Bronze Reporter [Volume: 7, Issue: 50]

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VOLUME 7~NUMBER 50

FLINT, ~MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 20,

Benefit
For Polio Victim

*

John Ferguson was stricken
with polio at the age of 5, and
permanently paralyzed from the
waist down.

In recent years he had operated
a shoe repair shop, and specialized in certain types of shoe repairs and orthopedics. His shop
was located at 3826 Industrial
Ave.

Unfortunately, surgery became
necessary during this time, and
from September 1959, to February 1960, he had to undergo 4
separate operations. During the
time he was confined in- the
hospital, all his shoe shop equipment was repossessed, due to the
fact, that he was unable to pay
the balances due on the equip:
ment.

John comes from a family of
12 children, and with this heavy
financial strain, his parents, naturally are unable to give him
any kind of assistance.

More than anything else in the
world, John wants to get his
equipment back, and get his shoe

~ repair shop back on a paying

basis, in order to support him
self.

~Local 599, in cooperation with
members of the police. department, and along with the orchestra of Eston Broome, are coordinating their efforts in putting

Dance |

JOHN FERGUSON

o nthis benefit dance, to aid
John Ferguson outfit his. shoe
shop.

Let~s all turn out and give Big
John Ferguson a helping hand.
The dance is Saturday night, May

20th, at Local 599 Auditorium,
812 Leith Street. Donations,
$1.00.

Your $1.00 donation will be
greatly appreciated. See you at
the dance!

Flint Chapter

YMCCA Gives

$1,000 Check To College

A check for $1,000.00 was presented to the Flint College and
Cultural Development from the
Flint Chapter, Veteran Motor Car
Club of America. The money,
proceeds of the recent Antique
Auto -Show, will be used to

~establish a trust fund for the ex
of

pansion of the Automotive Hi
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Delights Crowd
By Harriette Walker

Debut of GOP ~Spectacular~
delights crowd. The fund-raising
Republican ~Star-Spangled. Spectacular~ started a week~s run of
Michigan cities here and the
premiere was kicked off with
the glamour of a Hollywood opening night. Seven show acts sang,
danced and joked.

Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of
Arizona steped on the stage
after the last encore and gave
a warming speech.

Singer Jane Powell, a versatile
artist, was at her best. The. veterans of the show were Edgar
Bergen and his wooden friends.
The Hi Lo~s combined showmanship and outstanding musical
talent in their sequence. The
Step Brothers opened the show
with tapping rythm with a beat.
The June Taylor dancers and
Peter Gladke perfromed two
routines:

Gordon McRae closed the entainterment.part of the show with
selection from Oklahoma! George
Murphy, as master of ceremonies,
expertly wove the threads of the
show into the vehicle of superb
entertainment.

This show is the first for our
city and hope that there will be
many more to come.

Gov. Swainson
Names Nine

Governor John Swainson an
- nounced today (5-10-61) in Lan

sing, the appointment of nine additional Michigan Industrail Ambassadors. Including James
Gerity Junior... President and
general manager of The Gerity
Broadcasting Company... which
includes WNEM~TV, Saginaw,
Bay City, and Flint... and WABJ, adrian and president of the
committee of 100, Miami Beach,
Florida..... Mr. Gerity was
quoted.

In a statement today as saying
~J am extremely delighted with
this new appointment.

- continue to do my utmost to

* and work..
further the interest 6f Michigan
The best state in which to live. A state which benefits from industry and frfm which
industry can derive its growth
and development..... 1 intend
to work~ for the future industrial
development of Michigan through
my friends and acquaintences
outside the state as well as within
its boundaries.~.
To augment his efforts. - Mr.
*. Gerity has a program in the
stages which will be
uted to many televisions
stations throughout
Which will depict the
_ Michigan.

benefts of |. I will)~

the country. |

story Section of the Flint Public
Library.

Presenting the check was G.
Gregory Fauth, Chairman of the
Auto Show, and Vice-President
of the Flint ~Chapter of V.M.C.C.
A.; Dr. Roger. Van Bolt, Curator
of the Alfred P, Sloan Museum
of Transportation and Ransom

Richardson, Pera of libraries, ph.

