Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 50]

science, mc, bu nore moral cour age,~ Benjamin E, Mays, _ -Pesident ~of ~Morehouse College, said. Wedbesiay ot Morgan State ~wollege. ~~ Pe hes famous preacher-educa qd an assembly addressed hihlishtin the college~s anobservance of Religionkine Week. - *What Can We Believe and Why?~ was-the theme of this year~s observance which featured eight nationally known speakers and. the celebrated eighty-voice Howard Univer- sity Choir, with Dean Warner Lawson directing. ~Dr. Mays declared that the ays Sees Ne od | ~ Moral Courage~ ~tragedy of our times is that we know but we cannot act on what we -know.~. There have never been more brilliant minds, but he said ~we are as confused and baffled as at any time in the history of man.~ Hie said ~we know. if is wrong to use dope, yet thousands do, it is wrong t0 sepregate because of color and yet we segregate, it is wrong to cheat and yet we cheat; we know that war is wrong and yet we create conflict.~ He suggested: that man~s way cut of this confusion lies in accepting the fact that Jesus is reality, for he said, Jesus teaches | that ~love is better than hate, brotherhood is better than caste, and peace is better than war.~ Youth Traffic Day Observed DETROIT ~ Traffic. Safety Sunday and ~Youth Day were observed Sunday at People~s Community Church; Woodward and Pingree. pastor, the Rev. Carlyle F. Stew At the 10:30 a.m. services the art, preached a far-searching sermon on ~Counting The Cost.~ Dr. Stewart said that Jesus was. against easy religion. ~A person who comes to Christ to hecome one of his followers, must give up something, because there is a cost to be a CI istian.: e Rev. Mr. Stewart declared if rwe count the cost of our re ligious servicees, we should remember that God comes first~ and alt othehr things shall fall in their respective places. Dr. Stewart urged motorists to drive with care. He said 40 per cent of persons killed during theh months of November, December and January on Detroit streets, are 65 years of age and over. Sis, In his closing remarks Dr. Stewart asserted, ~the enemies of the church are not outside. They are people who call themselves: Christians, who come to church Sunday after Sunday~ who have not been changed by the spirit of the Lord.~ if. ~A capacity crowd watched the. Morehouse Tigers of Atlanta deal the Knoxville College Bulldogs a heavy blow at Knoxville when they handed the Bulldogs ah 18-8 loss at the latters Home-, coming, thus getting revenge for the Homecoming~\loss they suffered last year when, the Bull~dogs trampled them 27-7. ~Play during the first quarter was balanced ~ each them batting, but no serious threats made by: either. - Morehouse claimed the other quarters but after spectators ~ ~and everyone Who Really won ~IN REVIEW~<Actual winner inthe 1958 ~eff year~ balloting throughout the nation on Tuesday, was not the Democratic Party which has a clear majority in both the House and the Sen-~ ate, but the diehard-South, - whose handful of long-entrenched reactionaries control the most important committees in both. lorehouse Gets ~comingRevenge else, save the team, had given up for hopes of a touchdown, the Bulldogs drove from their own 50 yard line on runs by. Herman Reése and Albert Lucas. This was in the closing moments of the final quarter. Albert Lucas drove to the 4 yard line ~ David Boyd passed to Ernest Bragg from the 4 yard line into the end zone and scored. Boyd passed to Reese for the extra two points. Morehouse dominated ~the. sec ond quarter. Scoring twice on two long plays, Morehouse went ahead to finish the half with a 12-0 lead on the Bulldogs. The first touchdewn, made mid-way the second quarter, took place when quarterback -Benjamin Blackburn unleased a 44 yard pass to end Alfonse Crutch. Crutch, alone on the 10 yard line, trotted over for the TD. The second touchdown came when Blackburn again passed, this time a 50 yard pass to end Clinton Ransaw. Morehouse was unsuccessful in both its attempts to gain the extra points. and Cry KIDS love ~dopa | One of the more popular present day dogs Is perhaps the world~s only Mexican Spitz. fis name is Farfel, and he is 8 fortunate dog, because he Is @ television star. Farfel is the property of a boyish young man named Jimmy Nelson. Or perhaps # Is the other way a if you discuss Farfel with Nelson, who has become one of the country~s most popular ventriloquists, you learn many |: seen certain letters which offer much more of a challenge to the ventriloquist than others. These are the ones you never find in the proper names of our associates. Secondly the name,must be easily rememberable, simple yet distinctive. | liked the sound of Farfel, which actually is some sort of egg noodle.~ Why does a man become a ventriloquist? Nelson has a simple and. ready reply. ~It's a hobby which got out of Ral. The entire: quartet passed through Detroit recently, with Nelson~s first day in the city being one of the busiest he could recall. He played eight shows (if you count three separate rehearsals with three separate orchestras). Three of Nelson~s appearances were at the Knife and Fork Club where Manager Jim Core nelius laughingly announced he had booked ~ first animal act in the club history.