Bronze Reporter [Volume: 4, Issue: 23]

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Over1,100 Grads

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ANN ARBOR~Degrees have
been granted to 1,159 University of Michigan students who
successfully completed requirements at the end of the fall
semester this month.

The Regents approved the degrees at their meeting Saturday
(Feb. 16), according to Secretary

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returned prompily to the lo2cal and county governments.
~Fourth, we believe in time
that it will be possible to establish a school system satisfactory

~te thoughtful people of both

races and to the Supreme Court
of the United States... 2
~Fifth,... social custom violating the dignity of the Negro
should be eradicated. The passing away of these irritating
customs does not involve intermariage or amalgamation of
the races; it declares a wholesome respect for all people and
evidences common courtesy.~

Herbert G. Watkins. es
All but three of the University~s schools and colleges
granted degrees. No students
were graduated by the Medical
School, School ~of Dentistry including the Dental Hygiene
curriculum, or Flint College.

Cilaiming the most graduates
was the Horace H. Rackham
School of Graduate Studies
with 501. Runner-up is) the
Colloge of Literature, Science
and the Arts, with 192: |

The other schools and colleges granted the following Rumber of degrees: College of Engineering, 192; School of Business Administration, 100; School
of Education, 45; Law School,
40; Collge of Architecture and
Design, 28; School of Music,
26; School of Natural Resources, 15; School of Public Health,
11; School of Social Work, 4;
College of Pharmacy, 3;| and
School of Public Health, IK
School of Nursing, 2.

Th February degrees bring to

2,083 the number granted ~thus
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year, since 924 degrees weremer session. Last February 982 at the end of the 1955 summer
awarded at the end of the sum- degrees were granted, plus 899 session, for a total of 1 381.

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By G. HOUSTON BYRD & DON HAREWOOD

Tuesday, when the mercury hit a record high of 66
degrees, Detroiters began to think about that: vacation in
Northern Michigan... that trip to Idlewild, going swimming at Belle Isle and getting their Bermuda Shorts out of
froth balls or the pawn shops. Their desire for enjoying
an early summer plunged a couple of days later when the

mercury did likewise.
~b-h~.
Twenty miles north of downtown D:>troit in the Indian
Chief City of Pontiac, altho the -weather has cooled consid
erably, hot tempers have flown in a recent hassle over
~you did me wrong~~~concerning ~who's doing the best

|job for the Negro in Pontiac.~... People are finally begin
ning to notice that young attorney who is on the scene
frequently in Detroit with the secretary of one of Pontiac~s
top civic leaders.... Why all the hulaboo about the U of MGeorgia games when you can participate in some of the
biggest ~Georgia Skin~ garmmes on Bagley and Wesaon streets
that attracts big-time gamblers from all over the'state....
~House-Rent Parties~ are the rage in the projects, with
booze, gambling and more of what~s the order of the night.
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| What happenped to that local weekly tabloid last week?
It looked like a mis-happen.; ~b-h~ i
They are asking it is true that a young executive will
soon leave Pontiac in a change of jobs... ~tis said that this

was brought about by his non-performance of duty....
There is a local bar on S. Saginaw where Negroes have
to sit behind a partition in order to get service. The police
demands this because this place is a hang-out for ofay chicks
who are just crazy about sepia lovers, for a price.

_ While waiting for a fellow worker at a bus stop, one
local lad was sitting in his vehicle when a lass came up
and asked him to take her. downtown. He told her that

he was waiting for a friend; she asked him was the
friend ~male or female;~ he said ~male.~ She thusly
replied: ~He (the male) hasn~~t got any thing you want.~

The friend walked to work.

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A benefit for the widow and four kids of bassist George
Washington was held at Club El Sino Wednesday night.
Washington was killed in an auto crash in Nevada.:.. -

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Friday night, March 15, is the date for Frank Brown~s
huge all-star attraction at Graystone Ballroom. Featured on
the bill will be the Lionel Hampton 18-piece orch with
Curley Hamner on drums, our gal Chis Connors, Andrea
Williams, the Five Dollars, the Turbans and Muddy Waters.

Chic~s Show Bar on Hamilton is naming March as.
~Sportsmen~s Month~ with 10 per cent of their gross receipts going to the Joe Louis Tax Fund. Théir goal is
One Grand.... The Debutantes at Rondevoo Show Bar...
Bill Thomas and his band at Hajji Babba~:.. ~Birdland
Stars of ~57,~ featuring Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan,
Count Basis, Joe Williams, Jerri Sothern, Bud Powell Trio,
Chet Baker, Lester Young, Zoot Sims, Phineas Newborn
Quartet, Terry Gibbs and others at Masonic Temple, Sunday
for two shows.

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Ex-dise jockey LeRoy G. White was in town ever the
weekend and as usual, the excitement started. This time. the victim was a hot tamales salesman in the HamiltonPhiladelphia area. ~This said the roly-poly former record

| spinner got drunk and pushed the tamale-stand over just

for the heck of it... ~b-h~

In Port Huron everybody is still talking about the gala
Topper~s Ball held last Friday nite, but everybody. got too
carried away to actually remember all the happenings. Seen
on the scene were Alberta Davis, Mrs. Birdie Saunders and
daughter, Essie Rolling of Detroit who were house guests
of the John Rollings of Sarnia, Ont.... They are all still
talking about the cutting-up of each other by two friends
when one became a little too affectionate with the other~s
wife in a local nitery.... Former exotic dancer, Tippie
Hawk is now residing in the city of Blue Water (Port
Huron) on 22nd street. The ex-shaker is well known in
Detroit, Flint and other midwestern cities where she still
has a host of friends of relatives.... Rev. C. L. Franklin
and his choir of 50 singers from Detroit were~ featured at
Metropolitan Baptist Church in P. H. of which Rev. J. S.
William is pastor.... Delois King Warmer of Moak street
is the mother of twin boys, Robert and Ronnie, born recently.... Mrs. Vernelle McCalla of 24th street, an active
member of the Michigan Practical Nurses Assn., is on the
staff of Port Huron General Hospital in the Orthopetic Department.

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Pretty Martha King became the first tan clerk in Kresge
~stores in Port Huron. Others are being sought now since
the local NAACP has been putting pressure under several -
downtown stores,... The Red Shingles destined to become one of the top jazz meccas of the midwest.

Demand Civil |
Rights Action

A Congress which continues ~to be unresponsive to the
greatest moral demand of our generation is an irresponsibile
Congress,~ Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D., Minn.) delcared
yesterday in urging the Subcommittee on Constitutional
Rights to act without delay on a ~meaningful~ civil rights
program.

In submitting a summary of Congress, only to die in comhis own civil rights bills before mittee, on the calendar, or by
the Subcommittee at the open- the veto of the filibuster, ~

ng of hearings, panator: Humph-| ~your subcommittee now has
Tey commented: the opportunity, if it will. only
seize, to initiate the first meaningful civil rights legislation in
80 years. Despite the honest differences of opinion among us,
I am convinced that the cubcommittee will do its part and
that Congress itself will follow.~

~We know that our Constitu-| Senator Humphrey said, in his
ion guarantees full equality of prepared statement sent to Senrights ~and opportunities to ator Hennngs, chairman of the
Americans of every race, color, Subcommittee, that he placed
religion and national origin. We first priority on his ~right to
know that proposed legislation vote~ bill ~because it is becomto assure to every American his ing increasingly clear that this -
constitutional rights has~ been is the key to all of the rest: of~

introduced in Congress after our human-rights objectives,

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