Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 10]

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Vol. I~No. 10

Flint, Michigan, Saturday, January 23, 1994

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Public Invited
~To Founder's
Day Program

The Zeta Beta Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority extends to the public a
cordial invitation -to attend ~its
Founders~ Day Program on~ Sunday, Jan. 24, at Mt. Olive Baptist- ~Chureh; Time: 4:00 p.m:

~ --Mrs. Geraldine Bledsoe of De-:

troit ~will be guest speaker. Mrs.

Bledsoe, also a member of the

Alpha Kappa: Alpha Sorority, is
~.Minority Groups Specialist for
* the Michigan Employment Secur-. Aties Commission and - she is a
4 member of the Board of Directors

of The Detroit Urban League.

Mrs. Bledsoe is well known to
Flint audiences. _

Mrs: Naney Cobb of Flint will
render vocal selections, accom
panied by Evelyn, Thomas.

The program is free of charge.

~Events Scheduled
By F'lizst Board Of
Education; General Bulletin~Vol. VIII"

No. 19
January 21, 1954.

Flint Public Schools

Office of Superintendent

~EVENTS:

January 24, 2:00-6:00 p.m. ~
NBC-TV Halmark Hall of Fame
presents 3 acts of Maurice. Evans

_in ~King Richard II.~

~January 25-26 ~~ Registration
at Centera) High School for ALL
Mott Foundation winter classes.

January 26, Registration
with Mrs. Broadway at Fairview
School for ali Mott classes which
meet at Fairview (unless previously registered at Central High on.
Monday p..m.)..

8:15 p. m, ~ WKMF (1470)
~These Are Your Schools~ 5 minutes broadcast. |

January 27 ~ Registration at
Central High for all Mott Foundation classes meeting. on Central

campus and Non-School buildings.
' Registration jat Nortnern High

for Mott classes for ~ Garfield,

Emerson and Northern.

January] 27 ~ Registration at
Lewis for|all Mott classes meeting at Lewis and Lowell. Regis
- tration at Parkland with Mrs.
' Taylor. Registration at Roosevelt
| with Mrs. Russell. All other classes will register in | the buildings
"where classes will be held.; January 27 (6:30 p. m.)

i Special Education Club annual
J dinner---Community, Prebyterian
~~Church. Dayton. St and Chevro
let Ave.

~. January 28 ~ WKMF (1470)

~These Are Your Schools~ 5 min
utes broadcast. ~ |;:

-Turn On Your
- Porch Light

When?.\.. The Mothers March
for the MARCH OF DIMES, Jan.
28, 1954.

~Volunteer _ workers, contact:
Mrs, J. P. Bryant, Phone 3-7548
(South Side) or Mrs. Sylvester
Collins,. Phone 446013 (North
Side).

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Left to right:

Misses Aisa Renfro, Jesephine Hobson, Alyce
Hobson, and Gerry Roberts sa~ Saginaw, Mich.

<1 that the NAACP is ready
~into high gear
|| equal rights for
|| gardless of race, creed or color:
|| The first step the local chapter
li has planned is to
|| awake, aggressive young man to
i} fill the post of Chairman of the
(| Membership Committee. This
| an important post as
| chapter can go only as far as the
|| loeal people allow it,
\| organization is. oniy as strong as

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Future Co-eds Discuss Plans
For Study and Careers

Flint~s winter contribution to

various institutions of higher education are Aaron. Renfro, Josephine Hobson, Alyce Renfro, and
Gerry Roberts. |

Miss Alyce Renfro
soon to begin studying Interior
Decorating at Lincoln University
at Jefferson: City, Mo. She feels
that there is a need in Flint for
people qualifiéd. in this field.
Alyce recognizes that Flint is
growing, and the influx in population will create~ more of a demand for attractive housing. This
will fit-in with he? plans.

Miss Josephine ~ Hobson, a

freshman at J-C., plans to study
Psycology at either University
of Michigan. or Howard University in Washington, D.C. Miss
Hobson is a. life-long resident of
Flint, and we are hoping she will
return home to pursue her career.

Miss Aaron Renfro is undeédecided as to a college Major at
this. time~ However, she will attend MSC. non-pref.,-and let the
counseling service at the institution help her determine what she
is. best qualified to do.

Kappas Install
New Officers

The Elint Alumni: Chapter
the Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity
held its January meeting at the
home of Atty. Hermam Gibson,
1301 parece St., Saturday. Jan.
16.

installation of the new officers |

was -affected:

They were as oilows:

Polemarch, Frank J- Corbett

Vice-Polemarth, Dr.- Wm. A.
Simms

Keeper of Records,
man Gibson i
ss apa Att~y Stewart Dunning

Historian and Reporter,.Gibson, Jr.

