Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 13]

VOLUME 8~NUMBER 13

FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, SEPTENARA 16, 1961

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World Peace Day
To Be Observed

World Peace Day is to be observed Sunday, September. 17, by
the Bahais of the United States.
raga: for peace will be stressed.

It is chiefly through educative
influences, said Mrs. Alice Luther,
chairman, of the Bahais Assembly that we must build up an
ideology loyalty consecrated to
the goal of world peace. For peace
not merely a matter to be arranged between governments. by
treaties. It is the concern of
every citizen of this world of
humanity. Furthermore, it is apparent that if we wer to survive
today and carry forward, civilization to the only development possible in its evolution a one-worldsociety, we must undergo some
transformation in. our thinking
and behavior as citizens.

Such transformation would remove the superstitions residing
in the hearts of men which legislation cannot eliminate. In their
place should be instilled recognition that all nations should become one in faith and all..men as
brothers; that the bonds ~of. affection and unity between the sons
of men should be strengthened;

cease, and differences of race be
annulled. *

Already the Baha~i faith has
demonstrated its unique ability
to draw into its fold followers
not only from every nation, but
also from every race and religion,
all dedicated to tne unity of. mankind and of religion.

There can be no permanent
world peace until the unity of

mankind is firmly established.

Fall Facilities
At Metro Beach ~

James J. Pompo, beach manager, announced new hours of
operations for recreation facilities
at Metropolitan Beach on Lake
St. Clair near Mt. Clemens.

SWIMMING, depending upon
weather conditions, will be available daily from 10:30 a.m. to
6:30 p.m., probably through midSeptember. Bathhouse remains

Airman Injured
In Racial Row

NEGAUNEE, Mich., ~ Lenwood G. Grant, a ~Ait Er airman
iow K. I. Sawyer.

ee was pre = tol
the fst hospital for treatment
for injuries he received in a
racial disturbance. Five other men
were arrested. Grant suffered

face irfjuries, and _ possible
internal injuries.:
Police said the disturbance

began about 9 o~clock Saturday
night when Airman 3-c Grant was
beaten by two white men as the
climax to trouble that. began in
a restaurant about two weeks
ago.

After Grant was taken back to
the base hospital, other Negro
airman appeared in town ~looking for trouble.~ There were white
troublemakers, too, police said.
The local police feared the disturbance would get out of hand
and called in Marquette County
sheriff's deputies and State
troopers.

REPUBLICANS
WIN CON-CON
CONTROL

Tuesday, proved a victorious
day for the Republican Party as
they crushed their Democratic
opponents to win control of Michigan~s Constitutional Convention.

As the election returns were
completed Republicans claimed
over 95 of the 144 delegates seat,
including 17 in legislative districts held by Democrats, giving. the GOP a two-thirds majority
in the convention, which convenes
October 3rd in Lansing.

GOP candidates polled victories,
throughout the state, including
Wayne County, a Democratic
stronghold.

Two. Wayne County Negroes
were victorious in the Con-Con
Senatorial Districts while eleven
won the Representative District
spots.

The Senatorial District winners
are William O. Greene, 3rd; and
Mrs. Lillian Hatcher, 4th. -

Negro winners from the Representative Districts are: Sidney
Barthwell and Morris W. Hood,
Sr., 2nd; Wynne C. Carvin, 3rd;
Fr. Malcom G, Dade, Tom Downs
and Mrs. Daisy Elliott, 4th; Miss
Marjorie McGowan, 5th; Richard
H. Austin, 6th; Coleman Young,
~9th; Att~y Harold E. Bledsoe and
Raymond M. Murphy, 11th. All
Negro candidates ran on the Democratic ticket.

Att~y Fred Yates was unsuccessful in his bid for mayor, trailing 68,000 votes behind incumbent Mayor Louis C. Miriani and
23,000 behind Jerome B. Cavanaugh, who won the other nomination.

All incumbent councilmen, including William T. Patrick, were
nominated.

open.

GOLF COURSE, 18-hole ~Par
3~ course, open daily 8 a.m. to
6:30 p.m. daily through October
31. Nominal charge includes use
of equipment.

TENNIS, four concrete courts,
open daily from 10 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. through October. Nominal
charge for court use and players
must provide their own - equip-!
ment.

BOATING LAUNCHINNG SITE
remains open daily from 7 a.m. to
dusk, without-charge. MARINA
FACILITIES continue to operate
24 hours a day for lake cruiser
craft. Charges 25 cents per hour
from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and $1 for
overnight. do
water outlets provided,

ARCHERY RANGE, 14-targets, | i

open daily from 10 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. through Sunday, September
10, and available for week-end
play week-ends thereafter. Nominal charge for use of bows and
arrows.

