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Two Local Teachers Win!

Urban League Awards
The Urban League presented its Citizen~s Merit Award.
for 197 to Miss Dorah A. Young, retiring principal of Clark |

Elementary School,

and Mrs. Marion Coates: Williams, |
teacher at Parkland Blementary School.

The awards were made at the
League~s 15th annual meeting
held June 19, at the Health Audi-. toriumy of Flint Municipal Cen
ter. George D. Stevens, president
of the agency, made the presentation.

The Flint Urban League is a
Red Feather Agency engaged in
the field of race relations.

Miss Young~s Citation was presented ~For exceptional contributions to the cause of building
better race relations in Flint
through her exceptional administration as principal of Clark
Elementary School.

The League presented | its ~citation to Mrs. Williams ~For her
exemplary~ role as ~Ambassador
Extraordinaire~ in our public
school system.

~Mrs. Williams was the first

News

In Brief...

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John Howard of 1107 Fairbanks
reported to police that he: had
a@ man named Mason who lives at

ice. ~When he

Howard checked repair:shops and

found his T.V. set at another

Radio and Repair Shop. o
e & &.

Walter Collins, 38 of 739 Tilden came home a little before
3 p.m. with his brother James
Collins who lives on Dakato St.
Walter put his key in th front

~door to unlock it and found it

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proached by two men. One man
~-said he was~from out of town

around in a strange town. Car
open. As he. walked into the kitchen, his wife threw a pan of
lye in his face. He was rushed
to Hurley by ambulance. He was
treated for severe facial burns,
eye burns, burn on left forehead
and side of head and neck.
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Mrs.~Roy Donaldson ~of 214 E.
8th Street observed two boys
looking over her home. Sometime later between 4:15 p.m. and
9 p.m., someone gained entry
through the west side door and
stole an Emerson Console _ T.V.;
Bolt action Rifle, Bedspread,
black and white woman~s full
length coat, a man~s three quarter
length coat and a fifty feet garden hose and sprinkler..

Armstead Rhodes of 1146 Maple also reported to police someone broke into his home between
~ a.m. and 5 p.m. by removing.a south side bedroom ~window. |

Taken were 196 long playing records valued-at $800.

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James. Carswell, 46 of 1013

Wager reports that as he ~was} >

leaving the bank at Wager and
~N. ~Saginaw Streets he. was ap

and wanted to find a certain addFess ~ and.at this time showed
y Carswell a bundle of money and
asked him to keep it as he did
not want to carry a lot of money

swell had to be coaxed to tet
the money, but the man wan
~him to show. good faith and_put

~his money in with the other

Pe is

733Carton Street pick up 1 his T. Vv,

2 Gontadted: Mason, he was told}!
that he-didn~t have his T.V. set.

repre ianctieyed in-:the Flint
Public School System as a classroom teacher. She began her
teaching duties at Fairview and
continues them now at Parkland
Elementary School. Since 1945

butions to better race relations
through this profession.

Charles Brown

Charles H. (Chuck) Brown, 42,
of 116 E. Moore St., has announced his candidacy for re-election to a second term.as Commissioner of the First Ward.

Brown, an electrician at

Buick, has been living in Flint
since 1922 and in the First
Ward for the past 3 years. He
is a graduate of Northegn High
School and the Chevrole~ Trade
School and also attended General Motors Institute.

In the statement announcing
~his. candidacy, Brown referred to
the fact that, at the Capital Improvement Bond Election held
fast April 8, First Ward projects

ds Sci~ | ~and storm
sewers and street widenings.
~I would like to serve another
term,~ Brown said, ~if for no.
other reason than to see the
completion ~of these improvements which were proposed and
approved during my first term, on
the City Commission.~

Brown has served as a member
of the City Commission Finance
Committee~ where, -he said: ~I
have gotten an insight into the
many complicated financial problems of a growing city the size
of Flint and, therefore, feel that
my experience. better qualifies
me to represent both my people
in the First Ward and all of the
citizens-of Flint.~

Brown is a member of the
Holy Society of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a past president, of
the St. Vincent DePaul Society
and a member of the NAACP.

He is past president of the
Flint Aquariest Club and former
chairman of the Dewey School
PTA finance committee and of
the troop committee of Boy Scout
Troop 18. He is a member of
Buick Local 99, UAW-CIO.

ROBERT O. MIDGETT is ~the
first Negro that Michigan has
sent. to Summer Session Credit
Union School, Madison Wisepnsin.

