Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 12]

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EDITORIAL

Nine Indicted On Charges
of Burning Freedom Bus

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Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy announced that

nine men have been indicted on charges of burning an interstate bus near Anniston, Alabama last May 14.

Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have
arrested seven of the men, another is already in jail on
ci ae charges, and the ninth is hospitalized, Mr. Kenriedy
said.

The two-count indictment against them was returned
sealed Thursday by a Federal grand jury in Birmingham.
It charged that the nine fire-bombed the bus ~with a reckless disregard~ for the lives of its pasengers.

These included seven ~Freedom Riders,~ traveling
a the South to test segregation practices at bus terminals.

The indictment named the following, all of the Anniston area, as defendants:

Kenneth L. Adams, 41; William Oswell Chappell, 39;
Jerome Byron Couch, 25; Roger Dale Couch, 19; Jerry Ronald Eason, 22; Frank B. Johnson, 42; Cecil Lamar Lewallyn,
22; Frank J. Tolbert, 54; and Jerry Zenith Willingham, 21.
Kason, Johnson and the younger Couch are the three arrested earlier.

Eason, Johnson and the younger Couch were arrested
May 22 on a commissioner~s complaint charging them
with participating in the bombing and burning of the bus.
They were each freed on $5,000 bond.

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, said the following seven men were arrested by FBI Agents in the Anniston area today: Adams, who resides at Route 3, Box 269
in Anniston and is self-employed with the Adams Oil Company in that city; Chappell, who resides at Route 3, Box
i62-B in Anniston and is self-employed as an upholsterer;
Jerome Yron Couch who resides at Route 2, Box 81-A in
Munford, Alabama, and is employed as-an electrician in
an Anniston foundry; Eason, who resides at 3427 Bibb
Street, Anniston and is employed as a flower arranger
~there; Johnson, who resides at 500 Glen Addie Apartments,
Anniston and is employed in the Maintenance Department
of the Anniston Housing Authority and is married; ~l'olbert,
who resides at 600 Pine Avenue, Anniston and is selfemployed as a storekeeper there; and Willingham, who resides at Route 3, Box 117 in Anniston and is employed at
a valve company there.

Lewallyn suffered injuries in an automobile wreck August 13 and is currently confined to Anniston Memorial
Hospital. Roger Dale Couch is presently confined in the
Calhoun County Jail in Anniston on local burglary charges.
U.S. Marshals will file a detainer against Couch and take
custody of Lewallyn today.

Mr. Kennedy said the first count of the indictment
charged the nine men with conspiring from May 5 to
damage and set fire to the bus and force white and Negro
passengers to get off.:

The second count charged the nine with carrying out
the conspiracy by breaking windows in the bus and tossing
~an explosive and other destructive substance~ inside,
shortly after it left Anniston.

The bus was-en route to Birmingham from Atlanta.
Anniston, a city of approximately 31,000, is about 60 miles
east of Birmingham. The incident occured about four
miles west of Anniston.

The bus carried 17 passengers, including the seven
Freedom Riders. After the bombing, all 17 were examined
for smoke inhalation and burns at a local hospital. The
bus was gutted.

Maximum penalty for conviction on the conspiracy
count is. five years in prison and $10,000. Maximum on the
bombing count is 20 years and $10,000.

Herman Gibson }

THE CHAINS HAVE BEEN BRO (EN-+-SOON TO BE REMOVED

Bean Picking For
Tratfic Offenders

When the traffic court judge we find it necessary to send
says ~thirty days~, the offender every available able-bodied man
may: find himself doing his time to work on the farm and in the
picking beans instead of sitting cannery.~
in a cell block. ~We have cut down on the number of women working in the
laundry by replacing them with
men on tne atvernoun snift, and
have women working in the can
He will become ~weekend~ help
at the 1000-acre Detroit House
of Corrections farm. A new policy for those who the court feels ap é
would experience too much hard- nery,~ he continued:
ship by doing their time conse- One of the problems a oak
cutively allows them to serve time tered in operating the farm wit
on the weekends at the Plymouth limited labor was pointed out py
institution~thus increasing man- *@piro.

