May 26, 1970
JACKSON, Miss., May 17 - Two unarmed Black students were shot to death here by state troopers and city police May 14. Fourteen others were wounded. The murders came on the second night of antiwar demonstrations at Jackson State.

Police said they were answering sniper fire. Students, however, report hearing no sniper fire.

"They were trying to kill," says James Meate, 19, a freshman at Jackson State. "And they did kill. It was nothing but a massacre.-This is worse than Kent State. They say at Kent State they killed four and just forgot about it. Here they killed two and kept trying to kill more."

Jackson State, with an enrollment of more than 3,000, was closed for the remainder of the school year yesterday by administrators. Students were sent home. But angry students, with community support, held a memorial service for the slain Jackson victims at the Masonic Temple today. More than 1,000 persons, many from Jackson, marched to the campus. They wore black armbands. Students from as far away as Alabama and Louisiana attended the services.

Students had been demonstrating against the U.S. invasions of Cambodia, as have students all over the country. More than 300 students at the predominantly Black college held a peaceful rally the previous evening, May 13.

At the university hospital this afternoon, Leroy Kinton described the rapid events: "They were marching down the street, and they stopped. They kneeled to the ground. They started shooting. Everybody tried to run. I didn't make it. I tried. I got a couple of steps. Then I got hit."

Out in the street students are carrying signs. One reads, "Jackson State, Another Cambodia."

May 26, 1945
"No Meat - No Work!" This appears to be the slogan of a group of West Virginia miners. According to an Associated Press dispatch, 200 men went on strike at Earling, West Virginia, on May 11 because there was no meat in the company store there. By May 17, more than 1,000 men were out.

For, declared Professor Paul Cannon of the University of Chicago at a nutritional conference in Washington last year, giving hungry people what have been highly called "energy foods" is not enough. These so-called energy foods

- breads, cereals, other cheap carbohydrates - will satisfy hunger Professor Cannon pointed out, but they will not rebuild broken-down tissues nor will they build muscles. Along with vitamins and minerals, proteins are essentials in the diet. Proteins are the muscle-building, the tissue- building food.

In an article in the May 19 Collier's, W.B. Courtney writes "there are today more than 600 pounds of beef cattle grazing on the ranch lands or chomping in the feedlots and stockyards for every man, woman and child in this nation." And that's what the miners would like - their 600 pounds a piece of beef! Because it's beef that the workers want now. Pork is the poor man's meat. If the workers must eat pork, they want to eat "high up on the hog" - roasts and chops, not fatback and "chitlins."  
 
 
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