Bronze Reporter [Volume: 9, Issue: 50]

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VOLUME 9~_NUMBER 674

Miss Oldtimer Contestants
For Details see ~The Social. Whirl~

~DOROTHY FINNEY

Janet Cleveland - age 16
Southwestern High
Square Dance Club
Youth Fellowship at
Mt. Olive Baptist Church

PAT WATSON

Hazel Richardson - age 17
Senior Southwestern High
Business Major

Likes Tennis, Rollerskating
and Swimming..

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Flint Northern High
Business Major
Future Nurses Club

- Likes Tennis, Dancing.

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Dorothy Finney - age 17 |

- Patricia: Watson ~ age 16:
" Emerson Jr. High School -
Metropolitan: Baptist

| Church

Swimming and Tennis

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HAZEL RICHARDSON~

Detroit Man Appointed
To Post Office Position

Another step forward in mainequal opportunities for

peeps

[rector for the New York Region.

Day pointed out that Young is
the second Negro to serve at

partment~s regional setup. Three
weeks ago he announced the ap[| poinement of John R. Strachan
~as Assistant to the Regional Di
this. personnel. level in the De-}.

on

Gitdsen; ~Als.. ~ A rifle bullet
shattered~ the window ~of a drug
store owned by Dr.~ Stewart, a
leader of the protést movement
and a Negroowned filling station was set afire. However, a citywide nonviolent protest -movement which started June 11, the
day James Hood, g native. of
Gadsden entered the -Uniyersity~

White Businessmen
Ask Peace In Va: Gty

Danville, Va. ~~Leading white
businessmen appealed to the city
administration to take a more
reasonable. attitude and asked
the mayor to set-up a bi-racial
committee which functions. It
was the bifacial committee~s
failure to act, which set-off the
nonviolent demonstrations.

Following -the~ businessmen~s
appeal, 5u demonstrators who
-had been held three days in jail
without bond, were released on
$500 bond each. The demonstrat~ion which resulted -in their arrest, was countered by local
police with club- swinging and usc

of fire hoses.

| fies; Fires ~taes In

of Alabaina, resulted~ in _Negotations two days later.
Among the demonstrators

wat Mrs, James Hood, mother of
the -Gadsden student who: ~n*
rered stie-University of Alabama,
and Gwendla, her younger dadghter.~ Mrs. dood ~had stated ~ht a
meeting that ~she, is probvd. of ~the
position. taken by her. son and
that she, herself, is. ready Aa 9~
fo jail, if necessary. Fy

~Lhd negotiations. ~were *
quested by Agri Cola, owner ~Of
the ~ommunity~s biggest shopping
center. - ye! the: Negro. -negotiating am was Marvin Robinson, CORE E field: secretary,- who
has beén coordinating the demonstrations here.

On June 12, the demonstrators
marched, not only in front of the
center but through the stores
located inside. They also marched through the center of town,
1,0~0-strong. Pickets succeeded in
closing-down lunch counters in
the local. variety stores. A group
sat-down in front of the Pitman
Theatre and another group stood

~in front of the Prince~s va wei
Both closed down.

Two of the demonstrators were
arrested. Upon emerging~ from
ithe courthouse after inquiring

GENEVA (ILO News) ~ George Weaver, Assistant Secretary
a~ Labor and Chief United States
Government delegate to the International. Labor Conference,
~old a Conference Committee
that the United States Govern"
rent regarded discrimination
nd ~its consequences. as ~the
0st ne social =~
#~ today~.

Weaver said ~ever the coun~
in ruling after ruling the Federal
r-ourts of the United States have
steadily. expanded the rights of

American Negroes ~confirmed measures taken enforce
these rights.~

The current ~fight for full
sights. of ~the ~American ~Negro

SACRAMENTO, Calif., CORE

q{titinners. who moved their on-|

WEAVER CALLS DISCRIMINATION
~MOST IMPORTANT SOCIAL ILL~

which had recently caachad a
climax in Alabama and Missis- |*
sippi would ~inevitably end. in
success,~ Weaver declared.

-~The American Negro has the;overwhelming support of the

-vast majority~ of) the American

people,~ the chief American delegate added.

~From this struggle will
emerge a. stronger America~,
Weaver stated.

Weaver, cigirman of the ILO |

Governing Body Committee on|
Discrimination,. spoke before the}
| Conference Corfimittee on the:
Application of Conventions and |
'Recouimedati

ions. He paid tribute

to the report submitted to. the | tiv

about~. thee: Marvin ~ Robinson
was assaulted by a gang. of/
~whites.: Shortly thereafter, Rob~inson. conferred with-Police Chief
Simmons, | pledging that if the
latter would keep the whites
from~ practicing violence, he~
Robinson~would do the same in
the Negro community.

' Carrying out this~ pledge, Rob-| |

inson thereupon appealed~suc
| cessfully~to \those elements in
the Negro commuhity which were
armed.

| ~Many of them igave- up. ~the
idea of using weapons and actu~ally joined our. nonviolent
faction,~ sata reported.

