Saturday, June 1, 1968
Section B—6 Pajjes
YOUR PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY
It. Anderson Named jLDF Chief In Miss.
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NEWLY INSTALLED PTA OF
FICERS for the Fayetteville
Street School for 1968-69 are
shown following elections at
the final PTA meeting on
Baldwin's First
NEW YORK—On June 6 The
Dial Press will pilfclish TELL
ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S
BEEN GONE by James Bald
win his first novel since "An
other Country" in 1962.
Tell Me u How Long The
Train's Gone is the life
story of Leo Proudhammer, a
famous American actor who
reached the stage after a strug
gle which began with a child
hood in the Harlem slums.
Now in his mid-forties, he re
views his life, reflecting on the
people who have changed it
and the relationships that have
given meaning to his existence,
and comes to some startling
conclusions about himself and
his country.
With a background swiftly
changing from Harlem to New
York's exclusive upper East
NBL Head Asks
For Easier SBA
Loan Terms
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The
National Business League's Pre
sident, Berkeley G. Burrell tes
tifying today to a Senate Sub
committee on Intergovernmen
tal Relations concerning reloca
tion of small businesses called
for a program of technical as
sistance to such businesses to
turn their difficulties into new
business opportunity.
Criticizing SBA's 7A pro
gram as demanding too much
from the relocatee, he suggest
ed instead that a Small Busi
ness Capital Fund, which
would have more favorable
loan terms, be set up by SBA
for revitalizing relocated busi
nesses.
Only then can relocation a
"negative" be turned into a
positive event for the small
businessman. A good program
"can have an electric effect
on the surrounding communi
ty," Burrell told Senator Ed
mund S. Muskie, who Is the
Subcommittee's Chairman.
Then defending SBA, he term
ed it "cruel ana unusual pu
nishment of dedicated public
servants" for Congress to as
sign SBA tasks without supply
ing enough capital for them to
do the job. "Such action,"
he pointed out, "also extends
false hope to entrepreneurs."
He urged a "special mandate,
a special fund and mandatory
compliance provisions" for the
new program as a remedy
which would counter those
who preach the no hope doc
trines of "separatism, destruc
tion and violence."
One source of failure is in
ability to decide just what one
wants.
Tuesday, May 21, in the school ,
auditorium. They are from left j
to right: Rev Jessie Jones, j
President; Mrs. Shirley Watson, I
Secretary; Mrs. Frances Fox, !
Novel in 6 Yrs
Side, from Greenwich Village
ttfa New Jersey actor's colony,
from Broadway to San Francis
co, "Tell Me How Long The
Train's Been Gone" presents
James Baldwin's penetrating
analysis of American society
of the past forty years both
black and white —and one can
sense his appraisal of its fu
ture.
James Baldwin is the author
of nine books —four novels (Go
Tell It On The Mountain, Gio
vanni's Room, Another Coun
try, Tell Me How Long The
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THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR—
LDF First Assistant Counsel
Leroy Clark, right, addresses
roundtable discussion of help
lessness of ghetto residents
against economic abuses for
Hebrew Union OK's Poor Peoples Campaign
NEW YORK Answering
the call of its President Rab
bi Maurice N. Eisendrath, to
use the "diplomatic, political,
financial and moral power
VA TO PAY UP TO $250 OF BURIAL
EXPENSES OF DECEASED VETS
Up to $250 for burial ex
penses for eligible deceased ve
terans will be paid by the
Veterans Administration if the
claim is filed within two years
after the veteran's burial or
cremation, according to the
VA.
Burial claims may be filed
by the undertaker, if he has
not been paid, or by the party
who paid the undertaker.
The VA will reimburse up
to $250 in expenses for the
permanent burial or cremation
of any veteran who was dis
charged under conditions other
than dishonorable, if the ve
teran served during wartime or
after Jan. 31, 1955.
