Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 37]

VOLUME 5~NUMBER 25

~FLINT, MICENGA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1958

~ RECEIVED
ALE 2

GM Sees Larger New

Car Sales In Future

FLINT, MICHIGAN ~ A re-' economy~ because. so many.
newed ~surge of American pros-| other industries are de
perity, with domestic new pas-| upon~ the auto industry. ~Emsenger car sales reaching ap-| ployment will increase and
proximately 5,500,000 in 1959} unemployment will decrease,~
and 8,000,000 annually by 1965,| he predicted,

was forecast Saturday, August).
Recalls Workers

15th, by President Harlow H.
Curtice of General Motors.\
DETROIT ~ Chrysler Corporation will begin recalling approximately 42,000 employees Mon-:
day, for production of its 1959 -model cars and trucks. All automobile and truck operations are
scheduled to reach full production by mid-September.

Of the total employees to be
recalled, 31,000 are in the Detroit area where Chrysler Corporation is the largest single employer.

A majority of the company~s
emiployees have continued - to
work during the model changeover, a period of about three
weeks in most of the company~s
plants.

~I anticipate a marked increase in the level of automobile

production with the start of the
' 1959 model year,~ Mr. Curtice
told 2000 Michigan civic and busirness leaders at a ~Salute to
GM~ luncheon in the Industrial
Mutual Association Auditorium
here. The luncheon was a_ feature of a spectacular celebration,
by this city where. General Motors was born, of the auto firm~s
50th or ~Golden Milestone~ anniversary this year. ee

Mr, Curtice - said that increased automobile: production
should ~set off a chain reaction throughout the whole

Vote 6-1 In Favor Of;

Faubus Says ~Never~

ST. LOUIS~Voting 6 to 1 for the U.S. Federal Court
of Appeals upheld Monday the U.S. Supreme Court ruling
vn integration. The court ruling upset an earlier opinion by
local Federal Judge Harry J. Lemly of Hope, Arkansas,
which had suspended integration at the Central High School
until 1961.

The important decision came; ~~
before the Sept. 2 opening of} schools and moved the case back
Little Rock schools. Only 90 year) to its status of last fall, when
Gardner of Huron, S. D. object-|pade Faubus to use National
ed.; peals against integration and for
Judge Marion C. Matthes, of /Guardsmen to enforce segregaSt. Louis, wrote the majority | tion.
opinion. The decision does not neces
He said the issue boils down sarily open the way for Negro
_ to whether public resistance, in-| children to re-enter Central High
cluding mob violence, constitu- this fall.
tes sufficient cause ~to nullify |
an ~order or the~ ~Federal Court
directing thé School -board to

ed. with its integration.

the ~school when ~it ~redépens?

ment in Washington fears mob
violence like that which developed-last year.. Washington could come inté
the case as a friend of the court
~as it did last year~and move
to enjoin trouble-makers.

But Eisenhower Administration
has taken -the position that it
should not push, integration in
any way.

President Eisenhower said repeatedly last year that; he sent
troops to Little Rock not to enforce integration but to uphold
the Federal courts.

TO FIGHT

In his successful campaign for
renomination last month, Faubus promised to fight the Gov-; ernment ~every inch of the way.~

And he said: ~I have taken
my position to protect the people of Arkansas. From this position | shall not yield.~

He said time and again that
he will use the troops again to
prevent integration.if he thinks:
1 it) necessary.

The voters of Arkansas approved his stand last month by
returning him to office~ with
the biggest majority~ a gubernatorial candidate has ever received there.

Arkansas~ Democratic senators
called Monday~s ruling a tragic
and unhappy one.

plan,~

~We say the time has not yet
come in these United States when
an order of a Federal court must
be whittled away, watered down
or shamefully withdrawn in the
face of violent and unlawful acts. of individual citizens,~ Judge
Matthes wrote.

Judge Matthes held that trovuble at the school ~might have
been stopped had leaders of
white trouble makers been dealt
with more severely.

In Little Rock, Virgil- Blossom,
Superintendent of Schools, called the appellate court~s ruling a
disappointment.

The Appeal Court ruling containe dno order of resuption
of racial integration in Little
Rock.

It merely affairmed the previous order ef the Supreme Court
for racial integration. of the

Flint NAACP

Answers Charges
Of Opponents

FLINT ~ At~ the membership |
meeting of the NAACP Sunday,
August. 17, an _attempt failed

If Negro children are back ip |~
twa-weeks, the Justice Depart |~

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een

ing, August 15, as the city fathers were dedicataing Flint~s
new municipal buildings, another.dedication ~was
place further up Saginaw Street.

