THREE CORE WORKERS JAILED IN DISTURBANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400010044-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: July 30, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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;LYNTCHBURG, VA.,
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1964 B-1
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By EARL SIMPKINS
News Staff Writer
Three teen-aged members of the Congress on
Racial Equality (CORE) were arrested Wednesday
on charges of disturbing worship services at Thomas
Road Baptist Church Sunday, and later were re-igroups.
leased on-$500 . bond each pending preliminary hear Bond for the youths was furn-
ings in Lynchburg Aug. 6. !shed by two Negroes, Theodore
N. Burton of Rt. 2, Evington, and
The three were arrested by Tommy Woods of Eastbrook
:Late Trooper T. R. Sexton a the
nd Road, Rt. 3, Lynchburg.
C ; ;rbell County Chief Sheriff's Lynchburg Police Do- Burton
partment said the trio "ad, long has been active in the af-
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mit.ed they did certain The three said they came to
County Leadership Conference in Lynch- Lynchburg to organize a CORE
a, thinns at the church." lie p ynch- n
approximately 4 p.m. Wednes- added that there is the pos. burg. chapter in Campbell County and
d`} sibility that Wadleigh also to test city and county restau-
They were: Jon Neil Wadlcigh, will be charged with contrib. OFFICERS SAID they were rants to see if they were into-
:S, of Vienna; Marc Daniels uting to the delinquency of 1old that Gripman's father, Ray n
grated in compliance with the
Gripman , 16, of Falls Church, minors. urke Gripman, is an employe Civil Rights Act.
._d Tani 1 ueene Prot lx Jr., 17, Nash said he did not know f the Central Intelligence Wadleigh and Gripman said
or Arlington. They were charg- whether a Negro boy who ae- gency in Washington, and Tuesday that the Thomas Road
ed with disturbing the worship companied the ? three white roulx's father - and ex-Army
church
nothe would be the scene of
service in warrants filed by Wal? ma or - is a securit officer for a
R. Carey Sr. of Rt. 2, Rust- Youths took part in the disturb- ] Y
r e ance. The Negro's identity is not he Special Operations Research SuSunay o pot this atmthe
burg, an usher at the church. rganization. Sunday to protest what the
known and no warrant has bee CORE leaders termed "discrim-
Det. Sgt. llubert Nash of issued for his arrest. ; Wadleigh's preliminary hear- ination among persons wanting'
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demonstration and a d v a n c o
notice of`` another such "action
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After being questioned by of.
ficers, the trio spent more than
one hour in a cell in the police
lockup in City Hall before being
released on bond. Most of the
time was spent loudly singing I
songs identified with Civil Rights
ing will be held at 9 a.m. Aug. 6
in Lynchburg Municipal Court,
while Gripman and Proulx will
be given hearings. in Juvenile
and Domestic Relations Court at
11 a.m. the same day.
The hearings originally
were set by Assistant Muni-
cipal Court Judge Leroy E.
Glass for Aug. 13, but (he
youths said they preferred
the earlier date, as they
wished to return Ionic as