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Civil Rights Roundup BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNA TIONAL CUT SHORT NEW ORLEANS - A white stispnci, found to be carrying rrfembershtp cards In the A merlcan Nazi party and similar anti-Black and antl-Jewlsh or ganizations, has been ar asieJ i connection with the murder William Dabney, a Negro shot kand killed while he was using a phone tooth in Westwego, just across the river from the Cre cent City. The suspect, Nor man Bryant Eagan, is alleged to have said that Dabney was using the phone too long and he wa.nad him to hurry up and finish. FREE Iv-VOPCE PHILADELPHIA - Aproposal that poor couples be giver, free divorce service was made by Atty. Ben Levin of the Com munity Legal Service last week. Levin said many poor people are unable to obtain divorces f> '-HVKS SCHOLARSHIP - Eugene F.Gard ner. Jr. (left). CIT Foundation Achievement Scholarship winner, learns how modern hos pital x-ray equipment works from Dr. David $ Day ol Picker Corporation at the firm’s Cleve land plant. A tour of the medical manufacturing facility of Picker, a subsidiary of CIT Finan cial Corporation, foPowed formal presentation ol the four-year scholarship. Young Gardner, who plans to become a doctor, has been ad mitted to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. He was recently graduated from Shaker Heights, Ohio high school, (NPI). Take advantage of this flexible Can-Do savings plan. You'll earn the highest interest permitted by law. ■ Make an initial deposit of SSOO or more. t . Add to this deposit any time in any amount. FIRST ■ Daily interest compounded 4 times a year. CITIZENS » Withdrawals may be made on 90 days BANK written notire VV ‘ 1 - 7 HE CAM-BC Mm WITH TH£ CAM-DO PiOPLV ■ You earn from day of deposit. because they cannot pay court costs, thus leading them to establish new relationships - ■" not because they are Immoral, but because morality is beyond their financial means.” CIVILIAN BOARD DETROIT - Local Black lead ers are pushing for a civilian police trial board which would have more power than similar boards proposed In other cities. The board would consist of U elected members, one from eacii police precinct, and would have full disciplinary powers in all cases of civilian com plaints against individual po licemen. MIXING DISALLOWED NEW ORLEANS - Prof. Joseph Okeekee of Southern University reported last week being attack ®d by three men and badly beat en while walking with a female companion. His attackers were Negroes, and his companion was WINS GARDEN CLUB AWARD - The Federation of Garden Clubs of North Carolina’s 20th Anniversary Convention was held here recently. The first 'prize Blue Ribbon Winning Club is shown receiving the cup at the Awards Banquet, August 4, in the Sheraton-Sir Walter Hotel’s Virginia Dare Bal’ Room in Raleigh. Left to right: Mrs. Plassie W. Harris, con vention hostess; Mrs. Emma Randolph, co-convention chairman; Mrs. Alice P. Collins, official delegate o? Year Round Garden Club, Durham, past-treasurer for 16 years: and Mrs. Grace D. Lewis, Greensboro, convention chairman, presenting the cup to Mrs. Collins. AT four ladies are members of the Federation of Garden Clubs of North Carolina’s Execu tive Board. Mrs. Carl D. Keck of Greensboro is president of the organiza tion. Negro History Baffers BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNA TIONAL The Black mar has gained his right to vote in this coun try only after many years of waiting and battling the forces tSsai would deny him suffrage. In today’s Baffler, identify some of the landmark events in the extension of voting rights to Negroes. Scoring: 6-7; excellent; 5; good; 3-4; fair; 0-2: poor. Bonus Questions count a total of two points. Other questions count one point each, Here’s the multiple-choice quiz: 1. What does the U. S. Con stitution (excluding its amend ments) have to say about vot ing rights for Black people? --A. Nothing, a white female. SERVICE REFUSAL COLUMBIA, S. C.-Twc res taurants in the Carolinas are subjects of a suit brought by the federal government on charges they refused to serve Black patrons. The suits are against Holley’s Grill, Ker shaw County in South Carolina, and Johnson’s Bar and Coffee Shop, Dun. N. C. --B. Negroes may vote, only if three-fifths of the white vo ters in a legislative district approve. - -C. All Black arid white man (but not women) have equal voting rights. 2. What voting rights did Black people have in North ern states before the Civil war? —A. Ful! rights; --B. Hard ly any; —C. None, as the Con stitution forbade Negroes to ote anywhere in the United States. 