Bronze Reporter [Volume: 10, Issue: 2]

. VOLUME 10--NUMBER 2

Flint News Briefs
Tag~FLINT NEWS BRIEFS
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND DRIVE

At a luncheon meeting held in the Gonna Room

-of the Durant Hotél, the 1963 United Negro College Fund

~ got off to a promising start under the direction of Richard
McWilliams of Chevrolet Manufacturing.

An initial contribution of $500 was made by WNEW
The United Negro College Fund is an ~Educational
Community Chest~ throukh which 32 accredited Negro colleges in Southern states make an annual appeal for. support. These colleges are not segregated institutions, altho
the great majority of the students are Negro. UNCF colleges include students of all races from all parts of the nation and the world.

Anyone wishing to help should send their contribjutions
to: United Negro College Fund, c/o Mr. Richard M MeWilliams, G-6060 W. Bristol Road, Flint 3, Michigan.

Members of the Flint UNCF include: Joseph A. Anderson, Melvin Banner, Guy J. Bates, Mrs. Odell Broadway,
Wesley T. Cobb, George V. Gundry, Dr. Wendell B. Harris,
Dr. J. L. Leach, Frank J. Manley, Floyd J. McCree, John K.
Mcvoy, ~Rev. James Mitham, Harding Mott, Mrs. Robin B.
Owens, Mayor George R. Poulas, James A. Randall, Dr.
Harold P. Rodes, Edward D. Rollert, Mrs. Evelyn Roulhac,
Thomas M. Schooley, Aaron A: Smith, Judge D. Stevens,
Roger B. Townsend, Rihard L. Erapice and Dr. T. Wendell
Williams. c

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SUMMER TOWN USA: YWCA PROGRAM

If you are a girl, if you are between 8 and 12 years
old, if you like sports, crafts, picniés~swimming and things
like that~you~d like something really special... ELOISE
invites you to join her at Summer Town, US. A., July 8 to
July 19, and July 22 to Aug. 2.

Hours are 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., daily. Fee: $5. 00. per
session.
For bese! information, call Miss Done Ce 92 56

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YWCcA Gaahes: CLASSES
The YWCA swimming schedule offers classes that are

graded and limited in numbers to bring a swimmer step~

by step from a beginner to a strong swimmer. 14 tot classes
for boys and girls 6 to 9 years of age are being offered.
Girls from 9 to 14 years will be able to select from a choice
of 5 classes in the Junior group, with 7 classes scheduled
for teens and adults. The water baby classes for children
3% through 5, and accompanied by their mother, have 3
classes to choose from REGISTER TODAY!

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- HORSE SHOE PITCHING CLINIC HELD AT
BALLENGER FIELD HOUSE

A horse shoe pitching clinic was held Sunday, July 7th

at Ballenger Field House on the Flint Community. Junior:

College Campus.

The Adult Open Division Matches, for previous game
winners, will take place cat 2:00 p.ta., Sunday, July 14th at
the Ballenger Field House. Horse shoe pitching fans may
be interested in attending this first scheduled event.

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NEW AT THE FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY
~Family Living in the Bible~. Edith Deen
~The Ordeal of Change~ _ Eric Hoffer
~A Reasoned Faith~. John Baillie
~Twentieth Century neous Lieine, ot John Macquarrie

McEVOY RENAMED URBAN LEAGUE HEAD

- At a meeting Tuesday, the Urban League renamed '

John K. McEoy of 129 Odette as president. Mr. McEvoy is
supervisor of training at A C Spark Plug Division of Gen- eral Motors.

The Rev. Alvin Robbs, pastor of banaas Baptist Church,
was elected vice president. Barbara Stevens is secretary
and Dr. Robert Willis was elected treasurer.

In a statement to the Bronze Reporter ~Mr. McEvoy
said, in part, ~I will do all I can to make Flint the kind of
_ place everybody will want to live in. We have many doors

open now if folks can be persuaded to acept them. Every-~

body ~is.looking for good ~_ bi hire. We should take a
positive approach.~

QUINN CHAPEL

Jackie Robinson, baseball. hero of the forties and now
a corporation executive, will-be the guest speaker at Men~s
Day Observance at~ Quinn Chapel Lippincott on Monday
evening, July 29. Mr. William * eerie ~ is chairman ~
of arrangements. ~

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UNITARIAN CHURCH _
~Summer Seasion~William D. Chase, Fihut Librasian:

