Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1969-05-10 J. A. Beauchamp Police Turn Back 100 Demonstrators Police turned back 100 chanting demonstrators Monday as both sides moved toward a possible start of negotiations in this historic city's hospital workers' strike. More than 100 young demonstratiors halted a match in a busy intersection when Police Chief John Conroi1 stood in their path, backed by other officers, and announced. "This is too big a group to go down King Street at, this time of day." A march leader offered to turn around if Conroy would sing a free dom song, with the demonstrators, but he refused, saying "I'm no singer, I'm a policeman." "We understand you're with us at heart," said march leader James Orange, "but you've got a Job to. do." He then led the youthful marchers back into a Negro ne ighborhood. Both sides appeared moving toward negotiations through a ninemember citizens committee Monday. The citizens committee, appointed by Mayor J. Palm Gaillard, met Sunday with trustees of the State Medical College Hospital and talked by telephone to representatives of 400 Negro hospital workers involved in the six week old dispute. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy who has been conducting mass demonstrations on behalf of the union effort as the "second phase of the. Poor Peoples Campaign," was threatening to appeal to all civil rights leaders for aid if talks did not start soon. The Emory Wheel Editor To Hold Reunion May 9 Nearly half of the former editors of the Emory Wheel, weekly newspaper founded in 1919 at Emory University, plan to attend a reunion on the campus May 9. Rodney Derrick, co-editor this year also announced that the first Ernest Rogers Editorial Award would be made to a high school journalist during the reunion banquet. The award in memory of the first editor of the university paper and later a columnist for the Atlanta Journal will be for editorial excellence The banquet will be at 7 p.m. in the Cold Room of Cox Hall at Emory. WILSON ILL Prime Minister Harold Wilson canceled appointments Thursday because of a stomach ailment, a government spokesman said.