3. By what authority -were Black people given the Con stitutional right to vote? —A. President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863; --B. The Atlantic char ter; —C. The 15th Amendment to the Constitution. 4. Why were residents of the District of Columbia denied the right to vote after the Civil war? -•-A. Disturbed that Negroes had beer, granted voting rights in the district. Congress de cided to disfranchise the whole population. —B, Black power advocates closed all polling places o»\ the grounds that Negroes were denied equal voting rights --C, The carpetbaggers wanted to have all the power, 5. Why didn't most Black peo ple vote in the South until re cently? —A. Most Southern states were ruled by small cliques which wanted to keep all the power for themselves, rather than extending it to the whole Coff®? I BISCUITS COCKUI^^j I § 8-02. 49 e CANS * 1 'jk Colonial Stores Dedares Dividend NEW YORK - Directors of Colonial Stores Incorporated, 423-store Southeast and Mid west supermarkets chain, last Wednesday declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 35 Cites Negro Media As Effective In Reaching Black Consumers CHICAGO, Illinols-A crying social'need and soaring adver tising costs have been cited as the motivating force behind the call for more effective adver tising to black Americans. Speaking at the Advertising Age Workshop here, Kelvin Wall, vice president-market development of Coca-Cola USA, said that there are many op portunities in this particular market and so many of these opportunities are yet’ untapped. The Negro media stands high in its ability to reach this mark et. “Black media seiling--un questionablv most effective in reaching black target consum community. —B. Most Negroes didn’t want to vote, anyway. --C, Most Black people were not actually citizens of the Unit ed States. * * + BONUS QUESTIONS: (Each, counts one points,) —A. Name three devices Southern States have used, un til recent years, to keep Ne groes from voting —B. By what federal authori ty was the South finally forc ed to let Negroes vote? * * * ANSWERS: 1. A; 2. B; 3. C; 4. A; 5. A. * * * BONUS ANSWERS: —A, Among them were the poll tax, the white primary, Ku Klux Klan intimidation, and strigent “literacy tests.” —B. The 1965 Voting Rights act. THE CAAOUNJAK RALEIGH, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST IS 1969 cents a share on common stock. The regular quarterly cash dividend of 50 cents per share was declared on outstanding 4 percent preferred stock. Bother dividends are payable ers--offers the advertiser the opportunity to select his copy and creative approach and tail or his most effective con sumer appeal to she needs of this market,” Mr. Wall said. He pointed to black news papers as a source of news of progress, shopping hints and an honest discussion of where black Americans stand, local 'll . “Advertising there can com fortably speak in intimate terms since ttse reader knows that others are not reading it,” the soft drink executive said. * “All it takes to tap this mar ket is for advertiseri !o accept the fact that their message goes into this market, and it Is up to them to see that their adver tising message, geared to white consumers, is either more ef fective to black consumers or that this general advertising is supplemented with black media advertising,” Mr. Wall said. The Coca-Cola executive em phasized that advertising can do a complete selling job when “it appeals if' ach segment in the language, manner and level which makes it feel comfort able ” Whilq the Negro mark et is full of opportunities, it also has a great many dangers, warned Mr. Wall. “It is so easy to make mis takes if the right approach and language are not used The safe thing for advertisers or their agencies to do is to employ someone who knows, someone w!,o is familiar with the lan guage and life-style of blacks.” September 1, i 960, to stock holders of record on August 13, 1969, Colonial Stores, with head quarters in Atlanta, has opera tions In the following states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, and Virginia. BOOKED FOR MURDER - Los Angeles: Marquette Frye, whose arrest triggered off ti e Watts riots August il, 1965, was looked or: a >picion of murder August 4 in connection with an attempted roi!■ery in a restaurant. One of the hold up men was si ot to dent! and another critical! , wounded when the son of the restaurant’s own er grabbed a shotgun from a backroom and fl ed at the hold up men. Frye was picked up two hours after the attempted robbery at the County-USC Medical Center where he went for treatment of ‘ ead cuts from flying glass. (UPI). 19
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