St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-05
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DETRoITERS MAY ASK PROBE
OF SMELLY SITUATION
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; It hit a skunk and the
resultant odor permeated the train
almost causing nausea among some
of the passengers. One passenger
thought it was a plot by those
skunks, the DiSdecrats."
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 Ecldord, one of
the nine Negro students who in
tegrated Central high school under
the watchful eyes Of US. para
troopers in 1857. Miss Ecl1ford 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.
JOB MARCH CLOSED JOB OFFICE
Washington (ANP) - One of
the ironic twists of the gigantic
march for jobs here last week was
that it 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 to 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 OF 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 IT 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.
40 900 SANDWICHES DISAPPEAR
LIKE DROP OF WATER IN OCEAN
Washington (ANP) - Eighty
thousand sandwiches costing $4O,-
900, packaged in New York by 300
volunteers working in shifts over
"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, a glot
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 unhl
put on sale Wednesday. A special
walkie tall1ie radio system had tc
be set up between the six points al
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 Bach
Washington (ANP) - Leaders
estimated Wednesday that SIC, ,O0O,'
900 was spent by the more thar
200, 900 persons who came here tc
ioin the massive March on Wash
ington.
This does not include the costs
incurred by the sponsoring organ
izations in working out the details
for the march.
The figure of $10,000,00o 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 $27. BY
plane, 1t ranged form $39 to $4S.
EIcHTY-oNE YEAR OLD
BIRMINGHAM MARcHER NOT
SURE NE SAW WHITE HOUSE
Washington (ANP)-The March
provided thousands of persons with
their first chance TO see the ma
tion's capital, but they had little
time for sight seeing.
One was 81 year old Henry
Hughes of Birmingham who ar
rived here on one of the six spec
ial buses carrying an Alabama
delegation of about 300.
Informed he was 753 miles from
home, Hughes shook his head and