Mintgomery’s Integrated Buses Are
Back to Normal After Sniper Attacks
By the Associated Press
Montgomery’s integrated city
buses which have been targets for
night gunners twice in a week
were running normally Saturday
as visitors flooded the city for the
annual Blue-Gray football game.
There was little evidence of
tension between the groups de
spite the shooting incidents. The
night before a Negro woman was
shot in both legs while riding a
city bus rft the first capitol of the
Confederacy.
Football fans from the North
and South were in Montgomery
for the 19th revival of the College
All-Star Game originated as a
gesture of friendship between the
two sections which once met in
a bloody war at least partially in
spire* by racial differences.
Meanwhile, a high school band
director was beaten by hooded
men near Camden, S.C., in new
outbursts of racial violence in the
Deep Sbuth.
Guy Hutchins, 52-year-old high
school band director, described
from his hospital bed how a band
of hooded men tied him to a tree
and beat him with a board after
he stopped to change a tire last
Thursday night 15 miles north of
Camden. He was returning from
a television appearance at Char
lotte, N.C., at the time.
Hutchins said a car full of
hooded men pulled up behind
him just as he finished changing
the tire and he yelled he didn’t
need any help. “The next thing I
knew, men were bursting out of
the car and swarming over me.
They immediately slapped a hood
of burlap over my head.”
The former conductor of sym
phony orchestras at Spartanburg,
S.C. and Charlotte said the men
told him they were administering
the beating because he had spok
en for racial integration before a
Lion’s Club auxiliary meeting.
Hutchins said he had never made
any pro-integration remarks any
where.
Doctors said Hutchins suffered
severe bruises.
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Doubt Seen for
Statehood in 1957
For Alaska, Hawaii
WASHINGTON, UW—Rep. A. L.
Miller of Nebraska, ranking Re
publican member of the House
Interior Committee, said Satur
day he doubts that either Hawaii
or Alaska will win statehood in
next year’s session of Congress.
A year ago, Miller figured that
one or both would be admitted to
the Union. Now, he says, more
opposition* has developed.
Personally, Miller said he is in
favor of admitting both.
The Nebraskan said questions
have been raised by recent hear
ings in Hawaii by the Senate In
ternal Security Committee. And
Alaskans have hurt their cause,
in his opinion, by “electing” two
“senators” and a “representative”
and proposing to send them to
Washington.
“This has stirred up opposi
tion,” Miller said.
While President Eisenhower
has expressed hope that both
would be admitted. Miller said
the congressional leadership is
opposed.
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