Fifty Years Ago Today, August 7, 1965

Justice Slates Suits On Poll Tax

The Department of Justice presses the button today to start enforcement of the new law against obstacles to Negro voting.

Traffic Chief

Grover L. Knox, a 20-year veteran of the Columbus Police Dept., Friday was elevated from captain to the newly created position of chief of traffic.

Sports

Dark, handsome Joe Namath, one of the most highly-publicized and certainly most costly rookies of all time, gets his first major professional test tonight in pro football's opening exhibition weekend.

Namath, the Alabama boy with the flashing smile of a movie star, whose golden passing arm won $400,000 in bonuses, despite a questionable knee, will work for the New York Jets in an American Football League exhibition against Houston at Alexandria, Va.

This story was originally published August 6, 2015 at 12:09 PM with the headline "Fifty Years Ago Today, August 7, 1965 ."