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...Southern press, up against tough and delicate problems, also has its shining examples of courage and fairness in handling its No. 1 story. In Tuscaloosa, from offices less than two miles from the University of Alabama, Editor Buford Boone of the News (circ. 15,681) topped off thorough coverage of the Lucy story with a hard-hitting editorial: "The university administration and trustees have knuckled under to the pressures and desires of a mob . . . We have a breakdown of law and order and abject surrender to what is expedient ..." The Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser (circ. 60,144), which sees no integration...
...Diehards. At its worst, notably in Mississippi, the Southern press is full of slanting, suppression and rabble-rousing against integration. The most violent is the Jackson, Miss. Daily News (circ. 38,813), whose ripsnorting old (78) Editor Fred Sullens incites readers against "mongrelization" under such front-page scare-lines as "YOU ARE FOR US OR AGAINST US." The best that Editor Sullens could say of the Negro was in a sentimental story on the funeral of an 83-year-old onetime janitor at the University of Mississippi; the paper started a scholarship fund in his name, and sang his praises...
...Southern Case. More dignified than the extremists is another group of stalwart prosegregation papers typified by the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier (circ. 53,286). It occasionally offends rabid racists by printing constructive news of the Negro community, and its editor, Thomas R. Waring, appeared in Harper's Magazine gently pleading "The Southern Case Against Desegregation...
Religion Editor Adon Taft of the Miami Herald (circ. 225,169) is an earnest Baptist who goes to church twice every Sunday-once to worship, and once to report on a new congregation in his column, "A Stranger in Church." Last week, obeying his instincts as both believer and newsman, Taft was working to expose the tent-show evangelism of a faith healer...
Died. Maria Clopton Jackson, 93, widow of C. S. ("Sam") Jackson, doughty founder (in 1902) of Portland's independent Oregon Journal (circ. 182,257), longtime board chairman of the Journal Publishing Co.; in Portland...