NAACP's Wilkins tied WASHINGTON (AP)-Roy Wilkins is the unnamed black leader mentioned by the FBI as having discussed with the bureau the removal of Dr. Martin Luther King as leader of the civil rights movement, the Washington Post says. The Post quoted unnamed sources yesterday as saying Wilkins was the leader referred to in a Dec. 1, 1964 FBI memo that dealt with the bureau's campaign to discredit King. In addition to the Post report, the Atlanta Constitution said yesterday that a comparison of the FBI memo with Wilkins' testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee indicates that Wilkins may have been the leader who met with the FBI. Wilkins, retired executive director of the National Association for the Advan- cement of Colored People (NAACP), was unavailable for comment. But his wife Aminda, reached in New York Tuesday, called the Post story an "ab- solute fabrication." "I heard him tell that to someone else," she said. The Post said that Wilkins told the Senate Intelligence Committee staff in 1975 that the FBI memo was "self- serving and full of inaccuracies." Quoting informed sources, the Post said FBI documents show hat Wilkins met on Nov. 27, 1964 with Cartha DeLoach, who then was FBI assistant director. They discussed the bureau's The Michigan Daily-Thursday, June 1, 1978-Page 3 to King ouster plan attitude toward King, the Post report nonprofit Center for National Security said. Studies. DeLoach, now a business executive in In a telephone interview on Tuesday New York, said in a memo written Nov. with the Atlant Journal, DeLoach said 27, 1964, that the meeting ended with he has "a vague recollection of some Wilkins promising to "tell King that he black leader coming to see me. I don't can't win in-a battle with the FBI and remember who he was. I have no idea that the best thing for him to do is to what we talked about." retire from public life." In her comments, Wilkins' wife said FBI official J.A. Sizoo wrote the Dec. she and her husband knew the identity 1 follow-up memo and suggested fur- of a black leader who the FBI wanted to ther action against King. Addressed to groom to take King's place as the late FBI Assistant Director William nation's civil rights leader. But. she Sullivan, it picked up some of would not reveal the person's identity. DeLoach's Nov. 27 remarks but deleted She said she did not think the man Wilkins' name. knew anything about it and that the FBI The Sizoo memo was obtained under selected him because he would be the Freedom of Information Acty by the "amenable to them." 'U' receives grant to aid composition program By BRIAN BLANCHARD The Andrew Mellon Foundation has given the University $354,000 to support the new composition program developed in the Literary College (LSA) to improve students' writing skills. The English Composition Board (ECB) will use the grant to help run the first year of its program designed to counter what many educators have described as an increasing inability among high school and college students to write well. Every ye a cornucop MOST OF THE award, $254,000, is to bangles spo be used in the freshperson composition But alas program, tutorial writing sessions, a another trin writing workshop, upper level writing without-M courses, and research on the teaching THE WH of effective writing. The remaining dramino Wi $100,000 from the New York foundation Michigan's is marked for a series of conferences on I-94. and workshops in high schools, com- M Go B munity gatherings, and smaller yellow labe colleges in southern Michigan and nor- Village Cori thern Ohio. Rod Johnso The program will extend writing in- been pretty See 'U', Page 7Whenas Coleman, V -today- Happenings .. . .begin and end early today for all you aspiring vampires with a lecture on "Current Topics in Blood Banking", at the Towsley Center at 8:15 a.m. Dogs denied equal protection Gold fish don't have to be licensed. Cows don't have to be licensed. Even marmoset monkeys don't have to be licensed, so why are dog-owners forced into paying 15 bucks a year in California to license their dags? They won't have to, if Municipal Court Judge Mario Gonzalez's ruling that Los Angeles county's dog licensing law is unconstitutional is af- firmed. "A cat owner has the option of whether or not to license his car. Horses, cows, sheep, monkeys, pigs, birds do not have to be licensed," said Judge Gonzalez in deciding Tuesday not to issue an arrest warrant against a woman with an unlicensed Afghan. This is a violation of the 14th Amendment, claimed Gonzalez, which states that no citizen of the U.S. would be denied "equal protec- tion of the law." Perhaps a higher court will con- CX r L 1 t 'To/ e, Hoamm Go Blue' By RENE BECKER ear University students and fans are oia of maize and blue colored goodies rting the all-too-familiar slogan 'M G , that old slogan now graces the ex ket designed to fill you with spirit fro Go Blue wine. KITE, SLIGHTLY sweet wine comes f nery in Paw Paw which sits smack in wine country, about 90 miles due west lue wine, sold in a green bottle un 1 with large letters, has been sellinge ners for only a week. Despite slow sal an, a Village Corner worker, said "rew good, nobody's been greatly outraged sked why he named his wine "M Go endramino Winery owner, said, "I th wine full of spirit sell." He said he saw bumper stickers with the slogan and deluged with thought it would be nice to name a wine M Go Blue, and have ,baubles and all those people advertising my wine." 0 BLUE.' BUT TO COLEMAN the wine is more than a gimmick. "I xterior of yet hope to win a gold medal with it (the wine) this year at the )m within and State Fair," he said. "It's not a one shot type of deal." from the Ven- Coleman,a full-time employee of the Ford Motor Co., said he, the middleo plans to make the wine every year. thef AnndArborNo stranger to vinological success, Coleman served his red of Ann Arbor table wine-called "Red Table Wine." "No fancy labels in my .der a simpl winery," he said-to the national governor's conference last elusieleatyear and won a gold medal at the State Fair. exclusivelyne Both Coleman and Village Corner expect the M Go Blue ction to it has wine to do well this fall during the football season. Johnson i about it" said he expects a number of repeat sales. Coleman put it this aBlue, John way, "anyone who buys that first bottle for the name is going aught it would to buy the second bottle for the taste, believe me." sider giving the right to vote to mynah birds. Spit it out "I don't spit pretty, but I get it all out," says the new tobacco spitting champion of the Webster County Woodchopping Festival. "It's got to be in the are of the tobacco," said champ Jerry Meadows of Parcoal. "That's where you get your power." Meadows was urged to enter the contest after achieving a spit measured at 17 feet at the coal mine where he works. "My buddies decided if I could do that well in low coal, I should do even better out in the open where I could get an arc on the tobacco juice," said Meadows, who works for Sewell Coal Co., Low coal is a seam of coal less than 36 inches high. Meadows didn't do quite as well in the open as he did in his mine, but his spit of 16 feet, six inches won the contest. "Shucks, we thought it would take 20 feet to win," Meadows said. In winning the tile, Meadows bested defending champion Ada Hamrick of Shinnston, who spit 22 feet last year. "She took a big chew and had too much juice to spit," suggested Bill Gillespie, assistant state agriculture com- missioner who served as festival emcee. "She should have had half as much juice and gone for distance." A foreign substance Police called it "the biggest pot bust in McAlester history" until they found out that they had the wrong weed. Two off-duty police officers paid three Texas men $3,600 for 18 kilos of marijuana, the sur- prised the men by arresting them. Then, the police got a surprise. One of the 18 packages police seized did contain marijuana. However, the rest were filled with alfalfa. "I think what they had in mind was to sell it to the first sucker and then get out of town," officer Herbert McIntosh said of the men arrested. "Every time I meet someone now, they say, 'How are you, Alfalfa?' I guess this is the biggest alfalfa bust in McAlester history." On the outside ... we've a beautiful day in store, with a high of 80 under sunny skies and a mild, westerly breeze. Tonight's low of 59 will make it easy to get to sleep. Look for increasing temperatures and'a chance of showers. WfC fYair iF 7T , ]aF;..aT t z" L3i " ";,,...:ii y .