GAMES AREA, with volleyball:
basketball equipment, open daily
from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. No
charge.

~ FOOD BAR open 10 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. ~year-around.~

Other facilities available for
fall ~use include the Tot Lot,
Children~s Area and _ Shuffleboard Courts. There is no charge
for parking. Park hours are from
8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily, except
tor the boat lounching site which
opens at 7 a.m.

Five Biblical
Courses Offered

Five Bibical courses will highlight the curriculum offerings of
the life and Leadership School
of the Greater Flint Council of
Churches when it opens on
Monday evening, September 25,
Werner F. Schultz, Dean of the
school in announcing the
classes covering teaching methods
at all ages, leadership development classes and a number of
interest courses.

The five courses on the Bible
are in part in observance of the
10th Anniversary of the Publication. of the Revised Standard
Version of the Bible but also
reflect the growing interest in
courses on the Bible as indicated
on questionaires distributed at
the close of the sessions last
Fall.

Sessions of the school will
be held at First Presbyterian
Church and Court Street Methodist Church and will run for
seven Monday evenings from
September 25 through November
6. Registration for each course
will be made on the opening
evening of the school in the
individual classrooms beginning
at 7:30 p.m.

TAN MILLIONAIRE

A millionaire is rare; a Negro
millionaire is rarer AND a Negro millionaire who doesn~t even
know or really care about the
money is almost unbelieveable.
But such is the tase of Johnny
Mathis, whose exclusive story appears in October SEPIA.

Here is the inside story of a
performer who works for the love

of his art and not for the money.
A man who earns over a million
dollars a year, but has never
owned a car or a home. The

singer, the millionaire, Johnny the organization. The riot broke
Mathis~ story is the great per-out- Wednesday among 5,000 de
sonality story cf 1961.

that diversity of religions should | ~

- Electrical and,;

0 DEFEND BOY, 15,
CED TO DEATH

2 File Suit To Enroll
At Tulane University

NEW ORLEANS, La. ~ Two
young women last week filed
suit in Federal District court
charging that their constitutional
rights were violated when Tulane
Univ. refused them admission for
graduate work. They are Misses
Barbara Guillory and Pearlie
Elloie. s

Falls in Chimney

LOS ANGELES ~ _ George
Brooks, 48, a~ chimney worker,
sustained a back injury when
he fell 125 feet inside an indus
~rial chimney.

Brooks said he quickly put
his trust in God as he fell. He
did not lose consciousness when
he hit the bottom.

U-F Goal Set
at $18,350,000

The United Foundation Board
of Directors last week set a goal
of $18,350,000 for the 1961 Torch
Drive, to be held Oct. 17 through
Nov. 9.

_The Board also pig a reso
four veterans~ organizations.
Walter C.- Laidlaw, executive
vice president of the UF, said
that when the goal is reached, an
additional $150,000 from interest
on short-term investments would
be added to it to make $18,500,000
available for the 1962 budgets of
195 health and community services.

Torch Drive is the highest ever
set for a community-wdie fundraising sampaign. It is more
than double the $8,550,000 asked
in 1949, when $9,259,930 was raised.

Meyer L. Prentié retired treasurer of General Motors and for
12 years chairman of the UF Goal
and Allocations Committce, recommended the figure to the
board at a meeting dt which William M. Day, president of the
Michigan Bell Telephone Company and president of the United
Foundation, presided.

Heads Youth Center

PHILADELPHIA ~ Wilbur E.
Hobbs is the first Negro in ~the
history of Pennsylvania to be
named superintendent of an institution operated by the Public
Welfare Dept.

Hobbs, 40, was appointed superintendent of the state Youth De
The goal set for this year~s)

| these

AIRMa.e riansd cenos WILDERT HALL, Jove sscici ave., Vetroit,
outstanding graduate in Class 7-61, Non-Commissioned Officers Prep School at Lackland Air Force
Base, Texas. At the graduation ceremony Airman Hall was presented a desk set, symbolic of the
~high honor, by Colonel Ben A. Settles, commander, Officer Candidate School at Lackland.

