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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNS--SEVEN Alabama University Bars Negro Student To Prevent Further Violence Tuesday, February 7, 1956 Trustees Vole 'Police Powers' To Exclude Girl Tuscaloosa, Ala. U.R) The University of Alabama barred Negro student Autherine Lucy from classes today to prevent further violence and Insure her safety. University trustees voted in emergency session Monday night to use "police powers" to ex clude the 26-year-old Negro girl from classes following tense demonstrations in- which eggs and rocks were hurled. Her attorney, Arthur Shores, aid in Birmingham the trustees' action appeared to be "planned." We won a federal court case to get her admitted to the univer sity as its first Negro student. Dr. O. C. Carmichael, univer sity president, called trustees ,wlnto emergency session Monday night about the same time Gov. James E. Folsom refused to send National Guardsmen. C a r m i- chael warned the violence might force the university to close. Demonstrators Toss Eggs The tense hours of Miss Lucy's third day of classes Monday were followed by a third mid night demonstration during which one egg was thrown at Mrs. Carmichael and two pelted Police Chief W. C. Tompkins. Highway patrolmen spirited Miss Lucy from the campus a few hours earlier while decoy autos were pelted with eggs and rocks. She. was not harmed. Demonstrators marched and drove about the campus and Into town Monday night and early today shouting "Hey hey, ho ho! Where in the hell, did the ' Nigger go." The crowd swarmed upon the executive mansion demanding to see Carmichael and when Mrs. Carmichael came outside to explain that he was away someone threw an egg, which missed. "Are you a nigger lover?" lome one in the crowd shouted. Students Form Cordon University Police Chief Allen Rayfield and a handful of stu dents formed a cordon to shield the woman while she ducked to safety just as a handful of grav el "showered upon ' the .front porch. Students . spurned i literature handed out by members of-pro-segregation White Citizens coun cils picturing interracial mar riage ceremonies with snouts of "This is Communist stuff, let's burn it." They started a bonfire on the steps of a campus build ing. . ' The trustees said they would exclude Miss Lucy from classes until further notice because of violence and "threats of vio lence participated in by outsid ers." Westinghouse Negotiations Open Under Formula by Government Pittsburgh OJ.R) Nego tiations in the 114-day old West inghouse Electric Corp. strike began today under a govern ment formula to hasten settle ment of the bitter walkout by bypassing the major company time study issue Under the government plan, talks on the time efficiency study dispute would be post poned temporarily while bar gainers ironed out terms of a 90-day moratorium and such Former Policeman Questioned on Swindle Charges Portland (U.R) A former police officer of Bremerton, Wash., is being held in the Port land city jail today on a charge of writing a $600 worthless check, but detectives are ques tioning him also about the al leged $53,000 swindle of an Os wego woman. ' ' Held for investigation is . Or val Quincy Mitchell, 32, who is accused by Martha A. Robins of Oswego, of bilking her of "many thousands" of dollars, in cluding the $600 check. Loses Police Job Mitchell was arrested in Bre merton in 1946 for cashing a $1150 check on a bank in which he had no account. During that time he was on bail he obtain ed a job as chief of police for Sweet Home, Oregon, but was discharged within 10 days. He received a 15-year sentence oft the Washington check charge but obtained a habeas corpus which resulted in the grand lar ceny count being dismissed. . He subsequently was sentenced to a one year term on a petty- lar ceny charge arising from the case. Operated Fish Company Mitchell operated the Exotic Fish company in Portland when Mrs. Robins purchased the Os wego Pet Shop in 1954. She says he presented her with a bill for fish sold to the shop and subsequently suggested that she go into business with him and she began advancing money. In the transactions that fol lowed i- she says she mortgaged property holdings and sold a ranch to raise money which she turned over to him. Minimum Wage Upped In Canning Industry Portland (U.R) Norman O. Nilsen, state labor. commissioner, said today that minimum wages for women and minors in two branches of the canning indus try will be raised 'as the result of a hearing yesterday. Women and minors engaged in cherry stemming and pitting had been receiving a 35-cent maximum wage while those in nut processing and cracking had a 40-cent wage floor. - The state wage and hour com mission will raise the minimum for both groups to 66 cents an hour. Proposal Offered For Highway Program -Washington (U.R) The House Ways and Means commit tee today greased the gangway for an $800,000,000 - a - year tax boost for highway users. ' The bill introduced Monday by Rep. Hale Boggs (D-La.) with the blessing of Democratic lead ers would help finance a $51,000,000,000 national high way building program. The committee scheduled pub lic hearings beginning Feb. 15. It hoped to complete - them in less than s week. - Boggs predicted his bill would be sent to the House floor with- Lout substantial change. The Republican House leaders and President Eisenhower. -have agreed to support a pay-as-you-go plan to finance the highway program . but so far they have not said how they stand on par ticular tax increases. February? No, we don't have Christmas in February... Bat you'll enjoy a merry, prepaid Christmas next December by joining U. S. National's Christmas Club now ...in February. Do your Christmas saving early . .. Join our Christmas Club today f MEDFORD BRANCH MEMBER FEOEEAl OEPOSU INSURANCE CORPORATION strike issues as wages, length of contract and arbitration. However, apparent union and company differences on terms of the moratorium appeared to be a possible roadblock in the negotiations. The formula called for the 44,000 striking members of the International Union of Electri cal workers to return to work during the 90-day "truce" per iod while negotiators attempt to resolve differences on company time studies of non-incentive day-rate employees. -- . Strikers Remain Out The ' union emphasized,"' how ever, that until both sides reach agreement on all points,: , the strikers will remain off the job. "There would be no return to work until there is agreement on details of the so-called mor atorium in the time' study ne gotiations" as well as the other issues, the IUE said.: The government plan, was pro posed Saturday by Federal Me diation Director Joseph F. Fin negan, who flew '. here . from Washington to take charge of the talks. 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