Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 23]
_ eréwd ever to be drawn ~to the fy _ ter Hu Wheeler, Jr., and David Sullivan, president of the Build. | ceived ~Sunday, Nov Roy A. Alles (s In Michigan, ACLU. reas bees involved in efforts to presérve and extend academic freedom in the. public schools and -universities; in support of legal action to restore equal. resentation in the States Senate, tec an impartial police public review board in Detroit. ACLU has defended 1st Amend+|: ment rights'to peacefully pitket, distribute literature, and for fair and reasonable access to publicity-owned meeting halls., The organization has also been active in the field of censorship and in defense of prisoners where a review of the récord indicates violation of constitutional rights. The work of ACLU in the impersonal defense of the Bill- of Rights has won editorial praise from a number of leading news papers, former President Tru ties Union of Michigan, 1302 Cadillac Tower, Detroit 26, Michigan. leaders. ee So} Initial officers of ~the Michig: ACLU anit include Relio O'Hare, Detr Vice-Chairman Charles Pp. ~Latrowe ~ie America, of Michigan~ State University, al Roya. | Howard Jones, | teacher; Treasurer Mrs. Gé ' Bledsoe Ford, Detroit ~at aa nie rector ~ernest Mazey unfonist; and Gonmeat Erwin Elimann; Detéoit ~ of To handie the expanded - aeti vities ACLU is~ planning to hire ~ an executive director for the: state organization. Persons inte-/' rested in the post should submit a written summary of their quali: fieations, background and experi: ence to the American Civil Liber Opportunity Day~ "Dinner McCracklin (Continued from Page 1) with concern ~does not end, employment. opportunity, President Kennedy declared in his mesgage to the NUL... ~We not rest: eontent until equal opportunity is achieved. in all parts @f our.mational life. We. must do this not just. because, the world /crisis~ S@MQess Qist to: utilize full the chung re-| sources of ~this ~nation. -We must do it not just bécause our: role in the world demands that-we prac: tice in stand for in the world. ~We must do it because ~our faith in the dignity.of man~0of all | F men everywhere ~ requires no less.~ -~Secretary - Goldberg delivered the principaj address at the dinner, held in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria: Hotel. The Equal Opportunity Day dinner, given each year since 1956 by the League, celebrates a day set apart by the. organizatien to urge American in all walks of life to rededicate themselves in affirmation of their belief in the immortal words of the Gettysburg Address that ~all imen are crgated equal.~ Chairman of the 1961 dinner, for which turned out the largest event, was Martin E, Segal, NUL Trustee and presitient of a national firm bearing serves~ as consul: suecessive yebr - headed the d ~Each ye re U signally honors two: notable ~Americans ~ one from ~mangemgetit and the other from labor~ im re~ognition of ou contributien to that concept. Honored at the 1961 event were Wal ing Service Employees - Interna tionat Union: The sida were: etd eae ott as at idme. what: wetto; ~ Dar doce County.~ ie 3 McCrackin, Treasurer of ~Op L Richart Visited rownsville on November 7 and 8 in the interests of ~Operation: a a He was arrested and roughly ix a $s Tete Rev. Riuriss McCrackin was arrested Oct. 29, orginally" on a vagrancy charge, as he waited in his car for a friend. ~Convicted November 1 of ~loitering,~ and fined $50 and costs, McCrackin refused to participate in thé trial on what he termed ~trumped-up: charges.~ or to make a legai plea. Asked to do so he replied; ~I am~ pleading that love ahd justice be done to God~s children everywhere - in ecg Asia, Cincinnati, and here. ip eration Freé@om,~ had gone to -) Termesse ~on @etober 23, pulling} \nor Roosevelt and. other on rap uppo | Elaine Hyman as Anna Boleyn | With her | its doors and is sharing its know will: help pre the terial: for. ~ Sipe _ Gressie continually use it. A dipenntie || Reciee wcwsea ~Pit is on 1500 Attend "Fyual = snow! ~and behold an avalanche.