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Ss. Side Woman Hurt

'|In Automobile Accident

Bernardine Barksdale of 2045

Aitkens, was injured. Thursday

evening about 6:45 P.M.- In _
two car collision. Mrs. Barksdale!
who was driving a 1955 Buick
was hit by<a 1955 Ford driven
by. LeRoy Randall, 20, of 812
Kimball. Riding with Kimball
was ~Alfonso. White, who was

en to ~Hurley Hospital.
St eee

she has made exceptional contri
Seeks Re-Election

_| chiefly through unbridled police

~ler organization representatives.
~| throughly tape recorded interviews

~.\] made under assurance of secrecy}
~j}and contained in our files. Gen-|.

William: x Levit; nla juve a
preview of six model homes to
twenty-seven bankers who have
promised to make available
$200,000,000 in mortgage money
to buyers, said that Negroes
would be excluded trom buying
homes in the 15,000 home community.

Also Excluded

In the Levittown, L. I. project
where Mr. Levitt began construc
tion of 17,447 homes in 1947,

A New Jersey law which bars

discrimination on the basis of |. }

color or creed in the sale of.
homes does not apply in the case
of ~Levittown No. 3, Mr... Levitt.
insisted today. Mr. Levitt said:
enforceable as far as we are concerned. Our policy is unchanged.
I understand there is a test case
involving another builder. We are

~It is neither eee nor
coating: pat.~

Federal

NAACP |

NEW YORK~The: new. Civil Rights: Goineniesioh and

the United States Attorney General have heen called upon
to intervene in the ~continuing state of terror and intimida
located.

tion~ in Dawson,~ Ga., and Terrell County in which it is

In telegrams, dispatched:-today to Gordon: Tiffany, | ex
ecutive director of the Commission; and to Attorney Gen
eral William P. Rogers, Roy Wilkins, executive secrétary

the county. 4

Newspaper reports ot terror
and intimidation imposed upon
Negro citizens of Dawson, Ga.,

brutality, indicate also that Federal Bureau of Investigation has~
conducted investigation into this
matter. Newspaper. reports. confirm findings by NAACP and oth
vine danger exists of extension.
of terror~ and reprisals to other
Negroes regarded as holding}
views unacceptable to the locas
authorities.

Negroes are being shot, terrorized and intimidated by local
officials solely because. of their
race and to prevent their free}
exercise-of their federally secur-|

| sgainst those persons.

NAACP; the newspapers.

of other organizations inidicatele
that the situation is one in which},
action. by your department is
warranted. We trust that your)
~departments investigation will),
point up necessity of federal in-|.

tervention and that action will}

be commenced without undue de
lay. against those. Persons

ee tet reign of lawcrcl sept pass

ed rights. The reports of thes

of the National Association for the Advancement. of Colored People, urged immediate action by the federal government to forestall. further terrorization of: eae citizens i iny

~Mr. Wilkins recognized. that
the FBI. had entered the case
and expressed the hope that its
~investigation will: point up the
Hiecessity of federal intervention
and that action will be commenced without, ~undue delay
~responsible
for this reign of lawlessness in
Dawson.~

The text of Mr. Wilkins~ telegram to the Attorney General
follows:

a eontinuing state of terror and

ov epsom Tape recorded
statements by, Negro residents
1 of Dawson, made im secrecy amply

ied both

X-Ray Summer =. June 23, Papp~s Drugs, 1 to 5|

six Mr. Parole here wil be

es. frou:

apect a mate of 6 anc ji
tion will: not win approval.

Call FHA Violation
Morris: Milgram, president of
Modern Conimunity Developers, |
Inc.,.a national
formed to lend: money and fur
~1 nish: guidance to- builders of in
tegrated. housing, said that Mr,
Levitt~s: policy of Negro eéxclusion was in violation of F. H. A.
regulations.

He said:

~It~s shocking in ~view of both
the -domestic and international
situations that a builder in a

Northern community would publicly.state such*a policy in such
direct~ violation of human rights,
state law and F...H. A. regulations.

~He. has cane the 1oca! govern
~ment authorities and the F. H. A.

as his partners in this. un-/.merican type of housing. The schools
for which he plans to charge his
home. buyers will not be integrated American schools cither. '
* Other protests of Mr. Levitt~s
Negro-exclusion plan were Vc~ced
by Roy Wilkins, executive secretary ~of the National Associat'on
for the Advancement of Cclored
People,,and by the Naticnal Com
eil.