power to harvest Dehoco~s bounty _~Vur bean crop had to; be hand1961 crop. picked at the time it was ready,

~ -. ne explained. ~One day late in

Superintendent Albert Shapiro picking would have meant an inreports that. the extra help is ferior crop. So it was necessary
welcome.
the ~inmate.court is down and the maximum security, risks out of
harvest season. is upon us with our sell block~wnigh we did with
largest crops than ever before, an incentive pay o~ two cents a

Class Program urrent coun > 2 a;
Stepped Up

This Fall

hery contingent é
in number 1U cans, which hoid
avout. a gailon.
So tar tais summer they have
producted 49U5 cans of peas; ~7418
~ Caus Of green veans; 4404 cals
Ol Wax beans; 1Z/v cans oi cnerries, and svUU cans of piums.
harvesting of. cucumiwer has

GREENSBORO, N. C. ~ The just begun, with 5453 cans of *

Evening Class Program at A & 'T sweet pickies already stored.
College, entering its second year ~Je juv of piacwimg anu packing
of operation, will be stepped up will continue into iali witn corn,
beginning this fall. DELS alld LUMaLUes Yet LO De NarCollege officials said ready ac- vested.
cepiance of the offerings last | Canned foods produced at Deseason by persons who could not hoco are primaruy tor consuinpattend day classes has encouraged tion at tne imsutution. Surpius
the increase in offerings. Is sola to other city tacilities sucn. Fifteen course, inciuding: de- a5 meceiving and tierman Kieier
sign, composition, English, tiuspials and Mayoury SanaturFrench, geography history, alge- sum.
bra, trigonometry, engineering
drawing music, government, ~
psychology and typing all granting credit which leads to a college degree, will be offered. Seven 7,
other programs are to be offered Needs Agr I cul tur e
in the coilege~s Technical instic GREENSBOxvu, N. C. ~ Offitute including: automotive techno- cialis at A & ~It~ College were toid
logy, air conditioning and refri- last week about agriculture neeas
geration technology, building con- ui the new natious in Africa.
struction technology, drafting Three top agricultural leaders
technology, electrical technology, from ine uew nauon of Logo in
mechanical technology and cloth- West Atrica descrived the proing. biems being faced by their country in meeting the health and

African ations, i

food needs of their countrymen.
Composing the visiting party were
iwamuuro Aaramoko, minister of
agriculture and chief of the party;
basuie I~, Amaizo_ veternarian,
Livestock Service. and Kene C.

WAS THE ASSISTANT TO HER LAWYER CHAS. SUMNER/THEY LOST _
(THE, CASE, BUT.N 1855, MASSACHUSETTS OUTLAWED vincrow!/
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gs iou Should Know... } AR AH C. ROBERTS SUED

THE CITY OF BOSTON IN 1849 FOR|

MORRIS, A YOUNG NEGRO ATTORNEY,

Akakpo, director, kural Action
Program, all of ~logo. \
ine tnree have come to this
country to observe agricultural
practices, particularly a North
~ Carolina, and to explore ~opportunities for their stuaents to come
tothe United States for technical training.

All, speaking in French through
their interpreter, Stanislas Zdziechowski, accompanying the group,
déscribed the problem - besetting
Togo and ~the steps mow being
taken to correct them.::

~We are aware of the big challenges which face us,~ said Karamoko, ~and we are making every
effort to change the charactor of
our nation.~ 5

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DISCRIMINATION IN SCHOOLS. ROBERT Join The

~Due to the fact that tor us to utilize men who are.

