Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 14]

20 1954

The Bronze Reporter

~A Reflection Of Negro Thought~
Flint, Michigan, Saturday, February 20, 1954

HIRGWIN NAMED

Vol. I~No. 14 <7 15~ Per Copy

CITY MANAGER ~

Pe Nhe

Reporter Team.
Organized

For Drive ~
The BRONZE REPORTER is
actively: participating the Urban
League membership drive, be~ause we believe in the principles
of this organization and recognize. the tremendous strides of
progress yet to be made~in Flint.
The members of this team are:
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Brezzell,
Mr. Clyde~ Edwards, Mrs. David
Anderson, Mrs. Glendine Morse,
Miss..Bessie Hill, Mr. William
Carson, Miss Velma Gates, ~ Mr.
Jessie Gaines, and Elder L. J.
Jackson.
| ~Next week~s edition of the
~Bronze Reporter will carry pic-tures of this team, and it is your
duty to make it a winning team.
al was ashamed. when Mr. Edunids told me that last year
here were only~ 1850 members,
land | this year the) drive is for
2000 members. Out of a possible
populafi n of
a e-should number at least
~twelve t ousand members.
| If you want to join the League
call 3-8481, and a member of the
team will. call at your home, and
fill out the membership card.

twenty thousand [-:

Our team needs _ additional
scouts. You may participate on
the Bronze Reporter Team aml
calling the above number, then
vou can sit at-home and carry
out your assignment. Miss Hill is
assistant team manager, and she
will. answer the phone.

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National Negro
History Week
Program )

Sponsored by. The Sunday Schocl: Student Quiz
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church
Negro National Anthem
Prayer
Song (Congregational) ~I Ain~ t
sGoona Study War No More.~
| Welcome Address, Mahalhex
Willingham '
| Speaker (Esop)) Marzell. Bar~kett,. Caanan Baptist Church
| Speaker (Makeda) Betty Garvin, Vernon Chapel AME Church
Speaker (Cleopatra) Sylvester
Watkins, Macedonia Baptist
Solo, Doris ~Boome, Bethe] ME
Church:
Piano Solo, Gldria Gene Johnson, Sacred Heart

Poem (Thé Creation), Susie
McNeal, Blackwell| CME Church.

Speaker (George W. Carver),
Delores Richardson, St. James

Speaker (Mary, Bethune~, Katherine James, Mt. Calvary Baptist

Piano Solo, Gordon Strong,
Metropolitan Baptist Church

Speaker (Edward Royce) A.
Turnipseed, Golden Leaf Baptist
| Offering.

6th Annual Pipé
Smoking Contest
Held Friday

The Arrowhead Pipe Club held
its 6th - Annual Pipe Smoking
contest, 7:30-p.m, Feb. 19, at
the Kisma Grotto Hall, 740 S.
Saginaw St., to) determine the
Michigan Regional Champion.

There was no entry fee and all
pipe smokers were welcomed to
enter.

Harold C. Chirgwin, left, New
~showing the ropes~

to his successor.

ai ~THE NEW AND THE OLD

shown with Herman Young, present manager, who

City Manager, is

Ex Fire Marshall
Gels Support
Of Commission

Last Monday night) the City
Commission anpointed Harold C.
Chirgwin as City Manager, to replace Herman Young. Mr. Young

resigned: the position to accept a~

position in local industry.

Mr. Chirgwin is a former City
Fire Marshall, and. has
civil service employee~ since 1942.
Prior'to his city servi~e, he was
an employee of Buick.

Mr. Chirgwin, as City Manager,
will have one of the most if ficult jobs in the State. The Bronze
Reporter is happy about the commission~s ~decision, as we knew
him. when the paper (was being
formed, and he impressed us as

been a.

being fair minded, with an under-,

standing of the issues that canfrent our city. His experiences in
the fire department have convinced him that. there is an acute
housing problem; now he is in a
position where he can help do
something about it. This, is es+
pecially important for us, as we
are the ones most diréctly affected by. the shortage,

This week~s. BRONZE - REPORTER is featuring a picture of
a house being consumed. by

U.S. Secretary of. Labor James
P. Mitchell, in~ the Administration~s first. major labor policy
speech, will address a rally. here
at the IMA Auditorium in Flint at
8:15 p. m., Tuesday, February 23,
1954, on. ~Labor~s Future with
Eisenhower.~ |

His.talk is expected -to contain
a major policy announcement
which is eagerly awaited by the
Nation... _;

During the day Secretary Mitchell will tour five large manufacturing plants, talk to assembly
line workers and their labor representatives and stop for lunch in
the employés cafeteria of Buick~s|
V-8 Engine Plant. |

The rally will start at 6:15 p.m. |
and the Secretary~s speech will be!
preceded by an elaborate pro-|
gram of entertainment, including |
a band concert and a_ variety|
show.. Admission is $1.00 and, includes a chicken box supper.

