairs which have to be made during the summer. As an example, he mentioned the renovation of Emerson Hall. Emerson has been unavailable for classes this year, as have the Biological Laboratories