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Disturbance Brings Arrests
MARKS, Miaa. — Six No-
grow wart arrested Wednesday
in this northwest Mississippi
town as the state highway pa
trol forcibly dispersed a crowd
of some 300 students gathered at
the county jail near the court
house.
The students were protesting
the jailing earlier of Willie Bol
den, an official of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.
Sheriff L. V. Harrison of Quit-
man County said no one was shot
and no one was hurt during the
disturbance. Earlier, the Ree. Dr.
Ralph D. Abernathy, president of
the SCLC, had said in Washing
ton that seven persons had been
shot Abernathy later said his
report was erroneous.
THE TOWN of Marks is sched
uled to be a rallying point Thurs-
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day of a portion of the Poor Peo
ples March on Waahington, which
Abernathy will lead.
Authorities said Bolden, from
Atlanta, Ga., was arrested on
charges of trespassing on school
property and disturbing the
peace. The arrest came after
Bolden had entered Quitman High
School and talked to the students.
Sheriff Harrison said Bolden
tried to induce the students to
stage marches in connection with
the Poor People’s March.
AFTER Bolden’s arrest, about
300 students left the school and
marched to the county jail, where
they demanded Bolden be re
leased.
Authorities told the group to
disperse. After 30 minutes,
highway patrolmen moved in with
gun butts raised and scattered
the students. Afterward, two
store windows in the downtown
area were shattered.
Six of the demonstrators were
arrested, on charges of violation
of a law prohibiting picketing or
demonstrating in or near a court
house.
AFTERWARD, Sheriff Harri
son said: “Everything hare is
just as quiet as you want to see
it”
Those arrested were identified
as Doris Baker, 18, of Marks;
Jimmy L. Wells, 21, Atlanta; Ma
jor Wright 47, Grenada, Mias.;
Marjorie Hyatt, 22, Atlanta;
Chester Thomas Jr., Canton,
Miss, Andrew Marrisette, 27,
Atlanta, and Bolden.
The sheriff said there was no
objection to anyone talking to the
students, “but we didn't want
them to take them out of school.
We asked them to stay away
from the school grounds. They
proceeded to go there and that’s
when we arrested the fellow
named Willie Bolden.”
Abernathy is scheduled to ar
rive in Marks Thursday.
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May
of children
flowers, but the phrase is also
a distress signal that may be
sounded because of hot weather’s
arrival.
Texaa A AM’s Meteorology De
partment climatologist, John F.
Griffiths, notes that in May cool
temperatures give way to hot days
when hid-aftemoon temperatures
average 86 degrees. *
High temperature extremes for
the fifth month range from 61
degrees on May 10, 1917, to 101
degrees in 1928, on the 27th.
“Fortunately, 100 degree rend
Ings are very rare in May,” the
meteorology professor commented.
“Sunrise temperatures average
around 64 degrees and it illus-
Lrates the vagaries of the weather
to note that 1928 also gave the
late May cold record of 48 de
grees, on the 22nd.”
The month's total rainfall has
ranged from a tenth of an inch
to over IB inches and averages
out as the area’s wettest 30-day
period, with a 4.8-inch norm.
“Rain is generally recorded on
seven days and during about 40
hours of the month. Showers are
more likely to occur between 8
p.m. and 7 a.m. than during the
daytime,” Griffiths pointed out.
May Winds steerage 4 raph out
of the southeast to south and
cloud cover has averaged 60 per
cent
Sunrise on May 1 is at 6:43,
sunset 8:02. At the end of the
month the sun is visible from
6:23 to 8:21.
Washington Grabs Indonesian Proposal
To Hold Talks On Ship In Tonkin Gulf
WASHINGTON <*> — The
White House quickly agreed
Wednesday to an Indonesian pro
posal to hold preliminary peace
talks with North Vietnam aboard
an Indonesian cruiser to be sent
to Tonkin Gulf.
But it would surprise Wash
ington officials if Hanoi accepts
the floating-site offer. The Reds
have already spumed a U. S.
suggestion to meet in Indonesia’s
capital, Jakarta.