Radar Safety

Safety records show that drive
ing on modern superhighways 1s

Consumer's Corner
Guide lines from NACCA

~Sign here on the dotted line
~it~s your warranty,~ says the

salesman. Chances are you
squint to read the fine print
but then give up and sign anyway. In the past, the unread
fine print was often the source
of future trouble. Instead of
safeguarding yourself in the
~event of product breakdown,
you frequently signed away
your rights.:

However. you soon may be
able to throw away your magnifying glass, according to the
National Association of. Claimants~ Counsel of America, a
group of 10,000 trial lawyers
dedicated to strengthening your
rights under the law.

Recent landmark court~ decisions, says NACCA, have held
that limitations written into
tke warranty are invalid if
they are stated in unclear fashion (fine print), if the language
is vague or if the warranty is
obtained unfairly. In one such
decision, small print_on an airline insurance policy stated
that it did not cover non-scheduled flights. The beneficiary
designated by a passenger who
lost his life on a non-scheduled

flight, was nevertheless per
the

mitted. to recover, on

grour.ds that tHe small print in | |~

the policy did not sufficiently
warn the public.

As NACCA members continue test cases in these areas,
your protection as a consumer
becomes greater, _

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Behold, now is the accept
- able time.~(II Cor. 6:2).

Begin today, right where

~ you are, to practice God~s

presence, for ~in Thy presence is fulness of joy.~ Begin. today to prove His perfect

Sih Se Se Gad!

By Elizabeth ~Ellington

The Bible tells us in Ist
essalonians:
__ ~For this is the will of God,
even your sanctification, that
ye should abstain from fornication:

~That every one -of you
should know how to possess
his vessel in sanctification
and honour;

~Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

_ ~That no man go beyond
and defraud his brother in

= any manner: because that the

Lord is the avenger of all
such, as we also nave forewarned you and testified.
~For God hath not called
us unto uncleanness, but unio holiness.:

~He therefore that despiseth, despiséth not man, put

God, wino hath aiso given us:

nis noiy spirit.~ (1 ~nessatonians 4:3-3)
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Mary Baker Eddy discoverer. of Christian Science
says in Seience & Heaitn witn
hey w we Scriptures:

~The conceptions of mortal, erring thought must give
way io tne ideal of all rat
is pertect and eternal.
Through many generations
human beliets will be attaining diviner conceptions, and
the immorial and_ perfect
model of God's creation wili
tinaliy be seen as the only
true conception of being.

~Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good,
and sets mortals at work to
discover what God has -already done; but distrust of
one~s ability io gain the goodness desired and to bring
out better and higher results, often hampers the
trial of one~s wings and ensures failure at the outset.~
(Science & Health p. 260:7 -18)

According to the Bible and
Chiisuan Science, God has
aiways been and always wiil
be a friend to every individual man...:

The question may arise
what about mortals, and the

~earnal mind? |
The Bible tells us as for ~

man, (that is mortal man.)
~As tor man, his days are as
grass, as a flower of the
tield so he flourisheth..
~For the wind passeth over

it, and it is gone; and the

place thereof shail know it

~no more.~ (Psalms 103:15-17
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Man created in the spiritual image of God constitutes
man~s true worth. Not a mortal with a carnal mind but
a spliliual idea created in the
image and likeness of God,
revealed by His son Christ
JESUS.,

God~s power does not
change from Spirit into matter. -riowever, He does biess
man tnrougn nis uncnanging
Word of ~iruth, Life, and
Love. God being the source
of all good, because He is
good, is the power~that
piesses and protects the
righieous here and. now.

So when our soldiers go
from ohe nation to another,
voa in Spirit is already there
to protect them~ that none
may do them any harm. So
as they go to watch, let us
aiso watch and pray, knowing that the glory of God wiil
endure forever.

Our heavenly Father~s creation cannot be terminated
and totally put to an end by
material weapons. Although
there may be seeming ex~treme fear, violence, and
dread among the Nations,
there will always be left living testimonials of the true
vaiue of Life in God through
the revelation of Christ
Jesus.

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