A group of young men, many
of them: from. Junior~ Collége,
others from all walks of life
were attempting to dedicate the
Smith-Bridgman Company to
the principle of equal job opportunities for all people. The
group marched in -front of
Smith -Bridgman~s with signs

hiring policy.

were in cars circling the block

ee.

in case they were needed.

Ina etegratn to the Flint Branch of the NAACP Aug.
18th Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary wrote:

~Democratic policy committee of Senate has approved
for floor action several bills favored by southern Democratic senators: designed to curb U. S. Supreme Court. Effort
to jam these bills through in last week of session is desperate move by Dixiecrats to cut Negro citizens off from
protection of Supreme Court, thus leaving them to mercy
of southern state justice. You have had a demonstration
of that justice in recent weeks in Water Valley, Mississippi:
Dawson, Georgia, and Marion, Alabama. One bill would
deny habeas corpus protectiorr of prisoners. Another would
allow local police to hold a prisoner for lengthy period to
secure. statement. Others wuuld deny certain appeals to

of Negro citizens first to the two senators from your state
by wire to them today. Second to your democratic county
and state chairmen. Please inform Democratic party offi
icials that this action by congress controlled by Democrats

will be view as hostile act py Negro citizens over entire
nation. Direct your protest generally to all bills which have

effect of curbing Supreme Court. Please act at once as Sen
ate takes up bills today or tomorrow.~

-*

The Flint branch urges you to contact Senators

Mcnamara and Potter: about this.

to. deprive Herman * Gibson, | >
president, of his office. Charges had been drawn up accusing
him of being an ~~obstruction
White House Mum:

ist.~, The--matter arose when Gibson opposed taking the Jenkins
police ~brutality case before the
City ~Commission August: 10.
Gibson stated that- his ~reasons,~
were: 1) Mr. Jenkins. is repre~
sented by an attorney and his
attorney had not been:consult-;
ed. 2) The membership had voted to get more information neg
fore taking action.

Leaders of theh ouster
move were Max Dean, Edgar
Holt and Nat Turner.

* WASHINGTON with tension
mounting in the South as the
new school term approaches, Pres.

The presence of Attorney Ed- Eisenhower indicated at his news
ward Turner, State president, at}conference last Wednesday that
the meeting apparently had aj|he has no plans to cope with

whatever serious situations might
arise,
alk reporter prefaced his ques
stabilizing effect and the charges, though drawn up and ener
ed, were not presented. atin

Eisenhower Has ~

1 cordance |Tcitizen in this country, and that,;

adding:

~Now, I have consistently tried
ever * five and a half years to
show: that any belief~that more
iaw will | gat solve the prob
lem.
IEED WISDOM
~IT believe we have got. to. look

fore the schools start, why, I
certainly shouiicet hesitate to ds
a~

HADN'T ~HEARD |
Later, the President was asked:

~Some time ago, sir, Represen
inside ourselves, and this means j tative Broyhill of Virginia -su

not ape! as~ individuals, this | gested a meeting: Nebwreehe You
sand horities, state author! and Governor Almond of Virginia
es and fed an concerning the schoehol integra
tion crisis in nearby Arlington.

~Have you any plans for such
a meeting, or do you think it
would be worthwhile?~
of civic duty in ac-|.. President Eisenhower: ~Well,

with t he principles there is ne time~that I have
ve been laid out for a} heard ea advanced~ until this

~How.
this
one and I
m

we going ~ to solve
em?.It is a_ difficult
I keep preaching that
be some wisdom,

some
which ha
1 think, we must, eontinue to do.

~I just say it is something all
e to work, and I would,

~supreme court. Please protest this blackjacking of rights |~

(~pe given the name of a foreign.

~block, will preside ove rhis ~ci
part of the original citizens pro
se a sare see
hour hey ~were. Renee aoe in ~their
efforts, not by store officials,
who were highly embarrassed)
that this~:was taking place during the Golden Milestone Day;
not by city ~police. who. were
on hand in large:~numbers for

Downtown Shoppers~
Fair Planned For Flint

That is the theme of an all-, The first day, September 8, has
out merchandising promotion to| been~ designated ~Dedication
be held in downtown Flint for Day~. Saturday, September 13,
a three-week period froni Sep-| has been named ~Freedom.,Bell
tember 8 to 27. Day~; Wednesday,, September

The campaign will be gear- ke will be ~Good Neighbor
ed to an all-out tie-in with | Day~; and Thursday, Septemthe World~s Fair now going | ber 25, will be ~International
on in. Brussels. Dollar Day~.

