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FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JUNE: ee

EIk~s Annual Oratorical

Contest Friday Night

Bernadine Edwards, of State
street, graduating from Central
High School, placing eighteenth
in a class of 660 in scholastic|
average and Joseph Moore,
Schoo] will compete in the local

Budget Chief
Retires

Alfred M. Pelham, budget
chief of Wayne County and a
top Negro leader in metropolitan
Detroit ~announced this week
that he- will resign his $17,875
position as County Budget
Director.

Pelham began his county du
He attendéd University of Michigan ~ rermnanw fag Reson and igsed?

Negro oat ica ius ~of pe
State. He started with the county
in 1894 and resigned in 1942. |

Pelham will began his position
as assistant professor of Political
Science at Wayne State University. this fall: Edwar D. Connor,
chairman of the County Board
of Supervisors said: ~He is so
important to the program that
I~m hopeful we'll be able to
retain his services on~a consultant basis after he eaves.~

Pelham is on the board of
directors council of the American Society for Public Administration. Also on the board of
directors of the Tuberculosis and
Health Society; The board of
trustees of the Visiting Nurses
Associaties,

He also is the author of a
book of children~s verse which
has been illustrated and publish
He has served 19 years as
budget director. In that ~time
he revamped budget accounting
and finance systems into model
ideas which have been copied
by governments throughout the
country.

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g-aduating from Northern dug

Elks Oratorical Contest Friday:

n:ght at 7 p.m:

Topic will be ~The Négro and}

the Constitution.~

Each contestant will have 10~~
Vehicle City|*~
1036 and Genesee} #
Temple No. 550, Dept. of Edu-} ~
cat.on each, year sponsors a local} '.
oratorical ~ontest and the win- -
ner is sent to represent them in},

minutes or less.
Lodge No.

the State Association National}<3

~|Contest. The winners in_ both a
of educational) ~

are recipients
scholarships.
The program will be conducted~ by the Alpha Cap and
Gown Unit will be attired in
the official uniforms of gray
caps and gowns. This group has

contributed endlessly to the edu-}cation department of the Lodge}.

and Temple.
Chairman of the. co)

are: Carolyn Hoskins, ~-Helene
Holbrook and Addie Rae.
Honorable mention is timely
to Joyce Calahan, * Standford/
street who is graduating from
Central High School and places
ninth in scholarstic avearage in
her class of 660; also Trya Duncan Hill, a student in the Mt.
Morris, Michigan system who is

\valedictorian of her class this

year.

~GYady and ~ ~gonees ~her th

~stop. being the commercial footmat of other people~ as well as
to ~try to venture into new
fields of endeavor~ away from
~traditionally ~Negro jobs and
professions.~

The speaker was Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr. of

Hero Becomes NAACP Lifer

NEW. YORK-~Samuel Woodson,, the men who rescued. 7 -year-old Benjamin Hooper from
the bottom of a 21-foot well in
Manorville, L I., has been presented with a ife membership
in the National Assqciation~ for
the Advancement of Colored
People.

The $500 membership is the
gift of the Long Island branches
cf the NAACP and was presented to the hero on John Cameron
Swayze~s ABC-TV 11 o'clock
news program Wednesday night.
May 22. Presentation was made

ye Dr. Eugene Reed, president
of the Central ~Long~ Island
branch.

In addition tg the ~life membership, Mr. Woodson, a construction worker, was presented
with ~a check for $250 for himself and. another $250 for the

~| Hooper family. The presentation

was made on the TV program by
Marvin Gilman, on behalf of the
Long Island Home Builders In~stitute of which he jis secretary.
Mr. Gilman has also made an initial payment on an NAACP life

membership for himself.

* | said.

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~ |come? Looking to see the
| gathering. How about it, can you.