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Jisto ~Show, freak we ich the trust
fiind tmhoney was derived, was
held Sunday, April 9th at Flint~s
IMA Auditorium. Attended by
nearly. 5,000 persons, the event
featured. over 70 carefully restored antique autos displayed
in an effort to stimulate interest
in Flint~s automotive history.

Speaking of the thousand-dollar
contribution, G. Gregory Fauth
pointed out that: ~This initial
gift will mean the realization
~of many months of planning on
the part of those most interested
in the preservation of Flint~s rich
automotive history. It is our hope
that the future will bring an~ expansion in the wealth of automotive information available to
Flint, and allow many future generations the opportunity to visualize the Flint role in automotive development.~

Manpaal Antiquet

CANA

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Police Brutality On
Increase, NAACP Says

Police brutality against Ne
} groes in Detroit is a serious, grow
ing problem. This was the ~assessment of NAACP officials this
week expressed in a letter to
the Chairman and Executive Direetor of the City of Detroit Commission on Community Relations
to which the NAACP submitted
29 complaints from Negro citizens
alleging various forms of police
brutality since February 1.

The average number of complaints of police brutality received
by the NAACP in normal times,
according to NAACP records, is
3% complaints.a month. The record from February 1 through
May 4 showing 29 complaints
raises the monthly average to approximately 10 complaints.

In citing the seriousness of
this situation, NAACP President,
Edward M, Turner and Arthur L.
Johnson, Executive Secretary said
that the NAACP had not referred
any one of the 29 complaints to
the Police Department for investigation because ~we have such
real misgivings about the ability
of the Detroit Police Department
to discipline effectively the officers who engage in abusive and
discriminatory treatment of Ne
Ga. Jobs Office

mp

head mnie: ny the peneeel picture
at the Marietta, Ga., plant-of the
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation,
the company is still requisitioning workers by race through the
Georgia -State Employment Service, it was charged: here~ this
week by the NAACP..Herbert Hill, ~the Association~s -

labor secretary, visited Marietta
last week, thirty days after the
NAACP had lodged complaints
of discriminatory employment
policies, and noted the continuance of the racial requisitions for
workers. _:

He said that, throughout the
South, racial segregation and arbitrary racial separation of workers and job categories are characteristic features of state employment services.

WASHINGTON, D. C. ~ Union
officials and leading defense contractors have pledged cooperation in achieving the goals of
the President~s Committee on
Equal Employment Opportunity.

This was reported by Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
Committee chairman, and. Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg,
vice chairman, after a 2~day
series of meetings here. The meetings were called by the Vice
Prsident to discuss the President~s
order creating the Committee
and seeting its goals. Both the
Vice President and ~ Secretary
Goldberg expressed their appreciation for the cooperation evidenced by the two groups.

Present were 48 of the Nation~s
largest contractors, who were addressed by President Kennedy

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WOUERNTZATION MONTH

Pledges Cooperation
On Job Equality

and Secretary of Defense. Robert
McNamara. The President also
addressed the May 3 meeting, attended by. members of the AFL~
CIO Executive Council, Building
Trades Department, Industrial
Union Department, and Railway
Labor Executives Association. |

Vice President Johnson and.
Secretary Goldberg assured the
businessmen. and labor leaders
that the Committee would not act
as a ~policing~ agency, but would
make the fullest use of concilia- |
tion, persuasion, and education
to eliminate discrimination because of race, creed, ~color, or
nafional origin from Federal. employment and Government contract work.

