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_ VOLUME 8 NUMBER 28

~Candidates F For ~Miss
| Oldtimer 1962"

Next Monday night four charming and gracious young
ladies will occupy the stage for a moment in time as they.
seek the honor of being selected ~Miss Oldtimer for 1962~.

MISS SHARON MURPHY

Miss Murphy plans on becoming a schoolteacher. When she
is not studying, she enjoys sing
MISS JEAN BOYCE

In addition to Miss Beverly
Vaughn who chad been announced
previously, Bob Tucker, secretary of the Oldtimers Club announces that Miss Vaughn _ is
receiving stiff competition from
Miss Jean Boyce, 19, Miss Sharon
Murphy, 16, and Miss Delores Y:
Hill, 17.

Miss Boyce is attending Flint
Junior Community College. She
plans to take a course in beauty
culture.

or playing tennis. Sewingis her
hobby.

WSU Newsgaper
Workshop Set
For Jan. 5

eneral news, women~s
advertising will ~be:

A graduate-of Flint Central
High School, Miss Boyce is the
M.ughter of Mrs. Annie Bell
Robinson, of 4306 Selby Street.

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Sports,
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wSUTH McGregor~ Giematinn Oo.
ference Center, Jan: 5. A coffee
hour at. 9:30 a.m.~ will precede
the program.

The morning session will be
~~ | devoted to sports. The panel will:; feature Detroit sports editors
* | and columnists Lyall Smith, Detroit Free~ Press; Doc~ Greene,
Detroit News; James O'Toole,
Mellus Newspapers, and James
Ritz, Dearborn Incependent. They
will discuss special problems of
sports coverage and improvement

ing, dancing, skating, swimming, | -

examined at the fifteenth news-{|

MISS DELORES HILL

Miss Hill attends Flint Central
High School where she will graduate in June. She plans on continuing her schooling.
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of sports pages.

Luncheon speaker will be E.
Dawson Fisher, Publicity Direc:
tor, J. L. Hudson Co., who will
discuss trends in retail merchandising, retailers~ policies in relation to discount stores~ competition and to the population ~shift
to suburbia. C. Randall Choat of
Weekly Newspaper Representatives will make a brief ~répert
and there will be a brief Press
Club. meeting.

Church History At The
Canaan Baptist Church

WILL SOMEDAY SHOW HOW difes to church every Sunday
ALFRED L, ROBBS COMPLETED Whmorning. Why shouldn~t they
HIS RISE TO COMPLETE have a little encouragement for

DICTATORSHIP IN 1961. Luristmas time?

Some few weeks ago I re-' I am told that Robbs sent
ported thrugh the co:umns of- two of his ~Red Apple Boys~
this newspaper that Brother Em- with Bro. Robinson after Robinmet Robinson, the superintend-. son after Robinson ~refused to

ent of the ~Sunday School at Cana- accept no. for an answer. Bro. |

an Church, was headed for Robinson couldn~t be trusted to
trouble, not because he is not buy some apples, candy and ice~
a good superintendent, but to cream for the kids. The members
the contrary. He had the cour: of the Canaan Church have ~been
age to say and do what he knows going along with wrong just for
to be right. ~peace sake so they say. But I
Bro. Robinson services as su- ~think they have been. ema to
perintendant of the Sunday speak up for their rights. But
School will end at the next it doesn~t matter what their reabusiness meeting of the Church. son is for supporting wrong, you
Robbs has hand picked one of just cannot get away with it.
his ~Red Apple Boys~ to replace Robbs will use you just as he~
him. This young man has been has many. others, then kick you
so. brain weshed until he will out when he no ~longer needs
do anything Robbs says. ~! you. Just as. he has done With
I have also been informed that many ~ ~others. All dictators work
Alfred Robbs was wholly in favor | the same way. So~today I am
of the children having a good calling on:the hold membership
Christmas until he ~was given of. Canaan Baptist to rise to the
his Christmas gift. He didn~t want ~ occasion. Throw off the yoke of
them. to have anything at all. | bondage, get rid of Alfred Robbs
When he was reminded of the' and his dictatorial. operations,
fact that he had accepted all and return Canaan Church back
that he could get he said ~well/to it~s. members, so they can
that is different.~ Will someone
So any member can give a

sworn in last Friday nmiorning.

U. S. Federal~ Suit judae. Wade McCree..
Court Judge Charles Farmer exchanged greetings after they were =

Ne mon Pleas.
~Lidwards. Photo..

otessing need~ of bs for the
gity~s ~125,000 une pployed citi7ens.

~Some of the ~parad ers~ out of
regular jobs. for much as
shree to five years,;\ sent their
representatives before, the. Common Council to plead jfor public
works programs (Ci State or
Federal).

