Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 4]

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Flint, Michigan, Saturday, December 12,\1953

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Kroger~s Employs |

Negro Checker

Negro shoppers
~food buying = at
Supér Market, located
1100 ~Block on
Street, will see a young Negro |

woman checking the purchases of |
significantly |

customers. This
marks the first time that a large
grocery chain has hired: Negroes
in positions requiring some skill.
In fact, it might be the beginning of a new era of fair employment among the large chain
grocers. Several Negroes have
expressed appreciation for Kroger~s new policy of giving Negroes

equal oppértunities to compete
for clerical, positions. Many of|
these: observers have saidi that

they plan to-do their supermarket
food buying at one of the Kroger
stores.in the future.
> | Kroger~s first Negro checker is
Ellen Mabry, 806 Carton St.
Miss Mabry. is a graduate of
Northern High School and, according to an informed ~ source,
she is performing very satisfactorily oe the new job.

Unemployment
Hits 125,000 In
Michigan

Detroit ~ Michigan and the

nation faces a period of increas
ing unemployment at a time
when the normal trend should
~be just | the opposite. Unemployment in the state reached 125,000, the highest figure in 16
months, it was reported last week
by ~the Michigan employment security commission (MESC).

Of that number between 78,~000 and 80,000 are idle in the
Detroit.area. Also hard hit is
Muskegon with 6.3% wunemployed and Port Huron with 5.5% of
~the labar force jobless. The num-ber of unemployment claims
jumped 16,000 last week to a
total of nearly 100,000 in. the
stute, | -

MESC director Max Horton attributed the layoffs to continuing cutbacks in.auto - production
and model changeover programs.
He said that manufacturing
plants are expected to call few
employes. during the next two or
three months. Only hiring activity is predicted in -the. retail
trades to handle
selling spree.

The MESC*report said an inecreasing number of workers,
~mostly women and older _ persons, are leaving the labor forces.
Others are seekin jobs in other
states.. ie;

Nationally, the labor department reports a similar job picture. The department said;~small
to moderate employment declines~ have been reported this.
fall and) calls the down turn
~mild, ~ |

| peace Fae 37,0000 Amectoane

who do their~
the Kroger~s |
in the |
South Saginaw |

the Christmas |

Popular Teacher

Miss Mamie L. Williams of 930
Addison is now a substitue teacher with the Flint School System.
She is not a stranger to Flint in
that she resided here from 1942
through 1947. Miss Williams was
graduated from Alabama A.& M,
College this year. While at A. &
M.. she majored~ in elementary
education.

Miss Williams was active as a
member of the Thespians (Dramatic Club) and participated as
a member of the colleze choir,
and yet she foutid~ time~ to be
elected Miss F-eshman and Miss
Co-ed during ~er freshman year
and A. &M. Football. Sweetheart
in 1952.

Bowling, and movies

Fight Against
Segregation In
Schools Renewed

Legal battle renewed to open
all public schools to all children
without regard to race, creed, or
color began Monday, Dec. 7. A
battery of attorneys. headed by
Thurgood Marshall
the. National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) hopes to win a decision that willl outlaw segregation of Negro and. white pupils.
The High Tribunal: is not expected to render a hasty verdict in

tennis,

_ moved tp new homes during 1952,
en

what promises to be one of the
hottest cases to appear before it.

| Holiday baskets for

representing.

Here

rate high on her list.of pastimes.
Rev. C. R. Neal~s.. Shiloh Bap
tist Church claims her church

membership. She belongs to the

Usher Board of the ~hurch and

the Nurses Aid Club.

Future Nurses,
Plaz Party To |
Aid Needy

Members of the Futures Nurses
Club have completed plans for a
~Holiday Swing~.. This party is
being planned to obtain canned
food which will go into their
needy families. The affair will be held in
the International Jnstitute~s Hall
of Nations, 514 J.iberty: St.,. on
Wednesday, Dec. 30, at 8:00 p.m.
The girls have asked their guests
to wear sports attire and to bring
at least one can of food in lieu
of admission fee.:

These high school girls were
organized by the Urban League
to help them to plan fior their future nursing eareers. Their present membership now. stands. at
18. Nancy Monroe is president.
Other members. are: Miriam
Brown. Frances Gaines, Johnnie
Mae Gill, (Thayer Parks. Joan
Radford, Louise Relerford, June
Roberts, Barbara Rushing, Phyllis. Shepard, Georgia Smith, Anna
Fay Taylor, Charlotte Waiker, Ollisteen Wells, Barbara Wright,
Dorothy Wright, Janice~ Wright,
and Joyce Wright.

