Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 37]

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VOLUME 8_NUMBER 37: aa:: IGAN, 'S: vAY, MARCH 3, 1962

Overwhelming Vote i
Defeats Rev. Robbs

FLINT~Last Sunday afternoon vacated. A new slate of deacons
the Committee for Religious Prin-| and trustees were electd to ofciples and _ Democratic Action} fice for the ensuing. year.
won a smashing 110-3 victory ary

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Oe one~ L. ~ Robbs! Ist Jehovah's Witness

Rev. Robbs announced to a repo Assembly
packed church that neither he

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nor the church had called the
election, that he was not going
to attempt to prevent the election but intimidated that anyone
participating in the election
might be charged with trespassing. Many of those present then
left.

Transcribing the meeting was
Mrs. Virginia Dean court reporter for the Municipal Court of the
City of Flint. i.

Mr, Charles Washington, Jr.,
was elected temporary chairman.
It was moved and seconded to
restore all deposed members to
their rightful membership in
the church. The motion was carried.

Eleeted permanent chairman
was Johnson Buchanan who explained the procedure for voting.
Ballots and an election box were
provided and the house was polled. According to Mr. Buchanan
there were 128 persons present.
The question presented was ~Are

~ Congregational arad. for the first Jehovah~s Witness Circuit Assembly
of 1962 were completed when delegates from the Flint Central
Unit Congregation attended an
organizational meeting at Owosso this week.

Lawrence C. De Curval, spokesman for the local group, reported
to the Congregation last nite that

25 departments have been set-up

for transportation, housing, feeding and instructing the 1,500 delegates expected at the Mt, Pleasant Assembly, March 9-11.
Individually and as_ family
groups Witnesses here are completing their plans to attend even
though 30 accommodations for the
three-day assembly training program have not been listed yet.
Many of the delegates from
here will be staying in the private homes of responsible people
in the Mt. Pleasant area so they
can attend sessions that start

-| Friday evening and conclude Sun
day at 6 p.m.

Believes Court
Violated

FCC Laws
-NEW YORK, ~ The Federal
Communications -Commission ~has |
been urged ~to make a thorough
inquiry~ into the introduction in
an Alabama court proceedings of
the names and. telephone numbers of. persons called by an official. of the.NAACP from his
~~ residence during |

Negro, White

Pickets Hit
Rent Increase

Members of the Community
Tenants League~a group of Negro and white renters ~ picketed
an apartment last week end in
protest against discriminatory increases in rental rates, _

The League~s co-chairman, Arthur H. Fox, of 3021 Rochester,
said the objective of the group is
a fair housing ordinance that
would protect renters from higher ~prices in recently integrated

introduced were the
names and telephone numbers of
persons who made collect calls to
W. C. Patton, NAACP field seeretary for registration and vot~| ing, and the contents of a telegram sent As Mr. Patton. In all

Fox said the landlord of his
apartment raised rates from between $60 and $70 to $90 when
it became integrated recently.

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Dr. Borman fo Be
Honored March 16

Dr. Walter Bergman, who
lead - the first Freedom Riders in May ~1961, will be
honored: at a ~testimonial. dinner Friday, March 16, at the
Metropolitan Church,, 8800
Woodward Ave.

D. Bergman is. a former
member of the faculties of
~Wayne -State~ University. and
the University. of Michigan.
He~ was severely beaten in Anniston; Ala, last ~year when
he participated on the first
Freedom Ride. ~

Last September, he sufferer a- stroke:

Funds raised from the dinner
will be used to help pay for
his medical expenses.