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Hospital Proposal "A Fraud On Community"- Wheeler =r—--=■ s/ . . -_i,ri *^l'J ■W / CIVIL RIGHTS RALLY—(Chi- , cago)—Dr. Martin Luther King (second from left) holds an um- j bralla to shield himself from tha sun at a civil rights rally Chicago Officials Blamed For City's West Side Rioting SCLC PRESIDENT CITES SOCIAL ILLS AND SLUMS CHICAGO, 111. Declaring that "genuine peace is not the absence of tension, hut the presence of justice." Dr. Mar tin Luther King Jr., hlamed local Chicago officials for last weeks riots on the city's West Side. King, President of the South ern Christian Leadership Con ference. said that the "respon sibility for last week's social eruption must be laid squarely upon the shoulders of those elected officials whose myopic social vision has been further blurred by political expediency rather than commitment to the betterment of living conditions and dedication to the eradica tion of slums." The Nobel Laureate whose own family resides in a West Side slum tenement, expressed his heartfelt thanks to all per sons who worked untiringly over the weekend to restore a peaceful atmosphere on Chica go's "beleaguered West Side." He praised the discipline and attitude of some 4,000 National Guard troops deployed in the community, but in the same breath deplored the conduct and attitudes of those whose "insensitivity and callousness toward the social ills which plague Negro residents on the West Side made it necessary to send military might into the community." "It must be remembered that genuine peace is not the ab sence of tension, but the pres ense of justice, "King said, adding: "And at this very mo ment, justice is not present on Chicago's West Side or for that See BLAMES 6A Geo. Whifmore Released Thru NAACP Help NEW YORK—After 27 months in prison, mostly on the basis of "confessions" to crimes he did not commit, George Whit more, Jr., has been released in $5,000 bail as the result of per sistent efforts on the part of his volunteer attorney, Stanley Reiben, and the Brooklyn Branch of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People, represented by Norman B. Johnson, a Brook lyn Branch attorney. Johnson arranged for posting of the bond by R. Peter Straus, president of the Radio Station WMCA, who has been interest ed in the case from the be ginning. The Brooklyn NAACP provided the SIBO premium fee. Upon release, the 21-year-old prisoner expressed his thanks to his lawyers, the NAACP and Straus. "They went out of their way to help me. And for this, I am deeply grateful," he said. Whitmore was serving a 5 to 10 year sentence for attempted rape and assault on a Brooklyn nurse in 1963. His lawyers ap pealed the court's verdict. Meanwhile they filed papers for his release on bond. The NAACP entered the case in 1964 when it became known that members of the jury which first convicted him in the rape case had made invidious re marks about Negroes in the jury room. Meanwhile, it was revealed that "Confessions" he had made to three murders See WHITMORE 2A recently held in Soldier rield here. James Meredith (right) and Floyd McKissick (second from right) were scheduled to speak at the rally. Rally lead- j Dr. Elder Speaker for C. C. Spaulding Scholarship Event Dr. Alfonso Elder, president emritus of North Carolina Col lege, will deliver the main ad dress at White Rock Baptist Church, Sunday, July 31, at 11:00 A.M. The service will be held in observance of the C C. Spaul ding Scholarship Day which the church has sponsored each year since Mr. Spaulding's death in 1952. Spaulding was a member of long standing of White Rock Church. Dr. Elder, a member of St. Titus Episcopal church, is by training and experience a teacher of mathematics. He was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina College from 1924 to 1943. From 1943 until 1947, he was dean of the Graduate Schodl of Education at Atlanta Uni versity, from which he resigned to return to the North Carolina College faculty shortly before being named president in 1948. He retired from this position in 1963. A native of Sandersville, Ga., Dr. Elder received his A.B. de gree from Atlanta University, and the M.S. and Ed.D. degree st Columbia University. He has served the state and the nation as a member of sev eral educational boards and commissions. A HAPPY DAY—(New York)— George Whitmore, Jr., (2nd from right), congratulates his two attorneys after being freed on bail. WHitmore spent more NCC Nursing Dept. Gets $65,000 Grant USH Dept. North Carolina College's De partment of Nursing has re ceived a $65,000 grant from the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Edu cation, and Welfare for a five year period extending to Aug. 31, 1970. The announcement was made this week by the college's in terim committee and by Dr. C. L. Patterson, director of the Summer School, who indicated that the grant will be used to provide public health nursing traineeships to registered nurs es who plan to accept staff po sitions in public health nurs ing. This marks