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—THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1966 6A Mays: Stoneham Brought Full Racial Equality to Baseball NEW YORK Willie Mays this week credited Horace Stoneham, owner of the San Francisco Giants, with bring ing full racial equality to base ball^ In Y signed article in the current issue of Look Maga zine, Mays noted that although the late Branch Rickey pio neered in breaking major league' baseball's color line, it was Stoneham who first gave Negro players the same oppor tunity to succeed or fail as was given white players. Mays declared in his article: "Horace Stoneham and the Giants are the first, to my knowledge, to go in for bring ing a Negro boy up, then send ing him down, then bringing him up again. And this, to my mind, was the true completion of the idea of racial equality in baseball, because before j Stoneham, a Negro boy would have only one chance to fail White boys could have more than one. "There is no equality in the opportunity to succeeed," Wil- | lie added, "unless there's j equality also in the opportun- j ity not to succeed right away." i Mays pointed out that many , white players such as Dick j Ellsworth, Vem Law, Bob | Friend and Nellie Fox "came GEORGIA GROUP STARTS NEW SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS VENTURE ATLANTA, Ga—A thriving business venture called "Craw fordville Enterprises" stands as an example of what an op pressed by determined people can achieve. Three months ago, a group of Negroes in Taliaferro Coun ty, Georgia, decided they had taken all the oppression, segre gation and discrimination they could take sitting down. TOOTHACHE Don't suffer agony. In seconds get relief that lasts with ORA-JEL. Speed-release formula puts it to work in •tantly to stop throbbing toothache pain, so safe doc- /cy *r *cA tors recommend it for (WWEMTS') teething a . »\\ ora-jel FEDERAL AND STATE Income Tax Returns Prepared Week Day Evening 7 to 9 Saturday and Sunday All Day Julius H. Barbee Phone 688-4046 NEW! TRY US? Samtone A JIM PBEAM gjSa Kentucky gggjgg^^^Bourbon |g 86 t>roof sKua I IFT ®? BOURBON WHISKEY ] pL— «§§3»(ll IE. J / s ( it J AMIS B BtAM DISTILLING CO, CLEMHONT. BtAM. KENTUCKY to greatness after years of try ing and improving," but the Negro players "were either established long before their first chance, like Satchel Paige, or they made it on sheer talent their first shot, like Jackie Robinson." Mays also discussed in Look 1 a less publicized area of ra cial equality, the "right" of a i Negro player to take the same liberties with the rules as white players. Declared Mays:» "Before I came to the majors, no Negro i player had the right to take one drink too many and break training. That was for white players only. "Since I came up, we've had a 1 couple of Negroes in trouble 1 too. Not me I don't drink, j And I don't mean to say, eith- \ er, that my coming to the ma jors was a signal for the other/ 1 Negro players to all shout, 'Now we can sin along with the •vhite boys!' "No. I mean that with the timing, and the breaks, and what talent I had, we put to- j gether a kind of new set of [ values my first year in the j majors. The Negro stopped be- , ing equal just when he did 1 ' good, but began being equal, j' period." With the aid of the South ern Christian Leadership Con ference, The United Presbyte rian Church, U.S.A., the Geor gia Council on Human Rela tions, and the Taliaferro Coun- ty Voters League, an independ ent firm was launched to do silk screen work. Crawfordville Enterprises has provided initial employment for many local citizens, and the company is engaged in produc ing lettered T-shirts, sweat shirts, sports jackets and the like for schools and colleges. Contracts for all forms of silk screen work are now being fought with firms, churches and fraternal and other or- ganized businesses. Among some of the first contracts the Crawfordville fac tory has received are contracts from Morris Brown College, Operation Breadbasket, SCLC, and several area high schools. New contracts are being brought in by salesmen on the field. Randolph T. Blackwell, Pro gram Director of SCLC, said that he feels that the creation of industry in the rural south will make the area more at tractive for residents, thereby eliminating' the pressure to make an exodus to urban ghet tos. where the rural person often finds he has no skills with which he can relate, mak ing him a potential candidate for welfare and massive un employment. DR. VIVIAN HENDERSON NAMED TO COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS ATLANTA, Ga.