~ Torch Drive: Actually Nelson's heavy opening day arose from his deep interest in charity and in Detroit's famed United Foundation Torch Drive He oarticipated in their opening kick-off telecast, as well as sandwiching in a personal appearance before the National Association of Cer. tified. Public Accountants~ con 1! vention. Smilingly he recalled the day |} as his most active since six-a vaudeville. was all done under one roof~ Nelson said. pated oy ered ware ear up over his eye Begin Work On 3 Million Dollar College Expansior By COLLIIE J. NICHOLSON _.GRAMBLIING, La. ~ (Special) ~Contractors have started work on a new $3-million expansion program at Grambling College, President R. W. E. Jones announced this week.: The multi-million dollar expansion is the latest facet of a building program that will make Grambling fourth in size among Negro colleges in the country. It includes an $820,000 dining hall, a $780,000 student union, |and four dormitories ~ two. for men and two for women. The dormitories will cost in excess of $1,400,000. President JoJnes said the total cost of construction does not include furniture) and equipment. Construction details include ty exterior walls, structural drilled pile foundations, mason steel framing, steel bar joists, | and concrete floor slabs. All the buildings are of brick and steel construction and contemporary in design to blend with the existing campus. motif, The interior of the ~dining hall and student union wil be finished in ceramic) tile with mahogany paneling and three-dimensional murals: Acoustical. tile | ceilings, ceramic and asphalt tile flooring, and. tinted: plaster wall surfaces will compliment the interior of dormitories. A portion of the dining: hall and student union will have curtain-walls of plate glass and porcelain-enameled panels. Panels will be separated) and framed by slim granite columns with solid wall areas set in vertical patterns. In consideration of light,,the six buildings are to have large glass areas designed to take: advantage of existing light refraction and eliminate sun glares. President Jones said the dormitories will be about alike in size with comparablel housing accommodations, Each building will house 204 students and a resident counselor. Southern Builders, Inc.,. of Shreveport is constructing the dormitories; Jessie F. Heard & Sons of West Monroe is erecting the student union buildings: and Rannie Terral of Farmerville is building the dining halll. Occupancy of all buildings is schéduled for next September. To Face Facts Soon WASHINGTON. ~ With the Democrats~Northern and Western wings, together.with the East~s~having picked up a gain of 45 House seats, and likely January action looming on the filibuster rule which for long has stimied civil rights legislation~ that rule might be changed or loosened, permitting some progress on ~rights~ action. MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr.~s THE ~ STORY. stories of our Montgomery to. in ~non-violent bus boycott and how the - tgomery M IOWA CITY~Although sporting a shiner from the Iowa-Minnesota game, halfback Willie Fleming. of Detroit~ proved he could see to hear here Nov. 12, Fleming, this week~s ~Back of the Week~ choice by United Press International, has averaged 8.2 yards in 312 carries for the Hawkeyes. He broke up the Michigan and Minnesota games wit h long runs. (UPIT) Mother, Nine Children Sleep In Vacant Car PHIL. (Special)~The destitute mother: of nine children, ranging in age from two months to 11 years, said yesterday how for two nights after being evicted from the place where she lived in Asbury Park, N. J., she was forced to sleep in an automobile because she had no other place to stay. The mother, Mrs. Bertha Har ~| dy, 29, but looking well into if not beyond her thirties, is a native of Philadelphia who returned. here two weeks ~ago from working on a migrant farm near Asbury: Park. ~With the produce season for farm workers having run out in New Jersey and her husband unable to find work to SAYS VIC VET Q> Can a veteran receiving compensation for a 10 per cent service-connected disability get extra money from the VA because of dependents? A. No. The law does not authorize payments for dependents of veterans whose. service-connected disabilities, are found to be less than 50 per cent in degree. & # j oR Q.'I let my World War 4 GI term insurance lapse right after the close of the war.. A friend now tells me he thinks some. law was passed last summer which would entitle me to get back my lost ~insurance. Is _ this a fact? A.No. Your friend is doubtless thinking cf an amendment in a bill which. would have provided for a _ general. re-opening of World War i GI insurance. The bill carrying this amendment, however was changed to eliminate the re-opening provision. There is no law permitting reopening of expired GI insurance. 5 # te a Q: What is this new boost in the total disability income provision on GI insurance I~ve been hearing about? I already have this disability coverage, ~under the old ceiling that allowed me up to $50 a month, if totally disabled. Has it been raised? A. Yes. A new law increased the total. disability payments to up to $100 a month. If you ish, you may obtain the added coverage for a small additional premium. * * * Q. I am in training under the Korean GI Bill, but I want to change my course. Would I be|: éligible for VA vocational coun-|, seling to help me choose a new course. suited to~ my aptitudes? [ have never changed courses. A. Yes. In filling out your application for a change of course, ~indicate you want vocational counseling, VA will age an rac for you, support the family, Mrs. Hardy returned to this city to live with Mrs- Louise Camo, family _ friend. EVICTED IN JERSEY At the Bartram Ave. address