Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 36]

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2 "FEB 5 24 1962;
_FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY _

VOLUME 8~NUMBER. 36.

Associated Real
Hold Installation

FLINT ~ Last Sunday The~

Associated Real Estate Brokers
of Flint concluded a busy after
noon with an installation Ban-)

quet at Stedman~s Restaurant,
111 E. Kearsley. ~

Mr. Raymond F. Clevenger,
Michigan Corporation Securities
Commissioner, installed the officers.

The officers ~installed~ were:
Charles A. Ross, president; W.
J. Tweedie, vice president; Victoria Ridgway, secretary pro-tem;
Howard Bryant, assistant secretary and Bertha R. Simms, treasurer.

Introduction of guests was by
Dr. Edelbert G. Rodgers, the occasion was by the Hon. Roger B.
Townsend, Michigan. Representative from 1st District: Introduction of. speaker was by Herschel
J. Phillips and the speaker was
Charles Warden, president of the
National Association of Real Estate Brokers.

Mr. Warden pointed out to the
brokers assembled that the federal and local governments were
deeply involved in the housing
field. The government buys and
sells land, builds houses, rents
houses, gives mortgages and participates in many activities which
we.used to associate only with
real estate brokers and builders
and pointed out that this increag
ed activity was good for housing:
in general and good for all. minority groups.

Underscoring past attitudes
and. practices of many Negro real
estate brokers, Warden posed
many of the problems integration
will bring and asked the brokers

Attempt at J
Kt Gab;

FLINT. ~~ The Committee for

Religious Principles and Democratic Action will attempt to hold
a special election Sunday, February 25th at the Canaan Baptist
Church, 910 E. Gillespie Street
for the purpose of determining
whether the Rev. Alfred L. C.
Robbs shall continue his services
as pastor of the Canaan Baptist
Church.

The announced time for the
special election is following the
morning service.

Last Sunday morning ~Mrs.
Irene Harris, who tast September
read a list of charges against the
pastor, read the announcement
of the special election. Rev. F.
W. Earnest, assistant~ to Rev.
Robbs is reported to have stated
that there would not be any meeting Sunday or any time unless
called by the pastor.

Mrs. Harris explained to the
press that according the bylaws and rules and regulations
of the church the church has a
business meeting monthly and
an annual election meeting in
December of each year. She further stated except for the May!

kee Brokers
Banquet:

~Are we ready for its 7~ ~Are we
prepared to meet the challenges
that will come with integration?~

Earlier in the day the Associated Real Estate Brokers sponsored

_a housing forum in two sections,

Mortgage Panel from 1:00 p.m~

3:00 p.m. for real estate people | ~

and people in allied fiefds and

jan Urban ~Renewal Panel, from~
-3:00: p.m.~5:00 p.m. Moderator

of the mortgage panel was Hawkins Steel,, Diggs Building, Housing and Mortgage Co. of Detroit
and moderator of the Urban Renewal panel was Edward Turner,
a Detroit Attorney.

The Urban. Renewal _ Section
panelists were Charles Richert,
director of Flint Urban Renewal,
Elon H. Michels, director of the
Inkster Urban Renewal, Atty.
Kenneth Hylton, a Condemnation
Specialist of Detroit and Atty.
Snow Grisby of: Detroit.

Richert spoke on the purpose
of urban renewal and the need
for such a program in Flint.
Hylton warned that ~some cities
have used urban renewal as a
tool for segregation.~ Hylton
made it clear that every city
must wake up to. the fact that
slums can be moved from one
section of the city to another.
Grisby stated that they found
that urban renewal will open up
many jobs but preparations
should be started now. He fur
ther stated that to his knowledge |

net a single white church has
been~ displaced by urban renewal
or afm expressway.

The key question was what will
be done with the people cee
ed.

22 1962 business meeting, Rev.
Robbs has not called a business
meeting or an annual meeting
until. he called January 5, 1962
at which meeting they didn~t
hold an election..

According to Johijson Buchanan, the election will be by secret
ballot and: all members over the
age of 16 will be entitled to vote..
Copies of the charges against the
pastor have been mailed to members: of the chugeh, Buchanan
said.

