Bronze Reporter [Volume: 4, Issue: 29]

"SERVING THE
_ SAGINAW ae. VALLEY
@ Flint
@ Saginaw
@ Lansing. oe |. Ree a ee
~VOLUME 4~NO. 28. FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, ~APRIL..13,. 1967 ee

Scores ' First~ on
In Employment

PONTIAC=-The Community National ~Bank: of ontiz
one of the city~s leading and oldest~ business establishments,.
last week won the coveted Pontiac Urban. ian. annual
award for doing the most in the past year for Respir,
race relations in the city. ~. ~ ah
~The award was given at the ~League~s ~Seventh n a a
Meeting which was held in the Civic Room at the Pontiac
-Fedeyal Savings and Loan Association. Building on W. Huron,
Street. Over 150 citizens, were in attendance.
Accepting the: award was. Charlés Harris, vico-qewitdent in-charge of | at Community National Bank.
Mr. Harris told the group how the bank decided to bg =
a program of hiring qualified Negro p where
these~employees have proven to be as asset-to the bouineed
and are a definite part of the total employee program.
~Judge Cecil McCallum, member of ~the League: a -
Directors, presented the. plaque to V. P. Harris. dee
League Cited
The Oakland County: Ministerial Fellowship Association
presented a plaque to the Urban League on~ behalf of the.
association for its work in the race ahd community relations
field in Pontiac. The award was presented by~ Rev: Richard

ent of
so8éd_from At > City, N, J. ~where the union: 16th acon ~convention this week, that Judge
i be among a seven-man committee to keep.

) i crooks and corruption... ~This is the first time in un} fon thistory that such a committee hes been formulated.
~The convention delegates. 3125 ~
~strong voied 97 per cent in fawor of this. unprecedented
plan. ~

The purpose of the committee
will be to investigate reports of
unethical or illegal activity and
will act as a final appeal board
to - the~ rank-and-file members
who feel they have not received
~justice at.the hands of local or
the international board. -

~Seven To Serve
Six of the seven man board
have been chosen. ~They are.
Circuit Judge Wade ~McCree,

Fuller Products Company, |
Chicago, holds award given
to S. B, Fuller, president of

MARKET. DEVELOPERS
HONOR TWO~The National
Association of Market Deve
lopers named two honorees
during its recent awards dinner held at the time of its
annual convention at Tennessee. A.. and I. State University. Nashville. Above, third
from left, William Spraggins,

Tenn. State Takes Inventory wi | 5, lg mower a Negro Potential Needed

OF Present Negro Market

Tenn~2P he: pros and~ cons~ ~af. ~the.N
nt exhaustive inventory here last-week:
ssociation of Market Developers met ~ae an-,
nual session and participated in the fourth annual market- ~peal

madigeaaindess
the National

f pioneer in the nafional sales

the Chicago firm, who was
named ~Businessman of the
Year.~ The late W. O, Yarbrough, Raleigh, N. C., was
honored posthumously as a

field. Mrs. Yarbrough, views

ee 14th antitial~

of the Uhited Weer clings

4 ington. D. C., Dr. Edwin Witte,

np ge He > ~regretfully~ de
and Rabi Morris Adler, both
of Detroit; Methodist Bishop
G. Bromley Oxnam of Wash
of the University of Wisconsin.
the very Rev. Msgr.. George
Higgins, of Washington and

}John Hopking: University was}
asked to serve: as the. seven

stig Sanadian. =
1 In mat to en RC dele.
| gates to the of ~out
Discrimination in | Michigan.~

H. Dixon Jr.. president of the Fellowship.:
~FEPC Head Speaks }
Main speaker for the evening was. John G. Field, executive director of the Michigan Fair Employment Practices.
Commission. His topic for the evening was: en

th |. WASHINGTON~Ie. American,
Abo * continues: ta testrict the:
- hat

a: e
Ske an. _even more. p Hise
pusition in ~the American~ écon
|Nevro~s talents and. abiliti
~terme of industtial and engi

dit: ae Pehla ~ween in ging

ing clinic sponsored by Tennessee A. and L. State University #8. consult |siders~ to.ov tivie ~. Herbert c

Ki téday. Both Mesny and hat | bgt gt rs~ to oversee union activi- | omy, erb Hill, NAACP

one, s? entry oft Negro manu~ [eat A pre ce a cei, oye Penta inbred hve MUD cn at
the Negri. matkel ese! bigh: ident, are ~menibers: of the Fund's. registeriiy~ their religious of-| deal with voluntarily or the Go- Addressing the annual con- ticeship training programs in

Lt. Gov. Hart

Opens Lansing
NAACP Drive

~All Americans are shamed
and degraded so long as our
practices shame and degrade any
American,~ declared Lieutenant
Governor Philip A. Hart this
week, in opening the 1957 membership and Freedom Fund"drive
of the Lansing ~Branch of the
NAACP.

