Bronze Reporter [Volume: 4, Issue: 48]

Postal: ~Employ

With New Foreman e

in Flint added another first to
its growing relord. Thomas Roquemore,.909.Pingree, was promoted to foreman, He has beer
enployed in the postal service
for the past 10 years:..He -begun
as a clerk, advancing to ~window
clerk. And then to-his present
position.
Postmasfer Pratt extended Ro.
quemore his heartiest congratulaticns...Several..em phoyees

Recénuy the U 3S. Prost Urmce)\n.. They -

that Roquemore wes a ~fine: ~fel-|
low, who. knew his~ business ~ ~andy
how to. work ith ppople.. ~They |

ees Pleased

wete pleased.

Roquemore is married and has
a son. He was bornin Adkansas and spent mest of his life
in Flint~He is~ the son. of Mr.
and Mrs, Henry Roquemore: of
Lapeer. St.

He is shown with the Postmaster and Roger Lewis, presi-| ~

(mostly white) were asked about their reaction to Roque.

dent of the National: Allicnce
of Postal Erpployees.:

Bran

fed False~ By NAACP.

NEW YORK~The rumor that the NAACP ~put-up

$18,000~ to enable William E. Myers to purchase a/|

home in Levittown, Pa., was

branded as ~false and ridi
culous~ today by Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive secre
tary.

Wilkins also ridiculed another rumor that the NAACP
~owns four more houses in Levittown which it will sell

to Negroes.~

The rumors were started iy
questions which a newspaper
reporter addressed to William
BE. Myers, whose purchase of
a home in the development has
caused a disturbance necessitating the assignment of state -police to keep order, Myers, a vetdren, denied that the NAACP

had.given or loaned him any}...

money, but since the questions
were asked in the presence, of
a small gathering, the rumors
started at once.
~~The story is false and ridiculous,~ Mr. Wilkins said. ~The
NAACP is not in the real
estate business, is.not in. the
loan business, and does not
have any funds with which to
purchase homes in Levittown
or anywhere else.
~This is just another attempt
< to paint the Levittown situatien and similar ones over the
country as an ~organized~ invasion~. of neighborhoods instead
of recognizing that Negro families are just exercising their
right to buy a decent home in a
decent neighborhood according

Wilkins Cites
Miami. NAACP

-NEW. ~YoRK ~ Roy Wilkins,
~ NAACP ~ executive _ secretary,
recently lauded the Miami, Fla.
NAACP branch this week for its
continuing campaign to end se~ gregation on city buses. Having
secured a decision by a federal
judge on Aug. 8 that Miami's
bus segregation ~laws are unconstitutional, the NAACP unit
now ~is: encouraging Negroes to
follow the court order.
"Mr. Wilkins~ message to the
Miami branch was in the form

~Federal Judge. Emett C. Cho- ate ordered an end to segregated
eeciite an baiaad bias by Soot.
oL He~ specifically ordered the
~ Miami Transit Company afd Mi_ ami city officials <to stop en
to their ability to pay.

~Negroes have been in Am.
erica for 338 years and will be
here for some time to come. Oth.
er citizens wil] be. more comfortable if they accommodate
themselves to this fact.~

-Wilkins said ~ the NAACP.
through its regional office in
Philadelphia, its branch in Bucks
County, Pa., and its nearby New
Jersey branches was keeping a
close eye on the Levittown situ.
ation and stood ready to aid
the Myers family if called upon
to do so.:

Nashville First-Graders

NASHVILLE, Tenn.,~For the
first time Negro children began
registering without incident here

Tuesday, in previously all-white]

schools, They. will become the
first~ Negro students in a large
City south of Louisville to en.
roll in desegregated. schools,
They enrolled in the first-grade..
eran and father or ~three chil
_|the U."S. National Bi
| ASsociation,, Wednesd
~ was voted ~380: to 19~

onere

A sat of BC Conaredn~

This ~was? the biggest ~issu
the ~ confab - Spodbiutle bf ~the
tremists on beth~ sides, ~for.
against desegregation... /
never was any: aueation.
whether se

resolution

it read ~Segregation
ca} and ufiwise~

~ Colored Split dey
Southern -students. ~days. ago:
had. warned that such wording |
would hopelesly: alienate much};
of the~ South.. The dispute on},
wording split even. the views. of
the colored students..

Tim Jenkins of Howard University led: the ~fight -for the
stronger wording but Anthony
Henry,~ first colored delegate
since integration at the University of Texas, urged:

~They both say that segregation is wrong, The ~phrase ~unethical and unwise~ might misunderstood in areas, where segregation exists. We should keep
the other wording to show our
good faith to those people who
have worked with us so long and
so hard.~

South Is Split
Emory Bundy of the University of Washington supported
him:

~Some say this is a step back.

ward, I strongly disagree: If we
change this wording I think we
are going to have a split.~

So the action of.scolored students.led to support of the milder wording by 218 to: 128. The
rest of the resolution however}
included very strong demahds
such as ~USNSA remains. unfalterably opposed to all forms
of discrimination in education.~
The~*vote of the final résolutions, 300 to 19, even split the
Deep South which cast 20 votes

cet
th Fi

Cache Valued
at $10,000 |

~Cincinnati, Ohio (Special)

The. largest store~ of marijuama ever. seized in the Cincinnati. area was in police hands
Tuesday and so was the alleged
dealer,

Valued at $10,00 when rolled
info cigarets, three one-gallon
jars of the weed were taken in
a reid at 3067 Mathers St, Walnut Hills, Monday night,:

In custody was James L: Ma
| sons.30,~ef that address. Police

said he will be charged under

a state law which provides- a

stiffer penalty than the Federal

statute governing marihuana
ork:

Through his fingerprints he
also ~was identified as ~Hay
~mond Crawford,~ wanted by

| Federal narcotics agents at LexAngton, Ky., police said. His reord also included convictions
for housebreaking and for petit
larceny, they said.