A three year simmering feud
between the pastor and the dea
cons.and trustees erupted last;
May when the Rev. Robbs, chair- |

ing a joint meeting of the board
ruled that the deacons and trustees. were subject to dismissal
without notice and charges being
placed against them.

The deacons in retaliation called a meeting at the church and
voted to remove.the pastor. On
May 22,1961 the Rev. Robbs called a business meeting and with
his now famous ~youth brigade~
smashed his opposition and attempted to drive mafy of them
from the church. A law suit. followed which is still pending.

Jail Fails To Stop

BIRMINGHAM, ~Ala.~The Rev.
Fred L. Shuttlesworth and the
Rev. J. S. Phifer are carrying
on the struggle for integration
in Birmingham from their cells
in the City jail.

The two Negro ministers, president and vice-president of the
Alabama Christian ~Movement
for Human Rights, were jailed
Jan,/25 after the U. S. Supreme
Court refused to review their
1958 convictions for defying Birmingham bus_ segregation. Mr.
Shuttlesworth is under a 90-day
sentence and Mr. Phifer, a 60-day
sentence.

Since they went to jail, they
have. initiated petitions to city
end county officials Sor desegre
gation of all courthouse facifities
~water fountains, restroom: and
courtroom seating~and for an
- to discrimination in city and

for integration of f the ~Upiversitg

Minister In Rig hts |

tions for gn that have been
tiled.

In asking that-courthouse facilities be integrated, Mr. Shuttlesworth and Mr. Phifer made note
of the inscription over the door
of the County courthouse here
and said:

~It is inconceivable + fat denial.
of rights and due proccss~ would
continue at _the courthouse,
whedz the pubic inseription
reads: ~Equal~ and exaci jus..ce

/ to all men of whaiver * state or

persuasion.~ ~~ ~

A similar petition p~rtaining to
city court facilities was sent to
Birmingnam s. three city commissioners and brought an unusual reply from Mayor Arthur
J. Hanes. It was addressed to
Mr. Shuttleworth and Mr. Phifer
at the City Jail. ~It read:;

- ~Ordinarily | do not carry on

HIS FIRST PONTIAC~George W. Romney and Pontiac Urban League board member Charles M.
Tucker, Jr., examine model Pontiac car presented to*the ex-American Motors president after his
appearance at Pontiac Northern High School Friday night. The gift ~to a man temporarily unemployed~ drew chuckles from Romney and the com ment that he had ~the greatest respect for the

Pontiac Motor Division~ but wasn~t sure who came out ahead in last year~s sales:

Major Con-Con Items~

PONTIAC ~ Addressing the
annual dinner meeting of the
Pontiac Area Urban League last
Friday, George W. Romney said

the inclusion of ~unquestioned,

equality~ in civil rights~ was
among thé seven major items

Mayor Names
6 New Members
To Rights Unit

Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh
Monday named six new members
to the Commission on Community
Relations, The appointees, who
will serve for three years are:

Stanley Winkleman,
vice president of Winkleman~s
He is president of the Jewish
Community Council, a member
of the Board of Governors of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, a
member of the Board of Directors of the Detroit Tourist and
Convention Bureau, a member
of the Board of Temple Beth El
and a member of the Governor~s
Fair Campaign Practices Committee.

Mrs. Alma Polk, was president

of the Welfare Commission in!

1960. She was a member of the

commission for six years. Mrs.

Polk is a former high school
teacher of Gary, Ind., and a former member of the faculty of Fisk
University, Nashville, Tenn. She
is also a member-of Board of Directors of the Metropolitan
YWCA and of the Lucy Thurman
YWCA.

Ernest Shell, an executive of
the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. He is a member of
the board of directors of the Urban ~League, a vice president of
the. Detroit Branch of the
NAACP and a member of the
board of directors of the Booker

T. Washington Business Associa-7

tion. He is a former member of
the Wayne County Board of Su
Mark Schmidt is the general
manager of the Sheraton Cadillac

Hotel. He is past president of/the
Dobie Hotel Association and the

American Management Associa
tion. He is a committee chairman

ef the American Hotel Associa
Kons 8 wegibet: the asta

who _ is:

achievements in the new constitution being planned~ in Lansing.