They stressed, however, that
sanctions provided in the Presidents order would be used whenever circumstances required their
use. These sanctions include cancellation of contracts and debarment. from future Government
contracts, as well as public hearings and recommendations te the

WASHINGTON, D. Cc. ~

{has launched an intensive nationwide drive.through the United
States Employment. Service and
its affiliated State and local employment offices to find jobs for

loyed workers and for the milof workers to be added to

tary of Labor Arthur J. weenern

the country~s: 5 million ~unem-j}

NATIONWIDE vag
DRIVE SLATED

the labor foree during the 960~

| tions of poe tiiaas 4 would

| ro citizens. And we do not inend at this point to send any
of the complaints to the Department for the kind of routine
treatment it has always given
complaints of this nature.~

The NAACP is calling upon
the Chairman and the Director of

the Commission on Community
Relations to take such steps immediately as are necessary to
set up within the framework of
the Commission, as agreed in an
earlier conference with the Mayor,
effective machinery to investigate and adjudicate thése matters.

Will Pic

DETROIT, MICH. (SPECIAL) ~
Members of the ~Congress On
Racial Equality (CORE) are expected to launch nationwide
picketing of Greyhound and Trailway bus Terminals following savage mob attacks on 15 interracial
CORE members while the group
was staging its ~Freedom Ride,
1961,~ an itinary through the
deep south designed toe challenge
segregation in inter-state. travel.

Officials of the New York
CORE headquarters did not say
so, but rank-and-file members of
the organization in Detroit, St.
Louis, Philadelphia, Cleveland,
Los. Angeles, New York Baltimore
and Washington, D.C., were ~inscensed over the stoning and
beating of ~Freedom Riders~ in

Anniston, where the, bus was
burned by an incendiary~ bomb,
and word was out that bus sta-,

'y-1

nier chairman, held. rally at
St.. Matthews Episcopal Church
2019 St. Antoine, to determine
what. action to take in wake of

FREE BRADEN

~DRIVE ON

ATLANTA, GA, ~ Seventeen
white and Negro Southern leaders
have initiated a petition to President John F. Kennedy asking
him to free Carl Braden, Southern
integration worker.

Braden and Frank Wilkinson
surrendered to the U:S. Marshal
here May~1 to begin serving oneyear prison sentences for contempt of the House Un-American
Activities Committee.

Braden, whose home is in Louisville, Ky., is a field secretary
and editor for the Southern Conference ~ Educational Fund, a
Southwide inter-racial organization workirig for integration.
Wilkinson, -of Los Angeles, is
field secretary of the National
Committee to Abolish the House
Un-American Activities -Committee.

Both: men were questioned. by
the House Committee concerning
their beliefs and associations, and
Braden was asked about his activities in the integration move
questions, taking the position
that such investigations violate
the rights of free speech, association and assembly guaranteed
by the First Amendment to the
U. S. Constitution.

The petition to President Ken
| nedy asking clemency fof Braden

is now being circulated for signatures among prominent citizens
in the civil rights movement
throughout the ~country. It expresses the fear that ~the entire
cause of integration will suffer
as a result of the precedent set
in this case~ and says that the
jailing of Carl Braden-may ~serve}.
as a springboard to a new wave

states. ~.
Initiators of the petition are:

_| The. Rev. William B. Abbot, Nor-.

folk, Va.; the Rev. Ralph Aber-|
~nathy, Montgomery, Ala.; Mrs.
Sarah Patton Boyle, Charlottesville; Va.; Carl P. Brannin, Dallas

Texas; James McBride Dabbs,
Mayesville, S.C.; the Rev. W. W.
Finlator, Raleigh, N. C.; the Rev.
Clarence Jordan, Americus, Ga.;
the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

~ > | Atlanta, Ga.; the Rev. James. M,, Lawson, Jr., Shelbyville, Tenn.;' said

Bishop Edgar A. Love, Baltimore,
Md.; Miss Dorcas Ruthenburg,

provide| Louisville, Ky.; the Rev. Fred L.

the

Bus Terminals

ket.

the Southern violence. Three
Detroiters were in the entourage:
Retired Wayne State University
Prof.- Walter Bergman and his
wife, and Isaac Reynolds, a Negro. They were attacked and
beaten by white mobs in Alabama.)

