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Hartan Kali riOHOn Deueves Charter Is Lega i ee.) ‘ Highlander Director : Feels Courts Will sX], Kill Probers Attack N lay GARRY FULLERTON, S Iyleg')liorton, executive diréc~ ; tor ottHighlander Tk hool, said yesterday he feels “fully con-; fident” the courts will “uphold, {Highlander’s charter. : Horton's statement followed re-] : lease of the report of the legisia-| * tive committee which investigated the school. mended that the general assembly} Ms uheg oo ae SIS NE @ Sea editorial “A Difference wach Sheuld Be Noted," page 18. ~ instruct the district attorney mi eral of the 18th judicial circuit begin a suit for revocation of tYe|’ school's charter. ~ *“) am pleased that this inves- tigation of ‘the schoo! is moving inte ths courtroom,” Horton said, “Thera wa can discuss it calmly, without hysteria. There rules of evidence apply, the school itself can introduce evi- dence and witnesses, And we can cross examine thoze who appear against us, Under euch circum. stances, ! have no doubt what- aver that tabla dato charter Rightandss = will ba upheld.” | But Highlander will continue in “one form or another,” regardless bot what happens te ite charter, he added. “Highlander {s an educational idea.’ "he said, “and ideas are hard) 4- vi T have no intention of stopping teaching the ideas I have peen teaching for the past years, and I will continue to pre- t them in a way that may dis- lf those who misundefptand If conn processes.” ‘ Concrete Evidence he commiftes, formed tognve tigate alleged {Gontinued on Page 2, Column 1) “subversive activ4 ~_, ae, _ - " Sharman, ‘quced a resolution directing. | Atty E of section 48-1106 of the code ‘ ities” at the Montene. Tenn, It education intfettattorm op no concrete evidence of mub- version in ita repo lt did, however, point Its fin- t some alieged fegai end, or wal me alee which It agald are grounce for a suit ts revoke Hightander's charter at & tax-exempt Institution. The report was adopted by routine voles vote in both houses pie pen at “the jegisiature yesterday. ane eommittee’s two senators, Bar- ‘ton Dement of Murfreesboro, t ‘and Lawrences TF. | zal Atty. Gen. Afbert FF. Ainan ta be- "Fin the suit to revoke “the charter! A similar resolution .Hughes of Shelby county: Othar committes members were Fens. Harry Lee Senter of Bristel, Gartter Patten of Ghat- iangoga, and 3. Alan Glanever of Memphis, J. H. McCartt, district | attorney general of the 1%b ju- diciai dietrict, served at [ts spe- The report recom-/ ; “tint counsel. > As reported {n THE NASHVILLE cipal office” ts located, a vioiation} | of qection 45-1104 of the rence TENNESSEAN Monday, the report gC arged revocation of Highlander's charter on two main grounds: 1 ‘That its charter ia recorded ‘tn Fentress county and not Inj} Grundy county, where its “prin- annotated, . at in Auguat, 1957, the board: co (ad "a lars portion” of the school's ‘property to Myles Horton, its ex- ,ecutive director, an alleged viol#- and of the school's own charter. ‘Circumstantial Evidence’: Only a page and # half pf the ifpage, legai-size report was de- voted to “aubversive activities” at the school. It sald there ip a “great deal of circumstantisl evidence” te the effect that Highlander tx a “meeting place for Communiste or fellow-travelers.” It aiso point- ei aut that a number af individ- uals, connected one Way OF an- other with Highlander, had bes j cited aa Members of so-called i“Communiat front” organizations. ' Dombrowski, Abner W. Berry, ‘Martin Luther King, Donald L. [Weat, John B. Thompson, Aubrey | Willams and ‘ "Pete Selzer” {prob- ant ate et Peta Beeger, the froin agers. The report did not mention Horton's own denial under eath that alther he or Highlander was guilty of any kind of ay © ably but concluded by stating: *V - commities feels that it fs within ite province... te Tye a finding of.fact™ (with res to the alleged subversive ac flee). - oy. aire cone as Wy. sane paid, lun aid of the proper turned ties and law enforcement yastigation or ‘other essary” Not Surprised prised, of eouree,’ mittee —=—_—s *ytated It fortnightly and Clearly n their report,” he sal when this investigation began, 1 think it ln not unreasonable for me te insist en & dectalve ee | will be erter| duced today In the house. that," said one lawyer, when asked about the charter registration re-; quirements. was mere wos merely = siinted the charter recently | directors of the achool deed- | jaiative investigating committee | Among those iisted were Jaméd/ ct vie" grea ho auy mas 40 Ke gn investigation” the Mr. Trotter... - Mr, W.C.Sullivan autho agenci of the stata who may deem, Tele. Room... the basis of the evidence here Mr, Holloman___ fore presented, that w further le? Miss Gandy action is nec- Horton sald he, was “not sur ' that the com- tee turned up no evidence of}, subveysion at the school. : “Mowever, es wish they hadi “Geing back to ‘nat i said ‘. unequivecal ceport charges of. aubversion Hf ae | proven, then the doors of he schoat sught te be civsed af. they were not, then the rumory rumors ~ should Be sndeq ences ang fst. all, [think the tommities ower” nothing less te the people of 5 Tennesses.” Lega! opinion here appeared un- certain yesterddy whether much} |} of m case could be made out for: revocation of Highlander’s char, ter, “TY think they might be right .on He pointed out that it) technical question, d that when “Horton had corded in Grundy county, it hi en refused by tha regiatrar t eds on instructiona from the 1 tive lative investigating commit committee. NASHVILLE TEANNESSEAN oe me TENA [-S" | IRIFO if ? Ane DATE NIS UNCLASSIFIED ee hs Pek “ge” ast/ Ni | of- Od ca a Not bf BEM ; 241 a8 1959 =