Saturday, April 13, 1968
Section B 6 Pages
YOUR PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY
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MANPOWER ADMINISTRATOR
—Horace R. Holmes (center),
new administrator of the Dis
trict of Columbia Manpower Ad
Statement of President NBL on
Assassination of Dr, M. L. King
The death of Dr. Martin Lu
ther King is indicative of the
depths to which America has
sunk. His life, which was dedi
cated to removing ignorance,
bigotry and poverty from this
nation, was and will forever be
a reminder that this is a racist
nation—white against black and
black against white.'
Every American, black and
white, needs to reflect upon
his contribution to the climate
of mental apartheid that took
the life of this vibrant, young
dedicated, articulate, selfless
Negro American. It was a sense
less death cut from the same
cloth and using the same pat--
tern as was used in the deaths
of John Kennedy, Mergar Ev
ers and all the others
Equally tragic, is the mood
of the black community that
even now is beginning to re
taliate by looting and smashing
windows of hundreds of busi
nesses owned and operated by
their own black people in their
midst, in an* attempt to show
their hatred for the "System."
This show of emotions is sense
less when perpeterated against
millions of white who were de
voted followers of Dr. King and
even more stupid when strug
gling black employers of black
people are being victimized by
their own people.
Ministers of Breadbasket Open
Negotiations with P. Lorillard
CHICAGO Operation
Breadbasket of . the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence, Dr. Martin Luther King's
primary economic thrust, took
its initial plunge into negotia
tions on a national basis this
week, when black clergymen
representing twenty cities in
the U. S. met with top officials
of the P. Lorillard Co., manu
facturers of cigarettes and ci
gars, with subsidiary enter
prises that include candy mak
ing, pet food products and the
Federal Tin and Paper Co. The
meeting was held at the Beth
any Baptist Church in Brook-
lyn, where O. B. B. leader, thg
Rev. William Jones is pastor.
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson,
National Director of Operation
Breadbasket, presented a de
tailed list of demands covering
jobs, their quality, category
and quantity: i. e. the number
of black people holding signi
ficant positions vith the firm,
the number of lawyers, physi
cians, accountants etc. em
ployed and persons holding
distributorships or jobber posi
tions. The demands also co
vered the nature and extent
of involvement of P. Lorillard
in black advertising media, (in
cluding national and local
newspapers and magazines, ra
dio stations and black disc
jockeys) and the whole ques
tion of black imagery, with
models, radio & TV personali
ties, etc.
The banking policy of P.
Lorillard,' with reference to
placing funds in Negro banks
was also pursued during the
ministrator, talks with Secre
tary of Labor Willard Wirtz
(right) and Mayor Walter Wash
ington of the District of Colum-
We call upon the President
of our troubled nation to do
the following things:
1 To immediately femend the
administrative interpretation of
the Federal Disaster Act of 1950
in order that the SBA and oth
er Federal agencies can finan
cially assist the businesses af
fected. and
2 To immediately ask Con
gress to enact legislation creat
ing a National Insurance Devel
opment Corporation or similar
corporation trt assist ghetto
businessmen in securing casual
tv insurance.
As president of the National
Business League, with chapters
in more than fift>kcities. whose
ten thousand memjjcr -business
es, stand to lose their meager*"
holdings. I Vk that all busi
nessmen affected by these up
risings do the following:
1. Close up during the entire
day of Dr King's funeral in
deference to his memory.
2 Report to local NBL offi
cers your needs resulting from
uprisings.
3. Exercise restraint, repeat
restraint and understanding
with the "looters to avoid any
senseless confrontations and
needless violence and dfeath
Dr King's life was wasted if
it does not change the mood
of America.
New Teachers
To Get $6,000
Salaries in Ya.
RICHMOND, Va. - Next
fall, a $6,000 salary for begin
ning teachers will no longer be
considered unusual nor will it
be the sole prerogative of noth
ern Virginia school divisions,
the Virginia Education Asso
ciation reported today.
Releasing a periodical sur
vey of established and pro
posed teacher pay scales for
next year, the VEA said that
nearly one out of two state
teachers will be in areas where
they will receive no less than
$6,000.
Nearly one out of five tea
chers will be in localities with a
minimum of at least $6,200 -
S2OO more than the highest
current minimum.
Currently, only one out of
every 25 Virginia teachers is in
a locality where the starting
pay is $6,000.