President press secretary
George Christian and other U. S.
spokesmen nonetheless gave
straight-faced replies when asked
about the latest twist in the
month of maneuvering over where
U. S. and North Vietnamese en
voys should meet for their pro
posed direct talks.
INDONESIA'S foreign minis
ter, Adam Malik, said after a
cabinet meeting in Jakarta that
his country has told the opposing
sides it is willing to sail a cruiser
to the Tonkin Gulf lying be
tween the North Vietnameee and
Red Chinese coasts — for s meet
ing site.
Mslik reported no formal reply
had arrived yet from either
Washington or Hanoi, although
the Communists had indicated
they still prefer their proposed
sites — Phnom Penh, Cambodia
or Warsaw.
An Indonesian site is presum
ably objectionable to North Viet-
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The Civilian Student Menu
Committee will meet with uni
versity foal officials at noon
Monday for its regular monthly
diacusaion of Sbisa dining opera
tions, announced Edwin H. Coop
er, director of civilian student
activities.
Cooper said the group will
meet In the Sbisa office of Col.
Fred Dollar, food service direc
tor, and then have lunch together.
Any civilian student desiring to
offer suggestions about the din
ing operation is invited to contact
one of the committee members
and attend the luncheon meeting
as his guest. Cooper said.'
Permanent members of the
committee are: Civilian Student
Council President Griff Venator.
Room 47, Milner Hall; Graduate
Student Council President Ernest
Knowles, 307 Live Oak, College
Station; Civilian Student Council
members George Walne, Room 47,
Milner Hall, and Steve Bancroft,
Room 424, Dorm 16.
Cooper pointed out the Corps
of Cadets has a separate menu
committee.
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nam’s ally. Communist China.
Peking broke relations with In
donesia after the current leader
ship there ousted the left-leaning
Sukarno regime.
THE WHITE House said Indo
nesia’s offer — which comes in
addition to 16 Asian and Euro
pean locations previously pro
posed by U. S. diplomats — “is
acceptable to the United States.”
“A neutral ship on a neutral
sea would be a good meeting
place,” Christian told newsmen
in words recalling some presi
dential oratory aboard the U. S.
carrier Enterprise last Veterans
Day.
In that speech on the flight
deck aboard the carrier off San
Diego, Calif., President Johnson
declared the U. S. search for
peace would extend even to a
meeting ground at sea — a vast
place which might help men real
ise the “ultimate smallness of
their quarrel."
“FOR I’S. the ward room
could really be a ’conference
room,” he said. “A neutral ship
on a neutral sea would be as good
a meeting place as any.”
Johnson recalled that President
Franklin D. Roosevelt mad Brit
ain’s prime minister, Winston
Churchill, had met aboard the
U. S. cruiser Augusta off New
foundland in August 1941 to draw
up the Atlantic Charter. The
charter was a statement of aims
of the World War II allies.
Water-borne meetings are
sprinkled elsewhere through dip
lomatic history, too. In 1807 Rus
sia's Alexander I and France's
Napoleon Bonaparte concluded a
treaty aboard a river craft. U. S.
Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur ac
cepted Japan’s World War II sur
render on the battleship Missouri.
IF THE V. 8. and North Viet
namese emissaries do wind up
on an Indonesian warship, it
could be Soviet-built. Malik did
npt specify a particular vessel but
the large scale Moscow arms
deliveries to Indonesia during the
Sukarno era included a cruiser,
sources have said.
Just how the arrangements for
a shipboard Vietnam negotiation
would be carried out remained
obscure. Johnson has listed four
requlrementx~for a site:
That it be in a neutral atmos
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STATE DEPARTMENT press
officer Robert J. McCloskey said
international waters fall within
the U. S. definition of a neutral
area.
It was in the international wa
ters of the Tonkin Gulf, according
to the U. S. verson, that North
Vietnamese torpedo boats at
tacked U. S. destroyers in mid-
1964 incidents preceding Ameri
can bombing of North Vietnam.
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