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3 o C3 o o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON . WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7. 1983 j Plans Being Drawn for Gigantic Civil Rights March in Washington Editor's Note: The arealeitl allv serve. a communitv4 onstration ever to take nlace" I shnw un will h vUifoH hv I Varlv in Int. nn ni i .i h,. r i i ui.i..., Editor's Note: The greatest i e i 1 demonstration in the nation'i history, a march oi 100, MO strong, is planned by Negro civil rights groups for Washington on Aug. 28. The story oi how a dozen men and women are mapping out the march, step-by-step, and of the precautions to keep it peace ful is told in the following dispatch. By JOHN PIERSON UPI Correspondent In a little yellow house in Harlem, a dozen men and women are making plans to send 100,000 civil rights marchers to Washington late this month. The little house, which usu- Multnomah Fair Concessions Closed Gresham - fUPD - Dist. Atty. George Van Hoomissen has closed down seven amusement concessions at the Multnomah County Fair. Van Hoomissen said he be lieved the games were being operated as games of chance. The district attorney earlier Monday arrested Ernest Hob lit, 61, El Monte, Calif., on a charge of operating a game of chance. .Hoblit pleaded quilty to the charge before District Judge John Gantenbein and was fined $20 and given a 30-day suspended jail sentence. Van Hoomissen said the in vestigation came following a complaint from Harold Carl son, 55, Portland. Carlson re ported that his 16-year-old nephew lost S3 by gambling on a fortune wheel. A crowd of 14.334 persons saw the fair Monday to raise attendance after five days of the 10-day event to 97,611. BARGE TONNAGE UP Portland -fUPli- Barge ton nage in the Columbia river picked up during July. The to tals were 190,240 tons at Bon neville Dam, 12B,fi!)9 at The Dalles, Army Engineers said. This compared with 74,159 and 61.922 tons, repectively, during June. ally serves as a community center for getting children off the streets, has become head quarters for an effort to get an army of adults on the streets of the nation's capital Aug. 28. Civil rights leaders call it the "march on Washington for jobs and freedom." They say the marchers will provide evidence of the need for quick Federal action to safeguard civil rights and pro vide jobs for the unemployed. President Kennedy has en dorsed their effort. At a news conference last month, the President said the march is "in the great tradi tion" of lawful protest. Un like some other recent demon strations, Kennedy said, this one gives "every evidence it is going to be peaceful." "I look forward to being here," Kennedy said. "I am sure members of Congress will be here." The Presidents distinction between peaceful and violent demonstrations was not lost on those who are planning for Aug. 28. The Rev. Martin Luther King predicted it would be "the greatest non-violent dem- Tiros 6 Breaks Satellite Record Washington -(UPD-The space agency has a new front run ner in its weather satellite stable. The honors go to Tiros 6, launched Sept. 17, 1962, and still going strong. Tiros beat the record of its predecessor, No. 5, which went into orbit on June 19, 1962, and kept functioning through May 4, 1963. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Monday the new champ is taking excellent pictures of the earth's cloud cover and is expected to go right on doing just that. To date, it has taken 58,589 pictures, including weather studies for astronaut Walter M. Schirra's six orbit flight around the earth Oct. 3, 1962, and last week it checked on A r 1 e n e, the first tropical storm of the 1963 season. onstration ever to take place' in Washington. But all leaves have been canceled Aug. 28 for the Dis trict of Columbia's 2,900 man police force. They will be supported by 500 reserves, 250 National Park policemen and the district's 2,000 National Guardsmen. If serious trouble devel oped, authorities in the Fed eral city could call in the army. As an additional precaution no parade permits will be issued that day except to the six groups sponsoring the pa rade and those they designate. The six sponsors are the Congress of Racial Equality, the Southern Christian Lead ership Conference, the Stu dent Non-Violent Coordinat ing Committee, the Negro American Labor Council, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple and the Urban League. The American Nazi party asked permission to stage a "counter demonstration" but was refused. Despite these precautions, the marchers intend to police their own ranks. They are acutely aware that any out break of violence might preju dice their cause not only in Congress but in the eyes of the American people. They have asked the Guar dians, a private group of off duty New York policemen, to train 1,000 men who will circulate through the crowd and watch for trouble. Five hundred more men, in teams of 10, will be stationed along the line of march and equipped with walkie