$t Million Offer

Sugar Ray.Robinson, middleweight champion, said yesterday
he had~ heen -offered a million
dollars to~ fight. Floyd Patterson
forthe heavyweight title and ~I
am ~definitely interested.~
--Robinson ~said the offer came~

Los Angeles television ~man. ~
~Boxing is. my business and it
looks like, business is good,~ said
Robinson who added he'll fly to
Los Angeles Sunday to talk with

~| Weintraub.

Weintraub, who would-~ stage

| the dight in~ the Los Augeles

Coliseum in September, told Sugar Ray the same offer had been
sent to Patterson.

ies X-rays:

Free Christmasule:

p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.

organization |

munity Relations mula Coun- ~

Robinson Reveals }

in a telegram from-Cy Weintraub,

As the three girls walked down
the school hall way, one of them
iecidentally dropped her pop
m it, squashing it completely.
Just then, Mr. Morgan, one
f ~the teachers, came out and
wdered-her to pick it up. There
vas -nothing left. that could be
vicked~ up,. and~ the girls ran.
forgan caught the sister of the
~irl who dropped the popsicle
ind _.demanded her. name. The
jirl states that she was frighten.
d and~ didn~t answer. The teach- |
w'then is reported to have twist~d her arti~ behind: her back and
shoved her up the stairs, As
she struggled to get away, Mr.
stuber, another teacher, grabced. her by the seat of her slacks
and pushed her. up the stairs.
She was taken. to the principal~s office where she again ~refused to give her name. The teachers called detectives. Another
student came into the office and
identified. the girl. The girl~s brother, who attends Central, heard
of the ~incident. and came in to
see what:was the trouble.
On seeing her brother, ts girl.

It was the last day of school. A laueontontala girl
ind ~her sister accompanied their cousin: to ~Whittier upniae
High School to get the cousin~s report oa

~icle and a boy going By stepped:

ewaiito scenic tb him ins What: ed
happened...

Mr. Slocum, another: teacher,
is reported ' to have said, ~what.

mouth. to keep her quiet.~ She
~was refused, permission to,,call
her father. |;

- Detectives ~jin plaih clothes put
her.in an. ~tmmarked car and
took~ her. to the Juvenile:Divi-:
sion at Police ~Headquarters. The
childy states that one -of the detectives used. a. profane word to

door.
The Detective deniés. this.

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tioned, fingérprinted and booked
on charges of ~ loitering | in--a

the Juvenile Home.

Meanwhile the child~s mother
upon hearing of the incident went
to. the Juvenile ~Home: and her
daughter was released-to~her. ~.

When the mother called the
school to/find out why they had
not called her in ~the first: place,

given, Agiaza sad -to ee mother.

an~ phe Fog but ~the space in

HAMILTON ~VINDICATED *
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
' ~DISAPPOINTING

Pou: delegates ~and' four alternates were elected at.the June
1 5meeting~ of the NAACP to

in Cleveland, July 8 to 13.,Delegates are Earl Crompton, Miss
Emma Chilton, Herman Hamiltqn
Nathaniel Turner.

Herman Hamilton, ~Legal Red:
ress Chairman. who last week
tendered his'résignation on charges of Uncle Tomism within~ the:
Executive Board, was completely
vindicated at the general membership meeting. His resignation
was rejected and ~poor-hamp~
agreed to continue. ay)
Commenting on. Hamilton's
article in the B.R. last week,
Earl Crompton UAW-CIO repre
attend the-National Convention,

~sentative ~said? ~~Hamilton was
referring to~ me when he said
~some are on the payroll of organized labor until 1! reach re -
tirement, ~namely UAW-CIO.~

_ The results of the membership
drive just completed. fell far

~short of. the 3,500 announced by

Edlebert Rodgers, drive chairman.

~The drive was extended from
May 15 to June 15. At the meeting Sunday, June 15, the num
ber added~ to the.branch was far.

short. of the ~goal set.
~The ect Board appro
priated $125.00 to drive chair- eA

man, Eldebert. Rodgers to promote a ki~k-off program April

119. At this program 22 member
ships~ were taken in. In other
words it cost the Branch $125.00
to collect 22~ memberships.

June 24) Leith & St. John, 9) 7
yj 00, 32. a.m and 1-t0, 5 p.m. '

- June 25, 10 to 1. pm. and 2 to!
6pm |

gl belated }t

her ~.as * ~they~ were entering the f
At headquarters she was ~ques- |

school; She was then -takén to

she needs is 4 good slap in the

no satisfactory: ~explanation, was ~*~

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