—Dr. Vivian Wilson Henderson t president of Atlanta's Clark College, has been named to a ten-member advisory Committee which will assist the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights in a nationwide -Cedar Grove Continued from 3A Thompson, i Sixth Grade: Brenda Cooper, j Leonard Corbett, Van essa i Crjsp, William Ellison, Geral -•ine Graham, Marilyn Jeffries, J Patricia Jones, Janice Lea, Dal [ las Mitchell, Isabella Moore, ; Gail Parker, Clarence Thomp | son, Ronald Thompson, James Torain, Maggie Torain, William Torain, Vanessa Vinson and Belinda Wade. Seventh Grade: Velma Cates, I Harold Corbett, Fannie Corbett, Patricia Corbett, Debra Fuller, , Eula Lean, Venessa McDou -1 "aid, Bessie Pettiford, Lee Ann a#iney, Rosa Thompson and s£mma Wade. Eighth Grade: Sylvia Currie, Thelma Paylor. -Y-Teens Continued from page 3A teaching and learning." The 33 predominantly Negro colleges and universities affili ated with the United Negro College Fund currently enroll 31,620 students, and serve all American youth without regard to race, color or creed. 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Our faith in America and your faith in us brought North Carolina Mutual from 1898, the date of our organization, to the present in which we now employ almost liOO people in 60 job classifications. NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL HAS A POLICY FOR EVERY NEED: • RETIREMENT INCOME • HOSPITALIZATION • WHOLE LIFE • EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT Cj? NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL TO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA , study of problems related to race and education. I The study originated from a j request by President Johnson ' and will investigate problems j related to race and education [ as they arise from such race isolating factors as housing pat terns, school districting, eco- I nomic stratification and popu- I lation movement, j Commission chairman John IA. Hannah has described the study as "an opportunity to put before Congress and the country a definitive analysis j of the problem and our reeom ! mendation for action." He de : scribed the study as ' perhaps the most important assignment j this Commission has ever un- 1 dertaken." The primary role of the Ad- ' visory Committee of which Dr. Henderson is a member will , be in aiding the Commission to I plan the study and to evaluate its findings. The committee is headed by Dr. Thomas Pettigrew of Har vard University. Other mem bers are Dr. Kenneth B. Clark of Ne>v York City College; Dr. Elizabeth R. Cole, education specialist of Chevy Chase, Md., Dr. James Coleman of Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Rashi Fein of Brookings Institute; Dr. John H. Fischer, president of Columbia University's Teachers College; Dr. Philip Hauser of The University of Chicago; Dr. Peter Rossi, director of the National Opinion Research Center, and Dr. Robin Williams of Cornell University. fIHP n I Hi&'" ; " H—— jmß V v* JL^M a ■** M o IIII*M 1 lrH wm u | !■ Ik V \ Mi I I |V ■ .-~ jM iv-". yaj rl \JA. —Z-JM II I $ I a £*?MH ■ SCOUT CHARTER PRESENTA TION The newly organiezd Troop and Post 961 at West Durham Baptist Church had their charter presented Sunday, March 6, 1966 at the morning services. Pictured from left to ♦o ripht are: Scout Jerry Has kins, John W. Plummer, Jr., Explorer Post Advisor; E. L. Kearney,' Chairman of The Cheynnee Leaf Organizaion and Extention Committee; William P. Mcßroom, Scoutmaster; Rev. F. D. Terry, Pastor and Insti tutional Representative; Lee E. Jones, Chairman of the Troop Committee; Alfornce Stewart, Chairman of the Explorer Post Committee and Homer Evans. Boy Scout. Other members of Hie church Scout committee are: Palmer L. Perkins, Sr., Henry L. Gunn, John H. Markham end George D. Jones. They are in the pro cess now of organiiing a Cub Pack for the 8-10 year old boy*.
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