-There will - be~ ribhion-cutting Merchants will offer daily
ceremonies, with civie officials; awards: to shoppers with two
taking part, on Saginaw Strect.| grand prizes to be awarded on
The street will be blocked cff; September 27. They will be an
to traffic the first day. A car-|all-expense trip fo rtw~ to Ber
FLINT ~ Last Saturday MOrn-,

taking =

condemning the store~s racial}

A second wave of protesters |.

These~ picketers, led by Mar-}
shall Burns, McPhail Street, are}:

~test group that ney ae

Bees Hy

' ~ | meetings: ~

nival atmosphere will prevail | muda and an all-expense week:
with informal parades, music, a end in New York for two.

| eS sighs

This, group. of ' typi: bucks~
was turned~: away ~by. Herman
Hamilton, léeaderof the original
protest ~group. They were told,
~Go home,~ get off the streets,

everything is settled. ~ A scuffle~ ensued,:

When~ asked why they decided to picket. again, Burns stated, ~We: are tired of,this wishywashy stuff and~ these secret
The. boys want = ac
PRICE: SINGLE COPY, 10 CENTS; PER YEAR, #4.50 ~

tion. This ~whole: business ~had -

better. be out~ in the open in.two weeks or we will be back,~

Burns continued. ~I am. with
Hamilton~ 100~ per cent, but~ I
don~t like secrecy.~ ~He said
they were dissasisfied with the
lack of progress in the ~
matter.

~There are lots of trained,
qualified people in Flint right
now able to hold any of those
jobs, but you don~t find. them
in the~ schools: They are in the

shops because they haven~t been _

able to work at their trade,~
Burns _Aeclared.

tivities, The downtown stores
will open for business on the |
first day only at 10 a.m.
~New car dealers will take
part in the opening day festivities by displaying new models
along Saginaw Street,
Throughout the | promotion
Saginaw Street. will be decorated. with flags and bunting to
create the World~s Fair atmosPhere. Each of,the blocks along
the. main usiness section ~will

moppet midway, and |other ac
DETROIT. _ Federal Judge
Theodore R. Levin dismissed a
$7,,000 school: bias suit against
the Pontiac ~Board of Education
this*weeke

The suit filed in Senteniber,
1955 by Mrs. Marilyn Ann Henry
Lon behalf of her 8 year old daugh- |
ter Shanon, asked for damages
6 $1,000 from éach of the school
board membérs. In the suit, filed by Atty. Milton~ R. Henry,
charged segregation in the transfer of his daughter from the
-|Crofoot School, all-white, to the
newly built Bethune School which
is mainly attended by Negroes.

The Board gave reason. for the
transfer of Shanon, declaring that
~he new school was nearer to
~he Henry home.

* In his ruling, Federal Judge
zaid..." The school board has
duty to prived. educational -fac
capital city. A mayor, ~named
from among merchants on each

ty.~. ~

Four aE days wil highlight the extended promotion.

Virginia Legion
Maintains Bias

ROANOKE, Va.
olutions aimed at

~ Two res~ending the

color liné in the Virginia department of the American Legion were rejected last week at
the 40th annual convention of
the organization,

One resolution contained a
request that Negro children

~ard to: their color. -
~CARRYING OUT DUTY~:
~If it builds schools in areas

where need exists, without ar
~| bitrarily fixing attendance are:

to exclude afiy given segme:

of ~the~ school ol. population, it if

carrying out that rea

-.The fact that in
area a_ school -is
most exclusively by the-:
dren of a ~given race isnot.

a given

| ~The choice. of 2a school
}sesed~on density of

> Dismisses

Pontiac Bias Suit

svh as distance, accessibility,
ease of transportation and other

safety considerations is a per-.

missible exercise. of administrative discretion...
~NO CIRCUMVENTION~
~The selection off *the Lake
Street School.site was based

hupon these factors and the stand
ards observed were not adopted
<e ~a device to circumvent the

w. ~

Levin added that ~utter chaos~
would prevail if each child were
permitted to. choose the school
he desires to attend and the
plaintiff has no constitutionally
guaranteed right,fo attend a

public school ~outside her area.
Atty. Henry, who is also a

Pontiac City Commissioner related that he will file an ap
~ities to all children without re- i

itself evidence of discrimination.