~ The six, wives were all very. 00d. Rives, an excellent performance filled with authority ~and emotion, especially when she finds she is going to die. Shirley Davidson has a very character role and ted it to the hilt. An American firm baa Gecan how with officials of several African nations, it was learned today. _ A. group of Labor ~Ministry officials from: West Africa reeently visited ~ the.. Seabtook Farms frozen food processing plant at Seabrook, New Jersey. The visit was arranged | urider tag post master e..1. Baker: - ' Postmaster E, L. Baker announcer that the eh _ test for the Peace Corps will be giv: en on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 28 and 29, 1961 at 8 A.M. in Room. 406 in the F Federal Building. Fee you are beens in taking this test you may ~Go: so ing to Room 406 pig wr} AM. on eithe~ day, "Fotther lntogne tion and applications may be obf, ultive See ~ Board of US, Civil Ser }al Price, University of Michigan -|5 p.m... Dec. 11, 13,..15, 18, 20, | ph HAR p.in. Dec, 19 atid 21, ane be preoditda~ WP MHS | first of Albee~s works to be pre paseo~ jy deans of music de aminers, Room 402 Feder- | lilding, Detroit 33, Michigan. - Monday pate Nov?'13, with General rest Byfott J. Nichols, left, ish mg center, presi ~* dent, Dodge Lovat:,. UAW-CIO; and Plant Manager~ J. B. Neal watching. The Dart, the fitst car. in~ more ~than 30 ~years to successfully invade the low-price field, was first introduced to the public. just 25 months ato on Oct. 9, 1959. The Dart~s public AecHiginee, has. given belie some of the most_ successful years ~in the eompany~s: Aegon history. Ba ~CORE Lauds NAACP shor Riders Defense ~ tend~ fense and Educational Fund for assuming much of the future legal | burden of defending the Freedom Riders. U-M News. Briefs. A series of Christmas carillon concerts will be given. by Perciv carillonneur, and Sidney Giles, assistant. University carillonneur. Priee~s concerts will be given at and..22. Giles will give concerts ~aria? fiers e Seated: ot Sandbox~: b y. tia iat of -Michigan Speech ~| Department ~at~i4:10-4p.m: ' Thurs day (Noy. 16) im the Arena~ Theatre. Admission will be free.: This brief one-act play by the author of ~The Zoo Story~ and ~fhe: American Dream~ is the sented on thé U-M ~campus.. It will be the third Laboratory ee bill Of. the season. % * Deans Jamés-B.z ee, Allen P.: Britton, and Jo h A. Flower | of The University - Michi School of Music will,attend tli apiual meeting of, the Nati Association: of Schools of Music in? Denver, Colo., Nov. 23-25.: iiiter oe on music education ibe: given by Deans Wallace ai Britton. The meeting will be Bd jartments.: representing 250~ coland universities~ from coast to coast. On: Dec, 1-3 Dean Waflace will be in charge_of a pané] at a meet-| ing of the deans of state universities held at the gee ea Ge sc bln id Reno. | Texas. ~ppig~ ~anity of action~ should help maKe clear to Mississippi segregationists that a new day has come,~ said: Farmer. ~We in CORE can now ~oncentrate on our direct action program an leave much of the legal defense ** "to the: NAACP which has unmatch ed skill in this field.~ ~ Farmer pointed out that. CORE will cofitinue to maintain a responsibility and an intérest in the Jackson cases. At the request of the Episcopal Ministers, CORE s,| Will continue to defend these 15 cases directly, ~Of the others arrested in Jackson, 85 have been finally adjudi cated either through serving Of | poceq the complete~ sentence, death, or ~Ppayment of fine: ~In~82 casés-ap-|: eals Bee been ~Bins from the). i the. Hi Ss sn a al fle is i anee? uve~ not. gett~ reached this: court. ' ~CORE will continue to assumé the trarisporation costs of bring: ing-the Riders to and from~ Jackson for ~their trials. CORE -will share responsibility for bail bond with thé Legal Defense Fund. $177,000 