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Amerson, 32, a onetime Army paratrooper and father of two, was forced into last week's runoff for Macon County sheriff when neither he nor white Incumbent Harvey Sadler won a majority in Alabama's May 3 Democratic primary. The county has the highest proportion of Negroes (84%) of any in the U.S., and Negroes hold a 7,000 to 2,000 voter registration advantage. Amerson's showdown victory was still a considerable accomplishment. Few men in the rural South are more powerful than the local sheriff, and the office is the most sacrosanct of white preserves...
...like to go somewhere," clarioned American Airlines' full-page ads, "we'll pay half your fare." Since American's President Marion Sadler launched that youth-fare plan three months ago, eight other U.S. airlines have reluctantly followed suit, and more than 300,000 kids (12 to 22) have bought the $3 I.D. cards that allow them to fly anywhere in the U.S., on a stand-by basis, at half the normal fare. Now some of the carriers want to tell the kids where to get off. Last week, arguing that the plan had brought only "ill will...
...stops, their angry parents keep airline phones tied up trying to locate them. Currently under CAB consideration is Delta's proposal to cut down the abuses and inconveniences by offering the kids reserved flights at two-thirds the normal fare. Privately, Delta and the other carriers wish that Sadler had kept his brain child to himself...
...American, which tells the teens, among other things, where in San Francisco to find "those 'Topless Swim' girls") and has so far earned $2,200,000 flying 100,000 kids, 20% of them first-time air travelers. For the carriers that are losing their cool, onetime Schoolmaster Sadler had some words of admonishment: "You can't carry exuberant girls and boys without having some of them get out of hand now and then...
...there's no time for sergeanting. Nominally assigned to the Fort Bragg, N.C., public information office, Sadler tours the country as a flesh-and-blood singing recruiting poster, and performs before big audiences from Atlantic City to San Francisco. He plays some commercial engagements, but only on leave, and he has earmarked part of his income to a scholarship fund for the children of veterans...