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Dean Monro said yesterday that the College would not issue an official statement or take any other action in behalf of John W. Perdew '64, a vounteer civil rights worker facing trial in Americus, Ga., on a charge that could lead to his execution. He added, however, that he personally thought Perdew's situation was "terrible...
...contrast, students at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J., have already sent $2300 to the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP, stipulating that it be used to defend Donald Harris, a senior who is among the four SNCC workers in the Americus jail. Kenneth G. McDermott, vice-president of the student council, reported that $200 to $300 is being raised daily by the university newspaper, which is printing the names of contributors and the amounts of their contributions
...general news from southwest Georgia, demonstrations broke out in Americus, 37 miles north of Albany, on the 11th and 13th of July for the first time. Peter de Lossovoy, Harvard junior, was picked up downtown in Albany, with another SNCC worker as he walked with two Negroes. Enclosed is a copy of our "weekly" paper, the Student Voice, distributed by various methods under threat of being charged with "distributing handbills," which carries a penalty of 15 days and/or $54. Three convictions on this ordinance have already been carried in recorders court in Albany. We regard them as unjust, since handbills...
...wife, waiting rooms (separate for whites and Negroes), two 10-ft.-by-10-ft. examination and treatment rooms. Dr. Sills has a sterilizer, centrifuge, microscope, and instruments for minor surgery. He wants no fancy, expensive gadgets like an electrocardiograph or X-ray machine, because these are handy at the Americus and Sumter County Hospital (130 beds), ten miles away...
Each morning Dr. Sills is up at 6:45, visits his patients in the Americus hospital, is back for office hours in Plains by 9. Says he: "I average 15 to 20 patients a day, and have worked every day since I came here. We try to close for lunch at 12, but we never can-something always comes up. At night I go back to the hospital and make house calls. The big need around here is for house calls, and I make two or three a day.'' Dr. Sills charges $3 for an office visit...