the mother is sharing with her nine children one of the two bedrooms in the: dwelling. And even,here time is running out on her. Apparently a follower of work | on migrant farms, the mother could not qualify for welfare aid in New Jersey and subsequently wag evicted from the place:where she. was living in Asbury Park. Although a native of this city, she. does not qualify for welfare aid in Philadelphia ~ County, because of prior residential requirements. With the approach of winter her plight is desperate. NED CLOTHINEG Badly in need of ~clothing most of them wore only~:sweaters to shield'them: from the cold. Their dirty dungarees' and peddle-pushers were held together in spots by safety pins and bits of cord substituting for belts and_ buttons. At least three of the children wore shoes from which the soles were falling off and most of them ~wore. no socks, NO WORK IN SIGHT ~Evicted last week: from the place. where they were staying in Asbury Park, Mrs. Hardy came to this city in the automobile of a relative of Mrs. Camo in Elmwood. Last Tuesday and Wednesday nights they all slept outcoors in the automobile. Detroit Slates Great Italian Art Show International attention focuses on Detroit with the presentation of,the éxhibition ~Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance,~ November 18 through January 4. It will be. seen nawbere else in the world. This exhibition cf some 450 art objects from the ~Golden Age of Italian Art~ has never been duplicated. It covers the 200 years (1400-1600) of best Italian. craftsmanship, in the days of Benvenuto Cellini, Donatello, Michelangedo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. The generosity of more than forty European museums, church treasuries and libraries, as well as major United States museums and many private collectors has made this display possible. x The value of the pieces is conservatively estimated in excess of four million dollars, although it is most difficult to place a precise value on objects which can never be duplicated. ~ Many of the objects being Idaned have never before left their home galleries or treasuries, Special: envoys from Italy, France and England will accompany treasures from their countries; many American. museums have sent curators in~ custody of their most valued~ pieces; and Detroit Institute of Arts curators have personally supervised the transportation of valuables from American museums and libraries, Still Jim Crowed > ATLANTA ~ Free vacations |} were offered by Georgia~s Gov. Marvin Griffin to the 18 Canadian miners snatched from the earth~s bowels last week. The Maurice Buddick came -out with them stops in Nova Scotia. He takes the vacation on jim~ crow basis. miracle in. which Negro miner |. _- (Continued from Page 7) District of the Lexington Con-. ference:; Rev. Raoul C. Calkins, - District ~| Superintendent-of the Cincinna ti District, of the Ohio Conference was the guest speaker. His subject was ~The Overflowing Measure of Life.~. _ With the theme, ~Christ Our Hope,~ and their goal set at 6000 the men of Calvary will.observe their 32nd Annual Men~s\ Day Program, Sunday, Nov. 23rd, at the Church. Atty. J. W. E. Bow ~-len Jr..,, Assistant City Solicitor, of Columbus, Ohio, ~41 be the guest speaker for the morning service.~ Dinner will be served from 12 to 3 p.m. A program ~will be rendered at 3. p.m. fol - lowed by reports from the Men~s Day Leaders,. All are invited to come out and spend the day at Mrs. Mary G. Perkins, reporter Calvary. (Price of Dinner is.$.00. Postpone Hearing ~On Levittown Bias On request of Ira Goldman, counsel for Levitt and Sons, Inc, a public hearing concerning charges of discrimination by two complainants ~against the developers of Levittown, N: J., originally scheduled for November 14, has been postponed to Mon-- day, December 15, it was announced Monday by Dr. John P. Milligan, Director of the Division Against Discrimination. The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, as~ amended in June, 1957, contains a_ section, 18:25-5k,- which states, ~~A publicly assisted: housing accommodation shall include all housing built with public funds or public assistance. pursuant to (eight chapters of the laws from 1938 to 1949), and- all housing financed in whole or in part by a loan whether or not secured by a mortgage, - the repayment of ~ which ~is guaranteed or ~insured by the Federal Government or any agency thereof.~ Levitt has received FHA commitments which enable individ -| uals to obtain FHA gyaranteed loans. The complainants, Franklin D. Todd, and Willie R. James, both of Burlington City, allege that they were denied the opportunity to purchase homes in the Levittown development, U. S. Route 130, Willingsboro Township, Burlington County. The public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. in council chambers, City Hall, Trenton, N. J., pursuant to the law which pro-vides for public segiee. \eey pr sires in fails. ___ ANEW SERIES in the 1959 Ford line~ and styling flavor of the Thunderbird th Galaxie Town Victoria _four-passenger Thunderbird ~ ~ especially in the roof area, $48 above com includes ~six differe oe ~the Galaxie~ ~captures 1 more of the taste an any other Ford model. Compared here, the in the foreground bears a strong resemblance to. the 1959 yet it is priced to sell only able models in the Ford Fairlane 500 series. The new luxury series ent body styles and will be available at Ford dealerships in early

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