the tenth year that NCC has received such ers planned a march on Chica go's City Hall following the gathering. (UPI Telephoto) i tsf . Ilk DR. ELDER Active in community affairs, he holds membership on the board of directors of the Mu tual Savings and Loan Asso ciation, a trusfee of Lincoln Hospital, a member of the Durham Committee of 100, the Human Relations Committee of this City, and the Governor's Committee on Education Be MffmL thf. High School. More than Half a dozen schol arly articles in professional magazines have been written by Dr. Elder alone or in colla boration with several authori ties than two yean in prison after l confessing, and then withdraw ing the confessions, to three I murders and a rape. With the 21-year-old Whitmore are (L-R):' funds for its nursing program, which has full accreditation by the National League for Nurs ing and is directed by Mrs. H. S. Miller, chairman of the de partment. MISS BRENDA McCLAIN TO BE FEATURED IN PIANO RECITAL The Tait studio presents its annual recital Sunday, July 24 at 7:30 p.m. at White Rock Baptist Church. The main fea ture is Miss Brenda C. McClain a former student of Mrs. Gwen dolyn Tait who is now a rising senior at Saint Mary's In The Mountains in Littleton, New Hampshire She will play sev eral pieces including three of Cite Cime# VOLUME 43 No. 27 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, JULY 23 1966 PRICE 15c NIA REPORTS Negro Insurance Companies Total $390 Million in Assets sl6 Million Added to Growth in 65 Life Insurance Companies managed by Negroes increased their insurance in force from $2 billion to $2.2 billion in the last year, while adding Sl6 mil lion in assets. This was announced by H. A. Gilliam of Memphis, president of the 45-member National In surance Association, which con vened here July 18 through 21. The companies have $390 mil lion in assets, a fjve per cent increase over a year ago, Gil liam said. They will go. after a bigger share of the market backed up j by intensified advertising and I sales training, and concentrat- | ing on the economic power of the Negro woman, according to | Gilliam. In an address delifer- | ed Tuesday, Gilliam took note of the key role of Negro wom en as wage earners and heads I of households. He said the structure of Ne-1 gro society is changing more I rapidly than that of the whole j society. Their impact in the j economy is greater than num bers would suggest, he added, citing a younger median age and higher birth rate as fac tors. Some —4OO executives and sales leaders were scheduled to study ways of assuring profit able growth during the four days of meetings at the Jack Tar Hotel here. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Com pany, largest Negro managed company, was host to the con vention. Delegates were from 25 states in which the member firms do business. In addition to Gilliam, who See INSURANCE 2A Arthur H. Millar. Attorney of Record; hii mothsr, Mrs. Bird ana Whitmora; and Stanlay Raiban, Whltmora'i lawyar. (UPI -Photo) To be eligible for funds un der the grant, applicants must be accepted by the college for admission and must study full time. her originals. ■» The members of the Tait Studio who will perform are: Adrienne Norwood, Valerie Wynne, Coral Vaughan, Joyce Page, Sharl Mason, Courtney Jones, Debra Fuller, Melanie Gooch, and Ann Henderson. The public is cordially in vited. i W A CLEMENT. CLU Vice President • Field Operations, North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Company was presented a special award in recognition of more than 30 years of parti cipation in the National Insur ance Association. The presen- Shuttlesworth Faces Court Charges In Different Cities Birmingham, Cincinnati Scenes of Trials LOUISVILLE, Ky —The Rev. ■ Fred L. Shuttlesworth faces j court appearances in two dif ferent cities in one week as a result of his civil-rights acti vity. Shuttleswoflth is a top offi cer of two Southwide civil rights organizations and is re tiring president of the Alabama , Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMH), Birmingham He is pastor of Greater New Light Baptist Church, Cincin nati, where he is also taking a leading part in civil-rights work. He is scheduled for trial in Circuit Court at Birmingham on July 18 on a charge growing out of the movement for equal ity in that city. He faces a pos sible six-month sentence on a charge of blocking a sidewalk during a demonstration in 1961. The case in the U. S. Courts but was returned to the local court as a result of a re cent decision by the U. S. Su preme Court. Shuttlesworth faces a tres pass charge in Cincinnati Muni cipal Court as a result of his picketing the Drake Memorial Hospital there. The picketing by him and several other per sons grew out of employment practices at the hospital. Hear ing is July 22. The militant minister is president of the Southern Con ference Educational Fun (SCEF) which is based in Louisville but •vorks to involve white people in the rights struggle through out the South MI«^MK:LAIN tation from the Agency section of the Association, was made during the 46th annual conven tion being held at the Jack Tar Hotel, by E. E. Forte, vice president-agency director, Mam moth Life Ins. Co. Louisville, Ky. and chairman of the Awards I~ '\ I 1 j I 1 If'Jl !