The ages of ieee in the dramatie eifurt ranged from men
n. their mid-twenties throug
nen in their sixties.

Many of tne victims of automation in the automobile plants,
sspecially Chrysler, Dodge -and
dudson plants, as well as smaller
automobile supplier plants, were
yutspoken in their denunciation
~ those auto plants that allow
oresent. employees to ~work qvertime~ rather than recall many
of their laid-off help,

~The unions are collaborating
with the management. of some
of the auto plants in ~allowing
unjust overtime~ for those on
their payrolls, without calling in
laid-off workers,~ one parader
declared.:

~Ov dg:,
employers, is. ras,

ployee: stated: ~~many*of our: divisions are workitg- men ~ fen
hours, six and: ~seven days a week.

~How many: Ford met~ are ~laid- |.
off. and rightfully~, dué to be

called -in, I don~t know.~
A majority~ of the men who
rallied at Cobo Hall where Coun
ciiman Dr. Mel Ravitz promised~

to ~do something about it in
the new. administration,~. are
former employees of Detroit's
largest single employer, Chrysler
Corporation.

Officials of Dodge. Locals 3
and 51 asked Common Councii
to ~seek Federal projects to aid
the unemployed.~

Charles Waiters, chairman of:

Local. 3. Unemployed Workers
Council. requested. Council to
~promote steps for City and Federal public works programs.~

Steve Pasica, president of Local 51 also spoke in behalf of
the nearly 1,000 unemployed men
present as well as the other 120 -odd thousands.

WASHINGTON, D.C, ~-Internationally famous dancer Carmen de Lavallade and the Capital Ballet Company of Washington, D. C, will appear in two
~concerts at Howard -University

~ University, Friday and Saturday.

January 19-20. ~.

The Friday performance is an
evening concert scheduled for
8:30 p.m..The Saturday perform
~ance is. a matinee concert set

for 2:30 p.m. Both performances! will be held in Cramton Audi| torium, Sixth and~ Fairmont Sts.,

northwest,

The concerts will be sponsered
_ by the Howard University Faculty Women~s Club for the benefit
of aid.

A star of theatre, television,
concert and opera, Miss de Lavallade has won wide acclaim for
her variety of dance interpretations. She appeared in dance
interpretative roles- of jazz singer Billie Holiday, the Virgin
Mary, the biblical Esther and
Eve, and the. 2 tegor ge Cocaine Lil

once again worship God in peace. spo

Dancer To Give Benefit
Concerts At Howard U.

She made her stage debut in
the ~Broadway musical,: ~House

of Flowers,~ and has acted and

danced in such films as. ~Odds
Against Tomorrow,~ ~Carmen
Jones,~ ~Demetrius and the Gladiators,~ ~The Egyptian,~ ~and
~Lydia Bailey.~

On television, she has appeared
as a guest on the. Ed Sullivan
Show, and as heroine Bess in
the production of George Gershwin~s ~The Porgy and Bess Suite.~
She also.starred in the TV producton of Duke Ellington~s musical hit, ~A. Drum is a Woman,~
and the ~Look.Up.and Live~

programs. Other: video appear- |

ances include roles in three successive Christmas présentations
of ~Amahl and the pce Visitores? 7.

Many See Cuncart

At Berinett College. GREENSBORO, N. C.,~ The
annual _ candle-light ~ Christmas

{ choir concert at Bennett College
et-| Sunday night attracted a capacity.
a 6 to. Pfieffer Chapel. -

ewe Joabaentes oa~ ipekiee
~man for~ the
~Equality (CORE) says acid was
~tassed at ~seven.members of the
ri anization. while they particifed ~in a, lunch counter ~sit-in

| at a variety store in downtown; New Orleans.

A hospital supervisor sald five
rsops were treated and later
released. A>police official quoted
the attending physician as saying
there. was. no: Bde ac ine of bodily

ewe~ Orleans. chapter of CORE,
said a man poured acid down the

~| back of Ed Clark, a white stu
ident at Tulane University, as
ped picketed outside a Woolworth~s store.

-A few: hours later, Clark and

>| loin others had acid thrown: on ~
= ttthem while ~they: staged a~sit-in
Pe pee. the store, he said.

1 Wed ines cee ac

~TAMPA~Robert Ww. ~oiaieaiale
dr. became thé second Negro to
he approved for admission to a

| thie. NAACP.

father ~is field secretary of the
NAACP.

~Saunders, Sr., who is a former
Detroiter, said _he requested his
son~s transfer because the white
school is 34% -miles closer to
their home than the Negro school.

Order Mental
Test For Boy, 9,

PHILADELPHIA~The fate of
a nine-year-old-boy. accused of
causing the death of his one-yearold sister by placing her in a pot
of boiling water~depends on

jthe report of a~ psychiatrist.