CORE National. Director James
Farmer informed President ~Kennedy and other top governmental
officials, as well as the presidents
of the Greyhound and Trailway
Bus Companies of the proposed
itinerary of ~Freedom Ride,
1961.~ The group, declaring it
would use ~Ghandi tactics of
non-violence~) left Washington,
D. C., May 4, to: challenge Jim
Crow in inter-state travel. It was
scheduled to arrive in New Orleans May 17, after traveling

Bon de Meu-|

ment. They~ refused to answer | -

of repression in the Southern

through Virginia, North and
South ge lpr Ala
it

Mabie Where mobs" ~over. 100
white persons attacked them in
both Anniston and~Brmingham,
Ala, The group left Alabama
when Gov. Jolin Patterson openly
declared that his state could not
protest~ hem from mob violence.

The group took a plane from
Atlanta, Ga. after bus companies
said they were going to ~have
some difficulty getting a driver.~

~ Eastern Airlines cancelled one
flight after a bomb threat (passengers were taken off the plane
and it was searched. Authorities
said no bomb. was found.) and
after several hours delay were
whisked away on another flight.

Farmer said, at the beginning
of the trip: ~We propose to challenge... every form of segregation met by the bus passenger.
~Freedom Ride~ is an appeal to
the best in. all Americans. We
travel peaceably to persuade them
that Jim Crow befrays democracy.
It degrades decmocracy at home.
lt debases democracy abroad. We
feel that there is no way to overstate the danger that denial of
democratic and _ constitutional
rights to our beloved country.~

The ~Freedom Riders~ were!
scheduled to attend a rally in
New Orleans comemorating the
anniversary of U. S. Supreme
Court decisions on desegregation.

SURGEON HONORED

DR. ELI N. BERNSTEIN, who
recently was accepted in the
Academy of Abdominal Surgeons
has further been honored in recognition of his contributions to
the advancement of Medicine and

| be able to teach and preach and

Deacons

Church erupted into the openning |
last- week as the Rev. Alfred A.
Robbs seized control over the af-|'
fairs of the Church at its regular
business meeting held Monday,
May 5th, but his opposition, spear
headed by battle tested deacons,
fired him from his $125.00 a week
expense free position Saturday
at a specially called meeting.
The opposition informed the
press that Saturday at its specially called meeting the membership reinstated the deacons and
trustees illegally terminated by
Rev. ~Robbs on May 5th and discharged him of Canaan Baptist
Church.

Rev. Robbs was unavailable for
comment.

The deacons stated their office
was a scriptorial one; and the
incumbents must be ordained. The
spokeman said they must be devotional people who taught by
precept and example. They must

are changed with the responsibility of caring for the ill, afflicted,
widows and orphans of the church

Fi re
Rev. A. Robbs )
A 3year-old behind the scenes would appoint the ordained and

maneuvering for control over,the unordained and. would not
Flint~s repudiated largest Negro allow a deacon to succed him
self.

The opposition further stated
that the deacons and trustees
meet once a month, subject to
special call by the deaconboard.
They stated that Rev. Robbs.
wants the deaconboard to meet
quarterly, subjected to special
call only by the pastor. The pastor
and committees would take care

_of the business between~ board

meetings.

The Baptist Church is a free.
democratic society said the spokesman, with the ultimate power and
authority in the membership.
51% of the membership can hire
him and -51% of the same membership can fire him.

We are informed that Canaan
expects a showdown this Monday
in which the deacons will attempt
to show the illegality of the re-,
mecval proceeding at which no
specific changes were. prefered
or an opportunity granted to answer general changes of failure
to support the pastor~s program
and the Rev. Robbs will attempt,
what no other minister in the history of canaan has been success
Rev. Robbs, they said, would
change the office from one of
election~to one of appointment,

ful in doing, to tame the old
~ guard.

From

saying, 7a one.
to take a feesh. look at it ~

~The judge~s withdrawal follow
January by the U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals of his dismissal of a
$750,000 damage claim and petition. to enjoin he Deerfield Park
District~s condemnation of ~two
sites. The Court of Appeals ordered a trial on the merits of the
damage claim and told the District Court that it could enjoin
condemnation of ~the Deerfield
sites if the proof warranted it.
~Judge Perry had set June 5 for
the date ofthe trial. It is expected that a new judge will be assigned to the case shortly.