About 40 tons of steel rein
forcing bars are used In a mile
of two-lane concrete highway.
negotiations and the ministers
persistently pressed for con
crete programs that would in
corporate more use of Negro
insurance firms and a total
reassessment and distribution
of the philanthropic monies
of the Lorillard firm.
Che CarSila Ciiurs
bia (left), "at the press confer
ence announcing his appoint
ment.
John G. Peterson
Promoted by The
Colonial Stores
RALEIGH - Appointment
of John G. Peterson as Divi
sion Real Estate Manager of
Colonial Stores Incorporated
has been announced by R. L.
Belvin, Vice President of the
Company's Raleigh Division.
Mr. Peterson became asso
ciated with Colonial in June,
1965, and was promoted to
the position of Real Estate
Manager of the Columbus
(Ofclo) Division in October of
1965.
Prior to his association with
Colonial he was with the Ed
ward J. Deßartolo Companies,
shopping center and industrial
developers, as a real estate
agent and lease negotiator. Mr.
Peterson is a native of Zanes
ville, Ohio and he attended the
Ohio State University where
he majored in Commerce.
Oldest Georgia
Negro Political
Group Meets
ATLANTA, Ga. Georgia's
oldest, state-wide Negro poli
tical organization, the Voter's
League- a bi-partisan organi
zation-held its Annual Spring
elections oyer the weekend in
Macon, Georgia with some 312
delegates present, representing
73 of Georgia's largest coun
ties.
The incumbent Co-Chair
men-Hosea Williams, an Exe
cutive of the Southern Christ
ian Leadership Conference
(Democratic) was re-elected
along with P. B. McCoy (Re
publican) of Waycross, Geor
gia.
Both Vice Co-Chairmen
were defeated-Dr. Houston
Stallworth, Professor at Fort
Valley State College in Fort
Valley, Georgia, was elected as
Democratic Vice Co-Chairman
along with Rev. A. I. Habers
ham of Macon, Georgia who
was elected Republican Vice
Co-Chairman.
Rev. Fred C. Bennette, Sou
thern Director of SCLC's Ope
ration Breadbasket and long
time organizer for the League
was elected Treasurer and Mrs.
Rebecca Morns was re-elected
as Secretary.
The theme of the meeting
was a united Black front and
the Interview, Political Guid
ance and Patronage Commit
tees were set up for the speci
fic purpose of extending the
organization in united the
Negro vote.
The Resolution Committee
introduced a motion which
was carried unanimously that
the Georgia Voter's League
tolly endorse the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence's Washington Poor Peo
ple's Campaign which begins
sometime in mid-April.
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Penna. County Setting Pattern
For Ending Common Measles
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. TTiis
largely rural, resort and farm
ing community along the Dela
ware River is undertaking an
April campaign to immunize its
3 0,000 susceptible children
against common measles.
The Bucks County immuniza
tion campaign is expected to
serve as a model for other com
munities which seek to protect
their children against the rav
ages of this most contagious of
all childhood diseases. Prior to
the current national vaccination
campaign against measles, the
disease killed more children
than polio.
As with all preventive medi
cine, an index of success is the
degree of public participation
in the program. Judged by this
standard, the Bucks County ef
fort rates high
Currently, some 125 private
physicians have volunteered to
open their offices April 6-20,
during the Easter School vaca
tion, to give free vaccinations
with the single-shot Schwarz
strain measles vaccine provided
by the Bucks County Depart
ment of Health.
As a part of a massive under
taking to warn parents of [
measles' dangers and the need J
for vaccination of their chil
dren, the Bucks County Asso- |
ciation for Retired and Senior
Citizens addressed, mailed and
distributed through the coun
ty's 13 school districts a half
million pamphlets to local citi- 1
zens.
Some 16 local 'organizations
representing all segments of
the community have joined in
actively supporting the cam
paign.
Besides such medically orien
tated groups as the County's
Medical Society. Osteopathic
Society. Tuberculosis and Health
Society. Pharmaceutical Associ
ation and Department of Men
tal Health and Mental Retarda
tion. such service clubs as the
Rotary, Lions, and KiwJthis,
and youth groups, such, as Boy
Scouts and 4-H Clubs are parti
cipating.
Business and industry 'are
00-aperatilns by providing free
With Our Area Men in the Service
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SPEARMAN
Airman Warren D, Spearman,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W.
Spearman of Rt. 4, Clinton,
has completed basic training at
Lackland AFB, Tex. He has
been assigned to the Air Force
Technical Training Center at
Sheppard AFB, Tex., for spe
cialized schooling 3s a sanita
tion specialist. Airman Spear
man, a 1965 graduate of. Clear
Run High School, Garland, at-,
tended Sampson Technical In
stitute, Clinton.