Speaking to a packed meet
ligted in the marketing clinic,
which is considered the professional institute of theMarket Developers, H. Waylor.
Fitzhugh, professor of marketing, Howard University, and
research associate of the Moss
H. Kendrix. Organization.
Washington, D. C., developed
the subject, ~Market Headlines,~ while the subject, ~Marketing Case Histories.~ was
discussed by LeRoy W..: Jeffries, Johnson Publications, Inc.
Chicago,

Two other aspects of the Negro market were explored in
papers by Dr. Herman H. Long,
director, Race Relations Depart
ingin Lincoln Community Cen-| mént, American Missionary Aster, Hart paid tribute to the, ~sociation, Fisk University, Nashwork of the NAACP in helping ville, and Dr. W, O. Bryson,
to bring about the ~great race| chair rman, Department of Eco-,
relations advances of the past | nomics and Business, Morgan

12 years.~

He mentioned-the ending of
armed forces segregation, the | z
penetration~ of the color bar-}
rier in organized: professional

sports, the U. S. Supreme Court |~

decisions affecting education
and transportation, the ending
of discrimination in most public
places in Washington, D. C., and
the passage in Michigan and
other states of fair employment: s legislation. ho was divisional sales man- j--ity in hospital and medical
ea ef these advances doee. Josten Jewelry Com- facilities.~ 8 ue set forth in the: camie eafily,~ said Hart, ~and pany, for his pioneer efforts 4
be wo POO ~This is,a challenge to. our
- the many ~Advances yet to in selling and sales manage spirit of citizenship and): fair

made, toward complete equality of opportunity, will not
come easily, either.~
_ |~The-NAACP will be greatly needed.~

Quoting~ Rev. Martin, Luther
King as*having said ~it is one

the greatest glories of Ameri
hat. we have the right of | Albright and Associates, Nash
State College, Baltimore, These
~eaucators devoted attention to
~Patterns in the Negro Market~
end ~Trends in the Negzo Market,~ respectively.

At its annual Awards Dinner, held on the University
campus, -NAMD cited S. B.
Fuller, president, Fuller Products Company, Chicago, as
~Businessman of the Year,~
and honored the late W. O..
Yarbrough, Raleigh, N. C..

meni,

Mrs. Yarbrough was. in Nash-|
ville to receive her husband~s
citation, and William Spraggins,
Fuller Products Company, received the award for Mr. Fuller.

At the closing session of the
convention, Joseph F. Albrigkt,

ville, re-elected NAMD

National Council.: headed ~ by
John D. Rockelefler, Jr...

In his.endorsement,. Mr:
Meany urged unions to*contribute generously to.the $2.000,000. appeal on behalf of
its 31 member colleges, ~

~These colleges represent. a
vital source of leadership for
sixteen million Americans and
for the nation- at large,~ Mr.
Meany said. ~In a period when
the nation is making great
strides in improving interracial
understanding, the. importance
of this fact cannot be underestimated,

~In common: with all Ameripolleges, the participating
colleges of the Fund, which comprise an integral: part of our
system of higher education, are
confronted with rapidly increasing enrollments. They must help
meet this demand of the young
people for better training.~

The 1957 United Negro~ College Fund appeal opened.-na
can

tionally on April 1 with a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria. Local.
campaigns have been organized!
in more than.100 communities}
eo rn ana <o anes.

pariization actording to the~ statutés (th fofcé, but on each

oceasion: they) have been re-,

buffed ~afid ~iristead of being allowed to register their Christ:an
organization they have had ministers in thé: delegations arrested.~

The' ~letter was written to
actompany a composite petition
that had been adopted over a
priod of ~nine months by a total
of 462,936 of Jehovah~s Witnesses, meeting in 199 assemplies throughout the world. It
called attention to the 7,000
Jehovah's Witnesses known t0o/g

-|be,in slave camps in the Soviet |r

Union tand, requesting their release,: ~proposed that a delegation to*be permitted to proceed

from the Society~s headquarters

in Brooklyn, N. Y., to Moscow

to fully aéquaint the Soviet gov-|

ernment with. the true aims and
purposes of Jehovah~s Witnesses.
~We have acted o in good
faith,~ Mr. Arnold. said, ~Following the petition~s adoption at
each assembly, copies were sent
by registered mail direct ~to
Moscow anl a copy for:the Russian. bassy in each country
was rey in person.
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ma.

Clanton, Ala. Branch
The Board of Directors of the Flint Branch of the
NAACP announced today taht it ~adopted~ the Clan
ton, Alabamp. Branch of: NAACP. Clanton is one of the
Chapters which has been banned | in the state of Alaba
vernment will doit for ds.~

Judge McCree is the only: Ne-'
gro named to the seven man
committee. The cOmmittee will

ference of the National Civil.
Liberties Clearing House, Mr.
Hill declared: ~A basic need
today is to make possible the

have a sem time paid staff.

full reaization ~of the individual

tho pitals.

wenty prominent citizens in

Probe Hospital |
Discrimination

The Detroit;Commission on Community Relations anigre today the formation of an Advisory Committee

Hospitals to assist the Commission on the elimination of
acial factors and discriminatory practices in: Detroit, area.

