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By The Associated Pres#I N . » \ '*A rowdy, angry mob in the little Western Kentucky coal mining settlement of Clay ran newspapermen out of town Friday in the midst of a schoolsegregation dispute seething from Maryland to Texas.At least five reporters and cameramen were forced out of Clay when they sought to reach a racial demonstration at an elementary school where two Negro children tried to enroll Thursday,One who remained, Don Armstrong of the Henderson (Ky.) Gleaner-Journal, asked his managing editor by telephone later,, “get me help.” He spoke in a low voice and “sounded worried,” said the managing editor, Ed Greenwald.The newsmen were threatened with death and an attempt was made to upset the auto of one by a mob of more than 100, members of which said they were armed. They were escorted out of town by motorcycles.The mob also shouted defiance of any attempt to bring in the national guard or state police, saying angrily, “we can take care of them.”AP Staffer George Hackett later reached Clay and reported Armstrong also had left and other newsmen reported missing were safe.Clay is only 11 miles frcm Sturgis, Ky., where mob pressure kept nine Negroes away from school Friday despite a two-day vigil of militiamen and police to “preserve peace and carder.” More guardsmen werecalled in and the way cleared to proclaim martial law If necessary in a showdown at Sturgis Monday. The militia had escorted the Negroes to school with drawn bayonets Thursday.Mob pressure also blocked efforts of three Negroes to register at the Texarkana (Tex.) junior* college. About 50 white persons, mostly students, formed a “picket line” to turn away the three, two boys and a girl.Relative quiet prevailed atGOOD MORiMXGThe sun has shone over Amarillo for i 237 days out of 250 during 195fi, Comparative readings at 3 p.m. Friday.Wind Visibility MPH MilesHouston ....... 13Dallas ..... 12Ok!a City ..... 12Amarillo ...... i.315151515SkyConditionPtly Cldy Clear Clear ClearClinton, in eastern Tennessee, where soldiers first were used to allow Integration. Twelve Negroes continued to attend school there and a boycott by white students appeared to be gradually losing ground.At Annapolis, Md., Circuit Judge Benjamin Mlchaelson refused a plea of segregationist George Washington Williams, a states righter, that Anne Arundel County be forced to provide separate schools for white andNegro.“This court,” said Michaeison, “does not feel It has any right tooverrule the Supreme Court of the United States.”In Austin, Gov, Allan Shivers told a news conference that lais action in sending Texas Rangers to Mansfield High School and the1subsequent calm there, proved tobe “wise . . , particularly ascompared to the Tennessee situation which is still in an uproar.”School authorities in Mercer County, W. V*.., attempted to keep open Matoaka High School and elementary school and the Springton elementary junio highschool in the face of a boycott that kept hundreds of white pupils from classes. Parents said they would keep their children out of school as long as Negroes are admitted.Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Assn. forthe Advancement of Colored People, charged In a speech in Denver that President Eisenhower is “assuming a neutral position” on school desegregation.I,
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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sat, Sep 08, 1956
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