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100 Youngsters Join Rochester Police In TOPS Program
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A TOP SESSION Rochester
Police Sergeant Don Williams
(left) discusses map of city
patrol districts with members
of Rochester's Teens On Pa
trol (TOP). This instruction
First Suit In Lending Law Filed
Against Merchant By NAACP
LDF TO ASSIST IN
PROSECUTION
OF DEFENDANTS
NEW YORK CITY - The
nation's first suit under the
federal Truth in Lending Law
was filed this week in the
United States District Court
against a Harlem merchant who
failed to advise a customer
that 18 per cent of the cost
of his new TV set, purchased
on time, was interest.
The NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc.
(LDF) teamed up with the
Harlem Consumer Protection
Union to bring the suit only
hours after the law-passed by
Congress in 1968-went into
effect.
The action was against the
Future Furniture Company, 2
East 125 th Street, which sold
an Admiral Console TV set to
Henry A. White for $338.33.
The suit charges the com
pany with failing to tell White
that $60.90, which represents
18 per cent of the total, is the
additional price he will have
to pay for buying the $277.43
set on time.
White, who serves as direct
or of education for the Harlem
Consumer Protection Union,
went to the store to purchase
a TV set for himself, as well as
to test operation of the new
law in Harlem.
His organization is a new
consumer self-help group
which is working with the
Legal Defense Fund to crack
down on ghetto merchants,
finance companies, and loan
companies which violate the
law.
The Union will be sending
testers into Harlem stores just
as civil rights organizations
use testers to see if companies
comply with fair housing and
public accommodation laws.
The cass represents part of
an ongoing program of LDF
(See SUIT page 9A)
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A GROUP OF MEMBERS of
the Hillside High School Grad
was part of the 1969 orienta
tion week for the 100 TOPs
who will be working with the
police at city playgrounds,
swim areas, parks, libraries,
Last Rites Held For Elja Hooker
Here July 10 by Father Brew
Elja Hooker, 60, of Har
mon Rd., died Monday, July
7, at Watts Hospital following a
brief illness.
Born in Union, S. C., Hook
er was the son of the late John
and Elizabeth Hooker. He had
been a resident of Durham for
the past 45 years, having been
employed for 40 years at Hib
berd's Florist. He also was em
ployed by DuVal- Hackett Flo
rist.
Hooker was married to the
former Lenora D. Slade of
Nashville, Survivors include his
wife, Mrs. Lenora Slade Hook
er, seven brothers; Jackson,
Thomasville; Washington,
Union, S. C.; Curtis, Winston-
Salem; Silas and John, Spartan
burg, S. C.; Noah, Brooklyn,
N. Y.; and James, Terrell, Pa.
Surviving also are four sisters;
Mrs. Mary Wright, Lexington;
Mrs. Fannie Garrett, Pacelot,
S. C.; Mrs. Sallie Henry, Terrell
GB United Methodi
Join Publishing
HOUSTON, Texas - The
General Board of Publication
of The United Methodist
Church, doing business as
The Methodist Publishing
House, acting through its exe
cutive committed, voted un
animously today for The
Methodist Publishing House
join Project Equality.
Bradshaw Mintener of
Washington, D. C., Board of
Publication chairman, said
the decision was based on
the report of a special five
member committee of the
board, appointed to study all
the considerations involved in
■ uating Class of 1954 who were |
| among those present at the I
and neighborhood functions.
TOP is in its third summer and
is funded through an Eastman
Kodak grant to Rochester Jobs,
Incorporated.
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Pa.; and Mrs. Rosa Gary, Spart
anburg.
Graveside rites were con
ducted by Father Frederick A.
Brew, S. J., on July lOj fol
lowed by interment at Beech
wood Cemetery.
Project Equality participation
The Methodist Publishing
House, through the five-man
committee of the Board of
Publication, has been autho
rized to apply immediately
for membership as a supplier,
Mintener said.
Project Equality is an or
ganization designed to pro
mote fair employment for
minority groups.
The 1968 General Con
ference of The United Metho
dist Church, meeting in Dal
las, voted to endorse Pro
ject Equality and "recom
mended" that its boards,
I Downtowner Motel here dur-1
I ing the July 4 holidays to cele- |
Enrollees Glad
To Take Part in
Third Program
ROCHESTER, N. Y. -
About 100 youngsters from
Rochester's inner city started
their summer last week in po
lice headquarters.
They were happy to be
there and the police were hap
py to have them. The young,
sters are enrollees in the third
summer program of Roches
ter's Teens on Patrol (TOP).
After a week of instruction,
they work in cooperation with
the police at playgrounds,
parks, swim areas, libraries,
and special inner-city functions.
The program, which origi
nated in Rochester, has been
closely watched, praised, and
copied by cities across the
country. It was started in June,
1967, through an Eastman
Kodak Company financial
grant when Rochester Jobs, In
corporated (RJI), sought to
help provide summer jobs for
youth. Kodak has continued
to support the program on a
year-round basis through RJI.
Goal is Understanding
The primary goal of TOP is
the improvement of relations
and understanding between
youth and law enforcement
officers.
William M. Lombard, Ro
chester's police chief, says„
"We have seen positive results.
There has been an improvement
in the relationship between
teenage youths and the police
department. TOPs - and even
those inner-city youngsters who
are not in the program - under
stand us better."
