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...Education, technical guidance, limited subsidies, and other aid for schools wrestling with integration problems. ¶ Authorize federal operation of integrated schools for servicemen's children when legal wrangling over segregation closes any schools in areas heavily populated by service people. ¶ Grant the Attorney General power to subpoena records for any election involving federal officeholders; require all state and local officials to keep such records for three years. ¶ Set federal penalties (five years, $5,000) for flight across state lines from any state's investigation of school or church bombing. ¶ Extend the life of the late...
...commissioners found themselves unable to stay together at a Montgomery hotel because one of them, former Assistant Labor Secretary J. Ernest Wilkins, is a Negro. Having found quarters at Maxwell Air Force Base, the group promptly encountered another welcome-mat-turned-stumbling-block. When they tried to subpoena county voting records, they discovered that Circuit Judge George Wallace (who was soundly whipped for Governor this year by equally segregationist-minded Attorney General John Patterson) had impounded the records, was threatening to jail any commission investigator who came nosing around...
Letting out the first growl of its life, the year-old federal Civil Rights Commission announced last week that it will use its subpoena powers to gather in witnesses and records for public hearings on denial of voting rights to Alabama Negroes. Place and time of hearings: Montgomery, Ala., starting in early December. In a strained attempt to prove its fair-mindedness, the commission added that it was pursuing an investigation north of the Mason-Dixon line, too. Some Puerto Ricans, the commission explained, have charged that New York City's literacy test denies voting rights to citizens...
...hearings in Montgomery next month on voting discrimination in various Alabama counties, not just Macon. Since CRC's six members include a Virginian, a Texan and a Floridian, the unanimity was striking. Between the lines of its announcement, CRC hinted that it might, if necessary, use its statutory subpoena power to make balky registrars open up their files...
...Mitchell, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy and New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives co-sponsored a fairly satisfactory bill that would require 1) periodic secret-ballot union elections, and 2) regular union reporting to the U.S. Labor Department on financial and other dealings, under threat of subpoena. But Sam Rayburn kept the Senate-passed bill stalled for weeks before finally promising to work for it. If Rayburn gets the measure passed, the Kennedy-Ives bill rates no more than a B. And if it dies, the 85th Congress will have flunked cold...