Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 38]

VOLUME 5~NUMBER 8

38

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On Monday, August 25, the
City Commission approved a 5
per cent increase in wages to all
city employees from existing
available funds.

Four appointed officers, City
Manager, Harold Chergwin; City
Clerk, Harry Cull; Director of
Finance, Olney Kraft and City
Attorney, William Kane bitterly
opposed the increase,, but when
the first reading was made, they

Flint
NEWS in BRIEF

~MAN ARRESTED ON
CHARGES OF BOOTLEGGING

FLINT ~ Flint and Federal
police arrested George Flowers,
35, of. 817 E. Dartmouth on a
charge of bootlegging.

Thirty- eight pints of moonshine liquor was _ confiscated
at Flowers home by po~lice at
the time he wes arrested.

Flowers was taken to Bay
City following his arrest to
await arraignment in ~Federal
Court.

A numbe rof currently. dated
numbers slips were also found
in Flowgey~ home. =
WOMAN BEATEN BY
STR: HUSBAND

2 Watkins of 1528 Oregon
reported to. pglice that;
a.m,

the -

went in he hit her with his
fists. She ran into the kitchen
and he followed her and _~= hit
her with a tea kettle and knocked her to the. floor. He continued to beat her for several
minutes.

She was taken to Hurley for.
treatment.:
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ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION |

OF GAMBLING EQUIPMENT

While in the 700 block of

Edmund Street, police found

Joseph B. Frazier, 48, 717 Ed
mund has in his_ possession,

three current-dated numbers
~ slips. He was arrested for possessing gambling equipment.

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At approximately 6:15 a.m.
August 27, police observed a
man in a black Buick sedan in
Buckham Alley. Upon checking,
they found him to be Jack
Jones, 45, no address, going
through a purse, At this time he
was attempting to take a silver
dollar off a key ring. He: admitted it wasn~t his property
and stated he had been sleeping the car. He was takeh to
the police station and questioned by Detective H. Neumann
- and ordered booked on_ suspi- cion of larceny from an automobile.

Local City Employees
Get Wage Increase

bedroom and when ~she |

included themselves.

The City Manager receives
$16,000 yearly with an increase
of $800; City Clerk, $9,000 yearly
with $450 increase; Director of
Finance and City Attorney
$12,000 yearly with a $600 increase.

Commissioners Carl Delling of |*

the Third Ward and Charles
Brown of the First Ward said,

~they may have included them-}

selves in the first reading, but
you can bet their names will be
stricken from the second reading.~

They feel it ts unfair that the
men who picketed will only receive $210 to $250 increase while
the ones who protested will receive from two to three times
that much.

~Free~ Chest
X-Ray Schedule

Tuberculosis. is everybody~s
business. It is spread by persons
who have active TB. Be sure you
and your loved ones are safe ~
have a chest X-ray and urge your
family and friends to get one
today. ~FREE~ chest X-rays, are

| being taken for your convenience

by the:Genesee County Tuberculosis Association ae | unit. Stop
in, check youf chest. /

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Sears~Fifth and pte
August 26, 1958 ~ ~Tuesday ~_
Hours ~ 9~ to 12 am. and fr to
5 p.m.

Aargist 27,.1958 ~ ~Wednesday

si Hours ~ 9 to. 12 a.m. and 1 to

5 p.m..
Ae 28; 1958 ~ Thursday ~
Hours ~ 1 to 5 p.m. and 7 to
9 p.m.

Race Riot
Disrupts |
England

Whites and Jamaicans fought a
bloody, 90-minute battle in Central England.

Knives, razors, hatchiets and:
clubs were used in the fighting \
between British and West.In-_
dian immigrants..More than ~
200 persons took part.

Eight Englishmen, including

a policeman run down by a car,
were hospitalized. Dozens of other men and women were injured.

Eighty policemen with dogs
and firemen with hoses rushed
in to quell the rioting as mass
lynchings were threatened. Several hours:passed before order
was fully a

Marian Anderson~
~Thrilled~ Over U.N.

Post; Cancels Concerts

WASHINGTON ~ Miss Marian
Anderson. lest it be known last
week that she was ~thrilled~
ever her nomination by President
Eisenhower to the United Nations.
__She told-a reported that she
had some concerts scheduled but
the manager, Sol Hurok, would
make disposition of them. The
singer declined to comment on
the current Midast situation but
said:she found the security council meeting A-télevision. very informative, She expects to ~be, told a lot of things~ before she

Democratic and Republican Presidents at the White House. The
most recent visit was in 1955
when Haitian President and Mme.
Paul E. Maglorie were entertained by President Eisenhower.