+; 66YEAR OLD. ~
MINISTER JAILED ~;

_jail Sunday for the: fourth time

Se ee Por ccm its ve oa &

asked to join~ in-a mass dem
onstration of pickets by the |.~
Group On Advanced Lead-|
~ership (GOAL). at- Police}
Headquarters, 1300 Beaubien | #
| between 3 PM and 6 PM on| @
Saturday, July 20, if was an-|
nounced by Richard B: Hen-| |

ry, president of GOAL.
Mr. Henry said, ~This demonstration is part of our pro
test campaign against the|~

double standards _ practiced
in law enforcement. But it
is also a protest against the
killing of a Negro woman
last week by police.

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Cynthia Scott, 24, of -83 Ed-|
mund Place, was shot and kill):
ed ~last week by g policeman|*
whom she is. alleged te have}
slashed across the back of the]:.
hands when the officer attempt |
ed to question Miss Scott and her}..
companion, Charles. Marshall, 21,1.

of 3492 -St: Antoine.
Miss, Scott ~was dead on
chi aie

ing %
este. See when ~iA ~std
lice car to question

mun

the ] em,

He said Marshall upbraided him ~
for stopping them and Miss Scott |

tried to run. The officer said

he caught her -and started tow~! ywea, Pictured, from left to

ard the police car.when Miss|

Scott bent over, pulled a knife
and cut. him and. fled. Patrolman Spicher said Miss Scott
slashed at him again at which
time he fired -three ~shots, killing the woman.

ATLANTA, Ga., July 1 ~ A
white 66-year-old minister from
San Gabriel, California went to

after he and a | group. of Negroes
were refused ~admission to a
white church.

The Reverend Bryant Ashton
Jones was charged with ~disturbing public worship~ when he and
others sought entrance to the

| ~N:
With

segregated First Baptist Church
on Peachtree.

a

peal coe for discussion. at the

_warned the group that only thru
~complete -honesty could a solu

~Youth and jobs~ was the

most recent Booker T, Wash- |
ington Business meeting held
Wednesday, duly 3, at the
~Lucy Thurman. Branch - of the ~

right, are: Kenneth Edwards,
an insurance consultant as
~Life Insurance o.; Al Dotson, |

sociated with = ian aa da

member. of the sales depart
ment of ~Sears, Roebuck: and
~Co.; and, Myron Liner, senior
Comm. services. assistant. The
men in the picture served- as
panelists while Esther LaMarr,
executive secretary of the
Youth Commission, was main
speaker, |

oa AM,
} nel manager of the Great At
[picket lines ~Thurs Feashipes, ete.
that visited seven ARP. toresin | THE z

The awesome power of the obganibel eens iv Detroit
was felt by the A & P Food Stores here, A selective patronage campaign against the large chain of established

resulted in an agreement that
employees by the'company.
Earl Payner, person
lantic and Pacific ~Tea Com- |
pany and Mr. E. Burnham,
personnel director of the six
| state area midwest division
of the giant food store chain,

met- with the Reverend -Albert B. Cleage, Jr., Attorney

~| Robert J. Robbins, and Richard B. Henry at Central Con
gregational Churh on Friday,
July 5.

The campaign was called by
the ministers. from the! pulpits

of Negro churches after attempts
to reach a settlement regarding

demands for equal employment
opportunity and fair treatment

| of Negro manufactured products:
| were described as ~useless~; the team ~of negotiators.

by

| stores by the Negro preachers of Detroit and vicinity. has

requires upgrading of _~?

were: Russell ~. Brown, Nixon
Bryant, Louise and Barbara Nie
ves, James Roberts, Edward Gor-don, and Oscar Hand.

In Royal Oak ispeaneagie ~~
bors banded together to form:
carpools to trarisport shoppers to
other super markets. Weekend
sales at the Royal-Oak Township
A&P Food Store dropped considerably.

Mr. Russell Brown is chdirman
of a committee to arrange talks
with Wrigley Food Stores, Food
Fair, atid other businesses. He
will also contact esentatives
of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) since they are presently negotiating with Kroger. A

The A&P Food Stores have offered to engage five Negro managers immediately. and train
them so.that they may appear
in their new jobs within a year.
They further. offered to promote

predominantly Negro areas. in
support. of the position of the
Negro clergymen. ~

The picket line captains vebont
ed that public cooperation was
pwn ad and most of the time
picketifig was 90 to 95-per cent
effective and was never less than
80 per cent effective.