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DOWDY
Master Sergeant Jack H. Dowdy
(right), brother of Dr. Lewis C.
Dowdy, President of A4T State
University, Greensboro, re
ceives the U. S. Air Force Com
mendation Medal at Tuy Hoa
AB, Vietnam. Colonel William
J. Evans, commander of the
31st Tactical Fighter Wing,
makes the presentation.
outdoor billboard campaign
publicity and distributing thous.
ands -of pamphlets through the
county's 52 banks. Some 150,-
000 handbills reminders of the
drive's importance are being
distributed at sup ermarket
checkout counters.
Although the drive will con
tinue throughout the month,
Sunday, April 21, as been des
ignated Blitz Sunday when 10
school clinics countywide, will
carry out an intensive drive to
immunize children over 1 year
of age.
The goal in Bucks County is
complete eradication of com
mon measles. Epidemiological
studies have established that
only when communities every
where accept the challenge of
eliminating the disease in like
manner will America be free of
measles, tragic aftermath
which, in 1966, affected 2,000
youngsters with measles .en
cephalitis and left 230 others
dead
laymen to Hold
Annual Meet at
Persimmon Gr.
GUILFORD—The Laymen's
organization of the Western
North Carolina Conference will
hold their annual meeting
April 28 at Persimmon Grove
A.M.E. Church. All churches
are asked to send five delegates
to the meeting, officers will be
elected for 1968. Reports and
other important matters will
be on the agenda. Laymen,
please answer the call.
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WARREN
Airman Oscar L. Warren,
son of Mr and Mrs. Oscar M.
Warren of Rt. 4, Dunn, has
completed basic training at
Lackland AFB, Tex. He has
been assigned to the Air Force
Technical Training Center at
Sheppard AFB, Tex.,
cialized schooling as-- a cqn
struction specialist. Alrmah
Warren is a 1966 graduate ctf
Armstrong High School, Fayet
te ville.
He served in the Pacific and
European Theaters of Opera
tion and is a veteran of the Ko
rean War.
A graduate of Allen Univer
sity High School, Columbia. S.
C., he attended South Carolina
State University.
Sergeant Dowdy is married to
the former Lottie C. Williams.
(U. S. Air Force Photo)
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TOP FRESHMAN STUDENT
HONORED AT A&T Arnold
Murphy, keeper of records for
A&T chapter of Kappa Alpha
Psi Fraternity (left), presents
Episcopalians Back Drive to Aid Businessmen
NEW YORK, N.Y. -The
Finance Department of the
Executive Council of the Epis
copal Church has originated
a program to encourage wider
investments in ghetto areas,
according to an announcement
by the Right Reverend John E.
Hines, Presiding Bishop of the
Church.
The program will be
launched with individual de-
If divisions where school
boards are proposing a $6,000
minimum are added to divi
sions where at least a $6,000
minimum has already been es
tablished, nearly half of the
state's 46,000 teachers will be
covered by a $6,000 base pay
now offered by only Alexan
dria and Prince William.
Fairfax is expected to be
the highest paying locality in
the state with a projected be
ginning figure of $6,400 with
Alexandria close behind at an
expected $6,300. Already es-
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LOFTtN
Airman Leon Loftin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Loftin Sr.
of 10 Carver Courts, Kinston,
has completed basic training at
Lackland AFB, Tex. He is now
assigned as a security police
man with a unit of the Tactical
Air Command at Nellis AFB,
Nev. Airman Loftin is a 1967
graduate of Adkin Senior High
School.
Sergeant William H. Wyatt,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Wyatt of 807 Green St., Dur
ham, is on duty at Tan Son
Nhut AB, Vietnam.
Sergeant Wyatt, a security
policeman, is a member of the
Pacific Air Forces.
Before his arrival in Vietnam,
he was assigned to Seymour
Johnson AFB, N. C.
The sergeant is a 1963 grad
uate of Durham High School.
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George C. Carver, 111, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Carver
of G-l-A University Apart
ments, Durham, has been pro
moted to technical sergeant In
the U. S. Air Force.
Sergeant Carver is an air
traffic controller at Aleonbury
RAF Station, England. He is a
member of the U.S. Air Forces
in Europe.
Bill Approved
WASHINGTON -Antici
pating a "travel explosion" in
the 1970'5, the Senate passed a
bill Monday to simplify passport
rocedures and to make the
permits valid for five years
without renewal.
