Identification made from photographs
Arrests made in school bus attack
LAMAR, S.C. (UPI)—State and local authorities launched a roundup Wednesday night of 30 men charged with rioting in Tuesday's white mob attack on Negro school buses, hauling at least one suspect to jail in his pajamas.
Late Wednesday night seven of the 30 suspects for whom warrants were issued had been brought to jail. None was to be allowed bond until after arraignment Thursday.
Wayne Sea, Gov. Robert E. McNair's news secretary, said all the suspects were charged with "common law rioting" as a result of the melee Tuesday in front of newly-integrated Lamar High, when nearly 200 whites with clubs and chains attacked buses bringing Negro students to the school. Police repelled them with tear gas.
All those charged Wednesday were men, although many women were in the mob. Seal said "possible additional charges against the 30 may be placed later and additional persons may be charged as evidence if further analyzed and accumulated." Much of the evidence, it was understood, was in the form of photographs made by police during the violence.
The first man arrested Wednesday night was Jeryl Best, head of a "freedom of choice" school group. All the arrests were made by state police, state law enforcement division officers and sheriff's deputies.
Jerry Watford, 30, was brought to jail in light blue pajamas.
As the arrests mounted, cars began circling the normally quiet courthouse area.
A man who would identify himself only as a "minister of the gospel" came to the jail and insisted on talking to a highway patrolman. He demanded to know "how come the niggers in times past have burned down buildings and even killed people and turn up property and they call it a demonstration? Let a white man do it and they call it rioting."
Patrolman W, R. Griffith replied "if you violate a state law we enforce it. We enforce it regardless of the color." The man then left.
A federal judge, meanwhile issued a show cause order in connection with the violence, and President Nixon let it be known he is watching "that situation closely."
TOPEKA (UPI) - Pest control operators and spokesmen for chemical and fertilizer manufacturers sought today to have their industries represented on a proposed state ecology council under consideration by a Senate committee.
Chemical, pest control industries seek council
member council should include both users and sellers of chemical pesticides.
Darrell Staley, president of the Kansas Fertilizer and Chemical Association, told members of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee that the proposed 17-
Charles Davis, Jr., representing the Orkin Exterminating Company, and speaking for other pest control firms, urged the committee to expand the proposed council to 22 members, to include three licensed pesticide operators, a herbicide specialist and an agricultural representative from Kansa State University.
KU prof author of government text
A new edition of the book that might be considered the text on Kansas governments will be issued by the University Press of Kansas in March.
It is "The Government of Kansas" by James W. Drury, KU professor of political science. Drury is on leave to serve as director of research for the Kansas Legislative Council.
The book, which is the only book available on all aspects of the government of Kansas, has a Kansas index including history,
state constitution, state, county, and local government, education, courts, agriculture and resources.
County jail hard up for new prisoners
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI)—Four men in street clothes walked into the Duval County Jail Monday and were shown to a holding cell where they were locked up. A few minutes later a jail official came in looking for the men. He found them in the bullpen and told the desk sergeant the men were new recruits for guards at the jail.
throwing bricks and bottles and beating on the bus with chains and stuff. I was scared to death."
National Guard troops remained on alert Wednesday for any additional trouble in Lamar, but the day passed without incident. The federal government also reportedly was sending in additional U.S. marshals.
and overturned school buses Tuesday when the buses arrived at Lamar High with Negro students. State troopers finally beat back the attacks with tear gas.
"The ladies got in front of the bus and the driver stopped," said 16-year-old Annie Burris, one of the Negro students, "We got down in the aisles and they were
The order issued by U.S. District Judge Robert Martin, was directed at seven whites and ordered them to appear in court Monday at Columbia to show cause why they should not be enjoined from interfering with operation of Lamar schools.
About 150 screaming whites, many of them women, battered
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