The VA pointed out that
similar burial expenses are also
paid by VA for veterans of
Che CarSaCinsig
Assistant Secretary and John
Harrell, Treasurer. Not shown
in the picture is Mrs. Viola
Philpott, PTA Vice President.
(Photo by Purefoy)
to be Offered
Train's Been Gone), three col
lections of essays (Notes of a
Native Son, Nobody Knows My
Name, 1 The Fire Next Time),
one collection of short stories
(Going To Meet the Man), and
one play (Blues For Mr. Char
lie). One unpublished play, The
Amen Corner will be published
by The Dial Press in the fall.
Both plays have been produced
on Broadway.
Mr. Baldwin Is currently liv
ing in California where he is
at work on a screenplay of the
biography of Malcolm X.
food and housing. He is joined
by Jean C. Cahn, professor,
Howard University Law School,
and Edward V. Sparer, lectur
er in law, Yale University Law
School. Discussion took place
of American Jewry ... to re
order American priorities . . .
and enable every citizen of
our land to walk our streets
in security and dignity," the
peacetime service who were
receiving service-connected
ability compensation at the
time of their death, or who
had been released from service
for disabilities incurred in line
of duty.
(Burial expenses for service
men who died on active duty
are borne by the military, not
the VA.)
Almost every deceased ve
teran is eligible for an Ameri
can flag for his casket, the
VA raid. Flags are famished
undertakers, on request, by
any VA office or post office.
Following the veteran's bu
rial, the flag may be given to
the next of kin, or, If there is
no next of kin, to the closest
friend of the deceased veteran.
Further information may be
obtained from any VA office.
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
First Negro Law Graduate of
Mississippi State University
NEW YORK-Appointment
of Reuben Anderson, 25, as
director of the Mississippi legal
program of the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund,
Inc. (LDF) was announced
here this week by Jack Green
berg, director-counsel.
Attorney Anderson, first
Negro to graduate from the
University of Mississippi Law
School (1967), succeeds
Marian Wright, who is now in
Washington, D. C. on a Field
Foundation Fellowship.
Attorney Anderson super
vises a full-time staff of three
additional lawyers plus five co
operating attorneys. This team
(which will acquire two more
members next month) is re
sponsible for more than 100
pending cases which include
23 school, 30 criminal, 8 em
ployment, 3 welfare, and san
dry others.
He and his staff serve as
counsel for four anti-poverty
programs.
The LDF also announced
that, thanks to the LDF-spon
sored Herbert Lehman Educa
tion Fund, 10 Negro students
are now in scholarship at the
University of Mississippi Law
School. An additional three are
paying their own way.
In light of student requests
for assistance, the LDF esti
mated there will be 25 Negro
lawyers functioning in Missis
sippi within the next five years.
There were only four as re
at the Institute on the Uses of
Law in Combatting Racism and
Poverty, sponsored in New
York City this week by the
NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF).
Board of Trustees of fhe
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, at a meeting
on Sunday, May 19, voted to
endorse the Poor People's
Campaign presently under
way in Washington, D. C.
In a resolution on Civil
Rights and Economic Justice,
which stated that "economic
justice is inseparable from
racial justice," the Board
asked for the support of its
congregations for "Resurrec
tion City" as a "non-violent
dramatization of the despe
rate conditions of the poor in
rural areas and city ghettos."
It urged a national commit
ment to the fight against
poverty and discrimination to
encompass such measures as
a guaranteed annual mini
personal contact between white
mum income, increased inter
and Neg-oes, and equitable
distribution of public welfare
funds, among others.
Rabbi Eisendrath, in his
message to the Board on Sat
urday evening, May 18, also
called for the appointment of
a high level commission,
black and white, to investi
gate the death of Dr. Martin
Luther King, in light of the
"abortive purcuit of Reverend
King's assassin" by the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation.
cently as 1965.
Hie civil rights movement
has long faced an acute short
age of attorneys, particularly
in the Deep South, Greenberg
said. A mere 700 of the na
tion's 65,000 law students are
Negro. In the South, these are
virtually the only l«wyers who
will handle civil rights cases he
continued.
