Bronze Reporter [Volume: 4, Issue: 49]

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~the Checker Cab Company, 2128

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VOLUME 4~NUMBER 49

NEW CHAMPIONS ~ TheVehicle City Golf Club held
~its annual club tournament at
Kearsley Lake Golff Covrse
Sunday and Monday, Sept. 1.
and 2nd. The néw champions
are shown receiving congrats
from the club president. J... Set over Mrs. Roman, last

D. Shook (left) and Mrs. Beu-~
lah Romani, tournament directress. They are: Nathaniel! _
Brown and Mrs, Ailene R. Butler. Mrs. Bufler scoréd an up
year's ee

~Howdy and. Coveieit
Rev. Newman~s Last
Sermon Title At Canaan

Last Sunday Rev. T. T. Newman, pastor of Cana anaan: da eupacity. audie! st, ~he

a

_septist
was~ leavi
sermon, ~

~Canaan, He ~

goes with howdy or hello
at the ~heart strings. és

~Iwon~t be sorry.~ the minister
said ~When everybody will be
howdy and there will be no
more farewells after the rough
side of the mountain is climbed.~ He told how he put his
trust in certain people only
to find out that they were his
enemies. He said he wanted to
go somewhere as sit down. ~I~m
just a little tired, he explained.

Women wept cpenly and men
used the handkerchiefs freely.
It was more likt a funeral service. One lady was lead out
of the auditorium by ushers
as she wailed loudly.

~I'm ooking forward to the
day. when. I can sit with Abraham Isaac and Jacob. There
will be no heartaches~no waving. goodbye,~ Rev. Newman
said.

~Help him, Jesus,~

a woman
pleaded tearfully.

cae ae, the subject of his|

ow y an@ Farewell.~ The reaction of. the
nndieniee: was mixed ~as its

leader explained that ~~joy
and saying Farewell tugs

"I bear no ill will against
anyone~ concluded Rev. Newman. Thus Rev. Newman said
~Farewel~. *

The minister, who had pastored Canaan Baptist Church
for the past 10 vear~s, had told
the B. R. that he was moving
to San Bernadino, California
and that he didn~t have a
~church there. Hé said he was
leaving because he: refused to
be pastored by people who did
not know anything about pas
~I'd. walk the streets, before
I would permit it~ he declared.
According to Rev.. Newman he
~was. humiliated at a_ recent
ehurch conference when the
church refused to honor a reguest for: money. He said he
would not pemit the deacon
board to vote on the question
of whether he should go or
stay.

CHECKER CAB CITED

FOR FEPC HEARING

DETROIT, Mich.~In August
and- September of 1956, claims
were filed with the Michigan
Fair Employment Practices
Commission alleging discrimination in employment against

Trumbull, Detroit. The claims
were filed by Herman Jones,
8055 American (filed on Aug.
-14, 1956); Eulice C. Estes, 2313
Finley (Ang. 15, 1956); and, Leon
E. Wafer, Jr., 1281 aBssett (Sept.
20, 1956). -

Jones, Estes and Wafer are
Negroes and.alleged that race

~ was the basis of the Checker +:

Cab Company's denia] of employment as cab drivers. ~
The cases were assigned to

~Sidney. MF
-Shevitz. The allegations con(tained in the claims were the

Commissioner John F. -Finnegan has been designated to act
as Hearing Commissioner and
to make a determination on the
merits of the complaints in keeping with the evidence ee
at the ~hearing. ~

The Commission is bats mindful that this is the first occasion
in its twenty-two month history
that it has scheduled such a pub- |} 1
lic hearing, a step required by
the Michigan FEP Act upon the
| failure.of intermediate procedures. ~

A

Sa

Pastor

The ~appreciation idektt hon. 3

| oring Dr. A, S. MeFarland,; m'n
ister of the Christian Tabernacle:
| Temple ~of Faith and: Love,~ was:
~oldieed'. out: ~Monday nay Sept.

was: Opetied~
eos. L- Hall-with: the.
Lord~s.: ~ ia accompanied~ byt~

the - guest. organist, - Miss Se

Beeks of Detroit. * a
The entire banquet was
sored by~ ~the Christian

host and: hostess, Mrs. D. E.
Ayers, Evangelist B. L.<Hall and
Mr. John Harrison.. <

The affair was started prompts] ~;;
ly at 9: o'clock: with about. 150}

attending: The distinguished
guests sitting with Dr. A. ~&,
McFarland.~ at the guest table
were the Rev. B. P. Price, Rev:
V. Canday, Miss D. Pilggrim,
all of Detroit, and the Rev, and
Mrs. J. Boykins, Rev. and Mrs.
Mayes, Mrs. E. Clark, Mme. W.
M. Cribbs and; Mrs. Henegon,
all of Flint.