Us. ~s Supreme | Court
Soctidos of May 17,-1954, which
held racial segregation in pub
lic schools to be unconstitutional, ~

_ Mr. Diggs called integration
~as inevitable as the rising sun
even in Mississippi.~

~America cannot afford, in the

interest. of justice, to let hood
lums and.race baiférs crawl out}.

from under the rocks and defy
the law of the land,~ he~ continued. oe

The Corigressman predicted

that ~Mississippi will never real-|.
its cherished dream of a pi

ize
successful ~balance agriculture
with industry~ program until it
balances the books. on human
equality.~

He referred to a Mississippi
study which, he said, revealed
that white Mississippians afe
leaving the state at a faster
rate than: the Negroes, contrary
to previous population trends.

~The white people~ who are
forced } to leave Mississippi to
seek their. fortunes elsewhere
are young in age and principally
high school graduates who do
not find enough outlet for their
training or potentialities,~ he

~They bio not find it because

~Forceans, do you know June
10-13. is the Alumni HomecomMary. Olmstead Butler,
executive secretary, has an
nounced the 1957 events prior
~}to commencement exercises.
~1 Yes, Alumni meetings, Class.
*| Reunions, dancing. and fun will

be the main reasons for the

+ | mendons number of Flint 'Force~ |ans present, ~
~| Monday. through Thursday

~) -will consist of roll call of classes.

In the Chapel of the Living

~Savior, Alumni: Chapel, Alumni!
Forum, ~dance, Annual. Alumni,
Breakfast, National~ Association
~meeting, and commencement,

-Clastes-are planning many re
| union ~affairs. a ee
4 gee ou on -camipias.

_|son ~from the experience of

pinned on by Mrs. Warmoth T.

tre-|stand as the cadets.of the joint: lowing the busy, day.;

tion ~of feta out cont of its
~ Mr. Dhales~s indicated ~that the
entire South might: learn a les
Great Britain,

~When nd: realised~ she
could tio longer keep: her colons
ials in subjection.she gave them
membership in the British Commonwealth,~ he pointed out, ~A
long and bitter fight was thus
avoided whicl would have converted her colonials into enemies
instead of partiiers and friends.
This ~is: what- can~ be -accomished in the South if the decent ~people ofthe section would
exercis~ courage an imagination.~

Mother of Year~
GREENSBORO, N. C. ~ The
widowed mother of 10 children,~
two of them student at A'& T
College, was last Sunday honored as ~Mother of the Year~
at the annual Mother~s Day observance held at the college.

Mrs. Odessa Allexander.
Mooresville, who following the
death of her husband has educated eight of her sons and
daughters and now supports,
Vivian, a junior in Social
Science and eBity,. a.sophomore in here at
A & T, received special recognition in the Mother~s Day
activities,

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R.R. Jobs

<The~ ~Brotherhood: of Sleeping
~Car Porters Provisional Comthi'tee for the Organization of
~Colored. Locomotive Firemen,
Brakemen and Switchmen held
their 16th Annual Conference in
Washington, BD. o.

fot railroads: of the South, -including the Atlantic Coast Line,
the Seaboard. Air Line, the
ern;, ~the: Gulf Mobile and
ae Central of Georgia and

DOr Png rhe. con
finsmnes, meeremen and switchmen,*

Twenty-five years ago, more
~thin 6,000: Negro firemen were
employed ~ on the southern

| railroad, Az present, less than

1,500 men are, employed. It
~was revealed at this conference
that more than 30 years have
~passed since some of the major
southern carriers have hired
Negroes. in the operating de- Since no substantial number of
Negroes are hired. in the North
in the operating departments as
firemen, brakemen and switchmen, the conference. went on
record to wage a vigorous and
relentless campaign to open the
doors of employment opportunities for qualified Negroes in. all
sections -ef the country. Negro
youth is urged to take a new
look.at job opportunities and
seek employment in the top jobs
of the railway: industry.