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Michigan, was named the

NEW: YORK. ~ The peaceful
desegregation of public schools in
two major southern cities ~
Atlanta and Dallas~ ~_ was hailed
this week by NAACP Executive
Secretary Roy Wilkins as ~an
indication that the more stable
elements in southern communities
have decided to take control of
the situation.~

Mr. Wilkins also paid tribute
to ~the vital but little publicized
role of the NAACP branches in
cities in effecting the
change-over from segregated to
non-segregated systems of public
education.

~The pioneer role the NAACP
played in establishing the illegality of racial segregation in public
education is. well known,~ he
asserted. ~However, the painstaking, unglamorous hard work
done by the Atlanta and Dallas
branches in raliying support for
desegregation, in explaining. the
terms of the desegregation plans
to parents, and in persuading
applicants to apply for transfers
to formerly all-white schools has
been quietiy performed with littie
public nofice. But without it,
the plan in both cities may well
have failed for want of applicants for transfers.~

It now appears, the NAACP

velopment center in Philadelphia.l!eader pointed out, ~That no ma
The Rev. Arthur Garfield
Wright, 64, one of Detroit~s leading ministers and businessmen
was buried Thursday afternoon
from New Harmony Baptist
Church, 2455 Mt. Elliott, where
he served as pastor...

Mr. Wright owned a ~funeral
parlor at 505 E. Hancock. He was
founder of the Wright Mutual
Insurance Co.

morning, 17 hours after he suf
the platform during-a fight among
ministers attending the 81st Ann
Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.
Rev. Wright was taken to Menorah Memorial hospital where he
remained ina coma and succumbed after doctors performed two}
hours of emergency surgery in an
effort to repair damage.

Wright was standing on the
platform in the midst of a pitched battle over the presidency of

legates when supporters of the

Rev. Wright died last Thursday ~
fered a severe head injury when;
he either fell or was pushed from

ual National Baptist Convention ~
at the Area of the Municipal

His salary will be $9,923 a year.jor city in the South is willing

Rev. Wright Buried
From New Harmony

"REV. A. G. WRIGHT

Rev. Gardiner Taylor, of Brooklyn,
were thrown back by adherents
of the Rev. J. H. Jackson, of
Chicago.

In the melee pushing and swinging fists that lasted for about

10 minutes, the Rev. Wright was
thrown to the floor.
h

to risk the experiences: of Little
Rock and New Orleans. The responsible business elements in
southern cities have at last realized the damage desegregation
violence inflicts upon the prestige
and economy of their cities. They
seem determined to keep the
local) hoodlum. elements under
control.~

Further, he observed, not only
has desegregation in 1961 been
achieved without violence in a
score of southern cities, but much
of it has been the result of volunteer action without the necessity of specific court orders. In
at least 14 communities, local
school boards voluntarily initiated
desegregation programs.

While pleased with the peaceful aspect of 1961 desegregation,

and with the breakthrough against}.

long tradition, Mr. Wilkins noted,
une INAACP is ~far from satisfied
with the continued token- quantity of desegregation. We will
not be satistied as long as the
vast majority of school children
vf both races continue. to attend
segregated schools. Token intezration is not enough for us,
for white children or for the country.~

In Atlanta, the NAACP branch,
under leadership of its president,
Ur, Samuel W. Williams, organized and conducted the campaign
of interpretation and recruitment
essential to the implementation of
the school board~s plan. Aiding
the branch in this campaign were
amos C. Holmes, NAACP field
secretary, Dan Byrd of New Orleans; and Miss June Shagaloff of
the New York office. Oniy nine
Negro students were admitted to
four ~white~ ~high schools in that
| city.

Similar quiet, effective work

pee carried on in Dalias where

the branch established a special
education committee under the
chairmanship of Kev. Rhett James.

Anti-Bias Job

The NAACP this week hailed

| the beginning of a Negro. com
munity crusade to eliminate ractal, job discrimination following
a successful leadership meeting
called by the Detroit Branch NAACP last Thursday in the Veterans
Memorial Building.

The Leadership group representing church, labor, civic, business, professional and fraternal
organizations in the Negro community pledged ~full and confinuing support to an intensive,
militant and sustained campaign
to secure the complete economic
emancipation of Negro Americans
in Detroit and Michigan~.

Seiective Buying Endorsed

With the leadership of Detroit

~Negro ministers, the Conference

gave full endorsement to ~selecuve buying~ as a ~legitimate~
method to be used in winning equal job rights for
Negroes in all occupational
fields. It said every other
~just and constitutional method
of eliminating racial discrimination in employment will be used
to whatever extent necessary.~
A special committee of ministers
was set up to work out the details
of a selective buying program.