52,200 Killed
On Highways
During Year 67
in 1962 highway deaths
topped the 40,000 mark. Three
years later the figure was 48,
500 and in 1966 America's
highways were stained with the
blood of 52,500 persons.
The skyrocketing figures
paused-even dropped a bit in
1967. The year-end toll stood
at 52,200 according to the
highway accident booklet re
leased annually by a leading
insurance company.-
Tragedy did not stop with
the deaths, but added 3,840,
000 persons to the 1962 in
jured list. 4,400,000 were in
jured in 1966 and 4,200,000
in 1967--a reduction of some
200,000.
"The record of 1967 gives
us the Brst appreciable im
provement in this respect that
has taken place in more than a
decade," according to an in
surance spokesman. "The satis
faction this gives must be qua
lified, however, for it will re
quire many more years of con
sistent betterment before we
can claim any genuine progress
toward the conquest of a stub
bom and tragic problem," he
added.
Adverse weather was not
an important contributing fac
tor in 1962 or 1967. Records
show that last year some 80
percent of the fatal crashes oc
curred on clear days and dry
roads. The remaining 20 per
cent occurred in fog, rain and
snowy weather.
Excessive speed continues
to hold top spot in the list of
accident causes, with reckless
driving and driving on the
wrong side of the road taking
second and third places re
spectively. Pedestrians were at
fault in many of the fatal acci
dents, with crossing between
intersections being top kil
ler.
Youthful drivers hold the
greatest responsibility on the
highway death list. Almost one
third of the drivers involved in
fatal accidents were under 25
years of age.
Rev. John L. Aiken
Attends Episcopal
Seminary Finals
CHARLESTON, S. C. The
Reverend John Levi Aiken,
pastor of Holy Trinity R. E.
Church attended the Eighty
first Commencement exercises
of The Reformed Episcopal
Theological Seminary, Thurs
day, May 23 at 8:15 p.m. It
was held in Christ Memorial
Church Chestnut and Forty
third Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. Cornelius Van TU, de
livered the address, The sub
ject was "The Work of The
Lord." a-
Most disgruntled persons are
victims of an egotism that i»
unsatisfied by the marks enter
ed to their credit by the score
keeper.
Save while you're young
aren't you glad your rich grand
father saved when he was
young?
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THE COCA-COLA CO.'S FILM
WINS GOLD MEDAL IN FES
TIVAL—The Coca-Cola Com
pany's film "Special Men in a
Special Market" won the covet
ed gold medal in the Atlanta
International Film Festival.
The full-color film shows op
portunities available in the
NCC Award Winner Gives Credit to Institution
North Carolina College's "at
mosphere conducive to the
reality of brotherood" recently
as the chairman of the col
lege's department of nursing
received one of nursing's high
est honors, the Mary Mahoney
Award, given by the American
Nurses' Association.
Mrs. Helen Sullivan Miller,
who w,on the award May 13 at
the American Nurses' Associa
tion's 1968 convention, also
called the award a tribute "to
lina, my faculty and students
my colleagues in North Caro
for their acceptance of, and
participation in, a program in
nursing where the avenues of
communication lead to under
standing the dignity of man."
Mary Eliza Mahoney, for
whom the award is named, was
the first graduate Negro nurse
The award is given menially by
the eassociation to a person
who has made an outstanding
contribution to integration in
nursing.
Mrs. Miller, one of tht> five
finalists in the award program,
came to North Carolina College
in 1956 In 1958, the first white
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ALL 2,400 EMPLOYEES at
Miller Brewing Company in
Milwaukee were recently given
litter bags to support Mayor
Henry Maier's proclamation
that May is "Clean Up, Paint
Hunter College to Offer Negro History in 68-69
NEW YORK—Two courses in
Negro history will be offered
during the 1968-69 academic
year at Hunter College of The
City University of New York,
it was announced this week by
Dr. Dorothy Ganfield Fowler,
chairman of the History De
partment.
