The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-09-23


desegregation Of public schools suit
against Prince Edward County. Judge
Oren Lewis, federal district judge
granted a request by NAACP lawyers
to file complaint on behalf of certain
parents and/or taxpayers in Prince Ea-
ward County supplementary to the suit
filed nine years ago and decided May
IL, 1854 by the U. S. Supreme Court
In SO doing, Judge Lewis, also, per-
mitted the addition of the State Board
of Education, the Superintendent of
Public instruction, and the Prince Ed
ward Board of Supervisors as defend
ants in the supplemental suit.
In the supplemental complaint GER
tain Negro plaintiffs claim that the
actions of the Prince Edward super
visors and school board were ode
liberate, intentional and calculated eff
fort to circumvent and Illustrate" the
courts order
The supplemental complaint asks for
and order enjoining the defendants
from: Cd refusing to operate a public
school system in the county; and (2)
for an Injunction barring the sale or
lease of school property.
May we place this action in focus.
Judge Lewis has merely agreed to
hear the complaints of certain Prince
Edward citizens. Judge Lewis could
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Judge Lewis could have ruled that
the complaints were properly to be
heard in State courts, since they in
volved State constitutional questions.
This may be his decision after hearing
arguments on the motion.
Judge Lewis could have ruled that
the supplemental complaints were not
germane to the original suit therefore
they were not supplemental. This he
did not do, but again he may do after
hearing the case
Judge Lewis has made but one de-
clsion in this case, merely that he, as
federal judge, will hear both the side
of the complainants and the defendants.
From legal point of view, the sup
Elemental complaints raise as MANY or
more constitutional questions than did
the orlglninal desegregation suits.
Prince Edward county, the state of
Virginia, and their officers have acted
Communist
COMMUNISTS plan long ways
= ahead. A general pattern is set and
every living soul under Communist con-
troll is fitted into the pattern. Dictators,
If they remain in power, can devise
means and methods toward consum-
mating their plans.
Fidel Castros revolution in Cuba
didn't just happen. 1t appears to have
been we'll planned 1t is now known
that Castro had revolutionary training
and experience for many years. Cuba
occupies strategic position Castro
was the man who could control it.
Unsuspectingly, he was aided by the
United States, against whom he was
working.
A small incident, but some think Cas-
tro and the Cuban delegation foment-
ed the unpleasantness which gave him
the opportunity to stalk out of Man
haitian hotel and set up headquarters
in a Harlem hotel while he was at
tending the United Nations Assembly
meeting. He may have been making
propaganda.
? Another insignificant news item ap-
peared recently when President Eisen-
hover allowed the Panamanian flag to
be flown over the Panama Canal thus
placing the strategic waterway under
Panama control Some say that Mr..
Khrushchev will return to Russia via
the Panama Canal to visit North Korea.
Whether the replacing of the American
flag with the Panamanian has ANYTHING
to do with this prospective event is
merely conjecture, but it is an indication
of the far-sightedness of the Commu-
nists if it does.