Jackson Advocate

Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jan. 14.-(Special)-In this usually quiet university community the other night a southern newspaper publisher took advantage of a white Citizens Council invitation to tell Alabamians that they had best prepare to accept the inevitable-integration at least in the University of Alabama.

Since last February when the Autherine Lucy incident broke wide across the nation, Buford Boone has been a prime target of the white Citizens' Council in the state. They have charged that he favors integration.

Mr. Boone has patiently endured such assertions and his paper has continued steadfastly to report and comment on racial developments with what many feel is above average wisdom and superior courage.

Mr. Boone's Tuscaloosa News, in the midst of the rioting which followed Miss Lucy's entry into the university, published an editorial condemnation of the community for having failed to keep order and seeming to surrender to the rioters in a hopeless fashion. Among newspapermen in Alabama generally, the consensus was that Mr. Boone had directed his paper with a degree of courage which was highly unusual. The plain fact was that Mr. Boone, right under the noses of the councilmen and brawling rioters, was saying more, and saying it more strongly, than were other papers-though all papers

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