The youngster, Glenn Johnson,.of 631 N. 17th St, was
arrested on a homicide charge
and his mother, Mrs. Marie Johnson, who was pro-held under $500
bail by Judge Sydney Hoffman
on charges of neglect, voluntary
and involuntary manslaughter,

The victim was Margo Marie
Johnson, who was pronounced
dead at Hahnemann Hospital.

"Detectives revealed a story
stranger than fiction about the
youngsters. who have never been
to -school~about Glenn, who is
mother and father to his younger
brother and. sisters.

j He cooks and cleans.

When the detectives went to
the apartment he proudly boasted

baked beans.. At- the timestha was trying
to make bread out of flour and
water to feed his hungry brothers
and sisters.;

Neighbors reported~ that the
ehildren act like wild animals
whenever they go outside.

~They ~acted gl and ran

jup and down the erect, Seg
~goers said.
| ~Detectives re ~that the}

4 children did: not Have any clothes |
|~only the clothing _ that they

| had on, ~

When ~arrested, Wiiisa: tod ae

ss of Racial;

Dents Castle, Ghaneuicn of the

white school. here. Like the first| ~
he is the son of an official, of |;

~The county board voted last | -
~night to permit the transfer of be
Robert, a second ~grader. His,.:

- WASLINGTON~An executive
order banning- racial. and_religions discrimination in federally

assisted housing has been delay
ed. to: avoid irritating the South- |
orn Demoerats.

Key. administration sources.
said that the presidential order
would not be issued unfil efter

the 1962 ~Congressional. session,

and possibly: hot | il after the
election ber.

President: Gatincdh ~seus the
Southern Democrats~ *otes in the
coming sessien. Any antagonizing of Dixie Democrats. misht
result in: losing the present slim
prospects for tax revision, medicab care Foca? kai cutting saan

ee
Until Nov. 62

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During his 1960. cackeeittal
campéign, Mr. Kennedy promised to iss~e an ~ prohibiting
@'scrimination in selling houses
financed with government insur
|ed or guaranteed loan money,

in: federally built urban renewal
projects or built with direct govornmient.foans.

A secondary reason ~for. ~the:
postponement was said to be.
failure to decide whether the
order should also ban discrim-jnation in making home itoans
by federally regulated banks and
savings and loan. associations.
~Mr. Kennedy has been criticiz-~
ed by civil rights groups for not
_ having issued the order already.. ~ é
oe, So diyeg Shy eas ae vet ana igs

Who Broiled Sis.

Soltek es~ an official of the Boy Scouts 1 ~ L. M.
Quinn, (standing). vice-chairman. Béoker T. Washington Trade
Association; and Judge James Lincoln of the Wayne County Juvenile Court are some ~of the citizens responsible for bringing gifts
and cheer to scores of youths at the Booker T.. Washington Trade
Association~s annual dinner and Christmas party for-boys from
the Juvenile Court Youth Home, ~~Edwards Photo.

800 On Freedom Ride;

Amex!

he can fry Potatoes and heat.

canes men torn, khahi pants.

11 Cafes Serve All

BALTIMORE~Over 800 whites
and Negroes from the entire
Eastern Seaboard joined in
CORE~s Route-40 Freedom Ride
uver the weekend. They received
servicé -consistently-in 11 of the
38 réstatirants involved, In addition, 42 restaurants had desegregated a few weeks previously
under the threat-of the ride.

CORE National Director James
Farmer: told a mass meeting of
the Riders in Enon~ Baptist
Churth:. ~We. shall soon desegregate ail of ~the restaurants
along U.S. 40 but that is only the
beginning, First, we must tear
down the wails of segregation.
Then we must build bridges of
friendship.~ -;

After the mass meeting the
hundreds of. ~Freedom Riders pa
raded / ~through downtown Baltimore chanting, ~Freedom, Freedom.~ Many bystanders sone
the parade,

Fourteen Freedom Riders ineluding James Peck, CORE-lator.
editor, were arrested during the
day. Peck and six others chose
to remain in jail rather than to
accept bond..

In nearby, Princess Anne, Md.,
ten student integrationists today
spent Christmas in-jail by their
uwn choice, ~;

The six Negro and four.white
students were -arrested Christmas Eve when they staged a sitin demonstration in nearby Crisfield, the home town of Maryland~s Gov. J. Millard Tawes.

~Arrested were five men and

five women,

ECORSE ~ eae wer dip
patched to the home of Ester
Seventh wat ecomact
- Officer William~ Marr, of Fort
~Green station, said Pace~s wife
| called in the report that her hus
Russew.:

When police informed Russew
~of the threat, he said he didn~t
believe them and told officers
they had no business on his
property unless they had a search
warrant. Soon. afterwords, Rus
sew was wounded with a shotoom