Miss -Anderson has been acclaimed throughout the world, including Russia~ where she has
appeared twice. She lives in an
L-shape, one-story house designed
by. her architect-husband; Orpheus Fisher, whom she married
in 1943. ~

The house is located on a small
truck farm, surronded by a little

-anne~, the Fishers grow vege
tables. And she sometimes likes

to cook. She tries out recipes/
+which she has picked up in her

travels. Sometimes they turn out
well and sometimes they do not,

i- | she said, -

Wit: die Ghux: up de Sen

Settee thy, Neate fd sen earee A,

whom ~she~ met in travels around

the world.

will be |:

is shown with Lt. Governor Phil

BS, Seems nominees

", Mich. Mayor ~Stanley J. ~Davis, left,
State Senator, and Tom.H. Quimby,

Democratic National Committeeman, as the, Degas contention got under way at the Pantland

Hotel, Grand. Rapids.

St. Louis.

réssional Bectrict | in primary election, defeating
opponent, Morton L. Schwartz, by an amazir.g~ margin..
Lenor K.| Sullivan, Democratic representative -in the dis- |
trict, easily defeated her only primary opponent.

RACIAL CONSCIENCE
AROUSED |
Mr. Thomas~ success in the
primary, assures some most unusual projection into the consciousness of St. Louis, the state and
most important into the consciousness of the Negroes.

A man of /color~a Negro~has
been nominated by members of
a major political party for a seat
in the U.S. Congress.

Attention is focused on Thomas
because of a kind of symbolism
he represents.

A native of Camden, Ark., Thomas was graduated from Philander Smita coliege witt, a bachelor
of arts degree. He is a former
member of! the. Missouri State
Legislature past grand chancellor
of the Grand Lodge, Knights of
Phythias of Missouri, and an accomplished |statesmen,. said to be
eminently qualified for the. of
1 fice he seeks,

LAST 30 YEARS AGO

Atty. Joseph L. McLemore was
the Democratic party~s nominee
for Congfess in the Twelfth (St.
Louis district) first if his race

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RACE YOUTH
|~SIT-DOWN~
Loo)

OKLAHOMA~Seventeen white
churches in Oklahoma City welcomed members of a Negro youth
organization at morning services
Sunday. But the pastor of an
other church asked two the
youngsters to leave, telling them:

~God did not intend for Ne- |
groes and whites to worship
together.~

Groups of the youngsters began a series of ~sit-down~ protests at downtown lunch counters. They were served finally
at Katz Drug Store, their first
target, on) Thursday and were
served at the Kress Variety Store
Friday.

| That was 30 years ago:

pee~
ation ~

~his white

to be on the Democratic ticket.

Now, comes Mr. Thomas, in a

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The next November election

/will-determine to what extent the

Third Congressional district vot
~ers rallied for-the political. and

civic aspirations of the Negroes.

Call Supreme Court To
Special Session; Ark.

Acts On Bias Bills

Special ~ School opening has. been gs ard by the

Little Rock School Board from September 2

ber 8th. In a surprise move,

to Septemthe Little Rock school board

postponed an immediate school crisis until after the Supreme Court has meet and rendered a decision.

Board president Wayne Upton stated... ~it is hoped that
this action on our part will remove the pressure of shortage |
of time for both the Supreme
Court of the United States and |
the Ark. Legislature.~ |

The Supreme Court had been
called into a rare off-season session by Chief Justice Earl Warren to review an appeal in the
Central High School integration
dispute here. The immediate
question before the court is
whether to allow 6r.forbid.a de:
lay in desegregation. a

~Gov. Orval Faubus called
the Legislature into an extraordinary session to act on three

B-U-L-L-E-T-I-N

-In a report submitted to
the Special Session.of the
United States Supreme
Court, the Justice Department recommended the
complete integration of
Little Rock~s Central High
School.

ment at Hall High School, a new
school.

A number of other Negro students will try to enroll in Central.and Hall.: % * j
In Norfolk, Federal District
Judge Walter E. Hoffman told
the School Board to reconsider

segregation bills.

~It will be impossible for us to
have a decision in these matters
in time for everyene to thoroughly understand them and'still open
school at the regular time, wept
y yg Upton said.

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School Supt. Virgil deledees |
confirmed that Negro students
now are trying to integrate a.
second Little Reck high school.

Dr. William J. Massie, a Heats
physician, and. a man*% named
Johnson tried to-enroll their sons
in Central High Monday: A Ne- |
gro woman tried to get her
daughter approved for enroll
President
1, |Clined te become

thé rejected applications of 151
Negroes who asked for admission. to white schools. He ordered the board 'to report ~
next Eriday.: 7: =

One of the segregation bills
Gov. Faubus has ready would em
_| power Faubus to close Central
High, subject to a public refer
endum. Another would have put
off the opening of school from
Sept. 2 to Sept. 8.

A third would let any white.
student displaced from a closed
school retain his State aid upon
enrollment in a school remain
ing open.
While the Administration took
separation of school children is

given its officiaal views on the
Supreme Court~s call. a delib
erate speed.