Romney urged Michigan citizens to have confidence in the
new constitution as a step tow:
ards giving new strength to the
weakening roots of American
government. He pointed out that
he was attempting to make a nonpartisan report on con-con progress.
~ ~fhe nation has been forcefeeding the plant of American
democracy to bring it into greater bloom. But in the process,~ he
warned, ~you dry up the roots of
the plant and deprive it of its
future strength.

4ie accountant in charge of the
veut Ullive OL tne accounting
furm uf Arviour Anaersyn ~ ~Lu.
fie 18S Feturing presiaent of tne
vetroit. Codnet of Caurches ana
a memiver of the board of direeturs UL the vetroit Sympnony Urchestra Association, the Detroit
Grand Opera Association, ~United
Community Services, Michigan

Childrens Aid Society and

Friends of the Detroit Publie Library.

Willie (cq) L. Baker, is national
representative of the Detroit and
Midwestern States Joint Board,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America (AFL-CIO). He is also
a member of the. board of direct
~ors of the Detroit Branch of the |

NAACP; vice president and di
rector of the Trade Union Lead- | -

ership Council and a delegate to
the Wayne County _ AFL-CIO

Council.

The new commission members
replace six who have submitted
their resignations ta Mayor Cavanagh.

- ~One of the musts of American
government is the strengthening
of local and~ state governments,~

Romney told some 400 guests in

the auditorium of Pontiac Northern High School.

The Urban League of Pontiac
elected by acclamation five new
members of its board of directors. and presented two service

awards ~one to board member}
Charles M. Tucker, Jr. _and one}

to The Pontiac Press. _
~Tucker, of 197 Luther Ave,
vice for two years as ch

of the annual rere. een: -gdo for your country.~
~The Pontiac Press was cited] ~
for ~outstanding service- in the}.

5) Somemaeity in race erase a re- a 2
lations.~

Romney

Meany Asked
To. Aid Negro
Apprentices

ST/LOUIS, Mo. ~ The~ NAACP
has asked AFL-CIO President
George Meany to interverie in behalf ~of. two Negro appréntices
being denied use of a training
manual by Local.,562, Plumbers
and Pipefitters Union, here.

The young men, Oliver Parker
and Ronald Leonard, are the first
Negro apprentices to attend
O~Fallon Technical High School.

They were admitted into the
Plumbers and Pipefitters ap.
prenticeship training program
~over vigorous and sustained. ob
jectiéns of the union,~ NAACP! complaints from*servicemen sta
Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins
said in his wire to Mr. Meany.

Pistreccon County, Rev. Shuttles-, Worth was sentenced to 180 days)

| Educational Fund petition asks |
| the high court to-review a judg-|
|; Mentief the Alabama Court of

upheld ~the minister~s convictions.

|

~Shuttleworth, Billups

~Serving Jail

NEW YORK ~ ~The U. S.-Supreme Court was petitioned. this
week to review the convictions

Charles Billups. The ministers

The NAACP Local Defense and

Appeals of May. 30, 1961 which

* Tried in the Circuit Court of

im jail and given a $100 fine, while
Rev. Billups received the lesser
sentence of 30 days in jail and
a $25 fine:

The two ministers were accus-'|.
ed of inviting students.from Daniel Payne Collegé. = so aw

Army ~Bias~

Congressman Charles Diggs last).

week urged Defense Secretary
McNamara to set up a citizens~
committee ~to investigate the

current status of integration in
the armed forces.

~The status of Negroes in the~
U. S. armed forces is an international disgrace and that the Negroe~s. status in the National
Guard is even - worse,~ Diggs!
charged in a letter to McNamara.

Diggs said he had received~
more than 250 complaints from
Negro servicemen charging dis- |
crimination in housing, job as-;
signments, promotion and recreation.

He said most of the complaints
came from 18 Air Force and
Army bases; nine of which were
located in the North.

Diggs said he also received

tioned in Japan, ~Germany, Englanid and France.

ganization.

She will work with Mrs. Benjamin E. Young of Grosse Pointe,
chairman, on a far-flung program for bringing the importance to
Terch Drive participation before women of the tri-county area.