Mrs. Wendall Harris is super
| aectment of civil

|each time by

~sored by one of théir own mem
illiams Asks Ike For FEPC

Governor Flies To Washington
To Seek GOP Support

Lansing President Fisenhower may be asked in Michigan
to fulfill his promise that he
would use his influence with Republican lawmakers to win: enrights legislation on a state level.

Governor G. Mennen Williams '
said he might call on the Presi-|
dent to convinee reluctant Repub- |
lican members of-the Michigan |
legislature to go along with a bill |
creating a fair employment practices commission (FEPC).

Williams has advocated adoption of FEPC legislation every
year since he took office in 1949,
The measure~ has the solid support of the Democratic minozity
in the legislature but has been
opposed by most of the Reepublicans. Th closest the bill has come
to winning approval was a 45 to
46 vote last year in the house.

The measure has been killed
the Republicans
even though the bill was spon
bers, representative Louis C.

Vet's Cigarette
Fund Asks For

to the

visor.

Union Aid

Detroit ~ There aren~t ~ too
many days left in which to make

contributions to the Michigan
CIO council~s \veterans cigaret

~und, Michigan CIO affiliates
were reminded this week.

The fund, collected by the
Michigan CIO Council, is used at
Christmas time to purchase cigarets for bed-ridden veterans
who are confined in Michigan
hospitals.

Some. local unions and county
councils contribute..to the fund
on a year-round. basis. The appeal that went out this week
over the signature of Michigan
~CIO president August Scholle
and secretary-treasurer~ Barney
Hopkins was aimed at those affiliates who do not contribute. on
the year-round _ plan.

Scholle. and Hopkins stressed

~hat the cigaret fund, which was ||

started in 1941, is not intended
to interfere with any veterans
activity. now. sponsored by county
councis or local unions.

Checks shouldbe made payable
Michigan CIO ~ Cigaret
Fund and forwardéd to Barney
Hopkins,. Secretary - Treasurer.
Michigan CIO Council, 716 Lothrop, Detroit, 2, Mich.:

Aitention..Boys 14 To 16

The:demand for delivery of the>
BRONZE REPORTER - far exeeeded the supvly last week. If
you can obtain Mom or Dad~s nermission to deliver papers, please
contact Mr. L.| Walker, Jr., our
Circulation Manager for an _ interview.

Phone 4-9932 and leave your
name and address in addition to

your phone number.

GOV. WILLIAMS ~

Cramton of kapeer.
disgust at last year~s FEPC defeat Cramton said he was shocked to see the party. of Abraham
Lincoln turn on legislation calling for improvement

Sights.. Williams reminded the Repwb-.,

licans that they had = approved
the principle of FEPC in a state
convention. He also remembered
speeches by Eisenhower dusing
last year~s election campaign. in
which the President said he favored equal job opportunities for
all citizens regardless of color,
creed or national origin.

Williams also remembered that
Eisenhower has pledged to, confer with the governors of the-48
states and urge~ them to take
leadership in ~guaranteeing the
egqnomic rights: of all,of our citizens.~

Williams said ~he was more
hopeful ~of getting more Republican votes for FEPC in next year~s
session. He said he would work
with Republican leaders to take
the issue out of politics and win
its passage in 1954.

NAACP Instails

New Officers
In Saginaw

The Saginaw Branch of the
NAACP held: it~s installation
Officers Sunday, Dee.

at St. Luke Methodist

6, 4953,
Church

~and these are the officers install--

ed for 1954:
President, Henry McSmith.
Vice-President,
Financial Sec~y, Mrs Blanche

V. Gibbons
Treasurer, J. W Irby

EXECUTIVE BOARD
Bennie: Falls, Chairman, Evelyn

St. Cyr, R. N. Barbour, Josephine

Spurlock, Rev. R. B. Austin, Mrs

Cordia Ellison, W. A. Spurlock,

Mayme Allen, Elizabeth: Weathers

Mrs, Elijah Wilson, Mrs. James

Walker, Mrs. Jantes: Shelby, Ray
mond Roundtree, and Katherine

Mayo.

Who Will Be Elected ~Miss Bronze Reporter?~

Expressing

of human |

of |

Garvin Watts.
Recording See~y, Henry Bown ~ -

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