Young men between the ages
of 21 and 30 are urged to register
in the ~offices of the International Brotherhood for information~ concerning the peepnility
of émployment. ~

~Delegiites ~yépresenting all ma
the~ few. Le ciaite

PRICE: 10c SINGLE COPY; YEAR, $4.50

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RANCISCO (Special) ~A young Negro sailor
eently convicted by a court-martial board
-}for failing to return a shipmate~s watch which he had
-}found, held a US Navy ship and its personnel at bay
-|for-more than six hours at gin

~Si immie L. Henderson, 21, of
Marine City, Calif., a third-class
dispensing clerk before being
broken to seaman and sentenced
to four months in the brig, said:
~He felt that he was being persecuted and that the court martial sentence was too severe.~

~He stole a.45 automatic
pistol and armed himself with
a wrench early Tuesday morning and slugged a security
gaard over the head at bs 2
rear of the ship.

He then entered. the. officers~
cabin and woke up Ensign Arthur Morris and Richard D. Harrison of Grand Rapids, Mich. He
shot Morris first in the head
and Harrison in the abdomen
and arm. Harrison was the of|ficer who defended Pee cae eld

~The shooting ~Fiakened ~the
ship and the remaining officers.
Protestant Chaplain Jeffords and
Marine Col. E. M. Williams along
with the ship~s captain, Capt.
Robert O. Beers, began to talk
to the youth and pe*suade him
to give himself up. They called
his mother and she was transported from nearby: Marine City.

Henderson~s mother and Chaplain Jeffords talked the youth
into giving himself up.

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BULLETIN

CASSIE E.
JENKINS PASSES

Death claimed a life-long
Flint resident Thursday
May 30, at St. Joseph Haspital. She was Miss Cassie
Elizabeth Jenkins, 67, of
Harrison St. Miss Jenkins
was born in Flint, August
26, 1889 to the late Marcellus and Margaret Jenkins.
Funera] Arrangement to be

announced later.

A mal audience Sunday

She was presented to a morning worship service audience, ~#
which nearly filled: the Harrison.;
Auditorium, Introduced Jo- lect
sephine Currye, ~Miss ~A p fag
she~had an orchid, a gift- from
the A & T College'student body

Gibbs, wife of the president.
She later occupied a place of
prominence on ~the reviewing

Air Force and Army ROTC units
performed a military review in
honor of all mothers.

A bouquet of.roses were presented herby the members of
Epsilon. ~Chapter~ of the Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity and later,
she was special guest at a lunch
eon honoring all. mothers of Ay

& T students.
~I must be the: happiest mother,
alive,~ washer comment tol-"

in.Metropolitan Baptist Tabercle ~Church on Myrtle street
i the dynamic, informative
by George S. Schuyler.

Rose of Sharon No. 4, A. F.
and A. M., Cape Jasmine No.
20, O: E. S, and New Hope
Chapter~ No, 12, O. E. S., presented this ~very timely program
for the good of the community

as to our oo ag to foreign |

situations. _
The pepkrame was jinoat' elo
}quently planned by these groups

and indeed are to be depo How ng on - the
very fine forcible epfessions of
thought ah out in the affoie es
Mrs. Ciroline ~Hoskins~, wel~ address. made. our guest
feel as though he was among~;
~friends | many years; Bro. Har-!

Schuyler Lectures
At Metropolitan ~

ry Washington, sr, Warden, re-:
sponded.

The program continued with
renditions. from the Silvertone
Chorus and the Four and Twenty Elders. Il. Johnson Buchanan,
master of ceremonies, was introduced by Sister Ethel Lee
Mustin~ who ~in turn introduced
i -speaker, George S. Schuyer.

~What ~the Foreign Situation
Means To Us~ was the topic

which he discussed at length to
an attentive audience.. Many had ~the very honored
}pleasure of meeting the speaker
previous to the afternoon assembly and after it. at the Rose
of Sharon Hall on Maines street.

Many other rounds of affairs,
giving the public an opportunity
to socialize and meet the speaker
were planned by various members of i ap chi Bs groups.