The menu corisisted of baked
turkey and dressing, candied
ham, buttered peas and carrots, |~
creamed potatoes, fruit jello,
cake and ice cream, ~~~
rolls and coffee. |

Landlords~
Reminder

Actording to. Fire Marshall E.
Rutherford there are a number
of landlords who are still in violation of the Multiple Housing
Ordinance. {

~The Ordinance requires

4

Prevention Bureau by September 1. Owners of multiple dwelling units are urged to come to
bey Fire Prevention Bureau at
4 E. 4th St. and register imiately; f
- Thé office will be open from
8 to 5.p.m, Monday through
Fridays. Leg

WASHINGTON.~ The U. S.
Army is not going to induct
Gerald Keith Hanson of Fowler
ville, Michigan, after all, Con-|q

oe ert rel aadiage se ia
See ae ba sessins

tied =
nacle Church~ -glong with. the k~

all}
owners of multiple housing |}:
units to. register with the Fire}

~The rang heralded Edsel
made: its debut in Flint Wed-}.
nesday, Sept. 4, at the Gavriloff
Motors, Inc.,..showroom. Despite
the pickett line which was set
up. by the ~Painter~s -Union ~6f
Building and.construction Trades
Council over a dispute, which
~was settled later, the Edsel premiere attracted ~a continous
flow of peope throughout the
' Some comments on the new
Edsel were as follows:

Peter Gavriloff, president of
Gevriloff Motors, Inc., Flint~s
exclusive Edsel dealer, ~I'm very
pleased with the Edse and I'd
like to take this opportunity to
hank ~everyone who attended
jour great premiere of America's
finest. automobile,~

buy. the best of cars. So.
you can~t buy one, you can

rent.a new Edsel from me ~
Bud. ee Ford ponler,

Wee ~,

It is the ~desire of Posttaasted
Edward L, Baker to bring to

increase in Special Delivery fees
bong became ~ effective July 1,
195

the attention of the ~public ~the |

New fees were established f for:
several spécial. Services, but the }..

| Special ~Delivery-ietfers are of |

wah In oe

said, ~It's really a swell cer.~,.Mr. and.Mrs. Aexander Ott,
of 8th St., said ~Our next car
will surely be an Edsel.~.
Jimmy: Jones declared ~Now!
This is the. deal for the
littles dough in the ~world.~

No Insurance

Young veterans who first* entered. service after..April. 25,
1951, and who are now being
discharged, cannot; buy GI life
insurance unless they. have. a
service-connected disability.

Litoyd H. Jameson, manager

of the Ve; ~Administration
regional office in Detroit, said
considerable misunderstanding

exisis on the subject.

Mr. Jameson said veteran leaving service with service-incurred diabiljities ~and.whpd are insurable except for those dis.
abilities may apply ~to VA tor
GI life insurance any time withjn: ~me year after*~VA_ finds
their disables are servicepir nie igh te

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|: Govianar | Calls Gua
To. Arkansas School

LITTLE ROCK, Ak~a~ Fed-! men remained around Central

eral judge - Tuesday night
ordered the Little Rock School
Board to ~proeeed forthwith
with integration~ and Supt.

Virgil Blossom -announced Cen- |

tral High School will be open

|to Negro students Wednesday.

Only a token force of Guards
TArk. Gov. Defies

Federal 0 Order

Tuesday night. Governor Faubus
has said the troops will oe as
long as necessary.:

Several officials of ~tu National Association for the: Advancement of Colored People
were in the Federal courtroom
Tuesday night. Local segregation leaders, who had appeared
last week in the. courtroom
when Davies first,ordered integration to. pro~eed, apparéntly
ignored Tuesday night's hearing.

The whites: once. surrounded,{L. C. Bates, a Negro publisher

this| Who appeared outside the school

Se oe school in
~2,000 Rock, Arkansas.

The - ~local: school~ board. had
ordered, a grddual integration
plan beginning with the September semester: They said they
~felt the Governor~s action was
to block. the Negro students admission,. *.,

They told ~ ~the children to

~stay away-from school and attend. their colored~ schools.~

Gov, Faubus in a state-wide

rer said he arrived
at the decision to have 100
armed ~ National Guardsmen
surround the school and maintain ~operation as in the past.~

The troops were armed with
carbines and sldearms, an armed
tank and. were placed before
she five-story school. Floodlights
were placed about the neighborhood,..~

The Governor's action is in

direct conflict ~a recent
order issued by U. S: District
Judge Ronald ~Davis who
ordered that integration: must
~proceed and. issued an injunction forbidding any and all
persons from paberigr ing with
peaceful. integration,

Faubus Said in his spcedh that
his action was to preserve peace
and >order, He also mentioned
that Negroes had begun to purchase gurtis and~ knives in an
~alarming. number.~ He also
said mene? sf youths had been
formed, --

There ate about 200 Negro
students eligible to register at
the ~high school, but nine were

Py just ~adding a little elon?

~In North Little~ Rock,, a city
of about 50,000 across the Arkansas River, ~the School Board
announced Tuesday it.was postponing: scheduled. high ~school
integration: indefinitely.

Board President Byron = R.
Bogard said, the situation in
Little Rock will, be watched
closely. Schools open next.Monday in North Little Rock.

Cites Pastor's
Record In Flint.

The Will Brown family ex
| tends a vote of thanks to Bishop

Joseph Gomez for sending Rev.
Lewis L. Lawrence back to Flint
for at least another year. Rev.
Lawrence is. pastor of. Vernon

Chapel AME Church, located. on

North St..at Addison,,

In a joint statement, Mr. id
Mrs. Will Brown and ~daughter,
Gwendolyn, cited Rev. Lawrence~s building record with
Vernon Chapel.

~While located on. St, John
St. all ~of the indebtedness

against Vernon Chapel.was paid
off under Rev, Lawrence~s. leadership:.Again\ on Addison ~St.
Rev. Lawrence left for the conference with all bills: paid up
to date and with over nds _ in
the bank,

~He is a man with the 6 ability

a ft Cae Dy EE Re

to build.~?

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