Leaders. of the picket lines, Vernon Jarrett, director of research for Chicago: Metropolitan:
Mutual Assurance Company, told
an interracial audience in Chicago recently: ~Now is the time
for Négro and white leaders to
stop. lying te each other.~ He

tion be found for. the vexing
problems of race.

Sat-Eve-Post Demands
Civil Rights Legislati

(caecsatiinel approval of Pres:
ident Kennedy~s civilrights pro
gram was demanded in an editorial in The Saturday areame)

Demonstrators Freed;
Gadsden Action Halts~

GADSDEN, Alabama ~ ~Marvin Robinson and ~Mary Hamil

participation i
~tions. which resulted in~ police
brutality
~Daring Miss Hamilton~s trial
she was charged with contempt
~of court for refusing~to answer | -.

Post published. ~July 9.
Describing the President~s civil
rights bill as the ~most compre
hensive in the past century..
a moderate and minimal pro* gram,~ The Post editorial said
~the Negro revolution will not
be~ put down by a com}
bill; it has gone beyond this
point.~
~Our nation is challenged to

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~rule of law has failed... yet

| rightfully the

Jarrett-said that Negro leaders
have been guilty of misrepresent:
ing the truth when they spoke
to white leaders. Also, that
white leaders had been guilty
of encouraging Negroes to tell
only what~ white people wanted
to hear. Some. of the guilt on
the part of Negro leaders is ae
to their. lack of knowledge of
what the, masses of age So really want ~ because the Negro
leaders, being middle class, nev:
~er really talk to the Negro mass"
es, Jarrett said. He cited instan:
ces in which Negro leaders had,
perhaps, unwittingly, given white |
people a wrong point of view of |

~1 the Negro~s position. He said that

sometimes at a conference on
Negro problems, a Negro speaker
would list a numiber of grievances that Negroes held against

clude:

~However, I hold no bitterness
against ~the white man,~ when,
in fact, he was extremely angry.

This gave -white ple the feeling that aiiak were suffering

these injustices with a silent no;
bility.

had* to resort to international
blackmail to try to get what is

~ he. said. Rey
<The demonstrations tell the. |, world that America, which is try
~ing to export its version of ~De
the. white man, and would con:

~Because ~on ges are denied
full. citizenship in -their own |
-country, Negro Americans have

mocracy ~~. the Savi ig{h
~olution is the word that is be}.

ro_ Leaders Out Of Touch
~Negro Masses~ - - Jarrett.

not providing that democracy. to
its. own citizens, Jarrett said:

own country to give us what is
rightfully eurs, or we will expose you to the world as a fraud.

~It is true that the Russian and
Chinese Coiamunists make capital of these events,~ Jarrett said;
~and Negroes hate communism;~.

Americans To Discuss
law In East Africa

WASHINGION, D.C. ~ Berl.
I. Bernhard,~ Staff Director. of
the U.S. Commission on Civil
Kenya, July 10-13, Tanganyika
shall of the U.S, Court of, Appeals
will travel ~ through three. African co es during ~the month

\}of July, discussing the role of

the law in protecting human
rights...

The two Aatlericans will. visit
Kenya July 10-13, Tanganyika
suly 14-21, 1 Uganda July 22 -
~We are, therefore, telling our

at Wilson Park on Harrison and.

~NAACP Officials include. | John
| Davis of ibs ational Wont, Jed:
a} Ox Holt ot eae

prob chard. Traylor, presider
| of the Flint Branch. _ - as

against. ~merchandise: produ
by, Negroes. It is. am Tagan that ~
Detroit ministers will consider
the agreement equitable and call
off their campaign. It is not expected that any further picketing of food stores will be necessary in view of the tremendous
success of the A&P venture.

The awesome power of the or--
ganized Négro in Detroit~ has
sa fet

July 13 - 6p.m.
Charles Evers, brother of slain
Mississippi. integration ~leader,
Medgar Evers, will be present at
the mass Memorial Service to be
held in honor of his brother ons
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Saturday.

| A dual processional originalipg
rom opposite points of the city.
will be led ~to the City Hall
local ministers.,;
from the North End will, gather

First Streets and will. march

the
s will
gather at Clark School and will ~
march potent on~ ie aera~ ae.

Pat Patterson, and Third Ward
Commissioner. F 10 y d>~ McCree.