| I j FIP i ' •m _ _ . . ... «. oi .L. .. '4L DISCUSSES CONFAB PLANS — Mrs. Orville L. Freaman di %r cuises her enga(jament to speak for the National Association of Two Killed, 24 are Injured In Cleveland, 0. Race Rioting CLEVELAND. Ohio Na- > i tional Guardsmen, called out i under orders of Gov Jam"* A. ! Rhodes, were patrolling the I j streets of Cleveland Wednes- i day after two persons were killed, 24 injured, and more j j than 100 arrested in an out- I break of racial violence. The governor ordered mobi ! lization of 1,500 troops, but I early Wednesday only a few i hundred were on the scene. Concentrated in the Hough section of Cleveland, the i guardsmen were called out to restore peace after Rhodes , stated "a state of tumult, riot j and other emergency" existed j I in the area. | Tuesday, a Negro man, Per- i cy Giles, 36, of Cleveland ! Heights, was shot to death on ! I a street corner by a person or | or persons unknown at 8:55 j p.m. He was shot in the back [ of the head^ Some observers claimed the victim was 'shot by police after j the officers opened fire when bottles were tossed at their | squad cars. "They shot him! | They shot him!" yelled some j 'of the persons in the crowd | Committee. Shown in photo, from left to right are: G. T. Howell, vice president-associate agency director. Universal Life Ins. Co., Memphis, Tenn., and vice president, agency section; W. A. Clement; E. E. Fort; and H. A. Gilliam, NIA President. Colored Women's Clubs with Mrs. Mamie B. Reese. The as sociation's convention will ba held in Oklahoma City July 28. which gathered at the scene. I "This is too much " Sporadic shooting, looting and burning of property dotted the | Hough section during the two j nights of violence and disord er. Firemen received a total of , 52 calls, 37 or 38 of which, ac- | cording to city safety director John N. McCormick, were Tues day night. Firefighters were hampered in their efforts to 1 extinguish flames in burning stores and other structures by ; rocks thrown by bystanders. | One fireman and 12 policemen were among the 24 persons in- j jured. Property damage esti mates had not been made late Wednesday. The other victim of gunfire, j ! a woman, was shot Monday night. The troops called to the area , I patrolled the streets in jeeps j [ and were armed with machine j ! buns. Gov. Rhodes said more i ■ guardsmen would be sent if j 'local authorities requested I them. Many of the burned build ings were looted and police, I too, were harassed in their ef- | | forts—in this case by snipers. 1 M&F President Opposes Action Health Council John H Wheeler, a member of the Lincoln Hospital board of trustees, Monday called a proposal by the Health Plan ning Council of Central North Carolina, recommending $12,- 399.000 for Watts Hospital and only $1,120,000 for Lincoln Hospital, "a fraud on the com munity." On Monday, the council sug gested a $13.5 million program for the expansion of Watts and the renovation of Lincoln. Its action more than cut in half a request by Lincoln trustees on May 16 for $3.5 million for a new 100-bed unit, a new nurses' residence, an auditori um, resident staff quarters and clinical facilities Watts had re quested $14,105,869 Wheeler, president of Me chanics and Farmers Bank, and a member of the Health Plan ning Council said the project ed program. which would merge the boards of trustees of Lincoln and Watts, and move Lincoln's facilities for obstet rics and pediatrics to Watts, is "crippling in design." He charged the report of the council "was written in an ar bitrary manner," and that the trustee merger proposal" was designed to phase out Lincoln " Citing "the Watts riots in Los Angeles and other racial disturbances," Wheeler warned the councilors to "think about what you are doing." The proposal plan would pro vide for the continued exist ence of Lincoln's medical and surgical services to adults. Lincoln's bid for funds to con tinue its school of nursing was turned down. A bond election before the end of the year could result from the council's recommen dations. Watts trustees had requested 3fio beds for the hospital's fa cilities for medical and surgi cal treatment of adults. Th® council proposed 312 bed*. Cut from Watts' request by the councilors was its requisition for chronic care, nursing home type beds. The council contend ed such beds would be too ex pensive and would possibly be converted to acute hospftal use anyway Wheeler said, the council's suggestions, if adopted, would "cut the ground from future growth of Lincoln Hospital." DECEPTIVE DEGREES Reno. Nevada, is 100 miles farther west than Los Angeles; Jacksonville. Florida, is farther west than Cleveland. Ohio; and New York City lies west of the Pacific—at least lhat part which touches Chile. 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