Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 9]

VOLUME 8~NUMBER 9

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400 Local Witnesses

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To Attend MilWaukee_.

Building a kitchen to feed 30,- assembly. He will also ae?

000 people and transforming the vise the construction of a stage
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Arena- Au-| setting for the assembly pro
ditorium into a gigantic edifice of |
worship is the job Eugene D.
Kohnert, Flint contractor, has
these days.

Kohnert, who is also presiding
minister of Flint congregation of
Jehovah~s Witnesses, left for Mil
waukee in July to take charge of;

installing equipment for the Witnesses~ United Worshipers District Assembly, August 22-27.
Kohnert is an elecirical contractor in Flint and has been a
minister of Johovah~s Witnesses
for 21 year. His family will join
him in Milwaukee for the assembly.
Heading a crew of nearly 200
volunteers Kohnert will set up
steam kettles, ovens, trays washers and tables to feed the 30,000
delegates expected for the six-day

gram.

~This may be an unusual way
for a contractor to spend his vacation,~ Kohneri said,: ~but I will

from many parts of the United
States. And, of course, I will
enjoy the assembly myself.~

All the work at the convention
will be done by unpaid volunteers
like Kohnert.

~The purpose of the assembly
is to provide practical training

nesses and persons of all faiths
who would like to attend. Each
day of the program will have five |
hours of varied Bible training
with demonstrations on Bible
teaching methods and talks on

Bible doctrine,~ explained Koh-'
nert.

New Housing For
Southern U. Students

BATON ROUGE, La.~A special feature of the Southern University housing program for students living on campus are the
facilities now available to married students with families and
married women, who wish dorm.
itory -facilities.

Married students with families
will) find the new _ furnished
apartments ideal, according to
T. H. Shields, director of Housing. The two-story brick structure, which ~was completed last
year at a cost of over a quarterof-a-million dollars, features an
all-electric kitchen and furnishings designed for the quarters,

The Housing Director also

are no available accommodations
presently, some apartments will
be vacated during the month of
August. He said several of the
occupants are graduating~ this
summer. For these vacancies, applications. should be made immediately.

Married women students, without families, will find living in
Lottie Anthony Hall, a pleasurable experience, it was stated by
Dean O. B. Moore, dean of Wo-{
men at Southern. Dean Moore
said that personnel found that}
married and mature women in:
school enjoy living in a dormitories with others of like marital,

status than daving eT un
married ~

pointed out. that though, there.

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Urban Renewal, Housing
Workshop Planned For A & T

GREENSBORO, N.C. ~ Preliminary plans for a statewide
~ Urban Renewal and Housing
Workshop to be held at A&T
College this fall were worked out
at a conference here last week.

College officials announced at
the end of the sessions held all
day last Wednesday that the proposed workshop has been tentatively scheduled for the first
week in November.

The workshop proposes to acquaint local lay leadership, builders home owners and ~realtors,
with opportunities available to

their local communities under pre- E. F. Corbett, director of informavailing federal housing legisla- tion services, all of A&T College.

tion. The group announced that
the program will encompass a
broad coverage of housing problems, beth public and private.

The Workshop is to be sponsored by A&T College in cooperation with the Federal Housing
Administration.

Keynote speaker at the meet
was A. L. Thompson, Atlanta, Ga.,
intergroup y ations advisor, Fed
~Free~ Chest
X-Ray Schedule

Is TB important to you? TB
might take you from your job
for months destroying your family~s way of life.

your knowing it.

time and human anguish.

If you have TB, you can find it Bronze Reporter in 1958. His

before it does serious damage.
It can be cured and you return
to a normal, full life. TB need
not be a disaster for you and your
family if you guard yourself.

To guard yourself against hidden 18 get a ~Free~ Chest XRay today. The Chest X-Ray
Unit of the Genesee County Tuberculosis Association will be located at Shoppers Fair, corner
of S. Saginaw and Hemphill, August 22, 23, & 24. Why not take
advantage of this Christmas Seal
Service.

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SHOPPERS FAIR. Saginaw and Hemphill |

August 22, 1961 - Tuesday - 9
to 12 & 1 to 5 pm.

August 23, 1961 - Wednesday -
9 to 12 & 1 tod p.m.

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1B 1s all around fered a heart attack last Tues.
you, as imprisoned but alive He is being treated at the Vegerms, in 1 out of 3 Americans. |terans Hospital, Ann Arbor where
It might be attacking you without his condition is considered serIt cost you and ious.
your community millions in dol-; World War II. He has practiced
lars, and billions in hours of lost law

_. August 24, 1961 -~Thursday -
10 to 2 & 3 to7 p.m.

eral Housing Administration.~
Other persons.eomposing the
initial steering committee, included: A. S. Webb, executive
secretary-treasurer and J. Kenneth Lee, president, both of the
American Federal Savings and
Loan Association; Clarence Winchester, local realtor; Robert
Barkley, director, Redevelopment
Commission of Greensboro and
B. C. Webb, dean of the School
of Agriculture; B. W. Harris, director of Short Course Department; J. M. Marteena, dean.of
the School of Engineering and

Herman Gibson
B.R. Publisher Ill

' Attorney Herman Gibson, publisher of the Bronze Reporter suf
Mr. Gibson is a veteran of

in~ Genesee County since
1952. He begin publishing. the

many friends an associate wish
him a speedy recovery.