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Sisdahiveed ted~
enmeshed in
the issue of how~ in

fast.

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Bl He 1 points | the ~way to tomorrow~s |
full citizenship.

the position, in 1954, that racial |
unconstitutional, it never hasj|
tegration
~should be ~ ~out and how/ =

~ A white man com
~ ices ~ to police that he was

robbed of $10.00; August 27, by

~la Negro man who had offered

to supply him ~with some girls.

He reported that at~ approximately 1:00 a.m., a man hailed
him at Dayton and Industrial

\Paving Causes |
|Big Investigation

} FLINT ~-The group of citi
}zens on Roberts Street. who pro
tested ~the black - top ~ paving
which the city used on their
block, caused an investigation
to be made by First Ward Commissioner Charles Brown.

Brown - took samples ~of the
~oil lag~ ~to a recent commission

~meeting and passed it around:

He wanted to know what would
be done about it. He was told

bad condition: by September 15,
the contractor would have to
refinish the job at no additional~ cost or assessment to the
tax: payers.

The contractor, Kutchens, has

~| posted a. $20,000 bond -to assure

the job is done seven ~

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White Man Tricked
~Out of $10 on Day

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Avenue. He itiaipel: wa ~the
mah~ approached his car and
told him that he had three
women available and offered to
take him there. The complainant agreed and drove to the
700 block 6f Dayton Street and
stopped, The subject. came to
the car and told the complainant ~to| wait and ~he~ ~would go
see if the girls were there.

He.returned- and asked the
complainant to show ~that he
wasn~t a police officer: Complainant produced driver~s license and the subject said,
~0; KK] follow me.~

They walked hetneen two
houses where subject suddenly
got behind complainant and put
an object to. his neck which
complainant was told was a
knife. The subject then searched complainant~s pockets. He
took $10.00 from. complainant~s
wallet | and fled east on Dayton
Street.

~Ocurrences like these lead
many people to the -conclusion that much of the vice in
the Third Ward is brought
there and encouraged by non_ residents.

~Complainant can identify ~the

man.
~

of Colored People:

In. response to your press
statement August 19 inquiring
into attitude of national asso
' ciation for advancement of col
ored people in Little Rock sitvation please be advised first
that this association has not
quote instigated and promoted
unquote integration in Little
Rock but has counseled Negro
parents who sought non-segregated public education for their

| children in accordance with

ruling of United States Supreme Court that such educa
P Chief
GOP Chie
Predicts
*

Victory

CHICAGO.~ Kepublican
ers ~are confident of winning the
Ho e in the November elections

lieve they have a fighting
chance in the Senate.

One Senator who GOP National Chairman Meade Alcorn
thinks may: be, beaten in Stuart
Symington (D., Mo.); is one
of the leading contenders for the
1960 Presidential nomination.

Also marked for defeat on the
GOP seore Card is Senators Proxmire (D., Wis:)..

~He~s. ~such: a left-winger even

~1 the Democrats don~t want him in

Wisconsin,~ Alcorn told a press
eonference here.
Alcorn predicted defeat for
another Democratic presidential
- hopeful, Gov. Averell Harriman,
of New York..

He said he feels the Little Rock
school segregation case and the
Republican civil rights record will
win a lot of votes in-the long run.

NEW YORK - ~ The ~ taliowing eleprant sent ~
Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas by Roy Wilkins, executive
secretary of the National Association for the Advancement

lead- |

tion is a constitutional right.
cond, this association has advised and will continue to advise
Negro parents in Little Rock that
reversal. of Judge Lemley~s ruling means that Little Rock authorities must proceed with ~ag
ggration as planned by t
1955 and approved by Seal

| Court.

~Third, we shall further: advice
them that the Circuit Court of
Appeals has ruled that quote violent and unlawful. acts unquote
may not be ~used by any individual or body as excuses for
nullifying or defying a Federal
Court order,

Fourth, -we will advise them
that it is now the duty: of the
state and Jocal authorities to protect the determined rights of in
~| dividual citizens and in the event

of their failure the duty of the
Federal government so to do.

Fifth, we have advised them >
and will continue to so advise
that there has been a four-year
delay since the Supreme Court
ruling and that any request that
they accede voluntarily to further
delay is a request that they surrender their rights as American
citizens and one which cannot in
honor be granted.

Sixth, e will advise them that
wtih to

in -pressing
without delay. and will all legal
weapons their rights in the pending matter.~

This association continues to
expréss as it has.in the past the
belief that responsible Negro citizens are willing to sit down with
responsible officials in any locality to discuss ways and means of
implementing the Supreme Court
ruling. Needless to say had you
employed this cooperative effort
in 1957 instead of initiating unilateral action the present. situa
tion would not have ~~

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