BULLETIN

G. Mennen Wil
liams will speak before a Fair

Governor

Employment Rally, March 4,
1954. The program will be held
at UAW Local 599 at 8:00 p.m.
The. public is invited, and the
Bronze Reporter urges everyone to attend. This will give
the Negro in Flint
through his

presence at this meeting, that

an oppor
tunity to prove,

he really wants passage of an
effective Fair Employment Bill.

Sec. Of Labor Mitchell To
Speak Here Tuesday

Notice...

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in or
Feb. 25, 1954.
votes to the office:

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Flint 8, Michigan

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flames. This house is located at
1127 Central. Mr. Chirgwin was
at the scene, and_ is) responsible
for the shot as it appears. He was

on the Jadder with The BRONZE
REPORTER -PHOTOGRAPHER,
and escorted members of the

staff around in order that ~we
might get the facts of the-story
to you, the reader.. Mr. Chirewia
has~ assured us that he has carried the same spirit jof cooperation into the City Manager~s office that existed in the Fire Prevention Bureau.

JAMES P. MIT CHELL

The Secretary~s tour |will be his |
first inspection of huge industrial |
plants and his visit, the first of |
its kind ever made in
Secretary of Labor. It is
of the month-long~ series
coln Day talks that national poli
~Play Ball!~

This will be the

part | their

tical leaders are giving) in observ-| ball. around the. diamond.
and | Will be rubbed on bats as pl

el |take their practice: swings

the centennial celebration of an. Retting ready to GET A HIT i

Urban | League;
| Membership Campaign.

Thus, baséball will be the theme al ~League teams and team

drive | agers that give him ~so much con
18 | fidence are:

ance of Lincoln~s|) birthday
founding ~of the Republican Party one hundred years ago in|
Michigan.

The Secretary will meet with
local leaders of the ClO and AF
of L labor unions) for) breakfast. |

ithe 4th Annual

j}and end on Feb. 28.

ference immediately afterward at)
the Durant Hotel and the second |
one:at the end of the plant tour.
Secretary Mitchell spec~ ~fically,
requested A. Matthew Buder,|
chairman o fthe rally, to provide!
an opportunity for him to visit}
industrial plants in Flint and)

score a run.~

runs,

bor and industry~ and talk with 6a" Leagues.
e

the workers.
leight teams,

of Baseball team manager.
will walk out to home plate, raise; up of nine players will be named
her hands to quiet the crowd and, for a major league basebal] Chub.
then issue the: mighty challenge, Mys:

Flint by a | Urban League Sieaibebs
baseball regalia.

of the 1954 _membership
which will commence on Feb.
The slogan |
_|He will hold his first) press con-| 0. bie drive is: ~Get a hit and | kee. Braves,
All of the workers | *
| will combine their efforts as team | Childress;
| players to try and <score
with each membership ob-|
tained representing a run.~
Workers in the drive will form}
sixteen, teams that will be group-'
~meet some of the leaders of la- /ed under the National and Ameri-|
Each League, headby a president, will comprise
each handled by a}

2,600)

Baseball Theme To Spark Drive For
Urban League Members ~ |

The Commissioner

Each team, made

Rosa L. Kimp, ~hairmay of;the 1954 membership drive, has

190, been appointed Commissione: of
to don, Baseball..
Outfield
Assisting her with the
planning and

all; President Smith vows that the

n| |eight teams in his: league will
~make the American League team
i~look like sandlotters.~ Nationman
Brooklyn Doévers

J. Merrill Spen~er; Mi! wauMrs.
St. Louis Cardinals,

Mrs.

Mrs. Syrene

Chicago |Cubs, Mrs,
Nancy C ~obb; New York Giants,
Mrs. Violet Blackwell; Philadel
_phia. Phillies, Dr. William Ay,Simms; Pittsburg Pirates, Mrs.
Lola Gibson; and Cincinnati Redlegs, M. A. Wright.

President Novak declares that
i his. American League will carry

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JOIN YOUR URBAN LEAGUE - ~ TODAY!

promotion of the
of Lin-| ers will begin shagging flies while | | campaign are Dr. Edwin L. Novak,
| infielders will peg the old bas Se- | president of the American Leavue
Resin | and Attorney Otis.M. Smith, prvsayers ident of the National League.

Sylvia Brown;: