Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-09-05
DETRoITERS MAY ASK PROBE
OF SMELLY SITUATION

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Washington (ANP) - When q
special train carrying a delegation
Of about 500 persons arrived here
from Detroit for the March on
Washington, most said the capital
smelled sweet.
They reported that when the
train was about a half hour south
Of Toledo, 1t hit skunk and the
resultant odor permeated the train
almost causing nausea among some
of the passengers. One passenger
thought 1t was plot by those
sllunks, the Di1decrats."
ONE or LITTLE
ROCK NINE IN MARCH
Washington (ANP) - An al
most forgotten heroine of the Lit
tie Rock Central high school in
tegration fight was on a chart
cred bus that brought % persons
here from the Arkansas capital
for the March on Washington.
She Is Elizabeth Eclford, one of
the nine Negro students who In
tegrated Central high school under
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troopers in 1857. Miss Eclford Is
now a student at Central State
college at Xenia, Ohio, but spent
her vacation at home.
About a half dozen whites were
in the delegation. Another char
tered bus with Al persons came
here from Pine Bluff.
Washington (ANP) - One of
the ironic twists of the gigantic
march for jobs here last week was
that 1t temporarily halted one of
the best sources Of jobs for Ne
groes here.
Everyday from 100 to 125 per-
sons, mostly women and mostly
Negro, report Ito the Civil Service
Commissions Examining office
here to take exams for positions
as stenographers and typists in
the federal government.
However, because of the March,
the office was closed August %.
Officials said the action WAS taken
to lessen congestion in downtown
Washington.
SEN. RUSSELL LONG FEARED FOR
SAFETY or WHITE WoMENI
Washington (ANP) - Sen. Rus
sell b. Long of Louisiana, foe of
civil rights, announced that he had
instructed all women working in
his office not to report to work on
Aug. % because of the March on
Washington.
Sen. Long said the presence of
so many Negroes ON the streets
would make it unsafe for white
women.
Although he was not advocating
violence, he said II would just as
soon the whole thing broke out
into riots" He was disappointed.
MOST MARcHERS COULD
NOT HEAR $4,000 SOUND
Washington (ANP) - The pub
lie address system set up around
the Washington monument and the
Lincoln Memorial cost $4,000 and
still was not adequate to enable
the vast throng TO hear all the pro-
ceedings.
40 600 SANDWICHES DISAPPEAR
LIKE DROP OF WATER IN OCEAN
Washington (ANP) = Eighty
thousand sandwiches costing $40,-
900, packaged in New York by 300
volunteers working in shifts over
a "a hour period, disappeared in
this throng of 100000 here Aug.
% like a drop of water in the Pac-
ific Ocean.
Each of the food packets, sold
for less than cost by the National
Council of Churches, contained an
American cheese sandwich, glob
of mustard, an apple and a piece
of cake.
Brought here in refrigerated
trucks they arrived the night be-
fore the March. They were stored
in a refrigerated warehouse until
put on sale Wednesday. A special
walkie tallde radio system had to
be set up between the six points at
which the sandwiches were sold
and the warehouse so the STOCK
could be replenished as needed.
FREEDOM MARcHERS SPENT
$4,000, 900 GETTING
THERE AND BACK
Washington (ANP) - Leaders
estimated Wednesday that $40, ,0OO,-
600 was spent by the more than
200, 900 persons who came here to
ioin the massive March on Wash
ington.
This does not include the costs
incurred by the sponsoring organ
Iizations in working out the details
for the march.
The figure of $10,000,000 was
arrived at by estimates that 1t cost
the average marcher $50 to partic-
ipate. This includes transportation
food and other incidentals.
The overall figure would be
boosted considerably If the wages
lost by many workers who were
not granted time off were includ'
ed.
Round trip fare from Chicago
on two special trains carrying
about 1000 persons was SGT. By
plane, 1t ranged form 500 to SAB.
EIcHTY-oNE YEAR OLD
BIRMINGHAM MARcHER NOT
SURE NJ SAW WHITE HoUSI
Washington (ANP)-The Marcf
provided thousands Of persons wttf
their first chance 10 see the ma
tons capital, but they had little
time for sight seeing.
One was 81 year old Henry
Hughes Of Birmingham who ar
rix,ad hare m one Of the six SPEC.