The benefits work two
ways: Lt. Thomas F. Hastings,
director of the Police Com
munity Service Division and
the administrator of TOP,
says, "My outlook has changed
So has the outlook of other
policemen who have come in
contact with the TOPS. All
of us now understand the
problems of the inner city bet
ter. A line of communication
has been opened."
Most of the TOP teenagers
are black, but there are some
Puerto Rican and white young
(See YOUNGSTERS 8A)
agencies, and local churches
participate in it.
The special five-man com
mittee of the board which
studied the matter will con
tinue to function as a co-ordi
nating and liaison group for
all matters involving Project
Equality and The Methodist
Publishing House. Members
of the committee are A.
Frank Smith, Jr., Houston,
Texas, chairman; Cawthon A.
Bo wen, Jr.; Nashville, Tennes
see; Joseph E. Lowery, At
lanta, Georgia; Jack B. Rus
sell, Richmond, Virginia;
(See METHODIST 9A)
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VOLUME 46 No. 28
Jos. Farmer To Address 49th
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TUB PLANNING COMMITTEE
of the Hillside Graduating
Class of 1944 Reunion held here
Saturday, July S at the Down
towner Motor Inn. Those in the
picture from left to right are:
Mrs., Evelyn Malone Thorpe
Chairman of the Class Reunion;
National Bankers Association
Recipient $1 Million Deposit
MEMBER BANES
TO BE JOINED IN
PARTICIPATION
NEW YORK - Dr. Edward
Irons, Executive director of
the National Bankers Associa
tion, announced recently that
the National Bankers Associa
tion would be the recipient
of a sl-million deposit for its
member banks from the Glen
Alden Corporation.
Irons and Paul A. Johnston,
president of the Glen Alden
Corporation, made the an
nouncement jointly at a press
conference held recently at
the New York Hilton Hotel.
The 22 member banks of
the NBA will share in the mil
lion dollar deposit which is
part of a program which the
NBA has launched to get more
large corporations to deposit
some of their bank deposits
in black financial institutions.
Robert J. Brown, Special
Assistant to President Nixon
(See DEPOSIT page 9A)
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I held in the Pine Koom 01 UM
hotel. The photo at the right
DURHAM, N. C-, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1969 PRICE: » Cmtm
Mrs. Ora Thomas Bryant, Mem
ber of Committee; Mrs. Mary
Clement Thorpe, Vice-Chairman
of the Reunion; Atty. William
Andrew Marsh, Jr., Banquet
Speaker; Miss Dorothy Graham,
Treasurer; Mrs. Andrew Bell
Cobb, Chairman of Banquet
Funeral For Isiah Whitehead
Held in Tarboro Thur., July 3
PRINCEVILLE - Funeral
service for Whitehead, 75, were
held here, Thursday, July 3
at 4:00 p.m. at the St. Paul
Baptist Church. The Rev. J. E.
James, pastor, officiated and
delivered the eulogy.
Whitehead succumbed at a
hospital in Tarboro, Sunday,
June 29.
Whitehead was born and
reared in Princeville, the son
of the late Zell and Mrs. Millie
Whitehead. He attended the
Princeville public school and
Brick Junior College. During
World War I he joined the
armed forces of his country
serving until the end of the
conflict.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ethel Key Whitehead, an a
dopted son, Michael. Several
w I.
|is tnat ot a group 01 meuiimro ■
of the Hillside graduating clau '
Committee and Social and Hen
ry Garner, Vice-Chainnan of
the Reunion and Overall Plan
ning of the Silver Anniversary.
Not shown is Mrs. Vivian Aus
tin Edmonds, President of the
Class.
(Photo by Purefay)
WHITEHEAD
cousins of Tarboro and Dur
ham also survive.
Interment was in the 'Com
munity Cemetery.
Beethoven was a violinist,
organist, violist and clavierist.
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(Photo by Pur«foy)
Meet to be Held
At Hilton Plaza
Hotel in Miami
CHICAGO James Firmer
assistant secretary of the De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare, will addraa dele
gates to the 49th Annual Con
vention of the National In
surance Association to be held
at Miami Beach's Hilton Plaza
Hotel between July 21-24, ac
cording to an announcement
made by NIA President, War
dell C. Croft, president of
Wright Mutual Insurance Co.
of Detroit.
Early predictions indicate
that more than 400 representa
tives of the 46 black-owned
operated member life insur
ance companies, doing business
in 29 states and the District of
Columbia, will indulge in seri
our discussions of the confer
ence theme, 'The Sale Is the
Playoff," as well as to consider
age-old problems of profits
and improved operations.
(See FARMIR 8A)
Address of Atty.
Marsh Feature
Of '44 Reunion
Members of the 1954 grad
uating class of Hillside High
School met in Durham during
the past July 4 day weekend.
The reunion was the celebration
of the class' fifteenth anniver
sary and was highlighted with
many and varied fetes of en
tertainment. Festivities includ
ed a cocktail hour on Thursday,
July 3, in the Pine Room at the
Downtowner Motor Inn. Ervin
L. Hester presided over the
Banquet-Dance held on July 4
in Cardinal Room of the Down
towner. F. Howard
sistant principal of Hillside,
was the guest speaker.
On behalf of the members
of the class of 1954, Joseph
Fogg presented an oil painting
of the late H. M. Holmes,
former principal of Hillside,
to Alston, as a gift to the
school.
Remarks were made by hon
ored guests which included Mrs.
(See MUNION 9X)