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Wisdom Coleman, once principal of a high school in Greenwood, Miss., lacked even an office at the school to which he was reassigned. He was a "hall monitor." James Noah, who was head coach at all-black C. M. Washington High School in Thibodaux, La., had 16 years of successful football behind him when he was "integrated"-transferred to a formerly all-white high school and made assistant coach on the "B" team. White officials explain that there are simply not enough comparable jobs to go around, and invariably find the whites better qualified. One favorite ploy is to assign...
...thousands who hitchhiked into a Class D town as a teen-ager begging for a tryout, these stories are missing the point. They do not account for what a minor league ball club meant to towns like Graceville, Fla., and Valdosta, Ga., and Hornell, N.Y. and Thibodaux, La. Nor what it meant to the men who played it; men with names like Ernie Oravetz and Al Rivenbark and R.C. Otey and Country Brown, who would have spent their lives in coal mines or cotton mills had there not been a chance to make a living playing baseball...
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Newspapers such as the New Orleans States, Thibodaux, La. Lafourche Comet, and Opelousas, La. Daily World, which experimented with bagasse paper, say it is whiter and stronger than Canadian newsprint. Nobody really thought bagasse would ever take over the Canadian mills' U.S. markets. But publishers hoped that the threat of bagasse competition would keep Canadian prices in line...
Representative Numa Francois Montet of Thibodaux, La. did not like that explanation. Said he: "That's what the land shark does...