"The Role of Black People
in American History," a three
credit course dealing with Ne
gro participation in shaping
United States history, will be
offered by the History Depart
ment in the fall, 1968, semest
er. A second th re e-credit
course, "Afro-American His
tory," will be offered in the
spring, 1969, semester.
News of Sports World
State, National And Local
fields of sales and merchan- I
dising, Displaying the plaque |
are (left to right): Harold Ham- i
ilton, Market Development De
partment, Coca-Cola USA, a
Division of The Coca-Cola Co.;
Michael Todd, AIFF director;
Kelvin Wall, manager, Market
applicant was admitted to the
program ,and the current en
rolment of the department in
cludes 17 white students and
21 Negro students. In addition,
there is one student from In
dia.
Under Mr s. Miller's guid
ance, the nursing program at
NCC has changed from a spe
cialized program i n public
health nursing to a baccalau-
reate program for nursing. The
program is unique in that it
is the only baccalaureate pro
gram in the state enrolling
only registered nurses.
Almost one-third of the
graduates of the program since
1956 have been white. The fac
ulty now includes two Negro
and two white faculty mem
bers. Students work in a clini
cal education program 'at the
Veterans' Administration Hos
pital in Durham
Mrs Miller has long practic
ed the ideals she teaches to
the stud&ts From 1939 to
1942, she was employed by the
Georgia State Department of
Public Health as coordinator
of In-Service Education for all
Up, Fix Up Month." The iW- ;
ter bags were mailed to / ,em• |
ployees with the Miller/ Hi- I
Lites publication. ■Showiy in
serting the litter bags into the |
envolpes are Robert Mohagle, I
The latter presents the his
tory of black people in Ameri
ca, Stressing their socio-eco
nomic, political and cultural
development from African ori
gins to the present.
Dr Fowler said there would
be no prerequisite courses for
either class. Both are open to
all undergraduate students.
The fall course will be a semi
nar; the spring course a regu
lar lecture class.
"The aim of these classes is
to make students aware of the
role black people have played
in our history," Dr. Fowler
said. "The courses will also
help prepare prospective teach
ers for careers in urban pub
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Development Department; and
Howard Zielkie, Wilding Films,
Inc., producers of the fiLm.
The first annual festival, held
at Atlanta's Regency Hyatt
House Hotel, attracted some
300 entries from around the
world.
nurses in . the department, 3-4
of whom were white. As presi
dent of the Colored Graduate
Nurse Association of Georgia,
she was instrumental in secur
ing an unprecedented appoint
ment of a Negro nurse as su
pervisor in the Futlon County
Health Department.
She was an Army nurse, an
area supervisor for the U. S
Public Health Service in Geor
gia, Alabama. South Carolina,
and Florida A&M University
Among the judges for the
award were Dr. Kenneth B
Clark, department of psychol
ogy. City College of the Citj
University of New York and
director of the Metropolitan
J Applied Research Center; Mrs.
| Arthur J Goldberg, wife of the
I United States ambassador to
j the United Nations: the Rev
, Theodore Martin Hesburgh
president of the University ol
Notre Dame; Luis Munoz Ma-
I rin. fornrer governor of Puer
i to Rico; and James F. Oates
] Jr.. chairman of the board.
' Equitable Life Assurance So-
I cietv of the United States.
publication supervisor, assisted
by Linda Ingram. The brewer)
also donated 5,000 of the litter
bags to the Mayor's Beautifica
tion Committee for distribu
tibn in public facilities.
lic schools."
She said the department had
studied revisions of its curri
culum over the past semester
with an eye toward adding Ne
gro history offerings.
In addition to the new cour
ses, the department has revised
its American History survey
course to provide additional
emphasis on the history of
black people in this country
Presently, the honors section
of the freshman course In
American History emphasltei
this aspect of the nation's his
tory, Dr. Fowler pointed out.
She said that Negro history
courses may be added on the
graduate level at a later date.