Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 44]

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-_James Buldwin, the ~uslaphhen Negro writer, went.
South to find out. He visited. with the family of a high
School boy who had just entered an integrated school. )

~ prog:
ee

' Wriling in the October

4aldwin tells of an interview with the boy, whom he idenifles only as ~G.~ and with his mother, whom he calls:. 2

ink said the youth told

aim he hadn~t been learning |
anything in the Negro school, |
and the author asked him to,
explain.

~Well, the teacher comes

in,~ he said, ~and she gives
you something to read and she
goes out. She leaves some other student in charge. 3
(~You can just imagine hoy
much reading gets done,~ Mrs,
R. interposed.) ~At the end of
the period~ G. tinued,
~She comes back a tells
you something to read for the
next day.~

a % 8 of
~acw.in continues:

~So, hav_ ing nothing else to do, G. began
amusing his~ classmates and his
mother began to be afraid. G. is

Tigs on soaring

@rol Lane
li $F pavel Authority
"National Safety Congress

Last year, accidents cost America 95,000 deaths, 9,500,000 injuries, and. nearly twelve billion
dollars!

These statistics have been repo orted- by the National: Safety

ouncil, and are certain to be discussed when the National Safety

LF M|
Congress meets in ~Chicago October 20-24,

Every phase of die gg prevention will a coven, -xperteindustry, home, farm, Sehool, and
traffic safety will pene on their
wor k, and diseugs future programs.

America~s most serious safety
ps oblem remains motor vehicle ac
_cidents, Last Ded Wig A again

emerged as our num
taking 38,500 lives.

We have a long way to go in
reducing these figures even mor
but it is good to note that the 195
figures are down 3% from 1956,
People working in traffic safety
ar to be encouraged. I am pleased
to veport, therefore, that my vompar y~Shell~will honor six safetymi; ded women on the last day of
thd ~ongress,

They are winners of the 1958
Car7l Lane Awards for Traffic
Safety, the only national program
honoring women~s contribution in
this field. The awards, sponsored
by Shell and administered 2 -
National Safety Council,

omen who have developed aa
d the most effective safety
in the community or. ig ete wa

Tr one killer,

winners, and tell
x a to help cut Ameri- |:

Bo

issue of Harper~s Magazine,

just ~about et the age when boys
~begin dropping out of school.
Perhaps they get a gir! ~rto
trouble; she also drops ou:; tic
boy gets work for a time or gets
into trouble for a long time. I
was told that fortv-five girls had
left school for ~\y maternity
\ward the year before. A week or
~ten days before I arrived in the
city eighteen boys from G~s former high school had been sentenced to the chain gang.

~ ~My boy~s a good: hey,~ said
Mvs.R., ~and I wanted to see
him have a chance~.~
about the students?~-I asked.

~Don~t. the teachers care
about the students?~ I asked..This brought forth more laughter. How could they care? how
much could they do if they did
care? There vere too many children, from shaky homies and

4 ge pe rg Pag be

them, as aldoomed. - es, the
safe. They
only to the

Principal, an appointed official,
whose. ~cnomete apparently,
was- neyer ques' Honed by his
(white) superiors or conferes.

~The Principal of G's former high school was about
seventy-five when he was finally retired and his idea of
discipline was to have two
boys beat each other~~under
his supervision~~with leather
belts. This once happened
with G., with no other results
than that his parents gave the
Principal @ tongue-lashing. It
happened with two boys of G.~s
~ acquaintance with result that,
after school, ene boy beat the
other so badly that he had to
be sent ta the! hospital. The
teachers have themselves arrived at a dead end, for in a
segregated school system they
cannot rise any higher, and
the students are aware of this.
Both students and teachers
soon cease to strugle.

~If a bay can wash a black
worn-cut parents, in aging,- in

de eens ~

Timmie Rogers
Thanks NAACP

NEW YORK~Following the
court martial conviction of Major
Leonard V. Bailey for a brutal
attack upon Timmie Rogers, the
comedian sent word to. the
NAACP from. Germany expressAssociation~s intervention on his
behalf.

The Army major was found
quilty of disorderly conduct and
fined $1,000 by a: court martial
sitting in Kaiserlautern, Ger.
many. He was accused of attack.
~ng Mr. Rogers on the night of
\ug. 2 and inflicting injuries
which required hespitalization
for the comedian. Majer Bailey
accused the comedian of arriv.
~ng late for a performance at
the Officers~ Club at the United

~) States Army installation at Baum.

holder, Germany. Mr. Rogers and
h's troupe were making a tour
~f military installations in Evrope.

|. Upon receipt of the entertainer~s complaint about the attack.
Roy Wilkins NAACP executive
secretary, wired Secretary of the

-|Army Wilber M. Bruckner call
ing upon him to make an ~immediate and thorough investigation~ of the charge against Major
Bailey and to take ~appropriate
action...should the charge be
sustained.~ Within hours after
dispatch of this. telegram, the
Army announced that it had ordered an investiigation of the
case. The ruling of the court
martial was handed down on
Sept. 26.

Mr, Rogers sent a message
through his. wife thanking the
NAACP for its. assistance and of
| fering his services to the Associa
tion.

WITH PAPER TOWELS...

$O-Second Window Wash

-| way, Tu bromiete him~.~

-gine block if

IRDAY, OCT. 11, 1958

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| hoard.~:a teacher was heard to

SECRETARY 10 LIBERIAN
AMBASSADOR NAMED ~
EMBASSY~S THIRD SECRETARY

Washington, D. C., Sept.
30, 1958~Lischen Shannon,

berian Ambassador to the
United States George A.
Padmore, was commissioned
recently as the Liberian Embassy~s third secretary.