talkies and bull horns. No one will be permitted to march who is not wearing an arm band issued by the national head quarters. The national headquarters will also supply all placards. No other slogans will be allowed. Places of Assembly At 10 a. m., on the morning of the 28th, marchers will as semble at 51 different spots around the city. Congressmen will be invit ed to come to the assembly points to receive petitions and address their constituents. A congressman who fails to show up will be visited by a Early in June, one of King's small delegation in his office aides, the Rev. George Law on Capitol Hill. rence, announced plans for a But mere will be no sit-in massive, militant and monu on Congress. mental sit-in" in the halls and mm - s j5Ss' ' " .... ,iL,.4;j VV: 3 TAKES THIRD WIFE Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and his bride. Miss Joan C. Martin of Williamsville, N.Y., are shown after their marriage in Buffalo, N.Y. Doug las, 64, recently was divirced by his second wife. The couple left for a month of hiking and camping in Montana and Wash ington. (UPI) Oregonians Offer Measure To Change Postmaster Setup galleries of the Capitol, should Southerners stage a filibuster against the Kennedy rights program. Congress was shocked. Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala.) called Lawrence's plan a "blatant at tempt to club Congress into submission." Even some of the strongest backers of civil rights bridled at the idea. They said a sit-in would alienate many liberals. Rep. Emanuel Celler (D N.Y.) who has charge of the administration's rights pro gram in the House, said it would cause "tremendously deep resentment, which un doubtedly would prejudice the cause of the Negro." Negro leaders canceled plans for a sit-in. One of them, the Rev. Wal ter E. Fauntroy of the SCLC, said, "after all, when you want legislation, why tie up the legislative process." Counter Filibuster Planned But plans still arc afoot, in case of a filibuster before or after the 28th, to send 1,000 persons a day to Washington to stage a "counter filibuster" somewhere near the Capitol grounds. The leaders also hope that while the marchers are meet ing their congressmen, a small delegation can present de mands to President Kennedy. The delegation would include at least one Negro and one white person who are out of work. Their demands will be: -Passage of an "effective." civil rights program during the current session of Con gress. -Immediale desegregation of the nation's schools. -An end to police brutality against demonstrators all over the country. -A massive federal public works program to provide jobs, bolstered by legislation to promote an expanding economy. -A federal fair employment practices act to bar job dis crimination by federal, state and local governments, pri vate employers or unions that covers low - paying jobs not now covered. -A national minimum wage of $2 an hour. Marchers To Lunch By noon, the "confronta tions" are supposed to be over and the marchers will go to lunch. At 12:30 p.m., they will start converging on the El lipse, a big open park just south of the White House. There they will form up, state by state, in preparation for the march. At 2 p.m., the parade will hrgin, its destination the Lin coln Memorial. The marchers are supposed to be assembled in the open spaces around the memorial by 3 p.m. Integration leaders will climb the steps of the me morial and there under the eyes of the Great Emancipa tor, will report on the morn ing's "confrontations" with Congress and the President. The speeches are scheduled to last two and a half hours. The six sponsors hope fra ternal, labor, religious and o'.hcr groups will join their inarch. The National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice says it is going to send "many delegations." The leaders want while marchers as well as Negroes. "This is not a Negro dem onstration," Fauntroy said. "This is planned as a demon stration of Americans. There are just as many white peo ple as Negroes who want to see the record of America changed." If all goes as planned, the crowd will break up at 5:30 p.m., just when government offices are letting out. Police plan to block off a large part of the city near the memorial to try to prevent a massive traffic jam. Within two hours, the or ganizers hope, all of the dem onstrators will be back on their buses, trains and planes and on their way home. Inspiration Hoped Negro leaders hope the marchers will not lay down their banners as soon as they -A fair labor standards act quit Washington. The hope is they will "go home inspired" to work for civil rights and to drum up crass roots op position to any filibuster that might occur later. The effort in involve the "folks back home" will go further still. Governors are being urged to declare Aug. 28 "Freedom Day." And em ployers are called upon to give their men a holiday with pay. The national organizations estimate the march will cost them $65,000. 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