is still needed for this purpose. Farmer pointed out that the Freedom Rides have already cost CORE over $282,000. CORE -will continue to be solély respon~sible.for Freedom Rides cases in Shreveport, Louisiana, Ocala and } Tallahassee, Florida and Houston, ~uture Freedom Ride cases in Jackson afid elsewhére ~will also be CORE responsibilities. Séek To Ban Va. law WASHINGTON ~Thé NAACP ~presented fo the United ~ States ~Supreme Court its argutnent for a ruling. banning a Virginia statute which penalizes lawyers in civil rights stits. ~ DRIVE SAFELY as ae a trailer load of -clothing~ for } e P evicted families. He had spent), nearly a week attending meéét-| 4 ings, visiting farmers who took crop loans with Operation Free dom, and gathering erent PS on future needs. In the two southwest Tennesse counties 40 sharecropping f have _re d notices they. ~must rd by January ist. the land they have farmed, in some cases, for many. years. etal hf: Students: |: To ~Apply Wayne State University~s Admissions Office will make every effort to admit all fully qualifi. ed students to the spring.sem estet.. which begins, | Monday, | Feb. 12, 1962. s Undergraduate applications available at high schools: and from the Wayne State. Univer. sity. Admissions. Office, should be sent to the Admissions Of fice; Administrative. Services, Building, 160 Antoinette, Detrot; } Michigan. cants for Bat Ty study. at ply to the WSU- Grad eg fe Diy sion: of Instruction and~ Cohn Building, -5557: ~Cass, erat 2. Complete vg Wate files must. also be ob net application for admission the ~quicker he will receive~ a deci~sion. Since many students are [email protected] take entrance examinations it is important that the applications -be. submitted early enough to. permit the scheduling of such. exams. ~ ~We hope to be able to take care of all applicants this year,~ said.Sarles. ~Since many stu dents ~are making application: for admission earlier~ we ~are able to -process the.-late~ applicants mtich quicker.~ Students will begin. régistering for the second ~semester on caged Feb. 5. Students: who d Before the stud cotta Beas bes thos get oe ne ~Sarlés, direct of admissions, pointed out that fener a rrnateiey. feb. 8. the _eatlier the pesto makes | ee NEW YORK~A half-million dollars, is: im ~the mail this wepk~ for the member colleges and universities of the United Negro. College~ Fund, W. J. Trent jr. grams executive director, announced here today. ~This $500,000 dis-' tribution brings the total alloecated to the member schéols~ during the current calendar year. to $1,553,785,~ Mr. Trent said. Previous _. distributions were made in Jahuary and June, Allocation to the. member schools, from funds raised during the annugl nation-wide College ~intl, campaigns, are determined by a formula developed by the} workers | ~conduct ~the ~ annual college presidents. ~Although tise allocations are Mater ay ~South has~ beer!~ furth eli, ~ Mr. ~Trent said, ~the colleges~ use the funds primarily to provide scholarships, strengthen faculty a ~expand academic proAE 32 UNCF ~teinbers are iridependent, ~accredited colle ~ and ~uitiversitiés located in South. Since the Fund~s incep tion ~in. 1944, ag the pioneer in co-operative fund raising for higher: education, nation - wide -| support for the colleges has ~Steadily ~ imereased. result, higher education, in the bd,~ Mr. Trent ~said: ~Mote 5. than ~ 4,000. volunteer UNCF aos ~throughout the | country. tee ~gae rea Kies of América~s leading garbf a a e | ber techies Ca iclight oe eae Tr, * 1: af Fort Ls u ~ae, ete shares | the oes! Stanley dealer has | household Have You Heard? rs by Col Tyler ~Condletight: and Flowers} Pl " Sidiliey Gifts LOOKING for Christmas stc ing stuffers? For the yhy fot try ~M or Jade~ ucts, Inc. For the pale ve ey of "Gace Os Lotion. mn Por | the ~ pre-holida preparation | products which at ~As a net B ing Jade~ Boe Me t
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