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Highlander Folk School — Part 19
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28 Seized in Raid
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7 MARYVILLE, Tenn., June Putney, Vt, said he and his.
5 20 (AP}-Twentyeight young!lwit, were conducting the
{ today after a sheriff's raid on|tor of the North-South Smoky
gz their Smoky Mountain area|Mount n orkshop, a branch].
training camp sponsored by|of theflighlander F
CORE, Blount County Sher-lin Knoxville.
~. iff Roger Trotter reported. The biracial Highlander
“ Trotter said he raided the! Sehool lost its state charter
a c#mp after complaints from|two years ago when it was].
; nearby Townsend residents of|situated neat Monteagle, |};
; disturbances at the tents and/Tenn. Its operator, Myles Hor-|{'
“ eahings at the edge ton, has since opened a school}:
in Knoxville. |. ;
Trotter said another batch
of students was due at the
camp June 23. .
The sheriff confiscated
pamphiets from the camp, in-
cluding instructions on com-
batting police dogs and fire
hoses. Some whisky was also
seized. .
The camp had been operat-
a eet an
pr rs
e af the
* Great Smoky Mountains Na-
tions! Park.
The 28, ranging in age from
16 to 27, are being held on an
epen charge pending the ar-
“; rival of FBI officers from
.4 Knoxville, Trotter said.
: Most of those arrested were
~ from outside the state, Trot-
~ ter said, but two boys were
+: from Oak Ridge, Tenn. In-
&% Cluded were two white girls,jing about ten days. One of
‘. six Negro girts, nine white|those arrested identified the '
=; men and 11 Negro men, most camp sponsor as CORE and}
of them from eastern states.{the Southern Christian Lead-
Robert _ Gustafson, 27, of ership Conference, qa.
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The Washington Daily News
The Evening Star
New York Herald Tribune
New York Journal-American
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New York Mirror
New York Fost
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*“ The Worker
The New Leader
The Wali Street Journal —.
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~ ! Date:
_. JUN 21 1963
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