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FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, uaa 6, 1963

GOV. ROMNEY EXPECTED AT EVERS MEMORIAL |
SERVICE JULY 13th ON CITY HALL LAWN AT 6 P.M
Michigan~s governor George Romney is. expected. at

the July 13th Memorial Service for Medgar Evers, slain

Mississippi NAACP leader. The service will be at. 6 p.m.
on the City Hall lawn. Religious leaders of the three major
denominations a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant minister
will take part in the service. Dr. Herman Curtis is ehairman of arrangements.

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NAACP DELEGATION OFF TO CONVENTION

Flint f@ks attending the NAACP National Conjebiiao
in Chicago this week are: branch pres. - Richard Traylor,
1st vice president - David Lambert and secretary, Elizabeth
Goodwin. Dianne Miller, Miss Flint NAACP; will represent
the Flint Branch in the Big Parade on July 4th. Diane will
ride in a Buick Convertible, courtesy of Buick Motor Division, General Motors.

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UNITARIAN CHURCH SUMMER SESSIONS

Clayton Hodge will be the speaker at Sunday morning
service of Unitarian Church on Ballenger at 10:30 A.M.
His topic will be ~Emerson.~ ~

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BEATRICE BAXTER ADVICE COLUMN

The BRONZE REPORTER'S new feature Beatrice Baxter Advice has gained a lively reception. Letters are coming in on a variety of subjects. Anyone wishing an answer

to a ~problem of general interest may write Beatrice Bax- |

ter, BRONZE REPORTER, 1301 a St. No names will

_be used,

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The Arkansas Group of Mt. Herman Baptist Church

_ States Rally Building Fund Project will. sponsor an Ar
kansas State Tea 5 to 7 p.m., July 14, 1963. The church
is at Baltimore and Industrial Avenue. Mr. Roscoe Mitchell
is chairman of the: Arkansas State Committee. Mr. James
Smith, Mrs. Lena Mitchell and Mrs. ~Isaiah Rolland are assisting with the affair.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. ~ Th e he made as pilidapis css
Russian~ press recently attacked at the A & T College commenceSargent Shriver, director: of the ment held here on June 1, and
US. Peace Corps, for statements iv~ the same story, branded the

Southern Editor Says,
South Acted.In Bad Faith

New York, July 1 ~ The South
has acted in bad faith for the

briefs. that could -succeed only
if ~they ~were endorsed by an exchange of sly winks between
judge and counsel.~

Ashmore, a Pultizer Prize win~ner for his editorials on the Little Rock. school crisis,. warned
that this. sort of ~moral ~corruption: cannot be confined to
the single issue of race, and
noted that ~there are signs of
spreading rot at every level of
government.~

In these terms, as well as in
lost economic opportunity, he
added, ~Southerners: are finding
the price of maintaining segregation intolerable.~

Ashmore is currently an editor
of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

of integration, a Pultizer prize
winning Southern editor charged
today.

Harry Ashmore, former editor
of the Arkansas Gazette, said that
Southerners are now finding the
price of maintaining segregation
~intolerable.~

~Writing in the current issue
of Look Magazine, eeusen de
clared:

~For 10 years now, Southern
legislatures, city councils and
school boards have been largely
engaged in the enactment - of
laws that were calculated exercises in bad faith. Lawyers of

nipulating legal technicalities in|

Peace Corps as a ~corps of spies.~

Here follows the text of a re-|:
lease by~ the Moscow.Domestic.

Service, issued originally in Russian, dated June 3: -

Service, has decided:to gain political capital. Speaking at A. &
T College, he attempted to pre
sent himself as an advocate cf

equal rights for the. Negroes. 5

Why does this man of the Cén
tral Intelligence Agency, as he

is called, suddenly feel for the

Negroes? This ~becomes under- |bee; prayer, oif ~the steps of the.Féd-.

standable when--one- takes~ into
consideration the post occupied
~at present by Sargent Shriver.
He is the head of the so-called
Peace Corps, a semi official or
ganization called upon to pro
pagate.the American way of
life in Asian and African contries...

It is not a secret that the affairs of the Peace Corps are in
a rather lamentable state. In
many countries the corps of spies,
as this American organization is

called, has been shown the door,

and after the events in Alabama,
it has-become even. more diffi
doné more-than the churches inpresident 9

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o ~Dr. Mays

| good to have all discrimination
| to~ ~democracy is much more im
| the Américan dream it may be

{soul of the United~ States of
} America.~

red two. be Saga on. ~The ~ _ Neg:

Speaking at a Ministers Conference at Hampton. Institute,
the educator said: ~What a pity

that the churches have lagged \;

-so far behind the business world |
in adévelopment involving
Christian: and: democratic principiles.