State~s Oldest Voter

Is Congratulated |

~Herbert L. Finley, 82, of
3504 Springhill, Inkster, voted
in '~fuesday~s election, thus keeping his record for voting in
every election for the past 51
years. Finley, who was born
May 27th, 1879, cast his first
vote on Nov. 3, 1900. Secretary
of State James M. Hare congratulated Finley at a meeting
Monday night at Carver School,
inkster. Finley is believed to
be Michigan~s oldest voter.

Hare said Finley was the
~type of voter~ whicit~ Michigan
could use more of.~

Mrs. Roosevelt
Appeals for Life
Of Preston Cobb

ATLANTA. ~ D. L. Hollowell,
attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People in. Georgia, has
been retained to defend 15-yearold Preston Cobb who, charged
with the slaying of a white man,
was convicted by an all-white
jury in Monticello, Ga., last
month. He received the death sencence.

Following investigation of the
case by Vernon E. Jordan, NAACP field secretary for Georgia,
Mr. Hollowell was retained at
the request of Mrs. Leatha Cobb,
mother of the cunvicted boy. The
lawyer is reviewing the court
securd to determine~ whether
enere are discrepancies and errors
which would justify a petition for

~1a new trial. He has until Septem
ver 16 to file a retrial.

The NAACP investigation reveaied that no Negro has served
on a jury in Jackson County,
where the crime was committed
and the trial held, for more than
40 years; that the court appointed
attorney failed to raise pertinent
constitutional issues; and that
tnere is a possibility that persons
other than young: Gobb were in
~|volved.in the murder.

Frank * Coleman wumas,. the
slain man, was a farmer and the
employer of Mrs. Cobb; a widow,
who with her children lived on
the Dumas plantation in a dwellang not far trom the ~big house~
occupied by the Dumas family.

~Lhe slaying followed a quarrel
last June between Mr. Dumas
and Preston Cobb.

In New York Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt appealed to Americans
Monday to wire Gov. S. Ernest
Vandiver of Georgia asking
clemency for young Cobb who
has been sentenced to electrocuuon Sept. 22.

In her syndicated column, ~My
Day,~ the tormer First Lady said~

-|there wouid be worldwide re
Percussions in Georgia~s ~unensigntened penal legisiation~~ was
responsible tor the execution of
a minor.

Indict Slayer Of
Prof. for Murder

BATON ROUGE, La., ~ The
East Baton Rouge grand jury
indicted Joseph A. Lemelle, 23,
of Lake Charles, La., for murder in the Aug. 13 knife-screwdriver slaying of ~a Southern
University instructor..

Vernon A. Dauphin 38, an
instructor at SU, was slain at
his home, 2570 78th St. Investigators said Dauphin died of
numerous stab wounds in the
chest. Officers also said a fourinch screwdriver was found
jabbed in Dauphin~s head.

Lemelle was arrested two days
later in Lake Charles and reportedly admitted to deputies that he
Staobed Dauphin. Lemelle had
been a student of Dauphin when
he was a high school teacher in
Opelousas, La.

Investigators said Lemelle
claimed the slaying occured in a.
quarrel.

CORE Convention Votes To Push ~
Freedom Rides, Employment Drive

WASHINGTON, D. C.,
gates,to CORE~s 19th annual Convention voted unanimously to
adopt a report presented by Na
tional Director James Farmer to!
~return the struggle for dignity,
on the nation~s highways from |

America.~.

The Freedom Ride resolution
called for the recruitment and
special training of a new groups

tof Freedom Riders committed

to-a no-bail policy no matter what
the length of their sentence.~
At the same time the 150 con
vention delegates voted to con
bonds.

~ Dele-, tinue legal support for those Free- voted to take action to end
dom Riders now out on appealemployment discrimination
all levels, up to and including

~in

The Freedom Rides were calledihe managerial~ in national re~but the first step in an unre-tail chain stores. Local groups
mitting campaign that will bepresented to the Convention reconducted by CORE to achieveports of their activities at Sears,
the courts to the conscience of freedom for all who wish to xoebuck and other major chains.

travel in this country.~
CORE also called upon Negroes
to become ~Freedom Dwellers~

In another session the convention voted to ~~~extend the full
and ~to launch a nation-wide cam-est measure of cooperation to

paign to secure unlimited opportunities for all Americans to obtain decent housing.~

JOB DRIVE

those other organizations which
share our dedication to a responsible, non-violent means of attaining human dignity, individuality

The CORE Convention alsoand freedom.~

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