the community connected with. Medical |
business, labor, medicine, nurs-, Committee and to undertake a
ing and hospitals, have ~aereed: factual study of the participa~

and Hospital Study |

Committee will issue its findings~
and recommend specific programs designed to correct hospital problems involving racial
discrimination,

* Rev. John E. Coogan, S. J.4
Commission chairman, told the
committee that~- previous
studies. by the Commission indicated that the Detroit Negro.
population was receiving
~markedly inferior~ opportun
play. Anything less than racial
equality in health services is!
unjust to the individual,~ Father
Coogan said,

He added, ~I am sure Our entire Commission~ will be with
you in your prudent and insistent efforts to equalize the
health and hospital fadilities for

to serve on the Committee. The tion of minority groups in medi
cal and hospital services.and

facilities in the Detroia area. |

~In June, 1956, that Committee
issued six reports covering
Medical, College-Nurse and Hos4 Fital-Nurse Training, Medical
and Nursing Staff Appointments
and.Hospital Bed Utilization.'
One of the basic recommenda-_
tions. of that. Study Committee
was that an Advisory Committee; as announced today, be set

industty ~and iftto other forms
of vocational ~ training, he explained. 3

aw It) is. 6vidert;~ he: asserted,
~that, despite great changes in
the employment and occupational~ characteristics of Negro

| wage earners in the last ten

years, the economic standards
of Negroes remains substantially

below that of the white popu-.

lation.~ ~

The NAACP, Mr. Hill noted,
~has repeatedly urged that. all
forms of public support be withdrawn from discriminatory apprenticeship programs, including he use of _public sehool
buildings and other faciliies in
programs: which Geny admission
to Negroes.~

A civil rights victory at-a
southern industrial - plant was
cited by the NAACP official:
Negroes soon wil be. admitted
for the first~ time into the apprenticeship training. program
conducted jointly by the union
and the company, and the seg
|regated local unions will be

_integrated. This action follows
NAACP efforts: with. the union
and co ts. filed: ~with the

President's Feige on Government | ees,

he said.

up to follow up the many/.rec- ~

~Neighbors Fi ~
Man on Own
Front Lawn

Last weekend a Pontiac house- *

~Buch "edloukied center: jn

protest, * Hart fully agreed, tre wees I uk~ tae 04a l citizens.~ wife, 37 year-old Mrs. Mattie
~emphasized that protest is ef-! president. Wyle H. Whisonant,|, 1 adopt g. the nton ar ee S. Emrich "weode Soe Howland. é.. fective anily:when organized and) |Jr, Specialized Marketing, New perm aati, oe niin af Southern bie in ori oe biced of tha epiooope Diocese ee nagbeee siter niger or 5
" (persistent. York City, and LeRoy W. Jeff- pons men e Supreme Court de
F The. Lieutenant Govehnor nies. imeke~ Pulliestiek. Inc., picwigens: oad te au ~cision on schoo] desegregation. of Michigan, has waar me oe be Bo Sy Sunday.

~ eover 0 chairman

a arrond paeais, So eens nal ~. heii Pie Fh and ~adopted~ unit..Many NAACP] ~The objective of this attack| second and third vice- Folie ro Say <that Mrs. Woods
~ne Mongeiery bus Dea. He| ~Lune~ Fesirion_ yon Sa@ers, de tbe Guth area es 10 pat he RAACP ot| ae, rnzectiv, Mee, Gaal jaded

observed that all that was need-| Ohio, secretary, and William: F.| ~G0PHné~. southern aaa bee aver Saran 3e-wew| baa 'E. Schroeder.

fed for a successful NAACP fund) Nabors, Coca-Cola Bottling | ~This plan is designed to help~ becomes the duty of branches | Father Roert F. Allen, Dr. Thom
gnd membership drive was ~the/of Memphis, Tenn., treasurér, | oft-aet the Joss in memberships |.tcide the oe ot said

outside ~the South ~to put forth|/as Batchelor, Mark N. Beach, L
showing of that film,,and 2) were re-elected, ~ ~contributions resulting | es wl Tine. Failing, Miss Katherine Faville,| the
moment~s quiet thought. prantt the ban on NAACP ope- | | Andrew Brown, Mrs. John N.| shot
Legs U-M Nations Lakes! Se Bieiaina, Louisiana [Rabbi Leon Fram, Miss Eleanor} til he
MAIL EARLY The University of Michigan is: Fara Dr: Luther R. Leader,, ae te
the nation~s largest state uni-| | ester Leahy, ~Mrs, Mary),
FOR EASTER_ versity in resident credit) enroll- st -| Mullane, ~Dr. He G,. Bobia-| ise
Postmaster Edward. L. Baker|ment located on one pus. It}. tp

~today. advised __ postal patrons{is also the largest state univer-;

not to wait until the last minute |sity without an agricultural col- | 74;

to mail their Easter greetings|lege. (California is spread over)...

and presents. The heavy volume several cities; Hlinois-has large} ~~The NAA
- of mail generated. during the|program in Chicago as well as/ attack

Roliday socnns sways presi Urbana, Mihnesota is in Minné-});

serious ~problem. to = office. apolis, Duluth, - and +1