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Senate Debates Rights Measure
By United Press International
The big tug-of-war has begun in the Senate over the House-approved civil rights bill. Some police chiefs probably wish it could have happened in the dead of winter.
THERE IS NO way to tell at this point just when the preliminary maneuvers will be disposed of so the bill itself can be brought up for debate. Educated guesses in Washington put the critical time for the measure at from three to five weeks in the future.
A. Phillip Fandolph, one of the "Big Five" Negro leaders in the nation and an architect of the 1963 march on Washington, already is going around the country urging grass roots demonstrations against senatorial efforts to delay the civil rights measure.
Prolonged debate over this controversial measure and the probability of a filibuster to block a vote will be a major tension factor on the civil rights front this spring. Integration groups are threatening to call major demonstrations in a "street corner lobby" for passage of the bill.
If history is any guide, April and May are the two most popular months for the massive racial demonstration. A stalled civil rights bill would give the promoters a rallying point of major proportion for spring uprisings.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who has threatened to re-open demonstrations in Emmingham next month, calls repeated attention to the status of the legislation.
ON THE OTHER side of the coin, it is probable that the leadership of the Negro organizations is being urged with great emphasis to soft-pedal demonstrations while the debate progresses.
Proponents of the civil rights bill, in full knowledge they have their best chance yet to get a strong measure approved, are reasoning that demonstrations in or out of Washington would simply cause opponents to dig in their heels to the last.
Thus, even if a bill were finally approved, its by-product would be bitterness and division. They feel this reaction would spill over to
Some Negro leaders, who have worked for years to get a civil rights measure with muscle approved, are hoping the impatient among their numbers will not trigger incidents that can lead quickly to violence.
states that already hate the thought of the measure, making enforcement difficult at best.
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THEY HAVE one thing going in their favor. There is a growing distaste among Negroes themselves for huge demonstrations. An effort to produce a crowd for a downtown demonstration in Atlanta recently—this one on behalf of open public accommodations—failed completely.
At one point, demonstration lieutenants were going from store to store in a Negro area of Atlanta urging customers to join them downtown. The request was ignored.
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"The Negro community is getting more mature in its outlook on integration," a Negro leader commented. "The tide is going with us now. It's best that we move with the tide and not try to outrun it."
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LONDON—(UPI)—Sammy Davis Jr., who arrived here yesterday to do a one-man television show for the British Broadcasting Corp., said, "My main purpose while I'm here is to get the Beatles' autograph for my children. Mark and Tracey.
"I keep on saying to them—look here kids, I'm a great star. I earn a million dollars a year. They aren't interested. All they say is, 'We don't want your autograph, Pa. We want the Beatle.'"
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Students Seek End Of Ruling Group
STILLWATER, Okla., — (UPI)—The leader of a defeated proposal to ban prayers at Oklahoma State University football games planned today to circulate a petition to abolish the school's student senate.
The student senate voted last night, 13-8, against submitting the prayer proposal to the student body.
Most Stillwater ministers have voiced approval of the prayers, as Baptist Convention and Methodist Bishop W. Angie Smith.
The move had been started by Ken Balzer, a senior from New York, who presented a petition bearing 300 names asking that the pre-game prayers be stopped. Balzer said he was disappointed about the decision, and said he would start his anti-senate petition immediately.
The petition seeking to ban pregame prayers did not have the offical endorsement of any campus organization. But, it stirred up a controversy that produced statements from some of the state's top religious leaders.
Balzar was joined in the petition move by Steve Williams, a Cyril, Okla, senior, and Bonnie Yordi, an Ardmore, Okla., junior
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