Other vice chairman include Mrs. Elvin Davenport of: 18614
Bindér, Mrs. Julius W. Gilbert of 31 Arden Park; Mrs. Margaret
Montgomery of 1714 McDougall, Mrs.. Remus G. Robinson of 3751
31st St.;Mrs. Charles S. Spivey of 2854 Oakman; <
dore White of 400 King; Mrs. Haley Bell of 80 E.
and Mr%. John C. Dancy, 4220 Glendale.

Mrs. Wm. Green, UF Vice Chairman

Mrs, William O. Greene, 447 Marston Court, Torch Drive chairman for the Eastern Region, has been named a vice chairman of
the Steering committee of the United Foundation Women~s Or.

d Mrs. Theoon Blvd.,

Terms

house on the-night. of March 30,
1960; where Rev, Shuttlesworth
asked for volunteers to partici
~pate in> sit-in demonstrations.
of Birmingham, Ala. Negro lead- ia ee warty

ers Fred Shuttlesworth and]

~The next day ten youths sat-in
at five store lunch counters in

| were arrested for. inciting ten!-Birmingham. They were arrested
~+ Negro students to conduct sit-in
+ demonstrations. in. Birmingham
~| in March, 1960.

for ~trespassing after warning,~

convicted and sentenced to thirty
days. hard labor and fined $100
each. Legal Defense Fund Attormeys petitioned the U. S. Supreme Court to. hear their. cases
tat month.

Nat'l Lawyers
Guild To Meet

~The National ~Lawyers Guild
will. ~put its best brief forward
in- Detroit on Feb. 22-25 ~when si

holds~ its 25th~ Anniversary
vention with an array of

fe ~yegerded: as more ppoere than
property rights, the Guild will
Present eminent speakers and

| discussions on the Landrum-Grif..

fin Labor~ Law, integration, civil
liberties ang criminal law~ reform.

An: invitation. to all lawyers

and citizens has been extended

by Bernard. Fieger, Detroit chapter president.

~We -hope Detroiters, in and
out~ of the profession of law, will
come to hear the many excellent
speakers: and exciting subjects,~
Mr. Fieger said.

~Each of us, no: matter what
our occupation, has a vital inter.
est in the social and economic
changes now taking place. We
in the Guild hope to help each
citizen better. understand these
changes and the crucial-role that
the law plays in every individual~s life.~

Climaxing the convention, at
the Sheraton-Cadillac. Hotel, will
be a banquet Saturday night, Feb.
24, with theme of ~World Peace
Through Law.~

Gov. John B. Swainson and Abdel Chanderli, permanent: representative in the United States of
the~ Algerian Front of National

bariquet speakers.
~ Gov. Swainson will have as his
topic. thé-banquet~s theme. -

Mr, Chanderli will discuss ~The
Role of the UN in Assuring the
Independence of sccaiedis: Nations.~

-U-M Professor

Elected To NIAL

ANN ARBOR ~ Ross Lee Finney, University of Michigan pro.
fessor of composition and com.
poser-in-residence, has. been
elected to membership in the
National Institute of Arts and

Letters, the organization has an
was es

What Can | Do For My Country?
\ This is probably the a. frequently asked
question in America today. There is a feeling
of inadequacy and an inability to transfer into
action the desire on the part of Americans to
do something concrete in response to Presi- dent Kennedy~s ringing challenge:.: so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your
ask what you can

country can do for you ~

~LAnd

attitudes. You

BROTHERHOOD WEEK EDITORIAL

the attention of every American the imperative for a-re-dedication to the concepts of dem_ ocracy and our Judeo-Christian principles. It
stresses the urgency for human understanding
in today~s rapidly changing world. It. calls all
Americans to help eradicate bigotry, fear and
prejudice. among men, not~ only during this
week of Brotherhood but throughout the year.: ~You CAN do something for your country.
-~ You can re-examine yourself and your own
This is Brotherhood Week sponsored by the ee
National Conference of Christians and: Jews. ~
This. organization is dedicated to the aim of.
ice ie harriers ot peiee ee

can fight the prejudice within

yourself and then help -others to understand
- SD ole res Meee pat pane Se

Liberation will-be the principal:

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