Dr. Mays ~ chatged that too
many preachers are ~hired men~
rather than ~prophets of God.~

He stressed, ~Negro and white
ministers~ ought to join: forces
in a march on Washington if a
filibuster develops against the
eivil rights bill.~

~Let -us not think,~ he contin
~ued, ~that desegregation will re
move all problems. We must.
urge Negro youth to prepare for
job tt will. do no

rémoyed, ~uniess Negro youth is
Ryd raga on a fair bas

fobs.~
Dr. _Mays said what happens
than what happens to
10,000. Negroes. And then he
ded: ~In the search for
freedom and. full: expression of

~up ~to the Negro to save the

The Atlanta ~sdiecnabhe deliver
goods. >.) ee, ie
Watching the~ comedy in

~Greensboro, the ~U.S. racialists,

most. probably, wer e Jauging

4 their. a ae f.
~Sargent Shriver, former em-|~
ployee of the U.S: Intelligence

New York, July ~< oh Violence
~costs less ethan: non-violence ~in
Jackson, ippi, a national
magazine reported today.

For ~Kneeling and saying a

eral Building on Capitol Street,
Negro and white demonstrators
were recently given sentences
ranging up ~to $200 and six
months in jail. -

The current issue of Look
magazine contrasts this sentence}.
with that given a member of
the jeering white mob that pour
éd catchup and salt over Negroes
during a lunch counter ~sit-in in
Jackson. This white~ racist, Benny Oliver, 26 was. Convicted of
kicking a Negro sit-in during the
riot.

Oliver~s sentence: $100 aad. 30

~Tobacco. companies have been:
asked to voluntarily agree to
ban _indiscriminate ~mailings ~of:
samples of their product, Post
master General J. Edward Day
said today.

In~ his letter to George V. AF
len, President of the Tobacco
Institute, ~the Postmaster General noted that ~a serious new mailing problem involving your industry. and the Post Office Department has come to our atten:
tion. One of your member com:
panies has. initiated a mass third
class ~adult occupant~ mailing of
~cigarette. samples in. bs Ou
New. York.~.

Noting that the Tobices. In-} 0
dustry had. recently ~chosen to.
discontinue college level promotional~ activities,~ Mr. Day said) ogy
~~ believe~ that t
might: perhaps- he extended to}ro
unsolicited blanket. orm of

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Phage ~of. American technol
edging that the civil rights

proposals submitted: by Pres- |;

ident Kennedy to the Con
gress, June 19, ~are more}

comprehensive than any previous

tive Secretary Roy Wilkins
pointed out that ~they do not
fully meet the needs of the
times.~:

He cited ~the jase and
truncated Part Hl of the 1957
civil rights bill,~ which he noted
is limited, in the President~s pro
posal, ~to school cases, leaving
uncovered other denials of. civ
il rights. It does not insure |

prompt and sweeping. school desegregation.~ _

Commenting: on the President~s
call for suspension of civil rights.
demonstrations, Mr. Wilkins said

~such 4
of the American tradition of
f
ed the: yan that ~Negro Amer> |.

be. guided:

The revised and truncated
Part iti of the 1957: civil rights
bill is. limited to school cases,
leaving uncovered other. denials
of civil rights. If dees*not insure
~prompt and sweeping school! de~
~segregation..It provides only for
continued piecemeal action,
school district by school district.

As for ngewe 9 ~they |
are a part of the ican tra
dition of freedom of protest,!
am certain that Negro Ameri-|
cans will be guided by their re
actions to conditions existing in
their own communities and will |
themselves decide whether. these |
conditions and the calibre of,
erg officials warrant a cessat
ot Genero~ for civil ine: presidential recom-|
~mendations for civil rights} j
legislation,~ NAACP Execu-}

ations are a part):
of protest.~ He express: |.
~by their)

| was not ais ae

i the eee Toca palicemen,
| just and watch

Detroit's ereneemar
tel June a ait eas! 9

cal BT

~CANTON, ~Miesiaateit~ _ Ben,
Lewis, a white gas station at
lowing a voter registration sek"
ing. é

The five young teegpoes hie
ed by the pellets were taker to

a hospital for _treatme
released next ~

Freedom tee~

Patent Office.

"Phe Patent.
ent of Commerce, in

tion of the Tila caved by

the. Negroinventor in the de
ee ee ee

| held in Pehle, August 6

Office of the US.

~Exposition ~

jh ~September 3, in McCor
~Commissioner of Patents Davtid L. Ladd said the department~s
exhibit will illustrate the Neg.

ro~s contributions to the Ameri- ~ -
~| can free~ enterprise system, and ~
will~ also point out the employ
ment opportunities available to
all in the patent office.

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cult for Shriver to advertise his

days ii, 361: Bes on oe eee

tendant, was arrested on Muse ba

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