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Show Interest Builds Registration Strong federal interest and the interest of outsiders are the mse of definite voter registration progress in Mississippi, accord-!g accord-!g to Stephen Holbrook, former University student. Mr. Holbrook has just returned from his second summer in ississippi. He is also publicity director for the Utah Chapter ' the NAACP. "LAST SUMMER was an exercise in futility," he said. "This ;ar almost everyone is being registered." He told of trouble, however, when the NAACP heard that hite students were being registered secretly in at a town called loss Point. "THE TOWN looks like it's 30-40 years old, except for the V antennas," he said. Disguising himself with "my best Southern xerrt," Holbrook said he went into the Moss Point courthouse id found out where the registration was taking place. Nearly 100 children, with their parents, were sent by the AACP to the secret registration, which had been designed to U up the schools, Holbrook said. "THEY IMMEDIATELY closed up registration, but we even-lally even-lally got the kids in school anyway. There wasn't much they ould do after we found the secret registration." Holbrook worked mainly in Hattiesburg. He said, "I guess le one definite sign of progress was when the mayor, who had jst been elected, took down the Confederate flag from the front of the courthouse and put up an American one. "OF COURSE, the mayor may not be re-elected either," Holbrook Hol-brook said. For three weeks, Holbrook was in Washington, D.C., lobbying with the NAACP to have five Mississippi congressmen removed. re-moved. The motion failed to pass in Congress last week. |