Miss Shannon received the |
commission fro6m Ambassador Padmore on behalf. of
Liberian President William
V. S. Tubman..
Born in Harrisburg, Liberia, Miss Shannon received
a bachelor of arts degree in
1951 from the aalearrty of
Liberia. tere;
retary to the International
Rubber Study Group meeting held that year in Liberia.
She took an executive secretarial course in 1954 at
Burdett Business| College, in
Boston, Mass. and became
secretary the sane year to
the Joint United State-Li-berian Commission for Economic sition: aa

Permanent
Anti-Freeze

(Excerpts from World of Wheels,
_ by Fred Qimstead, Free Press)

If you~re planning on re-using
the ~permanent~ anti-freeze you
have tucked away in gallon jugs,
you~re making a mistake, says
R. E. Daley,. manager of Union
Carbide~s consumer produets division.

~Actually the wprd ~permanent~ was used only to distinguish glyco] antifreeze from the
alcohol type,~ Daley said. ~

He said makers of the glycoltype of antifreeze have been trying t@ convince motorists that
the sd-called permanent ntifreeze is only temporary at best.

Inhibitors,. Daley said, are continually depleted and reach a
corrosive stage after a season of
use.

~ The idea of saving this type
of antifreeze for use from one
season to the next, he added,
grew out of World War I, when
glycol was short. |

if you re-use it, Daley asserted, you are ~risking clogged
plumbing, engine ping, power
loss, increased qil consumption
and poor gas mileage ~ and
eventually a repair bill.

And Mike Graybill; a duPont
antifreeze expert, adds another
note of caution as you prepare
for winter: Be sure to drain the
engine block as well as the radiator before adding new antifreeze.

~More than half of the old
coolerant sg remain in the enonly the radiator

L

is drained,~ Graybill said. ~Petcocks on the side of the block (if
any) should also be opened so
the whole system can be drained
acid so
of ~rusty or dang
lutions.~ * 1

secretary since 1956 to Li-|

ee en a ase

~Once they" ve jeameed to drive skillfully,
are put through their paces in simulated. ~traffic situations. y
Stop lights, railroad crossings, and one way streets are but
a few of the everyday on-the-road signs set up by police
and the Cushman motor scooter dealer, who provides mate-*
rials and helps supervise the program. As shown here,
~proper hand signals are a must for trained scooter riders.

e youngsters

After completing 12 hours of training,. the.
ceive a graduation certificate from police and civie officials,
and are ready to take their places. as safe, philifu? and
responsible drivers. ~Scooter Schools~ have been ~conducted
in many cities in cooperation with local Cushman motor

scooter dealers, who can provide information on starting

similar schools in. other communities.

pn - ~eegpgenenitndal~ic~~

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ~ After
living with the shadow cf the
electric chair in his immediate
future, Governor James Folsom

interceded and spared the life

of Jimmy Wilson, the 55-year-old
illiterate handy-man that = had
béen scheduled to be electrocuted October 24 for the $1.85 robbery cf an elderly white woman.
Governor Folsom. obviously

grams he received from all over
the country pleading for clem
moved by the. thousands of téle
Gov. Folsom Couneilies Death

Sentence In $1.95 Robbery

ency in the case, commuted Wilson~s sentence to life imprisonment Monday, after speaking
with ~the condemned man last
Friday.

Frsm a prepared nintoliedt,
the Governor read, ~After careful
consideration cf the facts and
circumstances it is the opinion
of the Governor that the said
Jimmy Wilson is a fit subject far
executive clementy-*

After serving 15 years, Wilson
will be eligible for parole.

In ancient Greece, nobles and
slaves watched chariot races:
and plays from uncomfortable
concrete seats set'on the side of

~a hill. When it rained, all action |

stopped. ~

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in value rapidly.

Electric Lights.

now.

5 | 1957.

LAKE

1. 400,000 colored people in Detroit; 25,000 in
Pontiac; 50,000 in Flint, and 100, 000 in Toleldo.
2. Detroit and Toledo traffic carries thousands of
people through Lake Erie Shores area each day.
3. Three classes of property to deal with: Business,
Lake, and Residence property, which is rising

- Lake ~Erie Shores health water.

':] $50 CASHDON

LAND CONTR ACT ON
LAKE PROPERTY |

AS LITTLE AS $5.00 TO $10.00 Per Week
KEEP LAKE ERIE SHORES FOR OUR GROUPS

it will pay you to start your business career or secure your begutiful home cite lives blue |
- heaven) now by calling Mr. Pettiford or Mr. Boyd (without obligation) who will show you
how to pyramid this opportunity in five (5) y ears to fortune, only 26 miles from | cify
of Detroit or Toledo. Call wo. 5-4811 for an opportunity in this growing community, call

706 AMERICAN mE BUILDING ~ 139 CADILLAC SQUARE.
Detroit 26, Mich.

the Magnificent, the Sublime and Beautiful nestles upon the waters of an entrancing Lake
which is surrounded by magnificent shade trees with y commanding and extensive view

of the surrounding country.
YOU MUST NOT ONLY VISIT LAKE ERIE SHORES, BUT LIVE IN LAGE ERIE SHORES

CONSIDER THESE FACTS:
FACTS FOR BUSINESS and INVESTORS

6. Mail Delivery.
7. Good Schools.
8. _Near Churches.

9. Direct route to Ford~s, Great Lakes Steel, Chrysler,; and other industries.
10. One of the most. beautiful lakes in the country -
fishing, swimming, boating, etc:
11. Beautiful ah and recreation buildings.

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