Aud. Gen. Otis Smith
Becomes Il! in Office

LANSING ~ Otis M. Smith,
Michigan~s first Negro Auditor
General, was taken to a hospital
here last Thursday with a digestive upset. He was.examineé and
released immediately to go to
his Flint home for a rest.

Smith was rushed to St. Lawrence Hospital from a meeting
in his capitol office with a group
of Turkish: finance officials. He

enjoy working with Witnesses |,

from the Bible for Jehovah~s Wit- |

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BIAS CHARGED
IN POST OFFICE

The Post Office Department is
one of the most discriminatory |
of all government agencies, Clar
enee Mitchell, director of the
NAACP Washington bureau, told
members of the National Alliance
of Postal Employees Monday night
at the opening session of the
group~s annual four-day convention at the Leland Hotel in Detroit.

Mr. Mitchell said President
Kennedy should order a ~sweeping investigation to root out the
segregationists (post office officials) who are using their powers
and their jobs to intimidate and
fire Negro postal employees.~

Mitchell cited the case of W.
W. Law, a postal carrier in Sa
vannah, Ga. The Post Office is|
trying to fire the carrier, Mitchell,

said because he had led a successful campaign to increase reg
istration and. voting among:

colored citizens. Mr. Law also
waged a highly successful fight
to desegregate eating facilities in
the downtown area of Savannah,
Ga..

Mitchell said ~not one major
city of the Nation, North or

South, has a colored postmaster.~ |.

He added that until the Post Office Department is ~ready to
choose postmasters without reard to race in any area of the
couety the work of the National

2 of Postal i, Exaplavens is

addvess by Poatinister Geheral

| Day in the Veterans Memorial

Building Thursday evening.

More than 1,000 delegates from
38 different states attended the
convention. James B. Cobb of
Washington, D. C. is president
of the 47-year-old organization.

At their wedding reception, Mr. and Mrs. William Dulaney Hill make the
first cut on a 5%4-foot-high wedding cake while a cook and his assistant
hold steady the cake to prevent it from being blown over by the strong

winds on Marion Istand, LaSalle, Ontario.

Popular.
Couple:
Speak
Wedding

Vows

One of the most elaborate weddings of the:
year took place at 12:30
o~clock Saturday afternoon when Miss Fredricka (Rickie) Stubbs, |
daughter of Dr. & Mrs.
Alf E. Thomas, of W.
Boston Blvd., went to
the alter with William
Dulaney Hill, of Washington, D. C. in the St.
Paul Cathedral Church.

Fr, Rickford Meyers
and dean John Weaver
read the service.

Mr. Hill is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Archer Hill of Washington, D. C.

Bridesmaids were
Miss Celia~ Hobbs of
Hunkhannock, Penna.;
Andrea and San.
dra Smith of Locsit,
Ohio.

Dr. Clarence Carnot
Evans, Jr. served as,
best. man.

Following the ceremony a reception was
given at Dr. and Mrs.)
Thomas~ summer home

The costae we was ist
tended by immediate
families and close
friends of the newly
weds.

will reside-in Washington,, D.C.

Fred Hart Williams,

Tribune Writer, Passes

Funeral services for Fred Hart
Williams, a writer~, nistoriaN, ana
civil servant, were hneid at la
a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Episcupal Church, Wocdiand and svibrook. Burial was in kimwoou
Cemetery. He died Monday.

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resuiarly wrute
sjotuiies ON Negro
fausturical facts
Mivr we Detrun
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aus) dean, Mr.
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Jocuval abivutie
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Mauager, auu Kditur Lut Cuvpeiatally, all Puuiisuils HIS afutico.
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patron of the arts and the dewrcaudlit UL a Laity WwiiiCal Came
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WILLIAMS -

tusas au Cavic elturts.

He served as a senior taxcierhn
iil tase CUUMLY Lact alUucx UlLice
ev Years velure Wis reureuicur
in lyaz. He tound time during
sad Clap AOYulcCail ~tv aud iitucw ow
vue CUmluuUuulLy @fuudl full.

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ava tue VeCFoil LTivuse, ine daicitiga Coromicie, tne veiruit cur
uvi ul tne Fittsuurgn Cvuricr
anu Negru MagaZifes.

caucaed m wetroit public
schoois, he attended the Universi
ty ul vetruit, tne Vetruit Cuomese +

vi Law ad several Olner SCuuuis
i) une. United States and Canada.

ne pruuaiy usted Memversiy
~alud was an ~active Menioer~
in we Detroit Historical Society,
we sanceriutionai Insutuie, tus
rerum tor wew Music, tne Vvetroit Musicians Association, tue
wational Association of Negro
Musicians, the Detroit Heirioum
Society, and the Friends ot tne
vetroit Puplic Librdry.

He was a moving force and
a founder of the E. Azalia Hacsley Memorial Collection of the
Detroit Public Library.

rendered Mr.
and cultural work by his

friends.

