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IOC Soke Ope 3 wep een Do pres acer te to higher commissions. As time went on, the difficulties continued. ‘After many NOI temples failed to pay for their papers and the NOI made demands for more and more space in each issue, the paper cancelled Muhammad's column in August,1959. Thereupon, NOI members immediately stopped selling the Courier, and were ordered to concentrate on selling the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch, which the members of many temples had already been selling along with the Couri eles He | This Negro weekly newspaper was established in 1952 and has a circulation of approximately 30,000 copies. The publisher and his wife, who acts as editor, are both NOI members. Since October, 1958, a staff writer, | also an NOI member, has written a column in support af the NO]. For approxima six months during the latter part of 1957 and early 1958, and regularly since January, 1959, issues of this paper bave carried Elijah Muhammad's column. Every one of Muhammad's columns closes with: “Hurry and join onto your own kind. The time of this world is at hand. Write to: Muhammad's Temple* Number 2, 5335 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago 15, Wilinois.” Biijjah Muhamn and his followers have been more successful in controlling this paper than they were the Courier. Both the editor and his wife have visited Muhammad in Chicag have jolned (he MOL end have cllow NOT members te become the rorerta te a wy AES 2 Eel age a a a representatives in various sections of the country. *Gince the May 19, 1960, issue of paper, the word "mosque" has rep laced "temp! in Muhammad's column. However, other papers reprinting Muhammad's column continue to use "temple." oe ” yee ee . a Se ory eee eet chen . 3 2 Caeny se ol al . Le we —