The action charging civil rights
violation _ was originally heard
by Judge Perry in December,
1959 and January, 1960, when
Modern Community Developers,
Inc. and its Illinois. subsidiary,
Progress Development Corp.
sought to enjoin proceedings by
which Deerfield officials planned
to condemn for park purposes the
two sites on which a 51-house
integrated development was un
damages. |

Following Judge Perry~s decision in March, 1960, condemnation
proceedings went ahead in the
state courts and a condemnation
order was entered.

An appeal was taken to the
Illinois Supreme Court, which on
April 26 reversed the order of
the Lake County Circuit Court
condemning the builders~ Deerfield sites and sent the case back
for a full hearing, with instructions that Progress be given an
opportunity to show that condemnation of its two sites had

Surgery by the Century Club.

las its intent and purpose the

Named For

A $2,350,000 junior high school
named: for the most, powerful
man ever to direct Wayne County finances, Benjamin B, Pelham,
a Negro, is part. of the Detroit
Board of. Education school construction program.

The new Pelham Junior High
School will be located on a- 8.7
acre site bounded by Myrtle, 12th
St., Ash and Wabash avenues, it
was revealed. The site will be
enlarged to 20 acres at a later
date, the School Housing Division}.

To ~be constructed in the current five-year building program,
Pelham Junior High School will

have an enrollment of 1,800 and
{will draw on students from the/

New School To Be

Pelham

elementary schools. Its graduates
~will go onto the proposed new
Murray Senior High School.

It is a distinct honor to the
late Benjamin Pelham, who in
his role as county accountant,
became known as ~the financial
wizard of Wayne County.~.

After serving 47 unbroken
years in county government the
Virgina-born Pelham retired Feb.
called ~him. ae ry ae

e County~?

Fao oi inattonse mind~,

~Genius,~ Pelham generally shun
others with his achievements.

Ewbank | Chaney, Kennedy, Potter, Frank
ng rie Sle suas ate

and retired from that
postion several years ago.

ed the unanimous reversal last) st

~Free~

der construction. They also sought

~King~, |

ned publicity preferring to credit |.

Judge aa oun

Chief counsel for~ the. corporations in the court proceedings is
John W. Hunt, formerly associated with the Chicago law firm~ of
Stevenson, Rifkind and Wirtz. ~
Modern Community Developers,
national building firm of 84 Nassau St., Princeton, N.J., through
its subsidiary, Progress, in 1959
bought two sites in Deerfield,
lll., an all-white suburb of Chicago, subdivided them into 51 lots,
and had two models under roof
when MCD~s policy of selling
to Negroes as' well as whites
became public.~ Following - condemnation of: the sites, the Park
District gave ten year leases on
the two completed houses to the
Deerfield village manager and
park yA gi cartanty Both n

Chest
X-Ray Schedule

Tuberculosis plays, no favorites.
Anyone can catch it. And you can
have Tuberculosis without any

~symptoms. Play safe, make sure

for your own health and others
safety. Get a ~FREE~ Chest XRay Today! The Chest X-Ray Unit
of the.Genesee County Tuberculosis Association will be located
at the George Daily Junior High
School, corner of Genesee and
Richfield Road, May 23, 24, and
25, to x-ray the positive reactors _
and contacts to the Tuberculin
Test. conducted at the Kearsley
Schools and Holy Rosary School.

All other persons 18 years of
age and older can get a Chest
X-Ray. The Tuberculin Testing
Program in the schools is conducted in cooperation with the
Mott. Foundation, the: Health~ De-:
partments, the Genesee County ~
Tuberculosis Association and
School Officials..

GEORGE DAILY JUNIOR HIGH
SCHOOL

Genesee and Richfield Road;
May 23, 1961 - Tuesday - 9 to 12
& 1 to 5 p.m, |
May 24, 1961 - Wednesday - Bs to