The joint hosts for the meeting were John Russell, - A. B.
Corbett and Herman Gibson:

Other members who. were in
attendance were Dr..Wrex Weaver, Jr-, Arthur J. Edmunds, Sr;
Att'y Wm. S. Price III, Att~y
Elisha Scott,. William Fraction.
Att~y. Jos. N. Birch II.;

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John

will ~leave

of |

Att~y Her
Gerry Roberts, from Saginaw,
Mich., plans to attend college next
year. At the present Gerry is a
senior at Saginaw, Mich
These four young ladies
representative of the| new Negro.
They are the future, and we b--
lieve the future will) work. They
will: ~prepare themselves, and we
will lay a firm foundation so they
can exploit their educations to a
fuller extent than anh prior generation.

Saginaw Valley
Consistory No. 71
To Hold Elections

The annual clection of officers
of The Savinaw Valley Consistory
No. 71 will be held Sunday, Jan.
24, at St. John St. Center, 3420
St. John St., at 2:00) p.m
Prescnt officers are:
Mim A. Wright, Commander
in-chief

Tom McComas, Secretary

Wrex Weaver, Sr,, Treasurer

Note: This group is composed
of 32nd Degree Free and |Accepted Scottish Rite Masons _ of
Prince ~Hall affiliation of the
Northern Jurisdiction, USA, Inc.)

|.MISS CAROLE WILLIAMS lIa
test candidate for title, MISS
BRONZE REPORTER. Miss
Carole Williams, Central High

School senior. She attends Quinn

~Chapel AME Church and lives at
~1406 Park Street.

J

| of the fact that.Dr.

|troit. Dr.
| will not expire until 1957 -are |

NCHES 1954 PROGRAM ~

~Fight For Equal Rights

Goes Into High Gear >

~NAACP LAUNCHES
1954 PROGRAM

Dr. Leach:announced today
to go
in its -fight for

all people, re
find a wide

is

the local

and the

the membersnip. The number -of
members wil] depend upon the

| man wno guides the membership

drive.

The local chapter is also proud
Leach has
been elected to the Nationa!
Board. of Directors. In. a meeting
held Jan. 4, 1954, in N. Y.,. this
colorful leader: was honored along
with Dr. J- J. McClendon of DeLeach~s term of office

Coupled with: the membership
drive the NAACP scheduled a
series of conferences. with local
officials concerning diserimination in areas adjacent to
Buick factory, and downtown

Action On FEPC
Urged By Currie

_ More action and less talk about
the proposed fair employment
practices commission (FEPC) legislation was demanded this week

by state representative Edgar
Currie, Detroit Democrat.
In a letter to governor Will
iams,~ Currie opposed a proposal
by state senator Donald W. Gilbert (R, Saginaw) to set up another study commission on FEPC
legislation. ~We are past the
talking stage in this matter,~
Currie wrote: Williams.
FEPC bills shave been debated for
five years.~

' In each of his messages to the
legislature, since he took office
in 1949, governor Williams has
urged adoption of FEPC legislation. The closest the bill has
come to passage was last year
when the house barely defeated
FEPC legislation by a vote of 45
to 46.

Representative Louis C. Cramton (R., Lapeer) has already reintroduced his 1952 ~proposal.

~Currie also took exception with}
a, statement made by Gilbert that
minority groups don~t want such
a law because it would ~~only acecentuate the differences between
races and increase racial and religious hatreds.~

~~T cannot conceive this to be
correct,~ Currie declared. ~This
conclusion could only be possible
to one who has not followed the
history and developments of FEPC
legislation.~ Some eight states
and 30 communities have had
FEPC legislation in effect without any of them experiencing the
dire consequences predicted by
senator Gilbert,. determine
action will be taken.

the

~~The|

Flint. Dr.. W. A.. Sinims, | chair -.
man of the legal redress commit-_
tee, recently conferred with the
County Prosecutor on this unfortunate situation. The result of
these consultations~ will largely
whether, and what

Watch your Bronze Reporter
for further developments on the
NAACP program. We will report
to you weekly the releases of this
organization. and we urge you to
join. ~DON~T COMPLAIN | IF
YOU ARE NOT -FIGHTING
THE OBSTACLES THAT IMPEDE PROGRESS.~ The NAACP
is a + fighting organization.

Organzied Labor
Turns To Credif
Unions

Members of AF of L, CIO and
Independent Unions organized 149
credit unions in the U. S. during
1953.. This brings to 776 the itnions that now serve the saving
and lending needs of their members in this way. Estimated membeiship is 380,240.

These figures; however, indicate only part of labor~s role.
Majority of union members are
served by credit unions that are -
chartered to include all employees

of. an industry or business. In
explaining this situation, Ajbert |
W. Marble, managing director of

the Michigan. League of Credit
Unions said, ~In most cases when
union people want to set up a eredit union the charter is drawn to
include all people. who work in
the plant and members of. their
immediate family. Thus, the credit union serves the union member but the charter is not counted as being issue to.the union as
such.

~In Michigan only 18 of 710
credit unions are actually classified as being chartered in.unions, ~but of the 438,000 members
in these credit unions, more than
2/3 of them are trade union peo-/:
ple.~

Both the CIO and AF of L National Boards have passed resolutions pledging full support to/the
progress of these self-help financi~l organizations among
affiliates.

their

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