Detectives ~said. Mason, a big
operator; -had been trailed ~for
moniths. It was not until. late
Monday that Federal agents
were able to set up a ~buy~

with marked money.

Interracial Team To Speak

DETROIT, Mich,

An interracial tearh~ of Detroit western will wwelcgalt
the 1957 annual conference*of the National Urban
League to the city Sept. 3.

The theme of the meeting;

will stress the challenge to interracia] teamwork. presented by
problems. of resolving ee current racial crisis.

The welcoming team will include; Roman S. Scruggs, cus.
tomer relations manager for the

Telephone

All afe directly connected
-with the tg orag of the league
in Detroit..~

an eee League, founded
in is an interraci organi.
zation

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thigtatién: of Negried~ into the
City. during World Wer One.

A two-day workshop session;
will be held Sept. 1-2 for
members of the o
mediately preceding the formal
sessions.

~4. ~

formal. séssion, which~ wilt di
to. interracial.

~~

Major speakers at: the ~ Henig

public meeting the. same day
at the Henry Edsel Ford: Auditorium.

Michigan~s bt. Gov. Philip: A.

Hart will address the closing} n

banquet~ Sept. 5 at which. the

the American. Heritage
ition. ce Pg

rect the theme: of the conference:: }

ge

league will receive a citation:

Ser elute editing to ke hems

By LEON

~

spectacularly sucessful ~
~JAZZ~ ~Festival.

WA, ISLAND.~

The evening started with
Disc Jockey, aHrry Porterfield
emceeing the afafir, the first
group to work was the Paul
Daines Dixieland band who
came on the stage playing when

SAINTS COME MARCHING IN,
each group yed about (30)
thirty minut After the. Paul
Daines Group entertained.~ the
crowd bea y. with their
Dixieland Music, the Evans
Bradshaw ~from "FLINT"

with Matt Garrett as guest artist, Matt is a very accomplished

Wins Scholarship

Georgia Tyiska, graduate of
Flint Central ~High School:and

competed localy and won in the
Shrinners:Talent and Beauty
contest several weeks ago here.

student of Flint Junior College,

Last week she. was sent to}
Philudéelphia, Pa. at the ex-|
pensé of. the AEONMS--Shrin.|

ners<where she.was in national)
competition where she placed] |
~reputable and won a $500 schol-_|

JAZZ at.. %
O-5 ib-Wa., Island _

JOHNSON i ~

Since it~s inception ~JAZZ~ has come a long way
from the: fields~ of the south to the speakeasies of Chicago and the house rent parties of: Harlem to the trends
of. todays concerts, festivals, and tours by Progressive
~JAZZ~ Groups. This summer especially it has been
outdoors. ~
New York: had.it~s
the stars, and lastnight the ~VALLEY: JAZZ SOCIETY~ of Saginaw, gave it~s contribution to the ~JAZZ~
world of the past and present with ~JAZZ AT O-JIB

Newport had it~s
~JAZZ~~ under

Musician * ~with ~ ~a MASTERS
DEGREE IN. MUSIC. Matt and
the Bradshaw Trio captured and
held the cfowd- spellbound with
their wonderful~ way of deliv.
ering musiéal sound. Matt did
a wondefful: vocal job on ~MY
FUNNY. ~VALENTINE~. He has
a very = saplont:

phigs

( Bauteoes: ~denators > gitdea
themselves for the finak: as
a

[sault | on the ~watered-down
| civil rights. bill, put stheir

onents. Roped: Ahe ~atEe would wear itself-out

_|and the measure: welt, be
" | passed this week,

~Previously. passed by: ~the hee.
Jegislation~ was. -réturned ~for agreement ona~ ~ COnipro
~| mise jury trial: re

BULLETIN

night jamal 4
mise Civil Ri
*-sent~ it tothe.

~aidcpited aia~ ~passed o ~the
House--of- Representatives, 279.
to 97, date: Tuesday. eco

The bill is destined to. become
the first: new Federal. civil
tights law since Reconstruction
Days, 82 years ago., ~arid~ 4s? be
signed chiefly to. protect. the
voting rights of Negroes. If endows the Attorney General. with

to safeguard such rights.~

151 Republicans ~and 128 Deni.
ocrats voted for ~the ~measure
while it was:-opposed- by 82
Democrats and 15 Republicans.

' Of the Michigan delégation 15
| voted for the bill passage~ while
fone opposed it and two* ~were
not recorded. '

Rep. ~Diggs, one of the three
Negro House members, said the
bill ~does not~go'nearly so far
as needs demanded but it is a
a ifi si tin, ee

President Eisenhower ~ probably: will sign. the bill although
it is far. less potent than: the
measure he had. soanedtet:

~ She is a member of Quinn| |
~Chapel A,~M. E. Church, The
Urban League, Pres. of Public
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