- News of Sports World
State. National And Local
certificate of achievement to
Miss Irene Lucky, Stanley, top
freshman student during the
current session. Others honored
were Pearson E. Dunbar, Jr.,
above $6,000 are
posits of $15,000 in church
funds in selected banks in Ne
gro communities throughout
the country, to act as "multi
pliers" with the hope of en
couraging further deposits
from parishes, dioceses and
individual church-goers in
those banks.
The interest-bearing depo
sits will be made in Negro
owned and/or managed banks
and savings and loan associa
tions. A list of institutions
which will be queried by the
church about their policies in
cludes the majority of Negro
commercial banks and Negro
managed Federal Savings and
Loan Associations in U.S.
Presbyterian Women Launch
Dcive to Deal With Urban Crisis
NEW YORK - Recognizing
that more than stop-gap mea
sures are imperative in
with the nation's urban dftsis,
the National Executive Com
mittee of United Presbyterian
Women last week launched a
two-pronged program to help
deal with the crisis.
For its own members, the
UPW executive body launched
a process aimed at helping to
change "white racist" attitudes
and combating prejudice
largely person-to-person 'basis.
On an ecumenical basis, the
committee endorsed recent
program thrusts of Church
Women United in the over-all
race-poverty field and voted to
allocate SIO,OOO to that na
tional movement for the em
ployment of a staff member
who will work in the develop
ment of an action program to
meet human and community,
needs.
The 560,000 members of
UPW are being urged to:
Buy and read "without be
ing on the defensive" the Re
port of the President's Nation
al Advisory Commission on
Civil Disorders, which is now
available in Bantam paperback
for $1.25.
Seek out a woman "of your
own race perhaps like
you, is 'hung up' in her atti
tudes and relationships by mid
dle class assumptions and urge
her to study and discuss the
report with you."
Seek new insights by join
ing a woman of another race
for dialogue.
Contribute one dollar to a
"One for One Fund" to help
provide similar opportunities
of involvement to others.
This course was charted by
the 16-member UPW National
Executive Committee during a
weeklong meeting in Philadel
phia, which ended Friday.
At the same time, the na
tional executive body, presided
over by Mrs. Harold E. Boesch
of Kensington, Md., endorsed
the projects of Church Women
United, which include these
efforts:
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Shallotte, (scond from left); and
Miss Margaret Hammond, Win
terville. Looking on is Larry
Crowder, assistant keeper o£
records.
The purpose of the depo
sits ie to encourage more loans
to worthwhile business in
those areas, more investments
in small businesses in need of
funds and aid to enterprises
that will benefit the commu
nity by helping Negroes to
build a more viable economy
in the areas where . they live.
The deposits, plus matching
ones from dioceses and pa
rishes, would increase the lend
ing power of the banks and are
fully insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corpora
tion.
The world's fastest passenger
airliner is the Corvair 990. This
jet cruises at 640 miles per
hour.
Supporting local, state and
national fair housing legisla
tion.
fair housing
barriers in, neighborhoods and
communities.
Establishing training pro
grams to help women interpret
the urban crisis and to help
women understand the nature
of white racism.
Setting up centers to hear
complaints of minority group
persons about housing, sanita
tion, &nd other public services,
and offering help in filing com
plaints with appropriate city
agencies.
Substituting "crash" educa
tion curriculum that focuses
on the Report of the National
Advisory Commission on Civil
Disorders for regular study ma
terials.
Offering immediate inter
pretation of the Southern.
Christian Leadership Confer
ence-sponsored "poor people's
campaign," scheduled to begin
in Washington, D. C., on April
22.
Focusing attention on com
munity needs and mobilizing
for action on May Fellowship
Day, May 3.
Bunker Due
To See LB J
SAIGON United States
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker
left Saigon late Monday for
Washington to . "discuss the
possibility of peace'' in Vietnam
with President Johnson.
At a news conference at
Tansonnhut Airport, Burner said
he would "assure" President
.Johnson that both the U.S. and
South Vietnamese government
were "consulting very closely
during this important period
when the prospects for progress
toward peace look somewhat
brighter." L
The 74-yeai-old ambasador to
Saigon denied that the South
Vietnamese government was
unhappy about Washington's re
cent moves toward peace in
Vietnam.
During the past week, South
Vietnamese officials have said
that they were nervous about
the possibility tint Washington
and Hanoi would negotiate to
end the war.