A Spanish-Americany War Vet-!

eran, Mr, Williams lived at 535
Woodland.

He is survived by his wife,
Fiorence, a former teacher and
social worker, and a_ brother,
Wallace, a retired Detroit police lieutenant.

Miss Shipp To Peace Corps

A 55-year-old Negro school |

teacher who overcame poverty, Corps Volunteers training at Iowa;

Miss Shipp is one of 13 Peace

family illnesses and the handi- i State University, Ames, Iowa, for

caps of race to win financial se- |

a Peace Corps project on. the is
curity and community pregtige~, ee of St. Lucia in the West In
has tossed success overboard ~to;
serve in the Peace Corps.

At a time of life when she
might sit back to enjoy the fruits
of -her jong struggle for an education and a career, Miss Madge

dies Federation. ~Miss Shipp, who
holds a Master~s,Degree in Education, is expected to teach in
elementary school there.

Miss Shipp,*if accepted for over
Shipp of Detroit, Michigan, has seas service by the Peace Corps,
chosen to embark on new ad- | will turn down a contract for a
ventures in the service of human- teaching position which would pay

ity.

her about $7,000 per year.

Circulation Man Directs GAle of U.S. Bonds

WASHINGTON, D.C.,

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~ Mr. Sylvestre C. Watkins, Sr., former circulation manager of the ~Chi
cago Daily Defender~ and newly appointed Savin gs Bonds salesman for the U.S. Treasury Department, talks with Senator Paul Douglas (D-II1.), right, and Robert A. Wallace, Special Assistant
to the Secretary of the Treasury. The three met in the Senator~s office following Mr. Watkins~
appointment as Area Sales Representative for Cook County (Chicago) and adjacent Kankakee
County. Senator Douglas recommended Mr. Wat kins~ appointment to the Treasury, and Mr. Wallace, the Treasury~s Employment Policy Officer, handled administrative details and brought Mr.

Watkins into the Treasury~s nation-wide sales or ganization. Mr. Watkins is the first Negro
Representative to be hired by the Treasury. He now joins a sales force of some 250 men

Area
men and

~women who direct over a half-million volunteers- cats otacasyratie saan Ne sau dread tes Series E

i teen

Mr. and Mrs. Hill~!

NAACP Seeks

VIRGINIA LAWS.

|CALL FOR FREE

PUBLIC SCHOOL

RICHMOND, Va.~Ample precedent in law exists for a Federal
court order to reopen the Prince
Edward County, Va., public
schools, lawyers for the National
| Association for the Advancement

of Colored People con in a

supplementary -memora um to
| United States District-Judge Oren
| RK. Lewis here this- week.
|. The memorandum was submit~ted to the. Court on August 7 by

NAACP attorneys Robert L. Carter of New York City and S. W.
~tucker of Richmond and Emporia,

Va. It amplifies and documents
~arguments advanced by the NAACr counsel during the four-day
trial last month of Prince Edward
County school and governing officiais and the Virginia State Superintendeat of fuplic / ~-anstruction.

<

Two Virginia cases, Harrison v.
Day and School board v. Shockley, are cited in support of the
NAACP contention tat Virgina,
uuaer state iaw, has a clear duty,to maintain public schools. Ine: ~
| Harrison v. Day, the Supreme ~
Court of Virginia ruled that the
General Assembly ~must appropriate funds~ to maintain an ef- -
ticient. system of public free
schools throughout the State. ~The
~decision in the other case indi- ~

4 M: _ | Cates hae the General: Assembly
~Tocal ath ties: rom te~ying pee

| collecting tocal school taxes.
(Continued on Page 3)

U.S. Court Probe
Of Alabama Case

WASHINGTON.~The NAACP
hag asked- the United States Supreme Court to review lower
federal court judgments requiring the Association to await action by Alabama State courts to
determine the validity of an injunction, banning NAACP activity in that state.

The petition for a writ of certiorari was filed with the Supreme Court on August 10 on
behaif of the Association by
NAACP attorneys Robert L. Carter of New York City, Fred D.
Gray of Montgomery, Ala.; and
Arthur D. Shores of Birming-,
ham. It seeks to bring to an end
a five-year stalemate during
which the NAACP has been enjoined from any and all activity
in the State of Alabama.

Association activity in the
state has been suspended since
July, 1956, when Alabama Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones issued an injunction banning the
NAACP from operating 1n the
state and further imposed upon
the Association a fine of $100,000 because the organization refused to disclose its list of members and contributors.

(Continued on Page 3)

9 Groups Back

'Patrick Proposal

A group of nine community organizations announced their endorsement to the revised amendment. of Councilman William. T.
Patrick, Jr. to make the Commission on Community Relations
more effective.

The revised amendment withdraws Councilman Patrick~s original suggestion that subpoena
powers be given the Commission.

The organizations joining in
ge of the proposal are:

Association;
Council of Political Education;
Detroit Medical Society; National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People; Pioneer Club;
Trade Union Labor Council; Uni- |
ted Automobile Workers, AFLCIQ; Wayne County AFL-CIO

Council; and~ Young Christian

Workers.