Bias Must End
At Hospital
Or Building Ste

INeW XOrK, NY muss uecm?~
Olloisatlon) iaSt week ~at tne con

surucuon sive Of Harlem Hospital
m ie
acung Mayur Paul screvatie taat ti

aunuex prougot a) piédge

tne city will halt the construction
jou;unfes$: the: bahiaing trates:
ullons act ~ immediately to end |
jou wsScruminauon,

rrivc vo wie demonstration, the
Mayors oitice had~ retused~ to
nicer with tne JOmt Committee

ior Equal kmpioyment uppor.

tunity, wach incauues New xork
CUne, NAAUCYP the. Uroan
League,
aver Council, tac Association
ot Cathoue ~irade Unionists aud
ine Workers Detense League,
~the- Buuding and Coustruct
~ion~ ~.radés Councu met the fol- |]
iowing day and is preparing a |]
report to the acting piayor show: ||

my wnat actioa wt as takung.

~soliowing this report, if it}
is my judgement. that the action |
does not msure_ ~the end of any |
discriminatory practices, i will |
~to the 3%

then issue i uctions
ft Screvane~ said

Talks. tier

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the Negro "American |

| On Advanced Leadership

{expanding Negro job opportuni~ucs and ending aiieged discrim~ation..against Negro. products, |.

DETROIT ~ ~The Group

(GOAL) will take to. the
picket-lines. on Thursday,
June 27, to encourage Ne~groes to shop elsewhere than
A&P until the demands for
equal employment and fair
| treatment of ~Negro products |,
are met,~ it -was-reported by
Ricuard Henry, a oe
for: GOAL. i

| Negotiators for GOAL ~said
~Briaay that further, talks with
A and P Food Storés, aimed at

~ ~useless at this time.~

president of A and P~s Central
_ Attorney Robert J. Robbins, the | |
heverend Albert B. Cleage, and}
~Richard B: Henry, all: represent- |
dng GOAL, met with Bryon~ Jay,|.

WASHUCTEN. Dg. - aiid hain:
relations counselor. Otto

in~s otitstanding work in
esia aS an Official of ar Gael

States. Information: Agency was

| cited. as a. model. for foreign

service officers by journalist Dan
~Kurzman in.his new book ~Subversion: ~of bess Innocents.~

~Feodeas of the 4
tions of, the work
rin, he said,
was threatening~ ee whole. communist Propaganda program in
the area~ by his dedicated. efforts
to show that the American people really cared for other. people.

Currently a writer on Latin
Latin~ American affairs for the
Washington Post, Mr. Kurzman
saw Mr, McClarrin at work ~in
Indonesia several years ago while
touring. the country on assignmeit
as Far East bureau ~chicf of the
McGraw-Hill ~World News Ser~vice. His 570 page Book is <n
P-aeenunt of po'itical conditio ~s

in Asia, Africa and. the Midd
East. based on more - 15 yess:
| of travel in these ~yitally~ sen. itive. parts of the worid.; Bdge nse ~Division, ~on Thursday." a

ieiry at ~the nioolog with

-} day was cordial and frank ~but }:
clearly demonstrated that A and}:
P wilt not move with the urgency |
demanded by the times and ~the | |

~job needs of our people unless

Negroes. positively~ demonstrate |

that they will ont buy where they
connot work on an equal footing
with everyone else and will not
buy where Negro-made goods are
discriminated against.~

Henry said he believes the
Negro, Preachers of Detroit and
Vicinity share~. this judgement.
The action against. A and P
alone, Henry said, should result
in a quarter of a million dollars
a year'in new jobs for the Negro. These would come both directly. from A and P and also
~from. expanded Negro business
once Negro products can reach
buyers through the many A and
P super market outlets.

Oakland, Calif. ~ Two
weeks~ picketing of Montgomery Ward ~sfores here
and in San Leandro has
resulted in the company~s
hiring ~six additional Negroes in nonmenial positions and in resuming ne-#
gotiations.
The picketing started following the ~collapse of ne
gotiations. The local store.

employs only~ four * ~Negro |
259 ont ost ofa total of

The noted. soernatiet, saiinted

his praise. of Mr. MeClarrin last
week when he was interviewed

sonality. Steve Allison on his

effective means of competing with
the: Communist cell system. in
Asia, Africa and the Middle East,
Author Kurzman said he believes
the only answer is the~ Peace
Corps, which works on a village
level.

~There have, been a few people in USIA,~ he said ~who. took
it upon themselves, even before
the Peace Corps came into b
to try to go - villages
and speak aM radi people, and
I was very happy. to see them in
some | ~places.,

~One, whom I mentioned in the
book, who deserves special men~tion is a fellow by name of
William Otto McClarrin.. He used
~to be director of pubsic relations
for Howard University. I saw
how he went into these villages
and helped the people fix their
bicycles. and water pumps, etc.,
and I think ' the more people you

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